Now a new film about these events, “Woman Walks Ahead,” starring Jessica Chastain as Catherine Weldon, is opening this Friday. The English director, Susanna White, sat down with the Brooklyn ...

Eileen Pollack writes about Catherine Weldon, a woman from Brooklyn, who twice came to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to work with Sitting Bull and to paint his portrait.

Starring Jessica Chastain, right, as Catherine Weldon and Michael Greyeyes, left, as Sitting Bull, "Woman Walks Ahead" depicts Weldon's journey to the Dakotas in the late 1800s to paint a portrait ...

In “Woman Walks Ahead,” a handsome snooze of a historical drama, Jessica Chastain plays Catherine Weldon, a widowed New York City artist who travels to a North Dakota reservation in 1890 ...

The film is based on a true story about the friendship between the Hunkpapa Lakota leader and Catherine Weldon, a widowed artist who traveled to North Dakota on a quest to paint Sitting Bull.

Jessica Chastain stars as a widowed artist who travels to North Dakota to paint Sitting Bull in the period drama 'Woman Walks Ahead.' ...

To tell the story of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, the star and director Susanna White had to stick to some elemental tips. Here's how.

Starring Jessica Chastain, right, as Catherine Weldon and Michael Greyeyes, left, as Sitting Bull, "Woman Walks Ahead" depicts Weldon's journey to the Dakotas in the late 1800s to paint a portrait ...

A24 and DIRECTV have taken U.S. rights to Susana White's Woman Walks Ahead about widowed artist Catherine Weldon who travelled to North Dakota in the 1880s to paint Chief Sitting Bull.

Michael Greyeyes said the violence and political landscape during Sitting Bull's time isn't dissimilar to America today.