Frank Fools Crow - Film

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  • Screenwriter John Fusco was an adopted "hunka" relative of Chief Fools Crow and based the character Grandpa Reaches on him in the film Thunderheart.
  • In 1990, Fusco brought Robert De Niro to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to meet Fools Crow. Fools Crow traded gifts with De Niro in the traditional Lakota manner. The New York Times Obits, state that Frank Fools Crow died November 28, 1989.
  • Native Spirit and the Sun Dance Way, DVD documentary, 2007, World Wisdom

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