Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

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.

Details

Cast

Irene Bedard

Mary Crow Dog

Charles Abourezk

Attorney

Tantoo Cardinal

Mary's Mother

Michael Horse

Dennis Banks

Lawrence Bayne

Russel Means

Michael Spears

Stat Man

Dean Norris

Red Arrow

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Mary's Grandfather

Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle

Old Man at HQ

August Schellenberg

Dick Wilson

Edgar Bear Runner

Reasonable Man

Casey Camp-Horinek

Aunt Elsie Flood

James Hatzell

Marshall

Nancy Parsons

Sister Mary Margaret

Joseph Runningfox

Leonard Crow Dog

Peter Weller

Uncredited

Eliza Morrison

Lizzie Fast Horse

Dawn Lavand Drabot

Young Mary

Dawn Little Sky

Grandma Moore

Nathan Bison

Joe Little Horse