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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)

Drama TV Movie

She dreamed of justice and fought for it in a place called Wounded Knee.

Release Date: 1994, October 16
Directors: Frank Pierson
Countries: United States of America
Production: TBS, Von Zerneck Sertner Films
Cast: Dean Norris, Joseph Runningfox, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Bullock, Peter Weller, Irene Bedard, Michael Horse, Jake Walker, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Michael Spears, Tamara Taylor, Scott Means

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.

Keywords:

native american mine injustice massacre protest sioux lakota wounded knee