In 1867, when the United States purchased the Alaska territory, the promise of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights didn't apply to Alaska Natives. Their struggle to win justice is one of the great, untold chapters of the American civil rights movement, culminating at the violent peak of World War II with the passage of one of the nation's first equal rights laws.
Peter Coyote
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Diane E. Benson
as Elizabeth Peratrovich
Alan Hayton
as Roy Peratrovich
Peter Freer
as Chairman Green
Edward Christian
as Senator Shattuck
Mike Peterson
as Senator Walker
Jerry Demmert
as Senator Whaley
Kent Pillsbury
as Senator Scott
