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00:00 I want you to go to Minnesota, meet with Little Crow, chief of the Santee Sioux, and encourage
00:09 them to join us in the war.
00:12 I have to go in uniform?
00:21 That would not be practical.
00:23 A non-uniformed soldier in enemy territory is a spy.
00:29 All I want is money, food, and goods are all here.
00:32 You just wait.
00:33 I can't wait.
00:34 People are dying right now.
00:35 No one owns the land, only the use of it.
00:40 Air cannot be owned, neither can land.
00:42 It is time we make the white man understand that.
00:45 Leave him alone!
00:47 He hasn't done anything!
00:50 Congress has to approve those payments and soon.
00:59 Why did you not talk, your chief, before you did this?
01:02 We were hungry.
01:04 Some might say that doing what's right is more important than precedence.
01:11 Our people are starving.
01:14 The whites will not honor their word.
01:20 Beyond my control, I couldn't stop this storm.
01:24 [explosion]
01:25 [music]
01:25 (dramatic music)
01:27 you