| 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) |