A school under the protection of a halfbreed army veteran on an Indian reservation seeks the acceptance of bigoted white townspeople. All the stock characters are here: the corrupt deputy sheriff; the wealthy, violent rustler and his son who takes after him but hates him.
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A school with a racially mixed student body on an Indian reservation seeks the acceptance of a mostly bigoted white town.
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The movie presents [[pacifism]] and [[Native American]] spirituality in a good light, along with some good old fashioned horse sense.
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All the stock characters are here: the corrupt deputy sheriff; the wealthy, violent rustler and his son who takes after him but hates him.
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The movie presents [[pacifism]] and [[Native American]] spirituality in a good light, along with some good old fashioned horse sense. The plot involves a deputy sheriff's runaway daughter; Billy Jack, a halfbreed army veteran with a highly developed intuitive sense and unbeatable martial arts skills; and a heaping dose of improvisational theater.