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In 1975 American Indian Movement members Kenny Loud Hawk, Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, Anna Mae Aquash, KaMook Banks, and Russ Redner were arrested and charged with possession of eight illegal weapons and seven cases of dynamite. What followed was the longest pretrial criminal case in United States history. The author was a first-year law student in 1975 and before the case ended in 1988 he appeared as lead counsel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the defendants.

The story of The American Indian Movement (AIM), Wounded Knee II, and the murder of Anna Mae Aquash, an AIM member suspected of being an FBI informant, as told by an FBI agent.

Mary Crow Dog, a Sioux Indian, grew up poor on a South Dakota Reservation. She joined the new movement of tribal pride in the 1960's and 1970's and married Leonard Crow Dog, the movement's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Her story is one of survival and determination against all odds.