WEBVTT 00:00:52.182 --> 00:01:03.182 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:01:04.606 --> 00:01:05.689 Dear sir, 00:01:06.733 --> 00:01:09.526 my name is Catherine Weldon and I live in New York City. 00:01:11.821 --> 00:01:14.156 I studied portrait painting as a young woman, 00:01:14.824 --> 00:01:15.908 but when I married, 00:01:15.992 --> 00:01:18.660 it was deemed unsuitable for me to pursue a profession. 00:01:22.082 --> 00:01:23.749 Recently, I visited an exhibition 00:01:23.833 --> 00:01:26.543 of George Catlin paintings of American Indians, 00:01:27.128 --> 00:01:28.712 and my breath was taken away. 00:01:31.007 --> 00:01:32.758 It was the freedom that struck me. 00:01:34.177 --> 00:01:37.012 Even inside the paintings, the people were free. 00:01:40.308 --> 00:01:44.895 I discovered that no portrait of you, the great Chief Sitting BulI, exists 00:01:44.979 --> 00:01:47.064 in any of our public galleries, 00:01:47.148 --> 00:01:49.566 and I intend to rectify the situation. 00:01:52.821 --> 00:01:55.572 Almost one year ago, my husband died, 00:01:56.741 --> 00:01:58.700 and I've been in mourning ever since. 00:02:01.996 --> 00:02:02.830 No. 00:02:11.589 --> 00:02:13.006 Please stop here. 00:02:22.600 --> 00:02:25.060 Now my deep grief has finally passed. 00:02:28.898 --> 00:02:31.233 And I can find consolation in my work. 00:02:44.122 --> 00:02:46.248 I've not sought the permission of my father 00:02:46.332 --> 00:02:47.624 or my husband's family, 00:02:47.709 --> 00:02:49.334 so you may think I am something of a renegade. 00:02:50.128 --> 00:02:53.463 I assure you, this is not by nature but by circumstance. 00:03:01.514 --> 00:03:03.682 I've written to the Agent to say I'm on my way. 00:03:07.478 --> 00:03:08.854 "Dear Mr. McLaughlin, 00:03:09.606 --> 00:03:12.900 I have painted many portraits of senators, congressmen, 00:03:12.984 --> 00:03:14.693 and even a vice president. 00:03:16.070 --> 00:03:18.280 But lately I took a decision to head west, 00:03:18.364 --> 00:03:21.200 with the intention of painting portraits of Indians 00:03:21.284 --> 00:03:23.285 who've made their own mark on history. 00:03:23.369 --> 00:03:26.163 In particular, I'm keen to capture on canvas 00:03:26.247 --> 00:03:29.499 the last of the great Sioux war chiefs, Chief Sitting Bull. " 00:03:30.585 --> 00:03:31.668 Tell her, "Hell, no. " 00:03:32.670 --> 00:03:35.464 She's also enclosed a letter addressed to Sitting Bull 00:03:35.548 --> 00:03:37.090 to be delivered in person. 00:03:48.436 --> 00:03:51.271 New York liberals stoking the flames. 00:03:52.690 --> 00:03:54.524 When she gets here, arrest her. 00:04:43.032 --> 00:04:44.116 Hello? 00:04:45.618 --> 00:04:47.953 - Fresh linens, ma'am? - Oh, yes, please. 00:04:49.956 --> 00:04:52.374 - How long till we get to Omaha? - Half a day. 00:04:57.297 --> 00:04:59.423 - You're an Indian, aren't you? - Yes, ma'am. 00:05:00.049 --> 00:05:02.217 - Which tribe? - Presbyterian. 00:05:06.389 --> 00:05:10.392 I'm heading to Standing Rock Reservation. I'm going to paint Sioux Indians. 00:05:11.060 --> 00:05:13.770 Have you ever been to Standing Rock? 00:05:15.940 --> 00:05:17.983 The Sioux hunted my people like rabbits, 00:05:18.067 --> 00:05:20.152 cut out their hearts and fed 'em to the dogs. 00:05:23.614 --> 00:05:25.365 You call me if you need any more towels. 00:05:36.586 --> 00:05:39.296 Ma'am. 00:05:52.018 --> 00:05:52.851 Thank you. 00:05:59.317 --> 00:06:00.901 Forgive me, ma'am, but,... 00:06:00.985 --> 00:06:04.112 very few unaccompanied ladies travel beyond Omaha. 00:06:04.197 --> 00:06:06.490 Then they are missing some rare beauty. 00:06:08.368 --> 00:06:10.535 - You're not a soldier's wife? - No. 00:06:10.620 --> 00:06:13.622 Soldiers' wives don't see the beauty of the prairie, only its hazards. 00:06:17.752 --> 00:06:20.712 Well, are you gonna make me guess? 00:06:22.632 --> 00:06:24.216 You seem very good at it. 00:06:26.094 --> 00:06:27.260 You're a missionary. 00:06:27.345 --> 00:06:31.515 Oh. No, unfortunately, I don't have the certainty. 00:06:31.599 --> 00:06:34.226 Well, the only stop left is Standing Rock Reservation. 00:06:34.310 --> 00:06:38.313 If you're not a soldier's wife and you're not a missionary, 00:06:39.524 --> 00:06:41.983 what other business could you possibly have? 00:06:42.068 --> 00:06:44.027 - I'm a painter. - A painter? 00:06:45.238 --> 00:06:48.490 Yes, a full-time painter. 00:06:49.700 --> 00:06:51.785 I'd guess you came out here from New York City. 00:06:51.869 --> 00:06:52.911 Why? 00:06:52.995 --> 00:06:54.788 'Cause New York is the headquarters 00:06:54.872 --> 00:06:56.957 of the National Indian Defense Association. 00:06:57.041 --> 00:07:00.168 From time to time, they send their political agitators out west 00:07:00.253 --> 00:07:01.795 to stir things up on the reservations. 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:03.296 I guess that's closer to the truth. 00:07:03.381 --> 00:07:05.257 I just told you, I'm a painter. 00:07:05.341 --> 00:07:07.259 Painters can be agitators, too. Often are. 00:07:07.343 --> 00:07:08.760 So, now I'm a spy? 00:07:09.929 --> 00:07:11.638 I'd guess you're traveling to Standing Rock 00:07:11.722 --> 00:07:14.474 to promote opposition to the Allotment Act treaty. 00:07:14.559 --> 00:07:17.894 Sir, if I knew what the Allotment treaty was, 00:07:17.979 --> 00:07:20.939 which I don't, I probably would oppose it. 00:07:21.023 --> 00:07:22.232 You sure as hell couldn't paint it. 00:07:22.316 --> 00:07:23.608 I met you two minutes ago, 00:07:23.693 --> 00:07:25.694 and already you have accused me of being a spy and a liar. 00:07:25.778 --> 00:07:27.237 I work for the War Department, darling. 00:07:27.321 --> 00:07:30.323 I didn't mean to be presumptuous, but you do have that certain look. 00:07:32.243 --> 00:07:33.201 What look is that? 00:07:33.286 --> 00:07:35.745 The look of someone filled with good intentions. 00:07:35.830 --> 00:07:36.663 Oh! 00:07:38.249 --> 00:07:39.291 And that's bad? 00:07:39.375 --> 00:07:41.668 West of Missouri, it can be lethal. 00:07:44.630 --> 00:07:46.631 Would you mind if I gave you some practical advice? 00:07:46.716 --> 00:07:48.717 I don't really care for practical advice 00:07:48.801 --> 00:07:50.635 from someone who's such a poor judge of character. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.220 May I take your order, ma'am? 00:07:52.305 --> 00:07:54.473 No, I'll eat in my compartment. Thank you. 00:07:54.557 --> 00:07:56.391 - Yes, ma'am. - Ma'am. 00:08:27.423 --> 00:08:28.340 Porter! 00:08:31.511 --> 00:08:33.678 Hey, not her. I need you here. 00:08:33.763 --> 00:08:34.763 Yes, sir. 00:08:36.724 --> 00:08:39.226 - I'll give you a hand with that. - Oh! Thank you. 00:08:40.853 --> 00:08:42.187 - Sounds good, Charlie. - Colonel. 00:08:44.982 --> 00:08:48.443 This lady here, she came all the way from New York to paint Indians. 00:08:48.528 --> 00:08:49.819 Is that a fact? 00:08:52.406 --> 00:08:54.324 - Oh! - I hope they fuck you. 00:08:55.034 --> 00:08:57.536 Cut the baby out, like they did the Robinson girls. 00:08:57.620 --> 00:08:59.496 Indian-loving bitch. 00:08:59.997 --> 00:09:02.457 I'm sorry, Colonel. My blood boils. 00:09:07.505 --> 00:09:10.090 If you had any sense at all, you'd get back on that train, 00:09:10.925 --> 00:09:12.425 return east with it today. 00:10:31.830 --> 00:10:32.705 Hello. 00:10:35.542 --> 00:10:37.502 Do you know somewhere maybe I could... 00:10:39.630 --> 00:10:40.980 hire a wagon? 00:11:24.846 --> 00:11:25.720 Oh. 00:11:30.226 --> 00:11:32.269 This is really very kind of you. 00:11:43.990 --> 00:11:47.450 So, is the weather often this bad? 00:11:47.535 --> 00:11:49.160 Or is this unusual? 00:11:55.001 --> 00:11:58.253 Please be careful. There are bottles of turpentine in there. 00:12:00.298 --> 00:12:01.256 Wait! 00:12:03.217 --> 00:12:04.217 Slow down! 00:12:13.269 --> 00:12:15.896 Good afternoon. Agent McLaughlin? 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:19.566 Colonel Groves. War Department. Special Envoy for General Crook. 00:12:19.650 --> 00:12:20.650 Where's the rest of it? 00:12:21.903 --> 00:12:24.821 Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50 percent cut in rations 00:12:24.906 --> 00:12:27.616 of flour, bacon and sugar 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:29.367 to take effect immediately. 00:12:32.163 --> 00:12:34.372 When a new treaty needs to be ratified, 00:12:34.457 --> 00:12:38.376 it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind. 00:12:41.903 --> 00:12:43.987 This is my wife, Susan. Susan? 00:12:44.948 --> 00:12:46.990 Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind? 00:12:59.587 --> 00:13:03.507 We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation. 00:13:08.179 --> 00:13:09.430 Thank you, dear. 00:13:15.812 --> 00:13:17.104 Hot as hell out there. 00:13:17.188 --> 00:13:20.899 You fucking idiots in Washington want to start another war? 00:13:20.984 --> 00:13:22.067 No, sir. 00:13:26.906 --> 00:13:29.950 Mr. McLaughlin, did you give permission to that crazy woman 00:13:30.034 --> 00:13:32.161 to come onto the reservation? 00:13:36.040 --> 00:13:39.209 Agent McLaughlin. It's a pleasure to meet you. 00:13:39.294 --> 00:13:43.046 Sorry. I look a mess. It's kind of dusty out here. 00:13:43.131 --> 00:13:45.674 Well, we're in the middle of a three-month drought. 00:13:46.259 --> 00:13:47.843 Sorry if it inconvenienced you. 00:13:48.803 --> 00:13:50.262 You got my letter? 00:13:50.346 --> 00:13:52.014 Didn't wait for a reply? 00:13:53.099 --> 00:13:54.850 Why would you refuse? 00:13:55.310 --> 00:13:57.853 Mrs. Weldon, I order you to be on the train 00:13:57.937 --> 00:13:59.730 when it returns east tomorrow morning. 00:14:00.356 --> 00:14:01.356 You order me? 00:14:02.609 --> 00:14:04.067 Find her a cabin for the night. 00:14:04.152 --> 00:14:05.652 Escort her back to the train in the morning. 00:14:08.656 --> 00:14:10.157 Can I help you with your luggage? 00:14:10.241 --> 00:14:11.533 Her luggage was stolen. 00:14:11.618 --> 00:14:16.246 Mrs. Weldon, I hope you made a sketch of the thief before he got away. 00:14:26.174 --> 00:14:27.508 If I gave you money, 00:14:28.176 --> 00:14:30.093 would you get word to Sitting Bull I'm here? 00:14:39.813 --> 00:14:43.482 I'll be back tomorrow morning at dawn. You'll be here, right? 00:16:06.649 --> 00:16:08.150 - Who is it? - It's me. 00:16:09.068 --> 00:16:11.361 Go away. I'm writing to my congressman. 00:16:13.615 --> 00:16:15.198 You really should lock this door. 00:16:17.243 --> 00:16:18.327 Lot of thieves around. 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:23.957 I'll be upcountry in the morning, so I came to say goodbye. 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:30.547 Maybe arrange to meet for dinner, next time I'm in New York. 00:16:30.632 --> 00:16:32.591 Why would I want to have dinner with you? 00:16:37.764 --> 00:16:39.765 I don't know. We might get along. 00:16:40.725 --> 00:16:42.059 I paint a little myself. 00:16:43.895 --> 00:16:45.062 Landscapes. 00:16:46.230 --> 00:16:48.106 You're an admirer of George Catlin. 00:16:51.027 --> 00:16:54.321 - You know his work? - You bet. 00:16:56.908 --> 00:16:59.660 I can't look at these the way most people do, though. 00:17:01.663 --> 00:17:02.996 The scalp dance. 00:17:06.084 --> 00:17:10.003 Saw my first scalp dance in the Black Hills back in '75. 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:15.258 But when I saw it, there were little blonde scalps. 00:17:17.303 --> 00:17:18.887 The warriors had stumbled across 00:17:18.972 --> 00:17:21.765 some Swedish immigrant children walking to school. 00:17:26.896 --> 00:17:29.856 The little girls had blue ribbons tied up in their hair. 00:17:35.446 --> 00:17:37.197 Mr. Groves, I've no doubt... 00:17:38.866 --> 00:17:40.784 terrible things have happened here in the past. 00:17:42.328 --> 00:17:43.370 The past? 00:17:47.709 --> 00:17:49.751 You ever wish you were young again, Mrs. Weldon? 00:17:50.420 --> 00:17:52.546 I mean really young. Eighteen. 00:17:52.630 --> 00:17:55.340 No mistakes. Still strong, still free. 00:17:56.634 --> 00:17:58.802 Well, on this reservation, there's a whole nation 00:17:58.886 --> 00:18:00.470 wants to be young again. 00:18:01.139 --> 00:18:02.889 But their youth isn't in the past. 00:18:04.017 --> 00:18:08.270 Their youth lives in a log cabin 20 miles west of here down a dirt road. 00:18:10.064 --> 00:18:11.690 Their youth is called Sitting Bull. 00:18:24.245 --> 00:18:26.538 This is my other reason for dropping by. 00:18:30.376 --> 00:18:34.046 - I'm afraid there's a little blood. - Blood? 00:18:34.130 --> 00:18:36.882 That old Indian stole your trunk, drank the turpentine, 00:18:36.966 --> 00:18:38.675 so when the police went to get your stuff, 00:18:39.761 --> 00:18:41.762 he was drunk, pulled a gun, so they shot him. 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:46.641 Maybe you want to put that in your letter to your congressman. 00:18:54.817 --> 00:18:57.402 Mrs. Weldon! Time to go. 00:18:58.946 --> 00:19:00.030 I'm not leaving. 00:19:07.997 --> 00:19:08.830 Oh! 00:19:25.389 --> 00:19:27.724 Did Sitting Bull even get the letter I sent him? 00:19:27.809 --> 00:19:29.643 No. Agent burnt it. 00:19:30.812 --> 00:19:31.812 He burnt it? 00:19:33.314 --> 00:19:36.024 Well, naturally. He's God Almighty here, right? 00:19:36.609 --> 00:19:38.235 I read it, though, before he burnt it. 00:19:39.737 --> 00:19:41.238 Is it true you've painted senators? 00:19:41.322 --> 00:19:45.033 Before I married, I used to paint commissions for the Smithsonian. 00:19:45.785 --> 00:19:48.787 I wanted Sitting Bull to know that I've painted important people before. 00:19:53.626 --> 00:19:55.627 This isn't the way I came from the station. 00:19:58.422 --> 00:19:59.673 Where are we? 00:20:21.195 --> 00:20:22.571 He's in the fields, digging potatoes. 00:20:22.655 --> 00:20:25.490 - Who is? - My uncle. Sitting Bull. 00:20:30.705 --> 00:20:31.705 There he is. 00:20:44.302 --> 00:20:47.053 My name's Catherine Weldon. I'm deeply honored to meet you. 00:21:12.496 --> 00:21:13.622 What happened? 00:21:15.333 --> 00:21:16.917 Don't I get an explanation? 00:21:22.840 --> 00:21:25.050 I had this stupid idea you might be able to help us. 00:21:26.135 --> 00:21:27.385 Help with what? 00:21:28.137 --> 00:21:31.640 I've got friends from Indian school, Kiowas, Comanches, 00:21:32.266 --> 00:21:34.809 and last summer a new treaty took half their land. 00:21:35.770 --> 00:21:39.397 And this winter it's our turn, but no one here gives a damn. 00:21:40.233 --> 00:21:42.275 The young ones just get drunk, and the old ones, 00:21:42.735 --> 00:21:44.319 they dance a ghost dance. 00:21:46.113 --> 00:21:49.407 My uncle? He says his day is done. 00:21:49.492 --> 00:21:51.451 He'd rather dig damn potatoes. 00:21:54.288 --> 00:21:55.830 What good do you think I could do? 00:21:58.834 --> 00:22:00.669 I thought you could get a message to your senators. 00:22:01.337 --> 00:22:03.338 Maybe they would listen if it came from Sitting Bull. 00:22:03.965 --> 00:22:04.798 Let's go. 00:22:06.592 --> 00:22:08.009 I want to speak to him. 00:22:11.430 --> 00:22:14.182 So speak to him. He speaks English well enough. 00:22:14.267 --> 00:22:15.350 When he wants to. 00:22:27.113 --> 00:22:27.988 Excuse me. 00:22:31.450 --> 00:22:35.578 I have traveled many miles from the east, 00:22:36.998 --> 00:22:39.499 across many... 00:22:40.751 --> 00:22:42.752 rivers and hills 00:22:43.838 --> 00:22:45.588 for the honor of speaking with you. 00:22:47.383 --> 00:22:49.301 You got a train from New York, right? 00:22:50.219 --> 00:22:51.386 Did you get a Pullman? 00:22:53.055 --> 00:22:54.764 - Yes. - Nice. 00:22:55.683 --> 00:22:57.517 They gave me free cigars, too. 00:22:59.103 --> 00:23:01.062 I have a proposition. 00:23:01.147 --> 00:23:02.689 So, who have you painted before? 00:23:03.858 --> 00:23:06.776 Oh, Congressman Tom Ochiltree from Texas 00:23:06.861 --> 00:23:09.070 and Senator Eamonn Brooks from Idaho. 00:23:09.739 --> 00:23:12.949 - So, how much? - How much for what? 00:23:13.034 --> 00:23:14.868 For painting someone's picture. 00:23:14.952 --> 00:23:17.579 Oh, I usually charge $40, but in this case... 00:23:17.663 --> 00:23:19.122 I mean how much would you pay me? 00:23:21.667 --> 00:23:23.960 I'd be happy to pay you $50. 00:23:29.342 --> 00:23:31.217 One hundred dollars. 00:23:37.016 --> 00:23:38.266 Five hundred dollars. 00:23:38.351 --> 00:23:40.060 One thousand dollars. 00:23:43.439 --> 00:23:44.898 That's a lot of money. I... 00:23:47.985 --> 00:23:49.861 I don't have that kind of cash with me. 00:23:53.908 --> 00:23:55.700 There's a First National Bank in town. 00:24:01.624 --> 00:24:03.249 One thousand dollars it is. 00:24:05.461 --> 00:24:06.586 Do we have a deal? 00:24:18.516 --> 00:24:19.432 What? 00:24:21.560 --> 00:24:23.103 It's raining. 00:24:25.314 --> 00:24:27.232 How long has it been since it rained? 00:24:31.612 --> 00:24:33.655 When Lakota first meet, we don't speak for a while. 00:24:33.739 --> 00:24:34.572 Oh. 00:24:34.657 --> 00:24:36.783 Words get in the way of getting to know each other. 00:24:38.369 --> 00:24:39.786 Sorry. 00:24:41.580 --> 00:24:43.540 You could throw some wood on the fire, though. 00:24:43.624 --> 00:24:46.167 Lakota like a woman who works hard. 00:24:54.260 --> 00:24:55.760 That's not firewood. That's furniture. 00:24:55.845 --> 00:24:57.762 Oh! Oh. 00:25:05.062 --> 00:25:06.479 Maybe I could make some coffee? 00:25:06.564 --> 00:25:08.773 Well, to make coffee, you'd need coffee. 00:25:21.454 --> 00:25:23.455 The children want to see the woman who brought the rain. 00:25:38.888 --> 00:25:40.555 - I've cleared this cabin for you. - Oh! 00:25:41.974 --> 00:25:43.766 What will you tell McLaughlin? 00:25:43.851 --> 00:25:46.769 That I put you on the train. You climbed off again. 00:25:47.605 --> 00:25:48.688 He trusts you? 00:25:49.356 --> 00:25:52.066 He thinks I spy on my uncle for the Agency. 00:25:52.151 --> 00:25:53.568 But it's the other way around. 00:26:31.090 --> 00:26:32.299 What do you want? 00:26:47.690 --> 00:26:51.443 You are dancing with the ghosts now? 00:26:51.527 --> 00:26:52.944 I spoke to the spirit of your father, 00:26:53.029 --> 00:26:58.658 and your mother, and your brothers, 00:26:59.452 --> 00:27:04.748 and your son, and Crazy Horse. 00:27:07.793 --> 00:27:11.296 They said the Bull must choose... 00:27:11.380 --> 00:27:13.965 between being a warrior or a farmer. 00:27:41.869 --> 00:27:43.119 Who was that? 00:27:46.832 --> 00:27:48.082 Shell King. 00:27:52.379 --> 00:27:56.382 This used to be his cabin, until I told him to leave. 00:27:58.010 --> 00:27:59.302 He looked so... 00:28:03.807 --> 00:28:05.058 magnificent. 00:28:51.871 --> 00:28:53.288 Do you always walk this fast? 00:28:54.707 --> 00:28:55.915 Why? 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:58.126 I'm trying to get ahead of you before someone sees us. 00:28:59.003 --> 00:29:01.004 You don't walk ahead of a chief. 00:29:01.672 --> 00:29:02.839 Should I walk behind? 00:29:04.133 --> 00:29:05.633 Side by side is fine. 00:29:08.702 --> 00:29:09.953 Are you all right? 00:29:11.747 --> 00:29:14.165 Walking so fast has loosened my bullets. 00:29:15.501 --> 00:29:16.626 What bullets? 00:29:17.586 --> 00:29:19.837 I have four bullets still in my body. 00:29:21.006 --> 00:29:22.173 They move around. 00:29:27.054 --> 00:29:29.430 What does your husband think about you coming here? 00:29:29.515 --> 00:29:30.598 I'm a widow. 00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:34.477 - I'm sorry. - I'm not. 00:29:47.950 --> 00:29:51.077 Mrs. Weldon. May I speak with you in private? 00:30:00.504 --> 00:30:02.547 - What do you want? - I'm here to rescue you. 00:30:03.298 --> 00:30:05.508 - Rescue me? - Hear you got yourself kidnapped. 00:30:05.592 --> 00:30:07.427 These gentlemen are gonna escort you to Cannon Ball, 00:30:07.511 --> 00:30:09.262 catch the next train heading east. 00:30:09.346 --> 00:30:12.348 That's very kind of you, Mr. Groves. Go to hell. 00:30:12.433 --> 00:30:14.642 Mrs. Weldon, Dakota territory is hell. 00:30:14.727 --> 00:30:17.061 Since I've been here, I've seen deplorable conditions, 00:30:17.146 --> 00:30:20.815 and I hear the treaty you're here to serve will only make things worse. 00:30:20.899 --> 00:30:23.526 Look here, it's time you get on that train 00:30:23.610 --> 00:30:26.070 and report back to your seditionist friends 00:30:26.155 --> 00:30:27.613 in Greenwich Village. 00:30:28.532 --> 00:30:31.159 Well, If I take the train, I can be in Washington DC by Thursday. 00:30:31.994 --> 00:30:35.496 The editor of The Post is an investor in my father's shipping business. 00:30:35.581 --> 00:30:37.915 From his office, I will go direct to the Senate, 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.917 then to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 00:30:40.002 --> 00:30:42.795 and finally accept a long-standing dinner invitation 00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:44.255 with former Vice President Buckley. 00:30:45.466 --> 00:30:46.674 You know, it'd be kind of unfortunate 00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:49.093 to meet all those important people without all the facts. 00:30:49.178 --> 00:30:52.638 So, the truth is important to both of us. Good. 00:30:53.265 --> 00:30:55.683 Maybe you should stick around till General Crook gets here 00:30:55.768 --> 00:30:57.727 and I have the final draft of the treaty. 00:31:00.481 --> 00:31:04.358 Mrs. Weldon, do not give him reason to hope. 00:31:04.818 --> 00:31:06.319 No one here's forgotten or forgiven, 00:31:06.403 --> 00:31:08.654 least of all General Crook and the 7th Cavalry. 00:31:09.907 --> 00:31:12.617 Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse massacred the 7th at Little Bighorn. 00:31:12.701 --> 00:31:15.703 - I don't need a history lesson. - It's not history till it's over. 00:31:18.499 --> 00:31:21.751 And for the 7th, this isn't over until Sitting Bull's dead. 00:31:22.503 --> 00:31:24.212 And if they kill him, half the Sioux Nation 00:31:24.296 --> 00:31:26.172 will throw themselves against the American Army, 00:31:27.007 --> 00:31:29.759 and Little Bighorn will be avenged. You follow? 00:31:31.095 --> 00:31:32.970 I'm just here to paint a painting. 00:31:54.034 --> 00:31:56.369 Welcome to Fort Yates, General Crook. 00:31:56.870 --> 00:31:58.204 Mr. McLaughlin. 00:32:00.499 --> 00:32:03.251 - Where's the Bull? - A painter came from New York. 00:32:04.086 --> 00:32:06.754 Seems to appeal to Sitting Bull's vanity. 00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:10.424 He's having his portrait painted while his people dance with ghosts. 00:32:10.509 --> 00:32:12.135 He's not gonna be a problem, sir. 00:32:12.219 --> 00:32:14.345 He's shown no interest in opposing the commission. 00:32:15.389 --> 00:32:16.806 Get a message to this painter 00:32:16.890 --> 00:32:18.766 and tell him I'd like him to join me for dinner. 00:32:19.560 --> 00:32:20.726 It's a woman, actually. 00:32:22.020 --> 00:32:25.022 Man, those New York ladies love a bad man, don't they? 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.025 Invite her to dinner anyway. 00:32:52.176 --> 00:32:53.467 This is the suit I wore 00:32:53.552 --> 00:32:55.678 to meet the President of the United States. 00:32:56.513 --> 00:32:57.555 It's beautiful. 00:32:58.932 --> 00:33:02.310 But I was hoping for something a little more traditional. 00:33:09.234 --> 00:33:11.068 The Agent doesn't like us to wear buckskins. 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:14.989 If the white farmers around here see an Indian in skins, 00:33:15.073 --> 00:33:16.157 they get scared. 00:33:17.075 --> 00:33:19.785 Well, okay, then. The suit's fine. 00:33:19.870 --> 00:33:22.622 The Agent said we should burn all the old stuff. 00:33:33.091 --> 00:33:34.217 Some we burnt. 00:33:37.179 --> 00:33:38.221 Some we hid. 00:33:43.018 --> 00:33:45.853 For $1,000, you should get what you want. 00:33:49.149 --> 00:33:50.524 You're gonna need a horse. 00:33:51.652 --> 00:33:52.485 No. 00:33:53.487 --> 00:33:56.405 - I don't ride. - What? 00:33:56.490 --> 00:33:58.407 In New York City, we don't need to ride horses. 00:34:15.884 --> 00:34:19.303 This is Rico. Buffalo Bill gave him to me. 00:34:20.138 --> 00:34:21.764 He's a circus horse. 00:34:24.268 --> 00:34:25.476 It'd be just like sitting on a chair. 00:34:27.604 --> 00:34:28.980 When you click your tongue... 00:34:32.609 --> 00:34:34.193 he paws the ground. 00:34:34.278 --> 00:34:36.487 When he hears a gunshot... 00:34:37.489 --> 00:34:38.572 he dances. 00:34:39.366 --> 00:34:41.284 Come on, stroke him. 00:34:41.368 --> 00:34:42.994 No, I don't want to stroke him. 00:34:43.912 --> 00:34:45.579 Wherever it is we're going, I'll walk. 00:34:48.125 --> 00:34:50.584 - Your shoes. - My shoes are walking shoes. 00:34:52.045 --> 00:34:55.548 I paid $1,000. If I want to walk, I will damn well walk. 00:35:05.142 --> 00:35:07.727 Does the snow stay on the mountains all year round? 00:35:08.729 --> 00:35:11.397 It's not snow. It's bones. 00:35:12.274 --> 00:35:13.607 Buffalo bones. 00:35:14.234 --> 00:35:17.361 When the buffalo hear a gunshot, they don't run. They stand. 00:35:18.613 --> 00:35:21.282 So the white hunters could just shoot and shoot 00:35:21.366 --> 00:35:22.616 until they were all dead. 00:35:24.328 --> 00:35:27.204 We used to spend our lives following the buffalo herds. 00:35:27.998 --> 00:35:31.667 Now they've all gone, and we have to live in one place 00:35:32.294 --> 00:35:34.462 and ask the earth to grow potatoes. 00:35:40.552 --> 00:35:44.555 You'll never be free on the prairie if you don't ride. 00:35:45.474 --> 00:35:46.766 Freedom's in the head. 00:35:48.060 --> 00:35:50.519 And in the feet. 00:35:50.604 --> 00:35:52.772 My feet are just fine. 00:35:57.152 --> 00:35:58.152 Try these. 00:36:00.989 --> 00:36:03.616 My old ones, soft buckskin. 00:36:12.501 --> 00:36:14.251 You got big feet for a woman. 00:36:15.629 --> 00:36:17.505 You got small feet for a man. 00:36:22.386 --> 00:36:26.222 It means "big feet. " Maybe that could be your Indian name. 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:31.435 They called George Catlin "Mystery Spirit Painter. " 00:36:32.854 --> 00:36:34.063 Think of something like that. 00:36:56.962 --> 00:36:58.504 She getting on that damn horse yet? 00:37:05.054 --> 00:37:08.265 You walk behind me, looks like I've taken you prisoner. 00:37:09.142 --> 00:37:12.436 Behind. In front. So many rules about walking. 00:37:12.520 --> 00:37:13.645 Can't I just walk? 00:37:33.331 --> 00:37:35.749 Rico's taking it pretty badly you don't like him. 00:37:37.669 --> 00:37:41.588 It's okay, Rico. She's from New York. 00:37:41.673 --> 00:37:43.257 I thought you liked New York. 00:37:43.842 --> 00:37:45.634 Too many people with too much. 00:37:45.718 --> 00:37:47.594 Too many people with nothing at all. 00:37:49.180 --> 00:37:52.433 Your society values people by how much you have, 00:37:54.894 --> 00:37:56.728 ours by how much we give away. 00:38:58.841 --> 00:39:01.008 Soft. Feel. 00:39:05.681 --> 00:39:08.349 We used to use the buffalo's brains to soften the hide. 00:39:09.351 --> 00:39:13.729 Every animal has exactly enough brains to tan its own hide. 00:39:14.773 --> 00:39:15.731 Never too much. 00:39:17.367 --> 00:39:18.284 Never too little. 00:39:50.358 --> 00:39:51.442 You can look now. 00:40:15.241 --> 00:40:16.658 You think you could wear your feathers? 00:40:21.497 --> 00:40:22.330 Why not? 00:40:23.833 --> 00:40:25.709 Same reason you don't wear your wedding dress. 00:40:31.590 --> 00:40:33.008 I need you to come outside, though. 00:40:33.676 --> 00:40:35.093 You can paint me in here. 00:40:36.178 --> 00:40:37.470 There's no light in here. 00:40:39.515 --> 00:40:40.932 You can't see my face? 00:40:44.395 --> 00:40:48.648 When you've smoked, you'll come outside, yes? 00:40:50.401 --> 00:40:54.112 Mrs. Weldon, don't talk to me like you don't know who I am. 00:40:54.780 --> 00:40:55.697 I'll be outside. 00:41:24.310 --> 00:41:27.103 So, Mrs. Weldon, 00:41:30.608 --> 00:41:32.358 how come you're scared of horses? 00:41:41.035 --> 00:41:42.702 I got locked in a stable. 00:41:43.913 --> 00:41:47.832 My dad's best saddle horse, called Sultan. 00:41:47.917 --> 00:41:49.417 I was eight years old. 00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:52.587 My father... 00:41:54.131 --> 00:41:55.757 locked me in there on purpose. 00:41:59.345 --> 00:42:01.096 Since then, I haven't ridden horses. 00:42:03.974 --> 00:42:05.308 Why would he do that? 00:42:08.687 --> 00:42:11.147 Decided I needed to be taught to obey, 00:42:14.443 --> 00:42:15.735 broken like a horse, 00:42:20.616 --> 00:42:24.410 because I wasn't... behaving like a lady. 00:42:31.377 --> 00:42:33.461 It was the way I wiped my mouth... 00:42:39.552 --> 00:42:41.970 at the dinner table, our country place, and some... 00:42:43.222 --> 00:42:45.431 some grand people came to dinner. 00:42:50.146 --> 00:42:51.437 I was eight years old, and... 00:42:55.609 --> 00:42:57.527 I wiped my mouth with my sleeve. 00:43:03.284 --> 00:43:05.952 I was traded from father to husband. 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:10.623 I've decided to change. 00:43:11.542 --> 00:43:16.629 I'm trying... not to care what people think of me. 00:43:21.343 --> 00:43:24.888 That's why I'm out here on my own in the... 00:43:27.975 --> 00:43:29.225 middle of nowhere. 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.859 At my age, it's kind of stupid. 00:43:43.407 --> 00:43:45.408 It's damned hard being brave. 00:44:17.524 --> 00:44:18.441 So, anyway, 00:44:20.611 --> 00:44:24.781 I'd really prefer to work outside, if that's okay with you. 00:44:35.292 --> 00:44:37.168 You're not good at keeping still, are you? 00:44:37.253 --> 00:44:39.754 Shoot me, then I will be still. 00:44:39.838 --> 00:44:41.673 What would be the point of shooting you? 00:44:42.508 --> 00:44:44.342 Bullets don't seem to have any effect. 00:44:51.016 --> 00:44:53.518 Goddamn. She really is a painter. 00:45:01.527 --> 00:45:05.029 The eagle is telling Sitting Bull we're here. 00:45:13.831 --> 00:45:15.081 What? 00:45:26.552 --> 00:45:28.219 You're gonna paint me now? 00:45:29.596 --> 00:45:32.390 In New York, I draw naked people all the time. 00:45:33.267 --> 00:45:35.059 I can see without looking. 00:45:36.395 --> 00:45:38.730 So, would you take your clothes off in front of me? 00:45:38.814 --> 00:45:41.733 - You're not a painter. - No? 00:45:47.823 --> 00:45:51.159 I've painted a painting for every year of my life. 00:45:56.957 --> 00:45:59.292 This was the first man I ever killed in battle, 00:45:59.376 --> 00:46:01.544 a Crow on the Powder River. 00:46:03.130 --> 00:46:06.049 My name then was Hunkesni. It means "slow". 00:46:06.133 --> 00:46:07.133 Slow? 00:46:07.217 --> 00:46:09.177 I thought before I spoke. 00:46:11.013 --> 00:46:13.514 And on this day I became a man. 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.516 You became a man by killing someone? 00:46:15.601 --> 00:46:18.061 Someone who would have killed my mother and sister. 00:46:19.563 --> 00:46:21.898 - How old were you? - Thirteen. 00:46:24.610 --> 00:46:26.402 This is the death of my father. 00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:30.406 And this is how I killed the man who killed him. 00:46:33.285 --> 00:46:35.745 This is the year when the measles first came. 00:46:36.955 --> 00:46:38.456 Half our village died. 00:46:41.668 --> 00:46:43.336 Is that General Custer? 00:46:50.010 --> 00:46:53.262 I met with Tashunka Witko, Crazy Horse. 00:46:55.391 --> 00:46:58.768 We decided we needed to all be together if we were to survive. 00:46:58.852 --> 00:47:01.270 The Hunkpapa, Oglala, Blackfeet, 00:47:01.355 --> 00:47:03.981 Minneconjou, Cheyenne, Arapaho. 00:47:06.777 --> 00:47:08.778 Crazy Horse was a religious man. 00:47:09.530 --> 00:47:13.991 He said the people needed a sign for them to believe in their own strength. 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:18.663 I went to seek a vision that year. 00:47:21.083 --> 00:47:22.291 This was my vision: 00:47:23.502 --> 00:47:27.213 White soldiers falling from the sky. 00:47:30.467 --> 00:47:35.304 Two days later, Long Hair, Custer, came with his army. 00:47:37.766 --> 00:47:39.934 We didn't leave a single one of them alive. 00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:44.605 After that year, 00:47:46.984 --> 00:47:49.610 they tracked down every chief who fought in that battle, 00:47:50.446 --> 00:47:51.612 killed them all. 00:47:53.365 --> 00:47:54.365 Except for you. 00:47:57.828 --> 00:47:59.036 So, you see? 00:48:00.581 --> 00:48:02.039 I am a painter, too. 00:48:04.376 --> 00:48:07.962 This is one of the most exquisite pieces of work I've ever seen. 00:48:10.170 --> 00:48:11.795 Then why does it make you sad? 00:48:13.423 --> 00:48:15.090 Because you've lived all this 00:48:15.884 --> 00:48:17.801 and turned it into something beautiful. 00:48:21.181 --> 00:48:24.391 The only battle I ever fought against is insignificance. 00:48:25.894 --> 00:48:27.102 So live more. 00:48:29.814 --> 00:48:31.190 Live more. Yes. 00:48:34.152 --> 00:48:35.527 That's what I want to do. 00:48:43.495 --> 00:48:46.455 Must have been hell to be in jail after living like this. 00:48:47.665 --> 00:48:48.791 I was never in jail. 00:48:49.793 --> 00:48:51.627 This body full of bullets was in jail. 00:48:52.754 --> 00:48:53.837 But I was out there. 00:48:55.298 --> 00:48:56.840 The guards thought I was sleeping. 00:48:57.675 --> 00:48:59.927 But I'd made myself into an eagle. 00:49:21.366 --> 00:49:22.574 Is there something wrong? 00:49:26.204 --> 00:49:28.580 It's cold. Why are there no fires? 00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:45.077 Where is everyone? 00:49:46.120 --> 00:49:48.789 This morning at Fort Yates, they issued copies of the new treaty. 00:49:50.291 --> 00:49:51.917 Then they announced the new winter rations. 00:49:53.461 --> 00:49:56.421 Everything's cut in half: beef, flour, sugar. 00:49:57.757 --> 00:49:59.049 They're gonna starve us into signing. 00:50:00.677 --> 00:50:02.969 When people heard the news, they came running here asking for you, 00:50:04.597 --> 00:50:05.931 even Arapahoes and Cheyennes. 00:50:08.685 --> 00:50:09.685 The Shell King came. 00:50:11.361 --> 00:50:13.571 He asked where was Sitting Bull when his people needed him. 00:50:14.531 --> 00:50:17.491 He said you were off with the white woman, a government spy, 00:50:17.576 --> 00:50:20.202 who arrived on the same train as the man who cut the rations. 00:50:22.831 --> 00:50:24.039 He said you abandoned them. 00:50:27.586 --> 00:50:30.087 When Shell King left, most of the villagers left with him. 00:50:30.589 --> 00:50:32.173 They went off to join the ghost dance. 00:50:32.966 --> 00:50:35.593 What's... What's the ghost dance? 00:50:41.183 --> 00:50:42.892 An Indian from the south had a vision. 00:50:42.976 --> 00:50:46.645 He said if the Lakota wear certain clothes and dance a certain dance, 00:50:46.730 --> 00:50:48.230 then the old ways would return. 00:50:50.928 --> 00:50:52.053 The buffalo will come running, 00:50:52.137 --> 00:50:54.305 scattered across the prairie, like they used to. 00:50:54.390 --> 00:50:57.809 The Indians who died of hunger and measles, they will return, 00:50:59.561 --> 00:51:01.104 and the white man will leave us alone. 00:51:03.148 --> 00:51:04.899 They dance until they fall. 00:51:06.193 --> 00:51:07.902 There's nothing left for them but to dance. 00:51:10.572 --> 00:51:13.241 Uncle, while you have been digging potatoes, 00:51:14.284 --> 00:51:17.453 the people have split into 100 factions. 00:51:19.999 --> 00:51:21.040 Enough. 00:51:23.127 --> 00:51:25.128 Uncle, we need you to be our leader again. 00:52:41.371 --> 00:52:43.247 Grandfather. 00:52:46.418 --> 00:52:49.796 How should we behave? 00:53:30.420 --> 00:53:33.589 Mrs. Weldon, last night I asked the spirits for help. 00:53:33.674 --> 00:53:34.924 What did they say? 00:53:36.260 --> 00:53:40.596 They told me it was time for you to go into town, do some shopping. 00:53:42.975 --> 00:53:45.059 People get scared when Indians dance. 00:53:45.144 --> 00:53:46.978 Dancing was scalps and war. 00:53:47.771 --> 00:53:49.939 They see dancing, they want soldiers. 00:53:51.525 --> 00:53:53.860 By the way, General Crook and McLaughlin are having a dinner. 00:53:55.112 --> 00:53:57.238 They told me to tell you you're invited to the party. 00:54:01.243 --> 00:54:05.163 I can only give you 32 sacks of white flour, ma'am. That's it. 00:54:05.247 --> 00:54:06.914 The rest is earmarked for the Army. 00:54:06.999 --> 00:54:09.667 Very well, then. Thirty-two will have to do. 00:54:09.751 --> 00:54:13.921 And beans, I've only got black beans in that quantity. 00:54:14.006 --> 00:54:18.301 Black beans is fine. One hundred large sacks, please. 00:54:19.136 --> 00:54:20.720 And 50 barrels of molasses. 00:54:28.562 --> 00:54:29.478 All set. 00:54:31.648 --> 00:54:33.357 All right, keep 'em coming. 00:54:43.660 --> 00:54:46.245 And this is all for the Sioux police barracks? 00:54:47.372 --> 00:54:49.624 So, how come the white woman's paying cash? 00:54:53.128 --> 00:54:54.545 No English. 00:55:22.074 --> 00:55:23.115 Catherine Weldon. 00:55:49.768 --> 00:55:52.728 There you go, whore. Now you're red, just like him. 00:56:22.968 --> 00:56:25.052 You'd better go. They're looking for rope. 00:57:15.395 --> 00:57:19.774 We give thanks to you for the food. 00:57:22.319 --> 00:57:24.945 Woman Walks Ahead. 00:57:36.208 --> 00:57:39.502 - Right, we all ready? - Yeah. 00:57:39.586 --> 00:57:40.503 Good morning. 00:57:42.798 --> 00:57:44.882 Yeah, we'll see. Right. 00:57:51.014 --> 00:57:52.306 Number 21, please. 00:57:58.647 --> 00:58:01.315 Yeah, wait, she does understand 00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:04.527 that her beef and flour rations have been cut in half, doesn't she? 00:58:15.455 --> 00:58:16.372 What did she say? 00:58:17.332 --> 00:58:19.583 She said she already has enough flour. 00:58:22.253 --> 00:58:23.295 From where? 00:58:27.884 --> 00:58:31.136 She said from the Great Spirit. 00:58:45.026 --> 00:58:46.067 General Crook. 00:58:48.077 --> 00:58:51.246 We have a problem at Standing Rock. 00:58:51.330 --> 00:58:53.290 Mrs. Weldon is buying food for the Indians, 00:58:53.374 --> 00:58:56.626 thereby... thereby undermining the ration system. 00:59:00.089 --> 00:59:03.133 I recommend we arrest her, keep her locked up until after the vote. 00:59:06.095 --> 00:59:08.513 Thought you said I didn't need to worry about Sitting Bull. 00:59:08.598 --> 00:59:10.015 I was wrong. She's agitating him. 00:59:10.099 --> 00:59:11.683 She has him wearing buckskins and feathers. 00:59:11.767 --> 00:59:14.352 You can't arrest someone for spending their own money. 00:59:16.189 --> 00:59:19.107 Sir, with all due respect, our job here 00:59:19.859 --> 00:59:22.152 is to deliver a ratification of the Allotment Act. 00:59:23.696 --> 00:59:25.864 I bet my old friend Sitting Bull feels about potatoes 00:59:25.948 --> 00:59:27.782 the way I feel about you, Mr. Groves. 00:59:27.867 --> 00:59:30.285 She's agitating the Bull, sir. She's agitating him to act. 00:59:30.369 --> 00:59:32.704 No, she's a painter painting what she sees. 00:59:33.456 --> 00:59:35.624 When she sees the Bull, she sees a warrior. 00:59:36.542 --> 00:59:40.253 I, too, am a warrior. Our destinies appear to be entwined. 00:59:40.338 --> 00:59:42.505 Sir, I fear that for some among your regiment, 00:59:42.590 --> 00:59:44.716 this return to Dakota is about revenge. 00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:46.843 Vengeance is for the Lord to take. 00:59:48.721 --> 00:59:52.849 But maybe our good Lord sent us Mrs. Weldon. 00:59:52.934 --> 00:59:53.808 Sir... 00:59:53.893 --> 00:59:56.102 Permission to issue an arrest warrant is denied. 01:00:07.740 --> 01:00:09.491 Do you remember who did this? 01:00:10.368 --> 01:00:11.493 The whole town. 01:00:25.466 --> 01:00:27.133 I guess I really made them mad? 01:00:32.723 --> 01:00:33.807 The local paper... 01:00:35.768 --> 01:00:37.727 seems to have gotten the idea that... 01:00:39.605 --> 01:00:42.649 you and me are somehow romantically connected. 01:00:46.112 --> 01:00:47.195 Some joke? 01:00:53.202 --> 01:00:54.577 They also think that... 01:00:57.290 --> 01:01:00.000 you and me are planning some kind of uprising. 01:01:03.713 --> 01:01:04.629 Imagine. 01:01:06.465 --> 01:01:09.092 A painter of a certain age and an old potato farmer. 01:01:18.436 --> 01:01:23.231 Once, I would have taken 100 warriors and finished that whole town. 01:01:24.025 --> 01:01:27.944 But I've learned to swallow it, like swallowing rocks. 01:01:34.076 --> 01:01:37.954 If we fight, they'll massacre us all. 01:01:38.831 --> 01:01:40.582 We can fight it in an election. 01:01:42.168 --> 01:01:45.879 They have to put the treaty to a vote. There won't be any need for violence. 01:01:54.221 --> 01:01:55.347 Where are you going? 01:01:57.683 --> 01:01:59.434 To get someone to saddle Rico. 01:02:51.195 --> 01:02:53.363 Take care of her. 01:03:37.616 --> 01:03:41.828 Sometimes, the sadness I feel for the passing of the old days 01:03:41.912 --> 01:03:44.205 is such that I find it hard to swallow. 01:03:44.915 --> 01:03:49.752 The Dakota wind, the smell of buffalo and churned-up grass, 01:03:50.421 --> 01:03:53.715 smoking pine, burning fat, tobacco, 01:03:54.717 --> 01:03:58.678 Indian girls wearing cut sage, sleeping on soft furs. 01:04:03.058 --> 01:04:05.310 But, you see, it is time. 01:04:06.770 --> 01:04:09.439 Time cannot be resisted. 01:04:09.523 --> 01:04:14.319 Change comes the way the rain comes. Those days cannot return. 01:04:19.366 --> 01:04:20.492 But, still, 01:04:21.869 --> 01:04:25.288 there are rocks inside a man that the rain won't wash away. 01:04:25.372 --> 01:04:28.082 - Meaning what exactly? - Meaning debts remain. 01:04:28.167 --> 01:04:29.667 You reckon you're owed something? 01:04:30.419 --> 01:04:32.462 Should we serve the soup? 01:04:32.546 --> 01:04:35.006 General Crook, since the arrival of your men, 01:04:35.090 --> 01:04:39.302 I must say there's been an air of sourness about the place. 01:04:39.386 --> 01:04:42.680 Yes. Because debts remain. 01:04:42.765 --> 01:04:45.975 Those beautiful days are not quite gone. Not quite. 01:04:47.811 --> 01:04:49.979 Yes, Susan, why don't you bring the soup? 01:05:01.242 --> 01:05:03.576 I got your invitation. Sorry I'm a bit late. 01:05:05.871 --> 01:05:09.165 I have decided to help with the democratic process. 01:05:09.250 --> 01:05:10.375 What happened to you? 01:05:10.459 --> 01:05:14.128 I've already written to Senator Fracks about my presence here at the reservation. 01:05:14.213 --> 01:05:16.089 I posted the letter in Cannon Ball, 01:05:16.173 --> 01:05:20.677 where certain wild rumors about me led to a very violent reception. 01:05:20.761 --> 01:05:22.762 Mrs. Weldon, if you have been assaulted, 01:05:22.846 --> 01:05:25.265 I will take the matter up with the police and the military. 01:05:25.349 --> 01:05:28.059 I've decided to help the campaign against the treaty. 01:05:28.143 --> 01:05:32.188 I have a democratic right to do this as part of the political process. 01:05:32.273 --> 01:05:36.776 Any violent move against me or any of the people I campaign with 01:05:36.860 --> 01:05:39.571 will be reported to the Senator by wire. 01:05:39.655 --> 01:05:41.447 You really should see a doctor about that. 01:05:41.532 --> 01:05:44.200 I have been to a doctor. Good evening. 01:06:03.512 --> 01:06:05.638 Sitting Bull. 01:06:07.850 --> 01:06:10.935 He is... 01:06:12.313 --> 01:06:15.398 what he thinks. 01:06:18.694 --> 01:06:20.528 This... 01:06:21.196 --> 01:06:22.447 is what he thinks. 01:06:25.200 --> 01:06:26.868 Sitting Bull. 01:06:30.831 --> 01:06:34.125 Maybe you should begin by explaining what the allotment is 01:06:34.209 --> 01:06:38.171 and show them how much land will be taken away if they agree. 01:06:42.426 --> 01:06:44.427 I can't be seen taking orders from you. 01:06:47.598 --> 01:06:49.974 Now we will have to wait. 01:07:11.288 --> 01:07:12.955 This treaty 01:07:14.333 --> 01:07:15.541 is completely unjust. 01:07:20.589 --> 01:07:23.508 Even the Comanche and Shoshone 01:07:24.510 --> 01:07:26.552 wouldn't sign it. 01:07:47.408 --> 01:07:48.449 How's it going? 01:07:49.910 --> 01:07:52.537 These elders, they don't care to be told what to do. 01:07:52.621 --> 01:07:54.080 How do we convince them to vote? 01:07:55.874 --> 01:07:58.084 With food. I hope it's good. 01:08:02.548 --> 01:08:04.674 This white woman cooks well. 01:08:06.301 --> 01:08:10.763 Also she's got a good body. 01:08:11.098 --> 01:08:14.016 I heard she is a spy. 01:08:14.101 --> 01:08:16.310 You heard wrong. 01:08:16.937 --> 01:08:18.354 Can she read? 01:08:19.606 --> 01:08:21.482 Has she read the treaty? 01:08:21.775 --> 01:08:27.280 She says it is plain robbery. 01:08:27.656 --> 01:08:29.282 You should be with her. 01:08:29.783 --> 01:08:31.284 Okay, maybe I will be, 01:08:31.994 --> 01:08:33.161 someday. 01:08:35.330 --> 01:08:40.793 Fathers, we must tell all the people to vote... 01:08:40.878 --> 01:08:42.712 I say forget the vote. 01:08:42.796 --> 01:08:45.506 We should meet General Crook in the red earth valley by the Powder River. 01:08:45.591 --> 01:08:46.591 We can ambush him 01:08:47.301 --> 01:08:48.301 and cut off his... 01:08:48.385 --> 01:08:49.802 Actually, I was hoping 01:08:49.887 --> 01:08:51.012 to discuss the vote. 01:08:51.805 --> 01:08:53.097 What are they saying? 01:08:53.182 --> 01:08:57.977 The older ones, the new ways of resisting may take some time. 01:09:01.315 --> 01:09:02.690 My relatives, 01:09:02.775 --> 01:09:06.569 white people are trying to take our land 01:09:07.613 --> 01:09:12.825 and make us live like they do. 01:09:14.161 --> 01:09:18.998 If we do that we will die like the buffalo. 01:09:22.252 --> 01:09:24.670 The Great Spirit 01:09:24.755 --> 01:09:29.967 owns the land and the sky. 01:09:31.303 --> 01:09:32.845 And that is how it's been 01:09:34.181 --> 01:09:37.099 since the beginning of time. 01:11:13.739 --> 01:11:16.115 The crowds are getting bigger every time. 01:11:23.498 --> 01:11:24.916 Getting angrier, too. 01:11:26.710 --> 01:11:28.461 They've been angry for a long time. 01:11:59.785 --> 01:12:01.077 Are we here for the night? 01:12:08.543 --> 01:12:09.919 You are here for the night. 01:12:15.258 --> 01:12:16.217 Where are you going? 01:12:19.221 --> 01:12:20.137 Can't you hear? 01:12:21.682 --> 01:12:23.265 The thunder spirits have returned. 01:12:25.519 --> 01:12:27.937 I read that the thunder spirits bring war. 01:12:33.694 --> 01:12:35.027 They will vote for us. 01:14:01.656 --> 01:14:02.656 What's happening? 01:14:03.366 --> 01:14:04.825 My campaign committee. 01:14:35.190 --> 01:14:36.732 People of the Sioux Nation, 01:14:38.485 --> 01:14:41.529 I declare this commission open for submission. 01:14:43.365 --> 01:14:46.659 Let me introduce the commission's mediator, 01:14:46.743 --> 01:14:48.327 Colonel Silas Groves. 01:14:51.498 --> 01:14:52.706 Good afternoon. 01:14:56.878 --> 01:15:00.172 Before I ask the General to give his own testimony to his commission, 01:15:00.257 --> 01:15:02.299 I have a list of council elders 01:15:02.384 --> 01:15:05.886 who've all agreed to share their opinions with us. 01:15:06.847 --> 01:15:07.972 And, to begin, I'd like to start 01:15:08.056 --> 01:15:10.683 by calling Sioux Chief Black Bear of the Sans Arc Sioux. 01:15:20.735 --> 01:15:23.821 The white people 01:15:24.948 --> 01:15:26.866 have brought something good to us. 01:15:27.576 --> 01:15:31.203 We will not own the land as a group. 01:15:31.288 --> 01:15:33.706 Instead we will... 01:16:10.493 --> 01:16:13.370 Chief Black Bear, please carry on with your testimony. 01:16:20.545 --> 01:16:23.005 He's saying that's all he has to say. 01:16:24.257 --> 01:16:25.758 Guess the cat got his tongue. 01:16:28.220 --> 01:16:29.595 Next we'll hear from,... 01:16:29.679 --> 01:16:32.264 Chief Yellow Hand. 01:16:38.813 --> 01:16:39.980 Yellow Hand? 01:16:48.156 --> 01:16:51.408 Then can we hear from John Grass of the Minneconjou? 01:16:53.703 --> 01:16:54.954 Come on, John! 01:17:00.335 --> 01:17:02.253 Sir, maybe we should call this off. 01:17:02.337 --> 01:17:03.671 I thought you bribed these people. 01:17:03.755 --> 01:17:06.423 I have a list of six more chiefs who gave me their word 01:17:06.508 --> 01:17:08.509 they'd speak here today in favor of the Allotment Act. 01:17:08.593 --> 01:17:10.386 Are any of them prepared to stand up? 01:17:10.470 --> 01:17:13.222 We have a real chance here. Maybe we should adjourn till tomorrow. 01:17:13.306 --> 01:17:14.932 I would like to speak. 01:17:15.016 --> 01:17:16.600 No, you won't. 01:17:16.685 --> 01:17:19.603 He's not a registered member of any tribal council. 01:17:19.688 --> 01:17:22.273 - We have the power to say no. - Power? 01:17:23.984 --> 01:17:27.361 You wanna speak, Bull? 01:17:27.445 --> 01:17:29.363 - You go ahead. - General. 01:17:29.447 --> 01:17:31.991 Let the man speak, for Christ's sake. This is a free land. 01:17:34.995 --> 01:17:37.121 What do you have to say, my old friend? 01:17:58.768 --> 01:18:01.061 Since the white man came 01:18:01.896 --> 01:18:06.275 and broke up the grassland with his ploughs, 01:18:07.277 --> 01:18:09.486 the earth has turned to dust. 01:18:14.451 --> 01:18:18.871 In this dust, there is the body of Crazy Horse... 01:18:20.874 --> 01:18:22.416 American Horse... 01:18:24.711 --> 01:18:26.295 Spotted Tail... 01:18:28.590 --> 01:18:29.923 Black Kettle... 01:18:30.008 --> 01:18:32.926 Sword... 01:18:33.011 --> 01:18:35.220 Two Moons... 01:18:35.305 --> 01:18:37.848 Rain in the Face. 01:18:37.932 --> 01:18:40.684 When the wind blows... 01:18:43.855 --> 01:18:46.231 it blows our heroes in our faces. 01:18:49.235 --> 01:18:50.361 Our diplomats. 01:18:53.698 --> 01:18:54.907 Our doctors. 01:18:58.244 --> 01:18:59.578 Our priests. 01:19:10.882 --> 01:19:12.424 Our dead children. 01:19:27.565 --> 01:19:30.943 The Great Spirit speaks to us in clouds of dust. 01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:39.368 You cannot sell... 01:19:41.287 --> 01:19:42.371 pieces of the earth... 01:19:46.918 --> 01:19:50.087 because the earth belongs to God. 01:19:53.967 --> 01:19:56.844 We must tell these people to go home... 01:19:57.887 --> 01:19:59.680 back to Washington, 01:20:00.390 --> 01:20:03.183 and not hurt the earth anymore. 01:20:07.939 --> 01:20:10.232 Enough. Enough. 01:20:32.088 --> 01:20:34.590 We will give no more of our land away. 01:20:36.009 --> 01:20:38.343 Not even this much. 01:21:04.704 --> 01:21:06.246 Anybody else care to speak? 01:21:06.998 --> 01:21:08.624 Why are you not helping me, General? 01:21:09.209 --> 01:21:10.792 - We have to adjourn. - Adjourn? 01:21:11.628 --> 01:21:13.212 Why don't we go straight to a vote? 01:21:14.214 --> 01:21:16.006 Sir, if we vote now, they'll vote against. You know that. 01:21:16.090 --> 01:21:17.758 It's called democracy, Colonel Groves. 01:21:17.842 --> 01:21:19.635 This is a mistake, General. 01:21:26.643 --> 01:21:29.978 All those in favor of the Allotment Treaty, 01:21:30.063 --> 01:21:32.523 line up at the red circle. 01:21:34.067 --> 01:21:37.736 Those against it, line up at the blue. 01:21:47.914 --> 01:21:51.083 What the hell are they doing? They're handing us a victory. 01:22:03.846 --> 01:22:07.683 You don't get it, do you? Don't you understand? 01:22:07.767 --> 01:22:10.018 This is what the General wanted all along. 01:22:11.771 --> 01:22:14.523 If we lose the vote, they'll have an excuse to go to war. 01:22:16.067 --> 01:22:18.235 And deep down, that's what the Bull wants, too. 01:22:43.553 --> 01:22:46.471 To find our way on the open prairie, we stop sometimes 01:22:47.974 --> 01:22:50.976 and look, remember. 01:22:53.021 --> 01:22:54.229 With people, too. 01:22:58.526 --> 01:23:00.694 You stop sometimes and look and remember. 01:23:04.115 --> 01:23:05.782 It's called cantognake. 01:23:07.243 --> 01:23:08.910 To place and hold in your heart. 01:23:12.832 --> 01:23:13.832 This moment. 01:23:15.793 --> 01:23:17.210 Our power returning. 01:23:18.963 --> 01:23:20.047 Young again. 01:23:23.635 --> 01:23:25.010 Hold it in your heart. 01:23:27.263 --> 01:23:29.222 You are already in my heart. 01:23:33.394 --> 01:23:34.645 So, you should know... 01:23:36.898 --> 01:23:39.691 the spirits have told me that this is the winter 01:23:40.818 --> 01:23:43.195 I'll cross over into the spirit world. 01:23:48.743 --> 01:23:51.244 No. I don't want... 01:23:52.747 --> 01:23:54.206 Don't tell me that. 01:24:01.798 --> 01:24:03.173 Cantognake. 01:24:27.782 --> 01:24:28.865 I've finished it. 01:24:29.492 --> 01:24:30.450 Come and see. 01:25:05.778 --> 01:25:07.446 You've made me look too old. 01:25:47.069 --> 01:25:48.195 Congratulations. 01:25:49.947 --> 01:25:51.031 It's a beautiful painting. 01:25:52.366 --> 01:25:53.825 Get out of my house. 01:25:54.660 --> 01:25:57.162 I came to warn you. 01:25:58.623 --> 01:26:01.458 Tomorrow morning before dawn, 01:26:02.210 --> 01:26:07.297 they will be coming to arrest you. 01:26:08.049 --> 01:26:09.341 What did he say? 01:26:10.092 --> 01:26:16.556 Sedition. Intimidation of witnesses. 01:26:17.725 --> 01:26:22.187 Ghost Dance religion. 01:26:24.607 --> 01:26:26.358 Doesn't really matter a damn. 01:26:30.988 --> 01:26:33.990 I remember your face. 01:26:35.201 --> 01:26:41.748 We were hiding in the Killdeer mountains. 01:26:43.084 --> 01:26:44.668 It was snowing 01:26:46.587 --> 01:26:50.423 when the soldiers came. 01:26:55.054 --> 01:27:01.476 Half the women and children surrendered. 01:27:03.729 --> 01:27:06.356 You gave the order to open fire. 01:27:08.609 --> 01:27:12.320 You killed them all. 01:27:16.409 --> 01:27:19.327 That's why I'm here. 01:27:21.622 --> 01:27:26.835 I hoped perhaps there wouldn't be any more blood on the snow. 01:27:28.963 --> 01:27:31.840 Hoped that for once 01:27:31.924 --> 01:27:37.596 history would go in a straight line, 01:27:39.056 --> 01:27:45.520 not in a circle. 01:27:45.605 --> 01:27:50.859 You think I forgive you? 01:27:51.527 --> 01:27:52.986 No. 01:27:53.070 --> 01:27:59.242 But if it means anything, 01:28:00.161 --> 01:28:04.789 I haven't really slept since that day. 01:28:12.757 --> 01:28:17.552 When they come for you, they will kill her too. 01:28:19.263 --> 01:28:21.306 If you care about her, 01:28:21.390 --> 01:28:25.852 send her outside when the moon rises. 01:28:26.562 --> 01:28:27.520 What is it? 01:28:29.857 --> 01:28:33.193 Don't forget about our dinner in New York City, Mrs. Weldon. 01:29:10.147 --> 01:29:12.315 Jesus, it's so quiet. I wish a dog would bark. 01:29:18.322 --> 01:29:20.782 They really can't charge you with sedition. 01:29:23.577 --> 01:29:26.871 And I'm a witness you never took part in any violence. 01:29:31.877 --> 01:29:33.336 When does the river freeze? 01:29:35.214 --> 01:29:36.631 When the geese fly. 01:29:36.716 --> 01:29:39.676 We have to leave before then, or... 01:29:40.803 --> 01:29:43.096 we'll be stuck here all winter. 01:29:43.848 --> 01:29:44.848 We'll leave tomorrow. 01:29:49.145 --> 01:29:52.731 And when we go to New York, we can stay in my apartment. 01:30:16.756 --> 01:30:18.423 My parents will have a fit. 01:30:26.891 --> 01:30:29.476 There's lights in the streets now since you've been there. 01:30:32.104 --> 01:30:34.105 It never really gets dark anymore. 01:30:39.236 --> 01:30:41.237 Fire needs more logs. 01:30:41.947 --> 01:30:43.031 I'm warm enough. 01:30:59.673 --> 01:31:02.509 Go. The Lakota like a woman who works hard. 01:31:11.894 --> 01:31:14.604 Woman Walks Ahead. 01:31:14.688 --> 01:31:16.731 Hold and keep me in your heart. 01:31:36.252 --> 01:31:41.214 No! No! 01:31:49.473 --> 01:31:50.515 What's happening? 01:31:51.600 --> 01:31:54.477 Corporal? Where are you going? 01:32:10.661 --> 01:32:12.954 We're off the reservation. You're free to go. You're safe. 01:32:15.082 --> 01:32:18.501 Mrs. Wel... Mrs. Weldon, you'll never make it! 01:32:18.525 --> 01:32:29.525 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.