Film
Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
United States- Director
- Connie Poten
- Year
- 1985
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Connie Poten
Written by
Beth Ferris, Connie Poten
Produced by
Pamela Roberts, Connie Poten
