Raised on a Sioux reservation in the 1960s, young Lakota girl Mary Crow Dog learns the history of her people at the foot of her grandfather Fool Bull, a survivor of the legendary massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Forced to attend a Catholic boarding school, she loses touch with her tribal heritage until becoming radicalized by a fellow student and going forth to regain her Native American identity. starring August Schellenberg, Joseph Runningfox, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman, Tantoo Cardinal, and Irene Bedard as "Mary Chow Dog". William Pierson directs from an adaptation by William Kerby; Based on true aspects - as depicted in the biography by the real-life Mary Chow Dog with Richard Erdoes. Produced by Fred Berner • Executive Producers: Frank von Zerneck & Robert M. Sertner and Lois Bonfiglio. Music by Richard Horowitz. a Fonda Films production for TNT/Turner Pictures.