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  • Chief Blackfoot's Vindication (1910)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Chief Blackfoot's Vindication (1910)
Short | Short, Drama
The opening scene of this film shows the arrival of Chief Blackfoot, who announces that he has come to gamble. He is welcomed and subsequently smokes the pipe of pence. The game starts. Chief Blackfoot loses, first his blanket, then backs ...See moreThe opening scene of this film shows the arrival of Chief Blackfoot, who announces that he has come to gamble. He is welcomed and subsequently smokes the pipe of pence. The game starts. Chief Blackfoot loses, first his blanket, then backs his horse against one of the other Indian's and wins. Chief Blackfoot then goes to sell it. At the selling place Blackfoot mixes with white gamblers and soon is swindled. He goes outside with the intention of stealing his horses, but is discovered by a gambler who notifies the rest. Blackfoot is driven away. At the marshal's office Blackfoot vehemently protests against the gamblers to the Indian agent. The agent listens and is about to send the marshal out after the gamblers, when they enter with a stranger. Blackfoot immediately identifies them, but they in turn bring forward the stranger, who accuses him of horse stealing. Blackfoot, infuriated, makes a move for his knife. Seeing the Indian's actions, the gamblers draw their guns, but at this moment the agent places an old United States flag over the Indian's shoulders with a gesture, as if to indicate that he is under the protection of Uncle Sam. The agent again asks the accuser if he is positive that the Indian stole his horse. He says emphatically, "Yes." At this moment Blackfoot springs out of the door. The Indian agent is called away and during his absence his daughter, although she is cautioned by her mother not to leave the house, wanders away to pick wild flowers. She goes too near the edge of a high cliff, loses her balance, falls and is knocked unconscious. Chief Blackfoot comes along moodily. He spies the imprints of the child's feet, studies them carefully and follows them. He is soon at the edge of the cliff, makes his way downward, picks the child up and laboriously makes his way up to the top. In the meantime the agent's wife runs to the Indian agency and states to gamblers present, in excitable tones, her child is lost. They listen attentively and come to the conclusion that Blackfoot has stolen her child. They propose to set out after him when Blackfoot arrives at the door with the child in his arms. He is rewarded by the repossession of his horses. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Kenean Buel
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Updated May 4, 1910
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May 4, 1910 (United States)

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Frank Lanning
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