Ougebmat 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.

[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.

[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.