Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Valley in Shadow (1959)

Fay Spain: Winoka

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : My name's Favor.

  Winoka : "Fay-vor".

  Gil Favor : It's me. My name. You?

  Winoka : Winoka.

  Gil Favor : Winoka.

  [He pauses] 

  Gil Favor : Winoka, did you ever have other name.

  Winoka : Other... name?

  Gil Favor : Yes, like... like Nancy?

  Winoka : "Nan-see"? "Nan-see"?

  Gil Favor : Winoka, what about your other name?

  Winoka : [confused]  My name Winoka.

  Gil Favor : Other name. Like Nancy? Nancy... Curtis?

  Winoka : "Nancy Curtis"?

  Gil Favor : How does that sound to you?

  Winoka : I... don't know.

  Gil Favor : Ah, don't worry. It'll all come back. Look, i-if you've got any... something that isn't Cheyenne, uh, I'll show you... ring, um, necklace...

  [Winoka shows Favor her Cheyenne necklace and bracelets] 

  Gil Favor : No, uh, not Cheyenne. A... bracelet, a necklace, when you...

  [He gestures a short height] 

  Gil Favor : ... very small.

  [Winoka darts out of the tent] 

• Winoka : Cheyenne all I know. Maybe I get lost in between. Maybe family won't like me.

• Winoka : You tell my family I'm alive. I'm thinking of them. But maybe not tell them where I am.

• Winoka : Manso, you have been good, kind to me. But.

  Manso : Speak your own tongue!

  Winoka : I speak the tongue of my people.

  Manso : Cheyenne are your people.

  Winoka : I love Cheyenne, all of them. But look at the others. I am like them.

  Manso : I see only men, Winoka. Am I not a man?

  Winoka : Finest, bravest

  [and the most handsome of all men] 

  Winoka : . But these are my own kind.

  Manso : It is not for you to decide. I take Winoka.

• Winoka : They no longer on the prairie. White men come in like waters in the Spring floods. Maybe no more Cheyenne law. Like so many Cheyenne warriors. Gone. Manso say he send others

  [ie white people] 

  Winoka : later.

  Gil Favor : Manso's a wise man.

  Winoka : Fine and brave man

  [and incredibly handsome] 

  Winoka : .