Charles Abourezk
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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
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 (Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman),...
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- Dennis Schwartz
- History, Drama
- Frank Pierson
[1] Honors. Lakota Woman won the 1991 American Book Award. [2] The book inspired the 1994 film Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee produced by TNT and Jane Fonda. It starred Irene Bedard who would also later provide the speaking voice of Pocahontas in the 1995 Disney animation Pocahontas . References.
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. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the ...
views 2,018,929 updated. Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee ★★½ 1994. Autobiography of Mary Crow Dog (Bedard) and her coming of age during the American Indian Movement 's 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. Tangled loyalties and the battle between Native Americans and U.S. troops make for strong drama. Bedard is remarkable in her film debut.
Oct 14, 1994 · Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee. (Sun. (16), 8-10:30 p.m., TNT) Production: Filmed in South Dakota by Fonda Films. Executive producer, Lois Bonfiglio; producer, Fred Berner;...
