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
as Mary Crow Dog
Charles Abourezk
as Attorney
Tantoo Cardinal
as Mary's Mother
Michael Horse
as Dennis Banks
Lawrence Bayne
as Russel Means
Michael Spears
as Stat Man
Dean Norris
as Red Arrow
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
as Mary's Grandfather
Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle
as Old Man at HQ
August Schellenberg
as Dick Wilson
Edgar Bear Runner
as Reasonable Man
Casey Camp-Horinek
as Aunt Elsie Flood
