Robert Yellowtail

Acting

August 4, 1889 — June 20, 1988

Lodge Grass, Montana, USA

1 movies

Biography

Robert Summers Yellowtail was a leader of the Crow Nation. Described as a "20th-century warrior", Yellowtail was the first Native American to hold the post of Agency Superintendent at a reservation.

🎬 Robert Yellowtail's Filmography

1 movies sorted by popularity

Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

7.0

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.

Contrary Warriors: A Film of the Crow Tribe

1985