A Good Day to Die
6.5
91 minutes
11/12/2010
Overview
Interviews and archival footage profile the life of Dennis Banks, American Indian Movement leader who looks back at his early life and the rise of the Movement.
Cast List
Dennis Banks
as Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa
Brenda Child
as Self - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa
Bob Hicks
as Self - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole
Sydney Byrd
as Self - Dakota
George Mitchell
as Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
Frances Fairbanks
as Self - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa
Jay WhiteCrow
as Self - AIM Member; Seneca
Lyle Rustad
as Self - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation
Clyde Bellecourt
as Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
Lehman Brightman
as Self - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek
Wilmer Mesteth
as Self - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota
Charlie Hill
as Self - Comedian; Oneida
Wes Studi
as Self - Actor; Cherokee
Ken Tilsen
as Self - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial
Cy Griffin
as Self - Videographer
LaDonna Harris
as Self - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche
Della Warrior
as Self - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria
Eda Gordon
as Self - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial
Joann WhiteCrow
as Self - AIM Member; Cherokee
Marshall McKay
as Self - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
George Tennyson
as Self - US Marshal, South Dakota
Cora Jones
as Self - Former employee, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dakota
Marshall Young
as Self - Judge, Custer Trial, Custer, SD
Tashina Banks
as Self - Dennis Banks' daughter; Lakota - Ojibwa
Dorothy Sun Bear
as Self - Wounded Knee Museum; Lakota
Roselyn Jumping Bull
as Self - Great granddaughter of Sitting Bull; Lakota
Rick Thomas
as Self - Vietnam Veteran; Dakota
Larry Anderson
as Self - Vietnam Veteran, Tribal Councilman; Navajo
Leonard Wabasha
as Self - 7th Generation Hereditary Chief; Dakota
Leonard Foster
as Self - AIM Member; Navajo
De Glassgow
as Self - Sheriff, Custer County, SD
Jerry Brown
as Self - Attorney General, California / Former California Governor