A rookie NPR reporter is sent to cover the Wounded Knee occupation in 1973, but is arrested by the FBI for defying a news blackout. Forty years later, he meets a Yurok Indian fisherman he photographed during the occupation and they become friends, investigating the legacy of 1970's activism in Indian Country.
From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
In 1973, a young reporter from NPR is sent to cover the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, but she faces hostility from Native American activists and is arrested by the FBI for trying to embed with the militants despite a government-imposed news blackout.
