"Do see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the Human Beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals, but also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them, like that hair.

The man from this hair came he is bald on the other side. Because I now own his scalp.

That is the way things are!

But the white man they believe everything is dead. Stone, earth, animals and people. Even their own people. If things keep try to live white man will rub them out.

That is the difference."

Those are the words and voice of Chief Dan George spoken from his heart,
his soul,
his Red Core
He spoke those words in the movie Little Big Man.

He is also speaking from a time.

A time near the end of the only life the Human Beings had known.
A tradition of living,
As one with all of nature
Was about to be rubbed out.
The Human Beings could not remember a time when life had been different.

But this was a new time.
A new enemy.
An enemy possessed of unprecidented weaponry.
An enemy whose numbers counted greater than the blades of grass on the Dakota plains.
An enemy whose ruthlessness had never before been witnessed.
An enemy that held in contempt the inherant spirit of the Human Beings; that one must live as one with nature, with humble respect to all. Even enemies.
An enemy who considered the Human Beings as savages.
An enemy who didn't know where the center of the universe was.
An enemy that didn't even respect himself
Or anything at all.

But you see, Chief Dan George is holding a scalp of hair.
He is showing it to Little Big Man

He is laughing because the wasichu has lost the battle and his scalp...

This man who never knew where the center of the universe was.
Who killed not only for food
Not just to feed his own.
This man killed to quench a crazy appetite for death.
This man who treated everything with smug contempt.

This man was bald on the other side.

And don't you know how foolish he must look?

And don't you know
How much more foolish
He looked when he was still on this side?

THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE! The Red Core