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
Charles Abourezk
Tantoo Cardinal
Michael Horse
Lawrence Bayne
Michael Spears
Dean Norris
Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
August Schellenberg
Edgar Bear Runner
Casey Camp-Horinek
James Hatzell
Nancy Parsons
Joseph Runningfox
Peter Weller
Eliza Morrison