Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee

Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
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GenreDrama
Based onLakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
Written byBill Kerby
Richard Erdoes
Directed byFrank Pierson
StarringIrene Bedard
Music byRichard Horowitz
Country of originUnited States
Original languagesEnglish
Lakota
Production
Executive producersLois Bonfiglio
Robert M. Sertner
Frank von Zerneck
ProducersFred Berner
Steven P. Saeta
CinematographyToyomichi Kurita
Christopher Tufty
EditorKatina Zinner
Running time100 minutes
Original release
NetworkTNT
ReleaseOctober 16, 1994 (1994-10-16)
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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee is a 1994 TNT film starring Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Pato Hoffmann, Joseph Runningfox, Lawrence Bayne, and Michael Horse and August Schellenberg.[1] The film is based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography Lakota Woman, wherein she accounts her troubled youth, involvement with the American Indian Movement, and relationship with Lakota medicine man and activist Leonard Crow Dog. The film is notable for being the first American film to feature an indigenous Native American actress in the starring role. Lakota Woman is also the third overall and first sound film with an entirely indigenous cast after In the Land of the Head Hunters and Daughter of Dawn.[2]

  1. ^ "'LAKOTA WOMAN' ; Actor draws on pain of her people; Entire cast, nearly half of crew is Indian". Lmtribune.com.com. 1994-10-14. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  2. ^ "Lakota Woman". Tcm.com. Retrieved 2021-02-04.