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Jazira:
What does this mean? Frank T. Hopkins:
Shunka Wakan? Big dog. There's no word in Sioux for horse. When the Indians saw the first one the Spanish brought over, they didn't know what the hell it was. When they saw how it could run, carry a man through battle, become his friend for life, well, they figured it had to be a sacred animal. Jazira:
Indeed
What does this mean? Frank T. Hopkins:
Shunka Wakan? Big dog. There's no word in Sioux for horse. When the Indians saw the first one the Spanish brought over, they didn't know what the hell it was. When they saw how it could run, carry a man through battle, become his friend for life, well, they figured it had to be a sacred animal. Jazira:
Indeed
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What does this mean
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Shunka Wakan
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Big dog
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There's no word in Sioux for horse
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When the lndians saw the first one the Spanish brought over
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they didn't know what the hell it was
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When they saw how it could run
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carry a man through battle
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become his friend for life
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well they figured it had to be a sacred animal
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Indeed
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Movie Summary
In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.

