The Chevalier: Glory of the Morning, the Great Spirit said long before you were born that a man has a right to his own children. The Great Spirit made woman so that she should bring him children. Black Wolf, is it not so?
Black Wolf: It is so.
The Chevalier (To Glory of the Morning, standing apart): Black Wolf is the wise man of your people.
Black Wolf: And knows the Great Spirit better than the white men.
The Chevalier: Indeed, I think so.
Black Wolf: And the Great Spirit made the man so that he should stay with the squaw who brought him the children,—except when off hunting meat for the wigwam or on the warpath for the tribe.
Glory of the Morning (With some spirit and dignity): The white man Half Moon has said that he believes Black Wolf.
The Chevalier: The white man has not come to argue with the Red Skin, but to take the white man's children.
Black Wolf (In his role of practical wisdom): The Half Moon will listen to Black Wolf.
The Chevalier (With conciliation): If the Black Wolf speaks wisely....