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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 ).
- Richard Horowitz
- Frank Pierson
- Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
- Irene Bedard
Mary Crow Dog’s Lakota Woman was adapted into a 1994 film titled Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee. The film starred Irene Bedard, an actress of Inupiat and Cree ancestry, making Lakota Woman the first U.S. film with a Native American lead actress. Risky Illustrations.
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
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Ailsa. 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...
Oct 15, 1994 · Oct. 15, 1994 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. “I found my life, my center, my people,” says Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux whose triumphant journey to rebirth and rediscovery during the historic...
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),...
- History, Drama
Oct 16, 1994 · Director. Mary Crow Dog. Novel. 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.
