"I will, somehow. The Creator himself will help me." Sasha told her. "And Big Knife is in trouble for trying to cause an uprising. Where did he go Naomie? I know you know as you are his lover."
Naomie smiled sarcastically, "Aw, so finally you know! It took you long enough to figure it out."
"Yes, I know. You are right. But I have the habit of trusting people and expecting the truth."
"That is good. I have wanted to tell you many times about that. But I am glad you know." She walked around her now. "But you are wrong. The council will do nothing to me."
"How can you be so certain?" Sasha asked with a sneer.
"I am pregnant with Big Knife's child, that is how. They will not kill an unborn, innocent child. That is where I went to see him and tell him of his child."
Sasha went white with disgust. Not only had she betrayed her and lied to her, now she flaunted her love affair with Big Knife at her.
Somehow her feelings for Big Knife seemed to ebb away like a bad dream. Even she was shocked at how easily she could dismiss them both from her life.
Naomie laughed at her white looking face now. "Poor Sasha. I cannot help that he fell in love with me and wanted me so. I could not refuse what I myself wanted. Yes, we were lovers. And one day I will be his wife."
"Good, evil deserves evil." Sasha told her. "You disgust me."
"If you had not been so prudish, he might have loved you too."
"I no longer desire him in any way." Sasha told her.
"Why did he leave here?"
"He will lead his own tribe now." Naomie declared boldly. "He will rid us of the blue coats, and he will be a hero to his people. Better for your father to have died now, than in shame when Big Knife wipes out the blue coats from this Valley and takes his people away to the high country."
"There are too many blue coats, he will not win this war."
"Go home Sasha, we have nothing to say to one another." Naomie told her.
"You will leave this camp forever Naomie as you are no longer part of this tribe." Sasha declared. "The elders of the tribe will shame you and make you leave. You are right, they will not kill you, but they will make you leave." Sasha told her and stalked out of her tepee.
"Big Knife will come and take me away. Of that I am certain." She yelled at her.
Sasha turned to look at her. "They are after Big Knife now. He will face the elders and maybe even my brother."
"Nakota is a coward. Big Knife will show them all. He is strong and not afraid to face the blue coats."
"The soldiers are stronger in number and have the guns to win any war." Sasha told her. "Has he not learned this after all this time. How many must die before he understands that the blue coats are here to stay. Their weapons are stronger than ours. Custer will kill t
hem all."
Naomie raised her chin, "Even if we die, we will raise our heads in victory, as we will not die cowards to our people."
"The only ones that will survive are the ones that fight for peace, Naomie, not war."
"You have listened to your cowardly father and brother too long. You speak up for the blue coats that have murdered our people and taken away our honor."
Sasha came toward her, "Do not speak of my father again Naomie, for it is his blood on your hands, and you will never wash it off."
"For his death I am sorry, but it is good that our people will raise up and fight once more."
"You sound like Big Knife now. I am sorry for you Naomie, for one day justice will prevail. You are a beautiful woman, but you have no sense."
"It is you that I should feel sorry for. For your innocence is like a child. Don't you realize we will never have peace until we wipe the blue coats from the face of the earth?" Naomie shouted.
"Old ways die hard for the ignorant." Sasha told her. "The blue coats will not be defeated Naomie, there are too many of them, and more will come to replace their dead. It is time to learn to live with them in peace. Put away the old notions, learn from them and hope they learn from us."