Robert Redford
Role: Narrator (voice)
Leonard Peltier
Role: Self
Norman Zigrossi
Role: Self - Former Assistant FBI Regional Head, South Dakota
Robert Sikma
Role: Self - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Duane Brewer
Role: Self - Former GOON Squad Member
Calvin Jumping Bull
Role: Self
William Muldrow
Role: Self - U.S. Government Commission on Civil Rights
Dennis Banks
Role: Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement
James Abourezk
Role: Self - Former U.S. Senator, South Dakota
Severt Young Bear
Role: Self
John Trudell
Role: Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement
Kenneth Tilsen
Role: Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney
Russell Means
Role: Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement
William Kunstler
Role: Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney
William Janklow
Role: Self - Former Governor, South Dakota
Deborah White Plume
Role: Self
Bernice White Hawk
Role: Self
Jeannette Eagle Hawk
Role: Self
Beau Little Sky
Role: Self
Madonna Thunder Hawk
Role: Self
Wilma Blacksmith
Role: Self
Kenny Loud Hawk
Role: Self
Russell Loud Hawk
Role: Self
Edward McManus
Role: Self - Butler-Robideau Trial Judge
Bruce Ellison
Role: Self - Defense Attorney
John Lowe
Role: Self - Attorney for Bob Robideau and Leonard Peltier
Robert Bolin
Role: Self - Jury Foreman, Butler-Robideau Trial
Lynn Crooks
Role: Self - Assistant U.S. Attorney
Evan Hultman
Role: Self - Former U.S. Attorney
Myrtle Poor Bear
Role: Self
Warren Allmand
Role: Self - Former Minister for Indian & Northern Affairs, Canada
Gerald Heaney
Role: Self - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit
Robert Ecoffey
Role: Self - Investigator, Bureau of Indian Affairs Police
Clarence Kelly
Role: Self - Director of the F.B.I.
Marquetta Peltier
Role: Self
Dick Wilson
Role: Self - Tribal Council Chairman (archive footage)