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Silas Groves:
[enters and shuts door]
Good afternoon. Agent McLaughlin? Colonel Groves. War Department. Special Envoy for General Crook. Where's the rest of it? Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50% cut in rations of flour, bacon and sugar to take effect immediately. When a new treaty needs to be ratified, it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind. This is my wife Susan. Susan? Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind? [SPEAKS LAKOTA] Silas Groves:
We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation. Thank you, dear. James McLaughlin:
Where's the rest of it? Silas Groves:
Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50% cut in rations of flour, bacon and sugar to take effect immediately. When a new treaty needs to be ratified, it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind. James McLaughlin:
[woman enters carrying tea service]
This is my wife Susan. Susan? Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind? [Groves doffs his hat and speaks Lakota] Susan McLaughlin:
We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation. James McLaughlin:
Thank you, dear
[enters and shuts door]
Good afternoon. Agent McLaughlin? Colonel Groves. War Department. Special Envoy for General Crook. Where's the rest of it? Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50% cut in rations of flour, bacon and sugar to take effect immediately. When a new treaty needs to be ratified, it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind. This is my wife Susan. Susan? Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind? [SPEAKS LAKOTA] Silas Groves:
We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation. Thank you, dear. James McLaughlin:
Where's the rest of it? Silas Groves:
Yeah, General Crook's ordered a 50% cut in rations of flour, bacon and sugar to take effect immediately. When a new treaty needs to be ratified, it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind. James McLaughlin:
[woman enters carrying tea service]
This is my wife Susan. Susan? Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind? [Groves doffs his hat and speaks Lakota] Susan McLaughlin:
We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation. James McLaughlin:
Thank you, dear
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Good afternoon Agent McLaughlin
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Colonel groves War department Special envoy for general crook
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Where's the rest of it
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Yeah general crook's ordered a 50 percent cut in rations
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of flour bacon and sugar
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to take effect immediately
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When a new treaty needs to be ratified
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it's our experience that hunger concentrates the Indian mind
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This is my wife Susan Susan
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Do you find that hunger concentrates your mind
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We don't encourage the use of the old language on the reservation
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Thank you dear
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Movie Summary
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
