The story of the legendary warrior who fought injustice, not with guns and arrows, but with words. In 1878, Chief Standing Bear (Ponca) and his tribe were exiled from their homeland in Nebraska along the Missouri River to an Indian territory in Oklahoma. To gain his freedom, Standing Bear stood before a court to show that an Indian had the same right to be considered a human being under the law. This film chronicles his journey and shows how his legacy continues among the Ponca people today.