Frank DeKova: Mike Gray Eagle

Quotes 

• [Mike Gray Eagle has raised the prices for the water he is delivering to Lincoln during a severe drought] 

  John Forrest : There must be better ways of getting water and I'll find it even if I have to talk to the town council into hiring a rainmaker.

  Mike Gray Eagle : Rainmaker? And they call us Apaches superstitious for our medicine men and rain dances.

  Pat Garrett : Ah, you know, Gray Eagle, I wouldn't exactly count it as being superstition. I was reading an article just last week in Harper's Weekly about a Frenchman who has come up with a scientific way of making rain.

  Pat Garrett : I still say it's superstition... and if it isn't the rainmaker might keep in mind that I'm still an Apache.

• John Forrest : After stakin' out the only spring still flowin' within a thousand square miles, you know that no Apache called that a sacred spring until you put the idea in their heads and they won't let a white man near it now, Mike! Well, you're a highway robber.

  Mike Gray Eagle : I was taught the white man's ways at the mission school.

• [Hank Kimball, the rainmaker Lincoln County has just hired, turns out to be a woman] 

  Mike Gray Eagle : [laughing]  I like the white man's new ways - a female medicine man! What next?

• Victorio : I've heard of white man's great medicine to bring rain.

  Mike Gray Eagle : Old squaws' talk.

  Victorio : If she succeeds you will lose face.

  Mike Gray Eagle : And money. Maybe you're right, Victorio. I think she should be discouraged... Oh, Victorio, no violence. Remember - we're civilized Apaches.

• Henrietta Russel : Why are you out to skin these folks?

  Mike Gray Eagle : You really want to know?

  Henrietta Russel : Yes!

  Mike Gray Eagle : My people had their lands taken from them. They were herded onto a reservation your government thought good enough for them. They were given hoes and rakes to till a land that could not grow good weeds. They were a proud people, but they agreed to a treaty that humbled them. The brave ones, Geronimo was one, took a course of vengeance against the whites.

  Henrietta Russel : What about you?

  Mike Gray Eagle : Me? I just went to the white man's school and learned his ways. I found you could scalp a man without lifting his hair - just lift his pocketbook. It hurts more.

• John Forrest : Oh, you did it! You did it, Miss Russell! I'm as good as reelected!

  Mike Gray Eagle : You speak to soon, Mr. Forrest.

  John Forrest : What are you talking about, you you you vulture!

  Mike Gray Eagle : Eagle! With my water supply business washed out, so to speak, I have decided to enter politics. I'll be running against you for councilman next month, Mr. Forrest.