1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:07,751 --> 00:00:12,751 AN INDIAN STORY 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:45,209 --> 00:00:47,084 Westward! Westward! 5 00:00:47,626 --> 00:00:50,376 Come at once, prepare for the journey! 6 00:00:51,126 --> 00:00:52,709 Westward, westward! 7 00:00:53,042 --> 00:00:55,751 I'm calling you, come west! 8 00:01:03,084 --> 00:01:06,042 Many moons ago, there were millions of us. 9 00:01:07,209 --> 00:01:10,917 Back then, the plains were overwhelmed by bison and deer. 10 00:01:11,792 --> 00:01:15,417 Every Indian had his happy home in the flourishing forest, 11 00:01:16,334 --> 00:01:18,376 under the clear-cut mountaintops, 12 00:01:19,126 --> 00:01:20,167 and along the rivers. 13 00:01:30,917 --> 00:01:32,584 We had teepees, 14 00:01:32,667 --> 00:01:34,251 winter and summer clothing, 15 00:01:34,751 --> 00:01:35,834 we had blankets. 16 00:01:36,626 --> 00:01:38,626 And if our children asked for food, 17 00:01:38,709 --> 00:01:40,959 we never had to tell them no. 18 00:01:42,084 --> 00:01:45,542 The land was rich, it gave us lots to eat 19 00:01:45,626 --> 00:01:49,251 and forest fruits and berries grew in great abundance. 20 00:01:53,917 --> 00:01:56,917 If the earth murmured softly, like a swift heartbeat 21 00:01:57,334 --> 00:01:59,959 we prepared, for the bison were coming. 22 00:02:07,751 --> 00:02:11,126 The herds came running, calves, bulls and cows. 23 00:02:11,751 --> 00:02:13,626 Food for our children had arrived. 24 00:02:14,626 --> 00:02:17,001 We lived, and lived contently. 25 00:02:30,876 --> 00:02:32,501 Those times have passed. 26 00:02:33,126 --> 00:02:35,792 But the mountains towering over roads have remained, 27 00:02:36,292 --> 00:02:38,792 so have the beautiful vallies of large hills. 28 00:02:42,751 --> 00:02:45,167 Westward! Westward! 29 00:02:45,251 --> 00:02:48,251 Come at once! I call on you! 30 00:02:48,584 --> 00:02:49,876 Come westward! 31 00:02:50,417 --> 00:02:53,126 The inventory of Erastus Bager's caravan. 32 00:02:53,209 --> 00:02:55,459 101 covered wagons, 100 horses, 33 00:02:55,542 --> 00:02:59,334 368 oxen, 129 big game rifles, 34 00:02:59,417 --> 00:03:03,459 44 carbines, 1,500 pounds of gunpowder. 35 00:03:16,417 --> 00:03:18,667 These people are our friends. 36 00:03:19,126 --> 00:03:20,792 Their words are straight. 37 00:03:21,251 --> 00:03:25,001 They tell us, a few more winters, and the bison disappear. 38 00:03:26,251 --> 00:03:29,292 We can only make bows and arrows. 39 00:03:29,376 --> 00:03:33,084 But the mind of the white man is strong and clear. 40 00:03:41,042 --> 00:03:46,292 Harrison C. Rogers' list of gifts to the Ute people. 41 00:03:46,626 --> 00:03:49,001 1 razor, 3 yards of red worsted cloth, 42 00:03:49,084 --> 00:03:51,459 50 bullets, 1 pound of gunpowder, 43 00:03:51,542 --> 00:03:54,251 3 eyeglasses, 4 barrels of fruit brandy, 44 00:03:54,334 --> 00:03:55,542 1 dozen combs. 45 00:03:56,084 --> 00:03:59,459 The mind of the white man is strong and clear. 46 00:04:19,667 --> 00:04:21,459 They are our friends. 47 00:04:23,167 --> 00:04:25,667 Virginia City, 1870. 48 00:04:26,209 --> 00:04:28,709 18,000 calves and oxen for sale. 49 00:04:29,084 --> 00:04:31,126 Start of auction is at 8 o'clock. 50 00:04:36,084 --> 00:04:37,834 Help wanted. 51 00:04:37,917 --> 00:04:41,917 Track workers wanted at the Union Pacific Railroad Company. 52 00:04:42,376 --> 00:04:47,876 The building cost of the line leading west is $16,000 per mile. 53 00:04:48,251 --> 00:04:51,167 48,000 per mile on difficult terrain. 54 00:04:53,876 --> 00:04:56,584 May 10th 1869. 55 00:04:57,042 --> 00:05:00,834 Central Pacific and Union Pacific meet. 56 00:05:00,917 --> 00:05:04,126 The final rail fastening spike was made of gold. 57 00:05:04,459 --> 00:05:06,917 Friends, what do you seek on this road? 58 00:05:07,251 --> 00:05:09,084 You're driving away the bison. 59 00:05:09,542 --> 00:05:14,251 Once at a hunting competition, Buffalo Bill killed 15 bison in 2 minutes. 60 00:05:17,917 --> 00:05:21,626 A few more winters, and the bison disappear. 61 00:05:23,167 --> 00:05:25,917 Our women and children are crying for food. 62 00:05:31,001 --> 00:05:32,459 From the Traders' Gazette. 63 00:05:33,167 --> 00:05:35,084 The bones of 100 buffalo make a ton. 64 00:05:35,417 --> 00:05:37,876 A ton of buffalo bones is $8. 65 00:05:38,334 --> 00:05:43,167 In 13 years, $2,5 million were paid for buffalo bones. 66 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:50,709 From the Traders' Gazette. 67 00:05:51,042 --> 00:05:55,376 A 1,300 year old redwood was cut down near Fort Bragg. 68 00:05:55,459 --> 00:05:58,876 Its diameter at the stump was 17,5 feet. 69 00:06:20,501 --> 00:06:21,792 My Colonel! 70 00:06:21,876 --> 00:06:24,417 I report that we have secured all paths 71 00:06:24,501 --> 00:06:27,167 leading to the gold deposits in the Black Hills. 72 00:06:31,626 --> 00:06:34,709 I was born on the prairie, where the wind blows free. 73 00:06:35,459 --> 00:06:37,834 White man! You have closed the roads. 74 00:06:38,709 --> 00:06:43,209 White man! I want for the Governor to not enclose me. 75 00:06:43,917 --> 00:06:46,709 You want gold, and you won't let me live. 76 00:06:59,917 --> 00:07:02,209 The white man is a liar and a thief. 77 00:07:02,751 --> 00:07:05,251 No. We have friends. 78 00:07:08,209 --> 00:07:12,626 The delegates of the Cheyenne and the Sioux both visited the governor. 79 00:07:14,584 --> 00:07:19,751 Lieutenant O'Connor. Hand out 28 rifles for the Indian scouts in your service. 80 00:07:19,834 --> 00:07:21,001 Done. 81 00:07:21,084 --> 00:07:24,126 I report that our cavalry have exited the secured area, 82 00:07:24,209 --> 00:07:26,459 and with the help of our Indian scouts, 83 00:07:26,542 --> 00:07:29,626 are proceeding towards the ore deposits in the Black Hills. 84 00:07:31,751 --> 00:07:33,709 Dispatch from General Sheridan. 85 00:07:33,792 --> 00:07:36,126 Forward to the Cheyenne camp! 86 00:07:36,209 --> 00:07:40,667 Burn down site, kill horses, hang prisoners. 87 00:07:44,917 --> 00:07:47,167 Movement forward is from three directions. 88 00:07:47,667 --> 00:07:50,834 1,300 men from the North, 400 men from the East, 89 00:07:51,167 --> 00:07:53,667 1,000 men and 3 cannons from the West. 90 00:07:58,751 --> 00:08:02,459 We have proved to the Indians that resistance is futile. 91 00:08:03,042 --> 00:08:05,251 The Army shall find them. 92 00:08:18,626 --> 00:08:20,751 The acts of the Government are humane. 93 00:08:21,501 --> 00:08:24,501 The Indians may bury their dead with decency. 94 00:08:25,042 --> 00:08:26,792 They may tend to the wounded, 95 00:08:27,167 --> 00:08:31,001 and the living get a chance to live. 96 00:08:32,167 --> 00:08:35,792 The Government of the United States is contractually obliged 97 00:08:35,876 --> 00:08:38,709 to secure to the Indians new places of residence 98 00:08:38,792 --> 00:08:40,667 instead of their old hunting grounds. 99 00:08:41,167 --> 00:08:42,917 I don't want to live in that land. 100 00:08:43,459 --> 00:08:46,376 If you take us there, we turn pale and die. 101 00:08:46,834 --> 00:08:49,167 The Government of the United States orders 102 00:08:49,251 --> 00:08:54,876 that the Indians occupy their designated areas by winter. 103 00:08:58,501 --> 00:09:00,167 Indian agent Bradley reporting. 104 00:09:00,876 --> 00:09:03,542 600 Indians have starved to death at the 105 00:09:03,626 --> 00:09:06,917 Montana Reservation during the winter of 1883. 106 00:09:13,876 --> 00:09:16,334 The Government of the United States orders 107 00:09:16,417 --> 00:09:19,917 that the groups of Indian scouts in their service 108 00:09:20,001 --> 00:09:22,584 must be reorganized as an Indian Police 109 00:09:22,917 --> 00:09:26,001 to prevent escaping from the reservations. 110 00:09:33,292 --> 00:09:35,834 I am here now on my old hunting grounds. 111 00:09:36,417 --> 00:09:38,584 I shall never return to the reservation. 112 00:09:39,126 --> 00:09:41,667 If you take me by force, I shall die. 113 00:10:02,126 --> 00:10:03,792 Our Chiefs have all been killed. 114 00:10:04,959 --> 00:10:06,626 I am tired of fighting. 115 00:10:07,417 --> 00:10:11,584 I am tired of fighting, but I shall not make peace with the Americans. 116 00:10:32,667 --> 00:10:34,501 The embers of the fires have turned black, 117 00:10:35,292 --> 00:10:37,042 the dancers are nowhere to be found. 118 00:10:37,959 --> 00:10:40,709 The echoes of song have died in the cliffs. 119 00:10:41,751 --> 00:10:43,042 What remains after us? 120 00:10:44,209 --> 00:10:45,209 Just our graves, 121 00:10:46,167 --> 00:10:47,584 the clouds watching, 122 00:10:48,334 --> 00:10:49,584 and the shifting sand. 123 00:11:09,084 --> 00:11:10,626 The year 1961. 124 00:11:11,501 --> 00:11:14,084 Population size of the United States. 125 00:11:14,167 --> 00:11:17,417 182,481,000. 126 00:11:17,876 --> 00:11:21,834 Population size of tribes inhabiting North American reservations. 127 00:11:22,209 --> 00:11:24,667 Apache: 7,630 128 00:11:24,751 --> 00:11:27,292 Cheyenne: 2,695 129 00:11:27,376 --> 00:11:29,792 Ojibwe: 21,549 130 00:11:30,126 --> 00:11:32,459 Comanche: 1,424 131 00:11:32,542 --> 00:11:35,501 Sioux: 25,934 132 00:11:35,584 --> 00:11:37,542 Delaware: 140 133 00:11:37,626 --> 00:11:39,792 Huron: 783 134 00:11:40,292 --> 00:11:43,251 Iroquois: 8,696 135 00:11:43,334 --> 00:11:45,126 Kiowa: 515 136 00:11:45,542 --> 00:11:48,501 Navajo: 44,304 137 00:11:48,584 --> 00:11:51,667 Omaha: 1,684 138 00:11:51,751 --> 00:11:54,417 Ute: 2,163.