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ELAINE:
There is an Indian proverb:
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[SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
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"It is easy to be brave
from a distance.
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ELAINE [IN VOICEOVER]:
Easy, and often quite safe."
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[SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
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Once, there was no honour in killing...
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[BLOWS]
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...only necessity.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Honour came with true courage.
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But that day...
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...is long gone.
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Woo!
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[WINGS FLUTTERING]
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[BIRDS CAWING]
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[HORSES NEIGHING IN DISTANCE]
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[RUSTLING]
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[GUNSHOTS]
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[GRUNTS]
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[INDIANS SCREAMING]
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[GRUNTS]
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[GUNSHOT]
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[GRUNTING]
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[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
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Ohiyesa, go with the others!
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[YELLS]
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[GRUNTS]
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[GASPS]
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[GRUNTS]
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I said, go! Go!
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[WOMAN SOBBING]
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Aieee!
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[HORSE NEIGHING]
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[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
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[MEN YELLING]
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[INDISTINCT YELLING]
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[GUNSHOTS]
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[HORSE NEIGHS]
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MAN:
The man was a fucking idiot.
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Splits his forces,
daylight raid, high noon.
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An idiot, perhaps,
but he had his orders, Mr. President.
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"Drive the Sioux out of the Black Hills,
onto the ration rolls"...
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...so that we could get
to that damn gold.
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The Sioux resisted.
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Resisted? Bullshit.
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They resisted, General Sherman.
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Blocking a roundhouse to the chin
is resistance, Henry.
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Massacring five companies of cavalry...
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I am not defending their brutality,
Mr. President.
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The Sioux resisted
because by the '68 treaty...
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...this land is theirs...
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...and we had no legal...
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That treaty was also only supposed to
feed them for four years...
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...and yet here we are
eight years later...
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...and you senators are passing
a million-a-year appropriation...
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...to keep filling their bellies. Why?
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To keep them from starving, general.
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GRANT: And tha�s all i�s done,
made them beggars.
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Hasn't advanced them one bit.
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- And those smart enough not to sign...
- Do this.
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They were attacked by us first.
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[CHUCKLES]
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And what would you have us do,
Dawes? Cut and run?
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Mr. President, this is
a senseless argument.
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A senseless argument?
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You know what they did
to those men on that hill?
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They did things even I've
never seen before.
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Henry, the survival of the Indian
is your deepest concern, isn't that so?
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You know it is.
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I thought it was yours.
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And it still is.
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I appointed an Indian to the head
of Indian Affairs, I'll remind you.
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Another decision that your colleagues
were so fond of.
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Another knot in the noose
of this administration.
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Along with a three-year depression
and a bankrupt treasury.
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This isn't about money,
this is about human beings.
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And when you make an agreement,
you have a solemn obligation to fulfil...
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In spite of this atrocity...
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...I still believe that setting the Indians
on the course to civilisation...
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...best ensures their survival.
Now, do you or do you not agree?
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Yes, sir. I do.
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Then you can't deny
that there's no saving the Sioux...
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...unless we compel them
to give up their way of life...
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...and settle on the reservation.
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I'll say it till my tongue bleeds:
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If we're ever going to claim
what we bought from the French...
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...and whooped the Mexicans for...
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...i�s going to mean killing Indians.
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[INDIANS YELLING]
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Whoa.
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Your father.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTERING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
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[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
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[HORSE NEIGHING IN DISTANCE]
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- Did you win this feather?
- Yes.
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In the fight at the Little Bighorn.
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MAN: Three hundred of us
were to be hanged.
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I killed two whites, but the
Great Father Lincoln saved me.
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He sent me to prison,
where my heart was made free.
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- Free?
- Yes.
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Because I have learned there is another
road that runs beside the warpath.
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A secret road...
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...only known to the
Christ worshippers.
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[CROWD MURMURING]
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And you came back
to make us Christ worshippers?
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No. I have come for my son.
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[SINGING "JESUS,
LOVER OF MY SOUL"]
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PRIEST: O Lord, grant us the wisdom
and strength...
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...to come to a peaceful accord
with our red brothers here today.
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Great Chief of the Oglala Sioux,
Red Cloud.
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His head men:
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Young Man Afraid of His Horses...
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...American Horse and others.
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We beseech you, O Lord...
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...in the name of your son
and our saviour, Jesus Christ.
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PRIEST: Amen.
ALL: Amen.
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RED CLOUD: I want to know
to which god the white robe is praying.
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The same god whom you deceived
when you made treaty with us...
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...and broke it?
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We come to you once again,
to negotiate...
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...for your rights to the Black Hills
and your hunting ground.
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I am speaking. Or has my medicine
made us invisible to you?
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If so, you will not notice
when I lead my people out of here...
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...back to our lands.
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[CROWD CHUCKLING]
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I would like to know how many
of Red Clou�s young bucks...
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...were at Little Bighorn
with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
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Those men were hunting,
as the agent permitted.
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MILES:
Indeed they were hunting.
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They were hunting for white scalps.
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I am a friend of the great father,
President Grant.
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And I want to tell you,
he did not wish...
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...for there to be war
between us again.
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The great father is the chief
of all your people, chosen by them.
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Did he not order
those soldiers to attack?
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Yes, it was the great father's order.
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But it did not come from his heart.
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Then I don't understand
how you whites do things.
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And now you will place
a paper before us that says:
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"Give the Black Hills
and your old hunting lands to us...
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...or we will no longer feed you...
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...and we will kill Sitting Bull
and all those who continue to fight."
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RED CLOUD: Is that not so?
- All right.
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Red Cloud has had his say.
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This new agreement will ensure
your continued support...
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...and a new home at an agency
to be known as Pine Ridge.
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We no longer wish your support.
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We wish to hunt on the lands,
which the treaty said we may keep.
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MILES: Only as long as the game
abounds. The game is scarce now.
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Because of your hunting
for amusement.
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The paper you signed
allows for us to lay rail.
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You agreed to this
when you touched the pen.
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I touched the pen
because I wanted peace.
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For the past eight snows...
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...my people have been living
like the poorest of whites.
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Where are the fine things
you promised?
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The kind you lavish on us when you
want our mark on your paper?
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Chief Red Cloud,
did you or did you not...
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...sign the paper and advise
your people to do the same?
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Am I invisible now?
I am speaking to you.
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Colonel Miles, enough.
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I will speak straight to you
because these are the words...
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...of the great father
and his people.
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You must touch pen to this paper...
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...or you and your people will perish.
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[SCRIBBLES]
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[WOMEN GIGGLING]
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MAN:
Soldiers!
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Soldiers!
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[INDISTINCT YELLING]
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Bear Coat.
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They say he was fearless in
the whites' big war against themselves.
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Bear Coat was a friend
of Longhair Custer.
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He comes for revenge.
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[YELLING IN DISTANCE]
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MILES:
Sitting Bull requested this council.
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We await his words.
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Take your soldiers out of here,
they scare the game away.
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Very well, sir.
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Tell me, then, howfar away
should I take my men?
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You must take them out of our lands.
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What precisely are your lands?
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These are the lands where my people
lived before you whites first came.
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I don't understand.
We whites were not your first enemies.
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Why don't you demand back
the land in Minnesota...
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...the Chippewa forced you from
years before?
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The Black Hills are a sacred land
given to my people by Wakan Tanka.
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How very convenient
to cloak your claims in spiritualism.
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And what would you say
to the Mormons and others...
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...who believe their god has given
them Indian lands in the West?
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I would say they should listen
to Wakan Tanka.
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[ALL CHUCKLING]
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[HORSES WHINNYING]
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No matter what your legends say...
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...you didn't sprout from the plains
like the spring grasses.
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And you didn't coalesce
out of the ether.
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You came out of the Minnesota
woodlands armed to the teeth...
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...and set upon your fellow man.
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You massacred the Kiowa,
the Omaha...
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...the Ponca, the Oto
and the Pawnee without mercy.
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And yet you claim the Black Hills
as a private preserve...
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...bequeathed to you
by the Great Spirit.
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And who gave us the guns and powder
to kill our enemies?
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Who traded weapons
to the Chippewa and others...
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...who drove us from our home?
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Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition
that you were a peaceable people...
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...before the appearance of the white
man is the most fanciful legend of all.
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You killed each other
for hundreds of moons...
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...before whites stepped foot
on this continent.
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You conquered those tribes,
lusting for their game and their lands...
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...just as we have now conquered you
for no less noble a cause.
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This is your story of my people!
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This is the truth, not legend.
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[GUN COCKS]
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Crazy Horse has surrendered...
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...with his entire band.
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And by his surrender,
he says to you and your people...
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...that you are defeated.
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And by ceding the Black Hills to us...
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...so say Red Cloud
and the other chiefs...
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...who demand that you end this war
and take your place on the reservation.
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Red Cloud is no longer a chief.
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He is a woman you have mounted
and had your way with.
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Do not speak to me of Red Cloud!
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I suppose you are the only chief, then.
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MILES:
Sitting Bull is king of all the Indians.
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Humility.
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I�s one of the four virtues
of a Sioux chief.
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Sitting Bull shows his true nature now.
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I have had my say with you.
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And I have had my say with you.
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Then we will have a fight.
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So be it.
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[CHANTING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
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[GUN COCKS]
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[RUMBLING]
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[ALL YELLING]
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Artillery, prepare to fire a volley.
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[CRANK]
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SOLDIER:
Company, shoulder arms!
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[GUNSHOTS]
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Fire at will.
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Artillery, reload.
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[GUNSHOTS]
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Infantry, prepare to fire.
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And fire!
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SOLDIER:
Front line, reload!
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Fire.
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Fire. Fire.
249
00:23:37,607 --> 00:23:38,596
[HORSE NEIGHS]
250
00:23:56,407 --> 00:23:57,840
[HORSES NEIGHING]
251
00:23:58,967 --> 00:24:00,605
[YELLING CONTINUES]
252
00:24:00,767 --> 00:24:02,359
[YELLING INTENSIFIES]
253
00:24:09,727 --> 00:24:11,240
SOLDIER:
Front line, reload!
254
00:24:11,407 --> 00:24:12,396
[RELOADING]
255
00:24:19,647 --> 00:24:21,638
[WARRIORS SHOUTING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
256
00:24:28,047 --> 00:24:31,039
MILES:
Close ranks!
257
00:24:33,487 --> 00:24:35,443
Platoon...
258
00:24:35,607 --> 00:24:37,359
...forward!
259
00:24:44,207 --> 00:24:46,277
SOLDIER 1:
Fires are cold, sir. They left hours ago.
260
00:24:46,447 --> 00:24:48,358
- Burn it all.
SOLDIER 1: Yes, sir.
261
00:24:48,527 --> 00:24:50,916
SOLDIER 1:
Burn it all down, everything!
262
00:24:53,167 --> 00:24:56,682
Get a torch over here.
I don't wanna see one tepee standing.
263
00:25:30,367 --> 00:25:32,358
[PLAYING MELANCHOLY TUNE]
264
00:26:01,767 --> 00:26:03,519
Canada.
265
00:27:17,327 --> 00:27:21,366
Who can give me the names
of the last four presidents?
266
00:27:22,487 --> 00:27:26,560
I would call on you, Ohiyesa,
but it must be by a white name.
267
00:27:26,727 --> 00:27:28,319
Have you chosen one from your book?
268
00:27:29,927 --> 00:27:31,804
No, missus.
269
00:27:32,647 --> 00:27:34,319
Shall I choose one for you?
270
00:27:36,447 --> 00:27:38,085
No, missus.
271
00:27:39,967 --> 00:27:43,277
Raise your hand
only if you can name all four.
272
00:27:46,087 --> 00:27:49,363
If just one student can name all four...
273
00:27:50,487 --> 00:27:52,842
...I will dismiss you early.
274
00:28:20,287 --> 00:28:22,278
[CHILDREN LAUGHING,
DOG BARKING]
275
00:28:32,607 --> 00:28:33,926
[CHATTERING IN
NATIVE LANGUAGE]
276
00:28:34,087 --> 00:28:35,600
[GUN COCKS]
277
00:28:52,207 --> 00:28:54,516
OFFICER:
Morning, sir.
278
00:28:54,687 --> 00:28:57,884
Major Walsh,
Northwest Mounted Police.
279
00:29:01,567 --> 00:29:06,163
People of Canada have heard of your
victory over the soldiers in Montana.
280
00:29:06,327 --> 00:29:11,003
Queen Victoria believes the American
government is to blame for this trouble.
281
00:29:11,567 --> 00:29:13,637
So you and your people...
282
00:29:14,927 --> 00:29:15,916
...you're welcome here.
283
00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:17,076
[CROWD MURMURING]
284
00:29:17,247 --> 00:29:20,000
I knowthe grandmother's heart
for the red man.
285
00:29:20,167 --> 00:29:23,443
Nowthey will learn on the reservation
that we are safe.
286
00:29:23,607 --> 00:29:25,086
And Crazy Horse will come.
287
00:29:25,567 --> 00:29:28,001
SITTING BULL: And many more.
- Crazy Horse?
288
00:29:28,167 --> 00:29:30,522
He was the war chiefwith you
at Little Bighorn?
289
00:29:30,687 --> 00:29:34,362
He was made to surrender,
but that life is not worth living.
290
00:29:34,567 --> 00:29:38,116
No, apparently not, sir.
291
00:29:38,287 --> 00:29:40,676
Crazy Horse is dead.
292
00:29:41,367 --> 00:29:45,076
He resisted while they were
locking him up for some trouble.
293
00:29:45,247 --> 00:29:48,239
If others join you,
they're welcome here.
294
00:29:48,407 --> 00:29:52,116
But you cannot use our land as a base
from which to attack the United States.
295
00:29:52,287 --> 00:29:56,166
Nor can you make raids on other tribes
here or interfere with their hunting.
296
00:29:56,367 --> 00:29:59,837
If you do, I'll have to bring
our own soldiers...
297
00:30:00,007 --> 00:30:01,963
...and force you all to leave.
298
00:30:03,807 --> 00:30:06,640
Now, we've brought you
some food and supplies.
299
00:30:06,807 --> 00:30:10,004
You'll find buffalo in the valleys
to the north and to the east.
300
00:30:10,207 --> 00:30:13,438
I suggest you hunt now and take
as much meat and skins as you can.
301
00:30:13,927 --> 00:30:15,758
I�s not like the Dakota here.
302
00:30:15,927 --> 00:30:17,519
Our winters can be harsh.
303
00:30:21,287 --> 00:30:23,278
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
304
00:30:25,727 --> 00:30:28,480
Tomorrow, we will review
fractions and verbs.
305
00:30:29,007 --> 00:30:31,237
Don't forget your homework.
306
00:30:40,207 --> 00:30:42,198
[STUDENTS CHATTERING]
307
00:30:45,207 --> 00:30:48,040
You have been chosen
from all the children on the settlement.
308
00:30:48,207 --> 00:30:51,324
This woman has come to take you
to a new school in Illinois.
309
00:30:51,487 --> 00:30:52,476
Illinois?
310
00:30:52,847 --> 00:30:56,396
If you study as hard there
as you did here, child...
311
00:30:56,567 --> 00:30:59,001
...you will go on to college
and study even further.
312
00:30:59,167 --> 00:31:02,000
And learn the trade
of the white man.
313
00:31:03,367 --> 00:31:04,641
I don't wanna go.
314
00:31:07,807 --> 00:31:09,604
Excuse me.
315
00:31:16,687 --> 00:31:18,166
[SIGHS]
316
00:31:34,167 --> 00:31:37,204
The earth belongs to the white man.
317
00:31:38,007 --> 00:31:40,760
There is no future outside his world.
318
00:31:42,647 --> 00:31:44,399
You must go.
319
00:31:48,207 --> 00:31:50,198
You must go.
320
00:31:52,927 --> 00:31:54,838
[TRAIN HORN BLOWING]
321
00:32:03,687 --> 00:32:05,678
[SINGING "JESUS,
LOVER OF MY SOUL"]
322
00:32:20,567 --> 00:32:22,558
[CHANTING]
323
00:32:30,087 --> 00:32:32,601
Everything will be fine.
324
00:33:10,207 --> 00:33:15,520
DAWES: The Indian today is civilised
only in the most elemental sense.
325
00:33:15,727 --> 00:33:20,005
His race wears civilised clothes,
live in wood houses.
326
00:33:20,167 --> 00:33:22,635
They send their children to schools.
327
00:33:23,207 --> 00:33:25,880
We have reached the point
where the Indian problem...
328
00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:28,481
...should be no different
than the Irish problem...
329
00:33:28,647 --> 00:33:30,444
...or the German problem.
330
00:33:30,607 --> 00:33:34,282
Like them, the Indian
has been absorbed.
331
00:33:34,767 --> 00:33:36,837
But, unlike them...
332
00:33:37,007 --> 00:33:40,443
...he has not yet been assimilated.
333
00:33:40,927 --> 00:33:42,804
This can only come...
334
00:33:42,967 --> 00:33:47,358
...when he is educated to so high
a plane of thought and aspiration...
335
00:33:47,527 --> 00:33:53,523
...as to render his former
savage way of life intolerable to him.
336
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:57,164
Ladies and gentlemen...
337
00:33:57,327 --> 00:34:00,956
...on a late June day in 1876...
338
00:34:01,127 --> 00:34:03,880
...the young man
I'm about to present to you...
339
00:34:04,047 --> 00:34:08,757
...was nearly killed by Arikara scouts
attached to the Seventh Cavalry...
340
00:34:08,927 --> 00:34:12,283
...of General George
Armstrong Custer.
341
00:34:13,967 --> 00:34:18,119
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am
referring to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
342
00:34:19,847 --> 00:34:24,523
Once destined for death at the hands
of enemy tribes or U.S. Soldiers...
343
00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:29,283
...he has flourished as a recipient of
the Friends of the Indian scholarship.
344
00:34:30,687 --> 00:34:34,521
From Dartmouth College,
where he is soon to graduate...
345
00:34:34,687 --> 00:34:37,247
...he will, with your continued support...
346
00:34:37,407 --> 00:34:42,037
...matriculate at Boston University
Medical School.
347
00:34:42,607 --> 00:34:46,122
Ladies and gentlemen,
I present to you...
348
00:34:46,287 --> 00:34:48,357
...Ohiyesa of the Sioux...
349
00:34:48,527 --> 00:34:52,440
...and Mr. Charles Eastman
of the United States of America.
350
00:34:52,607 --> 00:34:54,598
[APPLAUSE]
351
00:35:06,047 --> 00:35:08,038
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
352
00:35:26,927 --> 00:35:30,397
A Lakota proverb. It means:
353
00:35:31,847 --> 00:35:35,476
"Tell me, and I will listen.
354
00:35:35,647 --> 00:35:37,365
Show me...
355
00:35:37,527 --> 00:35:40,121
...and I will understand.
356
00:35:40,847 --> 00:35:42,883
Take me in...
357
00:35:43,647 --> 00:35:45,399
...and I will learn."
358
00:35:45,807 --> 00:35:48,799
[APPLAUSE]
359
00:36:03,127 --> 00:36:06,199
Elaine. Mrs. Goodale
and her daughter Elaine.
360
00:36:06,367 --> 00:36:08,483
Neighbours of mine
from Massachusetts.
361
00:36:08,647 --> 00:36:10,524
- Senator Dawes.
- Lovely to see you.
362
00:36:10,727 --> 00:36:13,719
- Pleased to meet you.
- Hello.
363
00:36:14,327 --> 00:36:15,646
Delighted to meet you.
364
00:36:16,407 --> 00:36:18,398
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
365
00:36:19,007 --> 00:36:20,998
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
366
00:36:26,287 --> 00:36:27,276
[CHUCKLES]
367
00:36:28,167 --> 00:36:29,680
Indeed.
368
00:36:30,527 --> 00:36:32,404
Besides being a student of Lakota...
369
00:36:32,967 --> 00:36:36,039
...Elaine is also a published poetess,
Charles.
370
00:36:37,567 --> 00:36:40,286
ELAINE: Ohiyesa?
CHARLES: It means "winner."
371
00:36:40,447 --> 00:36:42,802
I won the name in the pony races.
372
00:36:42,967 --> 00:36:46,642
And where did "Charles" come from?
373
00:36:47,287 --> 00:36:51,280
Well, Eastman is my mother's name.
374
00:36:51,447 --> 00:36:53,039
[WHISPERS]
Her father was a white.
375
00:36:53,207 --> 00:36:54,879
Don't tell the Friends of the Indian.
376
00:36:55,047 --> 00:36:56,082
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
377
00:36:56,247 --> 00:36:58,203
And "Charles"?
378
00:37:02,247 --> 00:37:06,525
I was in school one day and the teacher
was mistaken about something.
379
00:37:06,727 --> 00:37:09,195
The name of the chief
of my Sioux tribe.
380
00:37:09,647 --> 00:37:11,319
CHARLES:
She called him Spotted Bear.
381
00:37:11,487 --> 00:37:12,522
Chief Spotted Bear...
382
00:37:12,687 --> 00:37:15,281
So I raised my hand because...
383
00:37:15,487 --> 00:37:19,765
...I felt it was a dishonour to the chief
to misspeak his name.
384
00:37:20,327 --> 00:37:21,680
TEACHER: I would call on you...
385
00:37:21,847 --> 00:37:23,360
CHARLES:
But she wouldn't call on me...
386
00:37:24,087 --> 00:37:27,079
...because I hadn't taken
a white name.
387
00:37:27,287 --> 00:37:29,517
I just couldn't do it.
388
00:37:31,367 --> 00:37:35,280
And I remember her words
as if it were moments ago.
389
00:37:36,887 --> 00:37:39,082
Chief Spotted Bear could have
saved his people.
390
00:37:39,407 --> 00:37:42,444
But he chose war instead.
391
00:37:43,487 --> 00:37:46,320
"Missus," I cried...
392
00:37:46,487 --> 00:37:48,159
I believe you are mistaken.
393
00:37:49,207 --> 00:37:50,720
And she turned to me.
394
00:37:51,327 --> 00:37:52,646
How shall I address you?
395
00:37:57,207 --> 00:37:58,799
Quickly, the children are waiting.
396
00:38:06,647 --> 00:38:09,878
"Charles," I replied.
397
00:38:10,087 --> 00:38:12,078
Charles.
398
00:38:12,687 --> 00:38:14,006
Charles.
399
00:38:14,167 --> 00:38:17,045
Yes, Charles,
what is it you would like to say?
400
00:38:18,927 --> 00:38:21,885
"Excuse me, missus, I am certain..."
401
00:38:22,087 --> 00:38:24,282
I am certain the chief's name
was Little Crow.
402
00:38:24,527 --> 00:38:26,483
"Little Crow."
403
00:38:27,207 --> 00:38:28,925
I believe you are right, Charles.
404
00:38:29,087 --> 00:38:31,442
His name was Little Crow.
Thank you, Charles.
405
00:38:31,607 --> 00:38:33,484
"Thank you...
406
00:38:33,647 --> 00:38:36,036
...Charles."
407
00:38:36,207 --> 00:38:37,526
And he did not want war.
408
00:38:39,007 --> 00:38:42,283
"He did not want war."
409
00:38:49,567 --> 00:38:53,958
And this is how I came to be called...
410
00:38:54,647 --> 00:38:56,319
...Charles.
411
00:39:07,767 --> 00:39:09,519
Elaine?
412
00:39:10,127 --> 00:39:12,038
I'm sorry.
413
00:39:13,447 --> 00:39:15,438
Did I upset you?
414
00:39:16,727 --> 00:39:18,319
No.
415
00:39:19,927 --> 00:39:21,804
I'm all right.
416
00:39:24,047 --> 00:39:25,321
[SIGHS]
417
00:39:25,567 --> 00:39:27,558
ELAINE [WHISPERS]:
I�s all right.
418
00:39:34,487 --> 00:39:36,478
[GIRL COUGHING]
419
00:39:38,607 --> 00:39:40,837
[COUGHS THEN CLEARS THROAT]
420
00:39:42,087 --> 00:39:44,681
MOTHER:
She's not getting any better.
421
00:39:44,847 --> 00:39:46,246
You must talk to him.
422
00:39:46,407 --> 00:39:48,398
[CONTINUES COUGHING]
423
00:39:51,927 --> 00:39:53,918
[CHATTERING]
424
00:39:57,087 --> 00:39:59,965
- Our daughter's getting worse.
- Bring her to me.
425
00:40:00,127 --> 00:40:02,800
The cures have not worked.
We need to go back home.
426
00:40:02,967 --> 00:40:04,525
You cannot leave.
427
00:40:04,687 --> 00:40:06,518
If you leave, others will follow.
428
00:40:06,727 --> 00:40:09,002
If you tell people they must stay,
they will stay.
429
00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:12,159
Tha�s what I'm telling you.
You must stay.
430
00:40:45,127 --> 00:40:47,118
[GIRL COUGHING]
431
00:40:54,567 --> 00:40:56,683
[HORSES NEIGHING]
432
00:41:04,487 --> 00:41:06,478
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
433
00:41:31,927 --> 00:41:33,280
[GUN COCKS]
434
00:41:34,247 --> 00:41:35,965
[HORSE GRUNTS, THUDS]
435
00:41:39,727 --> 00:41:41,319
[MOTHER CRYING]
436
00:41:56,087 --> 00:41:58,078
[CHANTING]
437
00:42:02,327 --> 00:42:04,318
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
438
00:42:14,447 --> 00:42:16,438
[WOMEN SOBBING]
439
00:42:52,407 --> 00:42:54,159
Morning, sir.
440
00:42:54,327 --> 00:42:57,364
These Crow are from the camp
on the Poplar River.
441
00:42:57,527 --> 00:43:00,041
They say they've seen your men
on their hunting ground.
442
00:43:00,207 --> 00:43:02,118
Crow are liars and they hate us.
443
00:43:02,287 --> 00:43:06,963
They've always hated the Sioux.
They are liars!
444
00:43:07,127 --> 00:43:08,116
[GUNS COCK]
445
00:43:11,207 --> 00:43:14,244
There's another problem.
They're missing horses.
446
00:43:15,207 --> 00:43:18,404
WALSH: And they say i�s your men
who raided their camp two nights ago.
447
00:43:18,807 --> 00:43:22,117
I must ask that you allowthem
to look in your corral.
448
00:43:43,487 --> 00:43:46,320
Sir, I must report this.
And when I return next...
449
00:43:46,487 --> 00:43:49,638
...it may be with men
to take you back across the border.
450
00:43:49,807 --> 00:43:51,843
Who stole these ponies?
451
00:43:52,767 --> 00:43:55,725
Who would see us die like slaves
on the reservation?
452
00:43:55,887 --> 00:43:57,115
Who?
453
00:43:58,727 --> 00:44:00,365
Who?!
454
00:44:09,287 --> 00:44:11,164
You will see how I deal with this thing.
455
00:44:11,327 --> 00:44:14,046
WALSH: Please, don't do this.
- You must knowthat I did not know.
456
00:44:14,207 --> 00:44:16,641
We cannot be sent back.
457
00:44:36,407 --> 00:44:37,760
[GRUNTING]
458
00:44:37,927 --> 00:44:39,918
[WHIPPING CONTINUES]
459
00:44:57,607 --> 00:44:59,199
Enough!
460
00:45:20,287 --> 00:45:21,276
[RUSTLING]
461
00:45:27,567 --> 00:45:28,556
[HORSE NEIGHING]
462
00:45:42,447 --> 00:45:44,438
[DOGS BARKING]
463
00:45:50,327 --> 00:45:54,161
Brother, these men will fight
if they are stopped.
464
00:45:54,927 --> 00:45:57,157
I can't let that happen.
465
00:45:58,447 --> 00:46:01,120
Then leave, brother.
466
00:46:01,287 --> 00:46:02,800
I won't stop you.
467
00:47:09,927 --> 00:47:11,565
Elaine Goodale
was up the other day...
468
00:47:11,727 --> 00:47:13,604
...to meet the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs.
469
00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:16,520
She made quite an impression,
as you'd expect.
470
00:47:16,687 --> 00:47:19,520
But I'm afraid you're gonna
have to outdo even her.
471
00:47:19,687 --> 00:47:22,121
- That would be impossible.
- Ha-ha.
472
00:47:22,287 --> 00:47:24,084
Remarkable young woman.
473
00:47:24,247 --> 00:47:26,761
And quite an ally in our cause.
474
00:47:26,927 --> 00:47:28,758
She completes her teacher's training...
475
00:47:28,927 --> 00:47:31,521
...and she'll be on
the Sioux reservation within months.
476
00:47:31,687 --> 00:47:34,679
I know, sir, we've been
corresponding for some time.
477
00:47:34,847 --> 00:47:38,396
Have you? Have you indeed?
478
00:47:39,447 --> 00:47:41,517
DAWES:
All right, let us begin.
479
00:47:41,687 --> 00:47:44,724
Northern boundary
of the new Pine Ridge Reservation...
480
00:47:44,887 --> 00:47:47,242
...south fork of the Cheyenne River...
481
00:47:47,407 --> 00:47:51,082
...downstream to the mouth
of Battle Creek.
482
00:47:53,927 --> 00:47:56,521
The Indian must have full citisenship...
483
00:47:56,687 --> 00:47:59,759
...and a deed in his hands
like any white man.
484
00:47:59,927 --> 00:48:03,044
Assimilation, Charles, or extinction.
485
00:48:03,207 --> 00:48:06,995
DAWES: Gentlemen, the plan we put
before you for the Sioux...
486
00:48:07,167 --> 00:48:10,921
...will be a model for Indians
from the Pequot in Connecticut...
487
00:48:11,087 --> 00:48:13,282
...to the Pomo in California.
488
00:48:13,447 --> 00:48:19,522
Now, step one is the division of Sioux
land into six distinct reservations:
489
00:48:19,687 --> 00:48:22,565
Pine Ridge, Rosebud...
490
00:48:22,727 --> 00:48:24,365
...Cheyenne River...
491
00:48:24,567 --> 00:48:26,603
...Standing Rock, Crow Creek...
492
00:48:26,767 --> 00:48:30,965
DAWES: And then, due west
to the 102nd meridian.
493
00:48:33,527 --> 00:48:37,236
DAWES: Step two is the division
of each new reservation...
494
00:48:37,407 --> 00:48:39,557
...into individual tracts.
495
00:48:39,767 --> 00:48:42,725
One hundred sixty acres
to each man...
496
00:48:42,887 --> 00:48:47,517
...to farm, to feed his family,
to market his crops...
497
00:48:47,687 --> 00:48:49,325
...to earn a living.
498
00:48:49,487 --> 00:48:51,364
DAWES:
Step three. Thus apportioned...
499
00:48:51,567 --> 00:48:55,446
...excess lands will be sold
to white settlers.
500
00:48:56,127 --> 00:48:58,118
CHARLES:
The Sioux and the white man.
501
00:48:58,287 --> 00:49:01,359
Neighbours. Partners in business.
502
00:49:02,167 --> 00:49:03,486
Friends.
503
00:49:03,647 --> 00:49:06,957
And with white settlement
of central Dakota, what follows?
504
00:49:07,127 --> 00:49:09,163
The railroads, gentlemen.
505
00:49:09,367 --> 00:49:13,360
DAWES: Straight through
from Pierre to Rapid City...
506
00:49:13,567 --> 00:49:17,162
...rail service to the Black Hills mines.
507
00:49:19,167 --> 00:49:20,725
And...
508
00:49:20,887 --> 00:49:23,117
...at long last...
509
00:49:23,287 --> 00:49:27,405
...the Northern Pacific
will see completion.
510
00:49:27,567 --> 00:49:31,355
CHARLES: The Sioux will travel,
be exposed to white society...
511
00:49:31,527 --> 00:49:33,722
...and be influenced by it as I was.
512
00:49:33,887 --> 00:49:37,357
And finally, statehood for the Dakotas.
513
00:49:37,527 --> 00:49:40,758
Representation, governance, business.
514
00:49:40,927 --> 00:49:44,078
With your vote on this bill, gentlemen...
515
00:49:44,247 --> 00:49:46,681
...America will be built.
516
00:49:47,087 --> 00:49:48,076
[APPLAUSE]
517
00:49:50,847 --> 00:49:52,565
[PEOPLE CHANTING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
518
00:49:59,687 --> 00:50:00,676
[GASPS]
519
00:50:01,887 --> 00:50:03,878
[PANTING]
520
00:50:11,367 --> 00:50:14,757
MAN: Mr. Naylor ofWest Virginia.
NAYLOR: Nay.
521
00:50:14,927 --> 00:50:18,283
MAN: Mr. Allison ofWest Virginia.
ALLISON: Aye.
522
00:50:18,447 --> 00:50:20,563
MAN:
All gentlemen accounted for.
523
00:50:20,767 --> 00:50:22,120
MAN:
The bill has passed.
524
00:50:22,287 --> 00:50:25,006
DAWES:
Charles. Charles.
525
00:50:25,167 --> 00:50:29,240
- Congratulations, sir.
- We did it. We did it.
526
00:50:29,407 --> 00:50:31,967
This could never have happened
without your help.
527
00:50:32,127 --> 00:50:34,595
Thank you. Thank you, my boy.
528
00:50:43,527 --> 00:50:45,677
These are the borders
of your reservation...
529
00:50:45,847 --> 00:50:50,238
...as set out in the Black Hills
Agreement of 1876.
530
00:50:50,407 --> 00:50:55,162
Now, once each parcel is assigned...
531
00:50:55,327 --> 00:50:59,036
...you will have a great deal
of unused land.
532
00:50:59,207 --> 00:51:01,118
When this land was first set aside...
533
00:51:01,287 --> 00:51:04,279
...you could not have sold that
for 10 cents an acre.
534
00:51:05,647 --> 00:51:07,126
However...
535
00:51:07,287 --> 00:51:10,723
...the great council in Washington
has authorised me...
536
00:51:10,887 --> 00:51:14,721
...to offer you 50 cents an acre.
537
00:51:19,647 --> 00:51:22,445
Those excess lands will yield you...
538
00:51:22,607 --> 00:51:26,156
...5 and a half million dollars.
539
00:51:26,367 --> 00:51:31,122
Five and a half million dollars
that will go right into your pocket...
540
00:51:31,287 --> 00:51:33,164
...as these lands are sold to whites.
541
00:51:33,487 --> 00:51:36,638
Your map does not showthe land
we would be giving back to you.
542
00:51:37,247 --> 00:51:38,600
Oh.
543
00:51:42,847 --> 00:51:45,486
This area in red.
544
00:51:45,647 --> 00:51:47,638
[ALL MURMURING INDISTINCTLY]
545
00:51:48,607 --> 00:51:51,838
Now, this offer is only possible...
546
00:51:52,007 --> 00:51:55,317
...because the Dakota Southern
would be able to lay rail...
547
00:51:55,487 --> 00:51:58,843
...south of the Cheyenne River
into the Black Hills mines.
548
00:51:59,007 --> 00:52:02,522
So you admit this land has no value
except to lay iron through?
549
00:52:02,687 --> 00:52:05,155
No, I do not admit that.
550
00:52:06,047 --> 00:52:08,038
These are not my words.
551
00:52:08,207 --> 00:52:10,767
Chief Red Cloud?
552
00:52:10,927 --> 00:52:14,556
I would like to know
what Chief Red Cloud has to say.
553
00:52:14,767 --> 00:52:17,759
Do you believe this proposal
is in the best interest of...?
554
00:52:17,927 --> 00:52:20,646
Every man is a chief here.
You wanted it so.
555
00:52:20,807 --> 00:52:23,037
We do not need to hear his words.
556
00:52:23,207 --> 00:52:25,198
[CROWD MURMURING]
557
00:52:32,247 --> 00:52:34,477
How will this money be paid?
558
00:52:36,167 --> 00:52:39,796
For every acre of land the
government sells, the money is yours.
559
00:52:39,967 --> 00:52:41,559
The money is not ours, then...
560
00:52:41,767 --> 00:52:44,679
...until you sell the land
you have taken that is ours.
561
00:52:44,847 --> 00:52:46,678
[CROWD CHATTERING]
562
00:52:47,487 --> 00:52:50,957
This land is not to farm.
563
00:52:51,127 --> 00:52:52,845
This land is to graze...
564
00:52:53,007 --> 00:52:55,316
...and we do not eat grass.
565
00:52:55,727 --> 00:52:58,764
If we are to take this chance
that whites may be foolish enough...
566
00:52:58,967 --> 00:53:00,525
...to make their home here...
567
00:53:00,687 --> 00:53:03,724
...then you must get us more
of this money we may never see.
568
00:53:04,167 --> 00:53:06,044
Come back when you have done this.
569
00:53:06,207 --> 00:53:11,327
Have you any notion the efforts
I have expended on your behalf?
570
00:53:11,487 --> 00:53:13,079
Do you have any idea?
571
00:53:13,247 --> 00:53:15,397
I can't simply come back!
572
00:53:15,567 --> 00:53:17,762
There'll be a new Congress.
573
00:53:17,927 --> 00:53:20,999
A new Congress may not authorise
any offer at all.
574
00:53:21,207 --> 00:53:23,198
[CROWD CHATTERING]
575
00:54:10,407 --> 00:54:12,398
Tunkashila...
576
00:54:12,567 --> 00:54:14,876
...hear my voice today.
577
00:54:16,607 --> 00:54:18,962
Sitting Bull is a great leader
of the Lakota.
578
00:54:19,567 --> 00:54:21,603
There is no greater.
579
00:54:23,727 --> 00:54:25,718
Thank you for letting us go, Father.
580
00:54:26,367 --> 00:54:28,562
Keep me in your prayers.
581
00:54:32,487 --> 00:54:34,478
[CHANTING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
582
00:54:57,887 --> 00:54:59,878
[WOMAN COUGHING]
583
00:55:00,087 --> 00:55:02,043
[WIND WHISTLING]
584
00:55:08,087 --> 00:55:10,078
[CHILD COUGHING]
585
00:55:36,207 --> 00:55:38,198
[CONTINUES COUGHING]
586
00:57:38,087 --> 00:57:41,204
Finally. It arrived.
587
00:57:42,847 --> 00:57:43,836
[CHUCKLES]
588
00:57:44,007 --> 00:57:45,998
[MEN YELLING]
589
00:57:46,567 --> 00:57:48,558
[EXCITED CHATTERING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
590
00:58:16,567 --> 00:58:17,556
What is this?
591
00:58:18,647 --> 00:58:20,603
Father, I'm a policeman.
592
00:58:22,167 --> 00:58:24,317
Where's the person in charge?
I'll see him now.
593
00:58:25,567 --> 00:58:26,841
I'll take you to him.
594
00:58:30,807 --> 00:58:32,206
[DOOR OPENS]
595
00:58:34,527 --> 00:58:35,596
[DOOR CLOSES]
596
00:58:36,727 --> 00:58:38,319
He's here, sir.
597
00:58:39,567 --> 00:58:41,523
Yes, I know.
598
00:58:41,687 --> 00:58:43,678
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
599
00:59:05,047 --> 00:59:06,036
[DOOR OPENS]
600
00:59:10,487 --> 00:59:12,364
Good day, sir.
601
00:59:12,527 --> 00:59:16,202
I'm James McLaughlin,
agent here at Standing Rock.
602
00:59:19,647 --> 00:59:21,638
Let it be known that I...
603
00:59:21,807 --> 00:59:25,163
...Tatanka Yotanka, Sitting Bull...
604
00:59:25,327 --> 00:59:29,206
...was the last chief to give up his rifle.
605
00:59:48,127 --> 00:59:49,924
Now...
606
00:59:50,887 --> 00:59:56,166
...the great father has sent me a letter
saying that if I came in...
607
00:59:56,327 --> 01:00:00,206
...I would be big chief
of this agency...
608
01:00:00,367 --> 01:00:04,440
...that you would build me
a fine house on a stream.
609
01:00:04,607 --> 01:00:08,725
Do not give me ration tickets,
I will not touch them.
610
01:00:08,887 --> 01:00:13,677
I will take all supplies for all my people
and hand them out myself.
611
01:00:13,887 --> 01:00:17,482
I will not put in crops.
612
01:00:17,647 --> 01:00:21,845
Those things that grow in the ground,
my people and I will gather wild...
613
01:00:22,007 --> 01:00:23,645
...as we always have.
614
01:00:25,767 --> 01:00:27,758
Is this all you wish to say, sir?
615
01:00:28,367 --> 01:00:32,758
I have said all the words
I wish to say for now.
616
01:00:33,207 --> 01:00:34,799
I see.
617
01:00:35,927 --> 01:00:40,318
First of all, the great father
sent no such letter to you.
618
01:00:40,647 --> 01:00:42,444
You will not be a big chief...
619
01:00:42,607 --> 01:00:45,440
...a medium-sized chief,
nor any sort of chief.
620
01:00:46,247 --> 01:00:48,442
Here, you will be the same
as any other man.
621
01:00:48,607 --> 01:00:50,359
That is to say,
you will be given materials...
622
01:00:50,527 --> 01:00:52,722
...and loaned men to build a cabin.
623
01:00:52,887 --> 01:00:54,764
You will have a horse and waggon.
624
01:00:54,927 --> 01:00:58,522
If you do not put in crops,
you will live on your bimonthly rations...
625
01:00:58,687 --> 01:01:00,803
...and if you do not accept
ration tickets...
626
01:01:00,967 --> 01:01:04,801
...you and your family will either
be beggars or you will starve.
627
01:01:06,447 --> 01:01:08,961
My clerk will add you to the rolls.
628
01:01:09,487 --> 01:01:12,479
And those are all the words
I wish to say.
629
01:01:17,287 --> 01:01:18,925
[CROWD CHATTERING]
630
01:01:23,287 --> 01:01:25,005
Good day, sir.
631
01:01:53,647 --> 01:01:55,080
[DOOR CLOSES]
632
01:01:56,567 --> 01:01:58,159
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
633
01:02:00,767 --> 01:02:02,564
MAN 1:
Beans. One blanket.
634
01:02:05,847 --> 01:02:09,999
Flour. One shawl. Seeds.
635
01:02:10,167 --> 01:02:11,919
"Pawnee Killer."
636
01:02:13,167 --> 01:02:14,520
MAN 1:
"Crow Killer."
637
01:02:14,687 --> 01:02:16,439
CLERK: One blanket.
MAN 1: One coat, large.
638
01:02:16,607 --> 01:02:19,804
A suit of clothes, medium-large.
639
01:02:22,047 --> 01:02:23,719
Here's your flour ration, chief.
640
01:02:23,927 --> 01:02:26,282
You'll fill it out soon enough.
641
01:02:26,487 --> 01:02:29,763
MAN 1:
Coffee. Two blankets. Matches.
642
01:02:36,927 --> 01:02:40,522
"Little Feather."
One coat, small-medium.
643
01:02:40,887 --> 01:02:42,718
"Sitting Bull."
644
01:02:45,847 --> 01:02:49,806
Tatanka Yotanka,
they're calling your name.
645
01:02:50,807 --> 01:02:53,480
Sitting Bull.
646
01:02:55,887 --> 01:02:58,765
- Never mind, moving on.
- I'll accept his issue.
647
01:02:59,567 --> 01:03:01,080
You can't do that, Miss Goodale.
648
01:03:02,967 --> 01:03:04,605
I was told by the commissioner...
649
01:03:04,767 --> 01:03:08,157
...that I may assist these people
in any way I see fit.
650
01:03:09,167 --> 01:03:10,839
One blanket.
651
01:03:12,967 --> 01:03:14,320
One blanket.
652
01:03:19,167 --> 01:03:20,805
Without holes.
653
01:03:24,047 --> 01:03:25,844
Thank you.
654
01:03:31,647 --> 01:03:33,285
Father.
655
01:03:33,967 --> 01:03:37,960
We are lucky. Here the agent
lets us hunt for our meat.
656
01:03:38,167 --> 01:03:39,885
Watch.
657
01:03:55,087 --> 01:03:56,076
One Bull.
658
01:03:56,247 --> 01:03:57,441
[BELL RINGS]
659
01:03:57,687 --> 01:03:58,676
[ONE BULL YELLING]
660
01:03:58,847 --> 01:03:59,836
[BULL LOWING]
661
01:04:01,527 --> 01:04:03,518
[ONE BULL YELLING]
662
01:04:32,407 --> 01:04:34,398
[CONTINUES YELLING]
663
01:04:41,047 --> 01:04:42,719
[YELLS]
664
01:05:06,887 --> 01:05:08,525
ELAINE:
"My dear Charles...
665
01:05:08,687 --> 01:05:13,078
...the great Sioux reservation
is no longer great in size alone.
666
01:05:13,247 --> 01:05:15,841
It is now home to a great celebrity.
667
01:05:16,007 --> 01:05:18,521
Sitting Bull has arrived.
668
01:05:18,687 --> 01:05:22,521
But the sorrow in his eyes...
669
01:05:23,967 --> 01:05:29,564
It is the image of all I have seen,
and not only at Standing Rock...
670
01:05:30,167 --> 01:05:32,920
...but at all the agencies.
671
01:05:35,527 --> 01:05:38,564
At Pine Ridge, a drought destroyed
the late summer crops...
672
01:05:38,767 --> 01:05:41,076
...and made for underweight cattle.
673
01:05:45,407 --> 01:05:48,160
And then there are the epidemics.
674
01:05:48,967 --> 01:05:53,483
Measles, influenza, whooping cough.
675
01:05:54,767 --> 01:05:58,555
Have you seen a dying child
with whooping cough?
676
01:06:00,327 --> 01:06:02,158
There is little that can be done...
677
01:06:02,327 --> 01:06:05,637
...except to prepare the families
for the inevitable.
678
01:06:06,607 --> 01:06:09,167
This has become my avocation.
679
01:06:10,607 --> 01:06:13,326
Sincerely, Elaine."
680
01:06:13,487 --> 01:06:17,480
DAWES: There's a fine line
between incentive and coercion.
681
01:06:17,647 --> 01:06:21,481
And if we have to cross that line
in pursuit of the Indians' betterment...
682
01:06:22,247 --> 01:06:26,035
...then so be it.
MEN: Hear, hear.
683
01:06:26,487 --> 01:06:29,445
- Charles.
- May I speak with you a moment, sir?
684
01:06:29,607 --> 01:06:31,916
Yes. I want to introduce you
to a few new people.
685
01:06:32,087 --> 01:06:34,521
Yes, wait. I received this letter
from Miss Goodale.
686
01:06:34,687 --> 01:06:36,917
That can wait.
Charles, with this resolution...
687
01:06:37,127 --> 01:06:40,597
...the Senate will authorise
a new offering for the Sioux. One...
688
01:06:40,767 --> 01:06:42,564
Do you know about
this measles epidemic?
689
01:06:42,727 --> 01:06:44,080
[PAPERS RUSTLING]
690
01:06:44,287 --> 01:06:47,324
And whooping cough and influenza?
691
01:06:50,727 --> 01:06:54,925
The agen�s official reports are
somewhat different.
692
01:06:55,087 --> 01:06:57,043
I haven't known Elaine to exaggerate.
693
01:06:57,207 --> 01:07:00,404
She's an inspector of schools, Charles.
She's not a physician.
694
01:07:00,567 --> 01:07:04,276
She's an advocate for their cause,
as you are.
695
01:07:04,447 --> 01:07:08,520
And now you speak of coercion.
I don't understand.
696
01:07:09,167 --> 01:07:12,876
If we don't put that land into
the hands of individual Indians...
697
01:07:13,047 --> 01:07:14,844
...in five years... Less!
698
01:07:15,007 --> 01:07:18,682
- Homesteaders and ranchers
will demand it all...
699
01:07:18,847 --> 01:07:20,644
...for nothing.
700
01:07:21,967 --> 01:07:25,846
The Indian must own
his own piece of earth, Charles.
701
01:07:28,327 --> 01:07:32,115
Did you knowthat there is no word
in the Sioux language for that, sir?
702
01:07:32,287 --> 01:07:36,200
- For what?
- To "own the earth."
703
01:07:36,367 --> 01:07:38,278
Not in any native language.
704
01:07:38,807 --> 01:07:41,640
Well, then perhaps
you should invent one.
705
01:07:41,807 --> 01:07:43,604
Come on.
706
01:07:58,327 --> 01:08:02,161
I am sorry.
The road is not good for wheels.
707
01:08:02,367 --> 01:08:04,835
I�s all right. I'll get some help.
708
01:08:05,007 --> 01:08:06,520
I'm your assistant, doctor.
709
01:08:06,687 --> 01:08:08,518
- I'll take your things.
- No no, please.
710
01:08:08,687 --> 01:08:11,565
Take care of your son
and watch over our things.
711
01:08:11,727 --> 01:08:14,560
Little Hawk,
keep an eye on your father.
712
01:08:16,447 --> 01:08:17,926
[CLANKING]
713
01:08:18,087 --> 01:08:19,361
[GRUNTS]
714
01:08:21,167 --> 01:08:22,680
[SIGHS]
715
01:08:25,727 --> 01:08:27,240
[GRUNTS]
716
01:08:28,327 --> 01:08:29,476
There.
717
01:08:38,117 --> 01:08:40,108
[VILLAGERS CHATTERING]
718
01:08:44,277 --> 01:08:45,869
CHARLES:
Good morning.
719
01:08:54,837 --> 01:08:56,828
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
720
01:09:00,957 --> 01:09:03,073
WOMAN:
He wants to mend the waggon.
721
01:09:08,757 --> 01:09:11,146
ROYER:
You must be Dr. Eastman.
722
01:09:11,317 --> 01:09:12,955
I'm Agent Royer.
723
01:09:13,157 --> 01:09:15,068
- Welcome to Pine Ridge.
- A pleasure.
724
01:09:18,597 --> 01:09:20,906
- Right this way.
- All right.
725
01:09:21,637 --> 01:09:23,355
Here it is.
726
01:09:24,317 --> 01:09:27,354
Where's the examination table?
727
01:09:27,557 --> 01:09:30,151
Last fellow managed with a chair.
728
01:09:30,317 --> 01:09:32,148
What is that, Mr. Royer?
729
01:09:32,357 --> 01:09:36,430
Tha�s how you dispense
your medicines, of course.
730
01:09:36,597 --> 01:09:37,586
[MAN COUGHING]
731
01:09:37,757 --> 01:09:39,509
Without examination?
732
01:09:39,677 --> 01:09:41,713
- Well, l...
- I'm sick.
733
01:09:41,877 --> 01:09:44,345
I need a brown bottle.
A brown bottle, please.
734
01:09:44,557 --> 01:09:46,866
Me too, a brown bottle.
735
01:09:48,237 --> 01:09:51,786
Cod-liver oil. Shipmen�s late.
736
01:09:51,957 --> 01:09:54,551
When you're ready,
I'll show you around.
737
01:09:57,597 --> 01:09:59,747
I'm sorry, but there's none left.
738
01:09:59,957 --> 01:10:03,029
If you men are sick, please, come in.
739
01:10:14,197 --> 01:10:15,186
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
740
01:10:16,757 --> 01:10:18,588
Elaine.
741
01:10:20,357 --> 01:10:22,268
Elaine.
742
01:10:35,237 --> 01:10:38,946
You wrote you'd be inspecting
the schools at Rosebud.
743
01:10:39,117 --> 01:10:40,914
I doubt I'll be missed.
744
01:10:41,077 --> 01:10:44,274
Not by the teachers, in any event.
745
01:10:55,757 --> 01:10:58,112
- I'm so happy you're here.
- Me too.
746
01:11:00,317 --> 01:11:03,468
What do you think?
Needs a lot of work.
747
01:11:03,637 --> 01:11:05,355
I�s going to be great.
748
01:11:10,157 --> 01:11:11,476
[BOTTLES CLINKING]
749
01:11:24,957 --> 01:11:25,946
[CLANG]
750
01:11:31,357 --> 01:11:32,710
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
751
01:11:32,917 --> 01:11:35,715
All right, we're just gonna
shift the shoulders a little bit.
752
01:11:35,877 --> 01:11:37,833
And chin up, please.
753
01:11:42,277 --> 01:11:44,347
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Wonderful, Chief Sitting Bull.
754
01:11:46,797 --> 01:11:47,991
Very still now, please.
755
01:11:49,677 --> 01:11:51,633
Very still.
756
01:11:54,677 --> 01:11:57,874
Thank you. $2.50.
757
01:12:00,117 --> 01:12:02,472
[COINS CLINKING]
758
01:12:02,677 --> 01:12:05,589
PHOTOGRAPHER: It would also be an
honour for me to have your autograph.
759
01:12:06,197 --> 01:12:07,789
Turn around.
760
01:12:09,197 --> 01:12:11,427
It would be an honour for me
to take more of your money.
761
01:12:11,597 --> 01:12:13,269
[ALL CHUCKLING]
762
01:12:20,757 --> 01:12:22,634
Thank you.
763
01:12:33,317 --> 01:12:34,750
MEN:
Whoo-hoo!
764
01:12:34,917 --> 01:12:36,396
Whoo-hoo-ho!
765
01:13:06,517 --> 01:13:08,508
McLAUGHLIN:
Morning.
766
01:13:10,037 --> 01:13:11,948
Nice hat.
767
01:13:12,117 --> 01:13:13,948
- Wild West Show?
- Mm.
768
01:13:15,517 --> 01:13:17,951
And the horse.
769
01:13:18,357 --> 01:13:21,508
You must be looking forward
to joining Bill Cody again.
770
01:13:26,157 --> 01:13:29,433
- What is that you're making?
- When I am finished, I will know.
771
01:13:32,917 --> 01:13:34,908
If we get enough rain,
you could raise corn.
772
01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:36,954
Grasshoppers eat corn.
773
01:13:37,117 --> 01:13:39,153
Let them plant it.
774
01:13:39,317 --> 01:13:40,909
I will live as I please.
775
01:13:41,997 --> 01:13:43,225
No, you will not.
776
01:13:44,237 --> 01:13:46,148
Do you understand?
777
01:13:47,757 --> 01:13:51,636
I'm told you squandered Cody's pay
on friends and fancy dinners.
778
01:13:52,597 --> 01:13:54,588
And you come back with tall tales.
779
01:13:55,037 --> 01:13:57,790
You did not meet
President Cleveland...
780
01:13:57,997 --> 01:14:02,787
...yet you go around boasting that he
called you "the greatest living Indian."
781
01:14:02,957 --> 01:14:05,835
These things do not advance
your people's cause.
782
01:14:06,517 --> 01:14:09,873
Nor does posing for portraits...
783
01:14:10,037 --> 01:14:12,392
...autographs for money.
784
01:14:13,557 --> 01:14:17,027
Now, I have had very good compliance
here at Standing Rock.
785
01:14:17,197 --> 01:14:19,711
The best of all the agencies.
786
01:14:19,877 --> 01:14:23,028
Farming, school enrolment, church.
787
01:14:23,597 --> 01:14:25,428
And I will not see that jeopardised...
788
01:14:25,597 --> 01:14:29,112
...by the poor example
of a respected man like yourself.
789
01:14:30,637 --> 01:14:32,389
You will farm...
790
01:14:32,557 --> 01:14:35,515
...and you will enrol
your son here in school...
791
01:14:35,677 --> 01:14:37,952
...and see that he attends church.
792
01:14:45,837 --> 01:14:48,112
Now I am finished.
793
01:14:48,277 --> 01:14:50,745
- And what is that?
- To my ears...
794
01:14:50,957 --> 01:14:53,425
...your words seem to come
out of your rear end.
795
01:14:56,357 --> 01:14:57,995
This is to silence you.
796
01:14:58,317 --> 01:15:00,308
[CROW FOOT CHUCKLING]
797
01:15:01,557 --> 01:15:04,788
This is what is left of the great tree
that was my people.
798
01:15:04,957 --> 01:15:07,835
Take it and you would have it all.
799
01:15:15,157 --> 01:15:18,672
I'm allowing 12 Standing Rock Sioux
to go with Cody again this fall.
800
01:15:18,837 --> 01:15:20,953
You will not be among them.
801
01:15:27,077 --> 01:15:29,068
[CHANTING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
802
01:15:46,557 --> 01:15:48,707
CHARLES:
"My dear Senator Dawes...
803
01:15:48,877 --> 01:15:53,155
...as I believed you sincere
in asking me to keep you informed...
804
01:15:53,357 --> 01:15:57,145
...I write you again in an appeal
for your assistance.
805
01:15:58,357 --> 01:16:01,349
With no medical equipment here
worthy of the name...
806
01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:04,196
...and understocked in medicines...
807
01:16:04,357 --> 01:16:06,632
...there has been little reason
for the sick...
808
01:16:06,797 --> 01:16:10,506
...to risk thejourney to the agency
for treatment.
809
01:16:11,557 --> 01:16:14,230
I bought a horse and a waggon
with my own salary...
810
01:16:14,597 --> 01:16:19,148
...and havejust now returned from
several weeks in the villages.
811
01:16:20,237 --> 01:16:21,670
[COUGHING]
812
01:16:26,517 --> 01:16:30,112
It is a mistake to trust
the official reports.
813
01:16:31,637 --> 01:16:35,027
Measles, influenza
and whooping cough...
814
01:16:35,197 --> 01:16:38,269
...have ascended from hell
all at once.
815
01:16:38,437 --> 01:16:40,473
[LABOURED COUGHING]
816
01:16:40,677 --> 01:16:43,714
My own assistan�s child
has been taken.
817
01:16:48,717 --> 01:16:50,708
[SNIFFLING]
818
01:16:54,197 --> 01:16:57,109
The agent here, Royer,
has no experience...
819
01:16:57,277 --> 01:17:01,589
...and even less inclination
to help these people.
820
01:17:01,837 --> 01:17:05,512
Of equal concern
is the epidemic of hopelessness...
821
01:17:05,677 --> 01:17:07,986
...that has overtaken the reservation."
822
01:17:08,157 --> 01:17:09,875
[KNOCKING]
823
01:17:11,877 --> 01:17:15,187
I'm sick, doctor. Brown bottle, please.
824
01:17:15,357 --> 01:17:19,191
"That the Sioux would bear
the wretched taste of cod-liver oil...
825
01:17:19,357 --> 01:17:22,269
...for the ounce of spirits
contained in the bottle...
826
01:17:22,437 --> 01:17:25,349
...is, to me, the whole
of their experience in a nutshell."
827
01:17:25,517 --> 01:17:27,428
Thank you, doctor.
828
01:17:29,037 --> 01:17:31,426
"I no longer deny them.
829
01:17:31,637 --> 01:17:33,628
[PEOPLE CHANTING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
830
01:17:38,637 --> 01:17:42,391
Many here fear a return
to the old ways.
831
01:17:43,157 --> 01:17:46,547
The prophecy of a Paiute shaman
called Wovoka...
832
01:17:46,717 --> 01:17:50,835
...has spread from tribe to tribe
faster than a telegraph signal...
833
01:17:50,997 --> 01:17:54,273
...rekindling old superstitions
among the Sioux...
834
01:17:54,437 --> 01:17:56,792
...and old apprehensions
among the whites...
835
01:17:56,957 --> 01:18:01,075
...who are sure to mistake
desperation for hostility.
836
01:18:02,637 --> 01:18:04,468
As conditions worsen...
837
01:18:04,637 --> 01:18:09,188
...the church can provide little solace
beyond a Christian burial.
838
01:18:09,837 --> 01:18:12,988
Sincerely yours, Charles Eastman."
839
01:18:13,157 --> 01:18:15,148
[PEOPLE SINGING
"JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL"]
840
01:18:16,757 --> 01:18:18,748
[PEOPLE SOBBING, SNIFFLING]
841
01:18:58,357 --> 01:19:00,348
[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
842
01:19:15,837 --> 01:19:18,909
Avision came to me...
843
01:19:19,317 --> 01:19:23,515
...when the sun went into shadow...
844
01:19:23,677 --> 01:19:25,952
...and I lay dying.
845
01:19:26,157 --> 01:19:28,273
And in my death...
846
01:19:28,757 --> 01:19:31,829
...I sawthe heavens...
847
01:19:32,437 --> 01:19:34,826
...of the white robes.
848
01:19:37,157 --> 01:19:39,148
And, yes...
849
01:19:39,317 --> 01:19:41,911
...it is as they describe it.
850
01:19:42,917 --> 01:19:46,796
But also there, my children...
851
01:19:47,597 --> 01:19:53,706
...all the Indians that ever roamed
this earth.
852
01:19:55,837 --> 01:19:59,147
All your beloved ancestors, and mine...
853
01:19:59,317 --> 01:20:01,785
...and those young ones...
854
01:20:01,957 --> 01:20:06,473
...who were taken
by the white man's diseases.
855
01:20:06,837 --> 01:20:09,829
Do not grieve for them.
856
01:20:11,917 --> 01:20:14,750
They want you to know...
857
01:20:14,917 --> 01:20:17,750
...that they are happy.
858
01:20:19,837 --> 01:20:21,509
Yes.
859
01:20:22,917 --> 01:20:28,116
And you should not grieve
for yourselves...
860
01:20:29,557 --> 01:20:35,632
...because here is what
the white robes did not tell you:
861
01:20:37,117 --> 01:20:38,755
The white man...
862
01:20:39,757 --> 01:20:41,509
...my children...
863
01:20:41,677 --> 01:20:45,113
...will soon be no more.
864
01:20:51,997 --> 01:20:53,112
[LAUGHING]
865
01:20:53,277 --> 01:20:55,268
[ALL LAUGHING]
866
01:21:13,317 --> 01:21:16,354
Now, you must not hate
the white man.
867
01:21:18,237 --> 01:21:22,674
This will only delay his end.
868
01:21:25,437 --> 01:21:30,386
But if you will do the dance...
869
01:21:30,917 --> 01:21:32,714
...that I will teach you...
870
01:21:33,797 --> 01:21:37,312
...all the ancestors will return.
871
01:21:37,997 --> 01:21:40,147
And the buffalo...
872
01:21:40,637 --> 01:21:43,231
...will be renewed.
873
01:21:44,397 --> 01:21:47,434
And you shall all live...
874
01:21:47,597 --> 01:21:49,428
...forever.
875
01:21:50,677 --> 01:21:52,827
Forever...
876
01:21:53,477 --> 01:21:55,991
...in the freedom...
877
01:21:57,557 --> 01:22:00,913
...that we, as Indian people,
once knew.
878
01:22:01,837 --> 01:22:03,828
[DRUMS BEATING, CHANTING]
879
01:23:10,237 --> 01:23:11,226
[BELL RINGS]
880
01:23:11,397 --> 01:23:12,876
CRIER:
Lone Wolf!
881
01:23:15,877 --> 01:23:16,866
SITTING BULL:
I called to the trader:
882
01:23:17,037 --> 01:23:18,026
[GUNSHOT]
883
01:23:18,197 --> 01:23:20,472
"Give me a red shirt to wear
so the soldiers will know me."
884
01:23:20,957 --> 01:23:23,107
SITTING BULL: Though there were
hundreds of soldiers...
885
01:23:23,277 --> 01:23:25,791
...not one bullet touched me,
because of my strong medicine.
886
01:23:25,957 --> 01:23:28,107
MAN: Not one bullet found you
on the Little Bighorn.
887
01:23:28,277 --> 01:23:30,745
Yes, this is so.
But I wore no red shirt that day.
888
01:23:30,917 --> 01:23:32,145
There was no time to dress.
889
01:23:32,317 --> 01:23:35,036
[CROWD CHUCKLING]
890
01:23:35,237 --> 01:23:40,152
I mean it is said that you were hiding
under your blanket the entire fight.
891
01:23:40,317 --> 01:23:42,547
Tha�s not true. Who says this?
892
01:23:42,757 --> 01:23:45,510
We all heard it. Everyone knows it.
893
01:23:45,677 --> 01:23:47,395
CRIER:
Sitting Bull!
894
01:23:47,797 --> 01:23:49,389
Don't believe this.
895
01:23:49,557 --> 01:23:52,833
My father saved many lives.
He is a great leader.
896
01:23:53,037 --> 01:23:57,428
- Oh.
- Great leader, hiding in his tepee.
897
01:23:59,957 --> 01:24:02,107
- Sitting Bull.
- Go on...
898
01:24:04,477 --> 01:24:06,229
[SARCASTICALLY]
..."greatest living Indian."
899
01:24:09,237 --> 01:24:10,955
Get your meat.
900
01:24:15,797 --> 01:24:17,310
[COCKS GUN]
901
01:24:48,157 --> 01:24:49,715
[LAYS DOWN PARCEL]
902
01:24:59,517 --> 01:25:01,508
[HORSE APPROACHING]
903
01:25:12,237 --> 01:25:14,467
- Hey, little brother.
- Hey.
904
01:25:15,757 --> 01:25:18,317
- Where is the old man?
- He's inside.
905
01:25:18,557 --> 01:25:19,546
[HORSE WHINNIES]
906
01:25:19,757 --> 01:25:21,748
[SITTING BULL CHANTING]
907
01:25:25,797 --> 01:25:27,469
Hello, Father.
908
01:25:31,797 --> 01:25:36,188
Men from Washington are coming
for a big council soon.
909
01:25:36,397 --> 01:25:38,274
Will you go?
910
01:25:38,917 --> 01:25:41,272
No one has ears for my words...
911
01:25:41,437 --> 01:25:43,348
...and I have no ears for theirs.
912
01:25:45,197 --> 01:25:47,757
If you go, you can have your say
like any other man.
913
01:25:47,917 --> 01:25:50,556
Then let any other man
take my place...
914
01:25:50,717 --> 01:25:53,311
...since one man is as important
as another here.
915
01:25:59,517 --> 01:26:01,314
Father...
916
01:26:01,477 --> 01:26:04,150
...I know who started speaking
the lies against you.
917
01:26:08,957 --> 01:26:10,675
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
918
01:26:17,077 --> 01:26:19,511
DAWES:
The last time I came before you...
919
01:26:19,717 --> 01:26:23,995
...it was with an offer of 50 cents
an acre for your excess lands.
920
01:26:25,037 --> 01:26:27,551
It has been very difficult...
921
01:26:27,717 --> 01:26:31,835
...to renegotiate in Washington
on your behalf...
922
01:26:31,997 --> 01:26:36,195
...with men who believe that
to have been a very generous offer.
923
01:26:37,117 --> 01:26:41,508
But I have done so,
in your interest.
924
01:26:41,717 --> 01:26:44,470
And I return to you...
925
01:26:44,637 --> 01:26:46,753
...today...
926
01:26:46,917 --> 01:26:52,150
...with what I must tell you
is a final offer.
927
01:26:52,317 --> 01:26:56,151
If refused, the government
may take these lands...
928
01:26:56,317 --> 01:26:57,955
...for whatever they wish to pay...
929
01:26:58,157 --> 01:27:00,751
...which may be less
than what you were first offered.
930
01:27:00,917 --> 01:27:03,954
In fact, it may be nothing.
931
01:27:04,997 --> 01:27:07,147
I return, however...
932
01:27:07,317 --> 01:27:10,434
...with authorisation to offer you...
933
01:27:10,597 --> 01:27:14,146
...$1.25 an acre.
934
01:27:15,037 --> 01:27:19,076
If these lands are sold,
by this agreement, my friends...
935
01:27:19,237 --> 01:27:24,994
...this would put more than
12 million dollars in your pockets.
936
01:27:25,157 --> 01:27:28,149
Twelve million dollars.
937
01:27:28,317 --> 01:27:30,308
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
938
01:27:33,517 --> 01:27:36,873
And remember, each head
of the household will still receive...
939
01:27:37,077 --> 01:27:41,514
...the 160-acre parcel
to do with what he wishes.
940
01:27:43,597 --> 01:27:47,749
We give you this,
and we take nothing more away.
941
01:27:47,917 --> 01:27:51,148
You will continue to receive
the same rations and annuities...
942
01:27:51,317 --> 01:27:53,114
...that you do at present...
943
01:27:53,277 --> 01:27:57,429
...until you have achieved
full self-sufficiency.
944
01:27:58,597 --> 01:28:00,508
Now...
945
01:28:00,917 --> 01:28:05,354
...as we discuss this
over the next couple of days...
946
01:28:05,557 --> 01:28:09,436
...let us not retread old trails.
947
01:28:10,717 --> 01:28:15,188
The mistakes of the past
are in the past...
948
01:28:15,357 --> 01:28:17,746
...on both sides.
949
01:28:17,917 --> 01:28:21,751
We have a chance now
to correct them.
950
01:28:21,917 --> 01:28:25,353
For we believe
in your very wise saying:
951
01:28:25,517 --> 01:28:29,510
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
952
01:28:34,997 --> 01:28:37,591
"We will be known forever...
953
01:28:37,757 --> 01:28:39,907
...by the tracks we leave behind."
954
01:28:40,077 --> 01:28:42,068
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
955
01:28:58,677 --> 01:29:00,349
Senator...
956
01:29:00,557 --> 01:29:03,390
...are you threatening to take their land
if they don't sign?
957
01:29:03,557 --> 01:29:06,629
That is no threat, Charles.
That is the reality.
958
01:29:09,717 --> 01:29:12,914
Would you permit this land
to be stolen from them...
959
01:29:13,077 --> 01:29:15,113
...to see your plan succeed?
960
01:29:15,557 --> 01:29:18,754
My plan? You mean "our plan."
961
01:29:18,917 --> 01:29:20,953
You played no small hand.
962
01:29:21,477 --> 01:29:23,547
One I've come to question.
963
01:29:24,757 --> 01:29:28,670
Don't worry, Charles.
They will vote for it.
964
01:29:50,717 --> 01:29:53,595
There were no early crops.
965
01:29:53,757 --> 01:29:56,271
Nowthere will be no late crops.
966
01:29:57,957 --> 01:30:01,267
Does it seem to you
that our coffee rations are smaller?
967
01:30:02,157 --> 01:30:06,309
Why do you tell lies about my part
in the fight at the Little Bighorn?
968
01:30:14,357 --> 01:30:17,030
It was Agent McLaughlin.
969
01:30:17,197 --> 01:30:19,074
You angered him.
970
01:30:19,237 --> 01:30:21,751
He made me say these things
against you.
971
01:30:25,357 --> 01:30:27,427
How can this be?
972
01:30:28,637 --> 01:30:31,629
All our lives, we were like brothers...
973
01:30:32,237 --> 01:30:34,626
...sharing meat when we had it.
974
01:30:34,797 --> 01:30:36,071
When we had no meat...
975
01:30:36,557 --> 01:30:39,276
...and when food was but
a day's ride to an agency...
976
01:30:39,437 --> 01:30:41,746
...we could not be made
to take from the whites!
977
01:30:44,837 --> 01:30:47,271
I will go and speak straight...
978
01:30:48,397 --> 01:30:49,830
...and set things right.
979
01:30:49,997 --> 01:30:53,353
These words cannot be put back.
I have said all I have to say.
980
01:30:53,517 --> 01:30:56,270
My brother, listen to me.
981
01:30:56,997 --> 01:30:59,431
Many would have taken
from the whites those years...
982
01:30:59,637 --> 01:31:02,549
...but they did not
because you did not.
983
01:31:02,717 --> 01:31:05,436
I did not because you did not.
984
01:31:08,877 --> 01:31:11,437
Before you came...
985
01:31:11,637 --> 01:31:14,231
...I was big man here.
986
01:31:14,437 --> 01:31:16,507
But now you've come
and you do nothing.
987
01:31:17,317 --> 01:31:20,036
You sit and tell stories
while I work my fields.
988
01:31:20,237 --> 01:31:22,626
You go with Cody, you write
your name on a piece of paper...
989
01:31:22,797 --> 01:31:23,991
...and you take money.
990
01:31:24,157 --> 01:31:26,717
Money that I must sweat for.
991
01:31:26,877 --> 01:31:31,268
I do not understand why you feel
so honoured by these things.
992
01:31:33,277 --> 01:31:36,110
I do not understand
why you've come...
993
01:31:36,277 --> 01:31:39,428
...because to me you are Sitting Bull...
994
01:31:39,597 --> 01:31:41,713
...our leader who would
never surrender.
995
01:31:47,597 --> 01:31:50,475
That is all I have to say.
996
01:32:17,837 --> 01:32:19,828
[GASPS, PANTING]
997
01:32:25,037 --> 01:32:27,028
Because of confusion in the past...
998
01:32:27,197 --> 01:32:30,394
...you will put your marks
on one of the two papers here.
999
01:32:30,557 --> 01:32:33,117
You will sign the red paper
if you agree...
1000
01:32:33,277 --> 01:32:34,676
Which we hope that you do.
1001
01:32:34,837 --> 01:32:37,954
- And the black if you don't.
1002
01:32:38,157 --> 01:32:41,115
So they will know
who is a friend and who is not.
1003
01:32:41,357 --> 01:32:43,746
So they will know
who to take rations from.
1004
01:32:43,917 --> 01:32:45,908
[CROWD MURMURING]
1005
01:32:49,717 --> 01:32:50,991
What is this?
1006
01:33:01,717 --> 01:33:03,309
McLAUGHLIN:
Sir, this is not your agency.
1007
01:33:03,477 --> 01:33:05,433
The council at Standing Rock
is next week.
1008
01:33:05,597 --> 01:33:06,586
You have no place here.
1009
01:33:06,757 --> 01:33:08,668
MAN:
Do you not recognise who this man is?
1010
01:33:08,837 --> 01:33:11,909
I know. He is Sitting Bull.
1011
01:33:12,517 --> 01:33:15,589
But I do not recognise him
as having any more a voice...
1012
01:33:15,757 --> 01:33:18,476
...than any other Indian here.
1013
01:33:19,157 --> 01:33:23,196
Hear me, then, for one last time.
1014
01:33:28,197 --> 01:33:31,553
They mean to take our land
away from us.
1015
01:33:32,277 --> 01:33:35,155
You may say,
"They wish to give us land.
1016
01:33:35,357 --> 01:33:38,554
This patch to you, this patch to you."
1017
01:33:38,757 --> 01:33:41,112
But here is the truth:
1018
01:33:41,277 --> 01:33:45,907
Each patch is for a man
and all generations that follow him.
1019
01:33:46,077 --> 01:33:49,786
And they knowthat this land
cannot feed but one generation...
1020
01:33:49,957 --> 01:33:51,629
...not even so much as that.
1021
01:33:52,397 --> 01:33:54,194
All right, you've had your say.
1022
01:33:54,357 --> 01:33:56,996
Do not interrupt.
1023
01:34:11,357 --> 01:34:15,589
SITTING BULL: You teach
our children the words of your God:
1024
01:34:16,117 --> 01:34:19,234
"Be fruitful and multiply."
1025
01:34:20,317 --> 01:34:24,071
But it seems these words
are not meant for the Indian.
1026
01:34:24,237 --> 01:34:27,115
For what kind of man
would take a wife...
1027
01:34:27,277 --> 01:34:30,633
...and have children he cannot feed?
1028
01:34:30,797 --> 01:34:32,071
No Indian man.
1029
01:34:32,837 --> 01:34:35,909
Not a Lakota, not an Arikara...
1030
01:34:36,477 --> 01:34:38,672
...not a Crow.
1031
01:34:43,597 --> 01:34:46,350
You would have us cut off our balls...
1032
01:34:46,557 --> 01:34:48,354
...and end our race right here...
1033
01:34:48,757 --> 01:34:51,317
...on a patch of land
on which nothing can live...
1034
01:34:51,637 --> 01:34:54,197
...and that will not happen!
1035
01:34:54,357 --> 01:34:56,348
[CROWD CHATTERING]
1036
01:35:01,357 --> 01:35:02,710
I have spoken.
1037
01:35:04,117 --> 01:35:07,348
We did not put you on this land.
1038
01:35:07,517 --> 01:35:10,031
Red Cloud surrendered.
1039
01:35:10,197 --> 01:35:13,030
He made peace
with the government.
1040
01:35:13,197 --> 01:35:17,668
Have you forgotten the bloodshed
that came before?
1041
01:35:20,597 --> 01:35:24,385
Sitting Bull is a great leader.
1042
01:35:24,557 --> 01:35:28,027
I believe this,
no matter that the whites...
1043
01:35:28,197 --> 01:35:31,906
...see us men all as the same.
1044
01:35:32,077 --> 01:35:35,308
But he did not sit with us
in the council...
1045
01:35:35,877 --> 01:35:39,836
...those many snows ago,
when our reservation was made.
1046
01:35:40,597 --> 01:35:44,033
He did not sit with us
in the next council...
1047
01:35:44,197 --> 01:35:45,835
...when these borders...
1048
01:35:46,557 --> 01:35:51,506
...that we were told were
like marks in stone, were moved...
1049
01:35:51,677 --> 01:35:53,747
...and the Black Hills...
1050
01:35:53,917 --> 01:35:57,626
...and our hunting lands
were taken from us.
1051
01:35:58,637 --> 01:36:02,107
Sitting Bull might have had his say...
1052
01:36:02,997 --> 01:36:06,785
...but such was his suspicion
of the whites...
1053
01:36:06,957 --> 01:36:09,630
...such was his pride.
1054
01:36:15,757 --> 01:36:17,907
I say today...
1055
01:36:20,357 --> 01:36:23,793
...for all ears within hearing...
1056
01:36:26,837 --> 01:36:30,910
...that if Sitting Bull had spoken...
1057
01:36:31,117 --> 01:36:33,836
...the way he speaks today...
1058
01:36:33,997 --> 01:36:37,034
...I would not have touched that pen.
1059
01:36:40,637 --> 01:36:44,152
I will not touch your pen...
1060
01:36:44,357 --> 01:36:46,154
...to your paper.
1061
01:36:47,477 --> 01:36:50,355
I will not touch it
to your red paper...
1062
01:36:50,557 --> 01:36:54,232
...I will not touch it
to your black paper.
1063
01:36:54,397 --> 01:36:56,752
The white man...
1064
01:36:56,917 --> 01:37:00,705
...will not see my mark again
on his paper...
1065
01:37:00,877 --> 01:37:04,187
...for the rest of my days
on this earth.
1066
01:37:04,357 --> 01:37:06,348
[CROWD CHEERING, YELLING]
1067
01:37:26,917 --> 01:37:29,829
DAWES:
We cannot allow a return to incivility.
1068
01:37:30,397 --> 01:37:32,308
Incivility?
1069
01:37:33,317 --> 01:37:36,673
And what has civility earned them,
might I ask?
1070
01:37:36,837 --> 01:37:38,828
Trained nurses? Even one hospital?
1071
01:37:38,997 --> 01:37:42,148
All things the Sioux will provide
for themselves, Charles...
1072
01:37:42,357 --> 01:37:45,554
...once this plan has passed.
1073
01:37:45,717 --> 01:37:48,709
As you yourself agreed...
1074
01:37:50,037 --> 01:37:52,631
...they must adapt.
1075
01:37:52,797 --> 01:37:56,028
Must they adapt, sir, to the point
of their own extermination?
1076
01:37:56,197 --> 01:37:58,028
Extermination?
1077
01:37:58,877 --> 01:38:02,950
I suppose you say we've exterminated
your Indian heritage...
1078
01:38:03,117 --> 01:38:08,510
...rather than provided to you
the benefits of an entire civilisation?
1079
01:38:08,677 --> 01:38:11,749
Senator, please sit.
1080
01:38:16,917 --> 01:38:20,512
Sir, if every individual were taken
personally under your care...
1081
01:38:20,677 --> 01:38:22,156
...as was my good fortune...
1082
01:38:22,317 --> 01:38:26,629
...I admit, the outcome
might be what you seek.
1083
01:38:26,797 --> 01:38:30,995
But I am not the example you held up
to the Friends of the Indian.
1084
01:38:31,157 --> 01:38:32,749
I am the example...
1085
01:38:32,917 --> 01:38:35,033
...of nothing.
1086
01:38:36,757 --> 01:38:40,636
I simply do not see how
placing each Indian man...
1087
01:38:40,797 --> 01:38:43,516
...on a desolate,
160-acre parcel of land...
1088
01:38:43,677 --> 01:38:45,952
...is gonna lead his children
to medical school.
1089
01:38:46,157 --> 01:38:47,829
It will, in time.
1090
01:38:48,637 --> 01:38:50,832
But first, this must pass.
1091
01:38:50,997 --> 01:38:52,908
Or I guarantee you...
1092
01:38:53,557 --> 01:38:57,391
...destitution is all the Sioux
will ever know.
1093
01:38:57,557 --> 01:39:01,436
I have many opponents, Charles.
1094
01:39:01,837 --> 01:39:03,555
In the press, in Congress...
1095
01:39:03,717 --> 01:39:06,550
You have an opponent before you, sir.
1096
01:39:11,797 --> 01:39:13,674
Yes.
1097
01:39:15,557 --> 01:39:18,117
I see that clearly now.
1098
01:39:19,597 --> 01:39:21,906
DAWES: This explains the tone
of your letters.
1099
01:39:22,117 --> 01:39:26,588
CHARLES: Drought, disease, hunger,
year in and year out.
1100
01:39:26,757 --> 01:39:29,954
DAWES: You think you are
the first one to decry these things?
1101
01:39:30,157 --> 01:39:33,388
This looks all very grim to you,
of course...
1102
01:39:33,557 --> 01:39:35,832
...having been spared
all this yourself.
1103
01:39:35,997 --> 01:39:38,147
CHARLES:
Children have died in my arms.
1104
01:39:38,317 --> 01:39:40,148
I have not been spared!
1105
01:39:43,757 --> 01:39:48,308
I devoted the larger part of my career...
1106
01:39:48,517 --> 01:39:50,235
...to the betterment of your race...
1107
01:39:50,557 --> 01:39:53,469
...with you as the principal beneficiary.
1108
01:39:54,517 --> 01:39:56,872
Is this your gratitude?
1109
01:39:57,837 --> 01:40:01,147
I am acting in the interest
of my people...
1110
01:40:01,357 --> 01:40:03,791
...following the example
you set for me.
1111
01:40:03,957 --> 01:40:07,108
Do you really think
you know better than I...
1112
01:40:07,277 --> 01:40:09,427
...what is in the interest
of these people?
1113
01:40:09,597 --> 01:40:11,428
Yes.
1114
01:40:12,437 --> 01:40:15,554
I am one of them, Senator.
1115
01:40:16,437 --> 01:40:17,472
[DAWES SCOFFS SOFTLY]
1116
01:40:18,197 --> 01:40:20,870
You're no more a Sioux Indian...
1117
01:40:21,037 --> 01:40:23,505
...than I am.
1118
01:41:01,437 --> 01:41:03,075
ELAINE:
Charles?
1119
01:41:05,877 --> 01:41:08,949
Did you knowthere was a moment...
1120
01:41:09,157 --> 01:41:13,867
...on the train to Illinois
where I was sent away to school...
1121
01:41:17,597 --> 01:41:21,749
...when I might have returned home
to my old land?
1122
01:41:23,797 --> 01:41:26,470
I nearly jumped.
1123
01:41:27,557 --> 01:41:31,152
ELAINE:
Jumped? What do you mean?
1124
01:41:31,357 --> 01:41:33,507
From that train.
1125
01:41:35,597 --> 01:41:37,872
I nearly did, Elaine.
1126
01:41:40,717 --> 01:41:43,914
I very nearly jumped.
1127
01:41:51,437 --> 01:41:53,428
[DOOR OPENS]
1128
01:41:54,797 --> 01:41:56,788
[CHILDREN CHATTERING]
1129
01:42:03,437 --> 01:42:05,428
[PEOPLE CHANTING]
1130
01:42:17,357 --> 01:42:19,348
[MAN CHANTING]
1131
01:42:23,437 --> 01:42:25,428
[ALL CHANTING]
1132
01:42:41,237 --> 01:42:42,226
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
1133
01:42:42,437 --> 01:42:45,907
ELAINE: Charles!
Charles, you have to wake up.
1134
01:42:46,077 --> 01:42:47,829
- What?
- I�s Royer.
1135
01:42:47,997 --> 01:42:50,113
He's ordered all the Sioux
to the agency.
1136
01:42:50,277 --> 01:42:52,632
- He wants them all here.
- Why?
1137
01:42:52,797 --> 01:42:55,436
There's been trouble.
They heard about the ration cuts.
1138
01:42:55,597 --> 01:42:59,306
He says they have guns at the
dance camp. He's wired for troops.
1139
01:42:59,477 --> 01:43:00,671
Just read it for yourself.
1140
01:43:00,837 --> 01:43:03,112
"Uprising of the whole Indian race
is imminent."
1141
01:43:03,277 --> 01:43:06,314
I've got people to protect.
You're damn right I'm getting troops.
1142
01:43:06,477 --> 01:43:07,466
I�s a stupid prophecy.
1143
01:43:07,637 --> 01:43:08,626
[SCOFFS]
1144
01:43:08,797 --> 01:43:10,788
L�ll pass if you let it.
I've been to these camps.
1145
01:43:10,957 --> 01:43:12,231
[CHUCKLES]
I�s harmless dancing.
1146
01:43:12,397 --> 01:43:16,185
Harmless? Preaching death
to all whites is harmless?
1147
01:43:16,357 --> 01:43:18,552
If soldiers come to this reservation...
1148
01:43:18,757 --> 01:43:22,386
...you'll have more dead Indians
than any disease has ever taken.
1149
01:43:26,717 --> 01:43:28,514
CHARLES:
You'd better leave like the others.
1150
01:43:28,677 --> 01:43:29,826
With the threat of troops...
1151
01:43:29,997 --> 01:43:32,636
...maybe holdouts will be
frightened enough to see reason.
1152
01:43:32,797 --> 01:43:35,755
Why should they? The land deal
was shoved down their throats...
1153
01:43:35,917 --> 01:43:38,192
...and still they're punished
with ration cuts.
1154
01:43:38,357 --> 01:43:40,029
A million pounds of beef. A million.
1155
01:43:40,197 --> 01:43:42,506
It has to have been a mistake.
They were promised.
1156
01:43:42,677 --> 01:43:45,908
You've been here longer than I.
You knowthese are never mistakes.
1157
01:43:46,117 --> 01:43:49,154
To provoke the Sioux further
in this panic, does that make sense?
1158
01:43:49,357 --> 01:43:52,190
Yes, knowing the whites.
1159
01:43:53,717 --> 01:43:55,628
MAN:
Hyah!
1160
01:43:56,237 --> 01:43:58,353
I think you should go.
1161
01:43:58,557 --> 01:44:00,388
We're still needed here.
1162
01:44:00,557 --> 01:44:03,355
As what, witnesses?
1163
01:44:04,117 --> 01:44:06,233
It won't come to that.
1164
01:44:12,437 --> 01:44:14,428
[PEOPLE CHANTING,
DRUM BEATING]
1165
01:44:34,117 --> 01:44:36,756
What are you doing here?
What do you want?
1166
01:44:37,117 --> 01:44:39,108
Why haven't you brought
these people in?
1167
01:44:39,277 --> 01:44:43,156
For what? Another council?
More rotten meat?
1168
01:44:47,197 --> 01:44:49,631
[CHUCKLES]
This is nonsense.
1169
01:44:50,197 --> 01:44:52,267
You're a Christian.
1170
01:44:52,677 --> 01:44:54,872
You don't believe in this.
1171
01:44:57,517 --> 01:44:59,473
Then tell me what to believe.
1172
01:45:02,197 --> 01:45:04,711
Tell me what to believe in,
white medicine man.
1173
01:45:21,277 --> 01:45:23,268
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
1174
01:45:32,997 --> 01:45:35,431
I ordered you to shut down
these dance camps.
1175
01:45:35,597 --> 01:45:38,031
- I can't.
- Why not?
1176
01:45:38,197 --> 01:45:39,835
Sitting Bull permits the dancing.
1177
01:45:39,997 --> 01:45:42,511
The people listen to him again.
1178
01:45:44,757 --> 01:45:47,396
- Bring him in.
- What if there's trouble?
1179
01:45:47,557 --> 01:45:49,149
There is already trouble.
1180
01:45:49,317 --> 01:45:53,276
Soldiers are riding for Pine Ridge,
and I'll be damned if they'll ride in here.
1181
01:45:58,917 --> 01:46:00,908
[BARKING]
1182
01:46:08,197 --> 01:46:11,109
The agent has sent for you. Dress.
1183
01:46:13,077 --> 01:46:15,272
I said, dress.
1184
01:46:20,557 --> 01:46:23,708
CHARLES:
Your eyes are getting worse.
1185
01:46:26,077 --> 01:46:27,510
[YELLING IN DISTANCE]
1186
01:46:41,637 --> 01:46:43,628
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
1187
01:46:45,597 --> 01:46:47,827
Quick, somebody get Dr. Eastman!
1188
01:46:47,997 --> 01:46:49,271
[PANICKED CHATTERING]
1189
01:46:49,477 --> 01:46:51,149
ELAINE:
Hurry!
1190
01:46:58,157 --> 01:47:00,148
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
1191
01:47:04,637 --> 01:47:08,073
CHARLES: Easy, easy. Careful.
ELAINE: This way.
1192
01:47:11,197 --> 01:47:12,596
[WOMAN SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
1193
01:47:12,757 --> 01:47:14,634
MAN 1: Where do you want her?
MAN 2: Right here!
1194
01:47:14,797 --> 01:47:15,786
Here.
1195
01:47:15,957 --> 01:47:17,754
[MAN 3 GROANING]
1196
01:47:17,957 --> 01:47:19,470
MAN 1: Behind you.
MAN 2: Easy, easy.
1197
01:47:20,037 --> 01:47:22,028
[WOMAN SPEAKS
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
1198
01:47:22,437 --> 01:47:24,428
[PANICKED CHATTERING]
1199
01:47:34,317 --> 01:47:36,228
ELAINE:
Charles! Charles, hurry!
1200
01:47:36,397 --> 01:47:37,716
[WOMAN SOBBING]
1201
01:47:37,917 --> 01:47:41,034
- What happened?
- She's been shot.
1202
01:47:43,037 --> 01:47:44,026
MAN:
Help! Somebody help!
1203
01:47:44,197 --> 01:47:45,630
[MAN GASPING]
1204
01:47:49,117 --> 01:47:51,187
[TEARFULLY]
Where are my children?
1205
01:47:51,357 --> 01:47:53,234
MAN:
Help me!
1206
01:47:53,557 --> 01:47:55,548
[GRUNTING]
1207
01:47:59,117 --> 01:48:00,345
What happened?
1208
01:48:00,517 --> 01:48:02,587
Where are my children?
1209
01:48:03,077 --> 01:48:04,556
Tell me what happened.
1210
01:48:04,717 --> 01:48:06,833
They came for my father-in-law.
1211
01:48:06,997 --> 01:48:08,749
They came to arrest Sitting Bull.
1212
01:48:11,557 --> 01:48:13,354
They came to take him away.
1213
01:48:13,517 --> 01:48:15,394
WOMAN:
What is going on?
1214
01:48:15,597 --> 01:48:17,588
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
1215
01:48:18,197 --> 01:48:20,108
We tried to stop them.
1216
01:48:20,317 --> 01:48:23,548
- Where are you taking him?
- Don't let them take you without a fight!
1217
01:48:23,717 --> 01:48:27,153
SOLDIER: Be quiet!
- I won't go, I won't go!
1218
01:48:27,317 --> 01:48:30,787
Stay back! Stay back,
or we will arrest you all.
1219
01:48:30,997 --> 01:48:32,350
[WOMAN SOBBING]
1220
01:48:32,557 --> 01:48:33,546
CHARLES:
I got it.
1221
01:48:36,837 --> 01:48:37,986
The horse.
1222
01:48:38,197 --> 01:48:40,188
[HORSE NEIGHING]
1223
01:48:41,517 --> 01:48:43,394
The white horse.
1224
01:48:43,597 --> 01:48:44,666
[WHINNYING]
1225
01:48:45,317 --> 01:48:46,306
[EXHALES]
1226
01:48:46,477 --> 01:48:47,671
It danced.
1227
01:48:48,917 --> 01:48:50,350
We all turned to look at it.
1228
01:48:50,717 --> 01:48:51,945
[NEIGHING]
1229
01:48:55,957 --> 01:48:57,185
And he fired.
1230
01:49:00,437 --> 01:49:01,426
[GRUNTS]
1231
01:49:01,637 --> 01:49:03,036
[ALL SCREAMING]
1232
01:49:03,237 --> 01:49:04,636
MAN: No.
- Oh...
1233
01:49:04,797 --> 01:49:05,946
They killed him!
1234
01:49:07,957 --> 01:49:09,629
They killed Sitting Bull!
1235
01:49:10,117 --> 01:49:12,108
[SOBBING]
1236
01:49:15,957 --> 01:49:17,629
No!
1237
01:49:18,517 --> 01:49:19,870
SOLDIER:
His boy's over here!
1238
01:49:20,717 --> 01:49:23,515
They shot Crow Foot.
1239
01:49:23,677 --> 01:49:25,315
He wasjust a boy.
1240
01:49:27,157 --> 01:49:29,546
They killed him too.
1241
01:49:36,877 --> 01:49:38,868
[PEOPLE SOBBING]
1242
01:49:40,277 --> 01:49:42,268
[GASPING]
1243
01:49:43,597 --> 01:49:44,871
We ran away...
1244
01:49:45,037 --> 01:49:46,390
[ALL SCREAMING]
1245
01:49:46,597 --> 01:49:48,394
...but the soldiers found us.
1246
01:49:49,877 --> 01:49:50,946
[PEOPLE SOBBING]
1247
01:49:51,157 --> 01:49:53,717
They took us to
Wounded Knee Creek.
1248
01:49:53,877 --> 01:49:57,392
No! No!
1249
01:49:57,557 --> 01:50:01,835
[PANTING]
Where are my children?
1250
01:50:03,157 --> 01:50:06,149
Where are my children?
1251
01:50:09,837 --> 01:50:11,748
MAN:
Doctor! Doctor!
1252
01:50:11,957 --> 01:50:12,946
[GRUNTING]
1253
01:50:15,077 --> 01:50:18,228
It was at Wounded Knee,
near where we were dancing.
1254
01:50:23,357 --> 01:50:25,507
Elaine, bag!
1255
01:50:25,677 --> 01:50:27,872
They tried to take our weapons.
1256
01:50:33,797 --> 01:50:35,389
You had more than this.
1257
01:50:36,557 --> 01:50:39,390
You had Winchesters and Henrys.
1258
01:50:39,557 --> 01:50:43,345
I know you had Winchesters and
Henrys. Where are your weapons?
1259
01:50:43,517 --> 01:50:45,269
"Where are your weapons?"
He shouted.
1260
01:50:45,437 --> 01:50:46,790
Search the tepees.
1261
01:50:46,957 --> 01:50:48,948
[ALL SCREAMING]
1262
01:50:50,637 --> 01:50:52,434
Have heart, men.
1263
01:50:52,597 --> 01:50:55,828
The messiah's promise
will come true.
1264
01:50:56,957 --> 01:50:59,266
The bullets will not harm you.
1265
01:51:01,517 --> 01:51:03,587
Their bullets...
1266
01:51:03,797 --> 01:51:06,106
...will not harm you.
1267
01:51:06,277 --> 01:51:08,507
Search all of them!
1268
01:51:09,237 --> 01:51:11,193
They tried to take a gun
from a deaf man!
1269
01:51:12,197 --> 01:51:14,028
He couldn't hear, they didn't care.
1270
01:51:14,197 --> 01:51:16,188
Leave him alone! He can't hear you!
1271
01:51:16,397 --> 01:51:17,955
SOLDIER:
Let go!
1272
01:51:19,717 --> 01:51:21,708
[GUNSHOTS]
1273
01:51:26,197 --> 01:51:28,188
[ALL SCREAMING]
1274
01:51:43,557 --> 01:51:44,956
And then the cannons came.
1275
01:51:45,117 --> 01:51:48,109
[INDIANS YELLING, CRYING]
1276
01:51:53,477 --> 01:51:54,705
[GRUNTS]
1277
01:51:55,037 --> 01:51:56,436
[YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
1278
01:52:02,157 --> 01:52:04,512
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
1279
01:52:04,717 --> 01:52:06,753
SOLDIER:
Go after them!
1280
01:52:08,197 --> 01:52:10,188
[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
1281
01:52:10,677 --> 01:52:12,474
MOTHER:
Go! Fast!
1282
01:52:18,437 --> 01:52:19,870
[SCREAMING]
1283
01:52:21,557 --> 01:52:22,785
[GRUNTS]
1284
01:52:23,997 --> 01:52:25,988
[SOLDIERS YELLING,
GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
1285
01:52:26,517 --> 01:52:27,711
[GASPS]
1286
01:52:29,917 --> 01:52:31,908
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY,
BABY CRYING]
1287
01:52:35,597 --> 01:52:37,588
[WHIMPERING]
1288
01:52:39,677 --> 01:52:41,349
[SOBBING]
1289
01:52:51,997 --> 01:52:53,589
I cannot mend the leg.
1290
01:52:54,877 --> 01:52:55,866
[PANTING]
1291
01:52:56,077 --> 01:52:57,590
No.
1292
01:52:58,477 --> 01:52:59,671
You will not take it.
1293
01:53:00,517 --> 01:53:03,827
Please. You have no choice.
1294
01:53:05,157 --> 01:53:07,113
There is a choice.
1295
01:53:08,317 --> 01:53:09,716
[GRUNTS]
1296
01:53:11,237 --> 01:53:12,226
[EXHALES]
1297
01:53:12,437 --> 01:53:14,428
[PEOPLE SOBBING]
1298
01:53:34,917 --> 01:53:36,908
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
1299
01:53:41,197 --> 01:53:43,665
We didn't fire first.
1300
01:53:43,837 --> 01:53:47,193
I swear to almighty God,
we did not fire first.
1301
01:53:47,357 --> 01:53:49,587
Blue coat...
1302
01:53:49,757 --> 01:53:53,386
...you whites use
many weapons against us.
1303
01:53:53,597 --> 01:53:56,953
Do not have such a bad heart about it.
1304
01:53:57,157 --> 01:54:00,945
We have always feared
your guns the least.
1305
01:54:44,437 --> 01:54:49,989
For two days, the snow prevented
a search for survivors...
1306
01:54:50,197 --> 01:54:52,711
...and the burial of the dead.
1307
01:54:54,997 --> 01:54:56,749
ELAINE:
From that day on...
1308
01:54:56,917 --> 01:54:59,556
...nothing would be the same.
1309
01:54:59,717 --> 01:55:02,629
Not for the Sioux as a people...
1310
01:55:02,797 --> 01:55:05,311
...and not for Charles.
1311
01:55:41,837 --> 01:55:43,828
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
1312
01:57:05,477 --> 01:57:07,786
Tell me what you see.
1313
01:57:08,677 --> 01:57:12,192
I'm the one who told
our people to stay.
1314
01:57:14,637 --> 01:57:17,868
Tell me straight. I have the ears for it.
1315
01:57:30,877 --> 01:57:32,833
ELAINE:
Witnesses.
1316
01:57:35,397 --> 01:57:37,831
I�s notwhatwe set out to be.
1317
01:57:37,997 --> 01:57:40,636
But in the end, i�s whatwe were.
1318
01:57:44,317 --> 01:57:48,151
Charles would practise medicine
again only briefly.
1319
01:57:48,317 --> 01:57:51,468
A succession of positions
always seemed to end...
1320
01:57:51,637 --> 01:57:54,595
...in voluntary resignation
or dismissal...
1321
01:57:54,757 --> 01:57:57,191
...and eventually, financial hardship.
1322
01:57:58,957 --> 01:58:01,027
Soon he had nowhere to turn.
1323
01:58:01,197 --> 01:58:03,188
Charles?
1324
01:58:03,357 --> 01:58:05,552
ELAINE:
And we needed money.
1325
01:58:05,717 --> 01:58:08,993
Well, how are you?
1326
01:58:09,357 --> 01:58:11,268
I'm fine.
1327
01:58:12,117 --> 01:58:15,189
I'm sorry to hear about your
resignation, and your wife's.
1328
01:58:15,397 --> 01:58:17,786
Great loss to the reservation.
1329
01:58:17,957 --> 01:58:20,551
You're awaiting the commissioner?
1330
01:58:20,717 --> 01:58:21,991
Yes.
1331
01:58:22,157 --> 01:58:24,387
We would be very grateful
to have your services again...
1332
01:58:24,557 --> 01:58:25,956
...for the renaming project.
1333
01:58:26,117 --> 01:58:28,233
- Renaming project?
- Yes.
1334
01:58:28,397 --> 01:58:30,513
I only knowthere's
a position available.
1335
01:58:30,677 --> 01:58:32,713
Yes, I put you up for it myself...
1336
01:58:32,877 --> 01:58:36,506
...knowing your circumstances.
1337
01:58:38,397 --> 01:58:41,469
I�s the individual deeds to the land.
1338
01:58:41,637 --> 01:58:44,310
They've been impossible to assign...
1339
01:58:44,477 --> 01:58:47,389
...with each Indian going
by so many tribal names...
1340
01:58:47,557 --> 01:58:49,673
...so much confusion.
1341
01:58:49,837 --> 01:58:52,476
So, what we need
is a single name...
1342
01:58:52,637 --> 01:58:54,707
...a Christian name,
for each Sioux...
1343
01:58:55,197 --> 01:59:00,032
...assigned by you,
randomly or at your discretion...
1344
01:59:00,197 --> 01:59:02,665
...working from the last census.
1345
01:59:02,837 --> 01:59:04,475
MAN:
Doctor? Dr. Eastman?
1346
01:59:06,317 --> 01:59:08,387
We're ready for you now.
1347
01:59:10,317 --> 01:59:12,547
- Good luck.
- Senator.
1348
01:59:12,717 --> 01:59:14,673
Charles.
1349
01:59:24,117 --> 01:59:26,153
Give my best to your wife.
1350
02:00:18,877 --> 02:00:20,788
I won't do this!
1351
02:01:02,757 --> 02:01:04,076
[CHARLES EXHALES]
1352
02:01:20,557 --> 02:01:22,548
Charles?
1353
02:01:26,197 --> 02:01:28,552
Should have jumped.
1354
02:01:29,597 --> 02:01:31,667
What?
1355
02:01:32,357 --> 02:01:35,588
Should have jumped from the train.
1356
02:01:43,637 --> 02:01:45,628
Might have got off...
1357
02:01:46,637 --> 02:01:49,595
Might have got off in Sioux City.
1358
02:01:53,237 --> 02:01:57,594
Yes, tha�s what I would have done.
1359
02:02:01,077 --> 02:02:03,545
I would have walked...
1360
02:02:04,157 --> 02:02:06,830
...till I reached the Red River...
1361
02:02:10,397 --> 02:02:13,548
...which I would have followed
to the North Woods.
1362
02:02:16,597 --> 02:02:19,987
Tha�s how I will find my way home.
1363
02:02:25,397 --> 02:02:27,433
By the Red River.
1364
02:02:33,677 --> 02:02:36,237
By the Red River.
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