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Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee is a 1994 TNT original movie starring Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Pato Hoffmann, Joseph Runningfox, Lawrence Bayne, and Michael Horse and August Schellenberg. The film follows a young Mary Crow Dog and her poor Lakota family living on the Rosebud Sioux 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. She is later put into St. Tristan Boarding School along with her sister Barbra. Mary describes her boarding school experience, "The years passed as they tried to turn us from Lakota to white. They took away our language, the words of our eld ... more on Wikipedia