CONDUCTOR: Cain't go no further. This here's beloved patriot Territory!
GOVERNMENT AGENT: Well, then! It's Treaty Time!
A brass band enters, playing "Hail to the Chief"
GOVERNMENT AGENT: My fellow Redskins! Speaking for the Great White Father in Washington and all the American People, let me say we respect you savages for your Native Ability to instantly Adapt and Survive in whatever Godforsaken wilderness we move you to. Out there. Sign here!
RAILROADER: They did it!
All the cowboys whoop and holler. The train and brass band leave. The Indian gets up on his pony.
INDIAN: No reason to complain. It's not so bad out there. We still have our People and our Ceremonies and the Sun, Moon and Stars, and the Sand and the Black Stuff Coming Out Of The Ground...
GOVERNMENT AGENT: Black stuff coming out of the ground?
TRAILBLAZER: Civilization, ho-oooooooooooo!
A passle of Okies, dogs, model T's and dust storms passes by, leaving the Indian alone. The wind blows.
INDIAN: It's nice out here in the desert. No rain, no crops, no White Brother.
A Greyhound tour bus pulls up and the passengers file out.
BUS DRIVER: All out for Fort Stinkin' Desert! Last Indian Reservation for two thousand miles. You got fifteen minutes, folks! Get 'em while you can!
Several shots ring out.
BUS DRIVER: Get the Senator back in the bus!
The Senator fires off more shots at the Indian as he is led away.
SENATOR: Godfrey Daniel! Pesky Redskins! Which way's Goshen?
TOURIST: Howdy there, Colorful Replica Of America's Past! When is the exciting - in - its - primitive - splendor Snake Dance going to take place?
INDIAN: It's usually in August, but with all our children off in Indian School there's no one left to do the ceremonies.
Eddie gets off the bus.
EDDIE: Hiya, Pop! I'm home!
INDIAN: Hello, Soaring Eagle! It's good to have your back from school!
EDDIE: Aw, come on! Call me Eddie! I'm an American now!
INDIAN: What have they been teaching you?
EDDIE: Just what we need for a better life! French horn, Italian, water polo...
GOVERNMENT AGENT: Yes, at the Custer Memorial Indian School, Eddie's one of our Prize students. We're giving him away next week.
INDIAN: Oh, my White Brother!
that's gold.
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