Josef Mach	...	(Director)
Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich	...	(Writer)
Gojko Mitic	...	Tokei-Ihto
Jirí Vrstála	...	Red Fox
Rolf Römer	...	Tobias
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff	...	Major Smith
Gerhard Rachold	...	Leutnant Roach
Jaroslav Tuzar	...	Cinematographer
Ilse Peters	...	Editor
Horst Jonischkan	...	Adams
Jozef Majercík	...	Tschetansapa
Jozef Adamovic	...	Tschapa
Milan Jablonsky	...	Donner vom Berge
Hannjo Hasse	...	Pitt
Helmut Schreiber	...	Ben
Jozo Lepetic	...	Bill (as José Lepetic)
Rolf Ripperger	...	Jok
Brigitte Krause	...	Jenny
Karin Beewen	...	Cate

Summary: Although the Indians were assured their lands adjacent to the Black Hills by contract, the Whites want to expel them. Meanwhile, gold has been discovered there and the unscrupulous settler, Red Fox, demands of Mattotaupa, chief of the Bears Clan belonging to the Dakota tribe, to reveal to him the location of a cave with gold deposits. Mattotaupa refuses and is stabbed to death by Red Fox in the presence of his son Tokei-ihto. Lieutenant Roach orders Tokei-ihto to Fort Smith in order to negotiate. The son of the slain chief suspects that the Whites are planning an ambush, a fear that is confirmed when he encounters Red Fox there. Tokei-ihto refuses to move to a reservation in an infertile area with his tribe and is incarcerated. When the Dakota Indians have been defeated and resettled, he is released. Tokei-ihto learns of the murder of the senior chief Tashunka-witko. Tokei-ihto now wants to fulfill his legacy, escaping with the subgroup of his tribe to the fertile areas beyond the ...