The Return of a Man Called Horse is a 1976 Western film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Jack DeWitt.
Other cast members include Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, and William Lucking.
John Morgan, 8th Earl of Kildare, who had lived with the tribe for years and is known as Horse, leaves his English fiancée and estate and returns to America, where he discovers the Yellow Hand people have been largely massacred or put into slavery by the unscrupulous white traders and their Indian cohorts.
Soon, even the Indian women and boys are assigned tasks to aid the assault, to regain their ancestral land.
Ebert commented that "what gets me is that initiation rite, which is repeated in this film in such grim and bloody detail you'd think people didn't have enough of it the last time.