Desc: The Indian Wars: Directed by Vernon Day, Theodore Wharton. With Buffalo Bill Cody, Nelson Appleton Miles, Jesse M. Lee, Frank D. Baldwin. A propaganda re-enactment, co-financed by the Woodrow Wilson government, of the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota residents of South Dakota, which was portrayed as American military heroism and justified as part of the assimilation effort.