In the middle of the 18th Century the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father a former farm laborer leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George his second-youngest son is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name "Blue Bird." The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians.