Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
She dreamed of justice and fought for it in a place called Wounded Knee.
1994 · 1h 40m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Frank Pierson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Frank Pierson Director
- Irene Bedard as Mary Crow Dog
- Charles Abourezk as Attorney
- Tantoo Cardinal as Mary's Mother
- Michael Horse as Dennis Banks
- Lawrence Bayne as Russel Means
- Michael Spears as Stat Man
- Dean Norris as Red Arrow
- Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman as Mary's Grandfather
- Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle as Old Man at HQ
- August Schellenberg as Dick Wilson
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