Daniel attempts to broker peace between Chief Tekwatana's (Arthur Batanides) and Boonesborough by having his son Little Hawk (Tony Davis) attend the settlement's school, but complications set in.
More around-the-fort doings as the series close draws neat, and the hour is devoted to Disney-kids antics. Davis enjoyed a brief spell of child acting, and those who cannot get enough of Israel are amply rewarded. Fess Parker is around to do nominal duty as a harried dad. Rosey Grier seems to play this game from the sidelines. Westerns stalwart Arthur O' Connell is game to carry the hour as the stern schoolmaster.
This a checkbox hour, and one trying to meet a late-addition checkbox. The producers thought to stay relevant by addressing late 1960's campus turmoil through transposition to the Boonesborough school. At first the stufents are unwelcoming and prejudicial to Little Hawk, then happily swing over to the side of demanding multicultural education and making public protest. Not overly relevant to an era when a small percentage of Americans ever saw the inside of a school.
Hardly worth making historical mention here, but the episode was produced long before the general public was made aware of how badly education of Native Americans was handled throughout the nation's history. Missionary attempts often proved irrelevant and antagonistic to the tribes, and of course the effort culminated in the brutality and mistreatment of the boarding school era of the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. Such was simply beyond the scope of the DB series.
Take checkbox episodes for what they are; at this point the cast was probably preoccupied with landing their next acting gigs, and Fess Parker with getting his winery under way.