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- [Narrator] In Montana,

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in the middle of the Western Great Plains,

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(trumpet blaring)

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a major event is taking place
that represents the pride

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of the Native American people.

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Young Sioux and Cheyenne riders
are preparing to take part

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in a reenactment of the
Native American wars

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of the 19th century.

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- Go to wars, Custer and the Calvary.

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(warrior yelling)

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- [Narrator] In the opposite camp,

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the men from the seventh
U.S. Cavalry Regiment

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are also making their preparations.

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- Feet in saddles!

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- [Narrator] For two hours,

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the story of how the West
was won will be reenacted.

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(crowd applauding)
(warrior yelling)

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A period that had dramatic consequences

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for the Native American people

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who were driven from their lands.

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- Important in history,

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so our children and their children

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can grow up in a world that
history hasn't been canceled.

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It hasn't been changed.

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It's real, and it'll live on.

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- Come on, come on, follow me.

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Let's go!

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- [Narrator] Nowadays,
there's no longer any shame

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in reenacting the U.S.
Army's worst defeat,

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the Battle of the Little Bighorn,

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although it's an event

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that was not mentioned for many years.

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On the 25th of June 1876,

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General Custer's troops
launched an assault

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against the enemy village.

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But the 600 soldiers were unaware

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that the camp contained several thousand

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Native American warriors,

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led by the renowned chief, Crazy Horse.

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(warriors yelling)
(drums beating)

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- [Speaker] Peace.

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- [Narrator] After several
hours of fierce fighting,

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the seventh regiment was decimated.

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More than 260 soldiers were killed.

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- Get a picture of me
wearing your and your gun.

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- [Narrator] Even though
this legendary battle

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would be the Native American's

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last victory against the U.S. Army,

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for Jack, its reenactment is
the symbol of restored pride.

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- He's gonna have him take that.

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- I want it to keep going.

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I wanna preserve what
I have for my children,

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for my grandchildren,
for their grandchildren.

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So it's for perpetual
culture, the way of life.

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- [Narrator] In Montana,

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as is true virtually all
across the United States,

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after coming close to being extinguished,

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the Native American spirit

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is beginning to infuse
the new world again.

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For centuries, Native
Americans were the only peoples

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to inhabit America and
its wide open spaces.

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Whether Sioux, Cheyenne, or Cherokee,

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hundreds of native tribes
developed their culture,

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language, and traditions.

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But from the 16th century
onwards, European colonization

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had a drastic impact on these communities.

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They were ravaged by war and disease.

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Massacred in millions, the
Native Americans who survived

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were discriminated against
and confined to reservations.

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But in recent years, a protest movement

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has taken hold at the indigenous peoples.

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Like other minorities in the country,

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Native Americans are fighting
to defend their rights.

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- We're starting to flourish again,

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and we're getting our identity.

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- [Narrator] Some of the
members have even been elected

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to Congress, like Deb Haaland,
the first Native American

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to become a cabinet secretary in 2021.

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- I'll be fierce for all of us,

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for our planet, and all
of our protected land.

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- [Narrator] Nowadays, the
United States has 574 tribes

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located across almost all the country.

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They're reviving their traditions

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and reconnecting with their
ancestral way of life.

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In Montana, the Blackfeet Nation

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has taken up bison hunting
again, but in 21st century style.

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- Straight in front of us.

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- The biggest one.
- Over by the fence,

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the biggest one, see him?

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(gun firing)

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- [Narrator] Jesse is
involved in the renaissance

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of a dangerous extreme
sport, the Indian relay race.

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- Come on, Interactive, come on!

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- [Narrator] Some American
Indian communities

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are even managing to buy
back their ancestral lands,

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like the Fort Berthold tribe,

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which is expanding its territory,
thanks to money from oil.

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- We're a little over 500
million a year in total revenues.

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- [Narrator] Previously seen
as second class citizens,

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the nine million Native Americans

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are now reconquering America,

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(warrior yelling)

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the wild and remote land of South Dakota.

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Pine Ridge Reservation is here,

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sacred territory belonging
to the Lakota Nation.

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Ashley's family has lived
here for several generations.

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In her living room, this 35-year-old

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is keeping ancestral know-how alive.

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- I feel like I grew up watching
my mom make her dresses.

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And then she said, "Okay,
well, you're getting older.

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You need to try to start
making your own dresses.

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And you're old enough, and
it's a good skill to have,

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especially if you're
serious about dancing,

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you need to learn how to make your stuff."

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- [Narrator] In two days time,

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Ashley will be representing her tribe

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at a dance competition called a powwow.

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So she's paying careful
attention to every detail

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to ensure that her outfit is perfect.

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- This is a jingle dress,
and these are the jingles

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and the cones that we dance with.

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In Lakota, we call it a (indistinct).

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And (indistinct) is the
sound that it makes,

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the jingling sound.

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- [Narrator] The young
woman has been dancing

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since she was a child.

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- Hi, mom.
- Hi, mom!

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- Hey!
- A passion

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that she's passed on to
one of her three children.

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- How was school?

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- [Narrator] Washoshi is in third grade.

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At seven years old, he's
already an experienced dancer.

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- This is our bell.

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We use 'em.

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We use 'em for dancing and
we put 'em on our ankles.

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Warriors used it in some
battles to scare the people.

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- You want Sunday's hair too.

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- Yeah.
- Okay.

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- [Narrator] Ashley is bringing up

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her children in the
American Indian culture.

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So at home, she's teaching them Lakota,

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the language of their ancestors.

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- How do you say-

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- Igmu.
- Igmu.

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(speaking in Lakota)

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Right, this one?

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- [Narrator] Today, less than 10%

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of the reservation's
inhabitants speak this language.

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However, in recent years,
more and more schools

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have been giving Lakota lessons.

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- There's a generation now,

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and it's a movement that
the language is coming back

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and that people are
really wanting to learn.

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Are you gonna carry on the language?

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Say yes.

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Are you gonna carry on the language?

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- [Narrator] Ashley and her son

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celebrate this pride in their identity

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at each dance competition.

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In two days time, they'll be taking part

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in the largest powwow in the region.

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- [Ashley] Do you
remember the A, B, C part?

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- [Narrator] South Dakota
is the state that embodies

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the Native American's revenge on history.

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In the Black Hills Mountains,

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two opposing symbols are
carved into the rock:

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Mount Rushmore, depicting four

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of the most notable American presidents;

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and a half a dozen miles away,

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the huge sculpture of the renowned

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Native American, Chief Crazy horse.

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A battle of memories
that plays out each year

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on the streets of the capitol.

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(light music)

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(crowd chanting)

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- Happy Native American Day.

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Hey.

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Hey, who's proud to be Lakota here today?

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Who's proud to be Lakota?

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- [Narrator] It's Indigenous
People's Day in Rapid City.

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It's celebrated in October each year,

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and the date is no coincidence.

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- Hey guys, what's up?

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We are live here, ending the silence.

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- [Narrator] In the rest of
the country at the same time,

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they're commemorating
Christopher Columbus'

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discovery of America.

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It's a public holiday for Americans,

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but it has always symbolized oppression

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for indigenous peoples.

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- Columbus was the man
that did bad things.

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We should never honor
murderers and things like that.

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So Indigenous People's
Day is a day to remember

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those 529 years of genocide
and that we're still here,

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especially here in the
contested treaty lands.

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No American here.

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We're before that.

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- [Narrator] South Dakota
is the first American state

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to have replaced Columbus Day
with Indigenous People's Day.

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Since then, a dozen other
states have followed suit.

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- This was their land.

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The English came, and I mean,
there was a lot of slaughter.

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They deserve to have their day.

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- Oh, my gosh.

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(motorcycle engine revving)

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- [Narrator] At the other end of the city,

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whole families are arriving
from all over the country.

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They're coming to fly the flag

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for their respective tribes
at the Black Hills Powwow,

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a dance competition.

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(bright music)

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- Our native languages are flourishing.

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Our culture, our songs, and our dances,

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our rock and roll.

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- [Narrator] The 1200 dancers
dressed in their finest,

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hand-embroidered clothes, bone
necklaces, and headdresses

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made from real eagle feathers.

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Aged from 4 to 77, they
all go head to head

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in different dance routines.

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The most impressive is this warrior dance

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with acrobatic movements.

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- [Announcer] One group, two songs.

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Here we go!

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- [Narrator] In the stands,
Ashley is arranging her outfit.

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- Every detail is important,

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from my head to my toes. (laughs)

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Yeah, and we always have to make sure

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everything's put on nice and tight.

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- [Narrator] This year,
Ashley is defending her title.

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So just a few minutes
before going on stage,

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the champion is a little nervous.

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- What's more challenging for me?

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Dancing the style and staying in shape.

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Sing, dance, and dance the songs,

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the songs are about three
to four minutes long,

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and we're dancing the whole
time and we're on our toes.

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- [Announcer] Women's (indistinct)
fancy right after this.

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- [Narrator] Ashley is competing

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against some 15 participants

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in a dance routine known
as the Jingle Dance.

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(fast-paced drumming)

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In days gone by, this dance was performed

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during ceremonies to cure the sick.

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Every step must be in time with the drums.

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(drumming continues)

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(warriors chanting)

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After an intense four minutes,

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Ashley can finally catch her breath.

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- [Announcer] Thank you, thank you.

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- Really good, I felt like I did my best

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and I felt like I did good.

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I'm happy.

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- [Narrator] The young
woman will have to wait

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until the end of the competition
to find out the results.

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These dancers are not the only ones

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reconnecting with their traditions.

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Throughout the country,

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there's a renaissance in
Native American culture.

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(light drum beats)

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The Blackfeet Indian Reservation

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lies on the border between
Montana and Canada.

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A legendary animal from
the Western Great Plains

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has reappeared on this land, the bison.

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(car engine revving)

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- Well, let's get close enough

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to have 'em in the background.

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- [Speaker] Yeah.

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- 'Cause otherwise, they'll take off.

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- [Narrator] Members
of the Blackfeet tribe,

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Ervin Carlson and Cristina Mormorunni

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have reintroduced 600
bison onto the reservation.

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Come from Canada, the
animals roam at the leisure

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over a surface area of
65 square kilometers.

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For Ervin and Cristina, the
bison is a sacred animal.

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- Those little ones are,
they look pretty new, eh?

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- They are, yeah, those are new babies.

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- Really new, right?
- All the red ones

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are new babies.
- Wow.

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One mama looks so blonde.

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She looks like a LA mama.

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- It makes me feel good to see

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these back on our landscape

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and especially these animals
are kind of special to us.

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A big part of our culture back
that was gone for so long.

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Four, five-

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- Six, seven.

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Oh, he was right.
- Six.

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- [Narrator] Before the
European seculars arrived,

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they were almost 60 million
bison in North America.

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But after the west was won,

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the animal virtually disappeared.

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- So there was less than 500 left

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at the turn of the century, early 1900s.

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- They were exterminated or killed off

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just to make way for the white settlement,

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for their cattle.

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And like I say, for killing them

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was a way of trying to
even get rid of us also.

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- [Narrator] Thanks to
reintroduction policies,

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the United States now has 500,000 animals.

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But while this huge beast
is venerated and protected,

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once a year, the community is reviving

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an ancestral cultural
activity, bison hunting,

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with an educational aim to
teach younger generations

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about the animals' importance.

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The ceremony begins with a blessing.

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Kale, aged 14, will have
the honor of going hunting.

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- Pretty good, my boy. (laughs)

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It's a holy paint.

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They paint it for the
hunter going out on a hunt.

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Yeah.

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- [Interviewer] Is it
to give good luck or-

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- Yeah, good luck.

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Mm-hmm.

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- [Narrator] Kale will be
accompanied by his father Chase

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and a handful of men from the tribe.

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- Are you gonna ride with us, walkie?

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- Yeah.

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- Sounds good.

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I'll put him right in, uh,
what side do you wanna be on?

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- Passenger.
- Passenger?

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Okay.

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- [Narrator] There are
no bows or arrows here.

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Instead, a long distance hunting
rifle fitted with a scope.

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- Okay.

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(upbeat music)

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- [Narrator] A dozen states in the USA

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allow bison hunting
for population control.

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(upbeat music)

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- Always look at 'em before you do it.

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You kinda go on how they, you know what?

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If it's in good shape, it's
got a lot of fat on it,

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and you want something that's good to eat.

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Just like the old days.

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- [Narrator] Just like the old days.

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Well, not quite.

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- It's a modern way of hunting.

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It's from the pickup.

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'Cause they're so tame, you
don't have to worry about them

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running too far, so
the quicker you get 'em

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before they get excited, the better.

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- [Narrator] Just one animal
is killed during the hunt.

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So Kale and his father choose
their target carefully.

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- [Chase] Straight in front of us.

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- The biggest one?
- Over by the fence.

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The biggest one, see him?

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- Yeah.
- Between those two poles.

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- Yeah, I see.
- Yeah, that one.

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See, good size young bull.

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Nice.

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That's the one.

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Okay, get your bullet in.
- Clear.

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- [Narrator] With all the
weight of his 14 years,

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this high school pupil

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faces the largest land
mammal in North America.

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- As soon as he turns his head.

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There he is.

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- [Narrator] Kale has to shoot
the beast with a precise shot

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behind the ear to kill it outright.

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(gun firing)

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- [Chase] Oh, good one.

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- [Narrator] But the hunters
no longer have the skills

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of their ancestors, and it
takes them two attempts.

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- Couldn't get a good
shot, but it was good.

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- Yeah.
- He presented himself too.

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He'd come right up, see him, look.

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- Yeah.
- Oh.

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There he is, yeah.

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It's awesome, huh?

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Hey.

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- I feel good 'cause I
feel like my ancestors

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did this before I could,
and it got taken away

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and we couldn't do it for so long.

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And my grandpa and him
finally brought a buffalo back

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and we could finally butcher again.

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- [Narrator] A great hunting trophy

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that weighs almost a ton.

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The bison is brought back to
the community to be cut up.

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(people yelling)

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- We're training the next
generation of hunters.

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- [Narrator] The Blackfeet Nation

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used every part of the bison.

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For centuries, the animal formed

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the basis of their way of life.

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- It was not only food, medicine,

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it was tools in our shelter.

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The hide was used for the clothes, right?

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Was the clothes and the
lodge or the teepee.

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The meat, again, was used for everything.

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The fat was used for ceremonial.

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- [Narrator] The meat from
the animal will be distributed

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to the whole community.

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In 2016, the bison was
elevated to the status

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of a national emblem on
a par with the eagle,

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a way of reconciling America
with its painful past.

00:18:42.051 --> 00:18:45.134
(indistinct chatter)

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Long forbidden by the American government,

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indigenous cultural practices
were gradually reintroduced

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over the course of the 20th century,

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like powwows, which
reappeared in the 1930s.

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In Rapid City, South Dakota,

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(announcer speaking indistinctly)

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It's the turn of Ashley's son
Washoshi to perform on stage.

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- [Announcer] The main
event of the afternoon.

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- [Narrator] The young
boy has three minutes

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to convince the jury.

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Washoshi is paying homage to his ancestors

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with this dance routine.

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- They're arrogant, they're confident,

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that's what the chicken dance represents,

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the symbology of a male
trying to impress the female.

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- [Narrator] The boy is one
of the youngest participants,

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yet at the age of seven,

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he already has the ease of a champion.

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- [Narrator] At the end of the day,

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it's time to award the prizes.

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- [Announcer] Payouts ready to go.

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Standby by, veterans.

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- [Narrator] Washoshi will
be the first to find out

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the jury's decision.

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- [Announcer] Your champion,
(indistinct) number 223,

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Washoshi Garcia!

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- [Narrator] The young boy wins
first prize in his category.

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- Good job out there.

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- [Narrator] The dancer goes
home with a check for $250.

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And above all, he's made his father proud.

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- [Announcer] Number 362, (indistinct).

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- Good job, good job.

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It's all about the future generations.

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Yeah, you have to, so that
the culture will live.

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The powwow is a good way to
teach them how to be social.

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- [Narrator] This year, Ashley
has to hand over her title.

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However, she consoles
herself with third place

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and a check for $700.

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- [Announcer] Statue number 187.

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- I'm really proud.

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I feel so lucky and blessed
to be Native American,

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to be indigenous and to be like,

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to be Lakota.

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And they say that this is Lakota country.

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- Nice!
- Thank you.

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- She should got first.

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(Ashley laughs)

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- [Narrator] While the Native Americans

00:21:28.470 --> 00:21:31.140
are proudly asserting
their identity nowadays,

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their fight doesn't stop there.

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They're also looking
to recover their land.

00:21:36.098 --> 00:21:38.516
(light music)

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In northern California,

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the territory is wild and
not well known to tourists.

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(light music continues)

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260 miles long, the Klamath River

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runs through the Pacific mounting ranges.

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It's a river whose ecosystem

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has long been threatened
by hydroelectric dams.

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Molly and her husband, Frankie,
have been fighting for years

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to protect this environment.

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- [Molly] Do I need a turn?

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- No, keep going, you're good.

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Maybe a little the other way.

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To the left, yeah.

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- [Narrator] Molly is the
director of an environmental NGO.

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Frankie is the vice
chairman of the Yurok Tribe.

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- [Molly] River looks amazing.

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- [Narrator] Each week, they
come to fish for salmon here.

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- It's our river, and we've
been here since time immemorial.

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Our ancestors, we say it's in our DNA,

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and everything we do
is based on this river,

00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:44.900
our fish, our management, our villages.

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It's like a good fishing spot.

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- [Narrator] But for some time now,

00:22:53.700 --> 00:22:55.713
the fishing has been far from great.

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- No fish today.

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Nothing on this drift, but caught a stick.

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So we know the net's working anyway.

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- [Narrator] The river
level has been too low

00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:07.410
for three years.

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Drought, dams, and the water

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distributed to farmers are to blame.

00:23:12.990 --> 00:23:14.130
- Ah.

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Even though we're still not catching

00:23:16.110 --> 00:23:17.580
as many fish as we would like

00:23:17.580 --> 00:23:20.550
and we're not filling our smokehouse,

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we know, in the next 10
years, it's gonna be better.

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- [Narrator] The couple have
regained a sense of hope,

00:23:28.350 --> 00:23:30.120
because thanks to their fight,

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the salmon are set to
repopulate the river.

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It all began in September 2002.

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Almost 70,000 salmon
died within a few days.

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The images of decomposing
shocked California,

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and above, all the local tribes

00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:51.260
who were worried about
the risk of extinction.

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- Well, the one that was the really core

00:23:55.020 --> 00:23:58.230
of the problem that was
killing our salmon was the dams

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and the toxic blue green algae.

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- [Molly] So you can
see how the toxic water,

00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:05.883
how the blooms, how the algae blooms are.

00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.150
- And then it became our
mission to remove the dam.

00:24:09.150 --> 00:24:14.150
That was step one in our goal
to restore the Klamath basin.

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If we couldn't-

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- [Narrator] Leading a group of activists,

00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.230
the couple would protest for years,

00:24:19.230 --> 00:24:22.620
not just in the United
States, but also in Scotland,

00:24:22.620 --> 00:24:25.650
outside the premises of the
company that operates the dams.

00:24:25.650 --> 00:24:28.690
- Look at me.
- You look young, dude.

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- [Narrator] 20 years of effort,

00:24:32.760 --> 00:24:35.190
and just when they thought
it was over, victory.

00:24:35.190 --> 00:24:37.903
- Whoa!
(people cheering)

00:24:41.580 --> 00:24:43.440
It's still awesome.

00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:45.810
- [Narrator] Following a
ruling by the U.S. government,

00:24:45.810 --> 00:24:47.940
the first of the four downs was destroyed

00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:51.660
in September 2023, an event
that Molly and Frankie

00:24:51.660 --> 00:24:53.410
wouldn't have missed for the world.

00:24:54.690 --> 00:24:55.980
- It was unbelievable.

00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:58.080
Like we'd hear the timelines and we'd talk

00:24:58.080 --> 00:25:01.590
and go through in the
days that we'd go out

00:25:01.590 --> 00:25:04.773
and actually see the dam blast.

00:25:05.790 --> 00:25:07.230
I mean, it was like we were seeing it,

00:25:07.230 --> 00:25:08.720
but it was like we weren't seeing it.

00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:10.830
It was like a dream.

00:25:10.830 --> 00:25:12.030
- [Narrator] By the end of the year,

00:25:12.030 --> 00:25:14.793
the other three dams will
be entirely dismantled.

00:25:15.750 --> 00:25:17.130
- Wanted to make burgers.

00:25:17.130 --> 00:25:18.810
- [Narrator] While the
justice system has allowed

00:25:18.810 --> 00:25:21.783
the Yuroks to gradually take
back control of their land,

00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:27.510
certain tribes have found
another way to reconquer them

00:25:27.510 --> 00:25:29.493
by way of millions of dollars.

00:25:31.890 --> 00:25:34.890
In North Dakota, Fort Berthold Reservation

00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:37.800
is currently buying back
the plains of its ancestors,

00:25:37.800 --> 00:25:41.253
thanks to a treasure that it
contains in its depths, oil.

00:25:46.230 --> 00:25:48.390
Black gold flows freely here

00:25:48.390 --> 00:25:50.730
and has made this Native
American territory

00:25:50.730 --> 00:25:53.430
a reservation worth millions.

00:25:53.430 --> 00:25:56.190
At the head of this
oil empire is Mark Fox,

00:25:56.190 --> 00:25:58.593
who's been chairman of
the tribe for 10 years.

00:26:00.120 --> 00:26:02.730
- Six years ago, when they
started building the school,

00:26:02.730 --> 00:26:04.500
it was just a field over here.

00:26:04.500 --> 00:26:06.660
So all this has happened

00:26:06.660 --> 00:26:09.540
really in the last seven, eight years.

00:26:09.540 --> 00:26:10.620
- [Narrator] At Fort Berthold,

00:26:10.620 --> 00:26:12.270
state-of-the-art infrastructure

00:26:12.270 --> 00:26:14.133
is springing up like mushrooms.

00:26:15.810 --> 00:26:18.183
A fire station, a police station,

00:26:19.740 --> 00:26:22.833
a brand new stadium, and a medical center.

00:26:25.290 --> 00:26:27.000
The tribe's chairman really looks

00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:29.733
after the reservations' 8,000 inhabitants.

00:26:30.930 --> 00:26:34.170
- This is an example of
what we're doing here.

00:26:34.170 --> 00:26:38.250
So all this infrastructure,

00:26:38.250 --> 00:26:41.250
very costly but very necessary.

00:26:41.250 --> 00:26:42.930
- [Narrator] With these new constructions,

00:26:42.930 --> 00:26:44.400
Mark Fox hopes to achieve

00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.503
full employment in a few months time.

00:26:48.600 --> 00:26:50.520
- We're looking at a
reservation that, at one time,

00:26:50.520 --> 00:26:52.020
had 70% unemployment.

00:26:52.020 --> 00:26:54.428
Today, they're claiming the counties

00:26:54.428 --> 00:26:57.660
that are part of this reservation

00:26:57.660 --> 00:27:00.630
only have 2.5 to 3% unemployment.

00:27:00.630 --> 00:27:02.160
I believe it's a little bit higher,

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.870
probably closer 10 to 15, but
that's far better than 70%.

00:27:06.870 --> 00:27:08.951
- [Narrator] Thanks to these projects.

00:27:08.951 --> 00:27:10.276
- Looking good.

00:27:10.276 --> 00:27:11.640
Looking really good.

00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:12.930
- [Narrator] The chairman of the tribe

00:27:12.930 --> 00:27:15.990
is a man highly appreciated
by his citizens.

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This ex-veteran has already
been reelected twice

00:27:18.930 --> 00:27:20.430
by the tribal council,

00:27:20.430 --> 00:27:22.533
the equivalent of the municipal council.

00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:26.561
- Hi young lady, how are you?

00:27:26.561 --> 00:27:29.040
From Hawaii?
- Good to see you.

00:27:29.040 --> 00:27:30.360
- [Narrator] Today, he's celebrating

00:27:30.360 --> 00:27:32.643
the retirement of a municipal employee.

00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:35.820
- Congratulations.

00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:40.800
- [Narrator] After 60 years
of good and faithful service

00:27:40.800 --> 00:27:42.390
as a cook.

00:27:42.390 --> 00:27:43.830
- An honor and privilege to be here

00:27:43.830 --> 00:27:47.520
to come in and share with
Luana, the reservation.

00:27:47.520 --> 00:27:48.930
We got a congratulations card.

00:27:48.930 --> 00:27:52.230
We got $200 gift cards and
$100 bill for 500 bucks

00:27:52.230 --> 00:27:55.097
to spend any way she wants
to spend so there's lot.

00:27:55.097 --> 00:27:57.030
- [Narrator] But as a good tribal chief,

00:27:57.030 --> 00:28:00.303
the chairman takes the
opportunity to talk up his record.

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- Our nation is so grateful

00:28:03.540 --> 00:28:05.280
that have done so much for all of us

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and really made Fort Berthold

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one of the best places to live.

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We have hundreds of millions of dollars

00:28:09.870 --> 00:28:11.985
of development spread throughout.

00:28:11.985 --> 00:28:14.902
(crowd applauding)

00:28:15.810 --> 00:28:18.720
- [Narrator] If Fort Berthold
has become a new El Dorado,

00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:20.190
it's thanks to the discovery

00:28:20.190 --> 00:28:23.940
of a huge shale gas field in 2006.

00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:27.120
The reservation has
experienced an oil boom.

00:28:27.120 --> 00:28:29.760
It now has just under 3,000 wells,

00:28:29.760 --> 00:28:31.590
and the Native American community

00:28:31.590 --> 00:28:34.713
collects $40 million a
month in oil revenue.

00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:42.870
- There's all these things
that occurred to us,

00:28:42.870 --> 00:28:45.840
put us in a position where
we are very dependent

00:28:45.840 --> 00:28:50.070
on the federal government
just to survive, just to live.

00:28:50.070 --> 00:28:51.510
And we're changing that.

00:28:51.510 --> 00:28:53.670
We don't want to depend
on the federal government.

00:28:53.670 --> 00:28:55.803
We want to regain what we had.

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- [Narrator] To make his
tribe self-sufficient,

00:29:01.080 --> 00:29:03.300
Mark Fox is having a giant greenhouse

00:29:03.300 --> 00:29:05.163
built to an innovative design.

00:29:07.410 --> 00:29:09.930
The vegetable garden will
be heated all year round

00:29:09.930 --> 00:29:13.170
by the surplus exhaust
gas burnt in the flares,

00:29:13.170 --> 00:29:16.953
a project costing an
astronomical amount, $70 million.

00:29:19.590 --> 00:29:22.020
- A little bit more every time I come.

00:29:22.020 --> 00:29:22.853
- Yep.

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Like I say, right now with the automation,

00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:26.430
with the sun, a little bit of sun

00:29:26.430 --> 00:29:28.950
we had this morning shades automatically.

00:29:28.950 --> 00:29:32.040
- Whole production within 9, 10 months.

00:29:32.040 --> 00:29:35.790
Nine months, I believe,
unless that's changed.

00:29:35.790 --> 00:29:39.030
- [Narrator] Tomatoes, peppers,
cucumbers, strawberries.

00:29:39.030 --> 00:29:40.920
More than 900 tons of food

00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:43.920
is set to be produced here all year long,

00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:47.010
enough to feed lots of people.

00:29:47.010 --> 00:29:49.140
- We're gonna grow our own food.

00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:52.020
Not only grow our own
food for our own purposes,

00:29:52.020 --> 00:29:54.720
it's also gonna maybe help
provide emergency food

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:56.577
to food banks across the United States

00:29:56.577 --> 00:29:58.140
and the world as well.

00:29:58.140 --> 00:30:01.350
But grow food to export
out and bring in revenue,

00:30:01.350 --> 00:30:03.720
more revenue for our economic development.

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.290
That's the plan, that's the key.

00:30:06.290 --> 00:30:08.550
- [Narrator] 90% of the
reservation's revenue

00:30:08.550 --> 00:30:10.440
comes from hydrocarbons.

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:12.690
But the tribe knows that this honey pot

00:30:12.690 --> 00:30:15.060
is in danger of running dry one day,

00:30:15.060 --> 00:30:17.190
so it's investing heavily.

00:30:17.190 --> 00:30:19.500
In his office, Mark Fox spends his day

00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:23.223
signing checks with several
zeros with barely a glance.

00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:25.413
- Yeah, this is an example

00:30:25.413 --> 00:30:27.720
of a community park that we're building.

00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:31.140
Basically, about a $9 million, that one.

00:30:31.140 --> 00:30:33.120
This one is apartment buildings.

00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:37.020
This one is building a new
community health resource center,

00:30:37.020 --> 00:30:40.533
one of our clinics and
stuff, $50 million project.

00:30:42.780 --> 00:30:44.130
- [Narrator] Thanks to these millions,

00:30:44.130 --> 00:30:47.133
the chairman of the tribe is
achieving a master stroke.

00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:50.580
- Alright, there's our map.

00:30:50.580 --> 00:30:52.200
- [Narrator] Buying back almost 300

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:54.840
square kilometers of ancestral lands.

00:30:54.840 --> 00:30:58.650
- Here will be now part
of our reservation,

00:30:58.650 --> 00:31:00.873
expanding our boundaries to the west.

00:31:01.860 --> 00:31:06.860
And down here, we acquired
along the Missouri River.

00:31:07.230 --> 00:31:10.530
This land, the other
non-Indians who are coming in

00:31:10.530 --> 00:31:14.400
to try to take our land and
live here didn't want it,

00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.230
but that's where the oil is today.

00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:19.200
So now, the land that they left for us,

00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.980
that they thought was no good
is now give us an opportunity

00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:26.100
to buy back and regain the
land that they took away.

00:31:26.100 --> 00:31:27.753
That's your irony right there.

00:31:29.430 --> 00:31:31.290
- [Narrator] If Mark
Fox is to be believed,

00:31:31.290 --> 00:31:33.930
hydrocarbons are a blessing for the tribe.

00:31:33.930 --> 00:31:36.903
But certain residents see
them as more of a curse.

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.713
The Mandari segment in the
east of the reservation.

00:31:44.910 --> 00:31:46.170
- And the rain stopped.

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It's great.
- Yes.

00:31:47.820 --> 00:31:51.510
- [Narrator] Jeff Gerhart
works for an environmental NGO.

00:31:51.510 --> 00:31:54.390
Today, he's installing a
small box in the garden

00:31:54.390 --> 00:31:56.670
belonging to Lisa and her daughter,

00:31:56.670 --> 00:31:58.983
a device for measuring air quality.

00:32:00.630 --> 00:32:02.160
- So then once you plug it back in,

00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:04.230
there's a little blue light here.

00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:05.523
Okay, so we're good.

00:32:07.470 --> 00:32:08.340
Excellent.

00:32:08.340 --> 00:32:10.590
We did seven last year,

00:32:10.590 --> 00:32:12.570
and then we have another 10 to 15

00:32:12.570 --> 00:32:14.190
that will be going up this year.

00:32:14.190 --> 00:32:16.890
So yeah, we're hoping
to expand the network

00:32:16.890 --> 00:32:21.150
and then kind of build out
a higher density of monitors

00:32:21.150 --> 00:32:24.000
so that we can do more
sophisticated analysis

00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.890
of the air quality patterns.

00:32:25.890 --> 00:32:27.930
- Right now, what I expect from this

00:32:27.930 --> 00:32:30.270
is to educate our people on the air

00:32:30.270 --> 00:32:33.093
and what we're breathing
from oil and gas extraction.

00:32:34.260 --> 00:32:36.360
- [Narrator] Lisa is getting
this monitor installed

00:32:36.360 --> 00:32:38.970
because she and her husband
have been having breathing

00:32:38.970 --> 00:32:41.073
difficulties over the past few years.

00:32:42.840 --> 00:32:46.110
In 2015, worried about the oil frenzy,

00:32:46.110 --> 00:32:49.824
she decided to document the
effects on the environment.

00:32:49.824 --> 00:32:52.407
(light music)

00:32:53.610 --> 00:32:56.610
Lisa and Walter took photos
and videos of the flares,

00:32:56.610 --> 00:32:59.463
which released pollutant
gases such as methane.

00:33:02.100 --> 00:33:06.660
- This is all the gases
that are coming off of that,

00:33:06.660 --> 00:33:08.610
coming out of that well site.

00:33:08.610 --> 00:33:09.510
And it's invisible.

00:33:09.510 --> 00:33:10.830
You can't see it with the naked eye.

00:33:10.830 --> 00:33:12.810
Without this flare imaging camera,

00:33:12.810 --> 00:33:15.540
the way it is right
here, you can't see that

00:33:15.540 --> 00:33:19.290
and you can't smell it
because it's odorless.

00:33:19.290 --> 00:33:21.513
Got a consistent cough.

00:33:22.710 --> 00:33:23.880
Got congested.

00:33:23.880 --> 00:33:26.700
- And that physician
said, "Well, you guys have

00:33:26.700 --> 00:33:29.700
what I called the bucking cough."

00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:34.700
Said because I have about
16 oil field workers

00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:37.443
that come in with what you guys have.

00:33:40.020 --> 00:33:42.270
- [Narrator] As well as the
harmful effects on health,

00:33:42.270 --> 00:33:45.183
Lisa fears drilling's
environmental impact.

00:33:48.540 --> 00:33:50.340
A few kilometers from her home,

00:33:50.340 --> 00:33:52.800
shale gas and oil wells have been dug

00:33:52.800 --> 00:33:54.633
on the shores of the Missouri River.

00:34:01.050 --> 00:34:02.100
- Okay, there you go.

00:34:03.030 --> 00:34:05.930
That's exactly one of the
things that happens right there.

00:34:07.260 --> 00:34:09.810
The flare is flaring huger, bigger.

00:34:09.810 --> 00:34:10.980
So when this gets bigger,

00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:14.310
that's where we talk about
how the earth rumbles.

00:34:14.310 --> 00:34:15.143
Yeah.

00:34:16.170 --> 00:34:18.327
There's wells all throughout
the shoreline here.

00:34:18.327 --> 00:34:20.250
And so what it is is that they're drilling

00:34:20.250 --> 00:34:21.840
under the lake bed.

00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.090
So if anything happens,

00:34:24.090 --> 00:34:25.320
it's gonna be the first thing to impact.

00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.390
And what we do up here close downstream

00:34:27.390 --> 00:34:29.430
and we impact everybody else downstream.

00:34:29.430 --> 00:34:31.680
- [Narrator] Lisa fears
there will be an oil spill

00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:34.740
and criticizes elected officials
for turning a blind eye

00:34:34.740 --> 00:34:37.470
to the negative impacts
of the oil miracle.

00:34:37.470 --> 00:34:40.260
She's worried for the generations to come.

00:34:40.260 --> 00:34:41.580
- Well, I'm not saying it's a bad thing.

00:34:41.580 --> 00:34:43.590
I know it's improved a
lot of our people's lives.

00:34:43.590 --> 00:34:44.760
We're no longer poor.

00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:48.990
So we're paying a price with
our lives for oil and gas.

00:34:48.990 --> 00:34:51.600
So everything that the
mother earth provides for us,

00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:55.983
the water, the soil, the air,

00:34:58.050 --> 00:35:00.960
we're given that all up for money.

00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:02.700
- [Narrator] Last July, Lisa and Walter

00:35:02.700 --> 00:35:04.107
won their first victory.

00:35:04.107 --> 00:35:06.060
An oil group was found guilty

00:35:06.060 --> 00:35:09.063
of excessive greenhouse gas
emissions in the reservation.

00:35:12.870 --> 00:35:16.623
It will have to pay a historic
fine of over $240 million.

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:19.860
While the Fort Berthold tribe

00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:22.980
is getting rich thanks to oil,
in the rest of the country,

00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:26.013
Native Americans remain the
most marginalized group.

00:35:29.940 --> 00:35:32.280
Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota

00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.503
is one of the poorest
areas in the country.

00:35:35.526 --> 00:35:38.109
(light music)

00:35:46.110 --> 00:35:47.940
Along the city's main street,

00:35:47.940 --> 00:35:51.480
there's a service station
and a few fast food outlets.

00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:54.420
It's a remote spot, far from everything.

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:57.900
Life expectancy here is the
lowest in the United States,

00:35:57.900 --> 00:35:59.763
at a mere 50 years or so.

00:36:03.450 --> 00:36:05.820
- I'm at Wolf Creek.

00:36:05.820 --> 00:36:08.133
I'll head to that call in Manderson.

00:36:10.470 --> 00:36:12.480
- [Narrator] Captain Campbell
is called out to a case

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:14.430
of domestic violence.

00:36:14.430 --> 00:36:16.320
On Native American reservations,

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:18.330
while crimes come under the jurisdiction

00:36:18.330 --> 00:36:20.940
of the federal authorities,
the tribal police

00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:24.003
is responsible for misdemeanors
and minor offenses.

00:36:26.767 --> 00:36:29.430
(door knocking)

00:36:29.430 --> 00:36:30.480
- Hey, how you doing?

00:36:32.010 --> 00:36:34.620
- [Narrator] This is the man
who contacted the police.

00:36:34.620 --> 00:36:37.053
His son is drunk and has
threatened to hit him.

00:36:39.865 --> 00:36:42.780
- What the fuck is this fucking
shit going on right here?

00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:44.080
- You just drinking today?

00:36:45.420 --> 00:36:47.370
- [Narrator] The man refuses to answer.

00:36:47.370 --> 00:36:49.170
He knows that by drinking alcohol,

00:36:49.170 --> 00:36:51.060
he's committed an offense.

00:36:51.060 --> 00:36:52.755
- He's got some boots, right?
- Chris, give me

00:36:52.755 --> 00:36:54.723
your fucking boots, man.
- Come on, come on.

00:36:54.723 --> 00:36:55.890
- [Speaker] Give me your boots.

00:36:55.890 --> 00:36:58.290
- [Narrator] Because selling
and consuming alcohol

00:36:58.290 --> 00:36:59.280
have been prohibited

00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.010
since the reservation was created in 1889.

00:37:02.010 --> 00:37:03.690
- Not anymore.
- This legislation

00:37:03.690 --> 00:37:06.093
is virtually unique in the United States.

00:37:07.380 --> 00:37:10.110
- Because it's alcohol-related
and alcohol is illegal,

00:37:10.110 --> 00:37:12.660
then we kind of, we probably respond more

00:37:12.660 --> 00:37:15.303
to stuff like that than anybody else.

00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:17.700
- [Narrator] Introduced with the arrival

00:37:17.700 --> 00:37:20.400
of European settlers, alcohol continues

00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:23.040
to ravage Native American communities.

00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:26.583
Here, 80% of the population
suffers from alcoholism.

00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:30.450
It was to fight this scourge

00:37:30.450 --> 00:37:34.590
that this former marine changed
his uniform 15 years ago.

00:37:34.590 --> 00:37:36.330
- I wanna make a difference to be a cop.

00:37:36.330 --> 00:37:37.290
People like to bash.

00:37:37.290 --> 00:37:39.390
I was like, "Oh, well, you're
not gonna make a difference.

00:37:39.390 --> 00:37:41.580
You can be Superman, you're
not gonna make a difference."

00:37:41.580 --> 00:37:45.000
But you can come to work
every day and do your job

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.970
and make a difference for
maybe one or two people

00:37:47.970 --> 00:37:49.530
in their life on that day.

00:37:49.530 --> 00:37:51.720
You're not just here to arrest people

00:37:51.720 --> 00:37:53.150
and take people to jail all the time.

00:37:53.150 --> 00:37:54.060
We have a job to do.

00:37:54.060 --> 00:37:56.310
But we wanna help out in the community

00:37:56.310 --> 00:37:58.594
and be a part of the
community as much as we can.

00:37:58.594 --> 00:38:01.261
(siren blaring)

00:38:04.050 --> 00:38:05.400
- [Narrator] On top of alcohol,

00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:07.860
drugs are wreaking havoc
on the reservation,

00:38:07.860 --> 00:38:09.753
particularly among young people.

00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:14.680
- Know how to get to
Dale Warrior's Trailer?

00:38:16.650 --> 00:38:18.060
- [Officer] Negative.

00:38:18.060 --> 00:38:18.930
- [Narrator] The captain goes

00:38:18.930 --> 00:38:20.970
to another housing development.

00:38:20.970 --> 00:38:24.393
A young man of around 20 is
under the influence of drugs.

00:38:25.260 --> 00:38:28.800
- He told his grandma
that he took some pills,

00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:30.330
but she also thinks that he might be

00:38:30.330 --> 00:38:35.330
on methamphetamine or fentanyl or both.

00:38:35.370 --> 00:38:37.320
- [Narrator] Here, as
throughout the country,

00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.233
fentanyl is responsible
for many overdoses.

00:38:44.970 --> 00:38:47.670
This synthetic drug is
up to a hundred times

00:38:47.670 --> 00:38:49.323
more powerful than morphine.

00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:54.660
The young man is completely delirious.

00:38:54.660 --> 00:38:56.910
It was his grandmother
who called the police.

00:38:57.961 --> 00:39:00.360
- [Interviewer] Are there
lot of drugs around here?

00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:01.423
- A lot of it.

00:39:02.430 --> 00:39:04.743
I mean, not here, but everywhere.

00:39:05.940 --> 00:39:08.921
Meth, fentanyl, all kinds of stuff.

00:39:08.921 --> 00:39:10.413
We need help.

00:39:10.413 --> 00:39:12.900
This community needs help.

00:39:12.900 --> 00:39:16.713
I'm not the only grandmother
or aunt, mother, or-

00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:18.480
- [Narrator] In the reservation,

00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:22.050
almost 85% of the
residents are unemployed.

00:39:22.050 --> 00:39:24.720
Captain Campbell is in
desperate need of resources

00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:26.523
to address this social plight.

00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:31.143
- Would anybody happen
to know where 498 is?

00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:34.380
- [Officer] It should be
down in the Allen area.

00:39:36.240 --> 00:39:38.310
- 10-4 out.
- Who do we have?

00:39:38.310 --> 00:39:40.740
Who else do we have
working over there tonight?

00:39:40.740 --> 00:39:42.420
- Jordan, Sergeant.

00:39:42.420 --> 00:39:45.150
So I got a few calls in a
different areas on the reservation

00:39:45.150 --> 00:39:47.760
and I need to make sure I
get officers over there.

00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:49.770
- [Speaker] How many officers
you have on the field tonight?

00:39:49.770 --> 00:39:54.660
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

00:39:54.660 --> 00:39:56.970
- [Speaker] For how big, the area?

00:39:56.970 --> 00:39:58.020
- [Jordan] Well, last I knew,

00:39:58.020 --> 00:40:00.170
it was about the same
size as Rhode Island.

00:40:03.390 --> 00:40:06.300
- [Narrator] In other words,
over 1000 square miles.

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:09.330
- And I think they have
under highway patrol,

00:40:09.330 --> 00:40:11.430
for their Rhode Island
State Highway Patrol,

00:40:11.430 --> 00:40:15.493
they have about 120 officers.

00:40:15.493 --> 00:40:17.340
- [Narrator] It's 11:00 PM.

00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:20.403
A young man of 25 has
just attempted suicide.

00:40:23.670 --> 00:40:26.004
- End my life, I just want you to just-

00:40:26.004 --> 00:40:27.155
- Raise your arm.

00:40:27.155 --> 00:40:29.023
Raise your arm.

00:40:29.023 --> 00:40:30.310
- Just please end my life.

00:40:30.310 --> 00:40:32.190
I don't wanna be here no more.

00:40:32.190 --> 00:40:34.590
- [Narrator] She's under
the influence of drugs.

00:40:36.450 --> 00:40:39.450
In Pine Ridge, the suicide
rate among young people

00:40:39.450 --> 00:40:43.080
is 150 times higher than
the rest of the country.

00:40:43.080 --> 00:40:44.380
- A few minutes behind me.

00:40:47.370 --> 00:40:48.510
- [Narrator] Although the situation

00:40:48.510 --> 00:40:50.940
of young people here is dire,

00:40:50.940 --> 00:40:52.770
young Native Americans have found a way

00:40:52.770 --> 00:40:56.133
to defy their situation,
thanks to an age-old sport.

00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:01.740
In Northern Montana on
the Blackfeet Reservation,

00:41:01.740 --> 00:41:03.220
rodeo season is beginning

00:41:09.992 --> 00:41:12.210
in the Carlson family.

00:41:12.210 --> 00:41:14.580
- Tony, come get behind this guy.

00:41:14.580 --> 00:41:16.560
- [Narrator] They've been
riders from father to son

00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:18.093
for five generations.

00:41:19.620 --> 00:41:23.190
Tony, aged 47, and his son Jesse, aged 20,

00:41:23.190 --> 00:41:25.990
are preparing for the biggest
competition in the region,

00:41:27.780 --> 00:41:30.180
which is being held
tomorrow on this race track.

00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.650
They're not training
for just any old race.

00:41:40.650 --> 00:41:44.013
They practice an extreme
sport called Indian Relay.

00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:47.310
The principle consists in riding bareback

00:41:47.310 --> 00:41:49.050
and making three laps of the track,

00:41:49.050 --> 00:41:50.820
switching from one horse to another

00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:53.133
after each lap at top speed.

00:41:55.200 --> 00:41:56.060
- Once you get good at it,

00:41:56.060 --> 00:41:58.200
it feels better than riding in a saddle.

00:41:58.200 --> 00:42:00.975
But yeah, you really need your balance

00:42:00.975 --> 00:42:03.270
so you can get off your horse faster.

00:42:03.270 --> 00:42:05.010
I've been doing it ever
since I was a tiny kid,

00:42:05.010 --> 00:42:07.380
so it's like riding a bike for me.

00:42:07.380 --> 00:42:10.830
Alright, we'll get to the practice now.

00:42:10.830 --> 00:42:12.210
- [Narrator] Jesse trains with his father

00:42:12.210 --> 00:42:14.175
four or five times a week.
- That's the one

00:42:14.175 --> 00:42:15.570
you want right there.

00:42:15.570 --> 00:42:17.610
That's costing you valuable seconds.

00:42:17.610 --> 00:42:19.260
If you get that right there, boom, boom.

00:42:19.260 --> 00:42:22.140
That was only two steps or one and a half.

00:42:22.140 --> 00:42:24.270
- It's a bad habit of
mine as a first year rider

00:42:24.270 --> 00:42:27.570
to keeping my hands on the
horse when I shouldn't.

00:42:27.570 --> 00:42:30.690
When I should just jump off,

00:42:30.690 --> 00:42:33.753
and still trying to work on it.

00:42:35.640 --> 00:42:37.200
- [Narrator] In less than 24 hours,

00:42:37.200 --> 00:42:38.670
the young man will go head to head

00:42:38.670 --> 00:42:40.399
with the best local riders.

00:42:40.399 --> 00:42:42.982
(light music)

00:42:44.640 --> 00:42:47.433
The Carson family live on
the land of their ancestors.

00:42:50.070 --> 00:42:53.493
The ranch has some 15 thoroughbreds
trained for the races.

00:42:57.600 --> 00:42:59.700
- I wish I was rich enough to have a diet.

00:43:00.990 --> 00:43:01.823
Yeah?

00:43:02.790 --> 00:43:04.143
Have a dietician.

00:43:05.790 --> 00:43:07.830
- [Narrator] Every summer,
Tony and his three sons

00:43:07.830 --> 00:43:10.320
travel across the
northwestern United States

00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:13.290
to take part in Indian relay competitions.

00:43:13.290 --> 00:43:16.410
The family boasts an
impressive track record.

00:43:16.410 --> 00:43:17.850
- Won last year.

00:43:17.850 --> 00:43:21.210
This was $100,000 race here that we won.

00:43:21.210 --> 00:43:23.610
This is probably Canada's
most prestigious race

00:43:23.610 --> 00:43:25.380
right here, right now.

00:43:25.380 --> 00:43:30.090
And this is one of the U.S.'s
most prestigious races.

00:43:30.090 --> 00:43:32.043
So we won both of 'em last year.

00:43:33.930 --> 00:43:38.910
Yeah, this came with the
trophy we won last three years.

00:43:38.910 --> 00:43:41.970
We've averaged $60,000 a year in earnings.

00:43:41.970 --> 00:43:45.000
Jobs pay for our daily
lives and our bills.

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:48.630
All the money does is go to
the horses and the travel.

00:43:48.630 --> 00:43:50.640
- [Narrator] If they win
tomorrow's competition,

00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:53.793
Jesse and his father will
pocket a $4,000 check.

00:43:58.410 --> 00:44:00.060
At the reservation's racetrack,

00:44:00.060 --> 00:44:02.310
spectators have come
from all over the region

00:44:02.310 --> 00:44:04.323
to watch this spectacular race.

00:44:06.540 --> 00:44:08.220
- A real horse culture.

00:44:08.220 --> 00:44:13.220
And Blackie always represent
real well wherever they go.

00:44:13.530 --> 00:44:16.290
- [Narrator] Regarded as the
oldest American extreme sport,

00:44:16.290 --> 00:44:17.940
the Indian relay was practiced

00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:21.300
by the plain's tribes before colonization.

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:23.940
While it's increasingly
popular among young people,

00:44:23.940 --> 00:44:25.923
it requires unusual talent.

00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:29.992
- The others might have tried to do that

00:44:29.992 --> 00:44:31.643
and they know can't.

00:44:33.385 --> 00:44:35.047
- [Interviewer] You
think they're non-native

00:44:35.047 --> 00:44:36.294
or they cannot do that?

00:44:36.294 --> 00:44:37.563
- They can't do that, no.

00:44:38.580 --> 00:44:39.413
I know they can't.

00:44:39.413 --> 00:44:42.057
They tried to once, one guy did, yeah.

00:44:42.057 --> 00:44:44.790
And they admitted that they can't do that.

00:44:44.790 --> 00:44:46.560
- [Speaker] Nine minutes, nine minutes.

00:44:46.560 --> 00:44:49.244
So get that saddle horse race up.

00:44:49.244 --> 00:44:50.340
- Okay.
- For Jesse,

00:44:50.340 --> 00:44:53.163
it's all going to be
decided in a few minutes.

00:44:55.500 --> 00:44:57.717
- Wish me luck.
- Yes, sir, man.

00:44:57.717 --> 00:44:59.610
- [Announcer] Young Money, Two Medicine,

00:44:59.610 --> 00:45:01.170
and Dancing Boy Express.

00:45:01.170 --> 00:45:02.040
- [Narrator] His father, Tony,

00:45:02.040 --> 00:45:04.210
stands at the side of
the track with his team.

00:45:04.210 --> 00:45:07.630
- [Announcer] The grand
stands, here we go.

00:45:07.630 --> 00:45:09.120
- [Narrator] Jesse and his three opponents

00:45:09.120 --> 00:45:10.203
get into position.

00:45:12.780 --> 00:45:13.973
- [Announcer] Here we go.

00:45:14.850 --> 00:45:16.413
Coming down in the light room.

00:45:18.157 --> 00:45:20.460
- [Spectator] Go, go, go!

00:45:20.460 --> 00:45:22.470
- [Narrator] The young man
gets off to a bad start

00:45:22.470 --> 00:45:24.120
and comes in last.

00:45:24.120 --> 00:45:26.910
- [Announcer] Dancing
Boy Express out front.

00:45:26.910 --> 00:45:29.130
Two Medicine and Young Money.

00:45:29.130 --> 00:45:30.360
- [Narrator] At the end of the first lap,

00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:31.770
Jesse has caught up.

00:45:31.770 --> 00:45:33.510
He's in second position.

00:45:33.510 --> 00:45:36.453
The first horse exchange
is perfectly executed.

00:45:39.217 --> 00:45:40.830
(upbeat music)

00:45:40.830 --> 00:45:42.240
- Dancing Boy Express.

00:45:42.240 --> 00:45:44.880
Two Medicine is out
front on turn number one

00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.133
on the south side of the track.

00:45:48.600 --> 00:45:49.950
- [Narrator] In the
middle of the second lap,

00:45:49.950 --> 00:45:51.063
he takes the lead.

00:45:54.240 --> 00:45:56.760
But he's overtaken, and
he's not quick enough

00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:58.829
at the last horse exchange.

00:45:58.829 --> 00:46:01.579
(crowd cheering)

00:46:04.351 --> 00:46:06.024
- Come on, Interactive.

00:46:06.024 --> 00:46:08.130
Come on, Interactive, come on!

00:46:08.130 --> 00:46:09.810
- [Narrator] Coming into the final turn,

00:46:09.810 --> 00:46:11.223
Jesse makes a comeback.

00:46:12.208 --> 00:46:13.044
- [Tony] Come on, Jesse!

00:46:13.044 --> 00:46:14.294
Come on, Jesse!

00:46:18.090 --> 00:46:20.070
- [Narrator] But he's unable to catch up.

00:46:20.070 --> 00:46:21.333
Victory eludes him.

00:46:23.910 --> 00:46:25.503
His father is disappointed.

00:46:27.180 --> 00:46:28.050
- Shit, baby.

00:46:28.050 --> 00:46:30.240
I just seen him turn, that
guy hit you like that.

00:46:30.240 --> 00:46:32.310
- I know I would've had a badass start.

00:46:32.310 --> 00:46:34.072
- Fuck, you had him smoke (indistinct)

00:46:34.072 --> 00:46:36.510
fucking ranked when he left.

00:46:36.510 --> 00:46:37.740
Fuck, you did blew out-

00:46:37.740 --> 00:46:39.630
- What did you think of that, Jake?

00:46:39.630 --> 00:46:41.400
- [Narrator] Despite
his father's criticism,

00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:43.470
the young rider doesn't lose heart.

00:46:43.470 --> 00:46:45.270
- But there's always the next time.

00:46:45.270 --> 00:46:47.160
Nothing's the end, you know?

00:46:47.160 --> 00:46:50.640
Always stay forward and just
keep new and keep grinding.

00:46:50.640 --> 00:46:52.050
I have no shame.

00:46:52.050 --> 00:46:54.180
- [Narrator] Jesse and
Tony can console themselves

00:46:54.180 --> 00:46:57.183
with going home with a $1,400 prize.

00:47:00.450 --> 00:47:02.520
In Seattle, Washington State,

00:47:02.520 --> 00:47:04.410
an American Indian has found another way

00:47:04.410 --> 00:47:08.779
to assert his identity, by
turning art into a business.

00:47:08.779 --> 00:47:11.362
(light music)

00:47:14.100 --> 00:47:16.920
At 50 years old, Louie Gong
is one of the country's

00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:20.010
most influential indigenous entrepreneurs.

00:47:20.010 --> 00:47:21.480
For this former educator,

00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:24.393
it all began with a few pen
strokes on his trainers.

00:47:26.910 --> 00:47:28.950
- So I started off as an artist

00:47:28.950 --> 00:47:32.940
just drawing on Vans and Converse serials.

00:47:32.940 --> 00:47:35.520
But I was shocked when like
the very first pair of shoe,

00:47:35.520 --> 00:47:38.460
the shoes that I did, or
when I wore them to work

00:47:38.460 --> 00:47:40.447
after creating them, my coworkers like,

00:47:40.447 --> 00:47:41.790
"Man, those are amazing.

00:47:41.790 --> 00:47:44.670
Where'd you get those,
and how can I get a pair?"

00:47:44.670 --> 00:47:47.643
And that was really the
foundation of Eighth Generation.

00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:51.480
- [Narrator] In 2008,
Louie founded his brand,

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.730
specializing in making wool blankets,

00:47:53.730 --> 00:47:56.550
which are widely used by Native Americans.

00:47:56.550 --> 00:47:59.700
One of them would be
seen all over the world.

00:47:59.700 --> 00:48:04.020
- This is the October 2023
issue of British Vogue.

00:48:04.020 --> 00:48:06.870
And it features the
amazing Lily Gladstone,

00:48:06.870 --> 00:48:09.840
star of "Killers of the Flower Moon,"

00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:14.340
Leonardo DiCaprio, and the
Coast Salish pattern blanket,

00:48:14.340 --> 00:48:15.720
which I designed.

00:48:15.720 --> 00:48:19.320
I think what's really important
is the increase in capacity

00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.440
of indigenous people to
control their own art,

00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:23.943
to make their own money.

00:48:24.780 --> 00:48:26.703
It's an exercise in sovereignty.

00:48:27.540 --> 00:48:30.270
- [Narrator] Born into a
poor family on a reservation,

00:48:30.270 --> 00:48:32.850
this entrepreneur never
imagined that one day,

00:48:32.850 --> 00:48:34.830
he would be so successful.

00:48:34.830 --> 00:48:38.670
He also owes his success
to the City of Seattle.

00:48:38.670 --> 00:48:41.790
7 in 10 Native Americans
in the United States

00:48:41.790 --> 00:48:44.010
live in an urban environment.

00:48:44.010 --> 00:48:46.410
- It was a great place to
be an indigenous artist

00:48:46.410 --> 00:48:48.550
because there's tremendous

00:48:49.620 --> 00:48:53.520
supportive tribal communities in the area.

00:48:53.520 --> 00:48:58.320
The non-native non-profit
institutions are very supportive.

00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:02.670
And so there were a lot of
ways for me to get a foothold

00:49:02.670 --> 00:49:05.220
in Seattle that wouldn't
have been available to me

00:49:05.220 --> 00:49:10.220
had I been in some city in
the Midwest, for example.

00:49:11.340 --> 00:49:13.230
- [Narrator] With its
buzzing cultural scene,

00:49:13.230 --> 00:49:16.530
Seattle is one of the
country's most dynamic cities.

00:49:16.530 --> 00:49:18.690
Louie has successfully established himself

00:49:18.690 --> 00:49:20.850
as an unstoppable businessman,

00:49:20.850 --> 00:49:23.673
particularly thanks to
his city center boutique.

00:49:25.855 --> 00:49:27.270
- Hey.

00:49:27.270 --> 00:49:28.217
- Hey, Louie.

00:49:28.217 --> 00:49:30.361
How are you?
- Oh, I'm good.

00:49:30.361 --> 00:49:31.733
How are you?
- So good to see you.

00:49:31.733 --> 00:49:32.852
Hi.
- It's been so long.

00:49:32.852 --> 00:49:35.400
- Yeah, good to see you.

00:49:35.400 --> 00:49:37.620
Hello, welcome.
- Good.

00:49:37.620 --> 00:49:38.940
See there's a lot of new stuff.

00:49:38.940 --> 00:49:40.143
It's changed so much.

00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:43.200
- [Narrator] The chic minimalist shop

00:49:43.200 --> 00:49:45.810
sells all kinds of items,

00:49:45.810 --> 00:49:47.700
but the star product is the blankets.

00:49:47.700 --> 00:49:49.740
- So we're stepping
back from that question.

00:49:49.740 --> 00:49:51.393
- People absolutely love.

00:49:55.890 --> 00:49:59.403
- [Narrator] Everything in the
shop is 100% Native American.

00:50:02.190 --> 00:50:03.840
- You're starting to see,

00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:07.320
that's Andrea Wilber Sagos design.

00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.120
- It was as an adult that I realized

00:50:09.120 --> 00:50:12.960
that almost all of those
designs were fake versions

00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:16.080
of native art produced
by non-native companies.

00:50:16.080 --> 00:50:17.970
Across the country,
indigenous people spend

00:50:17.970 --> 00:50:21.840
millions and millions of
dollars on blankets every year.

00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:23.100
But there had been never,

00:50:23.100 --> 00:50:24.930
there had never been a
native donned option.

00:50:24.930 --> 00:50:29.190
And so we have totally changed that

00:50:29.190 --> 00:50:33.720
for indigenous artists all
over the country, right?

00:50:33.720 --> 00:50:35.940
Would you say that?
- Oh, absolutely, absolutely.

00:50:35.940 --> 00:50:37.830
- But it doesn't have
to be about Starbucks.

00:50:37.830 --> 00:50:38.994
It's about the cut.
- Right, it's about the cut.

00:50:38.994 --> 00:50:39.827
Yeah.

00:50:39.827 --> 00:50:42.690
- [Narrator] And his small
business is successful.

00:50:42.690 --> 00:50:46.230
The ex-sneaker graffiti
artist now has his own factory

00:50:46.230 --> 00:50:48.205
in the Seattle suburbs.

00:50:48.205 --> 00:50:51.240
(light music)

00:50:51.240 --> 00:50:53.220
Everything is done in this workshop,

00:50:53.220 --> 00:50:56.253
from weaving the blankets
to printing the motifs.

00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:01.410
Louie has made it a point of honor

00:51:01.410 --> 00:51:04.773
to hire Native Americans,
like Colleen, the CEO.

00:51:06.240 --> 00:51:07.830
- These blankets will be
shipped around the world,

00:51:07.830 --> 00:51:09.060
around the country, of course.

00:51:09.060 --> 00:51:12.570
But we get lots of
customers now from Japan,

00:51:12.570 --> 00:51:15.360
from Germany, hopefully from France,

00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:18.750
and just really like expanding the brand

00:51:18.750 --> 00:51:22.920
into a global audience is super important

00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:23.753
and part of what you and I talked-

00:51:23.753 --> 00:51:26.100
- [Narrator] With a 20% rise in exports,

00:51:26.100 --> 00:51:27.840
Coleen is looking to gain a foothold

00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:29.820
on the international market.

00:51:29.820 --> 00:51:33.137
15 years after he began,
Louie still can't believe it.

00:51:33.137 --> 00:51:37.800
- And so to work out like
this, man, it's pretty unreal.

00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:39.270
- Sometimes, people would like us,

00:51:39.270 --> 00:51:40.520
like to think of Native people

00:51:40.520 --> 00:51:43.830
as like singing and playing a drum

00:51:43.830 --> 00:51:47.580
instead of seeing us as community leaders,

00:51:47.580 --> 00:51:48.900
as business leaders.

00:51:48.900 --> 00:51:50.760
Native people have a part to play

00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:52.443
in this global business economy.

00:51:53.370 --> 00:51:54.990
- [Narrator] After centuries of massacres,

00:51:54.990 --> 00:51:57.570
violated treaties, and discrimination,

00:51:57.570 --> 00:51:59.580
Native Americans are gradually winning

00:51:59.580 --> 00:52:03.485
their place in society and the
American national narrative.

00:52:03.485 --> 00:52:06.068
(light music)