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Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

  • November 1985
  • 1hr

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Connie Poten,

    Starring

    Peter Coyote,

    Robert Yellowtail,

    Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow tribe's turbulent past with modern-day accounts from Robert Yellow-tail, a 97-year-old Crow leader and a major reason for the tribe's survival. Poverty and isolation combine with outside pressures to undermine the tribe, but they resist defeat as "Contrary Warriors," defying the odds.