Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)

6.7/10 • 100 min • Drama TV Movie

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.

Cast

Irene Bedard

Tantoo Cardinal

Michael Horse

Lawrence Bayne

Michael Spears

Dean Norris

Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Mary's Grandfather

August Schellenberg

Casey Camp-Horinek

Aunt Elsie Flood

Nancy Parsons

Sister Mary Margaret

Joseph Runningfox

Leonard Crow Dog

Peter Weller

Uncredited

Recommendations

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

A Dry White Season

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Woman Walks Ahead

The Mountain Men

A Man Called Horse

I Am Elizabeth Smart

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Quick and the Dead