A Good Day to Die

Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.

History Documentary

Dennis Banks

(Himself - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa)

Brenda Child

(Herself - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa)

Bob Hicks

(Himself - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole)

Sydney Byrd

(Himself - Dakota)

George Mitchell

(Himself - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa)

Frances Fairbanks

(Herself - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa)

Jay WhiteCrow

(Himself - AIM Member; Seneca)

Lyle Rustad

(Himself - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation)

Clyde Bellecourt

(Himself - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa)

Lehman Brightman

(Himself - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek)

Wilmer Mesteth

(Himself - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota)

Charlie Hill

(Himself - Comedian; Oneida)

Wes Studi

(Himself - Actor; Cherokee)

Ken Tilsen

(Himself - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial)

Cy Griffin

(Himself - Videographer)

LaDonna Harris

(Herself - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche)

Della Warrior

(Herself - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria)

Eda Gordon

(Herself - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial)

Joann WhiteCrow

(Herself - AIM Member; Cherokee)

Marshall McKay

(Himself - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation)

George Tennyson

(Himself - US Marshal, South Dakota)

Cora Jones

(Herself - Former employee, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dakota)

Marshall Young

(Himself - Judge, Custer Trial, Custer, SD)

Tashina Banks

(Herself - Dennis Banks' daughter; Lakota - Ojibwa)

Dorothy Sun Bear

(Herself - Wounded Knee Museum; Lakota)

Roselyn Jumping Bull

(Herself - Great granddaughter of Sitting Bull; Lakota)

Rick Thomas

(Himself - Vietnam Veteran; Dakota)

Larry Anderson

(Himself - Vietnam Veteran, Tribal Councilman; Navajo)

Leonard Wabasha

(Himself - 7th Generation Hereditary Chief; Dakota)

Leonard Foster

(Himself - AIM Member; Navajo)

De Glassgow

(Himself - Sheriff, Custer County, SD)

Jerry Brown

(Himself - Attorney General, California / Former California Governor)