Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)

US:: PG-13 Drama

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.

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1994-10-16

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Runtime: 100 mins Rating: 0.0 Tag Line: She dreamed of justice and fought for it in a place called Wounded Knee.

Cast

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Mary's Grandfather

Tantoo Cardinal

Mary's Mother

Michael Spears

Stat Man

Dean Norris

Red Arrow

August Schellenberg

Dick Wilson

Peter Weller

Uncredited

Irene Bedard

Mary Crow Dog

Nancy Parsons

Sister Mary Margaret