Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

Synopsis

Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.

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Key crew

• Frank PiersonDirector
• Richard HorowitzOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Irene BedardMary Crow Dog
• Charles AbourezkAttorney
• Tantoo CardinalMary's Mother
• Michael HorseDennis Banks
• Lawrence BayneRussel Means
• Michael SpearsStat Man
• Dean NorrisRed Arrow
• Floyd 'Red Crow' WestermanMary's Grandfather
• Chief Dave Beautiful Bald EagleOld Man at HQ
• August SchellenbergDick Wilson
• Edgar Bear RunnerReasonable Man
• Casey Camp-HorinekAunt Elsie Flood

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