White Feather Page #6

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Is that all?

Sit down, my friend.

Little Dog was angry.

His blood ran hot at the council.

Does this mean that he will refuse

to go with you when you move away?

I do not know this.

In the days of my youth,

I would have stayed.

His blood is my blood.

If Little Dog asks all the young warriors

not to go with you...

but to stay and fight,

will they do this?

I am chief of all the Cheyennes.

My son would have to kill me to prevent me

from leading my people south.

He will not kill me.

But tonight he will decide

what he will do...

for he's gone to the lodge of

the medicine man alone.

You are his friend.

Would you go to him there?

His deciding

may mean his whole life.

I will go to Little Dog.

Where is the lodge

of the medicine man?

Josh...

Little Dog is my brother

and I love him.

I pray he will listen to you.

Little Dog?

Why did you come here?

I came to say good-bye to my friend.

You should not have heard

those words spoken this night.

That was not Cheyenne talk-

It was the talk of women!

Little Dog doesn't have

to prove his courage.

It is known by the white man

and by the Cheyenne.

It is known at Little Bighorn

and amongst the Sioux and the Crow...

that there is no warrior

who has more bravery than Little Dog.

But he must now show

that he is also wise-

as wise as the old warriors.

My father has spoken of me to you.

He doesn't want his son to die.

He would die here if he were not old!

I know this.

The chief of all the Cheyennes

must think for all his people.

Little Dog knows that it is not fear that

speaks within his father, but wisdom.

Then I do not like wisdom!

Would Tanner go south with

the women and the old ones?

I don't know, Little Dog.

Yes, I think I would

go south if I were you.

Sometimes there is a change.

We don't see the reason

for it, but it's there.

These things are easy

for Tanner to say...

because he is a white man.

Then let the white man go south.

We are not farmers-

We are Cheyennes!

And hunters! And fighters!

I will go into the hills by myself.

The spirits will tell me what to do.

They will not lie to me.

He went in the hills

to speak with the spirits.

Josh...

would you tell me something

to help me understand?

I'll try.

My father has said that

if we stay here, we will die.

The lady at the fort-

She can live in our land

and she will not have to die.

No.

And you will not have to die?

I have thought of it, and I cannot understand

why there must be this difference.

I don't think even the spirits

have an answer to that.

Maybe if- if we could live

in the white man's world...

there would be

no more talk of dying.

Many white people have come here.

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