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Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

0% | Nov 01, 1985 | Documentary

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.

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Connie Poten
Director
Beth Ferris
Writer

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Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)

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