Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
– Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the prot..
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.
16 Oct 1994
English
Frank Pierson
Mary Crow Dog (biography Lakota Woman), Richard Erdoes (biography Lakota Woman), Bill Kerby
Charles Abourezk, Dave Bald Eagle, Lawrence Bayne, Edgar Bear Runner
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.
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
Fred Berner Films