Jack Crabb: I don't understand it, grandfather, why would they kill women and children? Old Lodge Skins: Because they are strange. They do not seem to know where the center of the Earth is.
Jack Crabb: [after Mrs. Pendrake] That was the end of my religion period. I ain't sung a hymn in a 104 years.
Jack Crabb: You mean you're blind? Old Lodge Skins: Oh no. My eyes still see. Buy my heart no longer receives it.
Jack Crabb: Custer was right. I was a total failure as an Indian.
Jack Crabb: Lord help us, these young girls is deadly!
General Custer: Take my advice. Go West! Olga Crabb: [in a Swedish accent] Vest? [She wails and bursts into tears] Jack Crabb: My wife, she's awful scared of Injuns. General Custer: My dear woman, you have nothing to fear from the Indians, I give you...
Rev. Silas Pendrake: Can you drive a buggy, boy? Jack Crabb: Oh, yes sir. Right good. Rev. Silas Pendrake: You're a liar, boy. You were reared by the Indians - how could you learn to drive a buggy? We shall have to beat the lying out of you.
Digging Bear: Stay. Corn Woman is to tired. Jack Crabb: She don't sound tired to me.