Cast was assembled from the Crow and Cheyenne Indian tribes.
According to the AFI, Before the White Man Came (1920) is extant. A print, retitled Red Men of the Plains, is located at the Národní filmový archiv in Prague.
Along with The Daughter of Dawn (1920), Hiawatha (1913), and In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), this movie featured an all-Native cast.