Mohawk

Western, USA, 1956, 80 min.



In eighteenth-century New York, early Mohawk Valley settler Butler, who wants to keep the valley for himself, is alarmed when a new group of settlers arrives and warns Mohawk Chief Kowanen that the settlers have brought a shipment of arms with them. Kowanen refuses to declare war on the white man, explaining that there is enough land for all. When Rokhawah, a Tuscarora brave, warns that the white man took his own tribe's land, however, Kowanen's son Keoga organizes a raiding party to steal the muskets from the fort. Meanwhile, artist Jonathan Adams, commissioned by the Massachusetts Society to paint landscapes of the valley, is torn between his attentions to local barmaid Greta and his visiting fiancée, a proper Boston society woman named Cynthia Stanhope. That night, Keoga and his beautiful sister Onida secretly lead the raiding party into the fort. As they are stealing the arms, however, a guard spots them and shooting erupts. All of the braves escape or are shot, leaving Onida trapped inside the fort. Jonathan finds her hiding in his cabin and, struck by her beauty, smuggles her out of the fort the next morning. Realizing that Jonathan bears no ill will against Indians, Onida asks him to observe the ways of her people and then explain to the white man that the Mohawk want to live in peace. Jonathan eagerly agrees, and while he is visiting the village, he falls in love with Onida. At the fort, Greta and Cynthia fear Jonathan has been attacked by the Mohawk and urge Captain Langley to take action. Eager to be rid of both the Mohawk and the settlers, Butler warns that the Indians will slaughter all the settlers if their village is not destroyed first. Langley, who respects the Mohawk, visits the village and urges Jonathan to return home in order to quiet the alarmed populace. As the artist heads back to the fort with Keoga, however, Butler, hiding behind a tree, shoots the young brave. Jonathan brings Keoga's body back to the village, but when Rokhawah convinces the tribe to declare war because of the killing, Jonathan becomes their prisoner. Onida helps him to escape, and he returns to the fort to warn the settlers. Jonathan surmises that Butler killed Keoga, whereupon Butler is ejected from the fort and killed by the approaching warriors. The battle has already begun, however, and before reinforcements arrive to save the fort at the last moment, many are killed. Although he is now a prisoner, Kowanen declares that all of the Iroquois, including the Mohawk and the Tuscarora, will drive the white man out of the valley. Upon learning that Butler caused all the trouble, however, he relents and makes peace with Langley. Cynthia returns to Boston with Jonathan's paintings, while the artist goes to live with Onida and the Mohawk tribe.
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