All language subtitles for The Song Of Hiawatha 1997 - Native American

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what you pray for now blackrobe

this matters you're just one not home

this morning

you better leave him be maybe praying to

save your slippery thieving soul from

the hellfire it's got coming to it

not steal from nobody just accept

tolkien gift of thank you from white man

who's got plenty

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said that yesterday and the day before

my son well today we're closer

today we're in the land of ojibwa home

of hiawatha's people

good it's about time we meet this

hiawatha

oh carl now you're sure he's a man we

can talk to

no i've never met him i just heard

stories

what you lied to me you told me you knew

him well

i never lied everybody knew of hiawatha

just

nobody ever met him yeah

if this thing with hiawatha doesn't work

there'll always be others

look at this country

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crawling with fur

look at it indeed john bertrand

i must confess the further in and we

come the more

unsettled i feel

nerves priests nerves

that's your problem you've been a

teacher all your life

not a man of action as uh ourselves here

but just remember there are fortunes to

be made here

for your eyes that is of course

unless we let the english beat us to it

do you want something to pray about you

pray that don't happen

yes

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here's your booger

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i want to have his own way of making

himself known

good that's all we need more sign

heathen idolatry

battle

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priest

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over there in the clearing this way

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oh god i don't like this

you can pray now breathe

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so

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looks like the man in charge

find out who he is and ask him

where the devil the merman belt he's

wearing came from

oka tell him who we are

and that we come in peace in search of

the great ojibwe chieftain

ojibwe okama al-hayawattan

ask him if he would be so good as to

accept our

our gifts as token of our friendship

and if we might sit for a while and and

talk with him

is known as a great warrior and wise

sachim as far away as

big seawater

he says his name is iago he wants you to

bring your gifts

oh he does does he and uh where might we

bring them

to coco he says he wants you to talk to

hiawatha's grandmother

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nokomis

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foreign

you say this old woman lived with the

spirits on the moon many years ago

then one day she fell to earth

when her spirit father in the finder

he was killed by the evil magician pearl

feather

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ass can make you expect to swallow all

that

i don't know it's a good story though

put that stuff down

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why this visit is necessary when our

business

is with hiawatha

um

we deeply appreciate our hospitality

and we will be happy to answer any

questions she might have about us

we want the sacha marawata to know that

in exchange of course for fur

windmill hiawata even the gay golden

medona

she wants to know what you're doing here

blackrobe tell her i only bring

good news good news of our savior

jesus christ jesus

now you go away wait a minute

we've come a long way on a promise that

this hiawatha

would sit and uh do business with us

you say you got a bad promise she knows

about white man

got no use for him i say gentlemen

why should we waste any more time

sitting here

listening to her you want furs

too much talk i talk you talk he talk

talk talk talk

tomorrow

you say we're gonna need a long time

fire if yago gonna start blowing wind

nokomis has a daughter winona

she's beautiful she make

error he loves matsukus

who's a bad character

they have a son she is depressed

and dies of pity she feels for herself

and gives up her life in the forest

okumus becomes mother

source of nourishment for a hiawatha

who was this magician

we'll talk now later

hiawatha is a blessed child

a child of wonder

ayawata is favored by the spirits

from the time he was little boy

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as a boy hayawata was always better than

the others

faster stronger smarter too

back in those days there were times of

war

tribes killing other tribes were

overfilled sometimes

so old nobody remember what started the

amanda delaware iran no matter

and so while nokomis teach hayawata ways

of the people

i teach the boy ways of forest and ways

of hunter

ways of men in ways of war

soon the council of elders made hiawatha

youngest war chief ever but

not everybody was happy with that

make for much trouble later

even though hiawatha became a great

warrior

and hunter and his name became known

among

all the nations he still was not at

peace in his heart

and even though hayawata asked many

times

nokomis never talked to him about

secrets of times past

it is a fine young buck my grandson

and you have turned into a fine young

man

we shall feast well on this beat

grandmother

if as you say i am a man

it is time i knew what happened to my

mother and father

yes i think the time has come for you to

learn

of your mother winona and to judge for

yourself your father

magiqueus

come inside

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they say he is a mighty warrior

fearless terrible battle

he lives in the great mountains in the

west

some say he is kin to the west wind

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and he is the one who left my mother to

die of a broken heart

i will go to the western mountains

and i will find this magician

yes i will see how it fares with my

father

so hiawatha goes to find his father

to kill him he crosses the mighty rivers

passes the prairies the land of the

crows and

foxes the dwellings of the blackfeet

until he comes to the rocky mountains

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of the ojibwe

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son of winona

grandson of nakomis you are welcome

hiawatha

welcome to the kingdom of the west wind

come here to me

have i been waiting for you my son

how did you know i would come you're a

good son aren't you

a good son should pay his respects to

his father so i have been told

something troubles you no

it is only that my heart is full with

having finally met

my father you are here now

that's what matters look at you

youth is lovely age is lonely

youth is fiery ages frosty

but the side of you already has started

to bring back

my youth

they come my son always when times are

hard

they bring their offerings of venison

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weapons

what people don't understand

is their wants and desires amount to

nothing

but what matters my son is the will

of the immortals the will of the

immortals

i see it is the hardest lesson

of all if you're a ruler of the winds of

heaven

then you must be very powerful there is

nothing beneath

the sun and the moon that could do harm

too much of kiwis

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almost nothing there's

wabik the black rap

that's it over there

that yes then it was cursed by the evil

magician

mega saguan whom you may have known as

pearl feather what does it do

who knows but as long as i have it

and he doesn't how can it hurt me

tell me son what else would you like to

know

tell me about my mother

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you really want to know that

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a long time ago

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word was brought to me about a lovely

maiden name

winona living in the land of the ojibwe

so i went to look for her

winona and i spent the whole spring and

summer together it was the happiest time

of my life

i knew i was going to have to return

here

and she would not be able to come with

me

then you admit it

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you turned your back on her

you might as well have shot her through

with an arrow

you killed her and now i must kill you

stop i told you i might have to kill you

kill me if you can father

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no sense

i now speak to you from the land of the

hereafter

you will now go back to your home among

your people

and cleanse the earth of all who harm it

but you must prove yourself worthy of

the prize

the prize

what prize immortality

and if i fail fail

speaking of failure my son

go forth and seek glory for yourself

and before your father

look

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uh

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thanks what were you doing out in the

river

it's the edge of a waterfall it's a long

story

all right i met a maiden

threw me in

are you laughing at me

oh no i guess it

sounds pretty stupid

just said it well

if you knew the maiden

what is your name anyways

of the ojibwe

of the seneca

wait have our tribes

gone to war haven't been at home for a

while

i haven't either but not when i left

good we don't have to kill each other

so what brings you this way harry water

i heard of miss shimoku the great arrow

maker of the dakota

i want to trade with him with some

arrowheads

then i'm going home do you know where i

can find him

come with me

you said you just came from the kingdom

of the westwind i've heard rumors of it

but

i've never been there

i'd leave it that way if i were you so

why do you go there

was the family matter

why i'm always looking for good stories

i'm

a poet and a singer my family expected

me to become

a great warrior like my father and

grandfathers

wasn't what they expected of you

important oh yes

to tell you the truth not a very good

warrior

if our tribes had been at war you

probably would have killed me back there

so i just wander collecting stories from

all the nations

at least she didn't throw these in after

me

who is this maybe minnie haha

laughing water

i was embarrassed when he found me

drowning

i was trying to get her attention i was

so sure she was falling for me

there's a story i learned from the

cherokee listen

awake beloved thou

the wild flower of the forest now the

wild bird

of the prairies

thou with eyes so soft and fondlike

if thou lookest at me

i am happy

you're not a maiden believe me it's

never failed

until today

you know we're so close how could she do

that

i don't know

but i would never let a maiden do that

to me

see

tell me what do you have to trade

i find wampum belt from a cree chief

that i killed in battle

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the shells from the big water

i see anyhow

bring us some meat beer cakes

yes father this is meat

from flint and jasper

they're my best work

i do not trade with just anyone

tell me are you a good shot

in the land of the ojibwe

i am thought to be the finest oh another

one

what do you mean another one that's what

all the warriors say

i am the best i can shoot the eye of a

flying

squirrel at 100 paces

this girl with the raspy mouth

is my daughter mini-ha

it's all right father i already met him

i named her after

the fault of many haha for the beauty

and sweetness of the water the beauty is

one thing

still working on the sweetness

good not too sweet

i'm glad you like it that way

hi water they like these arrowheads

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yes we will trade

you're quiet hiawatha what are you

thinking about

her

so beautiful

i know they're all like that

by the way remind me to tell you about

these two algonquin sisters

they're not all like mini huh i'm going

to come back

and make her my wife minnie huh

are you crazy some things you just know

well you may know it but that

she cat that's another question

she knows well if you're right

you'll probably uh live an interesting

life

short but interesting

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which way are you going i was thinking

about going south for the winter

maybe into seminole country but

i've heard the ojibwe were great

storytellers and singers

you've got to meet my uncle yaga

okay i'm with you

besides i haven't known anybody in my

life before

forget it so

high watan chibi albas travel eastwood

together for many days she'd be our boss

he was a good boy i miss him

that come later old woman

till finally they come back to the gym

things are not the same as when i was

left

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were you worried not yet maybe about the

first snow

i start to worry

would you quiz i found it

we fought i won

can you tell me about it what is there

to tell

enough of that this is seneca

he has come to stay with us for a while

hello i'm afraid i have little to offer

you to eat

i'm sorry why

hasn't iago been hunting for you hunting

but not killing

game is scarce the drought has

dried up the streams and what little

roots and berries there were

are almost all gone

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the good years come game is fat

plentiful but always followed by bad

years the good years will come again

but meanwhile we tighten our belts

i've got a solution you're the warchief

leaders in the war war why

with who it doesn't matter who the man

dan have food

but kill them take their food the

arikara have food we'll kill them take

their food too

it's better there women cry in the night

instead of ours hey

but it'll take a strong chief to make

such a war

no it would take a fool soon we would be

at war with all the tribes we attacked

maybe others too fear that i might

attack them next

i would be suicide besides i will not

lead our young men to war

for food that rightfully belongs to

others

you're not willing to act what's the

point of this council meeting anyway

may be right hiawatha

the cycle of feast and famine is

nature's way

short of war not much we can do

surely nature must have more than one

way

been looking for you

looks like something's on your mind too

many things

far too many

why should we live like all other

creatures of the forest

like the squirrels wait for the acorns

to fall from the trees

or the deer who follow the grass who die

if the rains do not come or if the grass

does not grow because

that's the way it's always been

okay sorry i have prayed

my prayers gone unanswered

i'm going to look within i'm going to

seek a vision

go ahead my friends it won't hurt

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oh

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for you pray not like the others not for

greater skill than

hunting or fishing nor tribes in battle

do you pray for the people who are you

i descended from the throne of the

master of life

i abandoned him the friend of man

i have come to warn you and to instruct

you

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rise up

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so

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um

remember by your struggle

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feeling better are you

enough

well done but i will come again for you

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oh

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uh

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ugh

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ugh

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make a bed for me to lie in

where the rain may fall upon me

and where the sun can come and warm me

lay me in the earth and make it soft

and loose and light

above me

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and he said let no hand disturb my

slumber

nor weed or worm molest me

nor ravens come to haunt me

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only you come and watch me

until i leap into the sunshine

leap into the sunshine

which is why i didn't tell you or

anybody else until now

what is it

i don't know

have you ever seen a plant like it never

taste it

sweet

i'm good this is mondemon's gift to us

food we could grow ourselves food we can

count on year in and year

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hiawatha you remember willow hand

and her daughter sparrow's song

no comas has it in her head it's time

for hayawata to marry

only problem ayahuada is not able to get

meliha

off his mind

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what is wrong with sparrow song

nothing is wrong with sparrow's song

she's

nice then why not take her as your wife

good family match she's homely looking

you be quiet and she has two ducktales

on each foot i don't think you've ever

seen that before

she's not minnie ha-ha why do you insist

on taking a stranger for a wife

you know nothing about her you've never

even met her

i know she's dakota not ojibwe that's

not grandmother

for the first time our people are

building permanent lodging

these are good days and all you can

think of is to marry me off

you have grown too proud of yourself

young man

bring corn to the people yes that's good

build permanent lodges

yes also good but too good for a girl

from your own tribe

shamefully

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no commerce did not give hayawata any

peace

but hiawatha was only going to marry the

girl

he wanted to marry and so one day

he started back for the land of the

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dakotas

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so you're back are you

do you think we could talk alone

you can walk me to my father's lodge

minnie haha i have come back to see you

oh why why

why do you think the very day i met you

i told you

obviously i remember him the poet

the great lover how is he he hasn't

drowned yet

he is cute but

thou wild bird of the fairy

why are we talking about chibiavos you

started it

you said you told him something

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i told him i was going to come back and

make you my wife

oh

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and i have come back i'm going to speak

with your father

oh where are you

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yes

give me your weapons why

you would take me as your wife but you

don't trust me with your weapons

of course but your war club

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your arrows

you bow

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uh

oh

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are you hurt

no

i brought you these

you didn't say you didn't love me

no i didn't

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hmm

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speak ojibwa

then i will kill you you would kill one

who brings you a valuable gift

or even more valuable information

what do you want like you

i want to become warchief of my people

then you have a problem

ayahuata is your warchief not if you

were dead

if you want him dead kill him

well i would but he is uh well thought

of amongst my people

some even believe he was sent from the

spirit world

no ojibwe could kill hiawatha and then

expect to become chief

hiawatha has killed many mandan warriors

but much sorrow and mourning too many

mandan lodges

what is this information you bring

ayahuata has gone alone into the lands

of the dakota

so soon he'll be returning along the

same

path

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the first night after we get home we

rest

the second night will be our wedding

and our wedding feast

so far away

from my people be strange

my people will become your people

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stay here

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um

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huh

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uh

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speak man dan who told you i would come

this way look among your own people

hiawatha

even you have enemies kill me i will

tell you no more

let's

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no go let me kill him no he would

kill you he would kill both of us no

why not then what

the mending will only send other war

parties against our village

and in turn i will lead our warriors

against them it has always been that way

and it always will be until we

come on

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hi everything you've told me about

your grandmother sounds wonderful but

do you think she'll like me

i'm sure she will you both have a lot in

common

like what

you'll see still

she doesn't enough

when i came back last year i told her

about you

she couldn't wait for me to bring you

home

she wants only my happiness and that

means you

and you mine but you can understand why

i worry

i know

but my grandmother trusts my judgment

in all things

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my wife

is she not as beautiful as i said

come inside child i want to talk to you

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the binding of marriage is forever

only death can separate him

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okay

more corn grandmother

clever wife

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tell us one of your great stories of

adventure

the one about the magician once in days

not remembered in ages near the

beginning of time

they lived in the northland a hunter

with ten young and comely daughters

all tall and alive as wands of willows

only a weenie the youngest

she the willful and wayward she the

silent

the dreamy maiden she was the fairest of

all the sisters

all these women married warriors

married brave and haughty husbands look

among your own people ayahuasa

only a weenie even you have enemies

the youngest laughed and flouted all her

lovers

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what were you like when you were a

little boy

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me

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i don't know ask grandmother

she'll probably give you an earful i did

but she thinks the sun and the moon

revolve around you so her opinion

doesn't count

and you know better i do

i'm your wife

were you a little troublemaker

sure that's what little boys are for

why are you so curious

do you feel anything

we didn't come here to pick berries did

we

no

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is there a child

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i think so

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i love you so much

come to like girl from dakota after all

enough talk time to go to sleep

you want to hear more

come back tomorrow

will i want to be here who knows

up to him

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thank you

i got a good mind pack up and move

move on forget this hiawatha

find some indians that's ready to do

some business

chris don't you find it

remarkable that all the tribes we've

visited honor and

revere hiawatha's name

no i don't

the problem here priest

i've been watching you you're becoming

obsessed with this hiawatha all these

stories

you're forgetting that your job here is

to snag souls from mother church not go

chasing after some wild figment of the

healing imagination

yes yes you would think so no he is

that is what we teach but now

i was becoming moldy i'm afraid

it was good to come out from behind the

walls

sean what if these native souls are

already in good hands

good hands what was it midji kiwis or

get your monitor or hiawatha

son of a god an immortal woman sent

to save his people who fasted and then

brought food to the multitask

ah you watch your comparisons please

they could be considered heresy

it was said that the redeemer would come

again was it not

is it not possible that he chose not to

visit a christian land

the second time no enough

of the devil talk prison stop the devil

talk all right my friend don't let my

musings bother you maybe i'm getting old

i won't

good night good night

good night

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i oh an owl

here we are okay go

hi yeah

you're in a better mood this morning

yeah why not i'm finally making some

progress around here

oh yes and did you know

that not all these savages are happy cow

town to your hiawatha

in fact some of them like my friend

pacquiao is there he's about sick to

death

having to get hiawatha is okay before he

goes into the woods

i don't think it's quite that difficult

well you haven't talked to this much

i have and my good friend there assures

me

that he knows these woods and rivers as

well as hiawatha

and he said to me that he could get me

all the pelts

i can handle

i don't think it's i don't think it's

wise to be interfering in this way

who is interfering

huh i'm not

interfering with these people am i look

at him

he loves the feel of that weapon in his

hand hmm

doesn't it loves it

which is exactly what i intended yes i'm

sure but i would advise you to go slowly

these people are more clever than you

give them credit you think so do you

yes yes i do

[ __ ] just wants to talk to you about

your rifle i think he wants to make a

deal

ideally

well now we'll just see how clever they

are won't we priests

hmm come on

all right what do you want to do here

you want to straighten those bells for

this

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i'm curious about hiawatha's wife we

have

seen nothing many ha-ha have heard

nothing of her in the village

more to that story later

now come the part about pearl feather

pearl feather what the devil

the evil magician oh oh yes that's right

the evil magician

how do you keep track of all this drill

please uncle go on

well i'm gonna go to sleep wake me when

we get to the part about the fur

now i want to settle down and live

happily with

and all the warnings and promises of his

father

but skewers lord of the west wind

began to seem like almost like a nearly

forgotten

dream

grandmother

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smell the air

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what is it i haven't seen it for many

seasons

i hoped never to see it again

they're dead

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what caused this who caused it

is the question my grandson

maggie it comes from the black swamp

he sends it to bring disease and death

among the people

the one my father called pearl feather

pearl feather the magician manitou of

wealth and wampum

who hoard the medicines intended for the

people

why why else to increase his power over

us

medicines to cure diseases that he and

other

evil spirits visit us with why has he

brought these poisons to us now

who knows but here he is and he must be

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stopped

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i will stop him grandmother

where can i find him far to the west

but he's very dangerous

is he alone impossible to say

no one who has gone into the black swamp

has come out to talk about it

i will go and speak with iago

and we will come back and send them on

in a good way

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why must you be the one to go

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if not me then who

you don't always have to be the one to

solve everybody's problems

i hoped you would understand because

that's what you think

your father ruler of the west wind would

expect

what about what i would expect what

about what i want

i am thinking of what you want the most

have you had any more stirrings

not today but you will

and when our son is born do you want to

have to worry about pearl feather and

his death and disease

because it will also come and go

go

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by the time i get back

you'll be kicking up a storm

be careful

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where do you think you're going

miss you

do you know what you're doing

do you

i just remembered something else about

pro feather

they say he's invincible one part of his

body

he protects the crown of his head

we shall see uncle

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so

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do you think he knows we're coming

he's a magician

where do you think those sounds come

from

i do not know

well when do we go in soon

are you in such a rush to meet the

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creator

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hello were you trying to scare me papa

kiwis

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you should be scared the maiden all

alone in the woods

i'm not a maiden i'm a married woman a

married woman without a husband

is like a maiden in some ways i have a

husband

and it will not be long before he

returns from his journey a very foolish

husband

to leave a beautiful young wife alone

for so long

so early in the marriage i'm managing

just fine

no then why haven't i seen you smile

just once since

i went away i've been watching you

what gives you that right

your beauty of course couldn't help

myself

all the girls said you should watch out

for papa keyless

what else have they said about me

i miss my husband

is that so hard to understand and you're

not even a little bit angry at him for

going off and leaving you all alone

how did you know this well how could you

think otherwise

a young bride in a strange land amongst

strange customs

so far from her family her home

would never have left you alone anyhow i

have to get back to the corn

the corn can wait

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ugh

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i've had a bad feeling all day you do

not have to come into the black swamp

with me if you do not want to

to tell you the truth

i'm a little tired of collecting other

people's stories

i want to tell some of my own stories

for a change

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oh

jimmy offers

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uh

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right

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now that's a story

that loves you luck hey

how am i pretty bad

pretty bad

you will be okay

i will go and get pro feathers medicines

for you

you kill him not the other way around

okay okay brother

i'm scared

there's no other way

just go

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hiawatha wait you're coming

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you have journeyed long to find a place

to die

show yourself maggie sogwan

unless you are the coward i have heard

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so

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ah

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back among the women fat heart while you

can't

to your young wife and all

no gomes or i will kill you as you stand

there as i killed her father

big talk magician

i will kill you now

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uh

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so

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rest well my friend

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i want them

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then later hiawatha went back to pearl

feather's place and

loaded up all his wealth wampum belts

and pouches

silver-headed arrows buffalo and beaver

furs

furs of sable and irma

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he fought well

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our poet fought well

the poison mist it has not returned

pearl feather dead by my hand

wait these

things are for all of you to divide

among yourselves

but this these medicines are more

valuable

than all of pearl feather's skin and

wampum

you will see if i would have had these

black swamp chibiables would still be

alive

they will see i will show them

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[Music]

how is he

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i was wrong

there is no baby

there will be

he will come

and when he does come

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we will name him to be helpless

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look at the edge on that blade hey

ladies

look at that edge

see how it slices right through that

fish

metal ladies good stuff

here let's try one of your clay pots

see what happens when i drop it on that

rock breaks the pieces right

i'll do that with a metal pan on that

same rock

there you go no problem

good as new

metal ladies metal it will turn your

lives right around

hmm there now

take some of these things home with you

and uh try them out for yourselves there

you go

morning priest it's the women

too yes yes came to me last night

i figured if the young men are getting a

little antsy about how things are

running around here

women couldn't be too far behind

although a few of them might need a

little extra push

but they don't really need any of it

do they no

no they don't but they want it

they want it look around you priests

hmm these people are living like a bunch

of savages that's

right so you just keep your mind on what

you need to do here

and let me take care of the business

well i don't see any new faces

well comes we have been here three days

and we are very grateful for your

hospitality and the

stories we've been told

have you spoken to hiawatha

of course i talked to hiawatha

every day

hiawatha not ready to come

in this story tonight he said

white man know what in high waters heart

then maybe

last iowa done

when do you come back from the black

swamp

highwater tired of always fighting

always at war with other tribes

he made a plan and send out invitations

to all the nations for a great council

meeting

they came to delaware mohawk and

blackford

commandant iran and dakota to hear what

iowa had to say

we are all children of the great spirit

we are all

equal in his eyes

he is weary watching us wage war among

ourselves

he is tired of the bloodshed which leads

only to prayers for vengeance

gichi manitou would have there be peace

among us from this day hence

peace is for cowards no there is

strength in peace

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see one arrow one nation

see how easily it breaks

many arrows many nations

they cannot be broken why should we

believe that kitschy manitou

has chosen you to deliver this message

think clever ojibwa convince

us to cast aside our weapons

wouldn't that be a good time for a

clever enemy to attack

i am not your enemy man dan

i think i have proven that to you prove

that the great spirit speaks through you

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peace we will see

it will work man then i know get your

manitou

told you

safe journey

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you asked who told me you had gone to

the dakotas

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safe journey iowa

the mandan told me you visited him

he lied he lied

i have no weapon all this talk of peace

is making you careless

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kill me then what are you gonna do

nothing as long as i have no more

trouble from you

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[Music]

after high water gave corn to the people

medicines and brought peace to all the

nations

many good seasons passed iowa became

known as a great

healer peacemaker twice

for all the good that did minnie haha

couldn't have her baby

change everything he quiet old woman

yes there was no child and food

started to become a new kind of winter

was coming

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he's a fine strong boy

isn't he grandma look at that cowlick

means he'll be up to some mr forward

don't be sad mini haha yours will come

to

but when soon but you have to take care

of yourself

eat better i'm fine

i don't think eating is the problem

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who are you

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what do you want here let them be

maybe they come to see hiawatha

grandmother who are your visitors

you don't know them

i don't know they haven't said a word

welcome to the lodge of nakomis

what brings you here

have you traveled far

they must have come for a reason we will

give them food

the shelter for the night

maybe tomorrow they will talk i don't

like them

there's no need to be afraid

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you asked where we came from from the

land of the hereafter

we are the ghosts of the departed we

have come to warn you of what

a greater trial a harder struggle

prepare yourself

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wait prepare yourselves

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foreign

grandmother what am i going to do

i've tried everything i don't know

she is so weak

she needs meat not corn broth

she needs strength to fight this fever

but the game is all gone there must be

something

i wasn't i was

i'm here

don't leave me

please

now

i must

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you

[Music]

get you ready too good morning

give your children food oh father

give me food for me

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father hear me

i have tried in every way to fulfill

your desires

with me

now this i ask of you

spare the life of mini haha

well you have done hiawatha my son

you have earned the reward of

immortality

but many ha

cannot accompany you to where you must

go

because my mother could not accompany

you

again you question the will of the

immortals

yes yes i question

i give you back your promise of

immortality

now give me back my mini huh

please think carefully my son

i have not

i am not immortal i'm a man

then i am sorry

goodbye my son

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hi

hi hi hiroshi

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they call me what is it

my child

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he begins me

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child

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um

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guess what i figured no hiya what a

total waste of time

no sean no

it's not a total waste of time i'm not

sure what hiawatha really means to his

people but

priest i may not know what hiawatha

means to his people

but i know what he means for his people

and if they keep listening to that

nonsense in there it means they're going

to be left behind

or moved out when the real trade comes

to this country

that's what it means john once tried to

put yourself

in their place all right

i am in their place not really

oh this is their place

first

you look like you could use some sleep

come on let's go

okay let's go

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i must go tonight

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come with me into the village

[Music]

why tonight

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my time among the people is over

isn't that so papukus why do you ask me

you are among those who have an eye for

what the white man brings

his smoke sticks to roar his metal

knives and hatchets

there's no evil with these things

they're good

they make life easy then you would trade

the beaver and the mink and herman for

them

we have plenty where they come from i

had a dream

a dream of the white man coming

[Music]

and in it all of our tribes were

scattered

our lands traded for stolen

many die

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[Applause]

and what people are left

swept west before the white man

west i know not where

i would never trade the lands of the

people

nor would i so you be the judge for

pucquez

shall i remain

where do i go

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i will go

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goodbye grandmother

goodbye my grandson

see the moon grandmother

[Music]

[Applause]

i will never be too far away

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so

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uh

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uh

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