89 minutes
5/8/1992
On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.
Robert Redford
as Narrator (voice)
Leonard Peltier
as Self
Norman Zigrossi
as Self - Former Assistant FBI Regional Head, South Dakota
Robert Sikma
as Self - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Darelle Butler
as Self
Bob Robideau
as Self
Norman Brown
as Self
Duane Brewer
as Self - Former GOON Squad Member
Calvin Jumping Bull
as Self
William Muldrow
as Self - U.S. Government Commission on Civil Rights
Dennis Banks
as Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement
James Abourezk
as Self - Former U.S. Senator, South Dakota
Sam Loud Hawk
as Self
Severt Young Bear
as Self
John Trudell
as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
Kenneth Tilsen
as Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney
Russell Means
as Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement
William Kunstler
as Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney
William Janklow
as Self - Former Governor, South Dakota
Deborah White Plume
as Self
Bernice White Hawk
as Self
Jeannette Eagle Hawk
as Self
Beau Little Sky
as Self
Madonna Thunder Hawk
as Self
Wallace Little
as Self
Nilak Butler
as Self
Wilma Blacksmith
as Self
Kenny Loud Hawk
as Self
Morris Wounded
as Self
Lou Bean
as Self
Billy Bean
as Self
Russell Loud Hawk
as Self
Edward McManus
as Self - Butler-Robideau Trial Judge
Bruce Ellison
as Self - Defense Attorney
John Lowe
as Self - Attorney for Bob Robideau and Leonard Peltier
Robert Bolin
as Self - Jury Foreman, Butler-Robideau Trial
Lynn Crooks
as Self - Assistant U.S. Attorney
Evan Hultman
as Self - Former U.S. Attorney
Myrtle Poor Bear
as Self
Warren Allmand
as Self - Former Minister for Indian & Northern Affairs, Canada
Gerald Heaney
as Self - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
Robert Ecoffey
as Self - Investigator, Bureau of Indian Affairs Police
Clarence Kelly
as Self - Director of the F.B.I.
Jean Bordeaux
as Self
Marquetta Peltier
as Self
Dick Wilson
as Self - Tribal Council Chairman (archive footage)