Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe
Directed by Connie Poten
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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.Read moreLess
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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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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Peter CoyoteNarrator (voice)Explore the crew
- Producer
- Pamela Roberts
- Writer
- Beth Ferris
- Producer
- Connie Poten
- Original Music Composer
- Todd Boekelheide
- Director
- Connie Poten
- Editor
- Jennifer Chinlund
- Director of Photography
- Stephen Lighthill
- Writer
- Connie Poten