Chief Dan George Quotes

Chief Peter A-Tas-Ka-Nay If he dies, it is the Will of the Great Spirit.

Jack Crabb Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now?

Old Lodge Skins Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals, but also water, earth, stone, and also the things from them like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe everything is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.

Old Lodge Skins Don't worry my son, you will be back with us, I dreamed it last night. I saw you with your wives.

Jack Crabb Wives, Grandfather?

Old Lodge Skins Yes, there were three . . . or four, it was hard to tell. It was very dark in your ] and they were under buffalo rugs as you crawled among them. Anyway, it was a great copulation.

Sam Birdwater God knows I am a patriot. I loaned the country 400 Billion. And I want my 400 Million back. Does that make me a bad guy? I've got to eat too, you know! So I'm giving the President until the end of September this year to pay me back, or I'll be forced to foreclose. What can I do? I've got to eat too, you know! Does that make me a bad guy?

Lone Watie We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.

Sam Two Feathers I practice good medicine on good people... bad medicine on bad people.

Old Lodge Skins There is an endless supply of white men, but there has always been a limited number of ].

Lone Watie All I have is a piece of hard rock candy. But it's not for eating. It's just for looking through.

Lone Watie I wore this frock coat in Washington, before the war. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes. We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln. We only got to see the Secretary of the Interior, and he said: "Boy! You boys sure look civilized.!" he congratulated us and gave us medals for looking so civilized. We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, "endeavor to persevere!" They stood us in a line: John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me — I am Lone Watie. They took our pictures. And the newspapers said, "Indians vow to endeavor to persevere.

Harry This is the first time in my life I've ever been in jail.

Sam Two Feathers What are you in for?

Harry Peeing.

Sam Two Feathers I got a ticket once for shitting.

Harry Where'd you do it?

Sam Two Feathers No, not me. My horse - in a hotel lobby.

Harry Oh.

Old Lodge Skins Invisible! I've never been invisible before!

Lone Watie I didn't surrender neither. But they took my horse and made him surrender ... they have him pullin a wagon up in Kansas, I'll bet.

Old Lodge Skins * In a tale told to "Little Big Man" (Jack Crabb) about the legendary "Little Man" (this is actually a famous quotation of the Sioux leader ] which has become an expression of ] willingness and even eagerness to give one's life in the name of one's cause.)

Lone Watie You know, she thinks I'm some kind of a Cherokee chief.

Old Lodge Skins Come out and fight! It is a good day to die! Thank you for making me a Human Being! Thank you for helpin me to become a warrior! Thank you for my victories and for my defeats! Thank you for my vision, and the blindness in which I saw further! You make all things and direct them in their ways, O Grandfather. And now you have decided the Human Beings will soon walk a road that leads nowhere. I am gonna die now, unless death wants to fight. And I ask you for the last time to grant me my old power to make things happen. Take care of my son here. See that he doesn't go crazy.

Lone Watie Guess we ain't going to see that little Navajo girl again.

Josey Wales Nah, I guess not. I kinda liked her, but then it's always like that.

Lone Watie Like what?

Josey Wales Whenever I get to likin someone, they ain't around long.

Lone Watie I notice when you get to Dislikin someone they ain't around for long neither.

Old Lodge Skins Am I still in this world?

Jack Crabb Yes, Grandfather.

Old Lodge Skins I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn't.