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I watched this movie again for the first time in about 5 or 6 years. Chief Dan George has some of the best lines in the whole movie. So many good words that inspire my heart.
I am glad to be a Human Being, I love my earth mother, I am saddened by the harm political correctness, government abuse of treaties, poverty, drugs and alcohol, and the beligerant disrespect of what native people know to be truth and the right way to love land, home, family and community.
I may have to watch it again this weekend.
Old Lodge Skins: Come out and fight! It is a good day to die! Thank You for making me a Human Being! Thank You for helpin' me to become a warrior! Thank You for my victories, and for my defeats! Thank You for my vision, and the blindness in which I saw further! You make all things and direct them in their ways, O Grandfather. And now You have decided the Human Beings will soon walk a road that leads nowhere. I am gonna die now, unless death wants to fight. And I ask You for the last time to grant me my old power to make things happen.
[Lies down to die. After a moment, props himself up on his elbows to add:]
Old Lodge Skins: Take care of my son here. See that he doesn't go crazy.
Jack Crabb: Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now?
Old Lodge Skins: Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.
This post has been edited by armadillo66: May 2nd 2009 2:48 PM
Signature:
"If it has to come out of the holster, it should go off, I have found that folks learn better that way and it weeds out the ones who weren't paying attention, otherwise, it just stays in the holster until discussions and suggestions reach total impass"
"You gotta be tough to live like this"
"Woodrow, just once in my life I would like to shoot at an educated man" -Cap't Gus McRae
"No momma, please not the belt, I promise I won't do that anymore"
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May 2nd 2009 2:43 PM
Great movie
