"Why did you stop me?" "I don't want to pay for the stupidity of my brother." "Only you thinks it's stupid to kill a white man." "With the scalp of a white man the bannocks will be blamed." "We must kill them." "And drive them out." "No, they're too many and too wise." "We never drive them out." "I don't like them any better than you do." "But we have to learn to live with them." "You talk like a woman." "All right, brother ." "Soon to be chief of my people." "You handle the white men your way..." "I handle them mine." "You make me ashamed to call you brother." "I'm glad that you've brought him here." "You remembered what I read to you about love our neighbour." "I had to... when I found that he was still alive." "I couldn't let the white man to die in the sun." "I'm glad he lived." "I'm not sure I'm." "You rather leave our village and live here like an outcast." "What are you doing here?" "You should never pick that shoshoni woman as a wife." "You too is a chief." "Your place is with your people." "My people turned me away." "This is my home now." "Did you move the body of the white man I killed this afternoon?" "I did not move him." "Why?" "I went back to take the scalp so I can give to our father." "This one would have made him proud." "You would say the same about any white man scalp." "That's not any white man." "That's the owner of this land... that belongs to our people." "You mean the white man whose scalp I saved... is the owner of the ranch called Ponderosa." "That's what I mean." "I left the white man where he felt." "I know this kind of woman." "If the white man lived she would have you take him... you might even brought him in here." "I'll look inside to make sure." "This is my place." "I say there's no white man inside." "You're not look." "I'm sorry you visit our home on such matter." "There's no white man here." "I believe you even less than I believe my brother." "You better leave." "Now." "He's still bleeding." "Will you change the bandage... while I get some fresh water?" "I can't touch him now." "Stop that!" "You've done enough." "Our Father who is in Heaven..." "Holy be Thy name." "That's enough!" "Seja feita sua vontade..." "Pop is setting traps at this hour?" "Don't worry about papa, he can take care of himself." "He went awful close to the bannocks country." "The Indians been awful near lately too." "They're getting hungry, Ross." "Can hardly grow anything up on those mountains." "It gets worst every year." "Pop doesn't go in the bannocks country by himself." "But from my property it's pretty close." "He took his blankets." "May be he's gonna sleep over night." "Hi, Ike." "Hi, boys." "Where's your papa?" "He'll drop late, Ike." "What you want him for?" "I brought him a present." "I got something to talk to him about, where's he?" "You'd just missed him on your way over." "He went setting traps, right near your place." "We expect him back at any minute." "If I know he's going out that way..." "I could safe myself the trip." "What did you bring?" "Well..." "I'll show you boys while I wait." "Where did you get that?" "Turned up like a flower just yesterday." "It's an Indian skull." "It must be 200 years." "It shows up every once and a while in the valley." "Guess there's no question about... who originally lived on this land." "That was then, not now." "How come you bring it to papa?" "He wouldn't want a human skull around the place." "It's anything about a human skull, it's an Indian skull!" "I wouldn't dare use those words with papa." "You know how he feels on the subject." "He knows how I feel about it too." "I've got no tick about dead Indians on my land." "But I'll be dead burned if I saw one alive!" "Your land?" "My land!" "Your papa gave to me the home state." "There's no Indians living on your land." "They're awful close anyhow." "Your papa should do something about it." "We'll give him your message, Ike." "No, Ross, I'll give him to myself." "I'll seat with you for a while and I wait for him." "You can seat a while... but no more talking about Indians." "Suit yourself." "It can be a long wait, may be all night." "Better you sleep on the barrack house." "And I think we can do without this." "His fever is worst." "Why did he try to kill me?" "My husband did not try to kill you." "He found you wounded and he brought you here." "It was an Indian that try to kill me, I know that." "You're a bannock." "I'm, but I didn't try to kill you." "Perhaps I should have." "Matsu." "I didn't mean to kill you." "And now you care for me." "I'm grateful for your help." "You'd have died if we had left you where you felt." "What's this place?" "This place is on your land." "There's no Indian villages in my land." "This is not a village." "Atoia and I live here alone." "Why you're not in your village?" "I'm a bannock, she's a shoshoni." "When we married neither tribes didn't accept us." "How did you find out about the Bible?" "I've lived with a man of God and his wife for three years." "A white man from the West." "Than I met Matsu." "And we'll stay together... no matter how many times we have to move." "Who said anything about move?" "You do not stay where we are not welcome." "You're welcome." "But we'd still being intruders on white's man land." "You'd not be intruders if I gave you the land." "You'll give land to a bannock?" "If you came in peace..." "Our people haven't signed a white man's peace treat." "Put me on my horse." "I get find my way home." "You're not well enough to travel." "I must get to a doctor." "We'll get him home." "Take all with God help." "All right." "I'll hold him on his horse." "You pray." "Pop!" "What happened?" "Where you find him?" "He need a doctor quickly." "How about the hurt?" "Come inside, I'd like to know more about what happened." "Don't let the red devils go in the house... after what they done to your papa." "They are going to kill ourselves." "They brought him home, didn't they?" "Shut up." "How do this happen?" "We found him wounded in the clearing." "We tried to care him but the fever was very bad." "He recovered enough to tell us where he lived." "We brought him here." "You mean my father was in bannock country?" "He was on his own land, that's where we found him." "I told the red devils were sticking around on your land." "Lucky thing they're there." "Keep you mouth shut." "Thank you very much for what you did." "You need rest and food." "You ain't ask them to stay!" "It would be better if we leave." "Your father is a strong man and very brave." "We both hope he's better soon." "No, please." "I want you to stay." "I won't stay in no house... that ask Indians and make welcome them!" "Why don't you leave?" "But I have a big bone when your papa gets better." "If he ever does!" "It's a very poor way to say thank you." "I'm sorry." "You just make yourself comfortable here, I'll be right back." "We shouldn't have come here, it was a mistake." "No, Matsu, it was God's will." "If we hadn't brought him home he would have died." "He's a good man." "He promised to let us live on his lands." "I never believe in any white man's promises." "He's resting more easily now." "You have to pack him." "He's a pretty heavy fellow." "Not far." "We had to take him to his horse." "The wound was opening again." "Why don't you two get some sleep... while we wait for the doctor." "My father would like to see you before you leave." "Thank you." "How you're feeling, papa?" "Not better than I did." "That's all I can do for him now, boys." "Make sure that he stays in bed." "Don't worry, doctor." "I'll make sure he takes orders." "He'll stay in bed, doctor." "Sorry about the wild ride coming over, doctor." "You can take it easy coming back." "I certainly will." "I don't how Mr. Cartwright got hurt... or why you helped him." "But one thing I do know for sure." "If you hadn't helped him... he would be far from help now." "We can't spare a man like Cartwright." "Thank you." "I will see you tomorrow, Ben." "And you rest." "That's na order." "See you in a while." "Mind if I have few minutes alone with my friends?" "Not at all." "I'll be back." "I don't even know your names." "You heard them before, but you'd fever." "My name is Atoia, and my husband's Matsu." "I'll remember them." "And I haven't forgotten what I said about the land." "We didn't ask for it." "I know you didn't." "I've been thinking about it." "I want you to have a big piece of land." "Enough for a farm." "What we do with such a piece of land?" "You farm it." "Raise crops, animals." "Live of the land." "I know nothing of such things." "The red men knows more about hunting, fishing." "The white men knows more about farming." "If we put what we know together it will be enough." "This will never be." "There's no way to begin." "You offered us a farm." "But I know nothing of such things." "So I say... keep your farm." "Let me ask you a question." "Would you come to live as a farmer on your land... if I and my sons and the settlers in the valley... help you with the things that you not know?" "It would be so wonderful." "And also would be difficult." "It may not work." "I may not learn." "I talk too much." "I never believe such an offer could be made." "The white men always take." "We'll talk and pray and let you know our decision." "I've lived among the white men in town." "I know them better than you do." "Perhaps you don't know me enough." "I know you very well, beloved." "And I believe we can do this together." "Why can't we stay here?" "I could stay anywhere along with you, Matsu." "What our sons and daughters will become?" "Would you keep them alone too?" "They can come back to the tribes someday." "Won't always be a war." "And I'm a son of a chief." "The youngster." "With no great love for his brother Lagos, the next chief." "That's true." "This is a chance to have a better life." "For us and for our children." "I don't know that it would be better." "It'll be different." "And this difference frights me." "You have told me that nothing frights you." "I spoke those words as a warrior and a hunter." "And are true." "I was raised to be theses things... and not a farmer." "You also told me that our people and the white men... must learn to live together in peace." "But you're asking much more than this." "You're asking me to put down my bow and arrow... and pick up an ax and a plough." "You're asking me to eat bread instead of meat." "To wear cloth instead of leather." "To live in a house instead of a tend." "You're asking me to stop being an Indian." "I don't know if I can do it." "I shall lift my eyes upon the hills... from it comes my strength." "I do not know that I can do it well." "Or even if I do not fail completely." "But I'll try, my dearest love." "If you stand beside me." "No, can't do it." "I couldn't hardly believe when I heard." "Can't believe now." "You might believe cause it's true." "You gonna out of your mind." "Or that Indian bang you on the head." "Whichever way that is." "I ain't gonna have no Indians for a neighbour... and you ain't got right to make me!" "Why don't we calm down?" "I don't want to calm down!" "When you got hurt, I had come down to warn you... that I run off of two savages in you land." "They squat in a stinking tend right net to my house." "Now I find out that you gave them a farm next to my land." "And you ask me to calm down." "Those two savages saved my life." "More than they stabbed you first." "If you've to give them a reward give them whisky, money." "Don't give land." "Don't you think that Indians have a call to share the land?" "No, not next door to me." "What you've got against Indians?" "I would like to know." "I would like to tell you." "I don't like them because they're savages." "They're some wild animals." "And twice dangerous." "I don't like them because they're heathens." "And because they don't work." "And they can't work." "Because they're dirt." "And stink and are sneak." "They're drunkers and thieves." "God knows what else." "I don't like them because they scare me." "I hate them." "What is it about to let them scares you?" "They have long black hair!" "And red skins." "I'm not try to answer you." "Not now." "But one day someone must answer to people like you." "There's nothing wrong with the way I think." "I don't get that point either." "But neither I'm gonna back down from what's is my right to do." "I promised Matsu that land and he'll have it." "But why put them next to me?" "It's notjust a piece of land." "It's treat them like people!" "I don't have to give them a piece with rocks!" "They've already got that." "I can give them a piece of land where they an farm!" "The land next to yours is the best I have." "And it's my intention to give to them." "If you put them on that piece I move out." "If it's your decision..." "I thought a lot before I make the move." "I'm only asking you to give them a chance." "Don't be a friend, just be a decent neighbour." "I tell you what kind of neighbour I'll be." "I'll treat them as if they wasn't there." "I won't talk to them, I won't answer them..." "I won't help them I won't let they help me." "I won't go on their land." "If they put foot on my land I'll kill them." "You do anything out of line... you'll answer to me." "All right, Ross, let it go!" "Look at me, Atoia." "Months of work, and I'm no nothing." "Not an Indian... and certainly not a white man." "Never mind." "Eating bread at a table.... not a thing for a warrior." "It's only when you're tired that you get this way." "We've come so far." "We're not only in peace with the white men..." "but we made friends." "And enemies." "Our neighbour, Ike Dagen, is our enemy." "He's difficult." "The others settlers have no love for Mr. Dagen." "I come to this house in peace because you're my brother." "The feather of the chief." "Why do you wear it?" "Our father died 2 days ago full of hate for the white men... calling for his youngster son." "I'm sorry." "I loved him." "And I have no love for you... but I hope you'd be a better chief than he was." "I tell you one thing, Matsu." "We no longer seat on the mountains starving." "We no long seat there talking about peace." "When the warriors go into the war.... this valley would be full of deads." "I've known you for this." "And I know you're wrong." "You're the one who is worng." "you do not belong here and never will." "As chief of our tribe I ask you to come back." "The day of the lance is upon us." "You're once a brave warrior." "Till this woman turned you soft." "Come back to the tribe you're needed." "I'm needed here." "Atoia is waiting a child." "And I rejoice for the both of you." "Take her with you." "If she carries your child she'll be welcome." "It's mostly for the child that I'll stay." "Then you'll die like the white man you try to imitate." "I give till tomorrow to think on it." "I wait no longer." "Are you sorry now about the child?" "You know I prayed for that child." "To your God as well as to mine." "If it comes to die..." "I'd rather dir as a warrior fighting with my people... than as a farmer living among strangers." "Then you would go back?" "I might." "But the child is not only important for us... but for the future of our people." "I'll stay for my little wife... and for my child." "What you'll do about your brother?" "In the morning I'll ride to Ben Cartwright." "The settlers have to be warned." "Even though is your brother?" "I still remember the teachings of my father." "When a decision is made it must be kept... even against a brother." "Congratulations." "I'vejust heard the news about Atoia." "I only heard about it myself two days ago." "Women talk!" "Wonderful to see you." "You won't come this way often enough." "And bring your pretty wife with you." "I'm digging a present." "It's a cradle." "It has been sleeping since Joe grew up." "Save your welcome till you hear my news." "The bannocks are going to war." "How do you that?" "My brother now is the chief." "He told me." "They're planning a raid?" "More than a raid." "It'll be the war." "How soon this will start?" "Any moment." "May be is better give a word for Bradley." "They gonna do nothing till happens an incident." "It's better warn the settlers." "Get ready to go." "I'd go to warn the settlers." "But I came to warn you first." "That's very good of you." "My brother has two people he hates." "One it's me because I don't want to go back." "The other is you, Ben." "Why should your brother hate me?" "It was my brother who try to kill you... when I brought you home." "People of this valley... get know you more and more." "Especially me." "Why don't you and Atoia... stay with us here till this thing is over?" "Thank you." "I'd like to bring Atoia here for the sake of the child." "I'll stay in my land." "Good." "You do that." "Better get a word with Ike Dagen." "Ike Dagen is my neighbour." "I'll take care of warning him." "I don't want that you take that chance." "I don't like Ike... but I'm not afraid of him." "You have enough country to cover." "I'll warn Dagen in my way home." "Why don't you bring that Indian to bed?" "You mind him more than you do me." "I've told you a hundred times." "Who has Indians as neighbours got have ready for trouble." "Especially at night." "You've been saying that for months." "Stay awake late at night seeking around." "And they haven't set foot on your damn place." "That's because I scared them properly." "And I kept scaring." "I heard something." "You certainly got them scared." "I'm gonna see what that is." "Ike Dagen!" "The Lord make this face shine upon Thee.." "and be gracious on Thee." "The Lord lift this compliments upon Thee... and give Thee peace." "Amen." "Thanks, Ben." "Quit!" "You quit that I said!" "What's the matter?" "I won't stand." "I won't stand for a heathen... praying at my wife's grave!" "Quit!" "She ain't no heathen." "She knows as much about the Bible as you do." "What they're doing here?" "Those Indians killed my Martha!" "They're trying to pay their respect like the rest of us." "They got respect for the dead like a coyote." "Quit!" "I want to tell you how deeply sorry I'm... but my people killed your wife." "I tried to warn you." "Don't you talk to me you Indian!" "I understand how you feel, I'm sorry." "You dirty, lousy, stinky savage!" "Savage!" "You killed my wife, I killed yours." "An eye for an eye." "An eye for an eye, Ben." "An eye for an eye." "It's in the Book." "An eye for an eye." "It's in the Book." "It's Dagen." "Hardly recognize him." "Pop, come out here!" "Ike Dagen, papa." "You don't think Mat..." "Let's get him into the house." "He did a good job on him." "Why didn't he finish it?" "Didn't wanna him to die." "Help me!" "It's all right, Ike." "Ben Cartwright?" "It's me, Ike." "Ain't so easy to kill Ike Dagen." "He left alive for a purpose... as soon as I can suffer." "Who, Ike?" "Who?" "Who, Ike?" "Who?" "The Indian, your friend." "The one you tried to make into a white man, Matsu." "You know why he left alive?" "He wants you to meet him in the cave." "He wants Ben Cartwright." "Otherwise every settler will get what I've got." "I just don't understand what he's trying to." "What do you want to do now?" "He wants to see me I go to him." "I get try to bring him to his senses." "He's gone too far now." "Dagen killed his wife." "We can't let you take the risk." "Anything I've ever done had some risks." "I go for the North trail." "If I do not back in morning you come for me." "You forgot this." "That won't bring me back." "Mat neither." "Mat?" "Matsu!" "Ben Cartwright." "I didn't think that you would come." "I've got your message from Dagen." "He said that you want to see me." "Then you saw what I did to Ike Dagen?" "I saw." "Aren't you afraid?" "No, Mat." "I'm not afraid." "You know about this rope." "It shrinks in sun." "It gets tighter and tighter." "I know." "Why did you come here last night?" "See if I an help you." "All right, go ahead help me." "Give me back the wife that I loved... and the child she carried." "Tie me like this will bring her back?" "But I think that making you suffer... will easy some of my pain." "I guess you're right." "I just want to help you, not hurt you." "Help me?" "You held my arms, Ben." "You let that mad man shoot Atoia right before my eyes!" "If you hadn't held my arms... he could done that?" "You kill Atoiajust as you had pulled the trigger." "Does it hurt?" "Yes, it hurts." "Good." "It will get worst." "Is it bad?" "It's bad." "You're a strong man, Ben." "I thought you'd be screaming right now." "Our Father who are in Heaven..." "What did you say?" "Holy is Thy name." "Stop that!" "Stop, Ben!" "Stop it!" "You shouldn't have done that." "You shouldn't have prayed." "So you let me go?" "I meant to kill you." "But I failed here too." "I fail in everything" "I lost my wife... my brother Lagos is dead..." "I failed being a white man." "I failed being an Indian." "No, Mat." "You didn't fail." "I don't think you could have a fail." "I wanted to kill you, Ben." "It was important to me to kill you." "If I couldn't torture you and to hate me... then I couldn't kill you." "Can you forgive me for hurting you?" "I had that before you cut me loose." "I'll help you home, Ben." "No, I'll be all right." "You're going home, to your people." "You'll be back?" "Yes, we'll be back." "There he is." "You're all right?" "He do this to you." "Leave him alone." "He's going home." "Up in the mountains?" "He's the new chief of the bannocks now."