Introduction Thunderheart is a fiction-based movie about the Wounded Knee incident directed by Michael Apted. The Native Americans protested against the discriminatory policy by the federal government. Apted used Val Kilmer to act as an FBI agent (Marubbio 102). His role was to investigate the circumstances that led to the murder of a Native American who was a follower of the American Indian Movement. Other actors in the film are Shepard, Greene Tousey, and Ward (Marubbio 102). Main body Various themes are found in the movie, in particular; favoritism, political activism, and public issues. Thunderheart is a movie that gives the base through which urban planning can be structured by the engineers. According to the movie, urban planning should be determined by several factors before the actual planning. These factors include culture, politics, political corruption, social awareness, and education (Marubbio 102). Judgment on other people’s culture should be consistent with urban planning. In the Thunderheart movie, the American Indian movement members who were Native Americans were judged by the local government based on their culture. The local government decided to strip a piece of land inhabited by the Native Americans to strip Uranium mining (Boyer 145). This was a planned move by the local government to discriminate against them. The federal government judged them based on their own culture and felt they were less superior which was wrong. Other people’s culture should be treated as one’s own culture because they are part of one society inhabiting a certain urban area. Politics and political corruption need to be addressed before urban planning. In the movie, urban planning can lead to political murder. Leo Fast Elk, a Native American politician in South Dakota was killed because of his protest concerning urban planning (Boyer 145). Politics in urban planning is important because it involves social power. In the case of the federal government, it was crucial to have Leo killed so that they would advance discrimination against the Natives. During the investigation, Val Kilmer who was a Native FBI suspected of a scheme involving a small town. This did not go on well with Coutelle who became angry because of Val’s suspicion. Later on, Val and his colleague discovered that the local government’s move to strip a Uranium mine was the actual cause for the murder of Leo. The mining caused side effects to the residents through water pollution. As a result, conflicts between the anti-government reservation council and the pro-government natives headed by Jack Milton arose. However, Milton and Coutelle used the mine land to get kickbacks. Therefore, political corruption is at the center stage of urban planning. Lack of understanding of the Native Americans’ culture was at the center stage of Leo’s murder. The federal government viewed the American Indian Movement as another culture different from the Americans. The movement was made up of Native Americans and the protest against the federal government was driven by their culture. It is important that urban planning and road construction consider the Native Americans’ cultural peculiarities because understanding would have helped to plan the small town. If their culture had been considered, the Natives would not have felt discriminated in the town. Cultural awakening is an important consideration i