- Maggie O'Connell: Would you like some time alone with them Ed?
- Ed Chigliak: Well, if you wouldn't mind.
- Maggie O'Connell: Just bring the dolly back when you are through, okay.
- Leonard Quinhagak: I have clients in the white community. Our people are starting to assimilate.
- Leonard Quinhagak: The more I know about white culture its mythology, its medicine, so on the more I can expand my practice.
- Leonard Quinhagak: I thought I'd start with the stories
- Holling Vincoeur: What stories?
- Leonard Quinhagak: You know, the healing stories.
- Holling Vincoeur: I'm afraid I'm not with you, Leonard.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Well, traditionally, healers such as myself found that storytelling has great curative powers.
- Leonard Quinhagak: People are fortified by parables, legends, you might call them.
- Leonard Quinhagak: In our culture, the theme is frequently some act of faith or perseverance.
- Leonard Quinhagak: I'm looking for parallel stories in the white culture.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Expressions of their collective unconscious.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Declaration of principles scene
- Ed Chigliak: Hi, Leonard. Yeah.
- Leonard Quinhagak: How's your stomach?
- Ed Chigliak: It's okay. Better.
- Leonard Quinhagak: You've seen this a number of times?
- Ed Chigliak: Oh, yeah. Sure.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Yet you want to see it again. Why?
- Ed Chigliak: Well, just look at it. It's a great story.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Maybe this is it.
- Ed Chigliak: What?
- Leonard Quinhagak: White medicine.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Movies
- Leonard Quinhagak: They say it's magic.
- Leonard Quinhagak: It seems to have cured you.
- Ed Chigliak: Well, my stomach feels better.
- Ed Chigliak: But before long, the movie will be over, and I still won't know what to do with my life.
- Ed Chigliak: I'm really confused, Leonard.
- Leonard Quinhagak: The path to our destination is not always a straight one, Ed.
- Leonard Quinhagak: We go down the wrong road. We get lost. We turn back.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on.
- Leonard Quinhagak: Maybe what matters is that we embark.