Branded (TV Series)

Fill No Glass for Me: Part 1 (1965)

Michael Keep: Chief Wateekah

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Quotes 

• Jason McCord : There's something you don't understand, Wateekah. All men are brothers. The color of their skin doesn't have anything to do with the side that he fights on.

  Chief Wateekah : We shall see... brother!

• Chief Wateekah : [to Jason McCord]  You are the bait. We leave the bait for buzzards.

• Chief Wateekah : First we will test the eagle against the hawk. You, man who walks with his head in the sky, you will be the eagle. And our best warrior will be the hawk.

  [the hawk and the eagle, both southpaws, are atop elongated pogo-like sticks, swinging] 

• Chief Wateekah : Your hair curly like buffalo. You are buffalo soldier.

  Corp. Johnny Macon : Your hair is long like a woman. Are you a woman soldier?

• Chief Wateekah : Renegades? Is Sitting Bull a renegade? Is Crazy Horse a renegade? No, we are all leaders who know what must come. One day soon, all the Indians, the Blackfoot, the Sioux, the Cheyenne, we will all join together and we will drive the White Man from our lands. Then those who do not fight with us will be the renegades.

• Chief Wateekah : Their skin is much like ours, McCord. Why do they not fight on our side?

  Jason McCord : They're trying to earn the new freedom they were given by President Lincoln.

  Chief Wateekah : They have to earn the right to be free.

  Jason McCord : They want to, Wateekah, because it gives them dignity in their own eyes.

• Jason McCord : There was a time when everybody called you the Leader of the Apaches, the Great Orator. Now they call you the Butcher.

  Chief Wateekah : The battle has made my heart of stone, with no soft place in it. Your chiefs gave you half a sword and call you half a man. But we who fought at Bitter Creek know different.

  Jason McCord : I wish you had testified at my trial.