Little Big Man

I put in an old movie that I have become very fond of watching over and again: Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman produced in 1970. The movie has a great message about the journey of life and the hardships of native life during the Battle at Little Big Horn with Custer. I usually cry twice watching it, even after 8 times, I still cry.


There is a medicine man in the movie named Old Lodge Skins whose holding a scalp, and he says to Little Big Man:

Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference.
There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings.

Photo: Little Big Man , 1877. provided by : http://www.americanindians.com/PhotoGallery1.htm