The Acorn-Planter London, Jack Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag Jack London, 1876 – 1916 The Acorn-Planter: A California Forest Play: Planned to be Sung by Efficient Singers Accompanied by a Capable Orchestra by Jack London London Mills & Boon, Limited vi, 84 p. First Hunter First Sea Cuny Old Man Young Brave All Voices Women First Old Woman People Warriors Fourth Hunter Youths Pioneers and Explorers Third Hunter Dew-woman War Chief Hunters Deer Foot Red Cloud The People Second Old Woman Sun Men Husbandmen Second Hunter Red Cloud and Dew-woman Shaman Elk Man Sun Man Musical Verse data extraction from source 1916 ARGUMENT

In the morning of the world, while his tribe makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty of life, which duty is to make life more abundant. The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who commands in war, sings that war is the only way to life. This Red Cloud denies, affirming that the way of life is the way of the acorn-planter, and that whoso slays one man slays the planter of many acorns. Red Cloud wins the Shaman and the people to his contention.

After the passage of thousands of years, again in the grove appear the Nishinam. In Red Cloud, the War Chief, the Shaman, and the Dew-Woman are repeated the eternal figures of the philosopher, the soldier, the priest, and the woman — types ever realizing themselves afresh in the social adventures of man. Red Cloud recognizes the wrecked explorers as planters and life-makers, and is for treating them with kindness. But the War Chief and the idea of war are dominant. The Shaman joins with the war party, and is privy to the massacre of the explorers.

A hundred years pass, when, on their seasonal migration, the Nishinam camp for the night in the grove. They still live, and the war formula for life seems vindicated, despite the imminence of the superior life-makers, the whites, who are flooding into California from north, south, east, and west — the English, the Americans, the Spaniards, and the Russians. The massacre by the white men follows, and Red Cloud, dying, recognizes the white men as brother acorn-planters, the possessors of the superior life-formula of which he had always been a protagonist.

In the Epilogue, or Apotheosis, occur the celebration of the death of war and the triumph of the acorn-planters.
PROLOGUE Time . In the morning of the world . Scene . A forest hillside where great trees stand with wide spaces between. A stream flows from a spring that bursts out of the hillside. It is a place of lush ferns and brakes, also, of thickets of such shrubs as inhabit a redwood forest floor. At the left, in the open level space at the foot of the hillside, extending out of sight among the trees, is visible a portion of a Nishinam Indian camp. It is a temporary camp for the night. Small cooking fires smoulder. Standing about are withe-woven baskets for the carrying of supplies and dunnage. Spears and bows and quivers of arrows lie about. Boys drag in dry branches for firewood. Young women fill gourds with water from the stream and proceed about their camp tasks. A number of older women are pounding acorns in stone mortars with stone pestles. An old man and a Shaman, or priest, look expectantly up the hillside. All wear moccasins and are skin-clad, primitive, in their garmenting. Neither iron nor woven cloth occurs in the weapons and gear . Shaman ( Looking up hillside .)

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Old Man ( After inspection of hillside .)

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Shaman

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Old Man ( Nodding .)

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Shaman ( Assertively, as if inculcating a lesson .)

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Old Man ( Nodding .)

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Shaman ( More assertively .)

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Old Man

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Shaman

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Old Man ( Repeating .)

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Shaman

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Old Man ( Repeating .)

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( Cries from the women and a turning of faces . Red Cloud appears among his hunters descending the hillside. All carry spears, and bows and arrows. Some carry rabbits and other small game. Several carry deer .) PLAINT OF THE NISHINAM

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Red Cloud ( Still descending .)

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Hunters

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( Completing the descent , Red Cloud motions to the meat-bearers. They throw down their burdens before the women, who greedily inspect the spoils .) MEAT SONG OF THE NISHINAM

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( The younger women take charge of the meat, and the older women resume their acorn-pounding .) ( Red Cloud approaches the acorn-pounders and watches them with pleasure. All group about him, the Shaman to the fore, and hang upon his every action, his every utterance .) Red Cloud

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First Old Woman ( Nodding .)

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Red Cloud

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Second Old Woman

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Red Cloud

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Shaman

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( He nods a signal to the Old Man .) Old Man

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Shaman ( Who, throughout the Old Man's recital, has nodded approbation, turning to Red Cloud .)

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Red Cloud (Making ready to begin.)

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Shaman ( Hushing the people to listen, solemnly .)

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SONG OF THE FIRST MAN Red Cloud

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Shaman

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The People

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Shaman

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The People

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Shaman

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The People

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Shaman

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Shaman

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Shaman

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The People

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Shaman

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The People

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Shaman

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The People

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Red Cloud

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War Chief ( With gesture of interruption that causes remonstrance from the Shaman but which Red Cloud acknowledges .)

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Red Cloud

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War Chief ( Gesturing to be heard .)

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Red Cloud

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( A voice is heard singing . Red Cloud holds up his hand for silence .) MATING SONG Dew-Woman

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Red Cloud ( As Red Cloud sings , Dew-Woman steals from behind a tree and approaches him .)

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Dew-Woman

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Red Cloud

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Dew-Woman

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Red Cloud

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Red Cloud

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Dew-Woman

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Red Cloud and Dew-Woman ( Arm about each other .)

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War Chief ( Angrily .)

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Red Cloud ( Gently .)

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War Chief

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Red Cloud

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Young Brave

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Shaman ( Holding up hand solemnly .)

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War Chief ( Nodding confirmation .)

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( Pointing to the spring .)

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( War Chief leads the way up the hillside to the spring, and signals to the Old Man to begin .) THE SNARING OF THE SUN Old Man

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Shaman ( Solemnly .)

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( Shaman stiffens suddenly with hideous facial distortions, with inturned eye-balls and loosened, jaw. He waves his arms about, writhes and twists in torment, as if in epilepsy .) ( The Women break into a wailing, inarticulate chant, swaying their bodies to the accent. The men join them somewhat reluctantly, all save Red Cloud , who betrays vexation, and War Chief , who betrays truculence .) ( Shaman , leading the rising frenzy, with convulsive shiverings and tremblings tears off his skin garments so that he is quite naked save for a girdle of eagle-claws about his thighs. His long black hair flies about his face. With an abruptness that is startling, he ceases all movement and stands erect, rigid. This is greeted with a low moaning that slowly dies away .) CHANT OF PROPHECY Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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( The People set up a sad wailing .) War Chief ( Striking his chest with his fist .)

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( The People cease from their wailing and look to the War Chief with hopeful expectancy .) War Chief

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( The People greet War Chief's pronouncement with warlike cries of approval .) Red Cloud

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Shaman

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War Chief

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Shaman

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War Chief

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Shaman

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War Chief

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Red Cloud ( As he speaks the People are visibly won by is argument .)

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People

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( While the People sing the hillside slowly grows dark .)
ACT I ( Ten thousand years have passed, and it is the time of the early voyaging from Europe to the waters of the Pacific, when the deserted hillside is again revealed as the moon rises. The stream no longer flows from the spring. Since the grove is used only as a camp for the night when the Nishinam are on their seasonal migration, there are no signs of previous camps .) ( Enter from right, at end of day's march, women, old men, and Shaman , the women bending under their burdens of camp gear and damage .) ( Enter from left youths carrying fish-spears and large fish .) ( Appear, coming down the hillside , Red Cloud and the hunters, many carrying meat .) ( The various repeated characters, despite differences of skin garmenting and decoration, resemble their prototypes of the prologue .) Red Cloud

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Hunters

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Youths

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Women

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( The women and youths and hunters, as they reach the camp-site, begin throwing down their burdens .) Dew-Woman ( Discovering the dry spring .)

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Shaman ( Stilling the excitement that is immediate on the discovery .)

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Dew-Woman ( Looking to Red Cloud .)

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War Chief

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( He picks out hunters by name .)

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( At a wave of the War Chief's hand the three hunters depart in different directions .) Dew-Woman

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Red Cloud ( Quietly .)

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Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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War Chief

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( From right Deer Foot runs in .) Deer Foot ( Breathless .)

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War Chief

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Deer Foot

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People

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Red Cloud

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Deer Foot ( Puzzled .)

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War Chief

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Red Cloud

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War Chief

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( He turns upon People, indicating most commands in gestures as he prepares the ambush, making women and boys conceal all the camp outfit and game, and disposing the armed hunters among the ferns and behind trees till all are hidden .) Elk Man and Antelope ( Running down hillside .)

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( War Chief sends them to hiding places .) War Chief ( Preparing himself to hide .)

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Red Cloud ( Stepping into shadow of big tree where he remains inconspicuous though dimly visible .)

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( The sound of singing is heard, and War Chief conceals himself .) ( Sun Man , with handful of followers, singing to ease the tedium of the march, enter from right. They are patently survivors of a wrecked exploring ship, making their way inland .) SONG OF THE SEA CUNIES Sun Men

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Sun Man ( Who alone carries a musket, and who is evidently captain of the wrecked company .)

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( He glances about .)

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First Sea Cuny ( Espying Red Cloud , and pointing .)

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Sun Man ( Making the universal peace-sign, arm raised and out, palm-outward .)

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Red Cloud ( Advancing out of the shadow .)

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud ( With conviction .)

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( With absolute conviction .)

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Sun Man ( With a shrug of shoulders .)

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man ( Nonplussed for the moment, glances at his musket, then smiles .)

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( War Chief and the Hunters leap suddenly from ambush . Sun Man warns Sea Cunies not to resist . War Chief captures and holds Sun Man , and Sea Cunies are similarly captured and held. Women and boys appear, and examine prisoners curiously .) War Chief

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( Deer Foot and Elk Man seize the Sun Man .) Red Cloud ( To Shaman .)

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War Chief ( Sneering .)

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Shaman ( Deflected to partisanship of War Chief by War Chief's success .)

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War Chief

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Sun Man ( Shrugging shoulders .)

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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( Glancing about .)

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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( Looking sharply at Red Cloud's skin garments .)

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( Holding out arm so that Red Cloud may examine the cloth of the coat .)

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Shaman ( Breaking in boastfully .)

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Sun Man

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( Pointing toward moon .)

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( He turns suddenly to Red Cloud , drawing sheath-knife and passing it to him .)

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( Red Cloud examines knife, understands immediately its virtue, cuts easily a strip of skin from his skin garment, and is overcome with the wonder of the knife .) War Chief ( Exhibiting a long bow .)

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( A huge bear has come out among the bushes far up the hillside .) Sun Man

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War Chief

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Sun Man ( Pointing to bear .)

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War Chief ( Dubiously .)

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( Sun Man , shaking of from his arms the hands of Deer Foot and Elk Man , aims musket and fires. The bear falls, and the Nishinam betray astonishment and awe .) ( At a quick signal from War Chief, Sun Man is again seized . War Chief takes away musket and examines it .) Shaman

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People

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Shaman

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People

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War Chief ( Exhibiting musket .)

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Shaman

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Red Cloud

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Shaman

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War Chief

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( To Hunters .)

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( Hunters obey, urging and thrusting the Sea Cunies into a compact group behind the Sun Man .) Red Cloud

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Shaman

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People

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( War Chief arranges Hunters with their bows and arrows for the killing .) Sun Man ( To Red Cloud .)

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Red Cloud ( Indicating War Chief .)

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Sun Man ( Addressing the Nishinam .)

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( As final preparation for the killing is completed, and as Hunters are arranged with their bows and arrows , Sun Man sings .) SONG OF THE BROTHERS Sun Man

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Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

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( At signal from War Chief the arrows are discharged, and repeatedly discharged. The Sun Men fall. The War Chief himself kills the Sun Man .) ( In what follows , Red Cloud and Dew-Woman stand aside, taking no part . Red Cloud is depressed, and at the same time is overcome with the wonder of the knife which he still holds .) War Chief ( Brandishing musket and drifting stiff-legged, as he sings, into the beginning of a war dance of victory .)

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( The dance grows wilder .) ( After a time the hillside begins to darken .) Dew-Woman ( Pointing to the moon entering eclipse .)

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( In consternation the dance is broken off for the moment .) Shaman ( Reassuringly .)

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War Chief ( Recovering courage and resuming dance .)

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People ( Resuming dance .)

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( As darkness increases the dance grows into a saturnalia, until complete darkness settles down and hides the hillside .)
ACT II ( A hundred years have passed, when the hillside and the Nishinam in their temporary camp are revealed. The spring is flowing, and Women are filling gourds with water . Red Cloud and Dew-Woman stand apart from their people .) Shaman ( Pointing .)

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People

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War Chief ( Boastingly .)

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Shaman

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People

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War Chief

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People

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Shaman ( Derisively .)

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Red Cloud

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Old Man ( Fumbling in his skin pouch for the cloth .)

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War Chief ( Interrupting braggartly .)

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Old Man ( Producing cloth .)

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( Old Man hands piece of cloth to Red Cloud .) Red Cloud ( Admiring cloth .)

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Shaman

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Red Cloud

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People ( Encouraged by Shaman and War Chief to drown out Red Cloud's voice .)

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Red Cloud ( Shaking his head .)

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( Red Cloud beckons one after another of the young hunters to speak .) First Hunter

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Second Hunter

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Third Hunter

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Fourth Hunter

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Red Cloud

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War Chief ( Dancing stiff-legged .)

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People ( As they join in the war dance .)

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( The dance grows wilder, the Shaman and War Chief encouraging it, while Red Cloud and Dew-Woman stand sadly at a distance .) ( Rifle shots ring out from every side. Up the hillside appear Sun Men firing rifles. The Nishinam reel to death from their dancing .) ( Red Cloud shields Dew-Woman with one arm about her, and with the other arm makes the peace-sign .) ( The massacre is complete , Dew-Woman and Red Cloud being the last to fall . Red Cloud , wounded, the sole survivor, rests on his elbow and watches the Sun Men assemble about their leader .) ( The Sun Men are the type of pioneer Americans who, even before the discovery of gold, were already drifting across the Sierras and down into Oregon and California with their oxen and great wagons. With here and there a Rocky Mountain trapper or a buckskin-clad scout of the Kit Carson type, in the main they are backwoods farmers. All carry the long rifle of the period .) ( The Sun Man is buckskin-clad, with long blond hair sweeping his shoulders .) Sun Men ( Led by Sun Man .)

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Sun Man ( Glancing about at the slain and at the giant forest .)

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Red Cloud

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( The attention of all is drawn to Red Cloud , and they group about him and the Sun Man .) Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man ( Nodding to Red Cloud and addressing his own followers .)

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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Sun Man

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Red Cloud

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SONG OF THE PIONEERS Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

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Sun Man

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Sun Men

Contains 48 words in 2 sentences using 275 chars .

( The hillside begins to darken .) Red Cloud ( Faintly .)

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Sun Men ( As total darkness descends .)

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EPILOGUE Red Cloud

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( Light begins to suffuse the hillside, revealing Red Cloud far up the hillside in a commanding position on an output of rock .)

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( From every side a burst of voices .)

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( A band of Warriors appears on hillside .) Warriors

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( A band of Pioneers and Sea Explorers appears .) Pioneers and Explorers

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( A band of Husbandmen appear, bearing fruit and sheaves of grain and corn .) Husbandmen

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Red Cloud

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All Voices

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