Songs My Brothers Taught Me

Thing about breaking a horse is

don't run him out of time,

'cause if you're gonna just keep on running your horse,

you're gonna break his spirit.

Anything that runs wild got something bad in him.

You want to leave some of that in there,

'cause they need it to survive out here.

- Ready? - Yep.

One, two, three, then duck.

Remember, you gotta always protect yourself.

Remember if somebody small, your size,

you can probably beat 'em up or whatever,

but if it's somebody bigger than you,

then I don't know what you're gonna do, you'd better run.

Hungry!

There's nothing to eat.

Your face.

Can you fill this up with vod, too?

- Yeah. - Okay.

All together, that'll be $25.

I'll take a twelver.

And the rest of your vod.

All right.

Here you go.

- Probably be around again. - All right.

It's what you are, you're mean.

Meh!

Can we have two?

One.

Excuse me.

$4.57.

Here you go.

Here, we'll use that money.

All right.

You think you could sell me one of your old cars?

I'm going to LA with my girl.

All I need is a car.

Long drive.

Yeah.

Do you think I could sell some more for you?

So I could save up some gas money?

Yeah, you just have to watch out

for those fuckin' protesters at Whiteclay.

Yeah, I'll be careful.

Fuckin' sumbitches.

You and Sam should go chase the horses in.

What's that?

I was taking pictures, I hope that's okay.

It's all right, just make me look good, you know?

What's your name?

Johnny Winters.

Nice meeting you.

I'm Angie, I'm with Bill.

Oh yeah, he told me.

All right.

See you later.

What's up, boys?

- What's up? - What's up, John?

Who's that chick?

She's Bill's girl.

She's cute. Ain't she a bit too young for him?

Yeah.

So you guys have been in high school for four years,

and all of you need to be thinking

about what you're going to do.

So I want to ask you some questions

and I'll start with Jorge.

What do you see yourself doing?

Start a ranch.

How do you make a brace?

Make a brace, you would two posts, make a Z in the middle.

Okay.

Kevin, don't say nothing.

Ridin' bulls.

Okay, so what three quali...

What three qualities, uh, do you have

that make you... make you think that you can do that?

I don't know, I've always... that's all I've done.

I'm good at doin' it.

I love doin' it.

DJ?

Same, ridin' bulls.

Anybody out here not a bull rider?

- Yeah? - A veterinarian.

Veterinarian.

Why do you want to be a veterinarian?

'Cause I love animals.

You love animals.

It would give me an idea on how to take care of my animals

when I build a ranch.

Okay.

Is he hungover?

Yeah, he's hungover.

Hey, John.

What are you doin'?

Are you hungover?

Hey, what job would you like to do when you graduate?

What's your perfect job when you grow up?

I don't know.

Think of somethin', sir.

Boxer.

Boxing?

You mean like in a grocery store, box boy?

You want to box groceries is that what you mean?

No.

No, well what do you mean?

Hit people.

Oh, you want to be a pugilist.

Do you know what a pugilist is?

No.

Aurelia?

What would you like to be?

A lawyer.

Awesome.

Okay, guys, seriously,

we've had a lot of fun in high school,

but now you're adults

and you need to seriously think about what you want to be

and if you want to be a bull rider, that's awesome.

You want to be a lawyer, I think that's commendable.

But you need to start working towards that.

You're ridiculous.

That's funny, though.

Here's the worm in slow motion.

Do a fast worm.

There was a really big fire.

Did everything we could to try to get it out.

The whole house was just engulfed in flames.

Um, we couldn't get Carl out.

He didn't make it.

I'm really sorry.

I'm still trying to figure out why Carl didn't wake up.

I feel that it's appropriate for Carl's best friend, Bill,

to come up and make a toast.

Carl, everybody raise your hand.

One of the best bull riders around.

And I'd like to tell you a story.

Went to a rodeo in Oglala.

Carl, he did pretty good on his bareback.

And he... he winned the saddle bronc ridin'.

And then he... he come to his bull, came up, he opened it up

about three jumps, threw him so hard on the ground

'bout killed him.

Crazy motherfucker said, "I know what I wanna be.

I wanna be a bull rider."

And young girl over there, smilin' at him

and liked the way he rode, and it was Thecla.

Even though he has 25 kids, 9 different so-called wives,

finally caught him, and he got married.

I'ma miss that crazy son of a bitch, you know.

Is that my dad's jacket?

You know what, it looks good on you.

So did you take his last name?

Had that last name ever since I was a kid.

What about you, did you take his last name or what?

Fuck that, bro.

My stepdad was there for me my whole life

so I took his last name.

Jorge Iron Bear.

Fuck Jorge Winters.

So he was pretty close to your dad?

Our dad, whatever.

The closest, I suppose, that's just what I hear but...

who knows with that guy.

Well, you know what, you're lucky, you know?

You're lucky you had him around as a dad.

We're kind of standing in the dark with our father, you know,

we didn't really know him as much as you did.

He liked his drink, I didn't really care about that much.

Where did you even get this alcohol from?

Ain't it illegal on this rez?

Swiped it from my old man's closet, what you think?

I'm not too sure how you guys get it down this way.

Well, I mean they just took a vote on Whiteclay.

You know, if we legalized alcohol,

they wouldn't have a lot more...

If we legalize alcohol, businesses are gonna boom.

Alcoholic businesses.

What's gonna happen to the rest of 'em?

They're gonna stay the same.

Every...

The alcohol businesses are gonna boom, and so is the crime.

What about the younger guys, the ones that have do deal with

a drunken parent comin' home?

They have to deal with it either way.

Did you hear about dad?

Yeah.

They didn't really find much of him.

Shit.

You know, I went to the funeral.

How was it?

There was a lot of cowboys.

Jashaun's sad.

For what?

I don't know, I guess that's kind of weird for her.

As if he was suddenly back in our lives

now that he's dead.

Ain't that funny.

What's up, bro?

I haven't told 'em about me moving to LA yet.