Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

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1994 · 100 min · PG-13 · Drama · TV Movie · TMDB 6.7/10

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.

Directed by Frank Pierson

Cast

• Irene Bedard — Mary Crow Dog
• Charles Abourezk — Attorney
• Tantoo Cardinal — Mary's Mother
• Michael Horse — Dennis Banks
• Lawrence Bayne — Russel Means