1 00:01:13,365 --> 00:01:17,953 It began at the Jericho Mine, Jericho City, Tennessee, 2 00:01:18,161 --> 00:01:24,126 in the year 1935, the day after Ma died. 3 00:01:24,334 --> 00:01:28,964 She'd lasted only a year after Pa was killed in the army. 4 00:01:29,172 --> 00:01:34,719 That's how I came to live with Granma and Granpa when I was eight. 5 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:39,474 One time, Granma told me that when you come on something good, 6 00:01:39,683 --> 00:01:44,521 first thing to do is stare it with whosoever you can find. 7 00:01:44,729 --> 00:01:50,100 That way, the good spreads out, we're no telling how far it'll go. 8 00:01:51,025 --> 00:01:52,555 Which is right. 9 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:55,323 So I'm telling the story of them days, 10 00:01:55,573 --> 00:01:59,411 how Granma and Granpa got me away from Aunt Martha 11 00:02:00,483 --> 00:02:03,015 and took me to live in their mountains, 12 00:02:03,636 --> 00:02:06,247 where they'd raised my pa before me, 13 00:02:06,334 --> 00:02:11,099 and which I know now was the secret heart of the world. 14 00:02:15,927 --> 00:02:19,013 You stop, right where you stand! 15 00:02:24,686 --> 00:02:26,437 I said no! 16 00:02:28,690 --> 00:02:34,445 You ain't goin' off with no backwoods white Indian so long as I got breath. 17 00:02:35,113 --> 00:02:40,034 Sally was my sister and she gave him to us. 18 00:02:40,243 --> 00:02:43,538 Put a hand to it, Henry, for Jesus' sake. 19 00:02:48,167 --> 00:02:52,797 You can't waltz in here and carry him off to some God-forsaken... 20 00:02:53,005 --> 00:02:55,299 Martha, leave him be. 21 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:11,816 It ain't right. 22 00:03:12,024 --> 00:03:14,485 It ain't right, by damn! 23 00:04:41,071 --> 00:04:43,823 Wales, he's wearin' out. 24 00:04:52,165 --> 00:04:54,000 Yeah. 25 00:05:33,915 --> 00:05:36,292 Are you OK, son? 26 00:05:46,052 --> 00:05:48,930 Take the light. 27 00:06:43,442 --> 00:06:46,945 You ain't wakening him his first morning? 28 00:06:47,154 --> 00:06:50,532 Just giving him the option, is all. 29 00:06:50,741 --> 00:06:54,828 Little Tree, are you awake enough to hear me? 30 00:06:55,037 --> 00:06:59,541 We're heading up to the corn patch. Figure you might like to help. 31 00:06:59,750 --> 00:07:02,336 - Wales! - It's up to you. 32 00:07:02,544 --> 00:07:04,838 Come on, now! 33 00:07:24,733 --> 00:07:26,818 Well, now! 34 00:07:31,531 --> 00:07:34,659 Go on, get off him! 35 00:07:34,868 --> 00:07:40,291 They're heartened to see someone new. They get plenty of Granma and me. 36 00:07:41,541 --> 00:07:43,543 That's Blue Boy. 37 00:07:50,216 --> 00:07:52,844 They the only shoes you got? 38 00:07:53,053 --> 00:07:56,222 Bet you can't feel a thing through them soles. 39 00:07:59,059 --> 00:08:03,355 We'll take care of that. To learn, you got to feel the ground. 40 00:08:03,563 --> 00:08:07,275 All right... You'll stay! 41 00:08:28,087 --> 00:08:31,132 She's coming alive! 42 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:13,132 Don't feel sad, Little Tree. It's the Way. 43 00:09:13,341 --> 00:09:19,013 The falcon caught the slow bird, so it won't have no babies that are slow. 44 00:09:19,221 --> 00:09:22,349 It helps the bird out, you see? 45 00:09:24,810 --> 00:09:28,981 It's a lesson. Animals know that, just look around. 46 00:09:29,190 --> 00:09:32,276 Only the white man takes more than his share. 47 00:09:32,485 --> 00:09:36,822 He'll claim whatever he can, no matter how much it is. 48 00:09:37,031 --> 00:09:41,660 He'll run his flag up, saying, "This stands for my right to more. " 49 00:09:41,869 --> 00:09:45,331 Then there'll be a war over it and men'll die. 50 00:09:47,124 --> 00:09:49,918 Like your daddy. 51 00:09:52,379 --> 00:09:58,177 You're saying, "Hold on there, I thought Granpa was a white man. " 52 00:09:58,385 --> 00:10:03,766 It's the truth. I was born white, no doubt about it. 53 00:10:03,974 --> 00:10:07,559 But, when I met your granma, 54 00:10:08,398 --> 00:10:10,869 how young she was and... 55 00:10:10,904 --> 00:10:13,942 ...how she could dance! 56 00:10:14,151 --> 00:10:18,614 We married and I began to see the world through Cherokee eyes, 57 00:10:18,822 --> 00:10:22,534 till I came at last to understand the Way. 58 00:10:23,910 --> 00:10:25,954 And so will you, Little Tree. 59 00:10:26,163 --> 00:10:29,583 You'll learn you can't change the rules of the Way, 60 00:10:29,791 --> 00:10:33,628 even if you are white, and that's that. 61 00:10:35,922 --> 00:10:39,092 My ma was white. 62 00:10:39,301 --> 00:10:44,681 As was mine. Fine a woman as ever lived. 63 00:10:44,890 --> 00:10:48,310 - As was mine. - She was. 64 00:10:48,518 --> 00:10:52,647 She pleased your daddy, too. He told us. 65 00:11:30,894 --> 00:11:32,854 Dictionary. 66 00:11:34,188 --> 00:11:37,942 As he can't get to the settlement every day for school, 67 00:11:38,151 --> 00:11:42,113 a crying shame, nothing we can do about it, 68 00:11:42,322 --> 00:11:47,535 I plan to each him myself. All I know, anyhow. 69 00:11:48,619 --> 00:11:53,207 Look at the first word. Can you make out what it says? 70 00:11:59,338 --> 00:12:03,551 Aard... vark. 71 00:12:03,759 --> 00:12:06,095 Aardvark. 72 00:12:06,304 --> 00:12:08,598 Aard... what? 73 00:12:08,806 --> 00:12:11,809 Large, burrowing, African mammal 74 00:12:12,018 --> 00:12:16,480 that feeds on ants and termites. 75 00:12:16,689 --> 00:12:19,942 That's his first word? 76 00:12:20,151 --> 00:12:25,281 Tell me, when is the occasion going to arise for him to employ this word? 77 00:12:25,489 --> 00:12:30,870 - Can't never tell. - Yeah, that's right, Little Tree. 78 00:12:31,078 --> 00:12:35,833 You go to the settlement, you never can tell what's going to come up. 79 00:12:36,041 --> 00:12:37,566 You know, like, 80 00:12:39,281 --> 00:12:43,629 "Little Tree's downcast. Seems he lost his aardvark. " 81 00:12:43,632 --> 00:12:45,885 "That's funny," says Mr. Jenkins. 82 00:12:46,135 --> 00:12:50,222 "Miss Perkins is having trouble with her aardvark, too. 83 00:12:50,431 --> 00:12:53,272 "Had to go all the way to Knoxville, 84 00:12:53,676 --> 00:12:57,729 up to hospital, have her whole dang aardvark removed! 85 00:12:57,764 --> 00:13:01,942 "She's resting comfortable now, but... Them aardvarks!" 86 00:13:02,151 --> 00:13:05,028 You can't never tell! 87 00:13:14,121 --> 00:13:16,165 You'll stay! 88 00:13:43,525 --> 00:13:47,279 How old are you going to be on your next birthday? 89 00:13:47,487 --> 00:13:52,817 - Nine. Come March 22. - That's what I thought. 90 00:13:53,827 --> 00:13:57,914 Then it is time you started on a trade. 91 00:14:37,787 --> 00:14:42,125 - That's her. - What does she do? 92 00:14:43,835 --> 00:14:48,506 She makes whiskey! Ain't you ever seen a still afore? 93 00:14:52,677 --> 00:14:56,264 This here's my trade. Whiskey-making. 94 00:14:56,472 --> 00:15:01,102 Been handed down on the Scots side of my family for 200 years. 95 00:15:01,310 --> 00:15:03,688 I'm going to hand it down to you. 96 00:15:03,896 --> 00:15:08,860 Of course, when you get older, you might want to switch trades. 97 00:15:09,068 --> 00:15:12,238 Leastways you'll have something to fall back on 98 00:15:12,446 --> 00:15:16,534 when you're pressed otherwise to make a living. 99 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,124 Times like these here, hard times. 100 00:15:25,835 --> 00:15:29,505 Now, this... 101 00:15:29,714 --> 00:15:31,549 ...you call the beer. 102 00:15:31,757 --> 00:15:36,679 What we're going to do today is turn the beer into whiskey. 103 00:15:45,479 --> 00:15:46,897 OK. 104 00:15:47,982 --> 00:15:50,150 Pour away! 105 00:15:52,528 --> 00:15:55,614 This here is pure corn. 106 00:15:58,117 --> 00:16:02,871 Some fellows, and this is what gives whiskey-making a bad name, 107 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:08,677 some fellows use potash or even lye to make the mash quick. 108 00:16:10,462 --> 00:16:13,674 Some put it through sheet iron or truck radiators, 109 00:16:13,882 --> 00:16:17,094 got all kind of poisons that can kill you. 110 00:16:18,595 --> 00:16:22,724 Now, these fellows ought to be hung, in my opinion. 111 00:16:22,933 --> 00:16:28,621 Then there's the other side, them that say whiskey ought to be aged. 112 00:16:29,690 --> 00:16:35,612 I tried that once. Set back some fresh-made for a whole god damn week. 113 00:16:37,489 --> 00:16:43,078 By the bye, there's a word you won't find in your granma's dictionary, 114 00:16:43,286 --> 00:16:47,165 so you probably shouldn't try it out on her, OK? 115 00:16:47,374 --> 00:16:48,959 OK. 116 00:16:49,167 --> 00:16:52,546 Now... where was I? 117 00:16:52,754 --> 00:16:56,883 You set some fresh-made back a whole goddam week. 118 00:16:58,301 --> 00:16:59,803 Week, yeah... 119 00:17:01,264 --> 00:17:05,017 Didn't taste a damn lick different from all the other whiskey I ever made. 120 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,938 I'm gonna raise the flame on this a little bit. 121 00:17:10,146 --> 00:17:14,109 See? You want to boil it, but you don't want to scorch it. 122 00:17:14,317 --> 00:17:18,988 What I could use is just one more armload of good dry wood. 123 00:17:19,197 --> 00:17:22,283 I'll get it, Granpa! 124 00:17:44,430 --> 00:17:46,599 You be Little Tree? 125 00:17:51,854 --> 00:17:54,941 Well, let's see what you brung. 126 00:18:09,205 --> 00:18:11,874 Little Tree, this here's Willow John. 127 00:18:21,259 --> 00:18:23,678 He has the magic. 128 00:18:54,625 --> 00:18:59,129 - What do you reckon? - Ain't you gonna taste it? 129 00:19:00,165 --> 00:19:05,455 Well, this is what you call your single. Damn near 200 proof. 130 00:19:05,594 --> 00:19:10,432 We only get a couple of gallons of it. You add water, start over again, 131 00:19:10,641 --> 00:19:13,977 and that's how you get your selling whiskey, see? 132 00:19:15,145 --> 00:19:19,650 Still, a man ought to know what his single tastes like, 133 00:19:19,858 --> 00:19:23,695 seeing as how it's the backbone of the whiskey and all. 134 00:19:34,164 --> 00:19:37,876 That's out of the early corn. Got a... 135 00:19:38,085 --> 00:19:42,506 Don't know what you'd call it, exactly. A kind of a... 136 00:19:42,714 --> 00:19:46,760 - Bite. - Bite. 137 00:19:46,968 --> 00:19:50,347 Yeah, that'd be it. 138 00:20:25,757 --> 00:20:30,428 - Have you told him of our history? - Not as yet. 139 00:20:30,637 --> 00:20:33,598 He should know. 140 00:20:34,891 --> 00:20:38,603 - It's a hard tale. - It is that. 141 00:20:38,812 --> 00:20:44,567 But if you don't know your past, you won't have a future. 142 00:20:46,861 --> 00:20:51,282 Why don't y'all leave it up to the boy? 143 00:20:51,491 --> 00:20:55,438 This here's a story about your ancestors Little Tree, 144 00:20:55,816 --> 00:20:57,927 and how they come to be here. 145 00:20:58,498 --> 00:21:01,167 Do you care to know? 146 00:21:03,086 --> 00:21:04,879 I do. 147 00:21:15,598 --> 00:21:17,767 Well, now... 148 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,856 ...the Cherokee have lived in these hills since the Doda put 'em there. 149 00:21:25,152 --> 00:21:29,772 They farmed in the valleys, made the winter hunts, 150 00:21:30,488 --> 00:21:33,366 and taught themselves the Way. 151 00:21:33,574 --> 00:21:36,494 But then the white man come 152 00:21:36,702 --> 00:21:40,247 and the Cherokee made a paper treaty with him. 153 00:21:40,456 --> 00:21:44,919 They said, "These white men ain't so bad. We could live together. " 154 00:21:46,087 --> 00:21:52,028 Then government soldiers came and said the paper treaty had changed its words. 155 00:21:52,384 --> 00:21:56,430 Now the words said the Cherokee had to give up their homes 156 00:21:56,639 --> 00:22:01,352 and move far west, where the government had other lands for them. 157 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,189 Lands that the white man didn't want, of course. 158 00:22:05,397 --> 00:22:10,194 While the Cherokee were trying to understand, the government soldiers 159 00:22:10,402 --> 00:22:15,282 found this big old valley and ringed it in with their guns, 160 00:22:15,491 --> 00:22:20,954 and drove the Cherokee in there just like cattle. 161 00:22:21,163 --> 00:22:25,084 And they filled up that whole valley. 162 00:22:25,292 --> 00:22:31,041 Then they brought in mules and horses and said they could ride out west. 163 00:22:31,757 --> 00:22:36,053 Now the Cherokee, they had nothing left, did they? 164 00:22:36,261 --> 00:22:42,100 They had no homes, no farms, no land, nothin'. 165 00:22:42,309 --> 00:22:46,563 - But they would not ride. - Damn right. 166 00:22:46,772 --> 00:22:50,942 So they did save something from it, didn't they? 167 00:22:51,151 --> 00:22:55,614 They couldn't see it, they couldn't wear it, they couldn't eat it. 168 00:22:55,822 --> 00:22:59,117 But they did save something. 169 00:22:59,326 --> 00:23:03,205 They would not ride. 170 00:23:03,413 --> 00:23:07,292 - They walked. - Yes. 171 00:23:07,501 --> 00:23:10,337 It was a long walk 172 00:23:10,545 --> 00:23:14,716 and as they got farther and farther from their mountains, 173 00:23:14,966 --> 00:23:16,760 they began to die. 174 00:23:16,968 --> 00:23:21,932 At first, it was just the very young and the very old, 175 00:23:22,140 --> 00:23:26,978 and the soldiers stopped to let the Cherokee bury their dead. 176 00:23:27,187 --> 00:23:30,190 But then more began to die. 177 00:23:30,398 --> 00:23:36,321 They died by the hundreds, by the thousands. 178 00:23:38,130 --> 00:23:43,661 The soldiers said, "Put your dead in the wagons and we'll carry them for you. " 179 00:23:43,870 --> 00:23:47,916 - But did they? - No, sir. 180 00:23:48,124 --> 00:23:51,127 No. 181 00:23:51,336 --> 00:23:55,381 The Cherokee would not put their dead in the wagons. 182 00:23:55,590 --> 00:24:00,887 They carried 'em, walking. Yes... 183 00:24:01,095 --> 00:24:04,140 The man carried his dead wife, 184 00:24:04,349 --> 00:24:07,018 the son carried his dead momma, 185 00:24:07,226 --> 00:24:12,690 and the little boy carried his baby sister. 186 00:24:12,899 --> 00:24:18,608 The white people lined up along the trail to watch them pass by. 187 00:24:19,113 --> 00:24:21,949 Some of them people began to cry 188 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,329 and that's why they call it the Trail of hears. 189 00:24:28,122 --> 00:24:31,042 But the Cherokee did not cry. 190 00:24:31,250 --> 00:24:36,922 They did not speak, they did not look. 191 00:24:37,131 --> 00:24:41,010 They walked on. 192 00:24:41,218 --> 00:24:44,847 But by some magic that I don't know, 193 00:24:45,056 --> 00:24:48,476 some managed to escape and make their way back, 194 00:24:48,684 --> 00:24:54,302 staying off the trail, until they found their mountains again. 195 00:24:54,982 --> 00:25:00,613 And they went far back into them and time went on. 196 00:25:01,822 --> 00:25:05,868 By and by, the white man forgot about them and passed by, 197 00:25:06,076 --> 00:25:10,080 and finally left them in peace. 198 00:25:10,289 --> 00:25:15,836 And that's you, Little Tree. That's us. 199 00:25:16,045 --> 00:25:18,635 That's where you come from, 200 00:25:19,730 --> 00:25:22,176 and that's why we're here. 201 00:25:59,129 --> 00:26:01,214 Well, now! 202 00:26:02,883 --> 00:26:06,511 I reckon Willow John likes you. 203 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,182 - He left it for me? - Looks like it. 204 00:26:10,390 --> 00:26:16,188 - But I didn't get to thank him. - He didn't do it for thanks. 205 00:26:16,396 --> 00:26:21,735 He gave it to you 'cause you deserve it. That don't call for no show, does it? 206 00:26:21,943 --> 00:26:26,948 - I suppose not. But shouldn't I...? - Go on to bed now. 207 00:26:27,157 --> 00:26:29,993 Long day tomorrow. 208 00:26:56,895 --> 00:27:00,398 Take them big shoes off, for once and for all. 209 00:27:00,607 --> 00:27:03,484 They're finally ready. 210 00:27:12,327 --> 00:27:13,995 They're still wet! 211 00:27:14,203 --> 00:27:17,540 You put 'em on wet and walk 'em dry. 212 00:27:17,749 --> 00:27:21,502 That way they fit like they growed on your feet. 213 00:27:21,711 --> 00:27:26,507 Got rid of them clobbers, did you? Just in time. 214 00:27:26,716 --> 00:27:30,553 Got a long, heavy haul down to the settlement. 215 00:27:30,761 --> 00:27:34,181 How many jars you reckon you can tote? 216 00:27:34,390 --> 00:27:37,476 - How many in all? - Thirteen. 217 00:27:37,685 --> 00:27:43,649 Two to keep, for medicinals. That makes... what number? 218 00:27:48,529 --> 00:27:53,576 - Eleven to go. - All right. Try it now. 219 00:27:58,622 --> 00:28:02,835 - What say I put two in the sack for you? - Three. 220 00:28:03,945 --> 00:28:08,699 You're sure, now? If I put in three, that's how many you'll carry. 221 00:28:09,425 --> 00:28:12,678 - Three. - All yours. 222 00:28:21,270 --> 00:28:24,023 Don't feel like nothin' at all. 223 00:28:24,231 --> 00:28:28,485 That new knife kind of balances things out, don't it? 224 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:36,452 - How do them moccasins feel? - Like they growed on my feet! 225 00:28:53,260 --> 00:28:56,680 Now, that there is Jenkins' store. 226 00:28:58,069 --> 00:29:03,478 You got good eyes. Tell me, is there a pickle barrel out front? 227 00:29:05,065 --> 00:29:10,452 - No, only some men sitting. - That's the sign to come on in. 228 00:29:10,527 --> 00:29:15,407 Pickle barrel means the law. That's another thing to remember. 229 00:29:38,930 --> 00:29:43,018 I guess new fortune's on its way. Howdy, Wales! 230 00:29:44,769 --> 00:29:48,398 - Who's the little fellow? - My grandson, Little Tree. 231 00:29:48,606 --> 00:29:50,567 Hey, Little Tree! 232 00:29:51,651 --> 00:29:54,320 It was Wednesday... No... 233 00:29:54,529 --> 00:29:59,409 It was Tuesday, for I'd been playing at a dance on the Monday night. 234 00:29:59,617 --> 00:30:02,120 I come through the settlement 235 00:30:02,328 --> 00:30:07,542 and I seen Smokehouse, Turner, you know, police. 236 00:30:07,750 --> 00:30:10,003 I'm talking with Smokehouse 237 00:30:10,211 --> 00:30:15,466 and this big shiny car comes pulling into the filling station. 238 00:30:15,675 --> 00:30:20,847 It hit me right off! I said to myself, that's a big-city criminal. 239 00:30:21,055 --> 00:30:24,142 Smokehouse asked him, "Where you from?" 240 00:30:24,350 --> 00:30:26,769 He says, "Chicago. " 241 00:30:26,978 --> 00:30:31,732 Meantime, pulling Smokehouse aside, I say, 242 00:30:33,369 --> 00:30:38,136 "He says he's from Chicago, but he's got an Illinois tag on his car. " 243 00:30:38,364 --> 00:30:43,828 Old Smokehouse come down on him like Judgment Day! 244 00:30:44,036 --> 00:30:47,206 He was jumpin' and sayin' to him... 245 00:30:51,669 --> 00:30:55,798 Let's give it the acid hest, Wales. Here we go. 246 00:31:08,727 --> 00:31:10,980 Elegant! 247 00:31:13,274 --> 00:31:17,236 Hey, Little Tree, come over here. 248 00:31:17,444 --> 00:31:18,904 Thank you. 249 00:31:19,780 --> 00:31:22,575 Would you do an old man a favor 250 00:31:22,783 --> 00:31:27,162 and go out to the woodpile and fill the sack with woodchips? 251 00:31:27,371 --> 00:31:31,000 Getting mighty low. I appreciate it. 252 00:31:48,350 --> 00:31:51,478 What's them things on your feet? 253 00:31:53,730 --> 00:31:56,525 Moccasins. 254 00:32:01,238 --> 00:32:03,865 Can I touch 'em? 255 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,369 Suppose. 256 00:32:09,287 --> 00:32:13,166 - They's soft. - Yep. 257 00:32:13,375 --> 00:32:18,630 - You're an Indian, then. - I'm working at it. 258 00:32:18,839 --> 00:32:22,843 You been inside that there store? 259 00:32:23,051 --> 00:32:25,095 They got dolls in there? 260 00:32:25,637 --> 00:32:29,224 Expect so. Almost near everything. 261 00:32:31,226 --> 00:32:36,565 - Would you look and find out for me? - S'pose. 262 00:32:36,773 --> 00:32:40,902 Pa says he's gonna buy me one as soon as we get our share... 263 00:32:41,111 --> 00:32:44,447 - Share of what? - What? 264 00:32:46,116 --> 00:32:48,785 You know, the share. 265 00:32:48,993 --> 00:32:52,789 The share of tobacco you pick, dummy. 266 00:32:52,997 --> 00:32:56,251 I ain't never picked no tobacco before. 267 00:32:56,459 --> 00:33:01,673 That's 'cause Indians are lazy and don't work none. 268 00:33:01,881 --> 00:33:07,428 - What's this I'm doing, then? - I ain't saying it's your fault. 269 00:33:08,652 --> 00:33:14,036 You're just... different, that's all. I mean, look at the color of you. 270 00:33:16,229 --> 00:33:18,273 Come ahead, put yours up. 271 00:33:18,523 --> 00:33:20,233 Come on. 272 00:33:24,237 --> 00:33:29,534 - Which one do you like better? - I don't know. 273 00:33:29,742 --> 00:33:32,620 Do you like mine? 274 00:33:34,705 --> 00:33:37,458 Yours is dirty. 275 00:34:14,411 --> 00:34:18,582 All right, now. Me and Mr. Jenkins is all settled up. 276 00:34:18,791 --> 00:34:23,462 So I figured out your cut of the deal here. 50 cents. 277 00:34:23,671 --> 00:34:26,423 - Mine? - We're partners, ain't we? 278 00:34:26,632 --> 00:34:31,136 - But... - You done the work, you get the pay. 279 00:34:31,345 --> 00:34:34,306 That's how it is. 280 00:35:13,136 --> 00:35:15,847 Let's get it over with. 281 00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:29,981 Well... this morning, God is truly shining his beatific light on us. 282 00:36:30,016 --> 00:36:34,008 It is said that he also serves who stands and waits. 283 00:36:34,217 --> 00:36:38,679 Lord knows we've been standing here a long time. 284 00:36:38,888 --> 00:36:42,517 But today, our prayers are answered. 285 00:36:42,725 --> 00:36:47,021 A great man is about to arrive and bless us with his words, 286 00:36:47,230 --> 00:36:50,024 all the way from Washington City. 287 00:36:50,233 --> 00:36:54,612 Our own Congressman, the poor man's best friend, 288 00:36:54,820 --> 00:36:58,449 Johnny Mack Stoddard! 289 00:36:58,658 --> 00:37:03,120 Above all the churches in East Tennessee, he chose ours. 290 00:37:03,329 --> 00:37:09,210 I think the Christian thing to do is to get up and march out there 291 00:37:09,418 --> 00:37:13,589 so he can see his chosen people as he drives up. 292 00:37:13,798 --> 00:37:15,216 And... 293 00:37:18,844 --> 00:37:20,805 Stand up, now! 294 00:38:23,116 --> 00:38:25,744 How are you, reverend? 295 00:38:25,952 --> 00:38:29,581 Hey, how are you? Thank you for coming. 296 00:38:30,415 --> 00:38:33,335 Can I shake your hand? 297 00:38:33,543 --> 00:38:38,757 Nice to see you. How are you? Good to see you as well. 298 00:38:38,965 --> 00:38:41,760 Hey, how are you? All right, bye for now. 299 00:38:41,968 --> 00:38:44,596 Right this way, John. 300 00:38:44,888 --> 00:38:46,723 Up I go! 301 00:38:50,977 --> 00:38:55,357 My friends, my fellow Tennesseans, 302 00:38:56,858 --> 00:39:00,779 sons and daughters of the great pioneers 303 00:39:00,987 --> 00:39:05,325 who fought their way through forest and mountain 304 00:39:05,533 --> 00:39:08,953 to found this rich land, 305 00:39:10,202 --> 00:39:15,379 that has been given with good heart and trust to myself, 306 00:39:15,710 --> 00:39:19,422 your humble servant. 307 00:39:21,966 --> 00:39:27,055 I come here today to tell you of a mighty battle I'm fighting for you... 308 00:39:29,432 --> 00:39:32,185 - Like my calf, kids? - Yes, sir. 309 00:39:32,393 --> 00:39:38,358 Go on ahead! Pet him all you want. Won't hurt him none. 310 00:39:38,566 --> 00:39:42,528 - Would you like to take him home? - Yeah. 311 00:39:45,114 --> 00:39:48,618 - You got any money? - No. 312 00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:52,330 Well, now... 313 00:39:53,289 --> 00:39:56,000 Ain't that a cryin' shame. 314 00:39:59,253 --> 00:40:03,341 - I got some. - How much is some? 315 00:40:05,885 --> 00:40:08,888 - 50 cents. - Where did you get 50 cents? 316 00:40:09,096 --> 00:40:13,267 This calf's worth more than a hundred times that much. 317 00:40:13,476 --> 00:40:16,604 Yes, sir. I wasn't figuring to buy him. 318 00:40:16,812 --> 00:40:20,024 Well, I'm a Christian man, son. 319 00:40:20,232 --> 00:40:24,403 Somehow, even costing me all this calf's worth, 320 00:40:24,612 --> 00:40:29,158 I figure you ought to have him, the way he's taken up with you. 321 00:40:29,366 --> 00:40:31,702 I wasn't gonna take him, mister. 322 00:40:31,911 --> 00:40:36,040 Don't worry about me none. It's for the best. 323 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,133 Thank you, sir. I didn't mean... 324 00:40:46,342 --> 00:40:49,553 I said, where did you get 50 cents? 325 00:40:49,762 --> 00:40:54,475 - Did I take advantage of him? - No, that's what Christian people do. 326 00:40:54,683 --> 00:40:59,855 You reckon? Well then, I guess he's mine. 327 00:41:00,063 --> 00:41:03,150 I gotta go show my granpa! 328 00:41:06,570 --> 00:41:10,115 - You can come up and visit him. - I can? 329 00:41:10,324 --> 00:41:12,284 If you want. 330 00:41:13,744 --> 00:41:18,040 I can fight for you against this army of Jews and Catholics 331 00:41:18,248 --> 00:41:23,253 who's bent on picking everything from your pockets. 332 00:41:28,967 --> 00:41:31,261 Thank you! 333 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,057 Thank you, thank you. 334 00:41:36,266 --> 00:41:38,602 God bless. 335 00:41:38,810 --> 00:41:40,937 Granpa, look! 336 00:41:41,146 --> 00:41:46,067 A fellow sold him to me, for 50 cents, but he was a Christian man, 337 00:41:46,276 --> 00:41:49,404 and that's what them fellows do, so it's OK. 338 00:41:49,613 --> 00:41:52,782 I didn't take advantage of him or nothin'. 339 00:41:57,412 --> 00:42:00,040 - Take care. Bye-bye. - See you later! 340 00:43:00,391 --> 00:43:02,393 Granpa! 341 00:43:03,936 --> 00:43:07,565 Do you know any Jews or Catholics? 342 00:43:10,318 --> 00:43:13,195 I'll tell you what, Little Tree. 343 00:43:13,404 --> 00:43:18,576 If you were to take a knife and cut into that politician's heart, 344 00:43:18,784 --> 00:43:22,580 you'd have a hard time finding a kernel of truth. 345 00:43:22,788 --> 00:43:28,043 The son of a bitch didn't say nothin' about getting the whiskey tax taken off, 346 00:43:28,252 --> 00:43:31,213 the price of corn, nor nothin' else of value. 347 00:43:31,422 --> 00:43:35,926 I stand against politicians and all such sons of bitches. 348 00:43:37,928 --> 00:43:43,309 Listen here. That's a new cuss word with a whole lot of starch attached to it. 349 00:43:43,517 --> 00:43:47,855 You don't want to use that no way at all around your... 350 00:43:52,901 --> 00:43:58,115 - I believe your calf's died. - No, he ain't neither. 351 00:43:59,408 --> 00:44:02,828 Come on, get up. Get up! 352 00:44:07,791 --> 00:44:13,463 He's dead, Little Tree. If something's dead, it's dead. 353 00:44:24,016 --> 00:44:28,228 There's disease on the liver. Can't eat it. 354 00:44:28,437 --> 00:44:30,727 We'll send the dogs back. 355 00:44:32,876 --> 00:44:35,716 It'll make a meal for them, anyhow. 356 00:44:48,206 --> 00:44:51,293 For the calf's hide. 357 00:44:53,086 --> 00:44:56,631 Ain't no way of learning you, except letting you do. 358 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,844 If I'd stopped you buying the calf, you'd always want it. 359 00:45:01,052 --> 00:45:05,140 If I told you to buy it, you'd blame me for its dying. 360 00:45:05,348 --> 00:45:10,228 - You just gotta learn as you go. - Yes, sir. 361 00:45:10,437 --> 00:45:16,151 Well then, tell us what you learnt out of this. 362 00:45:16,359 --> 00:45:19,737 Well, I sure as hell... 363 00:45:23,408 --> 00:45:28,329 I reckon I learnt not to trade with no Christian. 364 00:45:48,558 --> 00:45:52,854 Tell me something. Did you find your secret place yet? 365 00:45:53,062 --> 00:45:55,356 Secret place? 366 00:45:56,524 --> 00:46:01,028 - I don't know. - Well, you'd know. 367 00:46:02,405 --> 00:46:06,033 - What's it look like? - It's a place only for you. 368 00:46:06,242 --> 00:46:09,303 Sometimes you feel you gotta go there. 369 00:46:09,674 --> 00:46:11,845 All Cherokee got a secret place. 370 00:46:12,540 --> 00:46:14,458 Is that so? 371 00:46:16,294 --> 00:46:20,715 I tell you what. Instead of working the still this morning, 372 00:46:20,923 --> 00:46:25,761 you'd be better off searching out your own place, before the snow comes. 373 00:46:25,970 --> 00:46:30,099 - You think? - I do that. 374 00:46:30,307 --> 00:46:32,893 Come on, Blue Boy! 375 00:47:35,330 --> 00:47:37,749 Gotcha! 376 00:48:08,488 --> 00:48:13,368 This is it. This is my place. 377 00:48:42,855 --> 00:48:44,857 - Revenuers! - Damn! 378 00:48:45,066 --> 00:48:47,777 - How far back? - Some. 379 00:48:47,986 --> 00:48:50,029 All right. 380 00:48:51,030 --> 00:48:54,450 Take this. I'll clean up and meet you at the cabin. 381 00:48:54,659 --> 00:48:58,079 - Can you manage it? - Yes, sir. 382 00:48:59,288 --> 00:49:01,749 Come on, Blue Boy! 383 00:49:16,180 --> 00:49:18,641 - Indian! - Just a kid. 384 00:49:18,849 --> 00:49:22,561 - Yeah, Indian kid. - Wait a goddam minute. 385 00:49:23,980 --> 00:49:28,693 Ain't you Sally's kid? Sally, who married the Indian. 386 00:49:28,901 --> 00:49:31,320 - Could it be? - Ain't you? 387 00:49:31,529 --> 00:49:35,825 - What you got in your sack? - What's in the sack, boy? 388 00:49:37,952 --> 00:49:40,788 - Can I take a look? - Terrible thing... 389 00:49:40,996 --> 00:49:43,332 ...teach kids to be whiskey-runners. 390 00:49:43,541 --> 00:49:46,836 Give it over. You ain't going no place. 391 00:49:48,420 --> 00:49:52,174 - Watch her. - Hand the sack out. 392 00:49:52,383 --> 00:49:54,927 Easy as one... 393 00:49:55,594 --> 00:49:57,304 ...two... 394 00:50:05,646 --> 00:50:07,564 Get off! 395 00:50:11,860 --> 00:50:13,821 Help me! 396 00:50:21,203 --> 00:50:24,164 He's gettin' away! 397 00:51:31,481 --> 00:51:33,858 Hey, Blue Boy! 398 00:51:36,110 --> 00:51:38,530 Little Tree? 399 00:51:38,738 --> 00:51:42,700 I'm here, Granma. Over here! 400 00:51:46,871 --> 00:51:50,166 Are you all right? Are you OK? 401 00:51:54,170 --> 00:51:59,008 You can let go of the sack now. Let go, let go. 402 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,972 - Didn't break one! - Couldn't have done better myself. 403 00:52:05,181 --> 00:52:10,978 You're coming to be one of the best whiskey-makers in these mountains. 404 00:52:17,235 --> 00:52:19,320 Come on! 405 00:52:30,623 --> 00:52:34,377 Maybe they thought it was somebody else's kid. 406 00:52:34,585 --> 00:52:38,255 How'd they know he's yours? There's plenty young 'uns in these parts. 407 00:52:38,464 --> 00:52:40,841 - Sure! - They recognized him. 408 00:52:42,009 --> 00:52:47,056 Called his ma by name. One of 'em said, how could we... 409 00:52:47,264 --> 00:52:52,853 ...put him in the whiskey trade at his age? Don't look good. 410 00:52:53,062 --> 00:52:57,441 Bound to get back to somebody. And then what? 411 00:53:01,111 --> 00:53:04,406 - Is this yours? - Nah! 412 00:53:07,576 --> 00:53:09,662 Look here what I got. 413 00:53:14,666 --> 00:53:18,462 It's a present. I owe it to Willow John. 414 00:53:20,130 --> 00:53:22,341 He gave me this. 415 00:53:25,427 --> 00:53:29,973 - It ain't as good, is it? - Well, I like it. 416 00:53:30,182 --> 00:53:34,353 - You do? - Did you show him the calf? 417 00:53:34,561 --> 00:53:36,855 The calf? 418 00:53:37,064 --> 00:53:41,485 You name him yet? I've come up with the perfect name. 419 00:53:41,693 --> 00:53:44,947 - Wanna hear it? - Sure. 420 00:53:46,482 --> 00:53:51,703 OK. Brown Eyes. 'Cause he's got them pretty brown eyes. 421 00:53:51,912 --> 00:53:55,540 How is Brown Eyes? 422 00:53:55,749 --> 00:53:58,919 Can I still come up and see him? 423 00:53:59,878 --> 00:54:01,880 He's... 424 00:54:06,009 --> 00:54:08,678 He's dead. 425 00:54:08,887 --> 00:54:11,765 - Say, what? - He just... 426 00:54:11,973 --> 00:54:15,393 He just... keeled over and died, just like that. 427 00:54:15,602 --> 00:54:19,898 I couldn't do nothin' about it. The fellow cheated me. 428 00:54:20,106 --> 00:54:25,320 - I didn't know. He said he was... - Little Tree, come on to church now. 429 00:54:29,032 --> 00:54:30,851 I'm sorry. 430 00:54:31,569 --> 00:54:35,277 Ain't nobody in the world oughta cheat you. 431 00:54:58,353 --> 00:55:00,396 All right! 432 00:55:01,481 --> 00:55:04,692 What makes this day different than all others? 433 00:55:04,901 --> 00:55:08,905 Tell me! Tell me! Speak it! 434 00:55:09,113 --> 00:55:13,659 Testifying day. 435 00:55:13,868 --> 00:55:18,289 Today you will stand before the Lord and confess your sins. 436 00:55:18,498 --> 00:55:20,291 - Amen. - Yes, sir. 437 00:55:20,500 --> 00:55:26,047 Stand up and make yourselves clean. Praise Jesus. 438 00:55:26,255 --> 00:55:30,009 - Praise God. - I'm a sinner. 439 00:55:30,217 --> 00:55:34,597 - I'm a sinner in the face of the Lord. - Tell it, sister! 440 00:55:34,805 --> 00:55:38,726 - I committed... - Tell it! 441 00:55:38,934 --> 00:55:43,022 - ... fornication! - Amen! 442 00:55:43,230 --> 00:55:46,650 - Beelzebub! - With... 443 00:55:46,859 --> 00:55:48,569 ...Junior Logan. 444 00:55:53,908 --> 00:55:56,619 - And with... - More! 445 00:55:59,079 --> 00:56:02,875 - Tell it, sister. - And with... 446 00:56:03,083 --> 00:56:06,378 - Tell it. - And with... 447 00:56:55,177 --> 00:56:57,679 - Got it? - Yeah. 448 00:57:06,438 --> 00:57:10,108 You want to be shortening up on that handle some. 449 00:57:17,199 --> 00:57:20,327 Just kind of let her fall. 450 00:57:21,494 --> 00:57:23,163 See now... 451 00:57:23,371 --> 00:57:27,709 That maul's got enough weight to split that pine just like a... 452 00:57:44,976 --> 00:57:47,854 Hang on, there... 453 00:57:48,062 --> 00:57:52,609 Son of a gun. It just hit me like a bolt of lightning. 454 00:57:52,817 --> 00:57:55,862 I'm teaching you everything, the land, the business, 455 00:57:56,070 --> 00:57:59,032 and I forget the most important one. 456 00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:00,742 What's that? 457 00:58:17,467 --> 00:58:22,722 Half of dinner. You get the other half, we'll have the whole shebang. 458 00:58:26,225 --> 00:58:32,064 If you come across a frog or two, I don't believe we need any more gifts. 459 00:59:14,898 --> 00:59:17,151 Don't move, Little Tree. 460 00:59:17,359 --> 00:59:20,738 Don't turn your head or even blink your eye. 461 00:59:29,663 --> 00:59:31,999 Thank you, Granpa. 462 00:59:34,626 --> 00:59:38,547 Hell, we showed that son of a bitch, didn't we? 463 00:59:38,755 --> 00:59:40,340 Yes, we did. 464 00:59:41,547 --> 00:59:46,481 He'll sheer clear of us from now on, and tell his relations to sheer clear of us. 465 00:59:56,023 --> 01:00:00,736 Hotter than hell, ain't it? For this time of year... 466 01:00:05,365 --> 01:00:09,828 - What happened? - Granpa... rattlesnake... 467 01:00:10,912 --> 01:00:15,500 - Where? - I led him as far as the shelter. 468 01:00:15,709 --> 01:00:17,669 But he... 469 01:00:36,896 --> 01:00:41,484 Build up the fire, Little Tree. Make it hot as you can. 470 01:01:27,447 --> 01:01:29,073 Damnation! 471 01:01:46,257 --> 01:01:48,551 That's good. 472 01:01:49,593 --> 01:01:52,221 You keep the fire hot. 473 01:01:52,430 --> 01:01:58,269 We can't move Granpa so we've got to keep him warm all through the night. 474 01:01:59,645 --> 01:02:04,483 Thank you, Little Tree, but that won't be necessary. 475 01:02:04,692 --> 01:02:08,529 What'll help is the heat off our bodies. 476 01:02:27,589 --> 01:02:32,720 He ain't gonna die no more, is he? After all you've done? 477 01:02:34,638 --> 01:02:37,182 Well, now... 478 01:02:37,391 --> 01:02:41,103 There's all kinds of dyin', Little Tree. 479 01:02:42,187 --> 01:02:46,650 I've seen people at the settlement walking around like you or me, 480 01:02:46,859 --> 01:02:49,726 but they're as good as dead, 481 01:02:50,279 --> 01:02:54,090 'cause they spent their lives in meanness and greed. 482 01:02:54,700 --> 01:02:59,684 The spirit inside of them shrunk down to no more than the size of a pea. 483 01:03:02,387 --> 01:03:06,789 'Cause the only way to make your spirit big is to work on it. 484 01:03:08,672 --> 01:03:11,591 You got to use it to understand. 485 01:03:13,635 --> 01:03:18,640 The more you try to understand, the bigger it gets, 486 01:03:18,849 --> 01:03:22,936 till it gets so big and powerful... 487 01:03:24,773 --> 01:03:30,760 ...you come to understand everything, you remember all your past body lives. 488 01:03:33,989 --> 01:03:38,243 I believe Granpa is gettin' near such understanding, 489 01:03:38,451 --> 01:03:41,496 though he don't know it. 490 01:03:43,081 --> 01:03:46,042 But... 491 01:03:46,251 --> 01:03:48,979 ...if his body dies, 492 01:03:50,443 --> 01:03:52,793 he'll remember us. 493 01:03:53,425 --> 01:03:56,803 That's what I want you to know. 494 01:03:59,139 --> 01:04:03,101 We'll all of us be together in spirit always. 495 01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,736 That's the important thing. 496 01:04:13,945 --> 01:04:16,698 That's the important thing. 497 01:04:51,732 --> 01:04:54,902 My God! A fellow can't lay his body down nowheres 498 01:04:55,111 --> 01:04:59,657 without you stripping buck naked and hunchin' at him! 499 01:05:10,918 --> 01:05:12,753 Oh, my God! 500 01:05:18,509 --> 01:05:20,678 Mr. Wales...? 501 01:05:23,389 --> 01:05:25,641 I'm Elizabeth Dubois. 502 01:05:26,725 --> 01:05:29,311 This is Mr. Lane. We're from the State... 503 01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,730 - Politicians. - Pardon? 504 01:05:31,939 --> 01:05:35,359 Oh, no. We're from the State Department of Welfare. 505 01:05:35,567 --> 01:05:37,653 Politicians. 506 01:05:38,821 --> 01:05:44,118 Sir, we'd very much like to talk to you. It's really quite important. 507 01:05:46,578 --> 01:05:49,081 It... has to do with... 508 01:05:53,752 --> 01:05:57,506 I think the boy, Little Tree, is it? 509 01:05:59,633 --> 01:06:02,427 I think he should... 510 01:06:02,636 --> 01:06:06,473 He sits in on everything there is to sit in on. 511 01:06:08,767 --> 01:06:13,814 A complaint has been filed by a Mrs. Martha McCullers. 512 01:06:14,022 --> 01:06:17,442 - Damn! - Aunt Martha? 513 01:06:17,651 --> 01:06:22,656 She alleges that you're not sending your grandson to school, 514 01:06:22,864 --> 01:06:27,369 in violation of state and federal codes, and that... 515 01:06:28,411 --> 01:06:32,958 ...you have involved him in illegal activities. 516 01:06:33,166 --> 01:06:35,460 In short, it states that... 517 01:06:38,088 --> 01:06:40,674 Are you sure...? 518 01:06:46,221 --> 01:06:50,058 ...that you are unfit guardians and he should be removed 519 01:06:50,266 --> 01:06:53,561 to a suitable place for his moral and educational upbringing. 520 01:06:53,770 --> 01:06:56,189 - He's going to her, then? - Who? 521 01:06:56,398 --> 01:06:58,775 No. 522 01:06:58,983 --> 01:07:04,364 He's on the Cherokee rolls and therefore is officially an Indian. 523 01:07:04,572 --> 01:07:06,533 I am? 524 01:07:11,538 --> 01:07:15,333 As such, he will be sent to Notched Gap Indian School 525 01:07:15,541 --> 01:07:18,461 to board there until the age of 18. 526 01:07:21,381 --> 01:07:26,386 You have 30 days to appeal the decision in court. 527 01:07:26,594 --> 01:07:28,596 Otherwise... 528 01:07:31,766 --> 01:07:34,268 We have to go. 529 01:07:40,817 --> 01:07:42,819 Elizabeth? 530 01:07:58,084 --> 01:08:03,047 All you have to do is come here the next circuit I make, 531 01:08:03,255 --> 01:08:07,843 I'll have the cease and desist lawyered out, and you put your mark to it. 532 01:08:08,052 --> 01:08:11,472 You follow me, Bobby? All right, then. 533 01:08:19,855 --> 01:08:22,525 - Wales. - Mr. Taylor. 534 01:08:33,035 --> 01:08:37,289 You been in jail, I recall. Whiskey-making. 535 01:08:39,208 --> 01:08:41,627 Once. 536 01:08:45,830 --> 01:08:50,969 I could take this to court, sure. But it wouldn't do no good. 537 01:08:51,178 --> 01:08:53,847 The bureaucrats that run these things 538 01:08:54,056 --> 01:08:59,811 don't understand mountain people, nor Indians neither. 539 01:09:02,731 --> 01:09:08,111 I don't think them sons of bitches understand anything at all. 540 01:09:08,320 --> 01:09:11,365 We'd lose. They'll take the boy. 541 01:10:52,590 --> 01:10:55,176 I'll not be coming. 542 01:11:00,014 --> 01:11:03,726 You heard of the Dog Star, Little Tree? 543 01:11:03,935 --> 01:11:08,356 It's the brightest star you can see in the dusk of evening. 544 01:11:08,564 --> 01:11:10,900 Understand? 545 01:11:11,108 --> 01:11:15,321 Good. Well, then... 546 01:11:15,529 --> 01:11:19,617 Wherever you may be in the dusk of evening, 547 01:11:19,825 --> 01:11:22,995 you look up at the Dog Star. 548 01:11:23,204 --> 01:11:28,959 Me and Granpa, we'll be looking, too. Willow John as well. 549 01:11:31,086 --> 01:11:33,984 Whatever you have to tell us, 550 01:11:34,595 --> 01:11:38,504 we'll hear you then. All right? 551 01:12:46,661 --> 01:12:51,207 - You're this close to learnin' the Way. - I am? 552 01:12:51,416 --> 01:12:55,795 - Don't you let go of it. - No, sir. I won't. 553 01:12:59,674 --> 01:13:02,469 You been good. 554 01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:34,042 - I'm going away. - Me too. 555 01:13:34,250 --> 01:13:39,380 - Where? - Depends on the turtle dove. 556 01:13:39,589 --> 01:13:43,926 - We ain't heard him yet. - What's he going to say? 557 01:13:44,135 --> 01:13:48,347 He don't say nothin', silly. He's a bird! 558 01:13:48,556 --> 01:13:52,852 It depends on the direction he calls from. That's where we move. 559 01:13:53,954 --> 01:13:59,317 - Don't you know that? - Wasn't no turtle dove that called me. 560 01:14:01,277 --> 01:14:04,488 Where are you goin'? 561 01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,494 Here. 562 01:14:11,495 --> 01:14:15,958 - For me? - You can put 'em on. 563 01:14:18,375 --> 01:14:23,693 Granma made 'em from the calf's hide. They didn't cost nothin'. 564 01:14:24,300 --> 01:14:26,635 They's a perfect fit. 565 01:14:32,308 --> 01:14:33,893 They's soft. 566 01:14:40,900 --> 01:14:43,235 My daddy. 567 01:14:46,989 --> 01:14:49,033 Thank you. 568 01:14:52,369 --> 01:14:54,371 Daddy! 569 01:14:57,750 --> 01:15:00,711 Look what Little Tree gave me. 570 01:15:01,795 --> 01:15:04,631 - You stand there. - Daddy, no! 571 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:06,842 - Please! - Turn around. 572 01:15:13,515 --> 01:15:15,893 Gimme those moccasins. 573 01:15:24,067 --> 01:15:29,948 We don't take no charity from nobody, 'specially from no Indians. 574 01:15:31,575 --> 01:15:34,536 Come on, now. We're goin', here. 575 01:15:34,745 --> 01:15:36,496 Come on! 576 01:16:21,624 --> 01:16:25,378 He'll be along any time now. 577 01:16:25,587 --> 01:16:28,548 Did she get the shoes OK? 578 01:16:28,756 --> 01:16:34,554 She said they's the best present anybody ever thought to give. 579 01:16:36,389 --> 01:16:39,475 Granma'll be glad to hear it. 580 01:16:51,487 --> 01:16:54,907 Hi. How nice you look. 581 01:16:56,284 --> 01:16:59,912 Here, I want you to wear this. 582 01:17:04,542 --> 01:17:07,587 So there'll be no confusion. 583 01:17:13,801 --> 01:17:15,970 All right? 584 01:17:23,853 --> 01:17:26,147 He'll be along any time. 585 01:18:05,227 --> 01:18:08,355 I'll be back... directly. 586 01:18:12,901 --> 01:18:15,988 We have to go. 587 01:19:34,357 --> 01:19:37,068 Do you speak English? 588 01:19:38,903 --> 01:19:41,114 - Yes, ma'am. - Good. 589 01:19:41,322 --> 01:19:44,117 - Do you see that gate? - Yes, ma'am. 590 01:19:44,325 --> 01:19:48,788 When you step through that gate, you shall not speak Indian again. 591 01:19:48,997 --> 01:19:51,416 Is that clear? 592 01:19:51,624 --> 01:19:55,461 - Yes, ma'am. - Follow me. 593 01:19:58,256 --> 01:20:03,427 Actually, I can't speak no Indian hardly at all. 594 01:20:03,636 --> 01:20:08,224 Except Granma did tell me the names of her medicinals. 595 01:20:08,432 --> 01:20:13,980 Some in Indian, but I can only recollect one or two at best. 596 01:20:15,268 --> 01:20:20,718 The one that's kind of green, and you scrape it off the sourwood tree. 597 01:20:20,753 --> 01:20:24,365 Now that one's called... nvoki. 598 01:20:24,573 --> 01:20:28,869 I think it could be a mushroom. I ain't totally sure... 599 01:21:19,628 --> 01:21:21,129 All right. 600 01:21:25,092 --> 01:21:27,469 Come with me. 601 01:21:30,055 --> 01:21:33,225 You are going to see the headmaster. 602 01:21:34,018 --> 01:21:38,517 Be quiet, don't cry, and be respectful. 603 01:21:39,784 --> 01:21:41,240 I ain't never been... 604 01:21:41,275 --> 01:21:45,779 And do not speak unless he asks you a direct question. 605 01:21:45,987 --> 01:21:48,156 Do you understand? 606 01:21:48,365 --> 01:21:50,492 - Yes, ma'am. - Good. 607 01:21:52,953 --> 01:21:54,996 Come. 608 01:22:10,762 --> 01:22:13,598 Stop swinging your legs. 609 01:22:17,977 --> 01:22:20,939 You speak English, I'm told. 610 01:22:27,112 --> 01:22:30,824 - Was that a direct question? - What? 611 01:22:32,861 --> 01:22:36,734 'Cause if it was, I could tell you, "Yes, sir. I do. " 612 01:22:37,705 --> 01:22:40,959 Yes, well... 613 01:22:42,794 --> 01:22:46,506 They call you Little Tree. 614 01:22:53,763 --> 01:22:57,767 Have you had an intelligence test? 615 01:22:59,894 --> 01:23:02,855 - No, sir. - No. 616 01:23:03,064 --> 01:23:08,860 Anyhow, Little Tree is an Indian name. 617 01:23:09,987 --> 01:23:13,407 Americans don't name children after... 618 01:23:13,616 --> 01:23:15,910 ...objects. 619 01:23:16,118 --> 01:23:19,247 This is an American school. 620 01:23:19,455 --> 01:23:24,627 Therefore, you will be given an American name. 621 01:23:24,835 --> 01:23:27,088 And that will be... 622 01:23:29,131 --> 01:23:31,967 ...Joshua. 623 01:23:32,176 --> 01:23:35,596 Do you understand, Joshua? 624 01:23:35,805 --> 01:23:39,266 - No, sir. - You will. 625 01:23:43,979 --> 01:23:48,025 Quiet! Quiet down and go to bed. 626 01:23:55,324 --> 01:24:00,537 Put it on and get into bed. You'll be up bright and early in the morning. 627 01:24:00,746 --> 01:24:02,831 Prayers. 628 01:24:05,542 --> 01:24:10,130 - Goodnight, boys. - Goodnight, Mrs. Higgenbotham. 629 01:24:11,090 --> 01:24:13,759 Not another peep. 630 01:25:05,143 --> 01:25:07,729 Granma and Granpa... 631 01:25:08,980 --> 01:25:11,775 I'm OK. 632 01:25:11,983 --> 01:25:15,946 They've taken my clothes and cut most of my hair off, 633 01:25:16,154 --> 01:25:21,660 and given me an American name, but I'm still Little Tree. 634 01:25:21,868 --> 01:25:24,496 I ain't never gonna let that go. 635 01:25:40,011 --> 01:25:42,680 Up! Everybody up! 636 01:25:44,474 --> 01:25:49,938 I know you're awake, Wilburn. Get up or I'll get the strap. 637 01:25:50,730 --> 01:25:52,565 Wilburn! 638 01:25:59,072 --> 01:26:02,533 Say what? Somebody talking to me? 639 01:26:27,016 --> 01:26:28,726 Begin! 640 01:27:02,468 --> 01:27:05,971 They don't give you none for dinner. 641 01:27:55,145 --> 01:27:58,857 - Hey, kid. - Come on! 642 01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:09,701 - Your name ain't Joshua. - Fat man gave me it. 643 01:28:10,827 --> 01:28:14,206 Fat man! What's it really? 644 01:28:15,916 --> 01:28:19,794 - Little Tree. - Little Tree? 645 01:28:20,003 --> 01:28:23,673 No kiddin'? That's what I'm gonna call you, then. 646 01:28:23,882 --> 01:28:27,719 Give Mrs. Big Bottom conniptions. 647 01:28:27,927 --> 01:28:31,806 Ball! Come on kid, throw the ball! 648 01:28:32,015 --> 01:28:34,059 Throw the ball! 649 01:28:38,938 --> 01:28:42,025 Wanna play? Come on, come and play! 650 01:28:42,233 --> 01:28:46,821 - You can go play. - Nah. 651 01:28:47,030 --> 01:28:50,283 Suit yourself. I don't give a damn. 652 01:28:58,458 --> 01:29:01,586 Two times eight is... 653 01:29:01,794 --> 01:29:05,298 Two times nine is... 654 01:29:06,841 --> 01:29:10,011 Two times hen is... 655 01:29:11,846 --> 01:29:13,765 Time. 656 01:29:13,973 --> 01:29:16,768 All right? Time, Wilburn. 657 01:29:25,401 --> 01:29:28,571 Little Tree. What's two times hen? 658 01:29:28,779 --> 01:29:32,366 Wilburn! Stop, or you get a zero. 659 01:29:36,721 --> 01:29:42,168 Now, who can tell me what animals are in the first picture? 660 01:29:42,376 --> 01:29:45,421 - Rabbits! - Very good. 661 01:29:45,629 --> 01:29:48,924 - And what are they doing? - Laying down... 662 01:29:49,133 --> 01:29:51,385 Blah, blah, blah, blah! 663 01:29:52,344 --> 01:29:56,515 And what are the next animals? 664 01:29:56,724 --> 01:29:59,894 - Deer! - Very good. 665 01:30:00,102 --> 01:30:03,981 - And what are they doing? - They're running... 666 01:30:04,190 --> 01:30:06,317 Blah, blah, blah! 667 01:30:06,525 --> 01:30:08,694 They're matin'. 668 01:30:10,404 --> 01:30:15,701 You can see right off they're matin'. The buck deer is jumpin' the does. 669 01:30:16,994 --> 01:30:20,372 You can tell by the trees it's the time of year... 670 01:31:00,579 --> 01:31:02,789 Joshua, 671 01:31:02,998 --> 01:31:07,169 do you know what you have done? 672 01:31:07,377 --> 01:31:09,963 No, sir. 673 01:31:10,172 --> 01:31:13,842 Then you'll have time to think about it, won't you? 674 01:32:25,079 --> 01:32:28,708 Did they say how long till I can come out? 675 01:32:30,938 --> 01:32:35,840 I know what I done was bad, I come to realize it. 676 01:32:36,048 --> 01:32:40,678 You can tell the headmaster and the lady teacher, too. 677 01:32:40,886 --> 01:32:44,056 Tell them that Little Tree, I mean Joshua... 678 01:32:44,265 --> 01:32:48,060 tell them Joshua stands ready to make amends, all right? 679 01:32:48,269 --> 01:32:52,189 And tell them that I stand ready to... 680 01:32:57,611 --> 01:33:00,531 ...make it right. 681 01:33:05,995 --> 01:33:09,748 Granpa and Granma, and Willow John, 682 01:33:09,957 --> 01:33:14,211 some time ago now, I ain't sure how long, 683 01:33:14,420 --> 01:33:17,881 the headmaster locked me in this little room. 684 01:33:18,090 --> 01:33:22,386 He says I've got to stay in here until I know what I done wrong. 685 01:33:22,594 --> 01:33:27,016 I have no way in the world of figurin' that out. 686 01:33:27,224 --> 01:33:29,685 I didn't mean to worry you none, 687 01:33:29,893 --> 01:33:34,189 as I should be old enough to get by without your help. 688 01:33:39,445 --> 01:33:44,533 I found a piece of glass in here, all round and clear. 689 01:33:44,741 --> 01:33:48,745 Turns the Dog Star blue when you look through it. 690 01:33:54,418 --> 01:33:56,378 Granpa, 691 01:33:56,587 --> 01:34:02,092 I don't think I can handle this situation no way at all. 692 01:34:04,052 --> 01:34:07,764 I want to come home. 693 01:34:40,255 --> 01:34:44,175 Joshua? You can come out now. 694 01:34:44,384 --> 01:34:46,469 Today is Thanksgiving. 695 01:34:46,678 --> 01:34:51,766 Nice people from the town have come to put on a play for us. 696 01:34:52,851 --> 01:34:54,477 Joshua? 697 01:34:59,566 --> 01:35:01,150 What? 698 01:35:03,192 --> 01:35:09,067 No provisions in the larder, and the cold days drawing ever closer. 699 01:35:09,450 --> 01:35:12,036 I am sorely afeared 700 01:35:12,620 --> 01:35:18,192 that we shall starve ere the spring breezes stir the land again. 701 01:35:20,086 --> 01:35:21,838 No! 702 01:35:22,046 --> 01:35:25,007 white man show way of God to us, 703 01:35:25,216 --> 01:35:30,664 and in thanks we give to him much food and warm clothes... 704 01:35:32,098 --> 01:35:35,476 I've been saving it for you. 705 01:35:36,328 --> 01:35:38,422 Did they give you bread and water? 706 01:35:38,863 --> 01:35:42,165 I heard that's all they give you up there is bread and water. 707 01:35:42,441 --> 01:35:44,277 Little Tree? 708 01:35:45,570 --> 01:35:47,103 I found this. 709 01:35:48,316 --> 01:35:53,044 If you look through it, it turns everything blue. 710 01:35:53,079 --> 01:35:58,708 ...in peace and harmony, beneath the vast American sky, 711 01:35:58,916 --> 01:36:04,547 under God, with liberty and justice for all. 712 01:36:10,302 --> 01:36:14,181 Wave goodbye to the nice ladies and gentlemen! 713 01:36:14,390 --> 01:36:16,600 - Bye! - Thank you! 714 01:36:18,602 --> 01:36:24,400 They come here so they can feel good when they get drunk at the country club. 715 01:36:29,989 --> 01:36:32,616 All right, inside! 716 01:36:34,576 --> 01:36:37,663 - Thanksgiving dinner! - Whoopee. 717 01:36:37,871 --> 01:36:40,874 Would you like this? 718 01:36:41,083 --> 01:36:45,087 - I don't mind. - It's yours. 719 01:36:51,051 --> 01:36:52,761 You can see... 720 01:36:55,430 --> 01:36:56,765 Come on! 721 01:37:22,332 --> 01:37:23,875 Granpa! 722 01:37:33,969 --> 01:37:37,264 It was Willow John that heard you. So I came. 723 01:37:40,517 --> 01:37:45,480 Tell me true, you want to come home? - Yes, sir. I do. 724 01:37:55,448 --> 01:37:59,452 You're shut in here like goddam livestock. 725 01:38:27,772 --> 01:38:30,983 Think they'll come and take me back? 726 01:38:31,192 --> 01:38:32,777 Let 'em come on. 727 01:38:57,510 --> 01:39:00,533 Them woods want to make sure it's you. 728 01:39:00,981 --> 01:39:03,340 They're happy to know you're back is all. 729 01:39:03,808 --> 01:39:07,561 - Something's wrong. - What's that? 730 01:39:19,824 --> 01:39:23,285 I couldn't feel the trail, Granpa. 731 01:39:31,794 --> 01:39:34,964 And you can have them clobbers! 732 01:39:35,172 --> 01:39:37,883 And you can have them clobbers, too! 733 01:39:56,026 --> 01:39:57,444 Now, you'll stay. 734 01:40:04,243 --> 01:40:05,661 Granma! 735 01:40:25,222 --> 01:40:26,890 Blue Boy, come on! 736 01:41:20,068 --> 01:41:21,903 Thank you, Willow John! 737 01:41:25,367 --> 01:41:31,329 I remember that moment. The four of us standing there together again. 738 01:41:31,537 --> 01:41:35,375 It was then I knew I was tome. 739 01:41:41,714 --> 01:41:45,218 I also knew it couldn't last. 740 01:41:45,426 --> 01:41:48,741 Maybe we all felt the time getting close, 741 01:41:49,595 --> 01:41:51,903 but we didn't speak of it. 742 01:41:58,189 --> 01:42:03,861 Granpa's step got slower, so I carried more of the whiskey jars. 743 01:42:04,070 --> 01:42:07,907 We didn't speak of that, either. 744 01:42:08,115 --> 01:42:13,204 "Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash... " 745 01:42:13,412 --> 01:42:15,790 Granma pushed me on learning. 746 01:42:15,998 --> 01:42:20,753 I read to them at night, with Granma helping some. 747 01:42:20,961 --> 01:42:22,963 - "... Mel... " - Melancholy. 748 01:42:23,172 --> 01:42:27,718 "... melancholy settled down upon his spirit. 749 01:42:28,333 --> 01:42:32,117 "30 yards of board fence, 9 feet high. 750 01:42:32,687 --> 01:42:34,934 "Life to him seemed hollow. " 751 01:42:35,013 --> 01:42:38,604 The politicians came to take me back to Notched Gap. 752 01:42:38,812 --> 01:42:44,360 Each time, Granpa led us up the high trail where nobody could find us. 753 01:42:44,568 --> 01:42:47,279 She's coming alive. 754 01:43:08,133 --> 01:43:13,680 It was on the high trail that Granpa slipped and fell. 755 01:43:29,529 --> 01:43:33,784 He kept telling us, "I'll be all right directly. " 756 01:43:33,992 --> 01:43:38,246 But something horrible tad happened in that fall, 757 01:43:38,455 --> 01:43:42,250 and he wasn't going to be. 758 01:44:03,271 --> 01:44:07,108 Give me my hat, would you, Little Tree? 759 01:44:51,277 --> 01:44:54,947 It's been good. 760 01:44:55,156 --> 01:44:59,160 Next time, it'll be better. 761 01:45:12,340 --> 01:45:14,925 Be seein' you. 762 01:46:07,311 --> 01:46:09,188 Damn... stupid...! 763 01:46:36,256 --> 01:46:39,593 I knew where Granma was taking Granpa. 764 01:46:39,801 --> 01:46:44,264 It was to his secret place, at the top of the high trail, 765 01:46:44,472 --> 01:46:49,436 where he'd watched the day birth and never got tired of it, 766 01:46:49,644 --> 01:46:53,648 and never quit saying, "She's coming alive", 767 01:46:53,857 --> 01:46:58,653 like each time was the first time he'd ever seen it. 768 01:46:58,862 --> 01:47:00,697 Maybe it was. 769 01:47:00,905 --> 01:47:06,828 Maybe every birthing is different and only Granpa could see it. 770 01:47:20,341 --> 01:47:26,139 Not long after that day, Granma took me aside and told me again 771 01:47:26,347 --> 01:47:31,519 about how her and Granpa were moving closer to the understanding, 772 01:47:31,728 --> 01:47:36,649 so that I shouldn't be sad because when their bodies died, 773 01:47:37,260 --> 01:47:39,532 they'd still be together, 774 01:47:40,373 --> 01:47:44,361 always, their spirits knowing. 775 01:47:49,036 --> 01:47:53,749 And that was the last thing Granma ever said to me. 776 01:48:15,396 --> 01:48:18,566 she died in the night. 777 01:48:18,774 --> 01:48:24,697 I found a note which read, "Little Tree, it's been good. 778 01:48:24,905 --> 01:48:28,576 "Next time it will be better. 779 01:48:30,143 --> 01:48:34,427 "Remember if you need us, any time, 780 01:48:34,939 --> 01:48:39,224 "just look to the Dog Star, and we'll be there. " 781 01:48:50,723 --> 01:48:55,811 I went up the high trail that same night and I asked Granma and Granpa, 782 01:48:56,979 --> 01:49:00,733 reckon I could get closer to the understanding as well, 783 01:49:00,941 --> 01:49:04,236 so I could catch up to you? 784 01:49:06,530 --> 01:49:10,576 It was lonesome, I told them, 785 01:49:10,784 --> 01:49:14,329 always being left behind. 786 01:49:50,073 --> 01:49:54,703 I didn't know that Willow John was looking to the Dog Star, too, 787 01:49:54,911 --> 01:49:58,081 and talking with Granma and Granpa. 788 01:49:58,290 --> 01:50:03,169 He told me they were sorry they tad to go before my education was done, 789 01:50:03,378 --> 01:50:06,172 but if I went off with Willow John, 790 01:50:06,381 --> 01:50:09,615 he could teach me all there was to know... 791 01:50:10,298 --> 01:50:12,677 about being an Indian. 792 01:51:11,028 --> 01:51:12,947 Y'all come! 793 01:51:22,873 --> 01:51:28,379 I have not made it back to the cabin since, but I will. 794 01:51:28,587 --> 01:51:32,299 I've been ranging across this country, me and Blue Boy, 795 01:51:32,508 --> 01:51:37,346 digging oil with the Cherokee, riding fence with the Navajo, 796 01:51:37,555 --> 01:51:41,559 gettin' caught up in white man's wars. 797 01:51:41,767 --> 01:51:45,566 But no matter where I am, in the dusk of evening, 798 01:51:45,953 --> 01:51:48,250 I look to the Dog Star. 799 01:51:48,285 --> 01:51:51,196 And I say to Granma and Granpa, 800 01:51:52,057 --> 01:51:54,337 and to Willow John, 801 01:51:54,780 --> 01:51:58,909 "Wait for me. I'm still learning the Way. 802 01:51:59,118 --> 01:52:02,788 "But someday I will catch up to you. 803 01:52:02,996 --> 01:52:06,859 "And we'll all of us be together again... 804 01:52:07,364 --> 01:52:09,565 "Always. 805 01:52:10,071 --> 01:52:12,687 "Our spirits knowing. " 806 01:52:13,607 --> 01:52:19,461 /Subtitle/ sync, fix: titler