Black Robe (1991)

Billy Two Rivers: Ougebmat

Quotes 

• Montagnais : [indicates Laforgue and Daniel]  They have hairy faces like dogs. Who are they?

  Chomina : They are French.

  Father Laforgue : We have come to help you! We have been sent by our God, who is the God of us all!

  Montagnais : He can't speak properly.

  Chomina : They have their own tongue. It is like birds singing.

  Montagnais : Are they intelligent?

  Ougebmat : No.

• [watching Laforgue write in his diary] 

  Chomina : Blackrobe, what you do?

  Father Laforgue : I am making words.

  Chomina : Making words? You not speak.

  Father Laforgue : I will show you. Tell me something.

  Chomina : Tell what?

  Father Laforgue : Something I do not know.

  Chomina : My woman's mother die in snow last winter.

  [Laforgue writes it and shows the book to Daniel] 

  Daniel : It says Chomina's woman's mother died in snow last winter.

  Father Laforgue : I have still other, greater things I can teach you.

  Ougebmat : He is a demon!

• [watching LaForgue give the last rites to a dying baby] 

  Mestigoit : Watch this, he is going to cast a spell.

  Father Laforgue : Oh God of mercy, please bless this innocent child...

  Chomina : No. He is talking to his God.

  Father Laforgue : [making the sign of the cross]  ... in nomini patri et fili et spiritu sancti...

  Ougebmat : See that sign? That's how they steal our spirit.

• Chomina : If we had kept our promise to Champlain, there would be no problem.

  Ougebmat : Promise? For axes, pots, and flints? Not even one musket.

  Chomina : But we accepted their gifts! We have come to need them. This is our undoing - and it will be our ending.

  Mestigoit : They are not gifts. There are no gifts given by the French that aren't paid for.