Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 60 min
  • Premiere: 1985. November 1.

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.

Discover

Peter Coyote

Narrator (voice)

Camera

Stephen Lighthill

Director of Photography

Directing

Connie Poten

Director

Editing

Production

Pamela Roberts

Producer

Connie Poten

Producer

Beth Ferris

Co-Producer

Sound

Todd Boekelheide

Original Music Composer

Writing

Beth Ferris

Writer