- Hudson Bay fur trapper Na-Ta-Wan-Gan, falls in love with Janet Mackintosh, the daughter of the factor at the trading post who has been promised to the deceitful Henri Drouet. After stealing skins from Mr. Mackintosh with the help of Red Pete, Henri hides the evidence in the mail bag of Janet's brother Robert. Caught with the stolen goods, Robert is declared guilty and sentenced to a three-day journey into the wilderness. To save his love's brother, Na-Ta-Wan-Gan claims to be the thief and is jailed by Mackintosh. Robert and Janet release the trapper from prison, and then he and Janet abscond to a missionary's hut where they wed. The couple makes a home in the woods with the help of Wehnonah, an Indian chief's daughter who also loves Na-Ta-Wan-Gan. While on his death bed, Red Pete confesses his part in Henri's crimes, and Henri is apprehended and sent on a long traverse . Only after a series of misadventures, however, does he come to justice and clears Na-Ta-Wan-Gan's name.—Pamela Short
- Wenonah relates to her charge, a boy of twelve and the son of Na-Ta-Nan-Gan, a name which means, in the Indian tongue, "great trapper," a story of his father's early life. Na-Ta-Nan-Gan is a great trapper and a friend of the Indians. Wenonah, a young Indian girl, has a deep affection for him. At the Hudson Bay trading post, where Na-Ta-Nan-Gan goes to dispose of his skins, he meets Janet, the daughter of Mackintosh, the factor, and a mutual attraction develops at the sight of each. It has been decided, however, that Janet is to marry Henri, a French Canadian, who has coveted her with a primitive passion which has held the girl in awe at times. Henri steals the skins hit with Mackintosh, and gives them to Red Pete, a renegade, to hide. The factor misses the skins, and Robert, his son, voices his suspicions. Henri hears that he is being accused, and to get revenge places the stolen property in the mail bag which Robert is to take out. Mackintosh accuses Henri, who transfers the charge to Robert. The skins are found in the bag, and Mackintosh decrees that his son must be dealt with according to the law of the North. He is forthwith given La Longe Traverse, which means that the lawbreaker shall be sent for three days into the wilderness without means of sustenance. Na-Ta-Nan-Gan learns of the incident and sacrifices his reputation for the sake of the brother of the girl he loves by declaring that he put the skins in the mail bag. He is imprisoned, but late that night is released by Janet and her brother Robert, who had been called back. At the suggestion of Robert, Janet and Na-Ta-Nan-Gan then hasten away and are married. The Indian friends of Na-Ta-Nan-Gan, learning of his sacrifice, set out to find him and eventually come upon him and his bride and offer assistance. A child is born to the pair and he is known to the Indians as "Starlight." Back at the post, Red Pete makes a dying confession that Henri is the real culprit, and Mackintosh, seeing his error, sends his men to locate Na-Ta-Nan-Gan and Janet. Henri is sent on La Longe Traverse, and days later he is found in an exhausted condition by Wenonah. He tells her that Red Pete made a confession before his death that he (Red Pete) committed the crime, and that he was sent in search of Na-Ta-Nan-Gan and Janet. Believing his story to be true, Wenonah directs him to the hut wherein lives the missing couple, and to them Henri tells the same story. Days later, when Henri and Na-Ta-Nan-Gan are on a trapping expedition, the old covetousness of the former's nature to possess Janet comes to the surface, and he throws his benefactor over a cliff. Henri tells Janet that her husband met his death by accident, and pleads with her to let him protect her. Believing that it will be the best for her child, Janet consents, and they leave the vicinity. Wenonah discovers Na-Ta-Nan-Gan and nurses him back to health. Hearing what his wife has done, he believes that she is unfaithful to him, and vows to kill both Henri and Janet. Meanwhile Mackintosh's searching party comes upon Na-Ta-Nan-Gan and learn the sad news from him. Instead of taking Janet back to her father, which he had promised to do, Henri stops for several days at a distant trading post. Janet is heartbroken by a letter purporting to come from her father which Henri shows her and which denounces her. She agrees to marry Henri, and just as the ceremony is about to take place, they are confronted by Na-Ta-Nan-Gan, Wenonah and Robert, who had started out in search of them. Henri is about to kill Na-Ta-Nan-Gan when Wenonah throws herself in front of him, and received a bad wound. Na-Ta-Nan-Gan kills the criminal and hearing the story in full, he realizes the innocence of Janet. Back at the post, old Mackintosh, bent low with years, awaits the return of his beloved. Joyous indeed is the meeting. As the story ends, Wenonah solemnly points to the white scar upon her neck, and tells her little charge that it was made by the knife of Henri when she was willing to give herself that his father might live.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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