In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.

• Desilu Productions
• Juano Hernández
• Ralph Bellamy
• Albert Dekker
• William Hickey
• Dina Merrill
• Earl Holliman
• Tim O'Connor
• Conrad Nagel