From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey (2019)

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• 2019
• Kevin McKiernan

A rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, is treated as the enemy and ultimately arrested by the FBI for defying a government news blackout to embed with militant Indians. Forty years later, he meets a Yurok Indian fisherman in California, a man he unwittingly had photographed during the 10-week occupation. The two become friends, traveling back to the Dakotas and later to the pipeline protests at Standing Rock, to investigate the legacy of 1970's activism in Indian Country. Meanwhile, the reporter launches a new investigation into the murder of his former room mate, a Canadian Native who played a part at Wounded Knee. He butts heads with the FBI again, this time over the Bureau's alleged practice of 'snitch-jacketing' the dead women as an informer. The story takes another unsettling turn when the reporter confronts the co-founders of the Indian movement with their alleged ties to her killing, a decision that threatens to undermine his status as a trusted outsider.