Director in Person Leonard Peltier, the American Indian leader, is locked away for life in Leavenworth Penitentiary, having been convicted of the murder of two FBI agents during a bloody shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Around the world his trial and conviction have been denounced as a sham, and Peltier has come to symbolize the continued oppression of America's indigenous peoples. To understand Peltier's story, Warrior takes us back to the violent confrontations at Wounded Knee and Pine Ridge in the 1970s, and to heated resistance to government mining operations and toxic dumping on today's reservations. But the heart of the film is Peltier's nightmare journey through the American justice system. It is a detailed, painstaking account, another example of "it can't happen here" happening here.