Rawhide (TV Series)
Incident of Iron Bull (1963)
Michael Ansara: Joseph
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Quotes
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Joseph : Iron Bull is dead. He died out there on the Wachita with his woman and his son.
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Joseph : Your ponies?
Rowdy Yates : Right.
Joseph : I find horses. I bring them back.
Rowdy Yates : Why do you bring them back?
Joseph : I do you favour, you do favour for me. I am Joseph.
Rowdy Yates : You speak real good English for an Indian, don't you?
Joseph : I go to God Man's school.
Clanton : Mission Redhide. I know what's on your mind and you know what's on mine. About Beckish.
Joseph : I good Indian, no fight. I love white brother. I work, work hard.
Rowdy Yates : You mean you're looking for a job?
Joseph : Work, work hard.
Clanton : You ever hear of a Comanche looking for work, Quince?
Jim Quince : Not hardly.
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Joseph : There will be no war. Even Yellow Elk could not kill a man who is already a ghost.
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Rowdy Yates : Joseph, it was a mistake.
Joseph : You can tell that to ghost of boy who will never be a warrior.
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Gil Favor : Are you a horse thief? Why'd you return them?
Joseph : Why does the sun go down? The horses are here and I am here. And if it's good enough for your ramrod, it should be good enough for you.
Colonel John Macklin : Strange to see a Comanche in the camp of his enemy.
Gil Favor : There are no enemies here, Colonel. Joseph is one of the drovers.
Colonel John Macklin : Why are you working for the White Eye? Is that fitting?
Joseph : I am not a warrior.
Colonel John Macklin : You have the look of one. Perhaps you are one of Iron Bull's braves?
Joseph : That has all ended.
Colonel John Macklin : Yes, of course. We're at peace. We're brothers. We are brothers, aren't we?
Joseph : All men, all things are brothers.
Colonel John Macklin : Yes, of course.
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Joseph : Because the Wachita was different. It was not a battle, it was extermination.
Colonel John Macklin : The Wachita was a great victory.
Joseph : Butchery. It's on your head.
Colonel John Macklin : It was a tactical triumph.
Joseph : You'd like to know why the Comanche will destroy itself to destroy one man? Look in the red mud of the Wachita and the forgotten graves of 245 women and children and old men who lie there. Ask them why the troopers attacked when there were no warriors to fight. Ask them why Macklin raised a sword against his own flag raised over Yellow Elk's lodge to show there was peace, not war. Ask them why they had to die on their knees. Look in the red mud of the Wachita. You will see why the Comanche must kill this man.
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Joseph : It is a hard thing for me to say: Old ways change, like old men. But we fight to keep old ways. We make war. We kill many white men. But white men kill more of us. War is no good, but peace, that is also no good. Where are the buffalo? You kill the buffalo. Where once was buffalo land now you feed your hoohahs. And buffalo die. Comanche die. There is no food.
Gil Favor : There's food for your people on the reservations, ain't there?
Joseph : We are men, we are not Hoohahs
[cows]
Joseph : that white men keeps fat. War is no good, and peace is no good. Either way Comanche die. Favor, you listen to me again. Comanche must learn new ways, must learn to grow hoohahs like white man, must learn to buy and sell like white man. We must learn to grow things. How not to be cheated. Many things to learn, Favor.
Gil Favor : You learn all this by yourself?
Joseph : I will learn a little, somebody else will learn a little more. Maybe, someday, all people learn many things.
Gil Favor : And we'll all be smart enough to live like brothers? Is that the dream?
Joseph : No, not brothers. Brothers love. Comanche, white men hate. They have killed each other too much. Maybe, someday, many, many years from now, Comanche and white men are brothers. But not now.
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Mushy : What kind of music is that, Mr Joseph? It sounds so sad.
Joseph : A man cannot cry, the music cries for him.
Mushy : What's it crying for?
Joseph : Old men, old women, squaws, children who are dead.
Gil Favor : What about the warriors, Joseph? Does the flute also cry for them when they die?
Joseph : Favor, the Comanche have only two things left, his young men and his honour. When they are dead even the old men cry.
Gil Favor : There are warriors here, Joseph. Why? What do they want?
Joseph : You have a saying, an eye for an eye. Macklin was once an enemy. Maybe he still is.
Gil Favor : War's over. The Comanche and the soldier are at peace.
Joseph : Hate knows no peace.
Gil Favor : Then hate must be destroyed. Now, hear me, Joseph, if your brothers out there attack, then there will be war, and old men will cry.
