All-American Horse

November 9 1912 was a blustery overcast day at West Point. At three oclock on that Saturday afternoon a battle was waged--the U.S. Army versus the Indians. This battle was not fought with guns and swords bows or arrows: the weapon used was an oversized tapered ball. The end of a culture was at stake. Revenge was the motive for winning. Solomon American Horse a young Lakota Indian is caught between two worlds at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Longing to keep his peoples traditional ways but forced by white society to conform to modern American life the young Indian finds himself facing the hangmans nose. Captain Richard Pratt of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School intervenes and the captain brings Solomon back to his school. In Pennsylvania Solomon discovers two importan facts: he finds a skill at playing football and he learns how to fly the new aeroplanes. Starting with the tragedy at Wounded Knee on to the early days of college football and ending with an aerial battle over France in the Great War All-American Horse is a different telling of the proud Native American experience.