1 00:00:02,270 --> 00:00:04,505 You have penned your animals on sacred ground. 2 00:00:04,572 --> 00:00:07,241 You walk up the mountain, see some writing on a stone 3 00:00:07,308 --> 00:00:09,277 and tell me to tear down my barn. 4 00:00:09,343 --> 00:00:11,545 I came here to tell you 5 00:00:11,612 --> 00:00:16,484 I'm sorry for what the whites did to the Indians. 6 00:00:16,550 --> 00:00:22,056 Before I met you, I didn't know anything about the Indians. 7 00:00:22,123 --> 00:00:24,125 I'd seen them in pictures and books. 8 00:00:24,192 --> 00:00:26,260 Scalping people and burning their houses. 9 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:35,103 Daddy! Daddy! Wake up, everybody! The barn's on fire! 10 00:01:38,899 --> 00:01:40,501 JOHN-BOY: Most of us tend to be convinced 11 00:01:40,568 --> 00:01:42,470 of the rightness of our heritage, 12 00:01:42,536 --> 00:01:46,440 our traditions, our way of life until some event happens 13 00:01:46,507 --> 00:01:50,110 that shakes our deepest beliefs to their foundations. 14 00:01:50,178 --> 00:01:54,782 On a day in 1939, two strangers came to our mountain. 15 00:01:54,848 --> 00:01:56,684 As a consequence of their visit, 16 00:01:56,750 --> 00:01:59,187 we were to learn that others had roots there 17 00:01:59,253 --> 00:02:01,054 which reached deeper than our own. 18 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,656 (BLEATING) 19 00:02:02,723 --> 00:02:05,593 I think she's sick, Daddy. She won't even get up to eat. 20 00:02:05,659 --> 00:02:07,561 She hasn't been eating much lately, huh? 21 00:02:07,628 --> 00:02:10,598 No. Not much of an appetite. 22 00:02:10,664 --> 00:02:14,268 Could be a touch of arthritis, honey. Maybe an infection. 23 00:02:14,335 --> 00:02:16,737 If she's not better by tomorrow, we'll call Doc Culler. 24 00:02:23,477 --> 00:02:25,479 Something I can do for you? 25 00:02:25,546 --> 00:02:27,448 We need a place to spend the night. 26 00:02:27,515 --> 00:02:28,616 Uh-huh. 27 00:02:28,682 --> 00:02:32,220 Any chance you'd let us sleep in your barn? 28 00:02:32,286 --> 00:02:35,323 -Where you folks from? -North Carolina. 29 00:02:35,389 --> 00:02:36,657 Just passing through? 30 00:02:36,724 --> 00:02:38,859 Oh, we'll be on our way in the morning. 31 00:02:41,929 --> 00:02:43,631 Make yourselves comfortable. 32 00:02:43,697 --> 00:02:47,100 -I'm Matthew Teskigi. -John Walton. 33 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:48,702 This is my grandfather, Joseph Teskigi. 34 00:02:48,769 --> 00:02:53,106 Nice to meet you. 35 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:54,808 This is my daughter, Elizabeth. 36 00:02:54,875 --> 00:02:58,846 -Are you really an Indian? -Really. 37 00:02:58,912 --> 00:03:00,948 (BLEATING) 38 00:03:15,863 --> 00:03:19,833 Something's wrong with her. Her name's Myrtle. 39 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:20,934 Could be bloat. 40 00:03:21,001 --> 00:03:23,471 That's what I thought, but there's no swelling. 41 00:03:23,537 --> 00:03:25,539 It doesn't always show. 42 00:03:25,606 --> 00:03:27,941 Think you can make her well again, sir? 43 00:03:28,008 --> 00:03:30,311 We will try. 44 00:03:30,378 --> 00:03:33,947 Daddy? Elizabeth? Mama says supper's ready. 45 00:03:34,014 --> 00:03:35,516 We'll be right in, son. 46 00:03:35,583 --> 00:03:39,753 -Could we invite them to supper? -I guess we can handle that. 47 00:03:39,820 --> 00:03:42,022 You men like to have supper with us? 48 00:03:42,089 --> 00:03:45,659 Oh, we have our own food. We don't want to be any bother. 49 00:04:02,576 --> 00:04:04,011 We know you have your own food, 50 00:04:04,077 --> 00:04:06,914 but Mama thought you might like something warm. 51 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:12,820 You did not have to do it, but thank you just the same. 52 00:04:12,886 --> 00:04:14,388 Why don't you bring the grain sack over here? 53 00:04:14,455 --> 00:04:16,457 We can use it like a table. 54 00:04:28,569 --> 00:04:33,006 Great, honored spirit, giver of all life, 55 00:04:33,073 --> 00:04:38,746 thank you for this nourishment and for kind friends. 56 00:04:38,812 --> 00:04:40,280 Amen. 57 00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:49,557 It's a pretty cup. 58 00:04:49,623 --> 00:04:52,960 I had this since I was six. 59 00:04:53,026 --> 00:04:56,364 Made and given to me by my mother. 60 00:04:56,430 --> 00:04:58,832 That's me there. 61 00:04:58,899 --> 00:05:00,568 It must be awfully old. 62 00:05:00,634 --> 00:05:04,672 I never did care for goat's milk, 63 00:05:04,738 --> 00:05:07,140 which was all we had to drink. 64 00:05:07,207 --> 00:05:09,009 To get me to drink it, 65 00:05:09,076 --> 00:05:12,480 my mother made me this special cup. 66 00:05:12,546 --> 00:05:16,617 She told me if I did not drink the milk, 67 00:05:16,684 --> 00:05:20,721 I would always stay this size 68 00:05:20,788 --> 00:05:23,357 and never grow as tall as my father. 69 00:05:23,424 --> 00:05:24,925 Was your father tall? 70 00:05:24,992 --> 00:05:29,963 I was told he was. I never really saw him. 71 00:05:30,030 --> 00:05:33,601 He died when I was a baby. 72 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:35,703 Have you been sleeping out on the ground? 73 00:05:35,769 --> 00:05:39,172 Yes, but I'd rather have a nice soft bed. 74 00:05:39,239 --> 00:05:40,874 Grandfather says I'm soft. 75 00:05:40,941 --> 00:05:43,210 Even at home he always sleeps on the floor. 76 00:05:43,276 --> 00:05:45,879 The old ways are healthier. 77 00:05:48,816 --> 00:05:50,851 ELIZABETH: You know much about the old ways? 78 00:05:53,587 --> 00:05:56,323 Do you think you could get Myrtle better again? 79 00:05:56,390 --> 00:06:00,160 I'm not sure. I can try. 80 00:06:00,227 --> 00:06:05,566 -What you need is goldenseal. -I know where there's some. 81 00:06:05,633 --> 00:06:08,368 We'll look for it in the morning. 82 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:20,648 Goodnight, everybody. 83 00:06:20,714 --> 00:06:23,383 -GRANDPA: Where are you off to? -The Dew Drop Inn. 84 00:06:23,451 --> 00:06:25,385 Oh, yes. Well, give my love to Thelma. 85 00:06:25,453 --> 00:06:27,187 Alright. 86 00:06:27,254 --> 00:06:28,822 (GRANDPA CHUCKLING) 87 00:06:30,724 --> 00:06:34,161 Hey. I thought you said them Indians 88 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:36,730 was over there in the barn. 89 00:06:36,797 --> 00:06:38,766 JOHN: I thought they were. 90 00:06:44,204 --> 00:06:45,939 Everything alright? 91 00:06:46,006 --> 00:06:47,841 My grandfather just wanted to look around. 92 00:06:47,908 --> 00:06:50,143 Why don't you come up and sit a while? 93 00:06:57,551 --> 00:06:59,920 Ben, move on down there, will you, son? 94 00:06:59,987 --> 00:07:02,389 This is my father. This is Mr. Teskigi. 95 00:07:02,456 --> 00:07:04,124 Mr. Walton. My son, Ben. 96 00:07:04,191 --> 00:07:06,460 -Good evening. -JOHN: Have a seat, Mr. Teskigi. 97 00:07:06,527 --> 00:07:07,995 And this is his grandson, Matthew. 98 00:07:08,061 --> 00:07:09,029 -Matthew. -Hi. 99 00:07:09,096 --> 00:07:10,964 -Hi. -Hi. 100 00:07:13,133 --> 00:07:15,803 GRANDPA: Have you seen our farm, Mr. Teskigi? 101 00:07:15,869 --> 00:07:18,405 GRANDFATHER JOSEPH: It is good land. 102 00:07:18,472 --> 00:07:20,974 Are you a farmer, Mr. Teskigi? 103 00:07:21,041 --> 00:07:26,379 I have a very small farm. We are poor people. 104 00:07:26,446 --> 00:07:28,415 We know something about that around here. 105 00:07:28,482 --> 00:07:29,883 Mmm. 106 00:07:29,950 --> 00:07:33,120 You are of the Cherokee tribe, hmm? 107 00:07:33,186 --> 00:07:35,055 I am. 108 00:07:35,122 --> 00:07:38,391 GRANDPA: Oh, the Cherokees once lived all over the Appalachians 109 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,961 and they were driven west. 110 00:07:41,028 --> 00:07:43,897 I've always heard the Cherokees were great hunters. 111 00:07:43,964 --> 00:07:45,933 Do you ever use a bow and arrow? 112 00:07:45,999 --> 00:07:48,235 Grandfather taught me when I was a little boy. 113 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:51,138 -Did you ever hit anything? -The side of our barn. 114 00:07:51,204 --> 00:07:52,740 (LAUGHING) 115 00:07:52,806 --> 00:07:58,178 Our people were good hunters. They were also very intelligent. 116 00:07:58,245 --> 00:08:03,517 They were the first Indians to have a written alphabet. 117 00:08:03,584 --> 00:08:07,087 A great leader named Sequoya invented it. 118 00:08:07,154 --> 00:08:09,657 Sounds like those big trees they have out in California. 119 00:08:09,723 --> 00:08:15,228 -They were named in his honor. -Sequoia giganteum. 120 00:08:15,295 --> 00:08:17,898 And I read that in 1827 121 00:08:17,965 --> 00:08:20,801 the Cherokees published a newspaper. 122 00:08:20,868 --> 00:08:23,303 We did that last year. 123 00:08:23,370 --> 00:08:28,008 You and your grandson have come a long way. Must be a reason. 124 00:08:28,075 --> 00:08:31,344 I was born in this part of the country. 125 00:08:31,411 --> 00:08:33,814 I have good reason to believe 126 00:08:33,881 --> 00:08:38,085 our sacred burial ground is on the mountain. 127 00:08:38,151 --> 00:08:39,252 How you gonna find it? 128 00:08:39,319 --> 00:08:44,324 My people left directions on a great stone. 129 00:08:44,391 --> 00:08:48,896 -Do you know where the stone is? -Somewhere in the mountains. 130 00:08:48,962 --> 00:08:50,497 How are you gonna find it? 131 00:08:50,564 --> 00:08:52,866 There is a scar on the mountainside 132 00:08:52,933 --> 00:08:54,902 shaped like an arrow. 133 00:08:54,968 --> 00:08:56,737 Framed between two pines, 134 00:08:56,804 --> 00:09:00,507 it points the way to a circle of stones. 135 00:09:00,574 --> 00:09:06,113 There is written the way to the burial ground. 136 00:09:06,179 --> 00:09:07,414 Indian Rock. 137 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,318 -Is it far from here? -Not far. Not far at all. 138 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:13,587 Just up the side of our mountain. 139 00:09:13,654 --> 00:09:14,988 Will you show it to us? 140 00:09:15,055 --> 00:09:17,758 Would be glad to in the morning when it's light. 141 00:09:17,825 --> 00:09:19,793 You said we were gonna go look for the goldenseal. 142 00:09:19,860 --> 00:09:22,896 If you made a promise, keep it. 143 00:09:22,963 --> 00:09:28,001 You go with the child and I'll go up to the mountain. 144 00:09:28,068 --> 00:09:31,304 I will see you all in the morning, sir. 145 00:09:31,371 --> 00:09:32,973 Goodnight to all. 146 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,574 ALL: Goodnight. 147 00:09:46,053 --> 00:09:48,088 GRANDFATHER JOSEPH: Slow down, young man. 148 00:09:48,155 --> 00:09:49,857 GRANDPA: (CHUCKLING) Been a long time 149 00:09:49,923 --> 00:09:52,292 since anybody said anything like that to me. 150 00:09:52,359 --> 00:09:55,495 GRANDFATHER JOSEPH: I'm old enough to be your father. 151 00:09:55,562 --> 00:09:58,866 -Have a little respect for age. -Yes, sir. 152 00:09:58,932 --> 00:10:01,902 Any of this land around here familiar to you? 153 00:10:01,969 --> 00:10:06,239 I was an infant when our people left here, 154 00:10:06,306 --> 00:10:10,811 but I was told that the land gave of itself... 155 00:10:10,878 --> 00:10:13,781 -Yes. -...and that game was plentiful. 156 00:10:13,847 --> 00:10:17,384 Yes, there's still plenty of game all around here. 157 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:20,921 Well, we've lived through a war and the Depression 158 00:10:20,988 --> 00:10:23,023 by living off the land. 159 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:32,833 -You have had many wives? -Only one. And you? 160 00:10:36,403 --> 00:10:41,208 Oh, I have outlived four wives. 161 00:10:41,274 --> 00:10:43,076 (CHUCKLING) Let's rest. 162 00:10:50,083 --> 00:10:55,188 The first I married when I was 17. 163 00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:58,191 It was an adventure. 164 00:10:58,258 --> 00:11:02,029 Since we did not marry in our own tribe, 165 00:11:02,095 --> 00:11:05,733 it was arranged that I was supposed to marry 166 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:08,068 a girl in another reservation. 167 00:11:08,135 --> 00:11:13,373 Only twice did I leave the reservation. 168 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,744 This time, now, and that other time 169 00:11:16,810 --> 00:11:20,881 when I went to take my bride. 170 00:11:20,948 --> 00:11:24,651 Facing marriage is frightening enough, 171 00:11:24,718 --> 00:11:27,788 but it didn't help when, at that same time, 172 00:11:27,855 --> 00:11:30,791 I had to face the outside world. 173 00:11:30,858 --> 00:11:33,560 I was brave when I left home. 174 00:11:33,626 --> 00:11:40,633 But on the way, I came to the first city I have ever seen. 175 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,403 I remember seeing a young couple. 176 00:11:43,470 --> 00:11:48,341 The girl was looking adoringly at the man 177 00:11:48,408 --> 00:11:50,978 who wore his hair short. 178 00:11:51,044 --> 00:11:54,314 My hair fell past my shoulders. 179 00:11:54,381 --> 00:12:00,087 It struck me that if I wore my hair as short as his 180 00:12:01,121 --> 00:12:04,557 that my intended bride 181 00:12:04,624 --> 00:12:08,295 could look at me with the same favorable look. 182 00:12:08,361 --> 00:12:10,263 Adoration. 183 00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:11,731 (LAUGHING) 184 00:12:11,799 --> 00:12:15,168 The first barber turned me away 185 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:19,406 saying that they served whites only. 186 00:12:19,472 --> 00:12:23,676 The second, a shop run by a negro, 187 00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:27,314 took me in and cut my hair. 188 00:12:27,380 --> 00:12:31,919 When I got to the reservation where my intended wife waited, 189 00:12:31,985 --> 00:12:34,254 all the men in the family laughed 190 00:12:34,321 --> 00:12:38,959 and said that I didn't look like a real Indian. 191 00:12:39,026 --> 00:12:43,730 I thought I'd lost the young woman's hand, 192 00:12:43,797 --> 00:12:47,868 but when she came closer and noticed the scent in the lotion 193 00:12:47,935 --> 00:12:50,737 that the barber had put on my hair, 194 00:12:50,804 --> 00:12:53,240 she found it to her liking. 195 00:12:53,306 --> 00:12:59,079 To this day, instead of bear grease, 196 00:12:59,146 --> 00:13:04,384 I dress my hair with a potion called witch hazel. 197 00:13:04,451 --> 00:13:08,321 (LAUGHING) Witch hazel, I know it well. 198 00:13:15,295 --> 00:13:19,432 -Find some? -Not it. 199 00:13:19,499 --> 00:13:20,533 (ELIZABETH SIGHING) 200 00:13:23,937 --> 00:13:28,075 -Do you live in a tepee? -No, I live in a house. 201 00:13:28,141 --> 00:13:31,879 -Like ours? -Not as big. Not as nice. 202 00:13:33,914 --> 00:13:36,049 Where is it? 203 00:13:36,116 --> 00:13:38,585 On a reservation in North Carolina. 204 00:13:48,628 --> 00:13:50,363 What's that? 205 00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:52,465 Probably someone kin to me made this. 206 00:13:52,532 --> 00:13:54,801 When my people still owned all the land, 207 00:13:54,868 --> 00:13:59,439 we were free to hunt and fish and live however we wanted to. 208 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:00,573 Can't you still? 209 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,143 As long as we stay on the reservation. 210 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,482 Well, we're almost there. 211 00:14:11,218 --> 00:14:15,855 The Indian Rock. I hope you won't be too disappointed. 212 00:14:15,923 --> 00:14:17,224 I've lived here all my life 213 00:14:17,290 --> 00:14:20,060 and I've never seen an Indian burial ground. 214 00:14:20,127 --> 00:14:23,563 I have faith in our tribal legends. 215 00:14:25,265 --> 00:14:29,136 I would like to go on alone. 216 00:15:41,708 --> 00:15:43,977 She doesn't seem to be getting any better. 217 00:15:44,044 --> 00:15:46,879 I agree with you, Elizabeth. No, she don't. 218 00:15:46,946 --> 00:15:48,748 We couldn't find the goldenseal. 219 00:15:48,815 --> 00:15:50,383 Goldenseal? There's a lot of it. 220 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:53,320 There's a big patch of it right halfway up the mountain. 221 00:15:53,386 --> 00:15:56,356 -Elizabeth knows where it is. -Someone dug it all up. 222 00:15:56,423 --> 00:15:59,159 Well, that was a dumb thing to do, as you might say. 223 00:16:24,451 --> 00:16:27,687 I have found our burial ground. 224 00:16:27,754 --> 00:16:30,157 Where is it? 225 00:16:30,223 --> 00:16:33,460 It is here under your barn. 226 00:16:33,526 --> 00:16:38,098 -Is that so? -Grandfather, are you sure? 227 00:16:38,165 --> 00:16:39,966 You mean there are people underneath our barn, 228 00:16:40,033 --> 00:16:41,168 dead people? 229 00:16:41,234 --> 00:16:43,103 My ancestors. 230 00:16:43,170 --> 00:16:45,772 The writing on the stone leaves no question. 231 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:49,509 Well, now that puts us in sort of an awkward position, 232 00:16:49,576 --> 00:16:50,943 don't it, John? 233 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,113 This building must be torn down. 234 00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:56,149 -Oh, now, come on. -It must be done. 235 00:16:56,216 --> 00:16:58,785 You have penned your animals on sacred ground. 236 00:16:58,851 --> 00:17:03,156 -The ground has been desecrated. -Now, wait just a minute. 237 00:17:03,223 --> 00:17:05,358 You walk up the mountain and see some writing on a stone 238 00:17:05,425 --> 00:17:09,396 and come here and tell me to tear down my barn? Like hell! 239 00:17:09,462 --> 00:17:12,732 -The ground must be purified. -Now, you listen to me. 240 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:15,935 I'm not gonna tear down this barn for you or anybody else. 241 00:17:16,002 --> 00:17:17,504 This is crazy. 242 00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:19,939 There was nothing on this land when my pa came here. 243 00:17:20,006 --> 00:17:22,175 There was a burial ground here. 244 00:17:22,242 --> 00:17:23,743 How was he supposed to know that? 245 00:17:23,810 --> 00:17:26,513 There was no cemetery here, no tombstones, no grave! 246 00:17:26,579 --> 00:17:29,616 Take it easy, John. We can work things out some way. 247 00:17:29,682 --> 00:17:32,852 -We can tear down this barn. -No. 248 00:17:32,919 --> 00:17:34,821 -Yes! -No! 249 00:17:34,887 --> 00:17:37,324 Then we will find another way. 250 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:39,392 Now, listen here, I told you two, you could stay, 251 00:17:39,459 --> 00:17:42,129 but I've changed my mind. I want you to leave. 252 00:17:42,195 --> 00:17:45,365 He's right, Grandfather. We should go. 253 00:17:45,432 --> 00:17:47,434 John, I think you're being too hasty. 254 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:50,069 I'm not being hasty. This barn's as much yours as it's mine. 255 00:17:50,137 --> 00:17:52,939 You put it up plank by plank. You wanna see it torn down? 256 00:17:53,005 --> 00:17:54,607 -Daddy, listen to Grandpa. -Let's go home, Grandfather. 257 00:17:54,674 --> 00:17:58,044 No. Let us sit down and talk over this thing 258 00:17:58,111 --> 00:18:00,347 until we find a solution. 259 00:18:00,413 --> 00:18:04,951 -We can tear down the barn. -I told you to leave! 260 00:18:05,017 --> 00:18:07,220 Come on, Grandfather, let's go. 261 00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:11,424 John, we ought to look into what he's saying. 262 00:18:11,491 --> 00:18:13,460 Look into what? He's not willing to talk. 263 00:18:13,526 --> 00:18:15,262 He doesn't wanna and talk about this. 264 00:18:15,328 --> 00:18:18,165 GRANDPA: There was nothing here maybe a pile of rocks. 265 00:18:18,231 --> 00:18:19,699 He wants to do is tear it down. No use talking. 266 00:18:19,766 --> 00:18:23,703 I know. We could listen to what he says anyway... 267 00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:26,139 (BOTH ARGUING) 268 00:18:29,576 --> 00:18:31,711 JIM-BOB: Grandpa, isn't there something we could do for him? 269 00:18:31,778 --> 00:18:34,614 What are we supposed to do? Tear down the barn? 270 00:18:34,681 --> 00:18:36,516 There's probably a bunch of old bones under. 271 00:18:36,583 --> 00:18:37,850 Jim-Bob, don't talk about bones. 272 00:18:37,917 --> 00:18:40,353 This thing is creepy enough as it is. 273 00:18:40,420 --> 00:18:42,455 ELIZABETH: Is the land really theirs, Grandpa? 274 00:18:42,522 --> 00:18:45,625 The land was theirs once. Now it's ours. 275 00:18:47,327 --> 00:18:51,231 -Well, who says it's ours? -I do. 276 00:18:51,298 --> 00:18:53,400 Elizabeth, that's a big question. 277 00:18:53,466 --> 00:18:57,437 People been trying to answer that for hundreds of years. 278 00:18:57,504 --> 00:18:59,406 There's probably a million ghosts out there. 279 00:18:59,472 --> 00:19:01,774 They all come out at night and do a war dance. 280 00:19:01,841 --> 00:19:03,876 (WHOOPING) 281 00:19:03,943 --> 00:19:07,079 Jim-Bob, sometimes you are so juvenile. 282 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:09,015 Yeah, I guess. 283 00:19:09,081 --> 00:19:10,583 Let's put it this way, Elizabeth. 284 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:13,152 Suppose some people with different colored skins 285 00:19:13,220 --> 00:19:15,488 is to come here and say they wanted our place 286 00:19:15,555 --> 00:19:17,424 and told us to get off of it? 287 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:20,760 -ELIZABETH: Could they do that? -But that's never gonna happen. 288 00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:23,396 Daddy, that's what we did to the Indians. 289 00:19:23,463 --> 00:19:26,299 This is our land and it's gonna stay our land. 290 00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:31,838 It's been a long day. Now, come on, off to bed. Come on. 291 00:19:33,373 --> 00:19:35,942 -Goodnight, honey. -Goodnight. 292 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:37,810 -Goodnight. -Goodnight. 293 00:20:05,938 --> 00:20:10,209 John, I had a long walk with that old man this morning 294 00:20:10,277 --> 00:20:12,545 and I think I know what's in his heart. 295 00:20:12,612 --> 00:20:14,881 Tearing down our barn is what's in his heart. 296 00:20:14,947 --> 00:20:19,185 Well, maybe, but I think I know what's most important to him. 297 00:20:19,252 --> 00:20:22,689 He wants to know that when he crosses over into eternity 298 00:20:22,755 --> 00:20:25,458 that he can be buried where his people are. 299 00:20:25,525 --> 00:20:27,894 I know that feeling real well. 300 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,831 I wanna be buried right up here on Walton's Mountain. 301 00:20:31,898 --> 00:20:36,936 Only I'm a lot younger than he is, and will last longer maybe. 302 00:20:39,939 --> 00:20:42,909 I understand all that, Pa. 303 00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:45,312 You say you want our barn torn down? 304 00:20:45,378 --> 00:20:48,080 No, I'm just saying it takes one old man 305 00:20:48,147 --> 00:20:51,117 to understand another old man. 306 00:20:51,183 --> 00:20:53,720 Pa, we usually we see eye to eye on most things. 307 00:20:53,786 --> 00:20:56,589 How come we're on the opposite sides of the fence in this? 308 00:20:56,656 --> 00:21:00,893 Yeah, it's just so sad. Just think, all they've lost. 309 00:21:02,194 --> 00:21:05,164 We weren't the ones that did it. 310 00:21:05,231 --> 00:21:06,766 Weren't we? 311 00:21:08,768 --> 00:21:11,003 You can't turn back history. 312 00:21:26,018 --> 00:21:28,955 Always the white man has shamed us. 313 00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:30,790 The Waltons were nice to us. 314 00:21:30,857 --> 00:21:33,760 Don't be so quick to excuse them. 315 00:21:33,826 --> 00:21:37,930 These are your ancestors sleeping under cow dung. 316 00:21:38,831 --> 00:21:41,668 If the white man hadn't come, 317 00:21:41,734 --> 00:21:45,672 this land would've been all yours now, 318 00:21:45,738 --> 00:21:48,375 and I didn't have to walk all the way 319 00:21:48,441 --> 00:21:51,978 from North Carolina to find a place to die. 320 00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:55,882 -Let's go home, Grandfather. -This mountain is my home. 321 00:21:55,948 --> 00:21:58,250 Grandfather, what are you saying? 322 00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:01,988 The white man has told me where to live. 323 00:22:02,054 --> 00:22:05,358 I will not let him tell me where to die. 324 00:22:54,106 --> 00:22:58,445 Daddy! Daddy! Wake up, everybody! The barn's on fire! 325 00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,025 Get Myrtle out of here! Get her out now! 326 00:23:13,092 --> 00:23:17,196 Come on, get the buckets! Somebody get the hose! Come on! 327 00:23:17,263 --> 00:23:19,799 Myrtle. Where's Myrtle? 328 00:23:22,034 --> 00:23:23,369 Myrtle! 329 00:23:23,436 --> 00:23:25,672 (BLEATING) 330 00:23:28,775 --> 00:23:31,544 Come on, get out of here. I'll deal with you later. 331 00:23:31,611 --> 00:23:33,780 Come on, Pa, bring those buckets over here! 332 00:23:43,289 --> 00:23:45,057 Here, Daddy! 333 00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:48,528 Hey, Ben! 334 00:23:59,539 --> 00:24:01,073 ERIN: Watch out! 335 00:24:04,911 --> 00:24:06,045 (GASPS) 336 00:24:12,785 --> 00:24:14,887 JOHN: Hurry, more water! 337 00:24:16,188 --> 00:24:18,457 Good girl! Good girl! 338 00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:26,733 (JOHN GROANING) 339 00:24:30,436 --> 00:24:32,672 I think we've put it out. 340 00:24:33,906 --> 00:24:36,142 (COUGHING) 341 00:24:36,208 --> 00:24:38,477 Well, we're gonna have to rebuild these walls. 342 00:24:38,545 --> 00:24:40,647 JASON: Good thing the animals got out. 343 00:24:40,713 --> 00:24:42,682 JOHN: Lucky it didn't reach the house. 344 00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:51,090 -You alright, Elizabeth? -I'm scared. 345 00:24:51,157 --> 00:24:52,424 It's over now. 346 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:53,760 Did you start the fire? 347 00:24:53,826 --> 00:24:56,563 (GRANDFATHER JOSEPH SPEAKING CHEROKEE) 348 00:24:57,463 --> 00:24:58,497 (SPEAKING CHEROKEE) 349 00:24:58,565 --> 00:24:59,799 I have done it. 350 00:24:59,866 --> 00:25:01,233 Old man, get off this place 351 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:03,135 before I do something I'll be sorry for. 352 00:25:03,202 --> 00:25:07,574 The sacred ground must be purified with fire. 353 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,810 Next time I will not fail. 354 00:25:10,877 --> 00:25:13,212 Jason, get the Sheriff. 355 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,935 (SIGHING) 356 00:26:10,937 --> 00:26:12,104 -Grandpa? -Uh-huh? 357 00:26:12,171 --> 00:26:13,640 Why aren't you working on the barn? 358 00:26:13,706 --> 00:26:15,541 Sheriff says to leave it for evidence. 359 00:26:15,608 --> 00:26:17,644 Want some help? 360 00:26:17,710 --> 00:26:19,411 Yes, I always could use some help from you. 361 00:26:19,478 --> 00:26:23,650 Just hold this nail... No, you hold the board while I nail it. 362 00:26:23,716 --> 00:26:26,185 What's gonna happen to Mr. Teskigi? 363 00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:29,388 He's in jail, and he's likely to stay there for a while. 364 00:26:29,455 --> 00:26:31,390 It's our fault, isn't it? 365 00:26:31,457 --> 00:26:35,161 No, that old man got himself into that fix he's in. 366 00:26:35,227 --> 00:26:37,329 -Yeah, but it's because of us. -No. 367 00:26:37,396 --> 00:26:39,666 It's because of something that happened 368 00:26:39,732 --> 00:26:43,502 years and years before we was even born. 369 00:26:43,569 --> 00:26:45,938 Still, I'd like to say I'm sorry. 370 00:26:46,005 --> 00:26:50,009 Elizabeth, you mustn't go around blaming yourself for something 371 00:26:50,076 --> 00:26:53,312 that happened so many years ago and that you couldn't help. 372 00:26:53,379 --> 00:26:55,614 But I know your feeling, though. 373 00:26:55,682 --> 00:26:58,317 I've been having some of the same kind of feeling 374 00:26:58,384 --> 00:27:00,119 all this morning. 375 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:04,691 (SIGHING) 376 00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:08,360 Fence mended. 377 00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:15,601 I hear you're looking for me, Ep. 378 00:27:15,668 --> 00:27:17,136 (CHUCKLING) Yeah. 379 00:27:17,203 --> 00:27:20,807 -What have I done this time? -Oh, I tell you, Judge, 380 00:27:20,873 --> 00:27:22,742 I'd have to think twice, 381 00:27:22,809 --> 00:27:25,411 maybe three times before I arrested you. 382 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:28,815 Now, what's this about you locking up some old Indian? 383 00:27:28,881 --> 00:27:30,516 No respect for age? 384 00:27:30,582 --> 00:27:33,385 Yeah, then I guess you heard about John Walton's barn. 385 00:27:33,452 --> 00:27:37,857 Mmm-hmm. You... You think the man's guilty? 386 00:27:37,924 --> 00:27:39,859 Oh, he admits it, Judge. 387 00:27:39,926 --> 00:27:42,428 In fact, he claims next time he's gonna burn her 388 00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:43,963 all the way to the ground. 389 00:27:44,030 --> 00:27:45,431 Hmm. 390 00:27:47,366 --> 00:27:51,603 What are we... What are we gonna do with him? 391 00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:55,541 Well, Judge, it's up to you. 392 00:27:55,607 --> 00:27:56,943 Yeah. 393 00:28:06,118 --> 00:28:08,955 Jim-Bob, I need a ride to Rockfish. 394 00:28:09,021 --> 00:28:11,257 -What for? -It's personal. 395 00:28:11,323 --> 00:28:14,360 Well, next time I'm going over there, I'll give you a ride. 396 00:28:14,426 --> 00:28:16,062 This has to be today. 397 00:28:16,128 --> 00:28:19,065 Elizabeth, I'm not running a taxi service. 398 00:28:19,131 --> 00:28:21,267 If you were, how much would you charge? 399 00:28:21,333 --> 00:28:23,502 -How much do you have? -A quarter. 400 00:28:23,569 --> 00:28:25,938 -That's not enough. -I did some sewing for Erin. 401 00:28:26,005 --> 00:28:27,373 When she gets paid, 402 00:28:27,439 --> 00:28:29,842 she's gonna give me a dime. Thirty-five cents? 403 00:28:29,909 --> 00:28:31,744 Still not enough. 404 00:28:31,811 --> 00:28:35,081 Alright, 50 cents, but I don't know how I'm gonna get it. 405 00:28:35,147 --> 00:28:37,449 50 cents is enough to pay for that inner tube 406 00:28:37,516 --> 00:28:40,853 they've been holding for me at the junk shop. 407 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,089 Okay, Elizabeth, you got yourself a taxi service. 408 00:28:47,659 --> 00:28:49,428 (HORN HONKING) 409 00:29:18,624 --> 00:29:23,896 Well, morning, Miss Elizabeth. 410 00:29:23,963 --> 00:29:26,632 I have to see Mr. Teskigi. 411 00:29:26,698 --> 00:29:29,501 Yeah? What do you wanna see him for? 412 00:29:29,568 --> 00:29:31,904 -I have to talk to him. -Oh. 413 00:29:33,339 --> 00:29:36,809 -Your folks know you're here? -Jim-Bob brought me. 414 00:29:40,847 --> 00:29:45,885 You haven't got any concealed weapons or any hacksaws 415 00:29:45,952 --> 00:29:48,454 to help him escape, have you? 416 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,123 -No, sir. -Sure. 417 00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:52,458 Come on. 418 00:29:52,524 --> 00:29:55,928 Chief, you got company. 419 00:30:04,636 --> 00:30:06,973 I'm sorry you're in jail. 420 00:30:08,174 --> 00:30:10,076 Me, too. 421 00:30:13,445 --> 00:30:15,814 I thought you might like a visitor. 422 00:30:17,917 --> 00:30:19,818 Thank you. 423 00:30:22,121 --> 00:30:24,823 It cost me 50 cents to come over here. 424 00:30:36,135 --> 00:30:37,569 I've been in Sheriff Bridges' office, 425 00:30:37,636 --> 00:30:41,273 but I've never been back here. It's awful. 426 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,115 I came here to tell you I'm sorry 427 00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:52,051 for what the whites did to the Indians. 428 00:30:55,454 --> 00:31:00,726 Before I met you, I didn't know anything about the Indians. 429 00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:05,364 I'd seen them in pictures in books and in the movies, 430 00:31:05,431 --> 00:31:08,567 but they were always on the warpath, 431 00:31:08,634 --> 00:31:11,603 scalping people and burning their houses. 432 00:31:13,572 --> 00:31:17,910 But you're not like that. You're real people just like us. 433 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:21,847 Your skin isn't even red. 434 00:31:21,914 --> 00:31:24,183 It's tan like we get in the summertime. 435 00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:31,657 I'm afraid you don't know what I'm trying to say. 436 00:31:35,761 --> 00:31:37,596 In our legends, 437 00:31:39,265 --> 00:31:45,404 it is told at one time all things living were in the sky. 438 00:31:46,838 --> 00:31:52,511 They lived on sky rock, and this was before the world was made. 439 00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:58,850 All the animals could talk to man and man understood them. 440 00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:03,522 Then man dishonored the privilege 441 00:32:04,690 --> 00:32:06,492 and he was stricken deaf 442 00:32:06,558 --> 00:32:10,396 from the talk of the animals and birds. 443 00:32:12,031 --> 00:32:15,934 The Great One over the sky rock 444 00:32:16,002 --> 00:32:21,640 punished man so that he could only understand his own kind. 445 00:32:23,075 --> 00:32:26,078 And most tragically today, 446 00:32:27,213 --> 00:32:31,250 man cannot always understand man. 447 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:46,065 Now, Mr. Teskigi, this is not a formal hearing. 448 00:32:46,132 --> 00:32:47,866 You have caused considerable anguish 449 00:32:47,933 --> 00:32:52,238 to a citizen of this county by trying to burn his barn down. 450 00:32:52,304 --> 00:32:55,441 Now, frankly, I don't know what to do with you, 451 00:32:55,507 --> 00:33:00,146 but maybe by the end of this hearing we will. 452 00:33:00,212 --> 00:33:02,348 We've asked Mr. Cross to step in here 453 00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:04,350 to look out for your interests. 454 00:33:04,416 --> 00:33:07,453 Mr. Cross, do you have any statement to make at this time? 455 00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:10,389 Well, I've met with Mr. Teskigi, Your Honor, 456 00:33:10,456 --> 00:33:14,660 and I'm sorry to say he's been completely uncommunicative. 457 00:33:14,726 --> 00:33:18,564 -You mean he won't talk to you? -That's right, sir. 458 00:33:22,234 --> 00:33:24,203 Do you have anything to say, Mr. Walton? 459 00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:27,073 The harm's already been done, Your Honor. 460 00:33:27,139 --> 00:33:29,007 I'd just like to make sure 461 00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:31,210 he doesn't come around my place anymore. 462 00:33:31,277 --> 00:33:34,346 Well, sounds reasonable to me. 463 00:33:34,413 --> 00:33:37,149 How does that sound to you, Mr. Teskigi? 464 00:33:38,784 --> 00:33:41,487 The ground must be purified. 465 00:33:41,553 --> 00:33:45,091 JUDGE: Well, surely not at the cost of John Walton's barn. 466 00:33:46,258 --> 00:33:47,559 It must be done. 467 00:33:47,626 --> 00:33:51,163 No, Mr. Teskigi, it must not be done. 468 00:33:51,230 --> 00:33:53,165 We here in Virginia are tolerant 469 00:33:53,232 --> 00:33:55,767 of a good many intrusions on our way of life, 470 00:33:55,834 --> 00:33:58,804 but barn burning is savage and reprehensible, 471 00:33:58,870 --> 00:34:02,974 and we cannot and will not allow that to happen. 472 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:06,512 May I remind you that your actions are no different 473 00:34:06,578 --> 00:34:08,647 than when the settlers first came here 474 00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:11,317 and your forbearers pillaged and burned 475 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:15,287 and went on the warpath, burning and killing at will. 476 00:34:31,137 --> 00:34:34,873 I was told by a young friend this morning 477 00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:38,810 that she had found me to be a human being. 478 00:34:40,179 --> 00:34:43,749 This came to her as some surprise 479 00:34:43,815 --> 00:34:47,119 because of the way she was taught. 480 00:34:48,487 --> 00:34:55,227 Only she seems to be aware that I am not a savage, 481 00:34:55,294 --> 00:34:57,663 nor were my ancestors. 482 00:34:59,498 --> 00:35:05,537 I am 101 years old. I will not live many more years. 483 00:35:11,310 --> 00:35:14,079 Go on, Mr. Teskigi. 484 00:35:14,146 --> 00:35:20,319 When I was an infant, the white settlers came to Cherokee land, 485 00:35:20,386 --> 00:35:24,490 a land rich in forest and game. 486 00:35:24,556 --> 00:35:29,661 The white man decided he wanted those lands. 487 00:35:29,728 --> 00:35:34,333 Laws were made forcing the Indians to leave. 488 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,336 Soldiers were sent against us, 489 00:35:37,403 --> 00:35:40,606 and my people were forced at gunpoint 490 00:35:40,672 --> 00:35:44,710 to leave their land and their homes. 491 00:35:44,776 --> 00:35:48,314 They were forced to march thousands of miles 492 00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:50,416 through forest and rivers 493 00:35:50,482 --> 00:35:53,552 to resettle in a place called Oklahoma. 494 00:35:53,619 --> 00:35:57,756 Though many dropped with hunger and exhaustion, 495 00:35:57,823 --> 00:36:00,992 the march never stopped. 496 00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:03,762 Those that could not keep up, 497 00:36:03,829 --> 00:36:08,166 the old, the sick, the women with children, 498 00:36:08,234 --> 00:36:11,437 were left to die beside the trail. 499 00:36:12,771 --> 00:36:17,509 Seventeen thousand Cherokees started that march. 500 00:36:17,576 --> 00:36:20,879 Four thousand died along the way. 501 00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:25,183 They called it the Trail of Tears. 502 00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:30,722 You did not go on that march, Mr. Teskigi. 503 00:36:30,789 --> 00:36:36,628 A handful of people from my tribe escaped into the hills. 504 00:36:36,695 --> 00:36:39,898 I was carried there in the arms of my mother. 505 00:36:39,965 --> 00:36:43,302 My father was forced to join the march. 506 00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:46,705 We never saw him again. 507 00:36:49,107 --> 00:36:53,845 I remember nothing of this, but it is part of me. 508 00:36:53,912 --> 00:36:58,884 I know that the bones of many of my ancestors 509 00:36:58,950 --> 00:37:02,988 lie thousands of miles away along that trail. 510 00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:08,994 My own father lies forever in some distant forest, 511 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:11,863 unburied, un-mourned. 512 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:17,235 It is the belief of the Cherokee 513 00:37:17,303 --> 00:37:20,472 that for his spirit to rest in peace, 514 00:37:20,539 --> 00:37:23,342 he must be buried in sacred ground. 515 00:37:26,578 --> 00:37:32,351 When my days on this earth are ended, 516 00:37:32,418 --> 00:37:38,290 I would go to my death with a peaceful heart 517 00:37:38,357 --> 00:37:40,726 if my bones could lie 518 00:37:40,792 --> 00:37:44,330 with those of my ancestors in sacred ground. 519 00:38:05,216 --> 00:38:08,053 Mr. Walton, I'm sorry. 520 00:38:18,330 --> 00:38:20,532 Is he dead? 521 00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:22,934 I don't think so. 522 00:38:32,511 --> 00:38:34,913 (MYRTLE BLEATING) 523 00:38:37,649 --> 00:38:40,752 Thought I'd put her out in the sun here. 524 00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:43,455 She doesn't seem to be getting much better. 525 00:38:43,522 --> 00:38:45,691 Just have to wait and hope, honey. 526 00:38:46,692 --> 00:38:49,561 -You alright? -I don't know. 527 00:38:50,762 --> 00:38:54,199 So many sad things have been happening. 528 00:38:54,265 --> 00:38:56,468 I'll probably never see Matthew again. 529 00:38:56,535 --> 00:38:57,769 Probably not. 530 00:38:57,836 --> 00:38:59,270 When his grandfather gets better, 531 00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:01,573 they'll probably send him back to North Carolina. 532 00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:24,396 Grandpa, do you think they're really here? 533 00:39:24,463 --> 00:39:25,864 Who's here? 534 00:39:25,931 --> 00:39:28,900 -The Indian graves. -Maybe. Maybe not. 535 00:39:30,802 --> 00:39:34,105 If they are here, their bones won't be any different 536 00:39:34,172 --> 00:39:36,642 than the bones buried up there on Walton's Mountain, 537 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:39,010 our own ancestors. 538 00:39:39,077 --> 00:39:41,847 They've just been here a mite longer though maybe. 539 00:39:45,584 --> 00:39:47,919 There's only one way to find out. 540 00:39:49,154 --> 00:39:50,722 (GRANDPA CHUCKLES) 541 00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:07,773 (GRUNTING) 542 00:40:10,108 --> 00:40:12,077 Pa, what are you doing? 543 00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:15,013 I'm just satisfying an old man's curiosity. 544 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,449 Well, when your curiosity is satisfied, Pa, 545 00:40:17,516 --> 00:40:19,885 there's work to be done in the mill. 546 00:40:19,951 --> 00:40:21,352 Grandpa, look! 547 00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:23,489 (EXCLAIMS) 548 00:40:23,555 --> 00:40:25,657 This shows that there was Indians 549 00:40:25,724 --> 00:40:27,859 around here on this very spot. 550 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,135 Some of their pottery. 551 00:40:37,202 --> 00:40:39,170 Doesn't prove it's their burial ground. 552 00:40:46,044 --> 00:40:48,547 GRANDPA: Here. 553 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,682 Skull! 554 00:40:53,251 --> 00:40:55,353 Grandfather Joseph was right. 555 00:40:55,420 --> 00:40:58,189 This is their Indian burial ground. 556 00:40:58,256 --> 00:41:02,160 -Burial ground? -Yes, and this proves it. 557 00:41:04,329 --> 00:41:06,732 Erin, we found a skull. 558 00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:09,535 Sheriff Bridges called me at the switchboard. 559 00:41:10,636 --> 00:41:12,904 Mr. Teskigi died. 560 00:41:44,936 --> 00:41:47,873 You gonna sit up all night? 561 00:41:47,939 --> 00:41:48,774 (SIGHING) 562 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,176 I'll be along, Liv. 563 00:41:52,544 --> 00:41:55,614 You didn't cause that old man's death. 564 00:41:57,549 --> 00:42:00,218 I don't know. 565 00:42:00,285 --> 00:42:03,454 He was over 100 years old. 566 00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,858 I've been thinking that... 567 00:42:06,925 --> 00:42:10,662 I've been thinking about that day I chased him away. 568 00:42:10,729 --> 00:42:13,098 Him claiming he was gonna tear down our barn, 569 00:42:13,164 --> 00:42:16,534 me losing my temper, Pa trying to find a middle ground. 570 00:42:18,236 --> 00:42:20,872 Maybe if I'd listened to the old man, he'd be alive today. 571 00:42:20,939 --> 00:42:23,642 Stop blaming yourself. 572 00:42:24,943 --> 00:42:28,446 He was right, Liv. This is their burial ground. 573 00:42:28,513 --> 00:42:31,683 Pa found a lot more bones in that hole he started. 574 00:42:32,851 --> 00:42:33,885 If you'd known that then, 575 00:42:33,952 --> 00:42:36,121 would you have torn down the barn? 576 00:42:39,725 --> 00:42:42,661 I don't know. 577 00:42:42,728 --> 00:42:45,096 (BLEATING) 578 00:42:48,299 --> 00:42:50,636 What's the matter? 579 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,842 Someone's in the barn. 580 00:43:24,335 --> 00:43:25,671 (JOHN GRUNTING) 581 00:43:28,707 --> 00:43:30,308 Grandpa! 582 00:43:32,010 --> 00:43:33,544 What the thunder is going on, Livie? 583 00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:35,613 There's somebody in the barn. John's out there now. 584 00:43:35,681 --> 00:43:38,016 I'd better go, too. 585 00:43:43,054 --> 00:43:44,355 Oh, no! 586 00:43:50,729 --> 00:43:52,864 Pa, douse the fire! 587 00:43:54,365 --> 00:43:56,067 Thought you'd finish the job, huh? 588 00:43:56,134 --> 00:43:57,669 I came back to treat Myrtle. 589 00:43:57,736 --> 00:44:02,173 MATTHEW: I found the root in the woods. I made a fire to boil it. 590 00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:03,909 Goldenseal. 591 00:44:09,014 --> 00:44:11,182 The goat is better now. 592 00:44:11,249 --> 00:44:14,085 I will go and I won't trouble you ever again. 593 00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:18,757 Hold on. 594 00:44:20,591 --> 00:44:24,863 Your grandfather was right about the burial ground. It's here. 595 00:44:24,930 --> 00:44:27,365 GRANDPA: I built this barn with my own hands 596 00:44:27,432 --> 00:44:30,702 when I was a young man. If I'd had known... 597 00:44:30,769 --> 00:44:33,739 This was your sacred ground. We're sorry. 598 00:44:35,340 --> 00:44:37,175 I understand. 599 00:44:39,177 --> 00:44:41,446 Every burial ground begins with a single grave, 600 00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:43,614 a single loved one. 601 00:44:43,681 --> 00:44:45,083 Up on Walton's Mountain, 602 00:44:45,150 --> 00:44:48,453 there's an unspoiled ridge near the Indian Rock. 603 00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:51,189 We can begin a burial ground there if you like. 604 00:45:13,178 --> 00:45:16,181 Pa, you wanna say something? 605 00:45:16,247 --> 00:45:19,350 We have come here today for a solemn purpose. 606 00:45:19,417 --> 00:45:22,153 We're here to grant Matthew Teskigi the right 607 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:25,323 to this plot of land in the hope it will serve as 608 00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:28,493 a fitting resting place for his grandfather. 609 00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:41,139 Father Sun, Mother Moon, and your children, the stars, 610 00:45:41,206 --> 00:45:44,075 I ask blessings on this mountain. 611 00:45:44,142 --> 00:45:46,077 Let it be from this time forward 612 00:45:46,144 --> 00:45:48,814 an honored Cherokee burial grounds. 613 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,816 May its sheltering soil 614 00:45:50,882 --> 00:45:52,918 give comfort to those who come here to rest 615 00:45:52,984 --> 00:45:56,321 before that last great journey to the unknown. 616 00:46:21,813 --> 00:46:25,884 Hallowed land, earth of my ancestors, 617 00:46:25,951 --> 00:46:28,286 receive my grandfather. 618 00:46:28,353 --> 00:46:31,289 I return him once more to your lasting embrace. 619 00:46:39,664 --> 00:46:44,102 JOHN-BOY: Who owns the land? Only the land knows. 620 00:46:44,169 --> 00:46:46,271 We mortals are passersby 621 00:46:46,337 --> 00:46:47,906 and our lives are but a brief moment 622 00:46:47,973 --> 00:46:50,909 in the great span of time and space. 623 00:46:50,976 --> 00:46:53,444 We are born, we live out our lives, 624 00:46:53,511 --> 00:46:56,047 and most of us do the best we can with it. 625 00:46:56,114 --> 00:46:58,049 But the wind is forever, 626 00:46:58,116 --> 00:47:00,451 and the rivers flow forever to the sea, 627 00:47:00,518 --> 00:47:02,153 and all the seasons of the weathers 628 00:47:02,220 --> 00:47:04,489 will come and go after we are gone, 629 00:47:04,555 --> 00:47:07,993 but the earth endures. The earth is eternal. 630 00:47:10,862 --> 00:47:12,663 -Grandpa? -Yes, Elizabeth? 631 00:47:12,730 --> 00:47:16,801 When Indians die, do they go to the same heaven as we do? 632 00:47:16,868 --> 00:47:19,204 Very definitely, yes. 633 00:47:19,270 --> 00:47:21,572 -Grandpa? -Yes? 634 00:47:21,639 --> 00:47:23,241 If you get there ahead of me, 635 00:47:23,308 --> 00:47:25,110 will you look up Grandfather Joseph? 636 00:47:25,176 --> 00:47:27,078 I certainly will. 637 00:47:27,145 --> 00:47:28,746 ELIZABETH: Just tell him Myrtle and me 638 00:47:28,813 --> 00:47:30,048 will be along one day. 639 00:47:30,115 --> 00:47:32,150 -(CHUCKLING) I'll do that. -Thank you. 640 00:47:32,217 --> 00:47:35,353 -Goodnight, Elizabeth. -Goodnight. 641 00:47:35,403 --> 00:47:39,953 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0