A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple ... a shaman, and a Lakota woman. The newly healed Jesse begins to explore his tribe's customs. He then contacts his mother's spirit ...

But just a year later, the Oglala Lakota woman disappeared, last seen at a motel off Interstate-90, her family said. In January, the young mother ... reach out to Oglala Sioux Tribe President ...

Extracts from verbatim stenographic report of council held by delegations of Sioux with Commissioner ... the killing of the women, and more especially the killing of the young boys and girls ...

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.