Last of the Dogmen (1995)

Barbara Hershey: Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan

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• Professor Lillian Stone : What happened was inevitable. The way it happened was unconscionable.

• Professor Lillian Sloan : It's a little disconcerting to realize that the smartest member of our expedition's the dog.

• Professor Lillian Stone : Look, Elvis is dead, the government is not hiding UFOs, and there are no Indians in the Oxbow.

• Professor Lillian Sloan : You know what this is?

  Tracker Lewis Gates : Well, call it a wild guess. An arrow?

  Professor Lillian Sloan : A Cheyenne arrow, Dog Soldier to be exact.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : Dog Soldier?

  Professor Lillian Sloan : Within the Cheyenne tribe there used to be a military society made up of the strongest and bravest men. They were fierce fighters - unyielding. They called themselves Chotometnea - dogmen.

• Tracker Lewis Gates : Why Indians?

  Professor Lillian Sloan : Oh, because I admire them. And because we owe them a tremendous debt.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : How's that?

  Professor Lillian Sloan : Well, they gave us romance, myths, legends. They gave us a history. The Indians shaped the character of our entire nation.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : We picked a hell of a way to say thank you, didn't we?

• Professor Lillian Stone : [Getting to bed, in the middle of the woods]  Good night, Gates.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : Good night, Doc.

  [Small pause] 

  Tracker Lewis Gates : You're not gonna walk around naked in the morning, are you?

  Professor Lillian Stone : I'll try to restrain myself.

• Tracker Lewis Gates : What are you telling him?

  Professor Lillian Sloan : I told him we come in a good way, in peace. I also told him you were a great warrior who wasn't afraid to fight them all single-handedly.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : You've got to be kidding.

  Professor Lillian Sloan : The Cheyenne admire bravery. Let's just hope they don't put you to the test.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : If they do, I'm coming after you first.

• Tracker Lewis Gates : You wanna go back?

  Professor Lillian Sloan : Yes. I'm an anthropologist, not Daniel Boone.

• Professor Lillian Sloan : [after Tracker Lewis Gates hands her an arrow]  So, where'd you find this?

  Tracker Lewis Gates : In the Oxbow.

  Professor Lillian Sloan : The Oxbow. Wasn't that just in the news? Something about convicts?

  Tracker Lewis Gates : Yeah, I'm the guy they hired to find them.

  Professor Lillian Sloan : Bounty hunter?

  Tracker Lewis Gates : Please, civil servant. It sounds a little less...

  Professor Lillian Sloan : Barbaric?

• Professor Lillian Sloan : He's leader of the dog soldiers: next in line to be chief.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : I guess it takes a real man to shoot a dog.

  Professor Lillian Sloan : You should be happy they didn't eat him. Oh, didn't I tell you? That's the other reason they're called dog soldiers.

• Tracker Lewis Gates : [explaining about his wife's death]  We were riding the back country, making a river crossing. Her horse spooked, bucked her. I went in after her. Current was too strong. One second she was there, and... Her dad still blames me to this day.

  Professor Lillian Sloan : What else could you have done.

  Tracker Lewis Gates : Drowned.

• Tracker Lewis Gates : Why are you being so god damn pigheaded?

  Professor Lillian Stone : Because I'm god damn good at it!

• Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan : By late 1864, many tribes were raiding settlements, stealing horses. Making a general nuisance of themselves. But one of the few Cheyenne chiefs really trying to make peace was Black Kettle. He and his people were instructed to make camp at Sand Creek, near Ft. Lyon. They'd been promised protection. So that night they had a feast with dancing and games to celebrate peace. The following dawn, November 29th was freezing. A group of Colorado volunteers known as the Bloodless Third surrounded the camp, they were instructed to take off their coats. Strange, huh? Black Kettle immediately raised the American flag and the white flag of peace. People rushing around in great panic and fear and he kept calling out not to be frightened, they'd been promised protection, there was no danger. Suddenly, the troops attacked. Now, two thirds of these Indians were women and children. It was total chaos, a massacre, blood froze instantly on the bodies. Then the looting began. Scalps were taken. Fingers, ears, noses cut off. Babies were cut out of the wombs. Women had their uteruses cut off and the soldiers were putting them on their hats. As a matter of fact, when they put their clean coats back on, they paraded through Denver with body parts decorating their uniforms and horses. Among the few that escaped Sand Creek were 20 men, women, and children led by Lone Wolf, leader of the Dog Men. The soldiers chased them northward, through two states, right up into the mountains of northwestern Montana. The blizzard forced them to turn back and they left the Indians for dead. Here, Lone Wolf. There, now you know every thing there is to know.