In 1886, Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, finally surrenders to the U.S. Cavalry. As he carries a white flag to the victors, however, Massai, a young warrior who refuses to accept surrender, shoots at both the flag and the assembled soldiers. Massai is soon subdued, and as cuffs are placed on his hands, Indian fighter Al Sieber scoffs, "You're not a warrior any more; you're just a whipped Injun." Geronimo, Massai and the other warriors are separated from the women, children and old men of the tribe and herded onto a train bound for Florida. Near St. Louis, the train stops for water, and a photographer takes a picture of the Apaches. As the photographer focuses on Weddle, an Indian hater who falsely claims to have captured Geronimo, Massai quietly slips from the train and begins running. Massai is alternately baffled and fascinated by city life in St. Louis, but he is forced to flee when a group of citizens sees his handcuffs. Massai moves on until, in Oklahoma territory, he meets a Cherokee Indian who owns his own farm. When Massai angrily accuses him of living like a white man, the Cherokee explains that after years of fighting and running, his people finally realized that rather than living on a reservation, the Cherokee must grow their own food and live in peace with the white man. Massai looks skeptical, but as he works his way back to the mountains of New Mexico, the idea begins to take hold. The new chief, Santos, and his daughter Nalinle are surprised when Massai appears in their dwelling. After listening to his plan of negotiating a "warrior's peace" with the white man, as the Cherokee had done, Nalinle tells Santos that Massai will again breathe life into the tribe. Santos, disheartened and muddled from drinking too much aguardiente, binds and gags Nalinle and then turns Massai over to Sieber. Believing that Nalinle loves a traitorous Apache named Hondo, Massai assumes that she helped her father and vows revenge on them both. Weddle is again ordered to transport Massai and several other Apache men to Florida, but this time, Weddle gives his prisoners an opportunity to run away as an excuse to shoot them all. Massai catches him off guard, however, and the Indians escape. Consumed by hatred, Massai launches a private war against white civilization, destroying telegraph lines, causing cattle stampedes and damaging the fort. The Apache kidnaps Nalinle, forcing her to travel for days without food or water. When Sieber and the soldiers approach, Nalinle warns Massai and he lets her go. Nalinle wants to remain with Massai, but he angrily orders her to return to the reservation. Exhausted and bleeding, she crawls up a hillside after him, whereupon he finally accepts her love. Sieber and his soldiers later find signs of the couple's marriage: Nalinle's beads placed carefully on a rock pile. This deeply disappoints Hondo, who swears that she soon will be a widow. Some time later, Nalinle informs Massai that she is pregnant, and the two decide to spend the winter in the western mountains. Although the mountains offer them refuge from their pursuers, it is bitterly cold, and there is little food. Nalinle tries to persuade Massai to end his war and plant the Cherokee corn, but he protests that because he is the last remaining Apache warrior, he must continue to fight. In the spring, the couple moves to warmer ground, and Nalinle steals more seed corn from the nearby trading post. Angry at first, Massai finally joins her in planting the corn. By this time, the Cavalry wants to call off the search for Massai, but Sieber insists on tracking the Apache. When Sieber learns that an Indian stole seed corn from the local merchant, he contacts the fort for reinforcements. Massai sees the troops coming and returns to the hut just as Nalinle goes into labor. She urges him to go out and die a warrior's death, whereupon he leaves the hut and charges some of the soldiers. Shot in the side, Massai takes refuge among the corn stalks. Sieber crawls in after him, but Massai tricks him and points a gun at his head. Just then, a baby cries, and Massai is mesmerized by the sound. Slowly he returns to the hut, throws down his rifle, and goes in. The colonel remarks that no Apache has ever grown corn before, adding that the war has been called off. Regretfully, Sieber replies that "it was the only war we had."
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Apache
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