:12:01
What happened?
How come they gotta get off?
:12:04
We lived here 50 years, same place.
:12:07
Everybody's gotta get off.
Everybody's leaving. Going out to California.
:12:12
Your folks, my folks, everybody's folks.
:12:15
Everybody except me. I ain't getting off!
:12:19
- Who done it?
- Listen.
:12:21
That's some of what done it.
The dusters. They started it, anyways.
:12:26
Blowin' like this year after year.
:12:29
Blowin' the land away.
Blowin' the crops away!
:12:32
Blowin' us away now.
:12:36
Are you crazy?
:12:38
Some say I am.
You wanna hear how it happened?
:12:41
That's what I'm asking you, ain't it?
:12:43
Well... the way it happens,
:12:46
the way it happened to me...
:12:49
A man come one day...
:12:51
After what them dusters done to the land,
the tenant system don't work no more.
:12:56
They don't break even,
much less show profit.
:12:58
One man and a tractor
can handle 12 or 14 of these places.
:13:02
You just pay him a wage
and take all the crop.
:13:04
Yeah, but we couldn't do
on any less than what our share is now.
:13:09
The children ain't getting enough
to eat as it is. And they're so ragged,
:13:14
we'd be ashamed if everybody else's
children wasn't the same.
:13:17
I can't help that. I got my orders.
They told me to tell you to get off.
:13:21
- That's what I'm tellin' you.
- You mean get off my own land?
:13:24
- Don't go to blaming me. It ain't my fault.
- Whose fault is it?
:13:27
You know who owns the land.
Shawnee Land and Cattle Company.
:13:31
- Who's Shawnee Land and Cattle Company?
- Nobody. It's a company.
:13:34
They got a president. They got
somebody who knows what a shotgun's for!
:13:39
Oh, son, it ain't his fault
because the bank tells him what to do.
:13:42
- All right. Where's the bank?
- Tulsa. What's the use of picking on him?
:13:46
He ain't nothing but the manager. He's half
crazy trying to keep up with his orders.
:13:51
- Then who do we shoot?
- Brother, I don't know.
:13:54
If I did, I'd tell you.
I just don't know who's to blame.
:13:58
I'm right here to tell you, mister: There ain't
nobody gonna push me off my land!