Chief Joe Thunderhorse (Richard Barthelmess) is the star of a wild west show at the Century of Progress in Chicago. Though he is the authentic son of a Native American chief, he has lived away from the reservation so long that he has lost all personal connection to them.
Joe and his valet (Clarence Muse) travel to the reservation where he grew up upon hearing that his father Black Pony is on his death bed. The terrible living conditions to which Joe's people are subjected to at the hands of white government agents are also revealed to him. Upon the death of his father, Joe's sister Jennie is raped by a government agent and, with the assistance of a college-educated reservation resident named Lydia (Ann Dvorak), Joe decides to take action.
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