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.
Irene Bedard
Mary Crow Dog
Tantoo Cardinal
Mary's Mother
Michael Horse
Dennis Banks
Lawrence Bayne
Russell Means
Michael Spears
Stat Man
Dean Norris
Red Arrow
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Mary's Grandfather
August Schellenberg
Dick Wilson
Casey Camp-Horinek
Aunt Elsie Flood
Nancy Parsons
Sister Mary Margaret
Joseph Runningfox
Leonard Crow Dog
Peter Weller
Uncredited
John Harnagel
Father Hochbauer
Pato Hoffmann
Spencer
Tim Sampson
Pedro Bissonette
Gary Bullock
FBI Agent Ralney
Merritt Olsen
Archeology Professor (as Merritt Olson)
Richard Ray Whitman
Carter Camp (as Richard Whitman)
Tamara Taylor
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