A Native American woman raised by a poor family becomes aware of the injustices her people are suffering. In the 1960s, she becomes a civil rights activist, ultimately joining a historic protest at the site of an infamous massacre. Fact-based drama based on Mary Crow Dog's autobiography, starring Irene Bedard and Lawrence Bayne.

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.