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(drum beating)
(birds chattering)

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(group singing in Native language)

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- I want to welcome all of you.

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I just want to say that we are in motion.

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We are moving forward.

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We are not leaving camp.

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We stand on the treaty, the 1868 treaty.

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The court decision does not stop us.

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The 1980 Supreme Court case

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on the Black Hills did not stop us.

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We do not waiver, we do not budge,

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and we will not stop until DAPL is dead.

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(cheering)

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You all are here because
your spirit has been summoned

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deep within you, and remember,
our freedom is in our DNA.

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(women singing in Native
Hawaiian language)

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(percussive drum music)

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Mni Wiconi! Water is Life!
Mni Wiconi! Water is Life!

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- These are Sitting Bull's
people. These are Gall's people.

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Each band, each tribe has a Sitting Bull.

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Each tribe has a Trail of Tears.

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The people of Standing Rock
were the last of the holdouts.

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The army chased Sitting Bull,

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and all of the Minneconjou,

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and all the rest, all over the place.

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You know, they gave us an
ultimatum, we held out.

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We paid dearly for that, and we also won

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at the Battle of the Greasy
Grass, and Custer learned

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how to listen better on the other side.

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There is so much to
tell, and so few who know

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the true history of the United States,

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so few who know the true oral traditions

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and histories of each of these nations.

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Every day that we
breathe as Native people,

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that is a political act.

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Just to be alive, just to be breathing

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is a political act for any
Native person that's out here.

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And this is the cause for Native
people in the 21st century.

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This is it.

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- [Activists] I believe that we will win.

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I believe that we will win.

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(activists cheering)

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(drum beating)

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- This fire here has to keep going.

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It represents the Seven Council Fires.

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And it's very significant
to us, because we have not

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been gathered as Oceti
Sakowin in 140 years,

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and we have not welcomed
all nations among nations

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in 243 years, so it's
a very historic time,

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and we are the symbol of what is occurring

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in the entire world.

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(camp members drumming and
singing in Native language)

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(helicopter blades whirring)

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(drum beating)

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- Last night the government,
during the Presidential debate

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when mainstream media
were paying attention

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to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton,

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as well as on the eve of
Indigenous People's Day,

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which some still call Columbus Day,

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the U.S. District of Court of
Appeals decided to announce

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that they denied the injunction
on halting construction

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of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Our government is not paying
attention to the people.

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They're paying attention to corporations.

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And as many times as they may
temporarily say that they care

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and temporarily say that
they're gonna do something,

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they don't follow through.

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- Dakota Access had the
audacity to take our name.

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Miyé madakhóta, miyé malakhóta,
I am Dakota, I am Lakota.

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It means friend or ally.

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You put a W-O in front of it,
Wodakota, Wolakota is peace.

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(helicopter blades whirring)

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(trucks whooshing)

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No guns, no drugs, no alcohol.

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This is, freedom is free.

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We are exercising our spirituality,

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moving forward with peace and freedom.

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And so we are not intimidated easily

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by any court decision
or any federal action.

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Stand up, fight back!

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(drums beating)

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Stand up, fight back!

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(youth activists singing
in Native language)

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- We're, we're expecting a raid here.

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So, so pray for us.

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What we know is that the officers here,

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or the law enforcement, they
grab people indiscriminately.

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Even though we're wearing our press passes

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and we have cameras with
us, we'll see how things go.

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(sirens blaring)
(helicopter blades whirring)

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(activists singing in Native language)

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(activists chattering)
(helicopter blades whirring)

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(voices drowned out by machinery)

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(horses whinnying)
(activists cheering)

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(drums beating)

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- We've got a dictator as a governor

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in the state of North Dakota,

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and they have been utilizing
every avenue that they can

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to try and make sure that
the truth is not told,

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and that the people of Standing Rock

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and the people that have
come to support Standing Rock

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are not viewed accurately.

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They have developed their own storyline

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that they've pushed forward.

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White supremacy is alive and well

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in North Dakota, South Dakota.

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If you want to, you can go
right up to Fort Lincoln

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and you can see the very
house that Custer lived in

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with his wife, and it still
stands, and they protected it.

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They rerouted the road just so us Indians

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couldn't drive right by it.

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You know, we want to threaten at times

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that we're gonna burn it down.

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It stands as a monument to
white supremacy in North Dakota.

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(wind whooshing)

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- As soon as we walk through this door,

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we'll be going back in time to 1875.

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So as far as I'm concerned,

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the General is still alive and well.

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To the left, of course is General Custer,

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and to the right is his
wife Elizabeth Custer.

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Yeah, this was a calvary flag.

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So you can see the seven
there for the Seventh Calvary.

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- At the Battle of Bighorn,
Custer, well his main purpose

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was to round up the
Indians, bring them back.

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But basically the Indians weren't gonna

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go anywhere without a fight.

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So he was killed at the
Battle of Little Bighorn,

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which causes sort of
a large ripple effect.

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And at that time, once they
find out that Custer's dead,

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the United States actually has

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what they call the Custer Avengers.

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And so they all join up
and they even had to start

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making new regiments to accommodate

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all the volunteers they had.

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(wind whooshing)
(pulley creaking)

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- [Kelly] North Dakota
is like the deep South.

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It's always been that way.

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The racism that you find in North Dakota

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is directly linked to Custer.

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Here we have a North Dakota map.

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So Standing Rock, Sioux Indian Reservation

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is in North and South Dakota.

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You can see the highway
1806. Here's Mandan.

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Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park

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is where Custer's house is located.

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And so we have the Oceti
Sakowin camp on the north side

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of the Cannonball River
in the taken lands area.

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- They're probably going to
approve of it in Washington.

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We're not going away, we're not quitting.

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It's just the beginning.

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Our statute of limitations is 2018.

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So anything that we want to do,

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and we have to do within two years,

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and that's like tomorrow.

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This is our last threshold for all of us,

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for everyone everywhere,
so we have no choice.

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We can't back down, we can't stop.

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So we can beat them at
their own legal system.

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The Congress cannot change
the treaty by plenary power.

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The court cannot issue
a unilateral decision.

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Nothing is unilateral, even
if it's an executive order.

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So everything is illegal.

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(drums beating)

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- The CEO is breaking his silence

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as he faces mounting threats
and lengthening delays.

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He still remains bullish
on the post-election future

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of his pipeline, which
is now 84% complete,

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but the final 1000 feet or so are being

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temporarily stopped by
the Obama administration.

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- A hundred percent.
- A hundred percent that-

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- That the easement gets granted,

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and the pipeline gets built.

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- The President-Elect has minor holdings

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in Warren's company, and Warren donated

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$103,000 to Trump's campaign.

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Have you spoken to Donald
Trump about the pipeline?

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- I've never met the man.

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- You've never met him?
- No.

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- But he's invested in you
and you're invested in him.

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- (chuckling) Well, I wish him well.

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(drums beating)

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- The Missouri River basin
is extremely polluted,

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and we have to fight to not
only save the water quality,

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but to save the river
itself, in order to protect

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the water rights of all of the people,

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Indian and non-Indian alike.

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30, 40, 50 years ago, they
could drink this water.

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(machinery humming)
(police shouting)

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- This pipeline original
path was going to be

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much further north towards Bismarck.

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But the politicians up
there rejected that.

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They said that if the
pipeline were to break,

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that the waterways could
be poisoned for Bismarck,

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and of course, that's where they live.

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And so they suggested moving
the pipeline further south.

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Racism is really rampant in
the state of North Dakota,

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not just on a social level,
but on a policy level.

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Once the treaties were signed
and people were moved here,

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then there wasn't a whole lot of respect

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or feigned interest after that.

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(traffic whooshing)

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- I don't like people that give a bad name

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to my community and my state

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and my guardsmen and my police officers.

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This is my community, they can go home.

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They are liars. Protestors are liars.

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- I'm looking out for
the security of my family

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and my community, because all
the law enforcement locally

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has been forced down south,

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leaving us with not much
protection here in town

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when we have thousands of people massing.

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- Don't tell me they didn't

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shut down downtown.
- Oh, that's right.

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They should have let
them go on Rosser Avenue

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and get hit, that would be hilarious.

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- People wanna create the racial divide

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instead of mending it-
- The same as these people.

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- And this right here is creating

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even further of a racial problem.

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- This has been going on longer,

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but it's been a week since
the election already,

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and those people are
still protesting that.

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Don't they have jobs either?

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- This is not about race,
this is about our community.

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This is messing with a
North Dakota way of life.

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- They're coming down University.

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- That's what it is.
- I don't know.

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- That's all it's about.

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- [Interviewer] And are you
planning on having people

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in like riot gear, like
this gentleman behind you

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with the helmet on, to start, or is-

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- That's standard.
- Is that standard issue?

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- [Amnesty Observer] Yeah, it's standard.

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Yeah, and a lot of them, I mean seriously,

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North Dakota's never seen
anything like this before.

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So if you go to big city like,

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that's the thing that you
would see immediately.

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- I've lived up here my whole life,

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so I know that there was
treaties that were signed

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that you know, the Native
American population

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does not believe were ever, you know,

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that that land was taken
from them years ago,

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hundreds of years ago.

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And I don't know what
the resolution is at,

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but that's something that's gotta be

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worked out in the court system.

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Somewhere along the
line that can be decided

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whether or not a corporation
could buy that land or not.

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But right now, they are
the owners of that land.

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(activists chanting "Mni
Wiconi, Water is Life")

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(traffic whooshing)

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- Tonight when you go home,
and your son or your daughter

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wakes up in the middle
of the night and says,

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"Dad or Mom, can I have some
water?" Remember this day.

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I understand that you're
fathers and mothers,

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and you're here to make a living,

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to put food on the table, to
provide for your families.

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We use water in every
ceremony that we have.

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I see even the Catholics,
they have their Holy Water.

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I know that people pray when they have

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Thanksgiving dinner next week.

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Each one of you is sworn to protect.

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We are not your enemy, we are
your brothers and sisters.

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We're all human beings here.

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- Thank you, thank you.
- Thank you.

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(wind whooshing)

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- And I just wanna share
some important news with you,

00:19:45.693 --> 00:19:48.810
that President Obama will
not sign the easement

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until we have further discussion,
dialogue, and hearings.

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There's a lot of
disagreement in the offices

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in the Army Corps as
well as the White House.

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So on the 17th, there will
be the consultation hearing

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with the Department of
Justice, the Army Corps,

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and the Department of the
Interior, in Rapid City,

00:20:14.250 --> 00:20:17.400
and we appreciate you coming
to the front line with us.

00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:21.650
We are Sitting Bull's
people, we are Hunkpapa.

00:20:21.650 --> 00:20:25.980
We are the horn of the buffalo,
and we have an obligation

00:20:25.980 --> 00:20:28.710
to protect and serve as a vanguard.

00:20:28.710 --> 00:20:31.230
That's historically who we are,

00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:33.840
that's who geographically we are,

00:20:33.840 --> 00:20:35.760
and we are Ihunktunwan,

00:20:35.760 --> 00:20:37.140
the People on the Edge.

00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:42.140
Our band were the ones who cut
head to protect our people.

00:20:43.050 --> 00:20:45.967
So I tell people sometimes,

00:20:45.967 --> 00:20:48.280
"What do you have that I don't have?"

00:20:48.280 --> 00:20:50.696
"I'm part savage, so
you'd better watch out."

00:20:50.696 --> 00:20:52.536
(crowd laughing)

00:20:52.536 --> 00:20:55.203
(drums beating)

00:20:58.258 --> 00:21:03.091
(drummers singing in Native language)

00:21:08.850 --> 00:21:11.040
- The government is just gonna continue

00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:13.992
to take and take and take,
until there is nothing left,

00:21:13.992 --> 00:21:18.963
until even their children
have no water, have no,

00:21:19.950 --> 00:21:21.960
you know, the animals won't live,

00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:24.210
the plants won't live,
there will be nothing.

00:21:25.980 --> 00:21:28.590
So we need to stop.

00:21:28.590 --> 00:21:32.220
We need to stand up and say,
"All right, this is enough.

00:21:32.220 --> 00:21:35.197
Enough is enough, and
we're not gonna back down."

00:21:35.197 --> 00:21:38.197
(vehicle rumbling)

00:21:42.030 --> 00:21:45.000
- We know that we would prevail

00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:46.953
if America obeyed its own laws.

00:21:48.630 --> 00:21:50.700
We have more treaties
with the United States

00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:55.080
than any other people,
and we're the only ones

00:21:55.080 --> 00:21:57.813
who have defeated them militarily.

00:21:59.700 --> 00:22:04.066
And Standing Rock holds the
flag of the Seventh Cavalry,

00:22:04.066 --> 00:22:07.953
and the United States
that we took away in 1876.

00:22:10.260 --> 00:22:14.793
The retribution has been
tremendous against our people.

00:22:17.790 --> 00:22:20.583
We have 33 treaties
with the United States,

00:22:22.020 --> 00:22:27.020
from 1805 to 1868, and those
treaties are still binding.

00:22:30.306 --> 00:22:35.306
They cannot be changed
without our consent.

00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.140
The federal district courts
have built the pipelines

00:22:42.300 --> 00:22:43.893
since Reagan was in there.

00:22:46.830 --> 00:22:51.830
So 20 years ago, they
approved of a gas line

00:22:52.770 --> 00:22:57.603
to go under the river, and
they didn't tell anybody.

00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:03.123
So now they use that right
of way for all the pipelines.

00:23:04.226 --> 00:23:09.226
(vehicle rumbling)

00:23:10.744 --> 00:23:14.744
(meeting attendees chattering)

00:23:17.550 --> 00:23:19.713
- Let's go ahead and get started with,

00:23:21.060 --> 00:23:22.360
It's Phyllis Young, right?

00:23:23.213 --> 00:23:26.880
- Oceti Sakowin is the
Seven Council Fires,

00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:31.880
and we represent a cultural presence

00:23:32.460 --> 00:23:36.480
that makes us the predecessor
sovereign of America.

00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.930
You represent the United
States government,

00:23:39.930 --> 00:23:44.930
the treaty partner, and if this
America is still a republic,

00:23:46.950 --> 00:23:49.443
and you are governed by the Constitution,

00:23:50.340 --> 00:23:53.580
and treaties are the
supreme law of the land,

00:23:53.580 --> 00:23:55.383
then we will prevail.

00:23:57.210 --> 00:24:00.990
And if America follows its
own laws and agreements

00:24:00.990 --> 00:24:04.890
that you have made with us in the taking

00:24:04.890 --> 00:24:09.003
of over 300,000 acres from Oceti Sakowin,

00:24:09.870 --> 00:24:11.760
all we're asking for you

00:24:11.760 --> 00:24:15.393
is to obey the laws of this country.

00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:19.200
We want something for our
children and our grandchildren,

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.700
and we are not going to leave.

00:24:26.317 --> 00:24:27.150
(plane rumbling)

00:24:44.592 --> 00:24:45.425
(activists shouting)

00:24:47.384 --> 00:24:49.254
- [Activist] Go back, go back, go back.

00:24:49.254 --> 00:24:51.504
Get back, back.
- Get back.

00:24:53.247 --> 00:24:56.497
(activists shouting)

00:25:03.441 --> 00:25:07.533
- On November 20th at Backwater Bridge-

00:25:09.081 --> 00:25:10.492
- Medic!
- I am-

00:25:10.492 --> 00:25:13.740
- Medic!
- I'm at the front lines,

00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:15.780
and a woman yells for help.

00:25:15.780 --> 00:25:18.060
I go to turn towards her,
I hear the cannon go off.

00:25:18.060 --> 00:25:20.610
So I'm kinda down, trying to peek out,

00:25:20.610 --> 00:25:21.870
wondering where it's gonna go.

00:25:21.870 --> 00:25:25.410
Thinking it's going 50, 100
above my head, but it wasn't.

00:25:25.410 --> 00:25:27.690
You know as I look up,
I see five, six shots

00:25:27.690 --> 00:25:29.580
coming straight for my face.

00:25:29.580 --> 00:25:31.740
At that moment, you know, I only had like,

00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:33.360
maybe a second or so to respond.

00:25:33.360 --> 00:25:35.610
I just knew it was gonna hit my eye.

00:25:35.610 --> 00:25:37.401
It was on fire as it hit me.

00:25:37.401 --> 00:25:42.401
- Justice!
(activists shouting)

00:25:42.841 --> 00:25:45.674
(water spraying)

00:25:49.167 --> 00:25:51.870
- [Medic] Get him down,
get him down to main medic.

00:25:51.870 --> 00:25:54.643
Somebody put him in a car and
get him to main medic, go.

00:25:54.643 --> 00:25:57.840
- I go to run, and I get
shot with a rubber bullet

00:25:57.840 --> 00:25:58.740
in the back of my leg.

00:25:58.740 --> 00:26:01.170
So then I'm picked up
by a man and a woman,

00:26:01.170 --> 00:26:03.320
carried off the bridge
until an EMT got me.

00:26:04.530 --> 00:26:06.210
My healthcare was not good
enough to get the care

00:26:06.210 --> 00:26:10.189
that I needed in 72 hours to save my eye.

00:26:10.189 --> 00:26:12.233
- [Medic] Medic transport,
medic transport!

00:26:14.336 --> 00:26:15.450
- And he was aiming right at me like,

00:26:15.450 --> 00:26:18.480
boom, (mimics gun cocking)
boom, (mimics gun cocking) boom.

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:21.327
- Oh my God.
- Did you put ice on it?

00:26:22.349 --> 00:26:26.040
- I hear boom, that's
when I turned around.

00:26:26.040 --> 00:26:27.273
He took the last shot.

00:26:30.660 --> 00:26:34.320
- Pepper spray, mace,
shot with rubber bullets,

00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:36.873
coming in bloody, soaked in water.

00:26:38.850 --> 00:26:43.260
Morton County doesn't believe
that they were in the wrong.

00:26:43.260 --> 00:26:46.173
They don't believe that
they did anything unjust.

00:26:47.280 --> 00:26:49.650
And for this we gather here today,

00:26:49.650 --> 00:26:53.280
to let them know that they were wrong.

00:26:53.280 --> 00:26:56.793
And if you can't pray for
forgiveness, we will pray for you.

00:26:57.900 --> 00:27:02.020
So we come here to pray for
Morton County Sheriff's Office

00:27:02.873 --> 00:27:06.300
and the police that engaged
in those brutal attacks.

00:27:06.300 --> 00:27:09.180
We want everybody to
hold their cedar high,

00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:11.673
and we're gonna move forward in silence.

00:27:16.230 --> 00:27:17.370
- [Officer] Right now, you're illegally

00:27:17.370 --> 00:27:19.050
blocking the roadway.

00:27:19.050 --> 00:27:20.820
You need to leave this area.

00:27:20.820 --> 00:27:23.727
You'll be subject to
arrest if you do not leave.

00:27:23.727 --> 00:27:27.363
- We are here to pray.
- Go back to your vehicles.

00:27:28.350 --> 00:27:30.210
Vacate the roadway.

00:27:30.210 --> 00:27:32.700
- They don't understand that
our spirit is unbreakable.

00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:35.427
We've been fighting
this for over 500 years,

00:27:35.427 --> 00:27:37.377
and we're never gonna stop fighting it.

00:27:38.560 --> 00:27:42.477
A'ho (Thank you)

00:27:44.475 --> 00:27:46.547
- [Activist] As Indigenous
people we are not victims

00:27:46.547 --> 00:27:49.619
We are powerful, coming
from powerful history,

00:27:49.619 --> 00:27:51.870
powerful nations, and we're here today

00:27:51.870 --> 00:27:54.899
to stand with our ancestors
and take back this place

00:27:54.899 --> 00:27:57.732
where our ancestors are buried at.

00:27:59.020 --> 00:28:02.340
- We're the Michigan Canoe
Cold Water Rescue team.

00:28:02.340 --> 00:28:04.080
I was in the front lines on Sunday night.

00:28:04.080 --> 00:28:06.030
I have a bruise the size
of a grapefruit right here

00:28:06.030 --> 00:28:08.580
where I got shot from 20 feet away.

00:28:08.580 --> 00:28:11.340
Every single person on our
canoe team got shot that night.

00:28:11.340 --> 00:28:14.430
And it was brutal, they were
spraying people with water.

00:28:14.430 --> 00:28:17.310
I have a wetsuit on, I have
a Gore-Tex snowmobile suit,

00:28:17.310 --> 00:28:19.440
I have a giant parka, and they shot me

00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.440
through that at 20 feet, I
can't imagine how people felt

00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:25.350
that had no protective
gear that we had on.

00:28:25.350 --> 00:28:28.323
Five hours of continuous
water cannon sprays.

00:28:29.220 --> 00:28:32.820
My parka was covered with
ice, it was unbelievable.

00:28:32.820 --> 00:28:34.830
And you know, you like to
think that human beings

00:28:34.830 --> 00:28:37.241
can't do those kinda things to each other.

00:28:37.241 --> 00:28:41.991
(activists singing in Native language)

00:29:03.900 --> 00:29:05.100
- Morton County Sheriff,

00:29:05.100 --> 00:29:09.217
and I guess that Facebook
page is down now, but it says,

00:29:09.217 --> 00:29:12.720
"'Today's multiple protest
events on Thanksgiving Day

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:15.184
were no surprise to our
law enforcement teams.

00:29:15.184 --> 00:29:17.687
Now with the added
attention of the niggers.

00:29:17.687 --> 00:29:22.020
To the Black Lives
Matters group, stay home.

00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:23.850
The Blue Lives only matter here,'

00:29:23.850 --> 00:29:26.563
said Morton County
Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier."

00:29:30.150 --> 00:29:32.209
- I just want to let
you know that there are

00:29:32.209 --> 00:29:37.209
10,000 people here now.
(activists cheering)

00:29:39.590 --> 00:29:44.590
So our numbers are growing,
they're growing more every day.

00:29:46.050 --> 00:29:49.927
The veterans who were planning
to come on the 5th were 500,

00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:56.332
today they called me with 1,325 veterans.

00:29:56.332 --> 00:30:00.060
(activists cheering)

00:30:00.060 --> 00:30:02.283
They are living up to their oath.

00:30:02.283 --> 00:30:05.187
It's going to be a historic time.

00:30:05.187 --> 00:30:07.854
(drums beating)

00:30:13.842 --> 00:30:17.443
(activists cheering)

00:30:17.443 --> 00:30:19.380
- I will assume that Donald Trump

00:30:19.380 --> 00:30:24.380
is going to obliterate Indian
country because of his,

00:30:25.530 --> 00:30:28.020
well, let's call it like
it is, hatred for Indians.

00:30:28.020 --> 00:30:31.713
My hope is that Indian
country survives this.

00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:34.110
In the long term, I know that

00:30:34.110 --> 00:30:36.210
they're gonna go after the treaties,

00:30:36.210 --> 00:30:41.190
and to cut all trust
responsibilities with Indian nations,

00:30:41.190 --> 00:30:43.650
and we should be very concerned.

00:30:43.650 --> 00:30:48.120
As far as pipelines,
he has every intention

00:30:48.120 --> 00:30:53.010
to move as quickly forward on
things as soon as he's seated,

00:30:53.010 --> 00:30:57.630
and I have no doubt that Congress
is going to support that.

00:30:57.630 --> 00:30:59.160
If he makes it, you know,

00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:01.170
we don't know if he's gonna make it.

00:31:01.170 --> 00:31:04.380
He's violating so many things right now.

00:31:04.380 --> 00:31:07.650
Hopefully, hopefully the American people

00:31:07.650 --> 00:31:11.493
will stand up and push back.

00:31:13.050 --> 00:31:18.050
Sitting Bull was killed down
on along the Grand River,

00:31:19.350 --> 00:31:21.780
and was buried right out here.

00:31:21.780 --> 00:31:26.780
And it was so feared
that they would somehow

00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:31.293
put his bones in a museum
that his family dug him up.

00:31:32.584 --> 00:31:37.584
(footsteps crunching)

00:31:43.042 --> 00:31:46.320
- Hi! Oh my goodness,
what are you doing here?

00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:47.400
- Morning.
- Oh.

00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:48.862
- [Phyllis] Remember we were sisters,

00:31:48.862 --> 00:31:49.713
used to know each other?

00:31:49.713 --> 00:31:52.070
- Oh yeah, like three days ago? (laughing)

00:31:52.070 --> 00:31:55.617
- Three days I haven't
seen you, oh my God.

00:31:55.617 --> 00:31:57.039
- So what's going on,
what's up, what's new?

00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:58.610
- Oh my God.
- What's-

00:31:58.610 --> 00:32:00.717
- [Phyllis] I'm calling
on everybody today.

00:32:00.717 --> 00:32:02.670
I'm calling, I'm putting it out there.

00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:04.950
I'm not gonna wait for the lawsuit.

00:32:04.950 --> 00:32:05.783
- Okay.

00:32:05.783 --> 00:32:08.280
- So I'm doing press this
afternoon with any Facebooker

00:32:08.280 --> 00:32:10.740
that wants to put out about how Dalrymple

00:32:10.740 --> 00:32:14.880
is 25,000 acres in Lakota territory.

00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:18.537
All the chiefs of staff who
run DAPL from Army Corps

00:32:18.537 --> 00:32:20.340
are doing it all.
- Really?

00:32:20.340 --> 00:32:21.600
- Yep.
- What time?

00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.860
- I would like to say that
the governor of North Dakota

00:32:28.860 --> 00:32:32.310
has no jurisdiction in treaty territory.

00:32:32.310 --> 00:32:35.730
In pursuing charges at
many different levels,

00:32:35.730 --> 00:32:39.330
one of the drafts that
has been completed now

00:32:39.330 --> 00:32:43.870
are formal criminal
charges against the sheriff

00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:48.000
in Morton County as well
as the police officers

00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:50.493
under RICO and terrorism.

00:32:52.110 --> 00:32:55.410
We expect five to 7,000 veterans.

00:32:55.410 --> 00:32:57.573
We are going to have a Forgiveness Day,

00:32:58.530 --> 00:33:03.530
and we are making a commitment
for the future of America.

00:33:03.715 --> 00:33:06.465
(wind whooshing)

00:33:08.525 --> 00:33:10.692
- Left, right, left, left.

00:33:12.764 --> 00:33:17.764
Left, right, left.
(plane buzzing)

00:33:20.670 --> 00:33:22.740
- Yeah, Phyllis called me in September

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:24.270
and she told me what happened,

00:33:24.270 --> 00:33:27.330
and I could hear the fear in her voice.

00:33:27.330 --> 00:33:30.930
And I thought, could
this possibly be America?

00:33:30.930 --> 00:33:35.600
We raised more than a regiment
of soldiers with no pay

00:33:37.890 --> 00:33:41.800
to go on the first week of
December during a work week

00:33:42.690 --> 00:33:44.370
with the only promise being

00:33:44.370 --> 00:33:46.677
that we may go to jail or get beaten up.

00:33:46.677 --> 00:33:49.907
(activists cheering)

00:33:49.907 --> 00:33:52.197
And I love each and every
one of you that came out here

00:33:52.197 --> 00:33:54.510
and showed that you got heart,

00:33:54.510 --> 00:33:58.693
and showed that you are the
conscience of this country.

00:33:58.693 --> 00:34:01.443
(plane rumbling)

00:34:19.185 --> 00:34:20.790
(exclamation in Native language)

00:34:20.790 --> 00:34:24.290
- We are symbolic of what
is happening in your land,

00:34:24.290 --> 00:34:27.843
in your territory, in
all of our territory.

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:31.410
I was raised on VA pension.

00:34:31.410 --> 00:34:34.200
My grandfather was a Code Talker,

00:34:34.200 --> 00:34:39.150
and my uncles were heroes in Normandy.

00:34:39.150 --> 00:34:41.790
But we need to create peace now,

00:34:41.790 --> 00:34:44.223
and we need to interpret it for ourselves.

00:34:45.450 --> 00:34:49.860
And we are casting off
the collective memory

00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:54.830
of trauma and war, and we've
taken on our own philosophy.

00:34:57.524 --> 00:34:59.207
Wodakota means peace.

00:35:00.706 --> 00:35:02.673
Dakota. Miyé dakhóta (I am Dakota)

00:35:06.399 --> 00:35:11.370
Lakota, Wodakota, Wonakota
means peace, that's who we are,

00:35:11.370 --> 00:35:14.160
and that's where we are
going on our path to freedom.

00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:15.423
We have a lot to offer.

00:35:16.620 --> 00:35:19.773
We have always been in the
background, we are stepping up.

00:35:20.700 --> 00:35:23.520
That is our belief, that is our prayer,

00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:27.810
that is our religious freedom
that we are exercising.

00:35:27.810 --> 00:35:30.060
So, lila wopila tanka (huge thank you)

00:35:30.060 --> 00:35:33.300
on behalf of the people of Sitting Bull,

00:35:33.300 --> 00:35:36.480
on behalf of the people of Crazy Horse,

00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.763
and all those who have gone before us.

00:35:40.590 --> 00:35:44.380
Oh my gosh, okay, I
gotta put my lights on.

00:35:52.288 --> 00:35:57.288
(truck rumbling)
(activists chattering)

00:36:10.284 --> 00:36:12.180
- So they just announced it on MSNBC.

00:36:12.180 --> 00:36:13.080
- Excellent.
- They-

00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:13.913
- Army Corps of Engineers,

00:36:13.913 --> 00:36:15.360
they denied the easement?
- They denied the easement.

00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.520
- I didn't hear it with my own tears.

00:36:17.520 --> 00:36:20.040
So I just told that
newsman, "You're a newsman.

00:36:20.040 --> 00:36:21.750
I didn't hear it from anybody."

00:36:21.750 --> 00:36:23.208
- You walking down to the Horn?

00:36:23.208 --> 00:36:25.115
- I'm going down to see,
to find my chairman.

00:36:25.115 --> 00:36:26.483
- Going down?
- It's persistence.

00:36:26.483 --> 00:36:29.585
- You did it, Phyllis, you
did it, you all did it.

00:36:29.585 --> 00:36:32.760
- We all did it, if it's done, we did it.

00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:33.900
- We did it.
- We did it.

00:36:33.900 --> 00:36:35.537
- And it's our opportunity now,

00:36:35.537 --> 00:36:40.537
not to forget those
wrongs, but to forgive.

00:36:41.990 --> 00:36:44.640
(crowd cheering)

00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:48.600
If you realize what has
happened is that we have

00:36:48.600 --> 00:36:53.600
over 10,000 people coming
together and creating a community.

00:36:53.820 --> 00:36:57.960
That self-polices, that self-organizes,

00:36:57.960 --> 00:36:59.283
and you all did that.

00:37:00.210 --> 00:37:02.711
I didn't do that, the Tribe
didn't do that, you did that.

00:37:02.711 --> 00:37:03.670
(crowd cheering)

00:37:03.670 --> 00:37:06.570
So we have to take this to the next step.

00:37:06.570 --> 00:37:09.748
We have to continue living in a good way.

00:37:09.748 --> 00:37:13.320
Take the things that you've
done here, take them home.

00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.480
It's time now that each and all,

00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:18.060
every one of us can make a difference.

00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:20.287
- [Phyllis] Remember from day one we said,

00:37:20.287 --> 00:37:21.900
"There will be no black snake

00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:23.835
going through treaty territory."

00:37:23.835 --> 00:37:26.585
(crowd cheering)

00:37:28.230 --> 00:37:31.380
And we want it sure that
our grandchildren know

00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:35.239
that they lived and
died for Oceti Sakowin.

00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:38.737
(crowd cheering)

00:37:38.737 --> 00:37:43.423
We have done our duty
and our responsibility.

00:37:43.423 --> 00:37:44.256
Lila wopila tanka (huge thank you),

00:37:44.256 --> 00:37:46.756
I will never forget you.

00:37:46.756 --> 00:37:49.589
(crowd cheering)

00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.070
- Oh.
- Oh man.

00:37:53.070 --> 00:37:56.130
I'm so happy, I'm so happy, I'm so happy.

00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:58.430
I know, doggone it.
- We did it.

00:38:00.215 --> 00:38:02.673
- We did it, yep.

00:38:03.510 --> 00:38:06.263
- [Phyllis] Grouchy old
ladies, but we did it.

00:38:06.263 --> 00:38:09.120
- We did, we drug everybody along,

00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:11.943
kicking and screaming. (laughing)

00:38:12.870 --> 00:38:17.870
- Yep, "You won't have war."
(both laughing)

00:38:18.067 --> 00:38:19.287
"You will have peace."

00:38:28.042 --> 00:38:30.510
- You are an amazing woman.

00:38:30.510 --> 00:38:32.485
- We gotta celebrate.

00:38:32.485 --> 00:38:34.513
We should have hot tea and crumpets.

00:38:34.513 --> 00:38:38.280
- I know. (laughing)

00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:41.523
- Yeah, major victory, major battle today.

00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.850
But the war's still on, you know?

00:38:44.850 --> 00:38:47.683
But that's okay, we're used to it.

00:38:49.261 --> 00:38:54.261
(drummer singing in Native language)

00:39:06.810 --> 00:39:10.500
- We stole minerals
from your sacred hills.

00:39:10.500 --> 00:39:13.260
We blasted the faces of our Presidents

00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:17.867
onto your sacred mountain,
and we took still more land.

00:39:17.867 --> 00:39:19.680
And then we took your children

00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:21.810
and then we tried to take your language.

00:39:21.810 --> 00:39:23.910
We didn't respect you.

00:39:23.910 --> 00:39:26.070
We polluted your earth.

00:39:26.070 --> 00:39:27.993
We've hurt you in so many ways.

00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:31.953
And we've come to say that we are sorry.

00:39:32.850 --> 00:39:35.650
We are at your service, and
we beg for your forgiveness.

00:39:39.233 --> 00:39:44.233
(cheering in Native language)

00:39:50.147 --> 00:39:55.147
(drummer singing in Native language)

00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:11.780
- That the Energy Transfer
Systems is refusing to stop.

00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:16.830
I wanna put it out on the Facebook.

00:40:16.830 --> 00:40:19.680
Everybody who's on
Facebook, get it out there.

00:40:19.680 --> 00:40:23.850
Congressman Kramer is filing in court

00:40:23.850 --> 00:40:27.423
to reverse the Army Corps permit.

00:40:32.520 --> 00:40:34.833
Two days ago, we were here eight months.

00:40:40.620 --> 00:40:44.400
We are setting forth principles
and values and standards

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.263
in the best way we know how.

00:40:48.420 --> 00:40:50.730
And the medicine men are
the ones who directed

00:40:50.730 --> 00:40:52.443
that this fire be re-lit.

00:40:53.580 --> 00:40:57.213
So we're starting it again,
and until we're done,

00:40:58.140 --> 00:41:01.230
we will decide when we're going to leave.

00:41:01.230 --> 00:41:03.360
This is a spiritual movement.

00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:05.253
This is about prayer and peace.

00:41:06.285 --> 00:41:07.118
(plane whirring)

00:41:07.118 --> 00:41:12.118
(drums beating, singing
in Native language)

00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:36.660
- Our camp is my mom and myself and our,

00:41:36.660 --> 00:41:38.013
my daughter and my niece.

00:41:39.224 --> 00:41:44.224
So we're a, we're a
woman camp, but my mom,

00:41:45.210 --> 00:41:50.210
she's in remission from cancer,
and so she gets sick often.

00:41:52.260 --> 00:41:53.250
So when she does get sick,

00:41:53.250 --> 00:41:56.200
we kind of have to really
protect her and take care of her.

00:41:57.540 --> 00:42:01.233
We've got a room at the
casino for her to recover in.

00:42:04.211 --> 00:42:08.227
But this is a, it's a war
zone that we're living in,

00:42:12.444 --> 00:42:15.717
you know, and it's a
prayer camp, but it's,

00:42:18.109 --> 00:42:20.670
it's definitely a time
of war for this country.

00:42:20.670 --> 00:42:23.313
And you know, this started out as,

00:42:26.887 --> 00:42:28.260
you know, to stop this pipeline.

00:42:28.260 --> 00:42:29.790
But it's become so much more

00:42:29.790 --> 00:42:32.853
because of the new administration.

00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.103
Treaties are the supreme law of the land.

00:42:38.103 --> 00:42:42.360
This is violating, you
know, the very Constitution.

00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:44.100
We're not waiting on broken promises

00:42:44.100 --> 00:42:45.180
from the government anymore.

00:42:45.180 --> 00:42:47.160
We're taking it into our own hands now.

00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:51.747
We're saying, "Listen to
us, see us, and honor us."

00:42:59.820 --> 00:43:02.610
- This is a moment in American history

00:43:02.610 --> 00:43:07.610
that most will forget about,
and some will never be able

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.933
to let a day go by
without thinking about it.

00:43:15.630 --> 00:43:17.970
This road should have never been closed.

00:43:17.970 --> 00:43:21.993
This is the main artery for this tribe.

00:43:22.890 --> 00:43:27.890
The state has been choking us
to death by closing this road.

00:43:30.150 --> 00:43:33.450
So I'm very pleased to see
that they're working on it,

00:43:33.450 --> 00:43:37.140
and hopefully it'll be open soon.

00:43:37.140 --> 00:43:38.913
I mean, it's February 10th.

00:43:39.930 --> 00:43:41.910
When will this road be opened?

00:43:41.910 --> 00:43:45.640
Will it be March, will it be
May, Will it ever be opened?

00:43:45.640 --> 00:43:49.110
I'm quite positive we're being watched.

00:43:49.110 --> 00:43:51.010
I'm quite positive we're being filmed.

00:43:52.260 --> 00:43:54.510
See those DAPL workers
up on the hills there?

00:43:54.510 --> 00:43:56.280
There's one sitting there.

00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:57.840
There's probably a cop car somewhere.

00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:59.767
There's another one on that hill.

00:44:00.640 --> 00:44:02.790
Looks like they built themselves a shelter

00:44:02.790 --> 00:44:04.890
up over here, on that hill.

00:44:04.890 --> 00:44:06.753
They got a lot of equipment up there.

00:44:08.610 --> 00:44:10.383
That's where the drill pad is.

00:44:11.580 --> 00:44:16.470
The drill pad is just south of
these large electrical lines,

00:44:16.470 --> 00:44:20.040
maybe a hundred yards.

00:44:20.040 --> 00:44:23.790
This whole area is an
archeological district,

00:44:23.790 --> 00:44:27.960
and so where the drill pad
is up on top of the butte,

00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:32.960
that whole area is an occupation center.

00:44:33.060 --> 00:44:34.590
If you look on LiDAR,

00:44:34.590 --> 00:44:38.580
you can see where the earth
lodge depressions were,

00:44:38.580 --> 00:44:43.290
and they're Sundance grounds,
so it's, it's hollowed ground.

00:44:43.290 --> 00:44:45.960
You know, they're drilling right now.

00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:47.493
What's gonna happen next?

00:44:49.230 --> 00:44:50.913
This land is our land.

00:44:53.250 --> 00:44:57.150
You know, that song is so hard to hear.

00:44:57.150 --> 00:45:00.270
This land is Oceti Sakowin land,

00:45:00.270 --> 00:45:01.980
and we're very proud of that.

00:45:01.980 --> 00:45:03.600
We fought hard for it,

00:45:03.600 --> 00:45:06.180
we were trying our best to protect it,

00:45:06.180 --> 00:45:07.713
and we continue to do so.

00:45:13.618 --> 00:45:16.451
(water splashing)

00:45:22.101 --> 00:45:22.934
(hooves crunching)

00:45:34.534 --> 00:45:35.367
(girls chattering)

00:45:42.690 --> 00:45:45.510
- We're at a moment in history where we,

00:45:45.510 --> 00:45:48.570
I believe wholeheartedly
that we have the power

00:45:48.570 --> 00:45:52.500
to change things, to bring
change for all of our people,

00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:54.840
for our future generations.

00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:58.380
And you know, I can live with, you know,

00:45:58.380 --> 00:46:02.461
I've chosen to take on risks
and to live with a lot of,

00:46:02.461 --> 00:46:05.460
you know, a lot of things that are hard.

00:46:05.460 --> 00:46:09.090
I have, I have charges in Morton County.

00:46:09.090 --> 00:46:13.140
I've been to jail, you know, and that was,

00:46:13.140 --> 00:46:15.123
you know when they arrested me was,

00:46:17.520 --> 00:46:22.170
we were standing in a prayer
circle with our arms locked.

00:46:22.170 --> 00:46:24.240
And even in our court
papers when it explains

00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:28.860
the charges against us, you
know, for engaging in a riot,

00:46:28.860 --> 00:46:33.633
which by definition is five
or six people gathering

00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:39.390
that will bring, you know,
injury or harm or whatever.

00:46:39.390 --> 00:46:41.550
And you know, it describes this act

00:46:41.550 --> 00:46:43.590
of violence and aggression.

00:46:43.590 --> 00:46:46.927
And then in their
affidavits of what happened,

00:46:46.927 --> 00:46:49.890
They say, "they were standing in a circle

00:46:49.890 --> 00:46:52.110
around the fire with their arms locked."

00:46:52.110 --> 00:46:53.760
We didn't fight anybody.

00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:55.440
We didn't fight the
cops when they tried to,

00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:58.890
when they arrested us,
we just stood our ground,

00:46:58.890 --> 00:47:02.550
and we were torn one
by one from our circle,

00:47:02.550 --> 00:47:04.380
from each other's arms.

00:47:04.380 --> 00:47:07.503
And when they grabbed me,

00:47:09.390 --> 00:47:12.817
they threw me headfirst
into the ground and,

00:47:17.010 --> 00:47:21.960
and then came a knee or a
foot at the back of my head

00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:24.090
that pushed me so hard into the earth

00:47:24.090 --> 00:47:25.833
that I couldn't breathe.

00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:35.670
And (sighing) so I choose
compassion for them.

00:47:35.670 --> 00:47:37.080
I choose to pray for them,

00:47:37.080 --> 00:47:38.447
and for Tunkasila (Creator),

00:47:39.600 --> 00:47:41.760
for the Creator to have pity on them

00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:43.890
whenever that time
comes for them to answer

00:47:43.890 --> 00:47:46.443
to their choices right now.

00:47:54.870 --> 00:47:58.020
- This is with respect to the construction

00:47:58.020 --> 00:48:03.020
of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
(cameras clicking)

00:48:13.177 --> 00:48:15.277
- They're gonna give the easement to DAPL.

00:48:16.887 --> 00:48:18.810
You know, so that's
something that's gonna,

00:48:18.810 --> 00:48:20.610
it's gonna happen now.

00:48:20.610 --> 00:48:22.650
When you fight like that and you kind of,

00:48:22.650 --> 00:48:26.163
it's going your way, it
hurts, it really does.

00:48:28.410 --> 00:48:32.670
- It's a timeframe that's involved here.

00:48:32.670 --> 00:48:37.670
And it's a 14-day federal
notification process

00:48:38.220 --> 00:48:40.800
that has to be in place.

00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:43.500
- In this letter that
Corps Engineering intends

00:48:43.500 --> 00:48:46.117
to waive that policy of the 14 days.

00:48:46.117 --> 00:48:50.097
They're looking within 24
hours to get things going, so.

00:48:50.097 --> 00:48:54.753
- The US Army Corps of
Engineers has just given notice.

00:48:55.590 --> 00:48:57.720
The letter's gone out to all the media,

00:48:57.720 --> 00:49:01.533
and within the next 24 to 72 hours,

00:49:02.970 --> 00:49:06.543
there will be a lot going
on, on the Cannonball.

00:49:15.690 --> 00:49:19.320
- They're waiving the
14-day notification period,

00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:24.320
so we don't have that window
for any kind of legal action.

00:49:25.230 --> 00:49:28.650
This has been 10 years that
we have been in this fight

00:49:28.650 --> 00:49:31.530
and struggle against Keystone,
Keystone XL, and DAPL.

00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:38.060
So, it's been a long haul,
never giving up and not stopping

00:49:39.930 --> 00:49:44.490
because that river crossing
is our treaty territory,

00:49:44.490 --> 00:49:49.490
and we know that Manifest
Destiny was created

00:49:50.490 --> 00:49:55.490
for our people specifically,
and we have been targeted

00:49:56.970 --> 00:49:59.610
as a national sacrifice area.

00:49:59.610 --> 00:50:03.303
The Black Hills, our river, our lands,

00:50:04.410 --> 00:50:07.590
our children being taken away from us.

00:50:07.590 --> 00:50:12.590
And so it has been an
intergenerational struggle

00:50:14.100 --> 00:50:19.100
for our people, and we have
survived incredible odds

00:50:20.220 --> 00:50:23.530
taking on America
because we have never had

00:50:25.110 --> 00:50:30.063
a true freedom like we have at
Oceti Sakowin the last year.

00:50:31.560 --> 00:50:36.560
And so we've endured the
indentured freedom of America,

00:50:37.080 --> 00:50:41.700
of bondage and slavery and
confinement and conformity.

00:50:41.700 --> 00:50:45.873
We understand their
freedom that America has,

00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:49.170
sort of a fake freedom.

00:50:49.170 --> 00:50:54.170
So we are in the fight at a
new threshold for everyone.

00:50:56.520 --> 00:50:58.530
It's not about us anymore.

00:50:58.530 --> 00:51:01.863
We were the canary in
the mine for 500 years.

00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:07.940
We have survived Custer
and now we have Trump.

00:51:10.470 --> 00:51:12.840
- Hey guys, Maggie Ruhle
here for ABC News Digital.

00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:14.790
And we just caught up
with members and leaders

00:51:14.790 --> 00:51:16.440
of the Great Sioux Nation who are

00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:18.900
about to walk into this
courthouse behind us.

00:51:18.900 --> 00:51:21.420
You guys have traveled
far to bring your fight,

00:51:21.420 --> 00:51:24.420
bring your case here to
DC, but why are you here?

00:51:24.420 --> 00:51:26.020
What are you going inside to do?

00:51:28.500 --> 00:51:31.890
- Right now, we filed a TRO,
a temporary restraining order

00:51:31.890 --> 00:51:33.330
against the Corps of Engineers

00:51:33.330 --> 00:51:36.813
to hopefully deny that easement.

00:51:38.490 --> 00:51:41.070
- You're gonna be back in
court obviously somewhat soon.

00:51:41.070 --> 00:51:42.720
How are you feeling about that?

00:51:42.720 --> 00:51:44.700
- Well, we'll just have
to regroup and you know,

00:51:44.700 --> 00:51:46.920
try and fight harder and hopefully,

00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:48.300
you know, we get a better outcome.

00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:50.550
- We never give up, we haven't.

00:51:50.550 --> 00:51:52.170
The struggle still goes on

00:51:52.170 --> 00:51:54.543
in the court system and on the ground.

00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:58.020
And I'm returning to
Standing Rock, and all,

00:51:58.020 --> 00:52:01.080
to the camp situation at No DAPL,

00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:03.870
and as far as we're
concerned, it's still No DAPL.

00:52:03.870 --> 00:52:05.310
- This judge not being aware

00:52:05.310 --> 00:52:07.770
of what Native Americans are about,

00:52:07.770 --> 00:52:11.130
not being aware of what
treaties are about, and yet

00:52:11.130 --> 00:52:14.790
he's going, he's going to
make a judgment on this fight.

00:52:14.790 --> 00:52:16.193
- Tell me why you're upset.

00:52:16.193 --> 00:52:18.540
- This is the same judge
that initially heard

00:52:18.540 --> 00:52:21.660
Standing Rock's first case.

00:52:21.660 --> 00:52:24.397
He publicly said in the courthouse,

00:52:24.397 --> 00:52:27.660
"I am not aware or I am not educated

00:52:27.660 --> 00:52:30.210
to the Indian Law."

00:52:30.210 --> 00:52:33.120
- John Hasselman representing
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:35.460
So here's what's coming next.

00:52:35.460 --> 00:52:38.970
Within the next day or two,
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

00:52:38.970 --> 00:52:40.770
will be filing a motion
for summary judgment.

00:52:40.770 --> 00:52:43.140
That's essentially, we're
calling the question.

00:52:43.140 --> 00:52:45.720
No more injunctions and temporary relief.

00:52:45.720 --> 00:52:48.120
We're asking the judge to declare

00:52:48.120 --> 00:52:51.330
the Trump administration's
action in granting this permit

00:52:51.330 --> 00:52:53.850
illegal, arbitrary and capricious.

00:52:53.850 --> 00:52:56.970
Just a few weeks ago, the
Assistant Secretary of the Army

00:52:56.970 --> 00:53:01.290
made a formal decision that
this easement couldn't go ahead

00:53:01.290 --> 00:53:03.240
without a full environmental
impact statement,

00:53:03.240 --> 00:53:05.940
without consideration of alternatives,

00:53:05.940 --> 00:53:10.650
and without a careful technical
analysis of oil spill risk

00:53:10.650 --> 00:53:11.670
that included the Tribes.

00:53:11.670 --> 00:53:15.150
On his second day in office,
Donald Trump reversed

00:53:15.150 --> 00:53:19.170
those well-considered
government decisions,

00:53:19.170 --> 00:53:22.380
and arbitrarily directed the
Army to issue the easement.

00:53:22.380 --> 00:53:25.023
- Could you explain the
black snake prophecy again?

00:53:27.953 --> 00:53:31.440
- You know it's, you know
they say that someday

00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:34.350
a big black snake will come
and destroy our way of life,

00:53:34.350 --> 00:53:36.420
and you know, we view,

00:53:36.420 --> 00:53:38.490
this is that pipeline, 'cause it could.

00:53:38.490 --> 00:53:40.650
Nearly all of the Great Sioux Nation

00:53:40.650 --> 00:53:42.780
depend on that river to live.

00:53:42.780 --> 00:53:46.500
And with that chemicals that
are in with that crude oil,

00:53:46.500 --> 00:53:50.070
that benzene, causes cancer,
any kind of break would,

00:53:50.070 --> 00:53:52.710
you know, be harmful to our people,

00:53:52.710 --> 00:53:54.183
cause death to our people.

00:53:58.620 --> 00:54:02.100
- The displacement from
the land and the genocide

00:54:02.100 --> 00:54:06.870
that occurred during the
formation of the United States,

00:54:06.870 --> 00:54:10.053
it was about the land then,
it's about the land now.

00:54:11.130 --> 00:54:14.850
The culmination of the
Fort Laramie treaties

00:54:14.850 --> 00:54:19.650
of 1851 and 1868, that
resistance that occurred there

00:54:19.650 --> 00:54:21.813
is no different than the resistance today.

00:54:23.220 --> 00:54:27.660
The federally recognized tribes
have been placed on lands

00:54:27.660 --> 00:54:30.420
that have huge mineral deposits.

00:54:30.420 --> 00:54:32.377
The United States government thought,

00:54:32.377 --> 00:54:35.340
"Well, let's put them out
in this barren piece of land

00:54:35.340 --> 00:54:38.010
and let them fend for themselves."

00:54:38.010 --> 00:54:40.650
They didn't realize that
there was so much there,

00:54:40.650 --> 00:54:41.563
and now they do.

00:54:42.450 --> 00:54:45.277
- Is this you discussing Indian blood?

00:54:45.277 --> 00:54:47.400
"We're gonna judge people by
whether they have Indian blood,

00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:49.722
whether they're qualified to
run a gaming casino or not."

00:54:49.722 --> 00:54:51.930
- That probably is me, absolutely.

00:54:51.930 --> 00:54:54.120
Because I'll tell you what, if you look,

00:54:54.120 --> 00:54:57.000
if you look at some of the reservations

00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:58.370
that you've approved, you sir,

00:54:58.370 --> 00:55:00.360
in your great wisdom have approved.

00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.550
I will tell you right now,

00:55:02.550 --> 00:55:04.650
they don't look like Indians to me.

00:55:04.650 --> 00:55:06.690
And they don't look like
Indians, now maybe we say

00:55:06.690 --> 00:55:08.910
politically correct or
not politically correct,

00:55:08.910 --> 00:55:10.560
they don't look like Indians to me,

00:55:10.560 --> 00:55:12.750
and they don't look
like Indians to Indians.

00:55:12.750 --> 00:55:14.250
And a lot of people are laughing at it,

00:55:14.250 --> 00:55:15.900
and you're telling how tough it is,

00:55:15.900 --> 00:55:18.120
how rough it is to get approved.

00:55:18.120 --> 00:55:20.790
Well, you go up to
Connecticut and you look.

00:55:20.790 --> 00:55:23.433
Now, they don't look
like Indians to me, sir.

00:55:25.230 --> 00:55:27.300
- Thank God that's not
the test of whether or not

00:55:27.300 --> 00:55:28.950
people have rights in this country or not.

00:55:28.950 --> 00:55:30.660
Whether or not they pass your look test.

00:55:30.660 --> 00:55:32.010
- [Donald] Depends whether, yeah.

00:55:32.010 --> 00:55:33.990
Depends whether or not
you're approving it, sir.

00:55:33.990 --> 00:55:37.050
- No, no, it's not a question
whether I'm approving it.

00:55:37.050 --> 00:55:38.820
It's not a question
whether I'm approving it.

00:55:38.820 --> 00:55:40.950
Mr. Trump, you know in the
history of this country

00:55:40.950 --> 00:55:42.757
where we've heard this discussion before?

00:55:42.757 --> 00:55:44.490
"They don't look Jewish to me."

00:55:44.490 --> 00:55:45.323
- [Donald] Oh really?

00:55:45.323 --> 00:55:46.297
- "They don't look Indian to me."

00:55:46.297 --> 00:55:48.387
"They don't look Italian to me."

00:55:51.270 --> 00:55:52.620
And that was a test for whether people

00:55:52.620 --> 00:55:54.600
could go into business
or not go into business.

00:55:54.600 --> 00:55:57.037
Whether they could get a bank loan.

00:55:57.037 --> 00:55:59.337
"You're too black,"
"You're not black enough."

00:56:02.520 --> 00:56:05.250
- When we see those photos
of him in the Oval Office,

00:56:05.250 --> 00:56:07.020
there's Andrew Jackson.

00:56:07.020 --> 00:56:10.050
How do they think that
makes Native nations feel?

00:56:10.050 --> 00:56:13.890
What is the message he was trying to send?

00:56:13.890 --> 00:56:17.370
This man has a disdain for Native peoples

00:56:17.370 --> 00:56:22.370
because of the, what happened
with his casinos out East.

00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:29.960
This is gonna be an interesting
road that we go down.

00:56:30.369 --> 00:56:32.452
("Taps")

00:56:35.310 --> 00:56:40.310
- The 250th birthday of the
very great Andrew Jackson.

00:56:43.860 --> 00:56:48.210
Henry Clay, Secretary of State
for the defeated President

00:56:48.210 --> 00:56:52.507
John Quincy Adams,
called Jackson's victory

00:56:52.507 --> 00:56:55.410
"mortifying and sickening".

00:56:55.410 --> 00:56:58.018
Oh boy, does this sound familiar with.

00:56:58.018 --> 00:57:03.018
(audience laughing)
(geese honking)

00:57:19.621 --> 00:57:22.704
(machinery humming)

00:57:44.965 --> 00:57:46.620
- The 22nd date remains firm.

00:57:46.620 --> 00:57:47.880
- [Interviewer] It's gonna remain firm.

00:57:47.880 --> 00:57:49.533
Then what happens on the 22nd?

00:57:50.493 --> 00:57:52.680
- Like I said, we're taking
it one day at a time.

00:57:52.680 --> 00:57:55.380
Our morning meetings are
dedicated to what work

00:57:55.380 --> 00:57:56.940
that can be done productively each day.

00:57:56.940 --> 00:57:57.773
So that's why we're here,

00:57:57.773 --> 00:57:58.867
and that's what we're committed to doing.

00:57:58.867 --> 00:58:01.080
- Okay, and your name is?
- Levi Bachmeier.

00:58:01.080 --> 00:58:01.913
- [Interviewer] And you are with?

00:58:01.913 --> 00:58:03.873
- A policy advisor for Governor Burgum.

00:58:03.873 --> 00:58:05.700
- [Interviewer] Levi Bachmeier,

00:58:05.700 --> 00:58:07.320
and you are with the Army Corps?

00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:08.730
- Yes, sir.
- And what is your name?

00:58:08.730 --> 00:58:11.250
- Major French Pope, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.

00:58:11.250 --> 00:58:12.750
- [Interviewer] And what's your duty here?

00:58:12.750 --> 00:58:15.360
- So I came down as an LNO,

00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:19.260
but now I'm the project
manager for the cleanup effort,

00:58:19.260 --> 00:58:22.893
so ensuring that it's done
in a respectful manner.

00:58:37.108 --> 00:58:39.260
- Oh, they're taking pictures of us.

00:58:39.260 --> 00:58:40.263
(laughing) Hello.

00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:53.360
Take care guys, stay strong,
stay warm. (laughing)

00:58:54.817 --> 00:58:55.923
FU, all of you.

00:59:00.578 --> 00:59:05.354
They're DAPL mercenaries and
they're armed to the teeth.

00:59:05.354 --> 00:59:10.263
And they're ready, ready for violence,

00:59:12.182 --> 00:59:13.632
and they're gonna provoke it.

00:59:16.031 --> 00:59:21.031
(drum beating)
(helicopter blades whirring)

00:59:41.040 --> 00:59:43.680
- We need to prepare for the worst,

00:59:43.680 --> 00:59:46.203
being that they don't change the date.

00:59:47.160 --> 00:59:49.740
- Good afternoon everybody,
my name's Levi Bachmeier.

00:59:49.740 --> 00:59:52.650
I'm a policy advisor for Governor Burgum.

00:59:52.650 --> 00:59:54.870
I really don't have much to say today,

00:59:54.870 --> 00:59:58.950
other than the priorities for
the Governor remain unchanged.

00:59:58.950 --> 01:00:01.320
The first priority is the
life, health and safety

01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.480
of everyone in this camp as it relates

01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:07.080
to potential flooding, and
the second is preventing

01:00:07.080 --> 01:00:10.050
an environmental disaster
by getting this camp

01:00:10.050 --> 01:00:12.030
cleaned up as quickly as possible.

01:00:12.030 --> 01:00:14.820
We ask that all people,
all the people currently

01:00:14.820 --> 01:00:18.750
in the camp behind us depart
prior to 2:00 PM tomorrow,

01:00:18.750 --> 01:00:21.273
the 22nd of February, 2017.

01:00:22.290 --> 01:00:24.502
- [Interviewer] Which
environmental disaster?

01:00:24.502 --> 01:00:26.787
The DAPL or the camp?
- Hey.

01:00:28.680 --> 01:00:30.960
- Our focus again is on
getting this camp clean

01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:33.600
and preventing any trash,
refuse or other rubbish

01:00:33.600 --> 01:00:37.077
from causing pollution
in the Missouri River.

01:00:37.077 --> 01:00:39.910
(trucks rumbling)

01:00:52.157 --> 01:00:54.907
(sirens wailing)

01:01:13.290 --> 01:01:15.480
- But if you're asking us to accept

01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:18.330
that this is our last 24 hours here,

01:01:18.330 --> 01:01:20.553
I need you to understand what this means.

01:01:22.290 --> 01:01:24.510
I don't want nobody to die.

01:01:24.510 --> 01:01:27.900
I don't want nobody to get hurt, (crying)

01:01:27.900 --> 01:01:31.743
and I need people to have that
time to process that emotion,

01:01:32.790 --> 01:01:36.150
to accept the fact that
they're coming in tomorrow,

01:01:36.150 --> 01:01:38.523
that you give us this
day and not come in here.

01:01:41.524 --> 01:01:46.524
(machinery rumbling)
- Hey, hey.

01:01:55.334 --> 01:02:00.084
(drummers singing in Native language)

01:02:15.225 --> 01:02:16.058
- We're, we're a beautiful people,

01:02:16.058 --> 01:02:20.280
and I'm proud and blessed
to be a Lakota woman.

01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:23.160
No matter our circumstances,
no matter the genocide,

01:02:23.160 --> 01:02:27.210
no matter all the tactics
to exterminate us,

01:02:27.210 --> 01:02:31.200
we rise, and we stand
and we love each other,

01:02:31.200 --> 01:02:34.564
and we laugh, and we sing, and we dance.

01:02:34.564 --> 01:02:37.463
That's our strength, that's who we are.

01:02:37.463 --> 01:02:42.177
(drummers singing in Native language)

01:02:42.177 --> 01:02:44.844
(drums beating)

01:02:58.988 --> 01:03:03.738
(activists singing in Native language)

01:03:17.169 --> 01:03:21.658
- So there's this vehicle,
and there's four vans for you.

01:03:21.658 --> 01:03:26.658
So go ahead and (sobbing)

01:03:34.798 --> 01:03:39.798
(activists chattering)
I'm so proud of you. (sobbing)

01:03:46.953 --> 01:03:51.703
(activists singing in Native language)

01:03:54.354 --> 01:03:55.920
- [Activist] So there are
people who are going to stay,

01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:59.267
but they are gonna stay in
a peaceful prayerful manner.

01:04:05.447 --> 01:04:10.197
(activists singing in Native language)

01:04:13.674 --> 01:04:16.424
(wind whooshing)

01:04:20.226 --> 01:04:23.976
(helicopter blades whirring)

01:04:32.444 --> 01:04:35.361
(humvee rumbling)

01:04:51.342 --> 01:04:54.009
(truck beeping)

01:04:57.036 --> 01:05:02.036
(wind whooshing)

01:05:03.262 --> 01:05:04.574
- Yo
- Yeah, go, go.

01:05:04.574 --> 01:05:06.473
- Go, go.

01:05:06.473 --> 01:05:09.890
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:05:11.648 --> 01:05:14.398
(wind whooshing)

01:05:19.268 --> 01:05:23.018
(helicopter blades whirring)

01:05:25.166 --> 01:05:27.999
(vehicle humming)

01:06:07.593 --> 01:06:08.593
- Whoo, wow.

01:06:20.388 --> 01:06:24.783
Wow, they've created an entire barrier.

01:06:26.850 --> 01:06:31.263
I am shocked. I'm just heartbroken.

01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:34.083
Look at what they've done.

01:06:38.190 --> 01:06:43.190
I am out here to do archeological data,

01:06:43.680 --> 01:06:45.633
photographing what's left.

01:06:46.873 --> 01:06:50.550
You know, it's a very historic
time for us as a people,

01:06:50.550 --> 01:06:55.550
as nations that came
here to visit, to pray,

01:06:55.710 --> 01:07:00.710
to bring the resources
that they shared with us.

01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:05.960
And they had a lot of heart
and a lot of mindful energy

01:07:07.410 --> 01:07:10.290
that they brought here, and
I don't want to see this

01:07:10.290 --> 01:07:14.010
end up in a dumpster, in a landfill.

01:07:14.010 --> 01:07:18.600
I want to save it for the future,

01:07:18.600 --> 01:07:23.600
for the cultural, spiritual
history that occurred here.

01:07:27.091 --> 01:07:31.751
(trucks humming)
(camera clicking)

01:07:31.751 --> 01:07:35.070
So DAPL's sitting up on
graves, and it doesn't matter

01:07:35.070 --> 01:07:36.920
that the bodies aren't there anymore.

01:07:37.770 --> 01:07:38.763
That's a graveyard.

01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:42.340
They're sitting right up
on top of that graveyard.

01:07:43.710 --> 01:07:45.423
That's pretty pathetic.

01:07:49.090 --> 01:07:54.090
(machinery humming)
(truck beeping)

01:08:10.281 --> 01:08:14.490
Wow, it's overwhelming,
this is overwhelming.

01:08:14.490 --> 01:08:19.383
This is just very sad, and
it makes me want to cry.

01:08:21.870 --> 01:08:26.250
There were people here
that really believed

01:08:26.250 --> 01:08:30.153
in what they were doing,
and it's just tragic.

01:08:31.641 --> 01:08:36.641
(machinery rumbling)
(truck beeping)

01:08:39.161 --> 01:08:41.911
(wind whooshing)

01:08:59.280 --> 01:09:01.710
- So where did Mike go?
- I'm here.

01:09:01.710 --> 01:09:04.500
- Oh, why did they put this up here?

01:09:04.500 --> 01:09:06.087
What's the purpose of this?

01:09:06.087 --> 01:09:07.830
- [Mike] Right now it's
just restricting access.

01:09:07.830 --> 01:09:09.410
- Just to that camp?

01:09:09.410 --> 01:09:11.063
- To the camps on this side.

01:09:11.063 --> 01:09:11.896
- Oh, to Oceti-

01:09:11.896 --> 01:09:13.740
- 'Cause they're cleaning it out.

01:09:13.740 --> 01:09:14.573
- So they're allowing that.

01:09:14.573 --> 01:09:17.460
- The EPA's down there, the
tribal program's down there too.

01:09:17.460 --> 01:09:19.559
They're just cleaning it up.

01:09:19.559 --> 01:09:22.642
(vehicles rumbling)

01:09:24.516 --> 01:09:27.150
- So this cement barrier
has significance to it.

01:09:27.150 --> 01:09:30.960
That's why I was kinda,
'cause they said on our res,

01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:32.517
this is our res, you know?

01:09:32.517 --> 01:09:34.413
And this barrier shouldn't be here.

01:09:35.610 --> 01:09:37.650
Morton County's up there, and they're,

01:09:37.650 --> 01:09:40.440
that's federally protected where
they barreled through, too.

01:09:40.440 --> 01:09:42.540
So you gotta, we need our day in court.

01:09:42.540 --> 01:09:46.710
But you know, court system is bullshit.

01:09:46.710 --> 01:09:50.490
I supported the Bureau,
BIA police to come here,

01:09:50.490 --> 01:09:53.970
and I can't support you
anymore, not with this barrier,

01:09:53.970 --> 01:09:57.933
not with fooling us, 'cause
this is our, our territory.

01:09:58.909 --> 01:09:59.757
- [Officer] This is a
interstate highway, ma'am.

01:09:59.757 --> 01:10:01.020
- We don't need to be policed.

01:10:01.020 --> 01:10:01.853
- [Mike] I understand.

01:10:01.853 --> 01:10:03.210
- We don't need to be policed.

01:10:04.710 --> 01:10:08.130
And I quit coming in a
good way to get stuff out,

01:10:08.130 --> 01:10:10.110
because police came from somewhere.

01:10:10.110 --> 01:10:13.260
I don't know where they
were, who they are,

01:10:13.260 --> 01:10:17.370
but they started harassing
me, so I quit coming.

01:10:17.370 --> 01:10:20.760
Too many of our people
got hurt, I witnessed it.

01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:23.580
I hate the brown uniforms, and-

01:10:23.580 --> 01:10:24.510
- I understand.

01:10:24.510 --> 01:10:29.510
- I told, they made all
the Indian women strip

01:10:30.300 --> 01:10:32.940
so they could search them
in that jail up there,

01:10:32.940 --> 01:10:34.140
but not the white women,

01:10:35.460 --> 01:10:37.740
and the white women are
gonna testify to that.

01:10:37.740 --> 01:10:40.980
So this has been a life experience for me,

01:10:40.980 --> 01:10:45.220
'cause I lived in the river bottom

01:10:46.380 --> 01:10:50.673
and they destroyed 197 homes in the river,

01:10:51.810 --> 01:10:55.140
and we've never been compensated
for it yet, you know?

01:10:55.140 --> 01:10:57.573
So we gotta go after the government.

01:10:58.530 --> 01:11:01.743
They took what they wanted
whenever they wanted it.

01:11:03.650 --> 01:11:06.483
(wind whooshing)

01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:15.393
- Here we are at the National
Archives in Washington, D.C.

01:11:16.350 --> 01:11:20.010
We sent an email about 10 days ago

01:11:20.010 --> 01:11:21.360
to try and get into the Archives

01:11:21.360 --> 01:11:24.723
to see the Fort Laramie
Treaty of 1868 and 1851.

01:11:27.270 --> 01:11:29.640
And we finally got a response that no,

01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:31.920
we were not gonna be able
to go into the Archives,

01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:35.133
and I was pretty disappointed.

01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:39.210
These are copies of the treaty.

01:11:39.210 --> 01:11:40.920
One of these signatures on here is

01:11:40.920 --> 01:11:45.030
of my great-great-grandfather,
Chief Walking Eagle,

01:11:45.030 --> 01:11:46.233
Wambdi Mani.

01:11:47.710 --> 01:11:52.710
He had 12 tepees under him
in the 1885 census rolls

01:11:53.130 --> 01:11:56.490
at Standing Rock, and he died in 1904.

01:11:56.490 --> 01:11:58.770
I didn't know that I was coming to D.C.

01:11:58.770 --> 01:12:01.710
and as soon as I did,
I tried to get access.

01:12:01.710 --> 01:12:04.200
It would've been really,
really a wonderful thing

01:12:04.200 --> 01:12:07.830
to see something that my
great-great-grandfather

01:12:07.830 --> 01:12:11.280
put hand to pen to paper on.

01:12:11.280 --> 01:12:14.250
And it's a little sad
that I haven't been able

01:12:14.250 --> 01:12:15.250
to go in and see it.

01:12:16.950 --> 01:12:20.820
This is the very reason why
we gotta study the past.

01:12:20.820 --> 01:12:24.420
I love this, it says,
"What is past is prologue".

01:12:24.420 --> 01:12:28.500
We gotta study the past
and how it fits into

01:12:28.500 --> 01:12:30.660
what is happening right now,

01:12:30.660 --> 01:12:32.820
and how it will impact the future,

01:12:32.820 --> 01:12:35.490
because the past does impact the future.

01:12:35.490 --> 01:12:38.400
And so they say to Indian
people, "Get over it.

01:12:38.400 --> 01:12:40.950
That was a long time
ago, I didn't do that.

01:12:40.950 --> 01:12:42.210
I didn't cause that."

01:12:42.210 --> 01:12:44.580
No, we are all responsible.

01:12:44.580 --> 01:12:47.910
We all benefit from what
happened in the past.

01:12:47.910 --> 01:12:49.530
We all benefit from the genocide

01:12:49.530 --> 01:12:51.390
that has occurred to Native peoples.

01:12:51.390 --> 01:12:55.860
We all benefit from the removal
of people from their lands.

01:12:55.860 --> 01:13:00.570
We still are today benefiting
from all of those public lands

01:13:00.570 --> 01:13:02.430
and the profits that come from them.

01:13:02.430 --> 01:13:04.650
So, "What is past is prologue"

01:13:04.650 --> 01:13:08.064
is very pertinent to the story.

01:13:08.064 --> 01:13:10.981
(birds chirping)

01:13:30.360 --> 01:13:33.210
- We are dual citizens.

01:13:33.210 --> 01:13:38.210
We are Oceti Sakowin first,
and then we are Americans.

01:13:40.200 --> 01:13:43.233
They have crossed treaty territory,

01:13:44.220 --> 01:13:47.793
protections guaranteed
by the Constitution.

01:13:49.680 --> 01:13:52.260
Individual freedoms in this country

01:13:52.260 --> 01:13:55.170
are being violated at the highest level.

01:13:55.170 --> 01:13:59.100
There is a blatant disregard
for the Constitution.

01:13:59.100 --> 01:14:03.033
We need to voice our
concerns, we need to stand up.

01:14:05.310 --> 01:14:07.593
We know what we have to do in the future.

01:14:09.180 --> 01:14:13.203
We are in the front lines
for our lands and our rights.

01:14:14.820 --> 01:14:16.083
We are the vanguard.

01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:22.293
And so I see this as a
mobilization for America,

01:14:23.550 --> 01:14:27.150
that we are no longer
the canaries in the mine.

01:14:27.150 --> 01:14:30.393
We are in the front lines and
in the fight for survival.

01:14:31.290 --> 01:14:35.913
Whatever happens to us will
happen to the Americans.

01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:41.440
What we did here was we took a stand

01:14:43.470 --> 01:14:48.093
and America stood with Standing Rock,

01:14:49.470 --> 01:14:51.993
and so now we have to, together,

01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:57.033
together, we have to make a difference.

01:14:58.890 --> 01:15:02.103
We cannot be silent, we cannot acquiesce.

01:15:04.661 --> 01:15:09.661
(drum beating)
(birds chirping)

01:15:25.232 --> 01:15:28.982
(helicopter blades whirring)

01:15:33.931 --> 01:15:38.931
(drum beating)
(activists chattering)

01:16:05.712 --> 01:16:08.795
(activists cheering)