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. Her first visit was ...

On March 31 of this year, Green-Wood Cemetery celebrated Women’s History Month by hosting a special trolley tour called “Women Who Walked Ahead.” The tour included the graves of notable ...

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 ...

Film; Films; True story behind Woman Walks Ahead - real tale behind Sitting Bull and Jessica Chastain's Western The tale of Caroline Weldon and Sitting Bull is both fascinating and tragic ...

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," Jessica Chastain plays Catherine Weldon, a painter from New York City who travels to North Dakota to paint the legendary Lakota leader Sitting Bull. Her trip turns overtly ...

Michael Greyeyes, a Cree actor from a First Nation in Canada, plays the great Native American chief Sitting Bull in a new film. He says it's the role of a lifetime — and a portent of things to come.

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.

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. Woman Walks Ahead: Jessica Chastain Stars in Woman-Led ...