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My name is Ivy Camille Manybeads Tso,

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and this is Dinétah, also known
as the Navajo Nation.

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My family can trace our history

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to 85 generations with this land.

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I began working on this film to document
our community\'s struggle

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against resource colonization.

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Along the way,

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I found that we are not alone.

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This is a story of indigenous people
protecting and rebuilding.

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Multinational corporations like Glencore,

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Peabody and BHP have been extracting
hundreds

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of billions of dollars in profit.

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It is happening in nearly
every country on Earth.

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First came colonization.

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Now corporations are stealing
the resources from under our feet.

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This extraction is global,

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but so is our resistance.

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Water is life!

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Water for our children!

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From Dinétah, I connected
with indigenous people

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in Colombia, the Philippines and Mexico
who are uniting to protect the Earth.

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We are appealing to public opinion,

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changing laws, and putting
our bodies on the line.

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This film is part of that resistance.

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This corral a year ago was pretty
much full right in this area,

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and now it\'s just a few head.

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Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve...

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Thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen. OK.

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I just want to make sure
saw a bunch of crows flying around.

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The water that\'s pumped by the mine,
we feel it here

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because the springs are gone

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30 miles round trip, to haul water.

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So between the horse and the sheep,

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It\'s an extra challenge.

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Our ancestors have inhabited

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this area for a long period of time.

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When we listened to their stories.

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They say that we came to this land
in our emergence.

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Meaning that we came from
another world that was gone.

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Maybe it was destroyed through
the forces of nature.

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They say that the world that they came into
was surrounded with water.

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There was water everywhere.

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And so all that water drained,

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eventually ran to the ocean.

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marie gladue is descended
from a matriarchal line

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who have fought for this land.

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Her mother and my grandmother are sisters.

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This whole Black Mesa region

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is a female mountain that\'s lying
within the interior landscape of Dinétah

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Dinétah means Navajo land, or

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I guess you could say it\'s really like
you\'re among Navajo people.

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When you\'re in it, paying attention
and living it,

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you realize that the land is alive.

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This is why people

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said this is a sacred landscape,
and we will be here to defend her.

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For ourselves, you know,
the best way to

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as native people to hold on to a lot of

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our ancestral ways, is to stay here
and live our ancestral way of life.

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Just a quarter mile,
maybe three eights of a mile

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from where we stand
is where my grandmother

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that\'s where she\'s buried, Baahyazhi.

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We still go to that place, for strength,

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for guidance.

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This place will always be
a part of our lives.

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This is who we are, and this is
the only place we want to be.

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For thousands of years,

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we shepherded the wealth and beauty
of this land.

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Before colonization,

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we lived in balance with nature.

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In 1966, Peabody, the world\'s
largest private coal company,

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created a tribal council to sell
them the mining rights,

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forcing 20,000 people out of
what was left of our home.

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Many of the largest corporations in the world

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have taken their profits from our land,

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BHP and Peabody mined coal.

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Others extracted oil, gas, water,

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and uranium.

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We don\'t know what
contracts were made.

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All we understand is that it brought
a lot of employment to the area.

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The devastation didn\'t really surface

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until years later.

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The water was actually used
to transport coal

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from the state of Arizona
to the neighboring states.

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I don\'t know how many

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hundreds of gallons of water
was used annually,

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but the mine has been in existence
for about 40 years.

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The land, it\'s not the same.

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The aquifers, and the landscape,
the wildlife,

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and just the way the life cycle was,
that it was like out here,

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will never be the same.

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Younger generations are returning to Dinétah,

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building unity and resistance.

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This lake. It\'s called Morgan Lake.

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It was built to cool down the power plant,

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which is one of the dirtiest coal-fired
power plants in the country.

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They\'ve extracted uranium,

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they extract oil and gas by fracking,
they extract coal.

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All around, there is this resource colonization,
this resource extraction.

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An average person in Phenix
uses about 200 gallons

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per day, as far as
domestic use

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and a person in Big Mountain,

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they use about twelve gallons a day.

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You know, corporations and
dirty politicians, you know,

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they\'re all about money. You know,
they want money, money, money, money.

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I\'d like for these guys to

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have them try to eat money, you know,
and see what happens to them.

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Have them drink oil, or drink water
that\'s contaminated with oil, you know?

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I don\'t think they\'re going to last.

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The way I was taught,

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we\'re put here not for
ourselves to, like,

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thrive on all these things or anything,
but for us to make this land better,

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and you know, for us as Diné people,
that\'s what matters, you know.

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We want to fight, we want to resist.

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Reclaim our power, reclaim our future,
reclaim our spaces

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because unfortunately, us not being on our
homeland is allowing industry to come in

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and take things a lot faster.

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Trying to take things out
from underneath us.

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There\'s so many indigenous communities,
there\'s so many people of color

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that have to face these realities
every day.

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And, you know, we stand in solidarity with them.

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Phenix, Tucson,

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Las Vegas and Los Angeles glow

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with stolen power.

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Diné families face water shortages,

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polluted land, and harassment
from the government.

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Now put those lambs inside?

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Where are the bottles?

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They want the land from me.

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They want to take away my livelihood,

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the sheep and horses.

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These are the ways they
try to intimidate us,

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if a horse roams close
to the house,

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they say we have
to pay a fee.

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For a long time,

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people were terrorized
with livestock impoundments,

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having their livestock
being forcibly taken away.

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And of course, that\'s traumatic
for people, you know?

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They\'ve done things where they\'ve brought

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big trailers out here, and have literally,
you know, forced people into their homes,

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you know, with like, you know, guns.

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For someone to point
guns at elders and

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tell them to back up,
and for them

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to just come in here and take
what\'s theirs,

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you know,

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it\'s just not right.

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And you know, it really hurts that,

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that people do that, you know?

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We need to,

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we as a people need to just like
go back to, this is what I mean,

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go back to these, some of these things
that our own families used to do.

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Me, I\'m,

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I\'m trying to keep a few head of sheep going,
you know, and I feel like that\'s

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a little bit of a resistance,
you know, that\'s my resistance.

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Glencore is one of the wealthiest
corporations in the world.

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Since buying out BHP,

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they own Cerrejón,
the largest mine in Latin America.

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It’s a grim fact for the communities,

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coal means death for us.

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Just as it creates light there,

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for us it creates darkness.

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We live in darkness, in order to give
light to other countries.

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Fuerza de Mujeres Wayúu
(Force of Wayúu Women),

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is the only alliance of indigenous
women that exists in Colombia.

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Those of us in the Fuerza de Mujeres
Wayúu movement,

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and our Afro-descendant comrades,

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are activist women directly
from the communities.

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I am pleased that you have come, Yasmin,
and that you’re our spokesperson.

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You are Wayúu and you
understand our suffering.

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Throughout these past 30 years,

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we’ve been victims of the most
disastrous large-scale mining,

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the multinational Cerrejón.

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Every day we receive the (coal) dust.

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We’re dying from being so close.

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How many kilometers is it from here?

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I’m not sure, less than 20 kilometers.

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In my community of Zahino,

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in the morning there’s a
very strong odor,

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and if we leave white clothes hanging,
it is black in the morning.

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It’s very ugly.

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We suffer a lot because of this.

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When it rains, we all get sick.

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Coal produced by the Cerrejón mine
is mostly shipped to Europe.

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About a third is sent to the U.S.

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and elsewhere in the Americas.

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The mine has taken 270 square miles

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and is larger than the city of Chicago.

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This is the friche,

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and the coconut rice.

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This is the white rice,

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Mondongo soup.

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This is my kitchen.

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Mrs. Eneida is a descendent of the village of
Roche Viejo, ancestral Roche.

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She was forced out of there
by the company,

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her house was knocked down without
giving her any compensation,

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and she was forced out of Chancleta in the
same way they forced her out of Roche.

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They took away our water,
and electricity.

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They took everything away
because we had to leave.

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One way or another,

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taking things away from us
to force us out.

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The multinational will banish or
dispossess, more and more,

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the indigenous Wayúu and
Afro-descendants,

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of their ancestral territory.

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In community meetings,
Wayúu and Afro-Colombians

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come together to learn and strategize.

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In the La Flora sector, which is where
the flocks and animals are raised,

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it’s no longer the same.

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Now the animals get sick.

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They’re causing destruction to
agricultural production.

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I think the problem really began
on August 9th.

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Because on August 9, 2001,

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we were uprooted from our town,
by fire and blood.

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That’s what happened.

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427 families, according to the
census, were uprooted.

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We were a community of producers,

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today we’re consumers.

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We’re consumers because of eviction,
because of forced eviction.

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In La Guajira, there is no drinkable water.

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All, almost all of these waters

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near the mutinational are polluted.

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And I want to finish here with the problem
of environmental damage,

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it really has been a big problem
because of pollution,

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because of the silica and dust.

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We openly and transparently recognize,

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the tremendous impact that we have,

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on the environment, on
the communities,

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and on the way of life in the region.

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Cerrejón has not, in its 30 years,
been sanctioned,

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for violating any law.

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We invest resources, far above

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what any other company in this country
invests in social responsibility.

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And I’m sorry that we don’t get any
recognition of that from you.

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Never, never have you said,

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“It’s great what you did with
reforestation in that area,”

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or “it’s great that you’re doing
this or that.”

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Someday we should do a workshop,

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on the positive impacts of Cerrejón.

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Yes, there’s a social responsibility program.
But where does that go?

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We see it as being in quotes,

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where are they going to move forward?

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It has happened to the communities
that something is approved,

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and later in the execution
it’s something else.

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So we want to be clear that the
agreements made are fulfilled,

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because we’ve been
talking since 2008,

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we made an agreement, and we
haven’t moved forward.

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So that’s the position, for that deception to end.

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The company doesn’t understand

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that suffering and that pain

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that’s caused by carrying out
these displacements.

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They say we’ll live better because
we used to live in a mud house,

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and now we live in housing complexes,
or in populated urban areas,

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with all the nice interiors
we didn’t have before.

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They don’t consider that in
the mud house,

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they had three meals
a day guaranteed,

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because they farmed,
because they hunted,

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because they were fishing,
and raising animals.

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Food autonomy was lost,

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but this situation isn’t
being told.

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It’s a pity that these are thin,

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part of... for that roof, it is about
knowing how to choose.

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It’s a thick cardon,
while this is thin.

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It’s weak.

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That’s right, this one’s thin,
but look,

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these are the parts that...

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with this they
form the roof.

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This is the heart
of the cactus.

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It’s the roof that’s
used ancestrally,

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it’s part of Wayúu culture.

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How did Cerrejón begin the
resettlement process here?

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With deception, betrayal, blackmail.

00:23:58.895 --> 00:24:01.022
With everything except for good things.

00:24:15.036 --> 00:24:17.164
Many people have left.

00:24:18.623 --> 00:24:23.086
The new resettlement is not
as peaceful as here,

00:24:23.253 --> 00:24:25.589
it doesn’t have the same
community as here.

00:24:29.342 --> 00:24:33.555
Why don’t these consumer countries
mine their own coal?

00:24:35.390 --> 00:24:38.977
Why do they have to
change our lives,

00:24:39.269 --> 00:24:40.854
in the name of materialism?

00:24:49.488 --> 00:24:51.656
It’s no longer about a message,
but rather,

00:24:51.907 --> 00:24:57.412
remove your mining operations
from ancestral territory,

00:24:58.580 --> 00:25:03.210
because we’re talking about the life
and blood of Mother Earth.

00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:10.133
In La Guajira,

00:25:10.133 --> 00:25:14.763
I saw the ways in which food,
culture, art and language

00:25:14.971 --> 00:25:17.057
are all forms of resistance.

00:25:45.001 --> 00:25:47.379
By learning practices
such as clay,

00:25:47.629 --> 00:25:50.924
we are able to begin
decolonizing ourselves.

00:25:58.056 --> 00:25:59.641
All right,

00:26:08.984 --> 00:26:11.653
Last week they went out and
mined the raw clay itself.

00:26:12.779 --> 00:26:16.616
They’re dissolving the clay into a very
very refined slurry,

00:26:17.033 --> 00:26:19.077
and they’re filtering out all the
small pebbles,

00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:21.246
and all the roots and

00:26:21.329 --> 00:26:23.331
little tiny plants and detritus.

00:26:25.125 --> 00:26:28.837
It’s one of the art forms that combines
a little bit of each element in nature.

00:26:30.046 --> 00:26:31.881
There’s an earth element,
there’s a water element.

00:26:33.008 --> 00:26:34.884
There’s a wood element
when you fire the pots,

00:26:35.010 --> 00:26:36.469
there’s a fire element.

00:26:37.387 --> 00:26:39.598
All the elements have to
be present during the

00:26:39.639 --> 00:26:41.308
process of making pottery.

00:26:42.392 --> 00:26:45.270
I know that you see in the end
is a bowl or a pipe,

00:26:45.812 --> 00:26:46.688
or a sculpture piece,

00:26:46.771 --> 00:26:49.691
but the actual process of
making it involves nature.

00:26:50.483 --> 00:26:52.944
That’s one of the amazing
things about working with

00:26:52.986 --> 00:26:54.863
traditional pottery, with clay.

00:26:58.325 --> 00:27:00.994
Mining your clay, doing the
whole process by hand,

00:27:01.661 --> 00:27:03.204
you’re a part of all that, so

00:27:04.331 --> 00:27:05.790
that’s what I like.

00:27:20.930 --> 00:27:22.849
Are you one of those special
Navajos that can

00:27:22.891 --> 00:27:24.601
flip over a fire bed with
her bare hands?

00:27:26.436 --> 00:27:29.606
You just handled that hot
piece of log here.

00:27:29.856 --> 00:27:31.274
This isn’t hot though.

00:27:31.691 --> 00:27:32.859
It wasn’t that hot?

00:27:33.026 --> 00:27:33.693
No.

00:27:35.028 --> 00:27:37.614
You just got to know which
ones to grab and where.

00:28:01.346 --> 00:28:03.640
On the Philippines island of Mindanao,

00:28:04.015 --> 00:28:09.104
BHP operates one mine, and Glencore
has attempted to open another.

00:28:25.787 --> 00:28:32.168
This is what I am going to say,

00:28:32.210 --> 00:28:37.465
Oh land of our birth, guide us.

00:28:37.590 --> 00:28:43.304
One thing we do not want is
to be forced to move,

00:28:43.388 --> 00:28:47.726
as this is our own land.

00:28:48.143 --> 00:28:57.193
Please do not hate our people, the Blaan,
and the land that we’ve inherited.

00:28:57.402 --> 00:29:07.162
Many children were born and
lived on this vast land.

00:29:07.579 --> 00:29:14.335
We will not leave the land where our ancestors
placed us. This is our plea to you.

00:29:14.461 --> 00:29:22.552
We feel good about you, you’ve listened
and treated us well,

00:29:22.719 --> 00:29:33.354
but we hope that you don’t have bad intentions
and will do us no harm.

00:29:36.357 --> 00:29:41.696
Look at this fruit,
it is so beautiful.

00:29:42.447 --> 00:29:44.073
We eat this.

00:29:46.826 --> 00:29:48.787
It’s very healthy.

00:29:51.623 --> 00:29:55.794
This gives us sustenance. Our food.

00:29:56.252 --> 00:29:58.671
The plants here are very nourishing.

00:29:59.464 --> 00:30:01.800
Until now, we still cultivate these.

00:30:02.091 --> 00:30:04.928
This has been here since their time.

00:30:05.678 --> 00:30:09.933
These were planted by our ancestors,
we inherited these from them.

00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:11.851
And until now they remain.

00:30:11.976 --> 00:30:14.062
This is ours.

00:30:16.189 --> 00:30:21.277
If we have ailments or sickness, we
use some of these as medicine.

00:30:21.778 --> 00:30:25.532
This one here is another kind of medicine.

00:30:25.657 --> 00:30:27.951
This one is for chronic coughing.

00:30:49.931 --> 00:30:51.266
This is their target.

00:30:52.225 --> 00:30:53.101
Open pit.

00:30:53.601 --> 00:30:58.231
Right up to that area beyond, Kimlawis.

00:30:58.898 --> 00:31:02.861
The central part of our area here,

00:31:03.111 --> 00:31:06.072
is where they plan to put a
waste water dam.

00:31:09.367 --> 00:31:14.706
I told our people here,

00:31:15.999 --> 00:31:21.713
to listen to their hearts before
allowing the mines in.

00:31:22.338 --> 00:31:24.340
We know what their intentions are.

00:31:24.382 --> 00:31:26.342
We know why they are here.

00:31:27.218 --> 00:31:28.970
To seize our resources.

00:31:30.054 --> 00:31:35.977
What I want, is to continue our way
of life here in our ancestral land.

00:31:37.353 --> 00:31:43.276
We do not want the land, our ancestral
domain to be destroyed.

00:31:43.484 --> 00:31:48.573
We are angered by the grave violations

00:31:48.948 --> 00:31:54.329
to the human rights of our indigenous
brothers and sisters,

00:31:54.704 --> 00:32:00.752
specifically those living in
the countryside.

00:32:04.464 --> 00:32:08.551
If we lose our ancestral domain,
we will lose our culture too.

00:32:08.635 --> 00:32:10.678
The Blaan tribe will disappear.

00:32:13.014 --> 00:32:16.893
This is why we will always
defend our ancestral land.

00:32:21.397 --> 00:32:27.487
The military and the police protect
the interests of Glencore Xstrata.

00:32:33.493 --> 00:32:38.039
Any leaders who are openly against
large-scale mining,

00:32:38.581 --> 00:32:41.751
are tagged as members of
New People’s Army (NPA),

00:32:41.834 --> 00:32:45.296
and are therefore harassed
and tortured.

00:32:46.714 --> 00:32:49.968
This is happening now,
especially in Bong Mal.

00:33:14.867 --> 00:33:17.537
At two o’clock at night,

00:33:18.162 --> 00:33:20.581
we heard military
six-by-six trucks.

00:33:23.167 --> 00:33:26.087
We didn’t think anything
of the six-by,

00:33:26.421 --> 00:33:29.924
because there’s a military
detachement at Datal Alyiong.

00:33:30.174 --> 00:33:34.470
I assumed the trucks were just
returning to the detachment.

00:33:38.641 --> 00:33:40.893
At 6:30 in the morning,

00:33:40.977 --> 00:33:42.520
I was at my house.

00:33:44.605 --> 00:33:46.691
Suddenly I heard shots
being fired.

00:33:49.777 --> 00:33:55.324
Each round that was fired
sounded like a chainsaw.

00:33:58.745 --> 00:34:00.747
I ran all the way here,

00:34:00.788 --> 00:34:04.250
my feet were barely
touching the ground.

00:34:08.463 --> 00:34:12.633
I remembered that Juvy and her children
were staying here for the night.

00:34:16.554 --> 00:34:20.099
I was standing here when
I saw four soldiers

00:34:20.767 --> 00:34:22.977
bring out Juvy’s body.

00:34:24.979 --> 00:34:28.649
So I started yelling and
running towards them.

00:34:32.570 --> 00:34:35.073
This is where Juvy slept, here.

00:34:35.448 --> 00:34:37.992
This was their house.
They were here.

00:34:39.535 --> 00:34:41.120
Then here,

00:34:41.621 --> 00:34:45.541
Jordan, this is where
they lay to sleep.

00:34:47.085 --> 00:34:49.712
Mark John was here,
Jordan was there

00:34:49.796 --> 00:34:53.132
They were killed here, outside.

00:34:55.635 --> 00:34:56.469
Then here,

00:34:57.220 --> 00:35:01.307
The soldiers moved their
lifeless bodies here.

00:35:11.317 --> 00:35:13.861
It has been two years,

00:35:14.362 --> 00:35:17.406
since the massacre of
the Capion family,

00:35:17.657 --> 00:35:22.870
but there still has
been no justice.

00:35:24.497 --> 00:35:25.915
They pointed their guns at me,

00:35:26.332 --> 00:35:28.126
held me by my jacket.

00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.044
I started shouting at them,

00:35:30.086 --> 00:35:32.004
“Don’t move the body
of the dead!”

00:35:33.214 --> 00:35:35.716
“Why are you here? You have
no business here,

00:35:35.758 --> 00:35:38.052
there are no fugitives here.

00:35:39.011 --> 00:35:40.721
No NPA (New People’s Army).

00:35:41.556 --> 00:35:43.266
This is our area here.”

00:35:46.435 --> 00:35:48.437
We are not part of the NPA.

00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.066
What we do here is we
farm the land.

00:35:52.233 --> 00:35:59.991
Right now there are warrants of arrest for more
than 50 of our men from Bong Mal.

00:36:00.449 --> 00:36:04.036
This is to prevent them from
opposing the mines,

00:36:04.120 --> 00:36:07.582
they automatically issue warrants for
those opposed to mining.

00:36:08.833 --> 00:36:10.418
Evict Now!

00:36:10.501 --> 00:36:12.378
Glencore Xstrata SMI!

00:36:12.461 --> 00:36:14.213
Evict Now!

00:36:14.255 --> 00:36:16.632
Glencore Xstrata SMI!

00:36:16.799 --> 00:36:18.551
Evict Now!

00:36:19.343 --> 00:36:21.095
And they were even
laughing,

00:36:22.555 --> 00:36:24.348
they were like addicts.

00:36:29.437 --> 00:36:31.939
Then I went straight
to my house.

00:36:32.690 --> 00:36:35.276
When I got there, people
started asking,

00:36:35.359 --> 00:36:37.445
“what happened up there?”

00:36:38.070 --> 00:36:41.908
I told them they killed Juvy and
her two children.

00:36:46.537 --> 00:36:48.706
When I was ambushed,

00:36:49.332 --> 00:36:53.085
3… 4 bullets hit me.

00:36:53.961 --> 00:36:58.382
One here on my knee, and
three on my back.

00:36:59.383 --> 00:37:03.346
My brother and father were killed
because of the mine.

00:37:03.638 --> 00:37:06.349
People who oppose are shot.

00:37:07.683 --> 00:37:11.437
All of us women,
around 50.

00:37:12.355 --> 00:37:15.024
We ran up there and screamed
at the soldiers.

00:37:15.691 --> 00:37:21.614
“You soldiers are treacherous, you included
the children. You killed the children.”

00:37:28.329 --> 00:37:34.335
We shouted at the soldiers for shooting
a child wearing a school uniform,

00:37:35.670 --> 00:37:40.800
and berated a military that killed children.

00:37:53.437 --> 00:37:56.607
One of my brothers is dead,

00:37:56.732 --> 00:37:57.984
Kitari Capion.

00:37:59.318 --> 00:38:01.195
Two people died in the
Freay massacre,

00:38:02.029 --> 00:38:03.489
Datu Calibo Lasib,

00:38:05.449 --> 00:38:07.326
Juvy Capion and her
two children.

00:38:09.787 --> 00:38:11.580
The Philippines is the deadliest

00:38:11.580 --> 00:38:13.582
country for defenders of
the Earth.

00:38:14.041 --> 00:38:17.628
In 20 years, nearly 300 have been killed.

00:38:18.879 --> 00:38:20.339
Elsewhere in Mindanao,

00:38:20.339 --> 00:38:24.677
some indigenous people have enlisted
with NPA, the armed wing

00:38:24.677 --> 00:38:27.054
of the Communist Party of the Philippines.

00:38:28.222 --> 00:38:30.349
While they also resist mining,

00:38:30.349 --> 00:38:35.021
there\'s no connection between New Peoples’
Army and the villages we visited.

00:38:35.855 --> 00:38:38.733
I wanted to see what
NPA represents

00:38:38.941 --> 00:38:41.277
to those who join.

00:38:42.445 --> 00:38:45.031
We put our troops in higher ground

00:38:45.781 --> 00:38:47.867
so that when enemy attacks,

00:38:48.993 --> 00:38:51.245
we are in a position to resist.

00:38:55.416 --> 00:38:57.626
This young comrades,

00:38:58.502 --> 00:39:01.922
do a sacrifice.

00:39:01.922 --> 00:39:04.842
They left their parents, their families,

00:39:05.176 --> 00:39:08.679
to serve the Filipino people,
so that\'s why they are here.

00:39:16.395 --> 00:39:19.231
We who are part of the armed
struggle in the mountains,

00:39:19.565 --> 00:39:23.402
work tirelessly for people who are
oppressed and persecuted.

00:39:27.073 --> 00:39:30.576
Whether you’re gay or lesbian,

00:39:30.868 --> 00:39:33.245
the revolutionary movement
accepts you.

00:39:33.704 --> 00:39:35.915
This is why I am here today.

00:39:37.166 --> 00:39:38.584
When we say revolution,

00:39:38.918 --> 00:39:42.129
this is to overthrow the power
of the landed elites,

00:39:42.713 --> 00:39:44.590
and the bourgeois capitalists.

00:39:45.383 --> 00:39:46.717
And of course,

00:39:47.218 --> 00:39:51.847
imperialism and mainly U.S. imperialism.

00:39:54.266 --> 00:40:00.523
Imperialism is how the U.S.
has a monopoly,

00:40:00.815 --> 00:40:03.067
here in the Phillipines.

00:40:05.861 --> 00:40:10.866
They take goods from here and
export it to other countries.

00:40:12.868 --> 00:40:18.749
Most of us here are in the
same class and are farmers.

00:40:19.250 --> 00:40:21.961
When they mine and
dig up the land,

00:40:22.128 --> 00:40:23.879
our environment will also
be destroyed.

00:41:43.250 --> 00:41:46.587
They better stop exploiting and oppressing
the Filipino people,

00:41:47.713 --> 00:41:52.718
because if they don’t, the revolutionary
movement and the people

00:41:53.385 --> 00:41:58.349
will also not stop opposing them until they
are thrown out of our country.

00:41:59.308 --> 00:42:01.268
So they better go home!

00:42:02.102 --> 00:42:09.026
That is our message to the foreign
and large-scale mining companies.

00:42:13.697 --> 00:42:15.074
We have a saying:

00:42:15.533 --> 00:42:19.662
what’s started in war,
should end in war.

00:42:21.288 --> 00:42:23.832
We have a right,
to fight back,

00:42:24.583 --> 00:42:26.210
and protect our rights.

00:42:37.888 --> 00:42:40.099
Look who’s here?

00:42:40.140 --> 00:42:41.225
Where’s your mother?

00:42:46.814 --> 00:42:50.943
If we ask for help from the NPA,
even our children will be killed

00:42:51.443 --> 00:42:53.612
because the children will
be tagged as NPA.

00:42:55.114 --> 00:42:58.951
And once the soldiers arrive
we will be massacred.

00:42:59.368 --> 00:43:02.121
That’s why we depend
only on our tribe.

00:43:02.204 --> 00:43:06.292
We will not ask for help
from anywhere.

00:43:06.750 --> 00:43:10.129
We are willing to die
here on our land.

00:43:11.380 --> 00:43:14.258
Indigenous resistance pushed
local government

00:43:14.258 --> 00:43:16.969
into a ban on open-pit mining,

00:43:16.969 --> 00:43:19.763
and forced Glencore out
of the Philippines.

00:43:20.222 --> 00:43:24.476
For the past 5 months, they’ve
halted their mining activities,

00:43:26.228 --> 00:43:29.273
and we have been able
to farm peacefully,

00:43:29.356 --> 00:43:31.567
make a living, feed
our children,

00:43:31.734 --> 00:43:34.194
who in turn can continue
their schooling.

00:43:36.572 --> 00:43:40.701
However, the harbingers of conflict
have slowly returned.

00:43:42.620 --> 00:43:44.038
We will not back down.

00:43:44.747 --> 00:43:46.373
We will just have
to be brave.

00:43:53.464 --> 00:43:56.383
Soon after Glencore was pushed
out of the Philippines,

00:43:56.884 --> 00:44:00.012
thousands of people
representing indigenous communities

00:44:00.012 --> 00:44:03.599
from around the world
gathered in solidarity at Standing Rock.

00:44:06.101 --> 00:44:10.189
It felt like we were healing
historical trauma.

00:44:43.180 --> 00:44:44.598
One of our prophecies say

00:44:44.598 --> 00:44:47.017
that there is going to be this black snake
that comes,

00:44:48.268 --> 00:44:51.814
and it is going to come to devour
the Earth and kill the Earth.

00:44:52.314 --> 00:44:55.025
So we must stand in front of that
black snake

00:44:55.609 --> 00:44:57.111
and stop it.

00:45:04.284 --> 00:45:07.871
Then they say, “and the
seventh generation rises up,

00:45:08.455 --> 00:45:10.708
to heal the hope and heal the people.”

00:45:14.545 --> 00:45:18.090
I see the people here from the
Yellow River that\'s contaminated.

00:45:18.799 --> 00:45:20.884
I see people from Pennsylvania.

00:45:20.884 --> 00:45:23.011
I see people from Flint, Michigan.

00:45:26.265 --> 00:45:28.517
And I look at everybody here,
and I\'m just like

00:45:30.477 --> 00:45:34.022
in awe of all the people
that came to help.

00:45:36.859 --> 00:45:39.194
It just amazes me the bravery of people,

00:45:40.154 --> 00:45:42.531
the commitment of people.

00:45:44.366 --> 00:45:45.659
Kim and Mikai

00:45:45.659 --> 00:45:47.953
were among the first to arrive.

00:45:49.913 --> 00:45:53.584
What brought me here, I think, it was just
letting our relatives here know

00:45:53.584 --> 00:45:57.463
that, you know, we do stand with them
in their fight against this pipeline.

00:45:58.672 --> 00:46:02.426
We have the same struggles and fight
back home within our Diné homeland.

00:46:05.053 --> 00:46:07.431
Historically and before contact,

00:46:08.140 --> 00:46:10.142
we were always protectors of the land,

00:46:10.225 --> 00:46:12.060
you know, we were always
protectors of the water.

00:46:13.103 --> 00:46:15.147
I think it’s just living up to
those responsibilities

00:46:15.147 --> 00:46:17.399
and to stand in solidarity.

00:46:17.399 --> 00:46:19.318
I wouldn\'t be anywhere else right now, you know.

00:46:22.196 --> 00:46:24.531
When we first got here,

00:46:24.531 --> 00:46:26.533
there was probably about eight of us.

00:46:30.662 --> 00:46:32.039
To get to this point, you know,

00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:34.917
where there are people from
around the world that are coming,

00:46:34.917 --> 00:46:37.211
you know, we never really knew
that it would get to this point.

00:47:00.359 --> 00:47:02.945
People are coming here
peacefully.

00:47:03.237 --> 00:47:05.531
People are coming here to pray.

00:47:05.531 --> 00:47:08.408
People are coming here in solidarity.

00:47:09.493 --> 00:47:11.995
We don\'t want this pipeline,
we don\'t want this poison.

00:47:17.584 --> 00:47:19.628
Every community is fighting this fight,

00:47:19.628 --> 00:47:21.547
and so it feels so familiar.

00:47:26.927 --> 00:47:30.889
The fight at Standing Rock
is an extension of what we fought in KXL

00:47:31.265 --> 00:47:34.852
because I was an organizer in KXL,
and I fought real hard for eight years.

00:47:35.602 --> 00:47:37.896
We came together and created alliances.

00:47:39.106 --> 00:47:41.108
So when the call from Standing Rock came,

00:47:41.108 --> 00:47:44.862
a lot of us moved over from KXL
into helping Standing Rock.

00:47:46.238 --> 00:47:49.074
The difference here is that
it\'s totally based on culture

00:47:49.741 --> 00:47:52.119
and ceremony, and the leadership of elders.

00:47:53.078 --> 00:47:55.038
They think that we\'re armed,

00:47:55.038 --> 00:47:59.167
they think that we are building bombs
and whatnot here.

00:47:59.167 --> 00:48:02.504
But the reality is, is what\'s driving us is prayer.

00:48:02.838 --> 00:48:06.925
We show up to actions with just ourselves,
with our prayers, with our voices.

00:48:07.759 --> 00:48:09.553
And that\'s power.

00:48:09.887 --> 00:48:13.724
That\'s the power that makes them shiver
in their little SWAT gears.

00:48:17.269 --> 00:48:19.855
We\'re here for the Earth,
you know, are here for the water.

00:48:20.564 --> 00:48:24.526
We\'re here to make sure that you\'re
not digging up any more of the ancestors.

00:48:30.824 --> 00:48:32.993
They want us to
react out of hatred for them.

00:48:35.621 --> 00:48:38.415
They want us to react
out of violence.

00:48:45.923 --> 00:48:49.509
We’re just proving that we’ll continue
to do this in a nonviolent, direct way.

00:49:05.150 --> 00:49:08.737
They may have all the guns
and the racist laws and and all that,

00:49:08.737 --> 00:49:12.449
but you know, we have us, you know,
we have our prayers and our love,

00:49:14.368 --> 00:49:16.161
which is bulletproof.

00:49:16.203 --> 00:49:17.829
That\'s our armor.

00:49:17.829 --> 00:49:18.956
That\'s our shield right there.

00:49:19.998 --> 00:49:22.834
What we\'re doing is we’re preparing
a younger generation

00:49:23.001 --> 00:49:27.381
with skills and methodology,
as they go back into our communities

00:49:27.714 --> 00:49:31.385
to continue the message that they got here,
the healing they got here,

00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:34.012
the directions,
the spiritual understandings.

00:49:35.263 --> 00:49:37.432
This is generational work.

00:49:50.487 --> 00:49:54.116
In Oaxaca, Zapotec
and other indigenous communities

00:49:54.116 --> 00:49:58.203
have fought against land theft and over
400 mining projects.

00:49:59.037 --> 00:50:02.499
Now, a new energy business
is displacing communities.

00:50:10.841 --> 00:50:13.218
Every animal is wise.

00:50:24.855 --> 00:50:28.483
When those birds start
making noises,

00:50:28.567 --> 00:50:33.071
it’s because the rain is coming,
it’ll soon be the rainy season.

00:50:36.658 --> 00:50:41.371
And when another type
of bird sings,

00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:48.545
I can tell that within an hour or two,
the wind will stop.

00:51:01.349 --> 00:51:03.060
Every bird gives me a sign.

00:51:04.686 --> 00:51:06.271
I understand their
language.

00:51:29.878 --> 00:51:32.047
This all started in the 1980’s

00:51:32.130 --> 00:51:37.969
when around the world there
began to be anxiety about

00:51:38.095 --> 00:51:41.306
finding alternative forms of
electricity generation.

00:51:43.934 --> 00:51:49.731
So, in 1994, they started to
measure this wind.

00:51:53.652 --> 00:51:58.156
Back then, there were 5 levels of
wind electricity generation.

00:51:59.825 --> 00:52:02.536
When they did the analysis in the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec,

00:52:02.661 --> 00:52:05.580
the wind levels reached
level 6 and level 7.

00:52:06.581 --> 00:52:10.418
They called this the “Wind El Dorado.”

00:52:11.378 --> 00:52:16.091
That’s when the Mexican government
started giving away our territory.

00:52:17.676 --> 00:52:20.554
These lands give tomato, corn,
watermelon, melon.

00:52:20.971 --> 00:52:24.432
Any crop you put in there
it will produce.

00:52:24.558 --> 00:52:26.518
The government says
our land is useless.

00:52:26.560 --> 00:52:27.978
They are useless.

00:52:28.019 --> 00:52:30.438
Because this is the land from
which we live.

00:52:30.522 --> 00:52:34.651
People live here. From this earth comes
what they need to survive.

00:52:45.954 --> 00:52:50.917
One day they came and told us
they would put up a fence,

00:52:52.127 --> 00:52:56.923
and told us we should sign a contract
for 1,000 pesos ($55 dollars),

00:52:57.090 --> 00:53:00.177
for 30 years, in a big book.

00:53:02.512 --> 00:53:07.434
When they started to write
out the receipt,

00:53:07.726 --> 00:53:11.563
it said that the day I die,
they’ll keep the land.

00:53:13.064 --> 00:53:18.028
Neither my wife nor my son
will have a right to it.

00:53:21.406 --> 00:53:24.117
That’s when we realized

00:53:24.159 --> 00:53:28.371
the shamelessness of
what was happening,

00:53:28.830 --> 00:53:33.168
and the rats that they were.

00:53:34.544 --> 00:53:38.673
They’re rotting the land, they’re
ruining the animals.

00:53:53.355 --> 00:53:58.318
They made these contracts with people
who don’t speak Spanish.

00:53:59.402 --> 00:54:03.740
They don’t tell them that once
the project is installed,

00:54:04.115 --> 00:54:07.744
they’ll no longer be able to move
freely on their land.

00:54:09.037 --> 00:54:11.957
Now we have nearly
2,000 wind turbines.

00:54:12.916 --> 00:54:17.587
It has harmed the communities, caused
conflicts between communities.

00:54:18.338 --> 00:54:21.258
It’s also a contradiction that the
township of Juchitán,

00:54:21.424 --> 00:54:24.761
where all these turbines
are installed,

00:54:24.970 --> 00:54:29.224
doesn’t have a single kilowatt of
electricity for the community.

00:54:30.767 --> 00:54:33.895
So there are no benefits.

00:55:30.076 --> 00:55:32.996
We’ve seen in other towns

00:55:33.538 --> 00:55:37.917
that no, it’s not true that wind
projects bring benefits

00:55:37.959 --> 00:55:39.461
and people realized that,

00:55:40.211 --> 00:55:43.006
and they decided to fight back
with a resounding “no.”

00:55:43.298 --> 00:55:46.676
Why? Because we live off the ocean.

00:55:48.720 --> 00:55:51.473
You see all the mangrove trees
we have over there.

00:55:52.349 --> 00:55:57.354
They protect the air, the fish,
and the shrimp.

00:55:59.314 --> 00:56:03.360
We want to have a clean sea,
a clean land.

00:56:04.235 --> 00:56:07.447
That’s why we’re in this fight.

00:56:15.538 --> 00:56:20.752
We’re gathered here with all our
comrades in the struggle.

00:56:21.544 --> 00:56:26.174
All of the Huave people, an indigenous people.

00:56:27.050 --> 00:56:30.762
Our mayor, now former mayor,

00:56:30.970 --> 00:56:34.391
had received 20 million pesos,

00:56:34.891 --> 00:56:38.853
as rent for use of the land.

00:56:39.396 --> 00:56:40.522
Meetings were held,

00:56:40.855 --> 00:56:43.441
without the majority
of the people.

00:56:44.067 --> 00:56:45.735
So the day they arrived,

00:56:45.860 --> 00:56:48.279
since they already paid off
the authorities,

00:56:48.863 --> 00:56:50.448
they thought nothing
would happen.

00:56:51.950 --> 00:56:53.660
When they entered
the sandbar,

00:56:54.577 --> 00:57:00.166
the company officials began telling the
people fishing there to leave.

00:57:02.043 --> 00:57:05.672
That until further notice, they could
no longer enter the sandbar.

00:57:06.631 --> 00:57:09.926
That’s when people woke up.

00:57:10.677 --> 00:57:12.262
The town rose up.

00:57:13.680 --> 00:57:15.807
They arrested 9 fishermen that time.

00:57:16.933 --> 00:57:19.769
That was the first confrontation
with the police.

00:57:21.938 --> 00:57:24.315
The people organized.

00:57:25.358 --> 00:57:31.072
We shut down the entire highway with
tree branches and other things.

00:57:31.865 --> 00:57:35.785
There were several attempts to
assassinate our leaders,

00:57:35.994 --> 00:57:39.414
they threatened us with machetes,
guns, shot their weapons.

00:57:40.707 --> 00:57:44.377
They’ve done many things
to stop our fight,

00:57:45.336 --> 00:57:49.632
but everywhere, people were
willing to die.

00:57:49.799 --> 00:57:51.634
To die, to fight.

00:57:53.052 --> 00:57:56.181
All the communities around the
lagoon united

00:57:56.389 --> 00:57:58.975
to defend the Santa Teresa sandbar.

00:58:03.396 --> 00:58:06.191
People felt very happy,

00:58:06.691 --> 00:58:09.360
to have rescued this ocean.

00:58:12.071 --> 00:58:15.492
Sorry, I’m getting emotional.

00:59:02.121 --> 00:59:04.958
A group of students
founded the radio,

00:59:05.208 --> 00:59:09.671
to inform people in their
mother tongue,

00:59:09.963 --> 00:59:13.716
Diidxazá or Zapotec, which we
speak in Juchitán.

00:59:24.894 --> 00:59:27.313
Together with other communities,

00:59:27.772 --> 00:59:32.318
we’re fighting to defend the territory
of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

00:59:35.196 --> 00:59:40.076
This is the second time that we as indigenous
peoples have been invaded.

00:59:40.618 --> 00:59:44.872
The first time was 500 years ago, when
the Spanish invaded us,

00:59:45.540 --> 00:59:48.710
and now, there’s a
low-intensity war

00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:52.463
justified by mitigating
global warming.

00:59:53.798 --> 00:59:56.968
I’m from here.
I was born here.

00:59:57.760 --> 01:00:02.181
My mother, grandmother, and
my ancestors are buried here.

01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:04.225
So why are they
trying to...

01:00:04.767 --> 01:00:06.102
make us leave?

01:00:06.686 --> 01:00:07.812
I mean....

01:00:19.991 --> 01:00:22.410
I believe we have rights.

01:00:24.829 --> 01:00:26.831
We have the right to fight,

01:00:27.332 --> 01:00:29.375
to defend what we are,

01:00:31.586 --> 01:00:33.129
and what we want to be.

01:00:34.297 --> 01:00:38.301
They’re attacking our
food sovereignty,

01:00:38.801 --> 01:00:40.094
against our health,

01:00:40.470 --> 01:00:43.556
against our way of life as
indigenous peoples.

01:01:28.309 --> 01:01:33.815
We can’t conceive of existence
outside the territory,

01:01:34.107 --> 01:01:37.360
because of how we live
our culture here.

01:01:40.154 --> 01:01:42.573
With private wind projects,

01:01:43.032 --> 01:01:45.076
we lose control of land,

01:01:45.201 --> 01:01:47.495
the social problems increase,

01:01:47.620 --> 01:01:49.664
and we’re the ones who
have to live with it.

01:02:16.107 --> 01:02:17.734
My breath takes hold

01:02:17.775 --> 01:02:20.027
and eyes with water from
the sea are tears

01:02:20.069 --> 01:02:22.488
that when crying move
with feeling.

01:02:25.324 --> 01:02:28.619
From the tree I bring lament
when life is stolen from it

01:02:28.745 --> 01:02:32.165
I’m the jungle destroyed
the river turned desert

01:02:33.583 --> 01:02:37.295
and the cry of a town, dead
from excessive ambition

01:02:39.255 --> 01:02:40.923
The past...

01:02:42.008 --> 01:02:42.759
is not today

01:02:42.842 --> 01:02:44.343
today we are what
has happened

01:02:44.385 --> 01:02:47.555
and the river murdered,
death is also what I am.

01:02:48.973 --> 01:02:52.226
I will plant your creek with willow,
mango, and pochota

01:02:52.268 --> 01:02:55.313
and weave your broken soul
with threads of vine.

01:02:55.438 --> 01:02:58.608
I will tie with wood, the
earth of your mountains

01:02:58.733 --> 01:03:02.278
I’ll give myself one and many vices
and although the past will not return

01:03:02.361 --> 01:03:05.656
I want to cover in jungle
all the cane plantations.

01:03:22.757 --> 01:03:27.804
We have this territory because
our ancestors resisted.

01:03:28.888 --> 01:03:32.517
Besides being killed, massacred,
everything was taken away.

01:03:33.726 --> 01:03:37.313
Their religion was taken,
their language.

01:03:37.605 --> 01:03:41.067
Many things were taken, but they
also held on to many things too.

01:04:06.717 --> 01:04:08.386
The idea came up,

01:04:08.594 --> 01:04:13.307
”Why can’t we have a wind farm that
belongs to the community?”

01:04:15.768 --> 01:04:18.354
Not one that’s just set
up in the community,

01:04:18.396 --> 01:04:20.439
and all the benefits
go elsewhere.

01:04:20.481 --> 01:04:26.028
Rather, one that truly belongs
to the community.

01:04:37.957 --> 01:04:40.376
Wind power is cleaner and safer,

01:04:41.168 --> 01:04:43.087
but can and must be produced

01:04:43.087 --> 01:04:46.716
in partnership with communities,
without displacement.

01:04:52.471 --> 01:05:00.563
The idea isn’t for our community to simply
create and copy a private wind project.

01:05:01.981 --> 01:05:07.612
How will we transform it in a way
that can regenerate,

01:05:08.154 --> 01:05:12.366
regenerate our community, environment,
and our own culture.

01:05:15.703 --> 01:05:20.374
We were able to build consensus,

01:05:20.625 --> 01:05:26.339
and collectively design the
model that we want.

01:05:28.799 --> 01:05:34.013
The profits are used differently.

01:05:34.931 --> 01:05:41.312
They’re used to create social development
projects for the community,

01:05:42.104 --> 01:05:44.607
such as workers’ and artisans’
cooperatives.

01:05:46.734 --> 01:05:50.988
Another important aspect
is support of farmers,

01:05:51.447 --> 01:05:53.574
one of the most vulnerable groups.

01:05:55.743 --> 01:05:57.828
This is what the community wants,

01:05:58.037 --> 01:06:02.500
but the government is trying to
stop the community project.

01:06:05.628 --> 01:06:14.136
This community wind project is like the
other side of the wind resistance.

01:06:15.429 --> 01:06:21.060
It has really been a battle for
a community like ours,

01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:24.897
to be able to truly manage
our natural assets.

01:06:25.523 --> 01:06:28.067
We won’t give up.

01:06:28.693 --> 01:06:31.737
We don’t know where this
process will lead us,

01:06:31.821 --> 01:06:33.447
but we’ll keep going,

01:06:33.698 --> 01:06:34.949
as a community.

01:06:50.965 --> 01:06:53.050
After several decades of mining,

01:06:53.092 --> 01:06:57.555
Peabody Coal and BHP have
finally left Navajo Nation.

01:06:58.806 --> 01:07:04.603
We are still fighting to restore our home and society.

01:07:19.744 --> 01:07:21.495
Oh, this is the sheep.

01:07:23.789 --> 01:07:25.041
The teal sheep.

01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:50.816
A lot of the walls in this area

01:07:50.816 --> 01:07:52.777
are contaminated by uranium.

01:07:59.992 --> 01:08:00.868
This is sadly

01:08:00.868 --> 01:08:04.288
also the reason why our
cancer rates are so high.

01:08:47.706 --> 01:08:49.416
Does it get the message across?

01:08:49.750 --> 01:08:50.793
Don’t drink the water?

01:08:50.876 --> 01:08:51.669
Yeah.

01:08:56.715 --> 01:08:57.925
So this says

01:08:58.300 --> 01:09:00.261
”Tó Éí Náasco Béí Iná”

01:09:01.554 --> 01:09:03.013
Water is our future.

01:09:04.598 --> 01:09:05.349
Oh, over it?

01:09:05.349 --> 01:09:06.642
Over it, like that, yeah.

01:09:09.895 --> 01:09:11.939
Art is so healing,

01:09:11.939 --> 01:09:14.316
it\'s a huge part of indigenous culture.

01:09:16.610 --> 01:09:18.445
It\'s part of how we express ourselves,

01:09:18.445 --> 01:09:20.322
how we dance, how we sing, how we pray.

01:09:22.324 --> 01:09:25.202
If the people don\'t remember,
like the beauty of who we are,

01:09:25.286 --> 01:09:26.370
the beauty of

01:09:26.370 --> 01:09:29.206
not only our prayers and our ceremonies,
but just the beauty of this land

01:09:29.540 --> 01:09:32.710
and how it sustains us,
and just what we have left, you know,

01:09:32.793 --> 01:09:35.462
if they don\'t remember, you know,
the art will be there to remind them.

01:09:38.966 --> 01:09:42.511
We learn resistance from our
elders and each other.

01:09:43.762 --> 01:09:45.848
We will not back down.

01:09:58.402 --> 01:10:00.070
This isn\'t just about

01:10:00.988 --> 01:10:05.075
the fact that this is your
home in the physical sense,

01:10:06.368 --> 01:10:08.495
but it\'s home in the spiritual sense,

01:10:09.997 --> 01:10:11.624
in the cultural sense.

01:10:16.670 --> 01:10:19.298
We are not separate from our environment,

01:10:22.259 --> 01:10:26.639
and we have been damaged
in this whole process

01:10:26.639 --> 01:10:28.724
of being colonized

01:10:35.814 --> 01:10:38.025
We can\'t recognize what that damage is

01:10:39.151 --> 01:10:41.737
unless we have a little bit
of a connection to

01:10:42.821 --> 01:10:44.823
our indigenous way of thinking.

01:10:45.574 --> 01:10:48.244
I remember our older ancestors,

01:10:48.244 --> 01:10:52.539
how she makes her hand gestures
and laughs and talks and conversate.

01:10:52.831 --> 01:10:55.000
That\'s how we used to interact, you know.

01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:58.545
That\'s how we used to talk,
tell our stories.

01:10:58.963 --> 01:11:00.547
Keep that little connection

01:11:00.547 --> 01:11:03.467
so that you can help transfer that

01:11:04.218 --> 01:11:06.095
in the healing of your people.

01:11:07.179 --> 01:11:09.807
That\'s what you hope
that maybe you can pass on.

01:11:12.601 --> 01:11:14.812
They\'re trying to wipe our
footprint off the Earth.

01:11:16.897 --> 01:11:18.774
They\'re trying to say we don\'t exist.

01:11:20.442 --> 01:11:22.528
We are indigenous people to this land.

01:11:24.029 --> 01:11:26.198
We have the roots growing
right out of our feet.

01:11:26.657 --> 01:11:27.908
We belong here.

01:11:31.203 --> 01:11:32.871
We put our backs against the wall,

01:11:32.871 --> 01:11:34.623
we put one foot in front of the other

01:11:34.623 --> 01:11:37.042
and we faced a storm like our brothers,
the buffalo.

01:11:39.503 --> 01:11:41.714
We face the storm.

01:11:42.756 --> 01:11:45.092
We are not backing down ever again.