Robert Redford

Narrator (voice)

Leonard Peltier

Self

Norman Zigrossi

Self - Former Assistant FBI Regional Head, South Dakota

Robert Sikma

Self - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

Darelle Butler

Self

Bob Robideau

Self

Norman Brown

Self

Duane Brewer

Self - Former GOON Squad Member

Calvin Jumping Bull

Self

William Muldrow

Self - U.S. Government Commission on Civil Rights

Dennis Banks

Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement

James Abourezk

Self - Former U.S. Senator, South Dakota

Sam Loud Hawk

Self

Severt Young Bear

Self

John Trudell

Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement

Kenneth Tilsen

Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney

Russell Means

Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement

William Kunstler

Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney

William Janklow

Self - Former Governor, South Dakota

Deborah White Plume

Self

Bernice White Hawk

Self

Jeannette Eagle Hawk

Self

Beau Little Sky

Self

Madonna Thunder Hawk

Self

Wallace Little

Self

Nilak Butler

Self

Wilma Blacksmith

Self

Kenny Loud Hawk

Self

Morris Wounded

Self

Lou Bean

Self

Billy Bean

Self

Russell Loud Hawk

Self

Edward McManus

Self - Butler-Robideau Trial Judge

Bruce Ellison

Self - Defense Attorney

John Lowe

Self - Attorney for Bob Robideau and Leonard Peltier

Robert Bolin

Self - Jury Foreman, Butler-Robideau Trial

Lynn Crooks

Self - Assistant U.S. Attorney

Evan Hultman

Self - Former U.S. Attorney

Myrtle Poor Bear

Self

Warren Allmand

Self - Former Minister for Indian & Northern Affairs, Canada

Gerald Heaney

Self - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit

Robert Ecoffey

Self - Investigator, Bureau of Indian Affairs Police

Clarence Kelly

Self - Director of the F.B.I.

Jean Bordeaux

Self

Marquetta Peltier

Self

Dick Wilson

Self - Tribal Council Chairman (archive footage)