从苏族在小大角战役中战胜卡斯特将军的血腥胜利开始，讲述了三个人物的观点：查尔斯·伊斯曼（海滩饰），年轻的达特茅斯大学毕业的苏族医生奥希耶萨，被认为是所谓的同化成功的活生生的证据;坐牛（谢伦贝格），骄傲的拉科塔酋长谁拒绝服从美国政府的政策，旨在剥夺他的人民的身份，他们的尊严和神圣的土地--达科塔州盛产黄金的黑山;参议员亨利道斯（奎因饰），他是政府印第安事务政策的设计师之一。当伊士曼和贵族教师伊莱恩·古德尔（帕奎因饰）努力改善保留地印第安人的生活时，参议员道斯游说格兰特总统（汤普森饰）给予更人道的待遇，反对威廉·特库姆塞将军（谢尔曼饰）的好战立场。 印第安人的希望以先知沃沃卡（Studi）和鬼舞的形式升起--这是一个救世主般的运动，承诺结束他们在白色男人统治下的苦难。1890年12月29日，坐牛被暗杀，数百名印第安男人、妇女和儿童被第七骑兵队在伤膝溪屠杀，这一希望破灭了。

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

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.

Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre.