It is eight years since Lord John Morgan become Shunkawakan (i.e. Horse) and three years since he left the Yellow Hand tribe to return to England. Lord Morgan, although rich and secure in England, is not happy and longs to return to life among the Sioux. So he does. he finds that the white trappers have moved in, enslaving their women and removing them from their sacred ground.
   The movie like its predecessor explores the Indian way of life and makes use of Native language, although since the last movie many of the Sioux have somehow learned English.
   This movie, like its predecessor, suffers from the Tarzan syndrome. The white man, John Moran, know to the Yellow Hand Sioux as Horse, return from England to again save the tribe. Since they have gone they have fallen on hard times. It is up to a man called Horse to teach the Indians how to be Indians again and regain their pride. Give him a few men, some women and some children and he can defeat a whole tribe of Arikara's (Riks) and their white trader friends.
  
Overall, it was just OK as a movie. It shows how the Indians got tied up with the traders because they needed the goods that they could provide. It also showed how some Indians would team up with the white invaders to get back at their traditional enemies. If only the movie hadn't made Richard Harris, the English Lord, into such a super Indian it would have been much better. It's bad enough that the white man destroyed Indian culture, it's a little to much to try to take credit for trying to save it too.
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