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Plot. The film follows a young Mary Crow Dog and her poor Lakota family living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota as she briefly learns the ways of her people and of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee told to her by her grandfather Fool Bull (played by Floyd Red Crow Westerman ).
- Drama
Oct 16, 1994 · With 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.
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- Drama
- Frank Pierson
- 1994-10-16
This conflict would begin on February 27, 1973 and last seventy-one days. The occupation became known in history as the Siege at Wounded Knee. It began as the American Indians stood against government atrocities, and ended in an armed battle with US Armed Forces.
Raised on a Sioux reservation in the 1960s, young Lakota girl Mary Crow Dog (Irene Bedard) learns the history of her people at the foot of her grandfather Fool Bull...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- History, Drama
- Frank Pierson
Lakota Woman by Mary Brave Bird and Richard Erdoes is a 1990 memoir detailing Brave Bird's upbringing on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and her involvement in the American Indian Movement....
Lakota Woman is a memoir by Mary Brave Bird, a Sicangu Lakota who was formerly known as Mary Crow Dog. Reared on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, she describes her childhood and young adulthood, which included many historical events associated with the American Indian Movement.
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Overview. 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.
