A Good Day to Die
12/11/2010
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.
Movie Information
Dennis Banks
as Self - Co-Founder, American Indian Movement; Ojibwa
Brenda Child
as Herself - Professor, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota; Ojibwa
Bob Hicks
as Himself - Filmmaker; Creek - Seminole
Sydney Byrd
as Himself - Dakota
George Mitchell
as Himself - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
Frances Fairbanks
as Herself - Director, American Indian Center, Minneapolis; Ojibwa
Jay WhiteCrow
as Himself - AIM Member; Seneca
Lyle Rustad
as Himself - Co-Founder, Diversity Foundation
Clyde Bellecourt
as Himself - Co-Founder, AIM; Ojibwa
Lehman Brightman
as Himself - Founder, United Native Americans; Lakota - Creek
Wilmer Mesteth
as Himself - Traditional Leader and Educator; Lakota
Charlie Hill
as Himself - Comedian; Oneida
Wes Studi
as Himself - Actor; Cherokee
Ken Tilsen
as Himself - Defense Attorney, Wounded Knee Trial
Cy Griffin
as Himself - Videographer
LaDonna Harris
as Herself - Former wife of US Senator Fred Harris; Comanche
Della Warrior
as Herself - C.O.O., Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation; Otoe - Missouria
Eda Gordon
as Herself - Defense Investigator, Wounded Knee Trial
Joann WhiteCrow
as Herself - AIM Member; Cherokee
Marshall McKay
as Himself - Tribal Chairman, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
George Tennyson
as Himself - US Marshal, South Dakota
Cora Jones
as Herself - Former employee, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dakota
Marshall Young
as Himself - Judge, Custer Trial, Custer, SD
Tashina Banks
as Herself - Dennis Banks' daughter; Lakota - Ojibwa
Dorothy Sun Bear
as Herself - Wounded Knee Museum; Lakota
Roselyn Jumping Bull
as Herself - Great granddaughter of Sitting Bull; Lakota
Rick Thomas
as Himself - Vietnam Veteran; Dakota
Larry Anderson
as Himself - Vietnam Veteran, Tribal Councilman; Navajo
Leonard Wabasha
as Himself - 7th Generation Hereditary Chief; Dakota
Leonard Foster
as Himself - AIM Member; Navajo
De Glassgow
as Himself - Sheriff, Custer County, SD
Jerry Brown
as Self - Attorney General, California / Former California Governor
