Robert Redford as Narrator (voice)

Leonard Peltier as Self

Norman Zigrossi as Self - Former Assistant FBI Regional Head, South Dakota

Robert Sikma as Self - Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

Darelle Butler as Self

Bob Robideau as Self

Norman Brown as Self

Duane Brewer as Self - Former GOON Squad Member

Calvin Jumping Bull as Self

William Muldrow as Self - U.S. Government Commission on Civil Rights

Dennis Banks as Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement

James Abourezk as Self - Former U.S. Senator, South Dakota

Sam Loud Hawk as Self

Severt Young Bear as Self

John Trudell as Self - National Spokesperson, American Indian Movement

Kenneth Tilsen as Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney

Russell Means as Self - Co-Founder American Indian Movement

William Kunstler as Self - Wounded Knee Defense Attorney

William Janklow as Self - Former Governor, South Dakota

Deborah White Plume as Self

Bernice White Hawk as Self

Jeannette Eagle Hawk as Self

Beau Little Sky as Self

Madonna Thunder Hawk as Self

Wallace Little as Self

Nilak Butler as Self

Wilma Blacksmith as Self

Kenny Loud Hawk as Self

Morris Wounded as Self

Lou Bean as Self

Billy Bean as Self

Russell Loud Hawk as Self

Edward McManus as Self - Butler-Robideau Trial Judge

Bruce Ellison as Self - Defense Attorney

John Lowe as Self - Attorney for Bob Robideau and Leonard Peltier

Robert Bolin as Self - Jury Foreman, Butler-Robideau Trial

Lynn Crooks as Self - Assistant U.S. Attorney

Evan Hultman as Self - Former U.S. Attorney

Myrtle Poor Bear as Self

Warren Allmand as Self - Former Minister for Indian & Northern Affairs, Canada

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

Robert Ecoffey as Self - Investigator, Bureau of Indian Affairs Police

Clarence Kelly as Self - Director of the F.B.I.

Jean Bordeaux as Self

Marquetta Peltier as Self

Dick Wilson as Self - Tribal Council Chairman (archive footage)