Custer - E4: Spirit Woman
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04:16 At 24, he had been the youngest general in the Civil War.
04:19 Within five years, he had been reduced in rank and sent west to be forgotten.
04:23 But he was not the kind of man to let the world forget.
04:26 His name, George Armstrong Custer.
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05:13 Yes, come in.
05:15 Yes, Colonel.
05:17 Sorry to interrupt you, sir.
05:19 Something's happened.
05:21 What is it? More trouble?
05:23 It's Wotoma.
05:24 What?
05:26 Wotoma, the Sioux spirit woman.
05:28 You saw her last summer at Sitting Bull.
05:30 Oh, yes. I remember now.
05:33 Blast a lot of mumbo-jumbo, throwing dust in the air, muttering incantations and nonsense.
05:40 What about her?
05:42 She's here.
05:43 Here at Fort Hays? Why?
05:46 It was an attempt to kill her, to prevent her reaching us.
05:49 She's in pretty rough shape.
05:51 Have you talked to her?
05:53 No, sir. She won't talk to me.
05:55 She insists on talking only to you.
05:57 Me?
05:58 Why in the world would she want to talk to me?
06:01 I don't know, sir, but whatever it is, it must be important.
06:04 If her own people are trying to kill her.
06:07 I know that she is tied up with their religion, but just how important is she to them?
06:15 I'd say pertinent as important as Crazy Horse himself.
06:19 More important.
06:21 If something were to happen to Crazy Horse, it'd be a blow to the Sioux, but there'd always be someone else to replace him.
06:27 But Wotoma is a...
06:30 Well, she's more than a person.
06:32 She's a symbol of their spirit, their soul.
06:36 Why would she come to us?
06:39 It could be what we've been hoping for, sir.
06:41 To bring peace to these plains?
06:43 Yes, sir.
06:45 You may be right. Where is she now?
06:47 She's resting.
06:49 As soon as she's rested, I'll see her. The two of you had better be present.
06:52 Right.
06:53 I'd keep quiet about this.
06:55 The fewer people who know about it, the better.
06:57 Yes, sir.
06:59 Shoot. First chance I get to pass something around and I can't tell a soul.
07:07 I expect you'll survive.
07:08 Survive what?
07:12 Colonel, let me buy you a drink.
07:15 No thanks, Heldo.
07:17 Joe.
07:19 Now I'll pass.
07:21 You're going to drink alone. I don't like to drink alone.
07:24 Now, wait a minute, Heldo. I think you've had enough.
07:27 I need that, Colonel, to go to sleep. I need that to help me go to sleep.
07:30 I don't know.
07:31 I think you'll manage.
07:32 Come on. I'll take you back to your place. Let's go.
07:34 You're acting like I was drunk. I'm not drunk.
07:37 It's just that I need to sleep, that's all.
07:39 A trapper needs his sleep, you know.
07:41 Oh, he does.
07:42 Yeah, and I'm going to be leaving and start singing as soon as I get my things in order.
07:46 Come on. Come on.
07:48 Colonel, you don't have to take that.
07:50 Easy, easy.
07:52 I don't want to wake up O'Leary.
07:55 I doubt if an Indian war party could do that.
07:58 Oh, don't bet on that.
08:01 O'Leary's just like me. He'd smell a Sioux war party ten miles away.
08:05 He took his sister.
08:08 Like they took my Annie and my Joey.
08:12 Sure, sure. You get some sleep, huh?
08:14 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:17 It's been a long time.
08:19 Oh, about two years.
08:23 She certainly was a pretty woman.
08:26 Don't say was, Colonel. She is.
08:29 She's alive, Colonel. Oh, yeah. She and Joey both.
08:33 Well, you're only torturing yourself by believing that.
08:37 Oh, no, they're alive.
08:39 Somewhere, some place, they're alive.
08:42 Hello, it's been two years.
08:45 Now, I know it's hard to accept, but you've got to learn to face it.
08:48 I think they're dead.
08:50 Don't say that.
08:51 You're wrong. Now, don't say that.
08:54 I'm...
08:58 I'm sorry.
09:01 No need for apologies. I understand.
09:06 You get some sleep, huh?
09:07 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:34 You can begin by telling us why you're here.
09:37 Why you're running away from your own people.
09:40 I come against will of my people.
09:46 End fighting between us.
09:50 How would you do this, Futoma?
09:53 Yellow hair.
09:55 Enemy of my tribe.
10:00 Killer.
10:02 My man.
10:04 My child.
10:06 Why do you charge me with these things?
10:12 True?
10:14 Is true.
10:16 No matter now.
10:21 He gone away.
10:26 I alone.
10:29 Much that I must do.
10:33 Did I know your man?
10:35 Yes.
10:37 Black beaver.
10:40 War chief.
10:43 Oglala people.
10:46 Second only to crazy horse.
10:51 In minds of tribe.
10:56 White river.
10:59 I lost ten of my men there.
11:02 You soldier, yellow hair.
11:05 For you, only battle.
11:10 For me, all end.
11:17 Life.
11:19 Hope.
11:21 I'm sorry.
11:23 Yes, there is stupid, senseless killing in every war.
11:28 That's why I come to you.
11:31 To end killing between us.
11:35 I speak to leaders.
11:40 I listen to words.
11:44 I return my people.
11:50 My people.
11:53 Tell them what must be done.
11:56 To bring peace.
11:58 Will your people listen to you, Watoma?
12:01 When your leaders like crazy horse.
12:03 Count only war.
12:05 If there is peace.
12:10 Must be honor on both sides.
12:14 Your leaders must promise.
12:17 My people, their rights.
12:20 Must prove final treaty.
12:27 Must live.
12:30 For all times.
12:37 Give me such treaty.
12:41 I show my people.
12:44 White man.
12:46 Means no treachery.
12:48 They listen to me.
12:50 I see.
12:53 Why did you wait until now to come to us?
12:56 I had vision.
13:01 I look deep into sacred smoke.
13:07 I see my people gone from lands.
13:13 You drive them away.
13:18 I see many die.
13:22 Frozen snow.
13:26 Arms lifted.
13:30 Sky.
13:36 Must not happen.
13:40 Watoma.
13:41 Tell me.
13:44 Why should I believe you?
13:47 Your belief.
13:50 My belief.
13:52 Different.
13:55 One thing.
13:57 In both.
14:01 Faith.
14:05 I come.
14:07 To you.
14:09 In faith.
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15:00 What do you think?
15:02 I think we're taking an awful big chance.
15:05 The chance we really can't afford to pass up, sir.
15:08 You believe her then?
15:10 I don't know.
15:12 But if she means what she says.
15:14 It could lead to a treaty of peace with the Sunecian.
15:17 Joe.
15:19 You got no guarantee she ain't up to something.
15:22 I'll send a wire to General Sheridan.
15:24 See what he recommends.
15:27 Stay with her.
15:28 Yes, sir.
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15:49 That is the wrong way, friend.
15:51 General Terry's put this whole area off limits.
15:53 Hey, trooper, about face.
15:55 You're off limits.
15:56 Hold it.
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16:32 Sorry.
16:33 I just wanted to make sure you're all right.
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17:19 Back over here.
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17:39 Hey, trooper, what's all rotted in it?
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18:08 [Crying]
18:32 Annie.
18:41 Hira.
18:42 Hira.
18:43 What?
18:44 I heard a woman singing.
18:46 You hear her?
18:48 Hear her?
18:51 You heard nothing.
18:53 Go to sleep.
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19:10 General Sheridan wants to talk to the woman personally.
19:13 Wants to see her in Fort Dodge in three days.
19:15 No later.
19:16 I'm going to put you in charge of the detail to get her there.
19:18 You should make it three easy stages.
19:20 A Red Rock Canyon the end of the first day, then if all goes well,
19:24 second night, Ten Mile Creek, and then Fort --
19:28 What's the matter?
19:30 Sir, the Sioux undoubtedly know the woman would be with us.
19:33 I doubt if a full battalion could get her through there safely.
19:37 General Sheridan's orders are specific, Colonel.
19:40 That doesn't make them right, sir.
19:41 You're saying too much.
19:43 I'm not going to tolerate any further insubordination on your part, Colonel.
19:47 Yes, sir.
19:49 [Sigh]
20:00 Hey, Buster, let me talk to you a minute.
20:02 Come here.
20:03 What's going on around here?
20:05 I don't know what you're talking about.
20:06 Well, I heard a woman singing in the middle of the night.
20:09 That's quite a dream you were having.
20:10 No, no, no, no.
20:11 What about that engine buck that your boys buried about an hour ago?
20:14 Now, what's going on around here?
20:16 Well, you're holding up operations.
20:18 I'm trying to move it, sir.
20:19 I've got a long day.
20:23 Yeah.
20:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:35 We're about ready, sir.
20:38 She's in the tack room.
20:40 Get your gear together.
20:59 We'll be leaving soon.
21:08 What are you doing?
21:12 Reading sand.
21:18 What is to become of -- can be read there?
21:22 Sometimes.
21:28 I see.
21:30 You read my name in there.
21:33 Sand holds everything.
21:36 Man's lifetime in single grain.
21:42 A thousand moons forever.
21:46 What is there for me?
21:48 Not always wise to know.
21:53 I'm not afraid.
22:19 Nothing?
22:20 No.
22:22 Nothing.
22:24 Go ahead.
22:25 Try again.
22:38 What is it?
22:39 Death.
22:43 Everywhere.
22:45 Across face of earth.
22:48 Everywhere.
22:50 Men lie in sun.
22:53 Soldiers all dead.
22:56 Soldiers?
22:58 How many?
23:00 Across land.
23:03 Everywhere.
23:06 Men lie dead.
23:09 All your men, yellow hair.
23:13 When will this happen?
23:15 Soon?
23:16 Not soon.
23:20 Yet.
23:22 Not long.
23:24 Me?
23:26 Am I there too?
23:29 Yes.
23:32 You there too, yellow hair.
23:35 We're ready, sir.
23:40 Very good, Sergeant.
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24:34 Now, if I was an Indian, I'd say this column would be pretty easy picking.
24:50 I thought you said you were better than any two Indians.
24:54 In general, you know I'm the biggest doggone liar in the world.
24:59 Take the point.
25:17 General, some of the boys are might worried about us getting our cargo through all right.
25:27 Well, worried soldier.
25:30 Sleeps lighter and hears better.
25:33 You better take a look around, California, before you turn in.
25:37 All right.
25:41 The heroic forces of U.S. Cavalry in their...
25:49 Word, word.
25:54 Triumph.
25:58 The victor in battle.
26:00 Triumph over a horde of bloodthirsty savages.
26:08 Sensational writing, newspaper stories.
26:12 That's what sells newspapers.
26:14 Truth does not matter?
26:17 Apparently not as much as the number of newspapers they can sell.
26:21 The people are at war, and they want to read about their victories.
26:27 Is not fair.
26:29 Isn't supposed to be.
26:31 Will peace be fair?
26:33 Will my people be free?
26:37 I think so.
26:40 You do not know.
26:42 I can't guarantee you if that's what you mean.
26:45 But I do know one thing, that we just finished fighting one war.
26:50 To make sure that a man couldn't be a slave in this country.
26:55 My people say, if catch hawk, two ways treat him.
27:03 Put him in cage, spirit will die.
27:08 No matter much food you give him.
27:13 Loose him in forest.
27:17 He know you as friend.
27:20 Hunt with you as brother.
27:24 Sue a hawks.
27:28 Halt, who goes there?
27:30 Get in that wagon quick.
27:39 I want a custard.
27:49 Good evening, McConnel.
27:51 Elder, how did you get by my scentry?
27:53 I guess you know, man, it's not like I'm a Sue.
27:57 Coffee smells good.
28:00 Help yourself.
28:01 Thank you, thank you.
28:03 I was just up here,
28:05 I was hanging on my trap lines.
28:08 I'm sorry, Elder, but I didn't know you ran traps out this far from the fort.
28:11 Oh, yeah, yeah, animals are getting sparse around the fort.
28:14 Man's got spread out a little bit.
28:17 This is Sue country, Elder.
28:19 The cavalry can't protect you up here.
28:22 Oh, I never asked for protection.
28:24 The truth, Colonel, since I lost my wife and boy,
28:27 I don't really care what happened.
28:30 It's not very sensible talk.
28:32 No, no, maybe not.
28:34 Where are you heading?
28:36 Well, we're just a routine patrol to Fort Dodge.
28:39 I'm going to drop off some supplies at the telegraph shack.
28:42 You won't mind my going along with you, huh?
28:45 You don't set a trap line along a stage road, Elder.
28:48 Oh, that's right, I got to get the traps first.
28:52 I'm going to pick them up in Fort Dodge.
28:55 All right, you can come along.
28:58 We leave at first light.
29:00 Just pick any spot you like to bed down.
29:02 Well, thank you, Colonel.
29:04 I'll get a nice soft spot away from the camp.
29:06 I'm used to being alone.
29:08 Thank you for the coffee.
29:10 Funny thing about that Jasper following us clear out here.
29:27 We don't know that he followed us.
29:30 Take a good look around?
29:32 Yep.
29:34 I'll catch about an hour of sleep,
29:36 and then I'll take another circle around.
29:38 Do that.
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30:07 I thought I told you to stay undercover.
30:10 Sometimes spirit calls.
30:14 Someone in need.
30:17 Not far from here.
30:20 [man shouts]
30:22 I do hear someone.
30:25 Not very far away. Over there.
30:28 [man shouts]
30:30 Sounds like an Indian calling for help, Colonel.
30:34 Must be a trick.
30:36 Where'd you get the squaw, Colonel?
30:39 It's in your cell, Bilbo. Forget you ever saw it.
30:42 Sergeant, come with me.
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30:53 [man shouts]
30:55 [man shouts]
31:07 [man shouts]
31:20 Colonel, you can't go in there. The whole rock's caving in.
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31:27 Are you all right, sir?
31:48 Yes, I'm all right.
31:50 Don't try and come in after me. That's an order.
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32:16 Get out, quick!
32:18 Come back here! Sergeant!
32:29 Let him go. You let him go!
32:32 Take Hildo back to camp.
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33:09 [man shouts]
33:12 What you want?
33:24 You're the one who was singing back at Fort Hayes.
33:27 Now, who are you?
33:29 What to, Ma?
33:31 What to?
33:33 What are you?
33:35 You're the spirit who...
33:38 ...will lead her the whole soon as you're more important than Sid and Bully's staff.
33:42 Hildo, get away from that wagon.
33:45 No, no. You get away.
33:48 I'm gonna blow this score apart.
33:51 Listen to me, Hildo. That woman's a friend.
33:54 She's gonna help us with the Sioux.
33:57 Now, we've gotta get her to Fort Dodger alive. Now, let her go.
34:00 Yeah, yeah. She's important, ain't she?
34:03 She's about the most important thing in the world, I reckon.
34:06 That's what the Sioux would give to get her back, huh?
34:09 You're not talking sense, Hildo.
34:11 I'm talking sense more than I've talked in my whole life.
34:14 Yeah. I'm gonna trade her right across the board for my wife and my boy.
34:19 Your family is dead.
34:21 No, they ain't. My wife and my boy are still alive.
34:25 It's two years, Hildo.
34:27 If they aren't alive, they're not the way you remember them.
34:30 They'll never be that way again.
34:32 You're wrong. You've gotta be wrong.
34:35 And things is gonna be just the way they was.
34:38 Now, I'm gonna take this woman with me.
34:41 Buston, bring me a horse.
34:44 Don't try anything funny or I'll kill this woman and Custer's next.
34:47 All right, Custer, have your men put their rifles in a pile right there.
34:55 You heard what he said.
34:57 Put your weapons in a pile. Now!
35:01 (horse whinnies)
35:03 That's far enough.
35:10 Now, you take your revolver. You and Custer, both.
35:13 Take your revolvers and throw 'em over there.
35:16 Come on!
35:19 You don't realize what you're doing, Hildo.
35:28 Oh, you're wrong, Colonel.
35:30 All right, come on, woman. Now, get down. Get down!
35:33 All right. Get up there. Get up!
35:36 All right. Now, easy.
35:38 Let me help those reins.
35:40 All right, now, move back.
35:42 All right, here. Get on the horse.
35:44 Get on the horse.
35:46 You try any tricks and I'll kill you.
35:56 Whatever that man says, you obey him, Otomo.
35:59 Wait.
36:08 We're not dealing with a normal man.
36:10 We'd kill her if we tried to stop him.
36:13 Are we going after him then, Colonel?
36:15 All right, prepare to move out. We got another ground to cover.
36:22 All right, prepare to move out. We got another ground to cover.
36:25 No sign of him anywhere, Colonel.
36:49 All right.
36:51 Hey, I was just wondering.
37:12 You know, if you're as important as they say you are...
37:17 ...doing some traveling, you know, from village to village...
37:21 ...what I mean.
37:23 I was wondering, uh...
37:26 ...if you ever seen a woman named Annie.
37:30 She's a little thing, about 40 years old.
37:34 Black hair, just about as black as yours.
37:38 She might be cooking for you folks.
37:41 She sure did like to cook. She done it a little while.
37:44 She had a boy with her, named Joey.
37:47 About two years old when they took him.
37:50 Had blonde hair.
37:52 Just as blonde as blonde hair can get, I guess.
37:57 May have turned brown by now. I wouldn't know that.
38:00 Had blue eyes.
38:02 Just as blue as the sky.
38:04 He's a stout little fella. Real strong.
38:07 I used to pick him up in my arms.
38:10 Well, what about it? Did you ever see a boy or a woman look like that?
38:15 No.
38:20 Sorry.
38:22 Finish up your food. We gotta be leaving pretty quick.
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38:30 This Sioux land.
38:54 Find us here, both killed.
38:57 No, no. As long as I got you with me, I don't reckon.
39:02 But just in case...
39:06 ...we'll let 'em know that we come friendly.
39:09 All right.
39:16 Let's go.
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39:23 I got Watoma! The spirit woman!
39:43 You understand?
39:45 I'll trade her for all the captives you got.
39:48 We understand. I don't mean you no harm.
39:51 I'll trade her.
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40:55 No sign of the woman, sir.
41:07 They'll be pretty rough on her, won't they?
41:09 I hope they know how to be.
41:11 -See anything? -Yeah, some tracks.
41:17 Looked like eight or nine of 'em.
41:19 I followed 'em off up in them rocks, and where they went from there, it's anybody's guess.
41:24 That's an awful lot of territory to cover, sir.
41:26 Well, then, we'd better get at it.
41:28 California, you and I'll take the south rim.
41:30 Sergeant, you take the rest of detail and push along the other side.
41:33 -We'll meet back here in an hour. Let's go. -Yes, sir.
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42:11 There's a lot of peaks around here. Can't hardly tell where it's coming from.
42:15 Over there.
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42:25 [grunts]
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42:38 [grunts]
43:05 [barks]
43:07 Sure don't look good, does it?
43:09 Could be worse.
43:11 Take a position here.
43:13 Don't start firing till I've determined the patrol.
43:16 I reckon you know that the minute I start shooting,
43:19 they're gonna have my hide hanging on the fence and nothing flat.
43:22 I know they won't, 'cause they're not going to be looking at you.
43:25 Hey, wait a minute.
43:27 How am I supposed to know when to start shooting?
43:31 -When you hear the charge. -Charge?
43:34 It's two to one, odds.
43:36 [barks]
43:41 -Everything's ready here, sir. -Mount them in.
43:48 Mount up.
43:50 You've all worn in action for some time.
43:57 Now you're gonna get your bellies full of it.
44:00 Bugler, I don't care if you blew that bugle well,
44:03 when I say sound the charge, it had better be loud.
44:06 Now let's move.
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45:00 [gunshot]
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45:06 [cheering]
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45:17 [grunting]
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48:05 [sobbing]
48:07 We ask thee,
48:22 great spirit
48:25 of earth,
48:28 water,
48:30 sky,
48:33 give brave warriors
48:36 peace,
48:39 plenty,
48:42 happiness
48:44 forever.
48:47 Father,
48:51 we ask you to accept these our brothers
48:54 into your house,
48:56 Indian,
48:58 or white.
49:01 Amen.
49:03 Died in honor.
49:26 Not in vain, I hope.
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49:33 Otomo,
49:35 someday this'll all be one country
49:37 where men can live in peace together,
49:40 regardless of the color of their skin.
49:42 That day will not be soon, yellowhead.
49:46 But will be.
49:49 Sergeant, let's move.
49:53 We're gonna make for Dodge before dark.
49:56 Otomo?
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