Buffalo Bill Page #2

- Perfectly.

You may count on my support

before Congress.

Why can't you build your railroad around

the Cheyenne land, instead of across it?

Young man, that would delay

construction for over a year...

...and double the cost.

- Yes, sergeant?

- We found him, sir...

- ... but we had a little trouble.

- Bring him in.

A distinguished visitor, gentlemen.

Yellow Hand...

...son of Chief Tall Bull.

Excellent. Let's have a look at him.

Think we can get him

to listen to reason?

I doubt it. I've gotten nothing

out of any of them.

- How, Yellow Hand.

- How, Pahaska.

Tell him his people must move out of

the Smoky Hill country within 30 days.

I understand your words.

I have been to white man's school.

We've hunted and fished

together since we were so high.

Once you saved Yellow Hand's life.

When you do an Indian a favor,

he never forgets it.

If you do him bad,

he never forgets that, either.

Very interesting.

Now tell us, Yellow Hand...

They give themselves amazing names.

Tell us why your people refuse

to obey the order to move.

We must live where there is food

and water and buffalo.

What has the buffalo got to do with it?

Without the buffalo, the Indian would

perish. It's his main source of food.

In the winter,

the hides protect them from freezing.

I see.

If you want something from the Indians,

why don't you treat their chiefs...

- ... like the heads of any other nations?

- What do you mean?

Yellow Hand is a prince,

the son of a king.

Invite men like that to Washington.

Try and understand them.

Maybe they'll understand you.

Savages loose in the East?

The idea is preposterous.

But what a headline:

"Redskin Powwow at the Hotel Astor. "

If they won't talk sense here,

in their own back yard...

...what can you expect

3000 miles away?

Yellow Hand, do you

want us to use force?

My people do not want war.

But we will fight if we must.

General, are you prepared to act?

- Yes, I have my orders.

- All right, Yellow Hand...

...you've had your last warning.

Move or be driven out.

Is the white man finished?

How.

How.

Well, as a newspaperman,

I have covered every kind of fight...

...riot and revolution,

but never an Indian war.

- Here's to something new.

- You wouldn't talk like that...

...if you ever saw

the Cheyenne on the warpath.

There's nothing to be alarmed at.

I'll clean them out in a week.

The Cheyenne had no choice.

The tribes gathered and rode to war,

a thousand strong.

They struck settlements and outposts

like a whirlwind of destruction...

...killing, burning, spreading terror

through the countryside.

General, there's a Cheyenne war party

about 500 braves heading this way.

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