According to the custom of the Pueblo Indians, the Tribunal Oath is taken never to marry outside the tribe. On the reservation the chief ruled his tribe with an iron hand. His daughter, Wa-ni-ne-ma meets by accident the son of the Hopi chief and named Sat-te-wa. Their meeting is interrupted by the medicine man and his ton, Ni-a-wa-ca. Ni-a-wa-ca, who is in love with Wa-ni-ne-ma, drives Set-te-wa off the reservation and Wa-ni-ne-ma is taken home. Shortly after the Hopi chief's son takes the Tribunal Oath and is sent to college. At the same time Wa-ni-ne-ma and Ni-a-wa-ca take their Tribunal Oaths and leave for college. In the year of their graduation Wa-ni-ne-ma and Set-te-wa have fallen in love. Ni-a-wa-ca hates Set-te-wa, and at the reception given at the college Ni-a-wa-ca picks a quarrel with Set-te-wa and Ni-a-wa-ca is soundly thrashed. Seeking revenge, he writes to the chief and tells him of the love between Wa-ni-ne-ma and Set-te-wa. On the eve of the big football game Set-te-wa proposes to Wa-ni-ne-ma and she accepts him. The big game is on, and in the midst of the play Wa-ni-ne-ma's father and Ni-a-wa-ca's father arrive at the stadium and force their way through the crowd. A quarrel starts between father and daughter. Set-te-wa comes up and is threatened with death if he pays attention to his daughter any more. Wa-ni-ne-ma is taken back to the reservation, where Ni-a-wa-ca renews his love, but is spurned by the chief's daughter. Set-te-wa, longing for his country, returns to his tribe. Ni-a-wa-ca barters with the chief for the hand of his daughter and is accepted as a son-in-law. At the Indian trading station Wa-ni-ne-ma accidentally meets her old lover and tells him of her father forcing her to marry Ni-a-wa-ca. He promises to help her, and they arrange for a secret meeting meeting at the Kiva (Indian praying temple), and that night Ni-a-wa-ca goes to the Kiva. Shortly after Wa-ni-ne-ma comes. Ni-a-wa-ca sees her and hides, and is surprised to see Set-te-wa enter, followed by a young Indian girl who secretly loves him. The two The two lovers talk and lay their plans for an escape. They are about to leave when they are stopped by Ni-a-wa-ca. The two men start to struggle, and Ni-a-wa-ca raises a cry to his tribe. Set-te-wa is made a prisoner and Wa-ni-ne-ma is locked up. Set-te-wa is tried and sentenced to death the following morning after the wedding ceremony of Wa-ni-ne-ma. Wa-ni-ne-ma is released upon her promise to marry Ni-a-wa-ca. In the meantime, while the struggle is in progress between Ni-a-wa-ca and Set-te-wa, the Indian girl who followed Set-te-wa to the Kiva has gone for help to the trading post. Wa-ni-ne-ma goes to the dwelling where her lover is confined and releases him, and as they are about to leave, Ni-a-wa-ca enters. They start to fight and continue to fight down the stairs. At the bottom Ni-a-wa-ca is killed. The tribe is aroused. It is closing in on Set-te-wa, when the Indian girl brings the rangers, who drive the tribe back, and Set-te-wa and Wa-ni-ne-ma make their escape.