Apache Page #2

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- Heat some water.

- You will have to fill the bucket.

You have a woman and...

yet you carry the water?

Some of the white man's ways are hard.

Nobody, not even an Apache,

could open that window quietly.

- I must get back to my people.

- There could be a life for you here.

On the reservation there's nothing,

even if you can get there.

I will get there.

Then take this.

I have food.

So i see.

But this is seed corn of Tahlequah.

If you are wise, you will plant it, not eat it.

- Apaches are warriors, not farmers.

- You've seen the world of the white man.

Their numbers are like leaves of the trees.

Has it taught you nothing?

The warrior's day is over. Once

we Cherokees were like the Apaches.

We feasted when the hunting was good.

We starved when it was bad.

But the white man

ate the whole year round

because he raised his own food.

We found we could live with

the white man only if we lived like him.

You can do the same

with the corn of Tahlequah,

and your people, too.

At least leave by the door,

not the window.

Ain't ya hungry enough?

We're gonna finish this road now,

not next year.

I'm sick and tired o joltin my eyeteeth

loose every time l go to town.

From now on, l'm gonna ride soft

and easy right over your achin backs.

(Weddle) Now lay into it or you don't eat!

Not one single, solitary bean.

I am told that soon i will be

made corporal. It is an honour.

I know you have worked

very hard, Hondo.

You keep your buttlons very shiny.

To be made corporal

also means greater wealth.

A girl of marriageable age

should think about this.

It will soon be dark.

If you are late back to the fort,

you might not be promoted.

For your father.

Goodbye, Nalinle.

Goodbye.

- Did you have kind words for him?

- I obeyed your wishes, Father.

Good. There are only

a few young men left.

Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.

Did he...?

Yes.

- Massai!

- (Santos) What are you saying?

Massai was carried off

on the train with Geronimo.

She is right, Santos.

I am back with my people.

This cannot be.

No man could do this thing.

Only Massai.

- If this is true, the soldiers follow you.

- No, nor will they find me till i am ready.

Bring cups. We will do

honour to this miracle.

I saw Nalinle with Hondo,

who wears the soldiers coat.

I saw Hondo walking in the village

and no one spit when he passed by.

I have come back just in time.

There is no pride left in our people.

Pride is a warrior's word.

I have seen much, Santos. And i tell you

pride is not only a warrior's word.

We can look the white man in the eye

and meet him on his own ground.

- In peace?

- A warrior's peace, between equals.

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