:19:01
- You lived with the Apache?
- Five years.
:19:04
- And you had an Indian wife?
- Wife, squaw...
:19:08
I took the liberty of borrowing a few feet
of rope off of that coil in the lean-to.
:19:13
- Gladly pay you for it, if you let me.
- 'Course not.
:19:17
The hills are so beautiful today.
:19:19
Odd how clear they always are
after a dust storm.
:19:25
Must have been very interesting
living with the Apache.
:19:28
I liked it.
:19:31
- This Indian wife you have...
- Had. She's dead.
:19:35
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up
an unhappy memory.
:19:41
I can't remember anything unhappy
about Destarte.
:19:46
Destarte? How musical. What does it mean?
:19:52
You can't say it except in Mescalero.
It means morning.
:19:57
But that isn't what it means, either.
:20:00
Means more than just that.
Indian words mean the sound and...
:20:04
feel of a word, like...
:20:07
crack of dawn, the first bronze light...
:20:10
that makes the buttes stand out
against the gray desert.
:20:14
The first sound you hear of a brook...
:20:16
curling over some rocks, with trout jumping.
:20:20
It's like when you get up in the first light...
:20:23
just you and her and you go out of
a wickiup.
:20:28
Where it smells kind of smoky and private,
just you and her, and...
:20:34
kind of safe with just the two of you.
:20:37
Stand outside and...
:20:39
feel the bite of the first wind
coming down from the high divide...
:20:43
that promises snowfall.
:20:47
Can't say it in English,
but that was her name.
:20:52
Destarte.
:20:55
- You remind me of her some.
- Of an Indian girl?
:20:59
Was she fair?