A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
This movie contains 6 potentially triggering events.
No, but there are racial slurs directed at Native Americans, particularly Native women. The character who uses this slur is depicted as a contemptible bigot.
Robert Redford admitted that an elk and a buffalo were both killed in real life for the film. He (incorrectly) felt it was justified, since the animals were “…diseased and earmarked for an early death.”
Jeremiah comes across someone who had been buried up to his chin in sand. In the next scene the man is out of the sand so it is assumed that Jeremiah rescued him.