“Dark Winds” star Jessica Matten has joined the cast of historical indie drama “ Standing Bear .”

Matten will play Bird Song, the wife of Chief Standing Bear. She joins Chaske Spencer, who leads the project in the title role.

Andrew Troy, who is part Chiricahua Apache, is set to direct the film along with Jim Sheridan (“My Left Foot”).

The film tells the story of the Ponca Tribe’s harrowing forced removal on the Trail of Tears and the landmark 1879 trial of Standing Bear v. Crook, which secured recognition of Native Americans as “persons” under U.S. law — a precedent-setting civil-rights victory too often absent from American history books.

According to the synopsis, Matten will portray the historically identified Zazette (Susette) Primeau, daughter of Lone Chief/Antoine Primeau

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