In these darkened rooms, where I spend

oppressive days, I pace to and fro

to find the windows.  When a window

opens, it will be a consolation.

But the windows cannot be found, or I cannot

find them. And maybe it is best that I do not find them.

Maybe the light will be a new tyranny.

Who knows what new things it will reveal.

Konstantinos Kavafis, Τα παράθυρα/The windows/Prozori, 1903.

(via TheOnlyGoodIndian)

Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teenage Native American boy (newcomer Winter Fox Frank) is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian “training” school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return his family, Sam Franklin (Wes Studi), a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man’s way of life, believing it’s the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin’s longtime nemesis, the famous Indian Fighter Sheriff Henry McCoy (J. Kenneth Campbell), to pursue both Franklin and the boy.