The next day, the council members respond positively to the school's atmosphere and after several join an improvisation routine, they suggest to Jean that the school put on a show to demonstrate their methods to the entire town. The meeting grows fractious when many of the students protest, but several council members agree to Jean's suggestion that they visit the school to witness its operation.
At a public meeting of the town council addressing the ice cream store incident, an injunction to restrict student visits is announced.
Mike then announces a thousand dollar reward for information on Barbara's whereabouts. Jean allows the search, unaware that the recovered Billy has spirited Barbara away to the ancient Indian caves in the hills. Later, Cole serves Jean with a warrant to search the school, but tells her that she can refuse because the school is on Indian land. When Jean takes him to the doctor, he cautions her that Mike suspects that Barbara is hiding out at the school. Back at the school, Martin attempts to ride a horse but is thrown and breaks his leg. The men then charge Billy who holds many of them off until he is struck from behind and beaten until Cole and Mike arrive and intervene. Dismayed by Bernard's quick collapse, Posner threatens Billy, who responds by knocking him down. Billy then retreats to the park, where Posner and a group of his men wait. Driving into town, Billy spots Martin and the others and comes to their assistance, attacking Bernard and Dinosaur. Bernard and his friend Dinosaur arrive and taunt Martin, then strike him and pour flour over him and the other Indian children. Teenager Martin and some of the girls go to an ice cream store, where they are refused service because several of them are Indian. The next day, the students arrive in town and their exuberance and "hippy" attire immediately set the conservative townspeople on edge. One day Barbara and some of the other girls watch Billy and Jean talking and speculate that they are romantically involved. Asked by the drama teachers to join in a role-playing exercise, Barbara refuses, insisting that she is only at the school because she is "knocked-up." She is startled when the group promptly makes up a Christmas-like story of a virgin birth leading to a new savior whom they welcome with raised, clenched fists. Initially hostile, Barbara grows curious when Jean and the students introduce her to yoga and psycho-drama role-playing. Cole takes the sullen Barbara to the school, where children of all races and ages intermingle and the only rules forbid drugs and ask that everyone take up a creative activity. After tending to Barbara, the doctor recommends to Billy that, as Mike's behavior will likely continue, Barbara should be secretly taken to the Freedom School, a progressive learning center on the reservation run by the kind Jean Roberts. Outraged, Mike beats Barbara, who flees and is later found semi-conscious by Billy who takes her to the town doctor. Mike returns home to find Barbara, but his welcome turns sour when she announces that she has contracted hepatitis and is pregnant. Although frustrated, Posner backs down and as he and his men depart, Billy frees the horses. As Posner and his men are about to fire on the horses, Billy Jack, a half-Indian, Vietnam veteran appears and, at rifle-point, demands that the men disperse as they are on Indian reservation lands illegally. After herding the horses into a corral, Posner orders his son Bernard to participate, but Bernard refuses, angering his father. Although relieved, Mike declines to meet his daughter, preferring instead to join the town's wealthiest citizen, Stuart Posner, in a slaughter of wild mustangs in order to sell the dead horses to a dog food company. In rural Arizona, local sheriff Cole informs his deputy, Mike, that Mike's runaway, fifteen-year-old daughter, Barbara, has been located in San Francisco and is being flown home.
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