This was the third and final in TNT Network's Native American Trilogy following Geronimo and The Broken Chain, all of which featured actress Casey Camp-Horinek.
Actors Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Lois Red Elk and Michael Spears are actually Sioux (Lakota and Dakota) tribal members.
Irene Bedard and August Schellenberg have co-starred in three subsequent movies: Grand Avenue, Crazy Horse and The New World, the latter as the parents of Pocahontas.
After this film, Irene Bedard would go on to co-star again with 7 of her castmates, including Tantoo Cardinal in Grand Avenue, Smoke Signals, The Lost Child and August Schellenberg in Grand Avenue, Crazy Horse and The New World.
The scene at the court house in real life took place during a snow storm and was so chaotic an entire building was burned to the ground.