Bin sekiz yüzlü yılların başında Amerikanın Batısına avlanmak üzere gelen bir İngiliz soylusu (Richard Harris) Sioux kızılderililerine esir düşer.Kızılderililer onu öldürmez ama bir hayvana yaptıkları muamelenin aynısını gösterirler.İngiliz soylusu zamanla kabilenin dilini ve adetlerini öğrenir.Gelişen bazı olaylar sonrası kabile tarafından aralarına kabul edilebilmesi için zorlu sınavlardan geçmesi gerektiği söylenir.
The only white survivor of a Crow Indian raid on a wagon train is a young boy. He is rescued by the Sioux, and the Sioux chief raises him as an Indian in very way. Years later, the white men and the Sioux threaten to go to war and the Indian-raised white man is torn between his racial loyalties and his adopted tribe.
19. Yüzyılda, Vahşi Batı'da beyaz bir adamla Kızılderiler arasında yaşanan dostluk öyküsü konu alınıyor. Yolu, Vahşi Batı'ya düşmüş olan İngiliz centilmeni, doğduğu topraklara geri döner. Kabile üyeleri, varolma mücadelesi vermektedir. İngiliz Lord, daha önce sığındığı soylu kızılderili kabilesine yardım etmeye çalışır.
When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan.
Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.
Long before Hollywood started painting white men red and dressing them as 'Injuns' Edison's company was using the genuine article! Featuring for what is believed to be the Native Americans first appearance before a motion picture camera 'Buffalo Dance' features genuine members of the Sioux Tribe dressed in full war paint and costume! The dancers are believed to be veteran members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Filmed again at the Black Maria studios by both Dickson and Heise the 'Buffalo Dance' warriors were named as Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse. Its quite strange seeing these movies at first they all stand around waiting to begin and as they start some of the dancers look at the camera in an almost sad way at having lost their way of life.
Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.
From Edison films catalog: One of the most peculiar customs of the Sioux Tribe is here shown, the dancers being genuine Sioux Indians, in full war paint and war costumes. 40 feet. 7.50. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film and others shot on the same day (see also Buffalo dance) featured Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and represent the American Indian's first appearance before a motion picture camera.