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Black Cloud, while drowning, is rescued by Little Crow, an Indian of another tribe. Black Cloud takes him as a brother. Both fall in love with the same squaw. Little Crow is chosen by the ... See full summary
Black Cloud, while drowning, is rescued by Little Crow, an Indian of another tribe. Black Cloud takes him as a brother. Both fall in love with the same squaw. Little Crow is chosen by the tribe to carry the totem bag to a friendly tribe. Little Crow is afraid, so Black Cloud takes his place. He is wounded in a battle with a tribal enemy, but returns with a message in the totem bag, which he gives to Little Crow, who carries them to the chief of his tribe. Running Fawn, thinking Little Crow is the hero, agrees to be his squaw. The deception is found out and little Crow is sentenced to the wolf pit for twenty-four hours. Again Black Cloud takes his place, comes out unscratched, and Running Fawn, realizing he is the hero, and that she loves him, throws herself in his arms. Little Crow, in frenzy, tries to kill him, but Black Cloud disarms him, and satisfied that he had paid his debt, lets him go.

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    • Author: Nuadabandis
    An Indian love story is pictured, on this film, with beautiful forest scenes of trees and ferns, but it is hardly convincing. One red man saves the life of another of the same or at least a friendly tribe. But the rescuer is a coward and the rescued has several chances of helping him to cover this failing. Both love the same girl. The cowardice of the man is detected and he is condemned to spend one moon (not a month, but a night) in the "wolf pit," though probably no North American tribe had such a thing. Black Cloud feels himself still in debt and drawing his knife lets himself down into the wolf pit in the coward's place. The wolves are the tiny grey wolves about as big as fox terriers and mangy from summer captivity, and this whole scene, whose setting is at some zoo, is quite laughably ridiculous. As a result of this very brave deed, Black Cloud wins the girl. - The Moving Picture World, September 2, 1911
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