A college-educated Indian finds himself rejected by both white men and his own tribe.
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Terapai, a Maricopa Apache, receives a scholarship in the Indian School. He is bright and a clever athlete. He wins at football, and graduates from school with high honors. A return to the reservation soon follows and much to his surprise and grief he finds that he is ostracized by his tribe. His heart is broken' he has lost the love and respect of his people. Then the call of the wild comes strongly upon him. He angrily throws aside the garb of civilization. Soon his downward career is started. Whiskey (the curse of the Red Man) is imbibed freely, until Terapai becomes a degenerate vagabond. The fatal day arrives at last when, through revenge he kills a brutal bartender and he flees to the desert to escape the sheriff's posse. How he eludes the bloodhounds of the law for many days on the burning sands of the great barren waste, and his desperate fight is all vividly told in this wonderfully realistic film story.
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The Curse of the Red Man
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The movie was based upon the saga of Willie Boy, later made popular in the feature film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969). In this 1911 version, the tragic hero was a Maricopa Apache.
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