Sam Rockwell acreditado por interpretar...
Silas Groves
- Silas Groves: Would you mind if I gave you some practical advice?
- Catherine Weldon: I don't really care for practical advice from someone who's such a poor judge of character.
- Catherine Weldon: I met you two minutes ago, and already you have accused me of being a spy and a liar.
- Silas Groves: I work for the War Department, darling. I didn't mean to be presumptuous, but you do have that certain look.
- Catherine Weldon: What look is that?
- Silas Groves: The look of someone filled with good intentions.
- Catherine Weldon: Oh! And that's bad?
- Silas Groves: West of Missouri, it can be lethal.
- Silas Groves: You're an admirer of George Catlin.
- Catherine Weldon: You know his work?
- Silas Groves: You bet. I can't look at these the way most people do, though. The scalp dance. Saw my first scalp dance in the Black Hills back in '75, but when I saw it, there were little blonde scalps. The warriors had stumbled across some Swedish immigrant children walking to school. The little girls had blue ribbons tied up in their hair.
- Silas Groves: General Crook. We have a problem at Standing Rock. Mrs. Weldon is buying food for the Indians, thereby... thereby undermining the ration system. I recommend we arrest her, keep her locked up until after the vote.
- General Crook: Thought you said I didn't need to worry about Sitting Bull.
- Silas Groves: I was wrong. She's agitating him. She has him wearing buckskins and feathers.
- General Crook: You can't arrest someone for spending their own money.
- Silas Groves: Sir, with all due respect, our job here is to deliver a ratification of the Allotment Act.
- General Crook: I bet my old friend Sitting Bull feels about potatoes the way I feel about you, Mr. Groves.
- Silas Groves: She's agitating the Bull, sir. She's agitating him to act.
- General Crook: No, she's a painter painting what she sees. When she sees the Bull, she sees a warrior. I, too, am a warrior. Our destinies appear to be entwined.
- Silas Groves: Sir, I fear that for some among your regiment, this return to Dakota is about revenge.
- General Crook: Vengeance is for the Lord to take. But maybe our good Lord sent us Mrs. Weldon.
- Silas Groves: Sir...
- General Crook: Permission to issue an arrest warrant is denied.
- Old Man at Train Station: Colonel.
- Silas Groves: This lady here, she came all the way from New York to paint Indians.
- Old Man at Train Station: Is that a fact?
- [walks toward Weldon and spits in her face]
- Catherine Weldon: Oh!
- Old Man at Train Station: I hope they fuck you. Cut the baby out, like they did the Robinson girls. Indian-loving bitch.
- [turns and walks away]
- Old Man at Train Station: I'm sorry, Colonel. My blood boils.
- Sitting Bull: I would like to speak.
- Silas Groves: No, no... he got... No, you won't.
- James McLaughlin: [quietly to General Crook] He's not a registered member of any tribal council. We have the power to say no.
- General Crook: [quietly in response] Power?
- [laughs]
- General Crook: You wanna speak, Bull? You go ahead.
- James McLaughlin: General...
- General Crook: [interrupts] Let the man speak, for Christ's sake. This is a free land.
- General Crook: [to Sitting Bull] What do you have to say, my old friend?
- [Sitting Bull speaks Lakota]
- Susan McLaughlin: [translates Sitting Bull's words] Since the white man came... and broke up the grassland... with his ploughs... the earth has turned to dust.
- Susan McLaughlin: In this dust, there is the body of Crazy Horse...
- Susan McLaughlin: American Horse...
- Susan McLaughlin: Spotted Tail...
- Susan McLaughlin: Black Kettle...
- Susan McLaughlin: Sword...
- Susan McLaughlin: Two Moons...
- Susan McLaughlin: Rain in the Face.
- Susan McLaughlin: When the wind blows...
- Susan McLaughlin: it blows our heroes in our faces.
- Susan McLaughlin: our diplomats...
- Susan McLaughlin: our doctors...
- Susan McLaughlin: our priests...
- Susan McLaughlin: our dead children.
- Susan McLaughlin: [Sitting Bull pauses] The Great Spirit speaks to us in clouds of dust.
- Susan McLaughlin: [Sitting Bull rises] You cannot sell...
- Susan McLaughlin: pieces of the earth...
- Susan McLaughlin: because the earth belongs to God.
- Susan McLaughlin: [Sitting Bull in Lakota and Susan overlap] We must tell these people to go home...
- Susan McLaughlin: back to Washington, and not hurt the earth any more.
- Susan McLaughlin: [overlapping speech ceases] Enough. Enough.
- [Sitting Bull grasps a fistful of soil and allows it to run through his fingers]
- Susan McLaughlin: We will give no more of our land away.
- Susan McLaughlin: [holds a speck of dust between his thumb and forefinger] Not even this much.
- Silas Groves: [enters and shuts door] Good afternoon. Agent McLaughlin? Colonel Groves. War Department. Special Envoy for General Crook. Where's the rest of it? Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50% cut in rations of flour, bacon and sugar to take effect immediately. When a new treaty needs to be ratified, it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind. This is my wife Susan. Susan? Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind?
- [SPEAKS LAKOTA]
- Silas Groves: We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation. Thank you, dear.
- James McLaughlin: Where's the rest of it?
- Silas Groves: Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50% cut in rations of flour, bacon and sugar to take effect immediately. When a new treaty needs to be ratified, it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind.
- James McLaughlin: [woman enters carrying tea service] This is my wife Susan. Susan? Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind?
- [Groves doffs his hat and speaks Lakota]
- Susan McLaughlin: We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation.
- James McLaughlin: Thank you, dear.