In Irvin Kershner's sequel to A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris returns as John Morgan, drawn back to the Indian tribe which he left (physically, but not spiritually) at the end of the first film. Morgan finds the Yellow Hand tribe decimated and demoralized. Made to endure the Sun Vow all over again (much to the dismay of some reviewers), he goes on to lead the now revitalized tribe in regaining their land from trappers. Return of a Man Called Horse was hailed by the New Yorker for marking the return of the “epic spirit” in Westerns: “The Return of a Man Called Horse may be the first Hollywood epic in which the rituals of the Indians make sense.... This Western, with its Old Testament mysticism, which appears to be authentically Indian as well, is a startlingly affirmative vision.”