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

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