- Shane: Shall I tell you stories? Shall I tell you how it was told by the old ones to my grandfather's grandfather long ago? This is how it was told to me. Let me tell you, and you remember to pass it down, for this is how it happened long ago.
- Grandpa: We're Sioux. Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
- Tehan, Red Headed Stranger: Hey, all right. My great-grandmother's grandmother, well, her aunt - she was one-third Kiowa.
- Grandpa: Ah Kiowa - strong Nation.
- Tehan, Red Headed Stranger: Yeah, hey, could I hitch a ride with you, brothers?
- Shane: No. No room, man. We're towing a horse.
- Tehan, Red Headed Stranger: That's cool, man. Hey maybe I'll catch you at the powwow.
- [walks away]
- Shane: Wannabe.
- Grandpa: Maybe he's trying to be connected.
- Shane: 'Cause they stole our land? Now they want our sweat lodge?
- Grandpa: Their fathers stole our land. Long ago it was said, 'the white man would look on in disbelief as his sons and daughter began to adopt the Indian way. To learn what their fathers didn't understand.' Yeah... he's a wannabe. He wanna be connected.
- Talks A Lot: Will no man raise a war party to go free one of our own? Was not Tehan captured from the whites and raised as our own? Has he not hunted with you men and smoked with the elders? Has he not proved himself loyal to the Kiowa? How many times could he have returned to the white man? His heart is with us.
- Broken Lance: Talks A Lot talks too much!
- [crowd laughs]
- Talks A Lot: Because his blood is not our blood, we turn our backs on him now. If no man will fight for one of our own... then I will.
- [from the Red Headed Warrior legend]
- Grandpa: Some of us understand that having an enemy gives us a chance to be warriors again. In the days of the grandfathers, when our enemies came, we staked ourselves to the land. We faced whoever or whatever it was that made war against our people. If one of us fell, another one took his place. The questions is not why did my son get off the road? It is who will take his place and not let the enemy take us down?
- [speaking about Shane's father]
- Grandpa: 'Me,' 'I' - that's all I hear from you! There's no word in our language for 'me,' 'I,' just 'we, 'us.'
- Grandpa: If, from your vision, you have learned only this, grandson, then already you have learned much, for true power and wisdom comes from within. When a man realizes his oneness with all creation, when he realizes that at the center of the universe dwells a power greater than his self - this center is everywhere. It is within each of us. Go now and walk the good red road. Mitakuye oyasin. Mitakuye oyasin, all my relations...
- Sky Woman: ...We must all lose what we love sometimes. It is the way.
- [from the Thunder Beings legend]
- Shane: There they go, a van full of Cheyenne hotties and we're stuck here with the horse that rode in with Lewis & Clark.
- Multnomah Chief: What can be done, Raven. What can be done to appeal to the Creator?
- Raven: The Great Mystery is just that - a mystery.
- [from the Tsiunk legend]