Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

100 mins | Drama | Oct. 16, 1994

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.

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

100 mins | Drama | Oct. 16, 1994

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers
Original title Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Directors Frank Pierson
Writers Mary Crow Dog

Cast

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

August Schellenberg

as Dick Wilson

Edgar Bear Runner

as Reasonable Man

Casey Camp-Horinek

as Aunt Elsie Flood

James Hatzell

as Marshall

Nancy Parsons

as Sister Mary Margaret

Joseph Runningfox

as Leonard Crow Dog

Peter Weller

as Uncredited

Eliza Morrison

as Lizzie Fast Horse