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In response, US soldiers force 3,000 Sioux warriors on to reservations.
美國兵報復性地將3000名蘇族勇士,驅趕到了保留地
The rest scatter in small bands.
余下的人分成小撥四散逃走
Over the next 14 years,the Plains Indians struggle to survive,until the incident that finally defeats the Great Sioux Nation.
在接下來的14年中，大平原上的印第安人為求生做最后的掙扎直到偉大的蘇族最終被打敗
Wounded Knee is a great, great scar on the American landscape.
傷膝河是美國大地上的一塊巨大傷疤
December 29th, 1890,The Last band of independent Sioux surrender beside Wounded Knee Creek.
1890年12月29日，最后一股被打散的蘇族人在傷膝河附近投降
As the cavalry disarms them, a gun goes off accidentally.
當騎兵團收繳他們槍械時一支槍走火了
It triggers a massacre.
引發了一場大屠殺浩劫
Within minutes over 200 Sioux warriors, women and children are dead.
短短幾分鐘內逾200蘇族壯丁和婦孺喪命
Now 27, Black Elk survived.
27歲的巴拉克·艾爾克浩劫余生
When I look back now, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered as plain as when I saw them when I was still young.
當我回首往事，遭到屠戮的婦幼尸體依然歷歷在目，有的扎成堆，有的孤零零地躺著，跟我小時候目睹的殘酷景象一模一樣
And I see that something else died there.
我知道另一樣東西也永遠葬身在那了
A people's dream died there.It was a beautiful dream.
那就是一個民族代代相傳的夢想，一個美麗的夢想
The railroad has transformed north America.
鐵路改變了整個北美的面貌
In just 30 years,30,000 miles of track cross the continent.
在僅僅30年的時間里，3萬英里的鐵路線貫穿整個大陸
More than the rest of the world put together.
超過世界其他地方鐵路里程的總和
Thousands of new towns spring up around railroad stations.
成千上萬新城鎮在鐵路站點周圍拔地而起
One every eight miles.
每隔8英里就有一個
Five rail lines link the East and West Coast.
鐵路大動脈連接起了東西兩岸
The railroad even changes time itself.
鐵路還改變了計時方法
Until now, Americans set their clocks by the sun.
到現在為止 美國人一直根據太陽方位來調撥鐘表
8,000 different times along 500 rail lines.
鐵路沿線有著8000種不同的時間
Scheduling trains becomes impossible.
制定火車運行時刻表是件不可能的事情
On November 18th, 1883,the continental US is reduced to just four time zones.
1883年11月18日，美國本土被劃分為簡單的4個時區
Standard time is born.
標準時間從此誕生
The railroad is now the largest employer in America.
鐵路系統現在成為了美國最大的雇主
Nearly a million workers.
鐵路職工多達近百萬人
One is a 23-year-old station agent from rural Minnesota,Richard Sears.
其中有一名來自明尼蘇達鄉村的23歲的車站管理員理查德·西爾斯
