I met Chief Dan George years ago in a NY airport. What a sweet peaceful soul who chatted with me as if I was a good friend. I was blessed to have met him!
@No Reply Email You are referencing material by an author is not a historian. His degrees are for writing, not history. As someone whom has a degree in history, referencing his book as is similar to someone referencing Game of Thrones for factual European history just because it had variations of the black dinner, King Henry VIII, Yorks and Lancasters. While i have not read the entire book you have reference but I was able to read some pages but did not check his reference/source material. I HIGHLY doubt it is historically accurate. The Gwynne's of the writing world are prone to embellish and should not be taken as real history lessons. Quoting John Ford "This is the west sir. when the legend becomes fact print the legend" seems to be more of his motto. He has every right to embellish his books to sell more, but you should not be referencing him as historically factual.
I love that line and how he delivers it: "We thought about it for a long time. 'Endeavor, to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."
@@Antesdelfinadmin Yeah when you’re third eye is open and you’re talking than, telling the truth how it is than, It could put someone to sleep or make them tired and they just don’t want to hear the truth. It does more than hurt ( the truth ) as we see, Sometimes hearing it than, It could make you tired. I put my cell mates to sleep when I had the raps talking about the Mad Malicious Medical Mafia A.K.A. Sicknurses. Here is a pharmaceutical industry and hospital fun fact: The pharmaceutical industry creates customers and not cures. The hospitals do not, I repeat, The hospitals do not profit off of healthy patients.
@@colorider903 Dan George's entire performance was wonderful. His "endeavor to persevere" speech, and "white man been sneaking up on us for years" are delivered so well. Was a very accomplished actor.
@Darlene Sjostrom Sort of. His people did not draw the borders. chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, located in what we call British Columbia. There is a good chance that his soliloquy was not just script in a Clint Eastwood movie. Perhaps, also, Ten Bears, Will Sampson, a Muscogee/Creek Indian. His scene with Josey Wales was equally striking.
@Darlene Sjostrom The First Nation communities in the United States are actually not American. They are legally their own sovereign nations, that just happen to be surrounded by the US.
Ikr Eastwood has several movies were other actors gave performance of a lifetime, the kid and Unforgiven dan George here and of course Tuko and The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Unfortunately, the racist Oscar committee only gives awards out to whites and Jews. Never to nonwhites unless, of course they've been outed then they give a token award to appease critics.
They're actually two different style hats. Chief Dan's is the classic stove pipe hat that goes straight up with a totally flat brim while Slash's flares out at the top and has a curled brim. But yeah, Chief Dan does look cooler.
"O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, I come to you as one of your many children. I need your strength and your wisdom. Make me strong not to be superior to my brother, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy: "Myself" -Chief Dan George My I's are in agreement. Finally they've aligned! (;
@@RubberDucky999 The point of his sentence is easily understood and it doesn't take picture perfect grammar to figure it out. If it was an unintelligible sentence then I could see pointing that out, but it wasn't. Now if we're writing a novel or something then maybe proper grammar matters, but not in YT comments.
These four minutes, are my favorite four minutes of cinema. Having lived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the HQ of the Cherokee Nation, (Tsa-La-Gi) I have the greatest respect for the people. Chief Dan George does a great job in describing the trials and tribulations of the Five Civilized Tribes, as they *"Endeavor to Persevere."*
@Floyd Vaughn To the Cherokee DNA means nothing, you can't tell what tribe you are from DNA, just that you have native American DNA, remember what they did to Elizabeth Warren over her claim to have Cherokee blood?
@Floyd Vaughn Just because its now Rez land don't mean white people cant live there. We are a kind people and believe in co-existing. When we say "the white man" we speak of the government that was forced onto us.
@@twospiritbanjo Yes! And see how that comes back. Chief Joseph extended a welcoming hand. Even after 'I will fight no more forever' he was exiled. But the Nez Perce people, where I was raised, my Higheagle family, persist in his philosophy, despite the hate. Aho...
I'm curious who the "native Americans" did it to. Truely, I am curious, and not being condencending to them. It's the story of life, it's the story of how a big group wins and Alex over against a little group. Not what one would call "fair", but it is how things work.
@No Reply Email Try reading the confederate declaration of succession, they are quite clear on why they left the union. Don't need PC professors to say shit, the confederates already said it.
@@commoguru You really need to study actual history, not the lame crap spewed out of so-called professors. The war wasn't so much south verses north but rather Democrats against Republicans. The northern Democrats were pro-south. And, of course, there were no southern Republicans. Oh and... there were more black slave owners that white ones. White slave owners were the few and very rich. The majority of southerns didn't own a slave... they didn't own a thing. They were fighting the yanks because they were down on their land fighting them. Your head explode yet???
everybody in the country was after Josey to nail that reward...but in only 2 or 3 minutes of reading his eyes, and he was an expert in that skill... he knew that the Lone Wati was A.O.K. and could be trusted with his life.
I love the message in this film. There is so much evil and misery in the world both men are in the same boat. Nothing goes according to plan, and everyone has to re-evaluate.
Should have gotten the best-supporting-actor, at the time the movie just came and when it was only 30 + years later that it would be considered the Masterpiece that it is. I was stuck in Newbern NC due to weather, I was flying for my Commerical Pilot Certificate so I when to the afternoon movies. Later that day Operation Thunderbolt broke, the IDF when down to Uganda to get their people back. He is well thought of and remembered today, no small thing.
My vote will always go to "Unforgiven" despite a couple historical inaccuracies that irk me. The climatic shootout is one of the more believable ones ever depicted in an Eastwood film, especially if the viewer has been paying attention to the dialogue throughout the film.
"We thought about it for a long time - Endeavor to Perservere!- and when we had thought about it long enough we declared war on the Union." "zzzZZZZZZzzzz" Amazing.
I'd say it's because Wales wasn't really a stand-out character; it's all the characters around him that are interesting. All Eastwood had to do was play Wales deadpan and let their oddities take center stage.
Pure masterpiece by the Chief….truths are not spoken as eloquently as by Chief Dan George, thanks to Eastwood for mankind him a principle player in this wonderful characterization of a western…best ever 🙏🏻
Watched this movie at 16 now 56. I figure it had a part in my life, one of the best movies ever made. Nobody has ever snuck up on me and I have endeavored to persevere.
What an incredible scene. The indian may not have originally had "good intentions", but Jose likes and respects indians, so he spares his life, and they instantly become trustworthy friends.
Everyone in Josie's jamboree brought personality to the group as a whole, but this guy stands out from them all. His slow delivery, cool demeanor, and shoot-from-the-hip wit must've made the director very happy he was cast.
Almost correct. 😉 Gen. Watie and the Southern Cherokee never actually surrendered. They simply signed a "cease hostilities" agreement, and took their arms and army and went home.
In case nobody knows what he’s talking about, during the War of Northern aggression, two major Native Tribes fought on the side on the Confederate states, those being Cherokee, and Cree. They agreed to help the confederate states because the confederate states were farmers and and no wish to push further west and take more Native territory, to top that off while the United states had itself kind of a propaganda frenzy depicting the Native Americans as blood thirsty, and sought to “civilize” them, the Confederate states were more willing to let them do and be them, and were open to trade, at the ending sequence of this movie you see Ten Bears and Josey Wales discuss a treaty, where the natives could come and go, even butcher some of their cattle since the white man had taken all of the buffalo. This was a common ideal. Basically if you were a Native American you stood a chance at a better life if you allied with the Confederation. Unfortunately as we all know the Confederacy lost, and the two Native tribes were punished severely, in fact Lincoln obviously didn’t care for the Natives since he also ordered the hanging of nearly every young man in the Sioux nation declaring them criminals and enemies of the state, but for no apparent reason.
If Lincoln didn't care for the natives like you said then how come he reviewed the cases for the 303 men that were to hang and instead hanged 39 Sioux men for the dakota uprising. He did this even over vehement protest of the local whites in the region, he pardon most of the men so to say Lincoln didn't care about the natives is a bit much considering the average views of the people at the time. Most wouldn't even intervene in that case and probably hang them all without a single consideration yet he did.
"War of Northern Aggression?" You mean the the Civil War, of course....the one that was started at Fort Sumter? Who attacked there? I think you know. Yeah, I am sure the Confederacy would be a paradise for Native Americans, just like the Jews---if they kept their place---would have thrived in Nazi Germany. That is a place you know, right? The Reich? I think you know it well. Oh, and that thing about the Sioux and "hanging of nearly every young man" for "no apparent reason": it is commonly called the Dakota War 0f 1862 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862#Execution). While certainly not pretty or pleasant or something to be proud of in American history, it was not without an "apparent reason". I come to RUclips to watch a beloved movie clip only to be treated to a quasi history lesson from someone who doesn't know history--worse yet, someone who uses history in a warped way to make villains seem heroes. Those black folks in the South...what were they called?
@@karenheck1344 hey bro, idk if you caught on to this in my post, but I really don’t care about the white mans portion of the war. Both sides made mistakes, both sides took their licks for them. We could discuss all day how you’re wrong, but I don’t care enough. I care about what happened to the native American people who originally owned the American territory, and who have been driven to literal extinction. I don’t care about slaves or slavery either, because tbh they didn’t belong in America either, and at least they ended up with decent lives. Ya know who still doesn’t have anything decent? Whats left of the literally THOUSANDS OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, of which there’s only a few dozen left, and a bunch of memorials of the others. So miss me with that garbage. But as far as I’m concerned, the war was started when Lincoln in prisoned confederate representatives, and began laying waste to Cherokee and Cree peoples, which cause the Confederate states to get involved.
Iconic scene, love his wit. And he can be humorous. The scene " How did you know which one would draw first" is classic. " What if I missed".. Left ole Clint spechless....
I have a unique perspective on this film. I was born in Kansas (an accident of birth, don't hold it against me) 😉 to a southern family. The Kansas schools were horrible, and they flat-out lied about most history, but ESPECIALLY the War of Northern Aggression ("Civil War"). I moved to Missouri a a young adult, and started to discover the truth. Now I'm a dyed in the wool unrepentant Bushwacker. And as another interesting facet: My family did some genealogy research and discovered that one of my mixed-blood Cherokee/Choctaw ancestors fought for the Confederacy. (Unfortunately not with Gen. Stand Watie - whom I admire very much, and was alluded to as Chief Dan George's excellent portrayal of "Lone Watie" in the movie.) He served with the Texas cavalry because they were closest to where he lived when he enlisted, and eventually attained the rank of Lt. before he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.
@@3chords490 it's very complicated, but to summarize... The Confederacy was invaded unjustly, the war wasn't about slavery, it was about money, power and control (just like most wars). The native American tribes supported the Confederate cause because they hoped that the new CSA would treat them better than the USA government did.
@@hillfolkes imagine unironically believing the lost cause myth and on top of all that, believing you've "stumbled" onto the truth. you're literally parroting southern post-war propaganda. the south seceded, they shot first, and they explicitly cited slavery as their reason for starting the war. then they had the gall to cry about it and try to rewrite history when they lost. fucking traitors
@@troopieeeeee I shouldn't even justify your ignorant, rude, and brainwashed remark with a reply. And if you comment again I will simply ignore it. You are clearly beyond hope of education as to the real history of the war.
I'm part Indian alright! That's my pop pop my great grandma looked just like him...im burning tobacco this weekend in honor of there memory...much love
The outlaw josey Wales was a movie ahead of its time. It accurately portrays native Americans and the devastating effects the invasion and colonization of the Americas had on them. Up until then, native Americans were portrayed as heartless savages killing poor innocent whites who just want to live in peace.
My niece and nephew live near Fort Payne Alabama. Near their house is a country road barely paved with a state historical sign stating that this road was on the route of the original “Trail of tears”. The area is still undeveloped with occasional farms and houses. When visiting the area I sometimes pullover for a moment at a place with a small stream adjacent to the road with mountains immediately on both sides with very large trees possibly a couple hundreds old. It’s possible these trees bore witness to people walking slowly carrying everything they owned on their backs. Tired and weary with some wailing because they had lost a loved one in the night to disease or exhaustion and I sometimes feel the despair in that place. It’s an awful feeling.
My daughter is 9th generation of a Freed slave n a Cherokee Woman on her Mothers side,which were considered outlaws or not wanted, n on my side, countless generations of The Clan McCoulghagh. Outlawed to the point of changing our names to survive. But always ready to fight. 6th generation American combat Veteran, 5th generation American born, direct line, oldest male. It ends with me. SEMPER FI !
I met Chief Dan George years ago in a NY airport. What a sweet peaceful soul who chatted with me as if I was a good friend. I was blessed to have met him!
Indians were treated like shit. Such a shame because they were such beautifull people and had respect for nature, unlike most of us nowadays.
@No Reply Email Really? I never knew that. The fact remains though they were treated like shit.
@No Reply Email That's soooo brilliant that what you wrote is straight out of Wikipedia.
@No Reply Email You are referencing material by an author is not a historian. His degrees are for writing, not history. As someone whom has a degree in history, referencing his book as is similar to someone referencing Game of Thrones for factual European history just because it had variations of the black dinner, King Henry VIII, Yorks and Lancasters.
While i have not read the entire book you have reference but I was able to read some pages but did not check his reference/source material. I HIGHLY doubt it is historically accurate. The Gwynne's of the writing world are prone to embellish and should not be taken as real history lessons. Quoting John Ford "This is the west sir. when the legend becomes fact print the legend" seems to be more of his motto. He has every right to embellish his books to sell more, but you should not be referencing him as historically factual.
People like that are a light for us all 😎
I love that line and how he delivers it: "We thought about it for a long time. 'Endeavor, to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."
They were introduced to white men's snake talk. Today is also called "political talk".
@@Antesdelfinadmin
Yeah when you’re third eye is open and you’re talking than, telling the truth how it is than,
It could put someone to sleep or make them tired and they just don’t want to hear the truth.
It does more than hurt ( the truth ) as we see,
Sometimes hearing it than,
It could make you tired.
I put my cell mates to sleep when I had the raps talking about the Mad Malicious Medical Mafia
A.K.A. Sicknurses.
Here is a pharmaceutical industry and hospital fun fact:
The pharmaceutical industry creates customers and not cures.
The hospitals do not, I repeat,
The hospitals do not profit off of healthy patients.
Wow so true Indian proverds Love it
@@SigmundFreud187
Sir, it's a Home Depot here.
@@kornofulgur
What do you mean by that if you don’t mind me asking?
This is truly one of the best movies ever made.
K v Absolutely!! Hands down THE BEST WESTERN ever made AND one of the best movies ever. Period!!
They nailed it all the way.
I love the part , dying ain't much of a living .
These are the memories my childhood was built maybe some of my recklessness to
The critics only gave it 2 stars. Never could figure out what their thought process was on that.
@@cosmo1eleven855 Snowfakes?
Chief Dan George. Magnificent performance.
...they made my horse surrender. They got him pulling a wagon up in Kansas.
I love that line. I tell my son that all the time.
@@colorider903 Dan George's entire performance was wonderful. His "endeavor to persevere" speech, and "white man been sneaking up on us for years" are delivered so well. Was a very accomplished actor.
This was the best scene in a movie with many great scenes.
@Darlene Sjostrom Sort of. His people did not draw the borders. chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, located in what we call British Columbia. There is a good chance that his soliloquy was not just script in a Clint Eastwood movie. Perhaps, also, Ten Bears, Will Sampson, a Muscogee/Creek Indian. His scene with Josey Wales was equally striking.
@Darlene Sjostrom The First Nation communities in the United States are actually not American. They are legally their own sovereign nations, that just happen to be surrounded by the US.
There sure are some powerful scenes in this movie, this one & the one with 10 Bears are amazing.
Chief Dan George deserved an Oscar without a doubt!
Ikr Eastwood has several movies were other actors gave performance of a lifetime, the kid and Unforgiven dan George here and of course Tuko and The Good The Bad and The Ugly
He was always one of the best characters in the film, I would have loved to have met him!
Unfortunately, the racist Oscar committee only gives awards out to whites and Jews. Never to nonwhites unless, of course they've been outed then they give a token award to appease critics.
He was far better than that!
A masterpiece for all eternity ... never get tired of watching.
Ever see little big man?
ruclips.net/video/LxJBYhsExT0/видео.html
A true masterpiece--indeed.
The Outlaw Josie Wales...
Yes indeed!
I miss Chief Dan George like a close family member. Never made a bad movie. The best. Not enough awards in America to ever honor him enough
Exactly
Is there a HALL of fame ? Get him in there .
I don't think he would care much about awards..we are doing what I think he would want..
@@richardhowe2386 YOUR not up for the award ! GIVE your REAL respect and make sure DAN GEORGE is not forgotten too soon :)
I still quote this speech. Endeavor to persevere. Has stuck in my head and soul.
"...and when we thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."
LOL.....
"Dang Indians! That isn't what I meant by 'endeavor to persevere'!"
LOL! I know! That line has always cracked me up!!!
That is one of the funniest lines in the movie.
because they were being patronized
Well, yeah. The Union was terrible to the Indians. We Southerners fought for them.
He makes that hat 195% cooler than Slash's.
O make them hats by hand. And I endeavor to persevere in selling them to anyone who wants to buy them
stub mandrel Were do you think Slash got the idea.?
They're actually two different style hats. Chief Dan's is the classic stove pipe hat that goes straight up with a totally flat brim while Slash's flares out at the top and has a curled brim. But yeah, Chief Dan does look cooler.
Slash who.
I totally disagree-193% cooler
"O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds,
I come to you as one of your many children.
I need your strength and your wisdom.
Make me strong not to be superior to my brother,
but to be able to fight my greatest enemy:
"Myself"
-Chief Dan George
My I's are in agreement.
Finally they've aligned! (;
They're will never be another movie like this.
Bill Wilson never say never, and besides....Clint Eastwood is still alive making movies.....
There will always be bad grammar like this.....
@@RubberDucky999 The point of his sentence is easily understood and it doesn't take picture perfect grammar to figure it out. If it was an unintelligible sentence then I could see pointing that out, but it wasn't. Now if we're writing a novel or something then maybe proper grammar matters, but not in YT comments.
The best western EVER. One of the best movies period.
“I noticed when you get to DISliking someone, they’re not around long either!”
What a great relationship between Clint and Chief Dan George.
This is my favorite Clint Eastwood western. The characters, the acting, and the action are top notch
Dan was an incredibly talented guy. Beyond his characters being interesting he had great delivery. Fascinating life, sorry he’s gone.
One of THE greatest movies ever made!!!
I like the later scene too when Chief sneaks up on Josie, and then the girl sneaks up on Chief :-)
"Only an Indian could do something like that."
Brilliant western , two brilliant actors with real chemistry. Endeavour to persevere!! Unique.
These four minutes, are my favorite four minutes of cinema. Having lived in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the HQ of the Cherokee Nation, (Tsa-La-Gi) I have the greatest respect for the people. Chief Dan George does a great job in describing the trials and tribulations of the Five Civilized Tribes, as they *"Endeavor to Persevere."*
@Floyd Vaughn To the Cherokee DNA means nothing, you can't tell what tribe you are from DNA, just that you have native American DNA, remember what they did to Elizabeth Warren over her claim to have Cherokee blood?
@Floyd Vaughn I live in Oklahoma, have for 45 years, and I have no idea why you think anyone is going to move anywhere
@Floyd Vaughn Just because its now Rez land don't mean white people cant live there. We are a kind people and believe in co-existing. When we say "the white man" we speak of the government that was forced onto us.
@@twospiritbanjo Yes! And see how that comes back. Chief Joseph extended a welcoming hand. Even after 'I will fight no more forever' he was exiled. But the Nez Perce people, where I was raised, my Higheagle family, persist in his philosophy, despite the hate. Aho...
One of the saddest and most poignant speeches given in a movie due to the reality of native Americans.
I'm curious who the "native Americans" did it to. Truely, I am curious, and not being condencending to them. It's the story of life, it's the story of how a big group wins and Alex over against a little group. Not what one would call "fair", but it is how things work.
rr rr Not your typical injun.
relax Francis
People the native Americans encountered had equally sad stories to tell.
@@K3Flyguy big fish eats the little one
My late close friend would quote that line to me all the time when I would have a tough time. ALWAYS made laugh.
Chief Dan George had a real gift for comic delivery
I noticed that Wales walks off the second Chief Dan George mentions his lost family members. No wonder they can relate.
" when all you ever loved has been butchered or raped"
@No Reply Email Because they didn't want to give up their slaves.
@No Reply Email Try reading the confederate declaration of succession, they are quite clear on why they left the union. Don't need PC professors to say shit, the confederates already said it.
@@commoguru You really need to study actual history, not the lame crap spewed out of so-called professors. The war wasn't so much south verses north but rather Democrats against Republicans. The northern Democrats were pro-south. And, of course, there were no southern Republicans. Oh and... there were more black slave owners that white ones. White slave owners were the few and very rich. The majority of southerns didn't own a slave... they didn't own a thing. They were fighting the yanks because they were down on their land fighting them. Your head explode yet???
@@donf3877 Thanks Don. Shelby Foote (Civil war historian, 3 volumes) seems to disagree with you. What is your source of information?
everybody in the country was after Josey to nail that reward...but in only 2 or 3 minutes of reading his eyes, and he was an expert in that skill... he knew that the Lone Wati was A.O.K. and could be trusted with his life.
I was blessed when I was a boy living in North Vancouver BC. He would often come to the Neighbourhood House and tell stories
I grew up in north Vancouver and he came to my preschool
I love the message in this film. There is so much evil and misery in the world both men are in the same boat. Nothing goes according to plan, and everyone has to re-evaluate.
Another great sequence in a movie chock full of them.
Chief Dan George was 77 yrs young when this movie was made.
Should have gotten the best-supporting-actor, at the time the movie just came and when it was only 30 + years later that it would be considered the Masterpiece that it is. I was stuck in Newbern NC due to weather, I was flying for my Commerical Pilot Certificate so I when to the afternoon movies. Later that day Operation Thunderbolt broke, the IDF when down to Uganda to get their people back. He is well thought of and remembered today, no small thing.
God Bless him!
Chief Dan George was great in this. I also liked his performance in Little Big Man, when he was Chief of the Human Beings.(The Cheyenne Nation)
"Having been a human being once, I thought I'd be okay."
It's a good day to die.
Best Clint movie he ever made
James Vickers I agree and I think that's really saying something because he's made some awesome movies!!
One of the best.
James Vickers No:,Unforgiven.
My wife: Are you watching that again ??? 😂
My vote will always go to "Unforgiven" despite a couple historical inaccuracies that irk me. The climatic shootout is one of the more believable ones ever depicted in an Eastwood film, especially if the viewer has been paying attention to the dialogue throughout the film.
one of my all time favorite movies..
What a brilliant screenplay. And those two actors. Those words that were said but so many that weren't. Love this movie.
I NEVER GET TIRED OF WATCHING THIS SCENE !!! LOL
Yeah me to. That's way I'm here now.
Same here! I think I've watched it a gZillion times! I met him on the Nez Perce Rez in Idaho where I grew up. What a presence!
Can you..not to yell please?
Josey got tired of it.
Damn I love this movie.
Me too.
I first remember him in Little Big Man. Always a wonderful performance from him. Fine human being.
"We thought about it for a long time - Endeavor to Perservere!- and when we had thought about it long enough we declared war on the Union."
"zzzZZZZZZzzzz"
Amazing.
Trox Artis It’s impossible to pick a “best scene” in this movie
When my country. My people. "Had thought about it long enough". We "declared war on the Union" too.
Deo Vindice!
I'll never understand how did Clint Eastwood not win the Academy award for his portrayal of Josey Wales?
I know. Awesome performance and my favorite movie and my #2 is Risen, another awesome movie.
In a sane world, most everyone involved in this picture would have won an Academy Award. Magnificent movie.
I'd say it's because Wales wasn't really a stand-out character; it's all the characters around him that are interesting. All Eastwood had to do was play Wales deadpan and let their oddities take center stage.
@@kennethsizer6217 Indeed. The movie was packed with top shelf acting for the secondary and tertiary character performances.
@@kennethsizer6217 Well Rocky exploded.
Chief Dan George was amazing in this movie and his scenes are my favorite parts of the movie.
One of the very best westerns ever made...in my opinion.
Once upon a time in the west...........
@@Randy-ry9ss Also very good film!
A great western. If not the Greatest Western. Chief George was a great actor.
The chief made the movie, he's hilarious.
"All I have is a piece of hard-rock candy. But it's not fer eatin', it's fer lookin 'through."
What was that line about?
Chief Dan George's character was asked if he had anything to eat. And this was his reply.
@@ronaldrobertson2332 Excellent
Pure masterpiece by the Chief….truths are not spoken as eloquently as by Chief Dan George, thanks to Eastwood for mankind him a principle player in this wonderful characterization of a western…best ever 🙏🏻
Watched this movie at 16 now 56. I figure it had a part in my life, one of the best movies ever made. Nobody has ever snuck up on me and I have endeavored to persevere.
Chief Dan, thank you for all these wise words and thnak you Clint for showing your respect to let it speak!
No ego involved
Amen! Clint over the Duke any day! :)
great move ..staring and directing Clint Easwood....I do like a good western that teaches a bout hisory
Fantastic, he was so good in Little Big Man.
What an incredible scene. The indian may not have originally had "good intentions", but Jose likes and respects indians, so he spares his life, and they instantly become trustworthy friends.
What a loss! This Man was a historic icon! What a man, what a soul, RIP
Chief Dan George, a true Onkwehonwe legend!
Very true!
Chief Dan George is the master in this scene and delivers most humorous speech of any western ever. "its not for eating..."
I say this line, often, in my daily life. I shall endeavour to persevere. Great movie, so many iconic lines and images. Brilliant!!!!
Same here...
...then I declare war on the Union
The best film Clint Eastwood ever made !
I will always remember this scene and the speech.
One of, if not my favorite western/movie.
Both of them together is movie magic.
Chief Dan George exemplifies wisdom.
Underrated Scene, up there with Ten-Bears words, and the kid from Alabama tricking the gold robbers.
Everyone in Josie's jamboree brought personality to the group as a whole, but this guy stands out from them all. His slow delivery, cool demeanor, and shoot-from-the-hip wit must've made the director very happy he was cast.
2nd best character in the movie aside from Josey.
One of the greatest scenes in any movie, ever!🤗
One of the greatest scenes ever.
One of my favorite westerns.
Love him. What a great movie. Loved him in little big man too.
The layers in this film are subtle
One of the all time great movies." dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy" "hells comin' to breakfast granny" "we wupped 'em again Josie" and a hundred more
Shoot em now Abe, shoot em now, shut up ladge! Great scene...
Pert as a ruttin buck!
You boys gonna pull them pistols or whistle dixie?
I reckon so
Underrated Movie.
Last Confederate general to surrender: Cherokee Chief Stand Watie. Deo vindice.
Almost correct. 😉 Gen. Watie and the Southern Cherokee never actually surrendered. They simply signed a "cease hostilities" agreement, and took their arms and army and went home.
They call us civilised, cause we are easy to sneak up on.
...and after we thought about it for awhile, we declared war on the union.
Really enjoyed Chief Dan George in this movie. He stole every scene he was in.
I had a co-worker who when things turned to crap, we would solemnly remind the other "to endeavor to persevere" .
One of my fav movies of all time.
Awesome , I've probably watched that scene a 100 times. Thank you
Greatest western of all time
That Indian guy reminded me of my step grandpa who would go on and on about stories whether you listened or not.
Excellent movie, Chief Dan George great performance, loved him in little big man as well.
One of the few movie lines I've always remembered through my life.
In case nobody knows what he’s talking about, during the War of Northern aggression, two major Native Tribes fought on the side on the Confederate states, those being Cherokee, and Cree. They agreed to help the confederate states because the confederate states were farmers and and no wish to push further west and take more Native territory, to top that off while the United states had itself kind of a propaganda frenzy depicting the Native Americans as blood thirsty, and sought to “civilize” them, the Confederate states were more willing to let them do and be them, and were open to trade, at the ending sequence of this movie you see Ten Bears and Josey Wales discuss a treaty, where the natives could come and go, even butcher some of their cattle since the white man had taken all of the buffalo. This was a common ideal. Basically if you were a Native American you stood a chance at a better life if you allied with the Confederation. Unfortunately as we all know the Confederacy lost, and the two Native tribes were punished severely, in fact Lincoln obviously didn’t care for the Natives since he also ordered the hanging of nearly every young man in the Sioux nation declaring them criminals and enemies of the state, but for no apparent reason.
If Lincoln didn't care for the natives like you said then how come he reviewed the cases for the 303 men that were to hang and instead hanged 39 Sioux men for the dakota uprising. He did this even over vehement protest of the local whites in the region, he pardon most of the men so to say Lincoln didn't care about the natives is a bit much considering the average views of the people at the time. Most wouldn't even intervene in that case and probably hang them all without a single consideration yet he did.
"War of Northern Aggression?" You mean the the Civil War, of course....the one that was started at Fort Sumter? Who attacked there? I think you know. Yeah, I am sure the Confederacy would be a paradise for Native Americans, just like the Jews---if they kept their place---would have thrived in Nazi Germany. That is a place you know, right? The Reich? I think you know it well.
Oh, and that thing about the Sioux and "hanging of nearly every young man" for "no apparent reason": it is commonly called the Dakota War 0f 1862 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862#Execution). While certainly not pretty or pleasant or something to be proud of in American history, it was not without an "apparent reason".
I come to RUclips to watch a beloved movie clip only to be treated to a quasi history lesson from someone who doesn't know history--worse yet, someone who uses history in a warped way to make villains seem heroes. Those black folks in the South...what were they called?
@@karenheck1344 hey bro, idk if you caught on to this in my post, but I really don’t care about the white mans portion of the war. Both sides made mistakes, both sides took their licks for them. We could discuss all day how you’re wrong, but I don’t care enough. I care about what happened to the native American people who originally owned the American territory, and who have been driven to literal extinction. I don’t care about slaves or slavery either, because tbh they didn’t belong in America either, and at least they ended up with decent lives. Ya know who still doesn’t have anything decent? Whats left of the literally THOUSANDS OF NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES, of which there’s only a few dozen left, and a bunch of memorials of the others. So miss me with that garbage. But as far as I’m concerned, the war was started when Lincoln in prisoned confederate representatives, and began laying waste to Cherokee and Cree peoples, which cause the Confederate states to get involved.
With time with time!!!!
arguably one of the best movies ever made . . . mind you , my list of " best ever made " is HUGE .
MY FAVORITE WESTERN !!!& TO Me the BEST ONE EVER 👍g
This guy should have gotten a Oscar
Iconic scene, love his wit. And he can be humorous. The scene " How did you know which one would draw first" is classic. " What if I missed".. Left ole Clint spechless....
One of the best Westerns ever made
His role as grandfather in Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman was great acting in a great movie.
Chief Dan was a Canadian Buck. Good egg.
Robert Landers Blame canada!
I have a unique perspective on this film. I was born in Kansas (an accident of birth, don't hold it against me) 😉 to a southern family. The Kansas schools were horrible, and they flat-out lied about most history, but ESPECIALLY the War of Northern Aggression ("Civil War"). I moved to Missouri a a young adult, and started to discover the truth. Now I'm a dyed in the wool unrepentant Bushwacker.
And as another interesting facet: My family did some genealogy research and discovered that one of my mixed-blood Cherokee/Choctaw ancestors fought for the Confederacy. (Unfortunately not with Gen. Stand Watie - whom I admire very much, and was alluded to as Chief Dan George's excellent portrayal of "Lone Watie" in the movie.) He served with the Texas cavalry because they were closest to where he lived when he enlisted, and eventually attained the rank of Lt. before he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.
hillfolkes What as the truth? I’m from Europe. I know a bit about how the Native Americans were treated from the How the West was lost documentaries.
@@3chords490 it's very complicated, but to summarize... The Confederacy was invaded unjustly, the war wasn't about slavery, it was about money, power and control (just like most wars). The native American tribes supported the Confederate cause because they hoped that the new CSA would treat them better than the USA government did.
@@hillfolkes imagine unironically believing the lost cause myth and on top of all that, believing you've "stumbled" onto the truth. you're literally parroting southern post-war propaganda. the south seceded, they shot first, and they explicitly cited slavery as their reason for starting the war. then they had the gall to cry about it and try to rewrite history when they lost. fucking traitors
@@troopieeeeee I shouldn't even justify your ignorant, rude, and brainwashed remark with a reply. And if you comment again I will simply ignore it. You are clearly beyond hope of education as to the real history of the war.
I'm part Indian alright! That's my pop pop my great grandma looked just like him...im burning tobacco this weekend in honor of there memory...much love
I have always endeavored to persevere since I watched this movie.
Outlaw Josey Wales, High plains drifter, Pale rider, Unforgiven, best westerns ever
The outlaw josey Wales was a movie ahead of its time. It accurately portrays native Americans and the devastating effects the invasion and colonization of the Americas had on them. Up until then, native Americans were portrayed as heartless savages killing poor innocent whites who just want to live in peace.
My niece and nephew live near Fort Payne Alabama. Near their house is a country road barely paved with a state historical sign
stating that this road was on the route of the original “Trail of tears”. The area is still undeveloped with occasional farms and houses. When visiting the area I sometimes pullover for a moment at a place with a small stream adjacent to the road with mountains immediately on both sides with very large trees possibly a couple hundreds old. It’s possible these trees bore witness to people walking slowly carrying everything they owned on their backs. Tired and weary with some wailing because they had lost a loved one in the night to disease or exhaustion and I sometimes feel the despair in that place. It’s an awful feeling.
My daughter is 9th generation of a Freed slave n a Cherokee Woman on her Mothers side,which were considered outlaws or not wanted, n on my side, countless generations of The Clan McCoulghagh. Outlawed to the point of changing our names to survive. But always ready to fight. 6th generation American combat Veteran, 5th generation American born, direct line, oldest male. It ends with me. SEMPER FI !
They just don't make great movies anymore! I love this scene 😍!
This is one of my favourite scenes in cinema. Thanks for putting it up.
Chief Dan George reminds me of my father. Always a good actor.
A great film.
I used to have power but old age has now crept up on me.
The best film in history.....please my friend the name of the soundtrack...be safe thank you