The tribe refuses to surrender in this chronicle of a bitter fight between the tribe and the US cavalry in the struggle for the west. Robinson,, including the background had to be done with screen process and whose scenes were entirely photographed in studios), taking place a climatic meeting scene between Shultz and the Cheyenne chiefs. Captain Thomas Archer goes to deal with Secretary of Interior Schulz about the unfortunate Indians (Spencer Tracy was first cast, but had a stroke and was replaced by Edward G. Red Shirt (played by Sal Mineo, though John Ford would not allow him to speak any English dialog in the picture due to the actor's Bronx accent), a rebel Indian does the first shot against cavalry. Meanwhile, proud Cheyenne tribe square off US cavalry commanded by Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) who leads his army on a wild chase across the barren plains in this saga of the old west. This majestic flick illustrates the callous disregard with which the government treated the Cheyenne in the 1880s as the US agency fails to deliver even the meager provisions due by peace treaty to the stubborn tribe in their stark desert reserve without proper supplies for survival then the starving Indians have taken more abuse than it's worth and break it too by embarking on a 1,500 miles trek back to their ancestral hunting grounds, being led by Little Wolf and Dull Knife (Ford was urged by producers to cast first stars as Richard Boone and Anthony Quinn, as both had Native American blood however, Ricardo Montalban and Gilbert Roland, who were of Mexican descent, were cast instead). The picture is an epic portrait of the historic story about celebrated Cheyenne (they are actually Navajo, telling dirty jokes in their native tongue) and their legendary feat leading the tribe on a journey to freedom, uprooting them from the Yellowstone and resettling them in distant Oklahoma. Historical and overlong movie recounting the legendary Cheyenne trek led by the Indian chiefs, Little Wolf and Dull Knife.
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