Children of the Dust

Children of the Dust

Gypsy Smith, is a gunfighter and a bounty hunter. When he leads the US army into a Cheyenne camp to capture a suspected Indian renegade, a long train of events begins that finally lead to that 'good day to die'. White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the massacre of his tribe that day, and Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family, where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter.

Gypsy now reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War South to start a new life in a town of their own - Freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a 'white' name') is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss, and Pyrric triumph.

Cast for Children of the Dust...

Sidney Poitier
Gypsy Smith
Michael Moriarty
John Maxwell
Farrah Fawcett
Nora Maxwell
Katharine Isabelle
Young Rachel
Billy Wirth
Corby/White Wolf
Byron Chief-Moon
Chief Walks-The-Clouds
Shirley Knight
Aunt Bertha
Kevin McNulty
Sheriff Harriman
Zachary Savard
Young Dexter
Brent Stait
Ballenger
Eric Keenleyside
Boss Beeson
Tom Schanley
Cavalry Office
Brian Jensen
Lieutenant
Crystal Verge
Mrs. Tibbens
Donna Belleville
Mrs. Clarksdale
Michelle Thrush
Rainbow Woman
Joshua Myers
Rachel's Child
Hart Bochner
Shelby Hornbeck
Jack Ackroyd
Farmer Tully