A Good Day to Die

  • History
  • Documentary
11/12/2010
91

Storyline

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.

Directors:
David Mueller
Lynn Salt
Writer:
Lynn Salt
  • washington dc, usa
  • court case
  • boarding school
  • resistance
  • fbi
  • minnesota
  • political activism
  • civil rights
  • protest
  • native american
  • social activism
  • south dakota
  • first nations
  • american indian movement
  • forced assimilation
  • wounded knee
  • cointel pro

Cast

  • Dennis Banks
    Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa
  • Brenda Child
    Self - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa
  • Bob Hicks
    Self - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole
  • Sydney Byrd
    Self - Dakota
  • George Mitchell
    Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
  • Frances Fairbanks
    Self - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa
  • Jay WhiteCrow
    Self - AIM Member; Seneca
  • Lyle Rustad
    Self - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation
  • Clyde Bellecourt
    Self - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
  • Lehman Brightman
    Self - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek
  • Wilmer Mesteth
    Self - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota
  • Charlie Hill
    Self - Comedian; Oneida
  • Wes Studi
    Self - Actor; Cherokee
  • Ken Tilsen
    Self - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial
  • Cy Griffin
    Self - Videographer
  • LaDonna Harris
    Self - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche

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