Spoiler Alert for 1883 and Yellowstone season 5, episode 13, “Give the World Away”
Taylor Sheridan may have already revealed how the hit Neo-Western show will end, and Yellowstone season 5, episode 13, just made the Dutton Ranch prophecy more likely. Before Beth (Kelly Reilly), Kayce (Luke Grimes), and even John Dutton III (Kevin Costner) lived on the Yellowstone Ranch, their ancestors made a Northwestern journey from Texas to Montana in search of a better life. The 1883 Yellowstone story follows James (Tim McGraw) and Margaret (Faith Hill) Dutton as they travel across the plains to Montana in covered wagons with their children, Elsa (Isabel May) and John (Audie Rick).
After Elsa’s 1883 fate ends the Duttons’ journey, James meets a Crow Elder named Spotted Eagle (Graham Greene), who tells him he can settle in the Paradise Valley, an old Crow hunting area. However, he tells James that in seven generations, his people will rise and take the land back, to which the Dutton replies that they can have it. Families like the Duttons settling in the Western United States contributed to the displacement of Indigenous communities in the United States. However, the Yellowstone prophecy suggests that the Dutton family tree will return the land to its people.
Kayce’s Yellowstone Season 5, Episode 13 Plan Backs Up The Dutton Ranch Ending Prophecy
Kayce Asks About Selling Something For $1 In “Give the World Away”
Yellowstone season 5, episode 13, supports the theory that the Duttons will return the ranch to Montana’s Indigenous population. As Beth auctions off everything at the ranch to buy the siblings more time, Kayce devises a plan to save the ranch. He hints that his plan could include giving the ranch away, as suggested by the episode’s title, “Give the World Away.” Kayce asks Beth a hypothetical question about what something costs if given away. While episode 13 doesn’t reveal what Kayce is planning, Beth catches on and seems on board.
Beth questions her brother’s plan but only asks who, suggesting that the ranch is indeed going to someone else and that Kayce has a candidate in mind.
In the Yellowstone penultimate finale, Kayce is digging into the logistics of selling the ranch for practically nothing, asking Beth what would happen if he were to buy her $300,000 car for $1. When Beth asks her little brother who he plans on selling it to, he smiles and tells her to give him a day to be sure. Beth questions her brother’s plan but only asks who, suggesting that the ranch is indeed going to someone else and that Kayce has a candidate in mind. Beth even gives the plan her seal of approval by kissing her brother’s cheek.
Why The Dutton Ranch Prophecy Is The Best Way To End Yellowstone
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By giving the ranch to the Broken Rock tribe, Kayce can restore his family’s land to Montana’s Native people and fulfill the Yellowstone prophecy. Kayce could bestow the land to tribal chairman Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), and Kayce’s “counting coup” threat in Yellowstone proves that the youngest Dutton has formed a powerful alliance with Mo Brings Plenty (Moses Brings Plenty) and fully supports the Broken Rock tribe. Yellowstone season 5, part 2, also shows Kayce is ready to walk away from the ranch and the danger of protecting it, choosing his family over the Dutton legacy.
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1883‘s prophecy is the best way to end Yellowstone season 5 because it would bolster the show’s Native American population within a genre that has traditionally misrepresented the Native populations it includes in its Western stories. For decades, Hollywood misrepresented Native American culture and customs in the media, but empowering representations like those in Sheridan’s works help reverse ignorant misconceptions. The largest piece of land in Montana returning to its people would be the cherry on the cake of Sheridan’s neo-Western, empowering the tribal community and sparking conversations about how it should have been theirs to begin with.