In September 1955, nearly half a million dollars is stolen from Mafia coffers, and suspicion immediately falls upon Dick Enty, a mixed Native American living on a weather-beaten property in Eddyville, New York. He manages to bury the treasure on the FitzGerald land in Kingston, New York, but is caught by the mobsters before he can make it home. Pistol-whipped and beaten half to death, he survives the ordeal but unwittingly manages to turn the gangsters on to the trail of his beautiful Indian lover, Hyawatha Two-Feathers.

Tragically, the gangsters kill Dick anyway, and begin a massive...