Daily Dialogue — November 9, 2019

Victor Joseph: You gotta look mean or people won’t respect you. White people will run all over you if you don’t look mean. You gotta look like a warrior! You gotta look like you just came back from killing a buffalo!
Thomas Builds-the-Fire: But our tribe never hunted buffalo — we were fishermen.
Victor Joseph: What! You want to look like you just came back from catching a fish? This ain’t “Dances With Salmon” you know!

— Smoke Signals (1998), screenplay by Sherman Alexie based on his book

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Driving. Today’s suggestion by Zena Schultz.

Trivia: The first movie to be written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Smoke Signals is a terrific movie and this interchange in a driving scene between Victor and Thomas is great — about how to be a real Indian.