The Indian Fighter is a 1955 American CinemaScope and Technicolor Western film directed by Andre de Toth and based on an original story by Robert L. Richards.

Returning to the West after the Civil War, he must now stop wronged Sioux warriors from attacking the Oregon-bound wagon train and nearby fort that he is leading.

After the treaty is signed, Hawks leads the wagon train west (including Todd and Chivington, whom Trask wants out of the area before they can make more trouble), taking it out of the way so he can see Red Cloud's daughter Onahti, with whom he is in love.

Chivington and Todd get a brave of weak character drunk enough to tell them where the gold comes from, despite the "oath of death" that Red Cloud required of every adult in the tribe not to reveal the location.

When Hawks arrives on an Indian pony after having his own horse killed, the emigrants try to lynch him, stopped by Trask firing a volley over their heads.

Besieged in the fort by a superior force, the soldiers, the pioneers and Hawks defend a day-long attack by Sioux warriors making good use of fire arrows and fireballs catapulted over the curtain wall by flexible stripped saplings.

In the evening, after the Indians cease hostilities for the night, Hawks asks Captain Trask for permission to go over the wall, make his way to Red Cloud's camp, and attempt to restore the peace by turning over Gray Wolf's killers to him.