Fur trapper Hugh Glass watches as American soldiers burn down a Native American village on the Great Plains.
Years later, in late 1823, during the Arikara War, Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry's trappers through the unorganized territory of the present-day Dakotas. While he and his half-Pawnee son, Hawk, are hunting, the company's camp is attacked by an Arikara war party which is seeking to recover its chief's abducted daughter, Powaqa. Many of the trappers are killed during the fight, and the rest of them escape onto a boat. Guided by Glass, the survivors begin a trek to Fort Kiowa on foot because Glass believes traveling down the Missouri River will make them vulnerable. After docking, the crew stash their pelts near the shore.
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