Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 TV Movie)

Gordon Tootoosis: Chief Red Cloud

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• Sitting Bull : Hear me, then for one last time. They mean to take our land away from us. You may say, "They wish to give us land. This patch to you, this patch to you." But here is the truth - each patch is for a man and all generations that follow him. And they know that this land cannot feed but one generation, not even so much as that.

  McLaughlin : All right, you've had your say.

  Gall : Do not interrupt.

  Sitting Bull : You teach our children the words of your God, "Be fruitful and multiply." But it seems these words are not meant for the Indian. For what kind of man would take a wife and have children he cannot feed? No Indian man. Not a Lakota, not an Arikara, not a Crow. You would have us cut off our balls and end our race right here on a patch of land on which nothing can live, and that will not happen! I have spoken.

  Henry Dawes : We did not put you on this land. Red Cloud surrendered - he made peace with the government. Have you forgotten the bloodshed that came before?

  Chief Red Cloud : Sitting Bull is a great leader. I believe this, no matter that the whites see us men all as the same. But he did not sit with us in the council those many snows ago when our reservation was made. He did not sit with us in the next council when these borders that we were told were like marks in stone were moved. And the Black Hills and our hunting lands were taken from us. Sitting Bull might have had his say, but such was his suspicion of the whites, such was his pride. I say today for all ears within hearing that if Sitting Bull had spoken the way he speaks today, I would not have touched that pen. I will not touch your pen to your paper. I will not touch it to your red paper, I will not touch it to your black paper. The white man will not see my mark again on his paper for the rest of my days on this earth.

• Colonel James Forsyth : [to Charles Eastman, after the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek]  We didn't fire first! I swear to Almighty God, we did not fire first.

  Chief Red Cloud : Blue coat... you whites use many weapons against us. Do not have such a bad heart about it. We have always feared your guns the least.