In the lives of the Plains Indians the buffalo was the most important for food, clothing, and shelter. A wise, old Sioux medicine man, Standing Elk, and his warlike son Hawk, hunted buffalo in the same way generations had befoe them. Then the white man came - the railroads, soldiers, and hide-hunters. Fighting for survival were the buffalo, led by the king bull Kahtanka, and Hawk, who was fighting for the Indians.