There's no way they would allow this scene to be made today

This is a good scene. No one is right, no one is wrong - they're just equal in the worst way. It's very human. The fact that Sitting Bull is in denial of this is troubling, but so is the fact that Miles is completely okay with what he's doing. They're two sides of the same coin - the only difference is that one of them doesn't know it.

Human history in a nutshell

Let’s be real, everyone conquered everyone. Europeans conquered other Europeans, Indians conquered Indians, Asians conquered Asians, Africans conquered Africans. It’s just human nature. People act like the Norman conquest didn’t happen or Genghis Khan wasn’t a conquering warlord. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Colonel Miles dropping red pills left and right. 😂

“You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause!” Bingo!

The person who wrote this script is genius. I can guarantee he/she went through several versions to get that speech as perfect as possible. Then to top it off with, "This is Truth, NOT legend!" It's very hard to argue that point!

the way Col Nelson speaks to Sitting Bull is almost exactly the way William Henry Harrison spoke to Tecumseh 65 years earlier. these guys had a knack for getting under the Indian war chiefs skin using their own mannerisms and modes of speaking.

This says it all. Anyone that does not recognize what Col Miles is saying, is just plain foolish.

As a Native American myself what I love about this scene is the authenticity of it. So much of our history is BS noble savage nonsense. That crap doesn't help people come to terms with who we are, what happened, how it went, where we are and where we are going. A hundred years before the Whites arrived the Sioux Genocided the Pawnee, Crow and other Native peoples to get the Black Hills it wasn't sacred it was just a resource they needed to survive so they did what they had to do, just like the Whites did. As I tell my children we fought our selves as much as we fought the Whites no one is to blame learn from it be proud and move forward.

As a First Nations native, it annoys me when people, and even my relatives say that we were peaceful people. When in reality, we weren’t even close. Not everyone’s history is peaceful and right, and that was kinda a hard pill for me to swallow about my people, but I’m just glad that I did. I still love my people and my culture of course

Gotta say. Love this scene.

As an Umóⁿhoⁿ or in otherwise Omaha Native American myself, this was sometimes hard to watch or hear but even now I cannot deny the truth of Colonel Miles’ words.

The Lakota: The Black Hills belong to us, given by the great spirit.

"Now, Sitting Bull... I would like to present you with FBI crime statistics and the Crime Victimization Survey."

Probably the most interesting movie dialogue between two men I have seen. Both guys sit down talk and declare each of their points very well. Love both the actors in this scene and their acting...

"the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all"... Truth

I wonder if any movie made now could contain what this scene shows.

Bro... That single speech just made me change my entire outlook on the conquering of native lands that I've believed for 20 years... Because he was true.

“Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all! You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent. You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands. Just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause.” should be carved in stone as eternal truth