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There's nothing else alive.

They even slaughtered the horses.

Custer must have taken some prisoners.

There's about 40, maybe 50 women and children missing.

How could they do this?

Keep going!

Aah! Sully!

Bullet went right through. It missed the bone.

You were lucky.

The Long Hair has moved the soldiers down the river

toward the other villages.

It is not safe here for you.

You must go.

There must be something we can do...

at least help you bury them.

We will leave my people where they fell.

The birds and the wolves

will scatter their flesh over the earth.

There, they can feed our mother again.

Will you watch after this one now?

I'll make certain he's safe.

Cloud Dancing, where are you gonna go?

I will ride with my Arapaho brothers.

To look for Custer?

When is the killing gonna stop?

Can you not see what's before you?!

It is finished.

Go before it's too late.

It's tea. It'll help settle your stomach.

- Thank you. - I ground up the corn.

I got it soaking like you wanted.

The baby's still sleeping.

We ought to get some sleep, start fresh in the morning.

No. The baby will need milk soon.

We should keep pushing on.

It's all right.

Let me check on your arm before we leave.

They're home. They're home.

- Ma! - Ma! Ma!

We've been so worried.

- Is everybody all right? - We're fine.

- But look at you. - Grace.

Ma.

Hey, Ma.

- Who's that? - It's a Cheyenne baby.

His parents got killed.

How?

Custer attacked Black Kettle's village before we got there.

Oh, my Lord.

Are they all right?

Everyone's gone, Colleen.

Snow Bird?

Black Kettle?

No Harm, where is he?

Where is he?!

No Harm was killed with the others.

He's dead.

But he can't be.

He -- He's just a kid.

You should have stopped them! Why didn't you stop them?!

- Why didn't you stop them?! - Brian!

Matthew, let him go.

I'll take care of these.

We'll take this one home and get him fed.

If there's anything I can do...

There's nothing anyone could do.

Thank you for looking after the children.

Oh, he is cute. Poor little thing.

Oh, and he hardly cried a whoop last night.

And I know he's got to be hungry.

Oh, Michaela and Sully must just feel awful.

I don't know if it's such a good idea

to be taking care of that around here.

- Loren! - And what do you suggest I do?

I don't know. Don't go starting up on me.

Why, he's just an innocent, little baby!

Just gonna grow up to hate us like the rest of 'em.

- You mean, what's left of 'em. - Ah.

Custer sure done what he come here to do.

Loren, I'd like some coffee and some flour please.

All right.

Michaela, are you all right?

I'm fine.

You have any of that special chocolate left?

Yes. But, Michaela,

I feel awful about what happened to all your friends.

I'd like two blocks, please.

Grace, how is he?

Oh, he'll be fine soon as he gets some milk in him.

Come here.

Michaela, hear Custer took care of our little Indian problem

down at the Washita.

Got a real hero's welcome back at Camp Supply.

Whole command turned out for review.

Just what do you think you're doin'?

Just chattin' with Michaela about the General's big victory.

I think you're trying to be cruel.

I'll pick these things up when you're less busy.

Dr. Mike?

Dr. Mike?

You do know not everybody

is happy with what happened to the Cheyenne.

I think the sentiment's a little late, don't you?

Will I see you in church tomorrow?

Heard you coming.

No Harm could walk around here without making a sound

That's 'cause No Harm was Cheyenne.

You make it sound like being Cheyenne's a good thing.

I think it is. Don't you?

Being Cheyenne's what got him killed.

Maybe.

You don't think so?

I think bad things happen sometimes, Brian,

and they don't make any sense.

I think they hated him just 'cause he's Indian.

What's important now, Brian, is how you felt about him.

You saw No Harm for what he was, a person and a friend.

- He was my - I know.

I thought --

I thought maybe you'd like to have this with you.

He can't hear me play it no more.

I don't know.

Cheyenne would say that No Harm's

gone on to join his ancestors with the Great Spirit.

But his spirit is still here with us, too.

I think he's with you every time you think about him.

And every time you play this, he's with you.

What's gonna happen to all the Cheyenne prisoners they took?

Keep 'em locked up for a while.

Probably move 'em to another reservation down south.

You think Custer's gonna find Cloud Dancing?

I don't know, Matthew.

Figuring the Army will keep attacking villages,

hoping to draw the Dog Soldiers in.

They know that the Dog Soldiers

will want to protect their people.

Where you going?

I have work to catch up on at the clinic.

Kind of late for that, don't you think?

It's a lot to do.

Then I'll wait here till you get back.

You don't have to do that.

I want to.

See you in the morning.

- Grace? - Horace, I'm sorry

to be bothering you so late.

I was wondering if you could help me.

- What is it? - Well, it's the baby.

I'm trying to give him his bottle,

but he just won't feed on it.

Well, I can't figure how we could help you.

You should go see Dr. Mike.

He's getting weaker.

And I -- I was hoping...

You want Myra to nurse an Indian baby?

I'm asking you to feed a hungry baby.

Of course I will.

You never came back for your supplies.

I've been wanting to get on with this for some time now.

You can't imagine how the dust blows in.

Michaela, you can't go on like this.

Like what?

Pretending like nothing's happened.

- You've got to... - I'm sorry,

but I really don't have time to visit right now.

You're the dearest friend I've ever known.

You're not gettin' rid of me that easy.

I've never seen you the way you was today.

All the fight gone out of you.

I know that you saw something horrible.

But sooner or later, you're gonna have to talk about it.

Michaela, there's a lot getting written about that battle.

Folks are believing Custer's done a good thing,

that he was killing mostly braves and warriors,

that he's a real hero.

Was he a hero, Michaela?

How should I know?

Oh, I think you know more than anybody.

You seen with your own --

I don't want to be rude, Dorothy,

but I'd really like to finish this tonight.

Good morning, Sully.

I brought these back.

I appreciate you lettin' me use 'em.

Yeah. How you folks coming along?

How do you expect us to be?

Hey. Maybe you oughta remember just who you talkin' to.

In case you forgot, I

got a Cheyenne baby sleeping in my bed right this minute.

So, how you folks coming along?

It's been rough.

How's the baby?

Doing better.

I hope he ain't too much trouble.

Oh, hardly cries at all.

And he sleeps most of the night, too,

as long as Grace keeps her hands off of him.

Oh, she's just frettin' and fussin'.

And now that Myra's helping with the feeding,

I reckon he's gonna be all right.

What's Dr. Mike think?

I can't say. She ain't been by to see him.

Morning.

Morning, Sully.

Some eggs left on the stove.

No, thanks.

Thought we'd go by and see the baby after church.

We're not going to church.

- Why not? - I told them they could go.

I have too much work at the clinic.

But you done all that last night.

Ma! I got a splinter.

I was raking the barn. It went in deep.

- A splinter? - It hurts. Get it out.

Sit down.

Colleen, please.

Hold it right there.

Ow! That hurts!

- I can't find anything. - It's in there.

I can feel it. Ow!

Honestly, Brian, it's just a splinter!

Why don't you just soak it in some warm water?

Excuse me.

Oh!

Aah!

What are you doing?

Why don't you go in there?

'Cause it ain't the right time.

Right time?

Listen to her.

She knows I'm here. She's gotta do this alone.

We can't just leave her.

Sully, I know what she's goin' through.

It ain't the same, Matthew.

This ain't about just losing folks you care for.

It's more than that.

I have never known anybody like your mom.

She's always trying so hard to find the good in folks.

And she believes that she can do anything,

except she couldn't stop this.

And after what she saw out there,

things ain't never gonna be the same.

She lost something inside herself, Matthew.

She's gotta find a way to get her hope back.

What if she can't?

What if she needs help?

Go and take Colleen and Brian into church.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna find some help. Go on.

How did you know I would be here?

This is where I found you when One Eye killed your son.

How is the young one?

Robert E. and Grace have taken real good care of him.

We had many babies in our village.

I do not know who gave him life.

I do not know his name.

It's very dangerous for you to come back here.

There's nothing more that can be done to me.

I have seen my shadow.

Does the shadow always mean...

It does not always mean death.

I cannot know what is ahead.

But the spirits told me to return here first,

to finish what I began with Dr. Mike.

She's in a dark place.

I know.

I've been there, also.

♪ And if that mocking bird don't sing ♪

♪ Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring ♪

Oh, you gonna make that baby deaf with your singing.

As a matter of fact, he said he liked it.

He did, now?

He said that I have

the prettiest voice that he ever did hear.

Mm-hmm.

He is smiling.

That's 'cause he's takin' to you.

I think he is.

I want us to look after him, Robert E., always.

I've been thinking that God didn't give us a child

of our own because He was savin' us for him.

You're talkin' nonsense.

Oh, I've seen you with him.

And we can give him a good home.

Grace, he's Indian.

He -- He's not...

Colored?

Oh, I would expect that from just about anybody 'cept you.

Now, we're gonna have ourselves a family, Grace.

Now, I promise.

But to -- to do this, in this town, this is trouble.

We never run from trouble before.

That baby won't know nothing but hate.

He won't have nobody to wanna be with him.

He'll have us.

And he'll grow up in a loving home.

Now, you tell me, Robert E.,

who better to take care of this child?

Who better to understand than us?

This time, you're askin' too much, Grace.

It's just too much.

I think Brian's got the right idea.

Get some rest.

Good night.

Good night, Matthew.

Good night, Ma.

Colleen, you wanna help me in the barn?

Yeah, when I finish.

Now?

Sully, where have you been?

Busy.

I'm glad you're here.

I want to check on your arm and see how it's healing.

- My arm's fine. - I still want to examine it.

I said it's fine.

If you want some coffee, I'll get you some.

No.

I don't want nothing to drink.

I don't want you to try and fix me nothing.

I just want you to stop -- stop and look at me.

- Sully... - Just look at me.

Why are you doing this?

I am not trying to hurt you.

To make me remember it again?

Sully, I know your heart is broken.

Don't you think I hate myself

for not being there for you, for the children?

We're fine.

Whenever you're around, all I can see,

all I can think about, is how we let this happen.

We didn't let this happen.

But we should have stopped it.

There are some things that you can't stop.

We could have tried harder.

Sully, these were our friends.

We let them down.

No.

I'm the one that sided with the town.

I wanted the railroad. I let them down.

Cloud Dancing don't think that.

He's back. And he wants to see you.

How could he?

Because he don't blame you.

Why does he wanna see me?

He wants to finish teaching you about the medicine.

He needs to do this, Michaela. Maybe you could help each other.

What do I do?

You trust him, like he trusts you.

When a medicine man teaches, he loses some of his own power.

Cheyenne custom says that you gotta offer him a gift.

- What kind of gift? - It should be something

that speaks from your heart to his.

But I don't have anything.

It's your wedding present.

Cloud Dancing will be honored.

I'd like to put it on, just this once.

I wish I knew what to say to you.

I know what is in your heart. It is also in mine.

I should never have let Snow Bird go on without me.

No.

You didn't cause this.

Cloud Dancing, it was my people that did this to your people.

I feel so sick, ashamed.

One can't go on living in anger and blame.

It is time for us both to heal.

I don't know how.

Spirits will help us.

Then we'll talk about the medicine.

I can't say if your spirits exist or not.

I'm not even sure how I feel about my own God anymore.

Just because we are angry with them

does not mean that they will go away.

- There. - How long's she gonna be gone?

However long it takes.

A few days, maybe.

I thought Cloud Dancing already taught her stuff.

Well, he wants her to know everything now.

Figures it'll make your mom a better doctor.

It's kind of his way of making things

right out of something bad.

See, when awful things happen, sometimes if folks

can find something good comin' out of it, well, it helps.

It keeps 'em going.

Is that what you do?

Yeah.

Kind of like Ma dying and us coming to live with Dr. Mike.

That's right.

When No Harm died, he covered up that baby,

so it could live.

Maybe he'll grow up to be a great leader,

like Black Kettle,

and work for peace.

You wanna help me fit this last one?

Sully?

What?

Can we visit the baby?

Sure, soon as we finish.

This is Brian.

All right.

Now, put your hand under his head. Yeah.

He looks happy.

Guess he don't know what happened to him.

It's real awful when you lose your ma and pa.

Don't worry.

You're gonna find people to love ya,

just like me when my ma died.

Yes.

No Harm saved his life.

He hid him from the soldiers with his body.

His ma saved his life the same way.

So it's real important this baby grows up good.

Sully said he could even be a chief someday.

Might get folks to stop being so mad

and fighting all the time.

You can maybe even help save somebody's life, too.

Maybe he already has.

To understand the medicine, you must know how it began.

One day, long ago,

the animals became angry at man for killing and eating them.

So they came together, in council, where each animal

decided on a sickness he would give man.

The cedars will be found in the high hills.

They grow short there, close to the ground.

I've seen it. It has a small berry.

That is right.

If tea cannot be made,

they can chew the berry and swallow the juice.

You must miss them all terribly.

I carry them with me always.

So will I.

A friend once told me we should listen more to nature's song.

I'd forgotten how beautiful it could be.

Thank you for helping me find it again.

When we close our hearts off to our pain,

they stay closed to all things around us, to the joy

as well as the sadness, even to the ones we love.

All I wanted to do was forget.

My people need you to remember.

If the truth is not lost,

perhaps something will be learned.

I must leave soon.

Will you bring me the baby tonight?

Are you going away?

You have learned all I can teach.

No.

I mean, I still feel...

Cloud Dancing, I don't know where I belong anymore.

Sully once used the same words.

The answer is already within you,

or you would not have had the courage to come here.

Where will you take him?

The time for my people is short.

The few who are left know the old ways.

In the north, there's a band of Cheyenne

who refuse to live on a reservation.

They hunt the land you call the Yellowstone.

I know these people.

They will raise this baby in the ways of my grandfathers.

What about you?

Where will you go?

He can't have him.

Robert E. and me decided we're gonna raise him.

Grace. Grace, I'm sorry.

I didn't know.

But you said his parents were dead.

He's part of the tribe.

There are other bands.

They share the same way of life, the same traditions.

- He'll be raised the way -- - Robert E. and me

can raise him right!

- I know you -- - He would be safe with us!

Grace, if there were no Cheyenne

to take care of this baby,

I don't believe you could find

two more loving people to care for him.

What kind of life can they give him that we can't?

Cheyenne life.

Being hunted by soldiers

or starving on some horrible reservation?

I suppose some of that depends on us.

Thank you for all you've taught me and for your friendship.

We both want you to have it.

She put stones over the heart to help protect you.

And the claws of the hawk

to give you the courage to face the unknown.

If it's a bit crooked,

I'm afraid my sewing's not as good as my cooking.

I will wear it with pride.

It's Robert E.

Whoa, whoa.

What are you doing here?

We wanted to say goodbye, too.

And we wanted to be with you.

And I wanted Cloud Dancing to know that my prayers

are with him and with all of his people.

I'm glad that you came.

Better take him, Dr. Mike. We said our goodbyes.

You must always remember how a Negro couple

took care of you when there was no one...

...and a white woman nursed you at her breast.

Now you'll grow up to be part of a brave, proud people.

Sully and I thought of a name.

We'll call you Live In Hopes.

This way, you can carry the words of your chief.

Live In Hopes.

It is a good name.

It's all right.

Don't worry.

I missed you.

Michaela!

It must be 3:00 in the morning.

First time I met the Cheyenne people...

...they helped me search for Brian when he ran away.

Later, Sully and Cloud Dancing

brought Chief Black Kettle up to the homestead.

They'd been wounded by the Army, and they needed my help.

That's when Black Kettle gave me my Cheyenne name --

It means Medicine Woman.

I don't think I've ever known a man who wanted peace more.

I want to tell you about Chief Black Kettle,

about the Cheyenne nation.

I want people to know who they are and what's happened to them.

You tell me the truth, Michaela, and I'll print it.