Chomina Quotes in Black Robe (1991)

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.

Chomina: Tell me, Blackrobe, what does your dream say now?

Father Laforgue: I am too weary for dreams.

Chomina: You must. If you do not, how do you see the way ahead?

Father Laforgue: Put my trust in God. He will guide me all the way to paradise.

Chomina: But you have not seen this paradise. No man should welcome death. This world is a cruel place, but it is the sunlight. I am sorry I leave now.

[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!

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.

Father Laforgue: When I die, Chomina, I will go to paradise. Let me baptise you so I may take you with me.

Chomina: Why would I go to your paradise? Are my people there? My woman? My boy? There's only blackrobes.

Chomina: Tomorrow do not cry out.

Daniel: If we do cry out, will they stop (torturing us)?

Chomina: No, they will not stop. But if you cry out when you die, they will have your spirit.

[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.