Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Irene Bedard Mary Crow Dog

Charles Abourezk Attorney

Tantoo Cardinal Mary's Mother

Michael Horse Dennis Banks

Lawrence Bayne Russel Means