1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,359 - As we're driving down the road just now, 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,239 I said, oh my God, 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,239 we're coming to the place that changed my life. 6 00:00:25,399 --> 00:00:30,239 For years, people have fought this struggle, 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,159 fought for our land and water. 8 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,320 And I was at a point where I felt like nobody cared. 9 00:00:38,359 --> 00:00:40,640 And now 10 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:45,439 it was like somebody shook me awake again 11 00:00:46,399 --> 00:00:49,479 and said, it's okay to stand up. 12 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:52,200 It's okay to want a better life. 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,920 In our Lakota way, Mní wihóni 14 00:00:57,960 --> 00:00:59,399 means water is life. 15 00:00:59,439 --> 00:01:04,200 And every living being and animal and plant on this Earth 16 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:05,959 needs water to flourish. 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,439 (soft music) 18 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,040 We move that part down and then start taping that other one. 19 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:04,079 There we go. 20 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:06,439 - Good? - That's good. 21 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,039 One, two, three, four, five. 22 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,439 Maybe he gave us too... 23 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,280 [Woman] You're awesome. 24 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:16,159 - I mean, this one's all in, so... 25 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:18,719 The idea to have this encampment, 26 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:22,719 in a lot of ways, it is protecting our way of life 27 00:02:22,759 --> 00:02:27,319 because it is not only asserting our right to be here 28 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,000 and live here and having clean drinking water, 29 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:33,240 because when you rip away all the layers 30 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:34,840 of everything that's going on right here, 31 00:02:34,879 --> 00:02:39,919 what it all comes down to is wanting clean drinking water 32 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:41,560 for our children. 33 00:02:41,599 --> 00:02:43,800 (voices clamoring) 34 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,439 - So we just wanted to get a little bit of an idea 35 00:02:46,479 --> 00:02:49,479 of how many people are gonna be staying like in your camp. 36 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,560 - We got four families, one family to each yurt. 37 00:02:52,599 --> 00:02:55,800 Each family has about four to five kids. 38 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,360 - And you are gonna be here through the winter? 39 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,039 (both laughing) 40 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,879 - What we are doing here is also living our sovereignty 41 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,599 because this is treaty land that we were guaranteed 42 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,560 by the United States government in 1851. 43 00:03:11,599 --> 00:03:13,319 It's Lakota treaty land. 44 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,400 So in a way, it's like coming home. 45 00:03:19,759 --> 00:03:21,879 I just got here, so. 46 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,159 - We've been here since like eight. 47 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:28,240 So we have like three more to set up, 48 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:33,039 and then we're gonna be done. (dog barking) 49 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,479 Anyway, I just got here. 50 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,000 - Okay, well we were back here still all day. 51 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:37,800 Okay. 52 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:40,840 Is that Duke? 53 00:03:40,879 --> 00:03:41,800 No, that's Gus. 54 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:43,000 Gus? 55 00:03:43,039 --> 00:03:45,000 - I lived in the riverbed all my life. 56 00:03:45,039 --> 00:03:47,240 I drank the water from the Missouri 57 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,400 and we had our own gardens, our own food, 58 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:53,520 and it was a beautiful life. 59 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,520 I lived there before the army Corps removed me 60 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,240 and I went back and I lived there today. 61 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,439 Wow, you're tall. 62 00:04:01,879 --> 00:04:03,479 - Hello. - Hello. 63 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:04,800 Can I go in? 64 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,240 Please, right foot first. 65 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,919 [Phyllis] So neat. 66 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,800 Did you have to use nails or anything? 67 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,000 - [Man] No, there's no nails in the Mongolian yurt, 68 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:15,000 and nor is it anchored to the ground, 69 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:17,199 not to harm the ground. 70 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:22,120 So it's camel rawhide that attaches the walls there. 71 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,040 The ropes are made of horse hair. 72 00:04:26,079 --> 00:04:27,079 Wow. 73 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,199 Because I will be in one of these. 74 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,079 [Man] That'll be an honor. 75 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,480 - The women's meeting will now come to order. 76 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:39,680 Oh cool, no backhoe. 77 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,720 - Did anybody show up down here from Denver or? 78 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:49,040 I used to say to my mom, 79 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:51,240 why did you have to name me Waste Win? 80 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,800 In English, it looks like waste wind, 81 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,319 and people make fun of it. 82 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,360 And they butcher it every day. 83 00:04:58,399 --> 00:05:01,399 And she would say, that's your grandmother's name. 84 00:05:01,439 --> 00:05:03,720 Her name was Waste Win Chatwi. 85 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:07,160 And that is to be a good, giving woman. 86 00:05:07,199 --> 00:05:10,199 So don't ever be ashamed of your name. 87 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,000 We were saying that putting up a tepee 88 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,360 seemed so easy compared to a yurt. 89 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,600 (propellors whirring) 90 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:18,560 You don't think so? 91 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,199 The planes and helicopters 92 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,800 were just flying over like nonstop. 93 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,160 I think they thought we were doing something illegal, 94 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:34,040 but the yellow helicopter is the one hired by Dakota Access. 95 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:36,199 (wind rustling) 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,680 (soft music) 97 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:51,240 - When we first learned that the Dakota Access 98 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,720 was gonna come, we started the Sacred Stone Camp. 99 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,399 Start praying for this proposed pipeline 100 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:02,759 that is supposed to be going in. 101 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,240 (light music) 102 00:06:12,759 --> 00:06:16,680 (speaking in foreign language) 103 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,800 (voices clamoring) 104 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:28,480 And I invite you to go down to the encampments 105 00:06:28,519 --> 00:06:32,120 at Standing Rock to see the strength, 106 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,439 the beauty, the perseverance, the generosity. 107 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,480 (singing in foreign language) 108 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,399 Every day, we have 10, 12 other nations 109 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:57,600 coming in to stand in solidarity with us. 110 00:06:57,639 --> 00:07:01,680 And we're showing the world who we are 111 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,319 in a nonviolent manner. 112 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:08,839 That's all we've ever wanted was to be respected, 113 00:07:08,879 --> 00:07:09,839 left alone. 114 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:16,839 A nation isn't defeated until the hearts of the women 115 00:07:17,639 --> 00:07:18,720 are on the ground. 116 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,279 We have grandmothers and mothers that are prepared 117 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,360 to be here on the land for the long run. 118 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:32,040 We're not going away. 119 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:38,040 (bright music) (rhythmic chanting) 120 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,160 And then we got the 48 hour notice, 121 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:50,399 Dakota Access was gonna start construction. 122 00:07:51,519 --> 00:07:53,800 I'm asking each of you to come stand with us 123 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:55,720 at Sacred Stone Camp. 124 00:07:55,759 --> 00:07:57,600 The battle has just begun. 125 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:02,839 (singing in foreign language) 126 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,399 The wind today is awesome. 127 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,399 And I bask in her glory, because she's a female 128 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:33,799 of the thunder beings, the clouds, rain, 129 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,279 the thunder, the lightning. 130 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,320 The day the Army Corps announced 131 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,519 that they were granting the right of way for access road. 132 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,440 There was the biggest storm in the morning, 133 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,080 and there was the biggest storm in the evening. 134 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,960 Justice will prevail for our people 135 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,600 If the laws are obeyed and followed. 136 00:08:57,919 --> 00:09:00,639 We will hold onto our treaty territory at all costs. 137 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:05,679 - And we are peaceful, prayerful people, 138 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,440 but it's come to a point now where enough is enough. 139 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,639 (motors roaring) 140 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:18,360 Someone went through camp, 141 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:20,799 calling out that they were bulldozing over sacred sites. 142 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:21,679 Criminals. 143 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,320 You guys are criminals. 144 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,639 Go get your money somewhere else. 145 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,360 (protesters yelling) 146 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:31,600 - [Reporter] The bulldozers are still going. 147 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:33,639 And they're yelling at the men in hard hats. 148 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,840 One man in a hard hat threw one of the protesters down. 149 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,799 * We're not leaving * 150 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,279 * We're not leaving * 151 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:44,000 * We're not leaving * 152 00:09:44,039 --> 00:09:45,759 * We're not leaving * 153 00:09:45,799 --> 00:09:46,919 * We're not leaving * 154 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:48,519 Sir, reporter from New York. 155 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,200 What are you spraying people with? 156 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:51,159 - I didn't spray anything, ma'am. 157 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:52,399 (voices clamoring) 158 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,720 - [Reporter] People have through the fence. 159 00:09:55,759 --> 00:09:57,480 Men, women, and children. 160 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:00,399 (dogs barking) 161 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,919 Are you telling the dogs to bite the protesters? 162 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:04,399 No, we didn't. 163 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,159 - [Reporter] The dog has blood on its nose and its mouth. 164 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,080 (all screaming) 165 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,639 - Even with all of this chaos going on around us, 166 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:17,000 this elder walking next to me as I was crying, 167 00:10:17,039 --> 00:10:18,080 she said, 168 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:20,960 (sighing) walk in prayer. 169 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,279 That's when I knew that, you know, 170 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,279 what we were doing was a sacred thing. 171 00:10:29,759 --> 00:10:31,039 This is personal to me. 172 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:33,600 My dad's buried up there. 173 00:10:33,639 --> 00:10:35,240 I buried my cousin who died of cancer 174 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:37,200 two weeks ago up there. 175 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,159 And we can't let Dakota Access go through there. 176 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,360 - [Reporter] What happens if they do? 177 00:10:41,399 --> 00:10:42,679 What are you going to do? 178 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:47,519 We'll pray. 179 00:10:49,039 --> 00:10:50,639 in front of the bulldozes. 180 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:51,480 We'll pray. 181 00:10:53,039 --> 00:10:54,360 And they will shoot us. 182 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:00,919 - [Reporter] Today that Dakota Access unleashed dogs 183 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:02,320 and pepper spray. 184 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,639 It was also the 153rd anniversary 185 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:06,000 of the Whitestone Massacre, 186 00:11:06,039 --> 00:11:07,879 when the U.S. Army killed 300 members 187 00:11:07,919 --> 00:11:09,519 of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. 188 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:11,720 - [Ladonna] The massacre happened 189 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:13,039 on the east side of the river. 190 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,279 With the soldiers coming in, 191 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,440 the people cross the Missouri River. 192 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,600 And so the people on the Northern side of Standing Rock 193 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:21,600 come from this massacre. 194 00:11:21,639 --> 00:11:22,799 For our people, 195 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,759 we've never been able to come back as a nation. 196 00:11:24,799 --> 00:11:28,200 We are all living on different reservations 197 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,320 and we became the remnants of families. 198 00:11:37,879 --> 00:11:41,799 - I have a number, SRU-10258. 199 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,159 Much like the Jewish people had a death number, 200 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,360 we have a prisoner of war number. 201 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:55,279 - A lot of people think that the Dakota Access pipeline 202 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,759 is just about Native people standing up 203 00:11:57,799 --> 00:12:00,039 for their environment, but that's not true. 204 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,200 There are 18 million people that rely on the Missouri River 205 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,320 for their water who are downstream from us. 206 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,120 This isn't just a Native issue. 207 00:12:08,159 --> 00:12:09,639 This is for everybody. 208 00:12:11,039 --> 00:12:14,519 Perfect little tiny wild onion, little miniature guy there. 209 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,759 One of the whole reasons why I got started, 210 00:12:16,799 --> 00:12:20,120 involved in this issue from the very beginning is, 211 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:21,799 as an ethnobotanist, 212 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,440 I have seen the absolute wealth 213 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:27,799 of incredible medicinal and edible plants 214 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,399 that are right there in the path of that pipeline. 215 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,039 And so I could see what was getting destroyed. 216 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,000 To a lot of people as they drive by, 217 00:12:35,039 --> 00:12:37,000 they might just think, oh, it's just grass. 218 00:12:37,039 --> 00:12:38,399 It's not just grassland. 219 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,519 There are sacred medicines there. 220 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,120 And there are literally thousands of them getting bulldozed 221 00:12:43,159 --> 00:12:45,000 by Dakota Access every day. 222 00:12:45,039 --> 00:12:47,440 - Make sure to fill your holes back in please. 223 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:50,440 - [Waste] The thing about the Dakota Access pipeline, 224 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,360 a lot of people think that it's business as usual, 225 00:12:53,399 --> 00:12:54,600 that we have all of these hundreds of pipelines 226 00:12:54,639 --> 00:12:57,240 buried all over the United States. 227 00:12:57,279 --> 00:13:00,840 But actually this pipeline breaks world records. 228 00:13:00,879 --> 00:13:03,240 It's 178 pieces. 229 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:05,080 And what they do is they put it together 230 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,159 and then they yank it all through underneath 231 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:09,679 for a mile and a half. 232 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,799 There's bound to be some structural integrity issues. 233 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,759 If you ask a lot of engineers, they'll admit to that. 234 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:18,840 Numerous leaks can occur. 235 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:20,559 But the problem is these tiny leaks, 236 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,840 not only are they perfectly legal, they're not detectable, 237 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:26,960 which will be taken up by our plants 238 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,440 and they'll pollute our water. 239 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,559 And we won't know it until our water intake gets clogged. 240 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:33,879 (somber music) 241 00:13:33,919 --> 00:13:38,639 (singing in foreign language) (rhythmic drumming) 242 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,480 - You know, the original pipeline 243 00:13:51,519 --> 00:13:52,960 was to go through North Dakota, 244 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,639 but it was going through white people's land. 245 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:01,080 So they redirected it, put it through the Indians. 246 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,799 - The proposed route was going to pass 13 miles 247 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,240 north of Bismarck. 248 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:11,960 But the North Dakota public utilities commission 249 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,600 denied that permit 250 00:14:13,639 --> 00:14:17,519 because if there would have been a catastrophic failure, 251 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,399 its proximity to the water supplies would be affected. 252 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,639 Standing Rock is downstream, 253 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:26,960 sending the message that our people, our community, 254 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,159 are expendable. 255 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,080 And my kids, they already know, 256 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,480 Mom, it's poisoning the water. 257 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:40,080 Mom, what are we gonna have to drink? 258 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,600 What they're doing is bad. 259 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,039 - In this Missouri River, this is our lifeline. 260 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,200 Where are we gonna go? 261 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:51,840 This is it for us. 262 00:14:51,879 --> 00:14:52,639 This is it. 263 00:14:53,799 --> 00:14:55,480 And our ancestors stood strong 264 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:57,840 for us. 265 00:15:02,759 --> 00:15:04,559 It's a gift that we have here. 266 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,919 And so I think that that's part of our resiliency 267 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,759 as Indigenous people is knowing that 268 00:15:08,799 --> 00:15:12,120 we have a responsibility to acknowledge that gift. 269 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:14,679 It doesn't end or begin with human beings. 270 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,240 In fact, it's probably in spite of human beings 271 00:15:17,279 --> 00:15:18,559 that we're still here. 272 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,720 So I think that has a lot to do with it. 273 00:15:21,759 --> 00:15:23,799 (soft music) 274 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,480 (wind howling) 275 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,039 - [Woman] Many of our creation stories, 276 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,600 we emerge from the earth. 277 00:15:34,879 --> 00:15:38,600 The earth is not just something that we put our house on, 278 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:42,600 that we pollute, that we take advantage of, that we rape. 279 00:15:44,639 --> 00:15:46,360 The earth is our mother. 280 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:50,600 She has given us all the opportunity to live and to breathe. 281 00:15:50,639 --> 00:15:54,840 And she has never asked anything in return. 282 00:15:54,879 --> 00:15:58,720 Every time we deny the earth the right to be who she is, 283 00:15:58,759 --> 00:16:01,360 we're denying women all around the world 284 00:16:01,399 --> 00:16:03,080 the right to be who they are. 285 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,879 (dramatic music) 286 00:16:06,919 --> 00:16:09,840 (voices clamoring) 287 00:16:20,039 --> 00:16:21,559 On September 3rd, 288 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,720 the Democracy Now team came to North Dakota 289 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:27,639 to the resistance camps, 290 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:32,200 videotaped the dog with blood dripping 291 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,799 from his mouth and his nose, 292 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,159 biting protestors or protectors. 293 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,000 These images went viral. 294 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,000 14 million people almost immediately 295 00:16:44,039 --> 00:16:46,960 saw these images around the world. 296 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,240 We will continue to cover what happens behind the bars. 297 00:16:51,279 --> 00:16:54,759 More than 140 people have been arrested so far. 298 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,119 What I was most struck by was that the first people 299 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,519 to take on the bulldozers to say, go back, 300 00:17:15,559 --> 00:17:20,200 stop desecrating our sacred sites, were women. 301 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:21,519 [All] Water is life. 302 00:17:21,559 --> 00:17:24,119 - Women are central in this struggle. 303 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:28,319 (crowd chanting) 304 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:29,559 As far as I know, 305 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:32,440 Mitchum's the first baby born here. 306 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,079 She came about 4:45 in the morning. 307 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:38,519 I wouldn't have been able to be here 308 00:17:38,559 --> 00:17:41,000 without the support of the women who came with me 309 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:42,519 and who came and joined me. 310 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,640 Because I had some of my own fear around having her here 311 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,920 and having her in a place of conflict. 312 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:55,039 (crowd chanting) (rhythmic drumming) 313 00:17:56,599 --> 00:17:57,960 - They talked about our people saying that, you know, 314 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:01,160 it would be our children that stood up first. 315 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,400 And then it would be our women. 316 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,400 And then finally our men would stand up. 317 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,599 I firmly think that our men need our women to stand up 318 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:11,279 and be strong. 319 00:18:11,319 --> 00:18:16,400 They need to be reminded of the world that we live in now 320 00:18:17,519 --> 00:18:19,359 and their responsibility to make it safe for us. 321 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,160 They need to make it safe, you know, for our daughters 322 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,519 and for their mothers and for their sisters 323 00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:30,119 and their aunties for the wome they don't know 324 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:31,640 and the women they've never met. 325 00:18:35,839 --> 00:18:37,640 - [Reporter] What will you tell her about her birth? 326 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,759 - I'll tell her where she was born. 327 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:43,759 I'll tell her she was born in her mom's teepee 328 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 along the banks of the Cannonball River, 329 00:18:47,039 --> 00:18:49,440 near where our people gathered 330 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:51,559 since the beginning of our time here, 331 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:53,440 where they gathered to gather power. 332 00:18:55,759 --> 00:19:00,200 - There are acts of war that have been committed 333 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,400 against our people. 334 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,759 The state of North Dakota, they have denied the desecration. 335 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:11,839 They have denied going through our Aboriginal territory 336 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:14,359 and our sacred objects. 337 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,279 We understand why we're here. 338 00:19:19,799 --> 00:19:23,000 The water is sacred. 339 00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:25,680 The water is the first gift of life. 340 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,480 And as women, we have a right to protect that water, 341 00:19:31,519 --> 00:19:36,319 the water of Mother Earth, because all life starts in water. 342 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:42,279 We have an obligation to maintain and continue, 343 00:19:42,319 --> 00:19:46,400 continue in peace, continue in prayer. 344 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:49,400 And there will be no black snake 345 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,359 going across treaty territory. 346 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:52,680 (speaking in foreign language) 347 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,799 (audience cheering) (audience applauding) 348 00:19:55,839 --> 00:20:00,160 - My mother was in the American Indian movement. 349 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:04,000 We were always active in issues. 350 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:07,400 We're always expected to act a certain way. 351 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,640 And growing up, we would joke about like, 352 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,599 why do we have to be the ultimate Indian? 353 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,359 And it's just how we were raised. 354 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,599 Even in my community, 355 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,079 they're like, oh, your mom's Phyllis Young? 356 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,079 People know, but I'm proud of that. 357 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:23,039 You know? 358 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,200 - I co-founded the Women of All Red Nations, 359 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,599 and we had to rise to the occasion of sterilization. 360 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,039 The highest rates were here in this region. 361 00:20:35,079 --> 00:20:37,720 And it was an Indian woman doctor from Oklahoma 362 00:20:37,759 --> 00:20:42,200 who became an MD and practiced in the Indian health service 363 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,440 who exposed that. 364 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:49,759 We went throughout the United States and formed partnerships 365 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,960 with women in all the cities and the universities. 366 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,480 And so Congress passed an act to prohibit sterilization 367 00:20:56,519 --> 00:20:57,440 of Native people. 368 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,000 We also stepped up because of the adoption 369 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:02,480 of Indian children. 370 00:21:02,519 --> 00:21:06,480 So the Indian Child Welfare Act passed in 1978. 371 00:21:06,519 --> 00:21:09,839 These two very critical acts came from Lakota country. 372 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:17,160 (singing in foreign language) (rhythmic drumming) 373 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,400 - When I was younger, I used to say to my mom, 374 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,440 I can't believe they killed us off. 375 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,680 And I can't believe that we're so small of people 376 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,680 and really try to like put it in perspective 377 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:49,400 in my younger mind, 378 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,759 but then also like trying to be pitiful. 379 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:53,599 And that's something that we're not allowed to be. 380 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,400 And my mom and my little sister always say that 381 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,440 out of all these billions of people on the earth, 382 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,359 like we get to be from Sitting Bull's people. 383 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,640 Like we get to be from Rain-in-the-Face. 384 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,319 We get to be with the Lakota's Crazy Horse. 385 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,759 And we get to like carry on that legacy 386 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:14,839 of fighting for our way of life. 387 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,799 (propellors whirring) (dramatic music) 388 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:28,720 [Officer] Down on the floor 389 00:22:28,759 --> 00:22:33,759 or we will put you on the floor. 390 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,200 You can't stay here, you have to go home. 391 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:40,559 - This is water we're fighting for. 392 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:41,799 We don't want to. 393 00:22:41,839 --> 00:22:43,799 Look how you guys come. 394 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:45,559 We pay y'all. 395 00:22:45,599 --> 00:22:47,000 This is shameful. 396 00:22:47,039 --> 00:22:48,200 - [Officer] We don't want anybody to get hurt. 397 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,640 We do not want anybody to get tased. 398 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,000 [Cop] All right. Forward! 399 00:22:51,039 --> 00:22:54,039 (ominous music) 400 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,599 - [Waste] On October 27th, our North Treaty Camp was raided. 401 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,640 I stood with a Mní wióni banner for six hours. 402 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,640 (propellors whirring) (voices clamoring) 403 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,480 Hold the line, hold the line! 404 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:24,160 Cut her off! 405 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:25,240 Cut her off! 406 00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:30,039 (alarm blaring) (voices shouting) 407 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:32,079 (fire crackling) 408 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,759 - [Officer] Ladies and gentlemen, stay back. 409 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:42,839 [Waste] You're shaking so bad, 410 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,400 but all you could do is pray. 411 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,079 (water spraying) 412 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,039 (all shouting) 413 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,359 [Cameraman] Put your gun down. 414 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,599 Those are live rounds. 415 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,160 That is not less than lethal ammunition. 416 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,079 Put your gun down. 417 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,440 No one is armed here. 418 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,039 - Put your weapon down. - We're peaceful. 419 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,079 (ominous music) 420 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:37,359 - And then to see the buffalo coming over the hill, 421 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,200 it was like I was in a dream. 422 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:45,279 (soft music) (hooves thundering) 423 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,400 - [Reporter] Tonight near Cannonball, North Dakota, 424 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,839 this is the tense face-off between an army of police 425 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,079 and Native American protestors blocking highway 1806. 426 00:24:56,319 --> 00:24:58,200 - [Man] North Dakota's Governor Jack Dalrymple 427 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,799 mobilized the state's National Guard to end the protest. 428 00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:05,599 - [Jack] We cannot allow our state highways 429 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:10,680 and our county highways to be taken over by agitators 430 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,559 from other areas of the country. 431 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,759 (solemn music) 432 00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:19,599 (fabric tearing) 433 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,920 - No people on Earth ever enjoyed a freedom 434 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,240 like we Indians enjoyed 435 00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:29,440 before the white man came to this country. 436 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,799 Everything was free. 437 00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:36,400 We were free. 438 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,240 And so were the animals and the birds and the rivers. 439 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:42,359 Then Columbus and his gang hit this country by accident. 440 00:25:43,759 --> 00:25:46,200 We're sorry that they did. 441 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:47,799 Our instructions didn't tell us 442 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:49,359 what to do about the white man. 443 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,319 We welcomed him when he came here, we fed him. 444 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:53,640 We took care of him. 445 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,559 We believed God had sent him here to help us. 446 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:01,160 God gave the white man powers we never saw before, 447 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,720 material powers. 448 00:26:02,759 --> 00:26:04,799 He was supposed to share these powers to make life better 449 00:26:04,839 --> 00:26:05,799 for all of us. 450 00:26:05,839 --> 00:26:06,680 He didn't. 451 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:11,000 Now our great chieftains are gone. 452 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:12,160 Our buffalo are gone. 453 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,160 Our weapons, our bows and arrows, 454 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,279 our tomahawks are in the museums. 455 00:26:16,319 --> 00:26:19,240 They sell our arrowheads and even our bones for souvenirs. 456 00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:23,200 (voices clamoring) 457 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,799 Maybe if we didn't remember how it once was, 458 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:27,599 it wouldn't be so hard for us. 459 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,119 We could just become like everyone else. 460 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,640 I grew up in a town 461 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,759 that was predominantly white ranching families. 462 00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:56,279 Come up. 463 00:26:56,319 --> 00:26:58,319 I'm gonna adjust right here for this next one. 464 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,000 - I was one of the only Native kids in the whole town. 465 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:07,240 And it's very alienating 466 00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:10,160 because I didn't look like the white women 467 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,599 on the magazine covers or in the movies. 468 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:14,960 But as soon as I realized 469 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,200 that these were all manifestations, 470 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,559 that these were all creations by the invader 471 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:21,319 to make me hate myself so that I could try to assimilate 472 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,799 and be the whitest I could be, 473 00:27:24,839 --> 00:27:26,240 then there was no longer a problem. 474 00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:29,039 And that I had been hating something in myself 475 00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:30,680 that I should have been embracing. 476 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,519 (hands clapping) 477 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:33,400 My jujitsu family. 478 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,200 They're like my second family. 479 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,720 They've taken me in and accepted me, 480 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:42,359 goods, bads, you know, rights, wrongs, positives, negatives. 481 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,880 And they really tried to encourage me 482 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,680 to be the best form of myself. 483 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,799 And honestly I don't know where I'd be without them. 484 00:27:50,839 --> 00:27:54,319 And so, I'm really thankful that I've found this place 485 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,200 and this family to kind of help mold me 486 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,079 into the person that I am today. 487 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,000 My mom has been abusing alcohol 488 00:28:05,039 --> 00:28:06,599 probably longer than I've been alive. 489 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,319 And it's ultimately destroyed her life. 490 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,000 Our relationship was very physically abusive 491 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:13,319 when I was younger. 492 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,319 And then even after the physical abuse stopped, 493 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,960 there was still a lot of psychological trauma 494 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,119 that took place. 495 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,279 Many young people do, I was a cutter. 496 00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:27,079 I have scars all over my arms and my legs from it. 497 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,359 But she is a product of colonialism. 498 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:35,119 And that's been one of my biggest purposes in this life 499 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,079 is I'm gonna hold somebody accountable for that, 500 00:28:38,119 --> 00:28:39,640 for what they did to my mom, 501 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,200 because they deprived me of my mother. 502 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,680 And they're depriving Native children all over the world 503 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,359 of having healthy, happy, functional parents. 504 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,720 I'm not the only one by any stretch of the imagination. 505 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:56,319 I'm one of millions because it's intentional. 506 00:28:56,359 --> 00:29:00,319 It's not coincidence that all of us have parents 507 00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:03,920 or family members who are strung out on meth 508 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,279 or have severe drinking problems. 509 00:29:06,319 --> 00:29:08,440 I mean, all of those things touch Native people 510 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,319 at such an intimate and ridiculously high rate 511 00:29:12,359 --> 00:29:13,559 that it's criminal. 512 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:18,160 (birds chirping) 513 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,039 - [Frances] Come on, sweetie. Let me comb your hair. 514 00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:26,240 How old are you? 515 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:28,759 - Five. - You're five? 516 00:29:28,799 --> 00:29:30,200 Everything was taken from us 517 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,039 and that's the biggest part of why our people 518 00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:36,240 are on meth and using drugs. 519 00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:38,079 I worked under the meth plant 520 00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:42,839 and we seen what meth and using drugs was doing, 521 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,000 not only here but everywhere. 522 00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:48,599 And so we put everything into fighting and raising awareness 523 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,480 because this'll cause us to be extinct. 524 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,200 - [Reporter] Tell me about her mother. 525 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,079 How did she get involved in meth? 526 00:29:56,119 --> 00:29:57,559 She got with a guy 527 00:29:57,599 --> 00:30:01,799 and he was the one started her using meth. 528 00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:06,039 And it just, now, I mean, she's just lost to it. 529 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,000 - [Woman] My daughter gets caught with meth again. 530 00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:19,319 So it's just a hard situation 531 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,240 because they're gonna take my granddaughter. 532 00:30:24,079 --> 00:30:26,160 I don't have no right. 533 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,240 Baby wakes up every night with night terrors. 534 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:31,440 And she's looking for her grandma all the time. 535 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,480 And I'm the only one that she knows that protects her. 536 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,839 (child crying) 537 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,440 In Standing Rock, 538 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,039 they've got every advocate from all over the world there. 539 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,559 You know, what I'm doing here is for our children 540 00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:51,240 that are just as sacred as that water. 541 00:30:51,279 --> 00:30:54,799 So I stay here and I fight this battle. 542 00:30:58,039 --> 00:31:01,240 (propellors whirring) 543 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,319 (singing in foreign language) 544 00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:13,680 - I've been compiling Standing Rock history 545 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,880 for about 25 years, compiling the genealogy. 546 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:18,599 And one of the things that I learned 547 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,680 is if we are allowed to know our history, our culture, 548 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,160 our language, our way of life and our spirituality, 549 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,240 we can be balanced people again. 550 00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:30,799 And then we can choose to follow this way or not. 551 00:31:30,839 --> 00:31:33,400 It's our choice because we're a whole people. 552 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,519 Right now, our people walk around 553 00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:39,519 With post-traumatic stress syndrome, 554 00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:44,039 with damage of itself, of being taken from their families 555 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:47,880 because you're Indian, you don't belong here. 556 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,759 (singing in foreign language) 557 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,000 - The Navajo, through the agencies of the government, 558 00:31:57,039 --> 00:31:59,960 they are being rapidly brought from their state 559 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960 of comparative savagery and barbarism 560 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,319 to one of civilization. 561 00:32:05,359 --> 00:32:07,480 Here, on the one hand, we have the Navajo 562 00:32:07,519 --> 00:32:11,759 as we find him in his desert home today. 563 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,039 Here, we have a group of Navajo children 564 00:32:16,079 --> 00:32:18,279 from the Western Navajo, 565 00:32:18,319 --> 00:32:21,480 Albuquerque Indian schools and the Haskell Institute. 566 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:23,759 (bell dinging) 567 00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:25,079 - How many people know that United States 568 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,039 didn't allow us to raise our own families? 569 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,640 We won that right in 1985, to raise our own families. 570 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,680 1985. 571 00:32:40,319 --> 00:32:41,400 I'm a boarding school person. 572 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,039 My husband's a boarding school person. 573 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:45,440 It wasn't that long ago. 574 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,160 (solemn music) 575 00:33:07,839 --> 00:33:11,119 - Father Francis used to come in our little girls' playroom, 576 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,039 and he used to come in there almost every evening. 577 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,599 And he would sit on this big chair 578 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,799 and he would hold different girls on his lap. 579 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,440 It got to a point where we used to all hide when he came. 580 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,400 We used to all run and hide and stuff. 581 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,799 (wings flapping) 582 00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:32,680 I was so afraid, they put the fear in me so bad. 583 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:33,640 I was so afraid. 584 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,039 I was so afraid. 585 00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:45,240 And I think that's what they did to a lot of our children. 586 00:33:46,839 --> 00:33:49,599 They just put the fear in us so bad with the hell 587 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,240 and with that belt and with abuse, physical abuse and stuff. 588 00:33:54,279 --> 00:33:56,000 And either they'd come after you at night, 589 00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,640 if you didn't behave during the nighttime, 590 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,279 and take you someplace and made you do things 591 00:34:03,319 --> 00:34:04,799 you didn't wanna do. 592 00:34:04,839 --> 00:34:07,200 And you thought it was your fault. 593 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,079 You blamed yourself. 594 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,920 And you thought you were the only one, 595 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,199 but you wasn't. 596 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,360 There was a whole bunch of children. 597 00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:22,960 (clock ticking) 598 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,719 (somber music) 599 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,320 But I was really fortunate 600 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:40,480 that I wasn't really scarred on my body or my, 601 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:45,800 'cause those kind of go away. 602 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,519 But the ones in your heart and your whatchacallit, 603 00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:48,519 they never go away. 604 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,239 And I think it's important for people all over to the world 605 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,760 to know that they're not alone. 606 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,400 The most important thing in people's lives, 607 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,440 no matter where you come from, no matter where you are, 608 00:35:10,159 --> 00:35:13,679 it's your identity, to know who you are. 609 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,000 And I try not to think about it 610 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:25,679 and I try not to have it part of my life 611 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,159 because if I do, it's gonna ruin my life. 612 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,480 I find my own blessings in being able to survive 613 00:35:32,519 --> 00:35:35,320 and being able to bring my children and my grandchildren. 614 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:38,679 But, 615 00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:42,599 now that I'm a grandmother, 616 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,079 I get a second chance to be a good mother. 617 00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:01,639 - We cannot allow our people to be hurt anymore. 618 00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:03,159 And the missionaries are already out 619 00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:04,400 with their assault rifles. 620 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,639 And so we're keeping eye on everything. 621 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,360 They have been issuing alerts, 622 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,880 come to the frontline. 623 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,000 Nothing's happened on the front line. 624 00:36:13,039 --> 00:36:14,599 They're coming to take the kids. 625 00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:16,000 The police are coming in. 626 00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:18,719 All of these things when there's nothing really happening. 627 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,880 But I'm trying to figure out all these things as I go. 628 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,400 I don't have the answers. 629 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,679 This is not something I planned as part of my life. 630 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,719 And some of this stuff just shocks me. 631 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,159 (propellors whirring) 632 00:36:35,199 --> 00:36:38,079 We got word that you can see them, 633 00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:40,599 Dakota Access is trying to move in. 634 00:36:40,639 --> 00:36:42,440 - [Cameraman] What's their intention? 635 00:36:43,599 --> 00:36:44,400 We don't know. 636 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:45,800 And that's why we're cautious. 637 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,519 Between the rubber bullets, the bean bag guns, 638 00:36:48,559 --> 00:36:52,519 the batons, the pepper sprays, the dogs, 639 00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:54,800 dragging people outta ceremony. 640 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,400 If we don't know what they're doing and we're not prepared, 641 00:36:58,440 --> 00:36:59,639 somebody's gonna get hurt. 642 00:36:59,679 --> 00:37:02,519 (voices shouting) 643 00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:24,480 (water splashing) 644 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:26,679 [Protestor] Stop shooting. 645 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,199 Save lives. 646 00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,199 - Don't incarcerate us, protect us. 647 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,280 Those are burial sites up on that hill. 648 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,840 There's 11 to 14 graves up there. 649 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,239 We're here to stop this with prayer. 650 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:45,360 (rhythmic drumming) (singing in foreign language) 651 00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:55,199 (water spraying) (protestors shouting) 652 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:08,679 - And there was people in the water lined up 653 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,159 along that bank right there. 654 00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:12,679 They were just pepper spraying them. 655 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,960 They had those big plastic bin things, 656 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,400 just like goin' like that. 657 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,480 So it was like wafting back to them. 658 00:38:18,519 --> 00:38:20,480 (woman laughing) 659 00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:22,320 'Cause they were pepper spraying themselves 660 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,239 and they were just blasting it back to them. 661 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,559 (tense music) 662 00:38:51,079 --> 00:38:55,559 - You're standing on a sacred site. 663 00:38:55,599 --> 00:38:56,440 Recognize. 664 00:39:00,079 --> 00:39:02,239 That's a place of prayer. 665 00:39:03,159 --> 00:39:05,920 And that's where you standing. 666 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,679 (somber music) 667 00:39:31,119 --> 00:39:34,800 - [Woman] They really tried to paint us 668 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,760 as these violent out-of-state people 669 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,559 when the movement begin with women from Standing Rock. 670 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,000 And how they can 671 00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:49,840 vilify our people for standing up? 672 00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:54,960 It's as though they are saying, how dare you. 673 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,840 (motor rumbling) 674 00:40:05,119 --> 00:40:08,320 - [Phyllis] We have always been here. 675 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:09,800 Then one day we wake up 676 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,599 and they say we cannot step on our burial grounds. 677 00:40:11,639 --> 00:40:14,280 We cannot step on our sites anymore. 678 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,679 I just, I don't understand that whole concept. 679 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,199 - [Reporter] The standoff over the controversial 680 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,320 Dakota Access pipeline keeps growing. 681 00:40:49,679 --> 00:40:52,400 - [Man] Yesterday, President Obama weighed in on the fight. 682 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,039 - [Obama] Right now, the Army Corps is examining 683 00:40:55,079 --> 00:40:57,760 whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline. 684 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,159 So we're gonna let it play out for several more weeks 685 00:41:01,199 --> 00:41:02,480 and determine whether or not this can be resolved 686 00:41:02,519 --> 00:41:06,360 in a way that, I think, is properly attentive 687 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,519 to the traditions of the First Americans. 688 00:41:08,559 --> 00:41:11,440 (voices clamoring) 689 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,760 - [Woman] This is my daughter, Shimi. 690 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:23,800 Nice meet you. 691 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,639 - The Colonel's inside a meeting with the vice chair. 692 00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:37,599 And we're waiting to talk to him. 693 00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,880 - That's Colonel Henderson, the Army Corps of Engineers. 694 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,239 Yep. 695 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,639 - He could say full environmental impact statement. 696 00:41:44,679 --> 00:41:48,639 Or does he give the go ahead for the permit too? 697 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:52,239 - [Woman] This is really alarming. 698 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,800 And we should make sure the White House knows about this. 699 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,159 For sure. 700 00:41:56,199 --> 00:41:59,199 - [Man] I can't believe this is in writing. 701 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:00,800 - It's in conflict with what the president 702 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,199 himself has been saying. 703 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,000 - To me, it's beyond comprehension 704 00:42:07,039 --> 00:42:09,000 that if you have this joint statement 705 00:42:09,039 --> 00:42:11,199 from these three federal agencies, 706 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:15,599 and then it just flies in the face of it, 707 00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:18,039 that what they said was going to happen, 708 00:42:18,079 --> 00:42:19,599 which was listening sessions 709 00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:21,840 and reviewing the permitting process. 710 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,000 And then here you have a letter from Colonel Henderson 711 00:42:25,039 --> 00:42:28,360 asking Morton County for law enforcement, 712 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,239 for more resources to 713 00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,679 commit these horrible acts against our people, 714 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,199 our people who are just trying to pray. 715 00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:43,239 - One of the police officers told the guys in water 716 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,360 that the Army Corps had delegated the jurisdiction 717 00:42:48,159 --> 00:42:50,239 to the Morton County sheriff. 718 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,719 And I said, it can't be. 719 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,360 It can't be delegated. 720 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,360 This John Henderson, this colonel, he's a little boy. 721 00:42:58,119 --> 00:43:00,400 He's a young boy. 722 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,840 I call him, I told him you could be my grandson. 723 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,039 You're so young. 724 00:43:03,079 --> 00:43:05,679 - Phyllis is a former council member, 725 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,199 but council member for life, 726 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,639 and is also contracted by the tribe to fight DAPL. 727 00:43:12,039 --> 00:43:14,199 And one of the strategies that they have 728 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,199 is based on an agreement the tribe made with the DOJ 729 00:43:18,679 --> 00:43:20,280 in the mid-2000s on 13 environmental laws, 730 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,599 Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, down the list. 731 00:43:23,639 --> 00:43:25,000 Those laws apply here. 732 00:43:25,039 --> 00:43:27,440 We're facing 55 pipelines 733 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:31,639 and this Dakota Access is a strategic one. 734 00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:33,679 We need to stop this one. 735 00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,239 Our demand was army Corps, 736 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,119 grant us a full environmental impact statement. 737 00:43:40,159 --> 00:43:41,519 They have never done that. 738 00:43:42,639 --> 00:43:45,199 - [Man] You have four Army Corps officials 739 00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,320 who run DAPL, and the conflict of interest that is obvious. 740 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,719 - [Cameraman] We have the right to go and pray on our lands. 741 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:59,119 - So, we work really hard with the tribal leadership 742 00:43:59,159 --> 00:44:00,800 to try to prevent any kind of conflict 743 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,119 or any further incident. 744 00:44:02,159 --> 00:44:03,320 - Listen-- - I, I, I don't know 745 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:04,760 if tribal leadership is gonna help us. 746 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,400 This is Martin County. 747 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,880 - It takes all the leaders to be engaged. 748 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:10,519 They aren't coming here. 749 00:44:10,559 --> 00:44:13,519 They were on Army Corps land today, 750 00:44:13,559 --> 00:44:14,480 - threatening us. - Construction workers. 751 00:44:14,519 --> 00:44:15,920 No, construction workers were. 752 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,159 [Ladonna] No, the police were. 753 00:44:17,199 --> 00:44:18,840 - Thank you. - On the water. 754 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,360 (voices clamoring) 755 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:27,079 My position to the Army Corps is how can you come here 756 00:44:27,119 --> 00:44:30,519 when you already have developed your position? 757 00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:33,440 And you're trying to acquiesce the rights that we have 758 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:34,199 on the river. 759 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,320 (crickets chirping) 760 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:45,480 (rhythmic drumming) (wind howling) 761 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,119 (voices clamoring) 762 00:45:33,159 --> 00:45:35,840 (guns firing) 763 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,000 - I got hit with a rubber bullet. 764 00:45:43,039 --> 00:45:46,000 I see this one just coming straight for my eye. 765 00:45:46,039 --> 00:45:47,400 So I get hit in the eye. 766 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,199 I turn around, I try to run. 767 00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,119 I get shot in the back of the leg. 768 00:45:52,159 --> 00:45:54,239 I fell to the ground and I yell 769 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:55,760 (speaking in foreign language), help me. 770 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:56,679 I was gushing blood. 771 00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:04,199 (singing in foreign language) 772 00:47:01,039 --> 00:47:04,079 - So you can see, I had some stitches here, 773 00:47:04,119 --> 00:47:05,719 also along the whole eyelid. 774 00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,800 And my eye is trying to open now, but I'll never see again. 775 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:15,199 (rhythmic drumming) (singing in foreign language) 776 00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,079 If I do see anything, it'll be less than 5% chance 777 00:47:18,119 --> 00:47:19,599 it'll be some form of light. 778 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,400 My IHS plan was not good enough, 779 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,400 even though it was an emergency. 780 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,159 And I didn't see a retina specialist till almost a week 781 00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:32,119 after driving around from a hospital to a hospital, 782 00:47:32,159 --> 00:47:34,039 from doctor's office to doctor's office, 783 00:47:34,079 --> 00:47:37,719 basically doing the same steps over and over and over again. 784 00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,760 And that's the failure in our healthcare system 785 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:41,000 as Native Americans. 786 00:47:41,039 --> 00:47:42,760 And that's what's sad. 787 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,079 That's what's sad. 788 00:47:44,119 --> 00:47:46,760 (voices clamoring) 789 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,440 (wind howling) 790 00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,119 [Man] Moment my whole life 791 00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:08,440 to the Lakota Dakota Lakota people to be united. 792 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,280 - I'm a veteran from the Vietnam era. 793 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,599 I'm 60 years old and I'm a ex-police officer. 794 00:48:14,639 --> 00:48:16,519 And what is happening here is horrifying. 795 00:48:16,559 --> 00:48:19,480 And I'm here to support my people. 796 00:48:19,519 --> 00:48:22,159 And I'm so happy everybody is here to support this. 797 00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:23,039 And thank you. 798 00:48:23,079 --> 00:48:25,239 (crowd cheering) 799 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,679 [Man] Goin' to meet the fans? 800 00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,800 - Better believe it. - Better believe it. 801 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,400 There ya go. 802 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,599 - Better believe it, I like that one. 803 00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:35,719 - [Driver] Hey, do I know where I'm going? 804 00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:36,639 Where's the trailer? 805 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,440 I didn't hear anything yet. 806 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,199 - [Man] They just said that federal stopped the pipeline 807 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:50,199 just right now, man. 808 00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:51,519 That's just what I was told. 809 00:48:51,559 --> 00:48:53,239 - I'm never gonna believe a newsman. 810 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,519 - [Man] I didn't say they did, I said this is what I heard. 811 00:48:56,559 --> 00:48:59,239 - I got a whisper this morning about possibly 812 00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:00,760 some positive news. 813 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,920 I don't have any validation or verification of that. 814 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,199 Until I do, I'm not doing jumping jacks around my teepee. 815 00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,679 (voices clamoring) 816 00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,719 [Man] Be united. 817 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,480 [Crowd] Be united. 818 00:49:14,519 --> 00:49:16,000 - [Reporter] Protestors are celebrating 819 00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:17,719 an unexpected victory 820 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,519 in their fight to block an oil pipeline in North Dakota. 821 00:49:20,559 --> 00:49:22,559 - [Newsman] Cheers erupted and tears flowed 822 00:49:22,599 --> 00:49:25,280 as news spread throughout the camp 823 00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,599 that pipeline construction would not continue 824 00:49:27,639 --> 00:49:29,199 under the Missouri River. 825 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,320 (Ladonna laughing) 826 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,239 - Army Corps of Engineers denied to permit to Dakota Access. 827 00:49:39,039 --> 00:49:40,800 My reaction? 828 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:41,679 None yet. 829 00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:44,719 - [Reporter] You've been through this before, 830 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,400 where you've been made promises. 831 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:49,639 Does this just feel like another one of those? 832 00:49:50,679 --> 00:49:51,760 We're cautious. 833 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,840 So people can celebrate, but I'll wait and see. 834 00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,239 I know, got it. 835 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,760 - We did it. - We did it. 836 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,039 Yeah. 837 00:50:04,079 --> 00:50:05,599 - Grouchy old ladies, but we did it. 838 00:50:05,639 --> 00:50:08,159 (laughing) We did it. 839 00:50:08,199 --> 00:50:10,559 We drug everybody along kicking and screaming. 840 00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,039 You won't have work. 841 00:50:15,079 --> 00:50:17,960 (both laughing) 842 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,159 You will have peace. 843 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:21,639 Yeah. 844 00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,840 - Even though Army Corps denied the permit, 845 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:31,719 I do not have full trust that Dakota Access will stop. 846 00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,480 They have not followed any law codes to this point. 847 00:50:36,519 --> 00:50:41,000 All that will happen now is the state and the government 848 00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:42,480 will pull out 849 00:50:42,519 --> 00:50:45,519 and we will be at the mercy of the mercenaries. 850 00:50:46,679 --> 00:50:49,760 I know that President Trump will be president 851 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:54,599 here in January and he says that he will give permission. 852 00:50:54,639 --> 00:50:57,679 And so for me, the battle has only just begun. 853 00:51:00,639 --> 00:51:04,519 - I wanna thank you, all of you who have helped us. 854 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,719 You have helped us. I am overwhelmed. 855 00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:15,079 And tomorrow we are going to have a celebration 856 00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:17,400 and we will dance in full regalia. 857 00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,039 We will celebrate the killing of the black snake. 858 00:51:21,079 --> 00:51:26,159 (upbeat music) (singing in foreign language) 859 00:51:33,519 --> 00:51:37,400 So today we have done a very historic happening. 860 00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,639 We have made peace with the United States of America 861 00:51:40,679 --> 00:51:45,880 and we will go forward as good Americans 862 00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,280 and good Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. 863 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,599 On behalf of our own country, 864 00:51:51,639 --> 00:51:54,719 we will go to the front lines of legislation, 865 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,280 we will go to the front lines of litigation, 866 00:51:58,320 --> 00:51:59,760 and we will go to the front lines 867 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,360 to make changes in the Constitution if we have to. 868 00:52:04,639 --> 00:52:07,920 We will go forward in the front lines to defy the doctrine 869 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,199 of discovery that says we are not a race, 870 00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,000 that we are wandering beasts. 871 00:52:13,039 --> 00:52:15,400 And because we are not Christian, 872 00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,119 we are not entitled to the land. 873 00:52:18,159 --> 00:52:21,280 The black snake has never stopped. 874 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,599 And if they didn't stop desecrating our graves 875 00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:29,280 of our ancestors, they'll stop at nothing. 876 00:52:31,639 --> 00:52:34,239 (solemn music) 877 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:52,199 (singing in foreign language) 878 00:53:13,039 --> 00:53:14,880 Back in the 1950s and '60s, 879 00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,199 they built a series of dams along the Missouri River. 880 00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,559 The people of Standing Rock and Cheyenne River 881 00:53:20,599 --> 00:53:24,199 basically witnessed almost a complete cultural genocide. 882 00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:26,119 They relied on the Missouri River 883 00:53:26,159 --> 00:53:27,559 for everything that they needed, 884 00:53:27,599 --> 00:53:31,000 all the foods and the medicines grew either in the river 885 00:53:31,039 --> 00:53:32,400 or around it. 886 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,639 Hundreds of vitally important foods and medicines 887 00:53:35,679 --> 00:53:38,199 were decimated overnight. 888 00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,639 And it changed the way of life for the Lakota people 889 00:53:40,679 --> 00:53:42,599 here forever. 890 00:53:42,639 --> 00:53:45,599 It's so heartbreaking to think that they have to go 891 00:53:45,639 --> 00:53:46,920 through that again. 892 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,599 They have to see the destruction of their land again. 893 00:53:49,639 --> 00:53:52,519 And so when people ask, why is this the end of the line? 894 00:53:52,559 --> 00:53:56,800 Why are women standing up and finally saying no, this is it? 895 00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:58,239 We cannot let this happen again. 896 00:53:58,280 --> 00:53:59,800 It's because they've seen this happen 897 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:01,480 to their children before. 898 00:54:01,519 --> 00:54:04,079 And just when they're starting to try to recover 899 00:54:04,119 --> 00:54:05,599 from all that was taken, 900 00:54:05,639 --> 00:54:08,000 here comes another project that threatens 901 00:54:08,039 --> 00:54:09,360 that way of life again. 902 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,719 (singing in foreign language) 903 00:54:31,039 --> 00:54:34,000 - [Reporter] President Trump is signing an executive order 904 00:54:34,039 --> 00:54:36,320 approving the Keystone XL Pipeline 905 00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,639 and the Dakota Access pipeline. 906 00:54:38,679 --> 00:54:40,159 Let's listen in. 907 00:54:40,199 --> 00:54:43,079 - [Trump] This is, with respect to the construction 908 00:54:43,119 --> 00:54:47,320 of the Dakota Access pipeline, 909 00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:48,800 something that's been in dispute 910 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:52,000 and it's subject to a renegotiation of terms by us. 911 00:54:52,039 --> 00:54:54,880 We'll see if we can get that pipeline built. 912 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,840 (cameras snapping) 913 00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,320 - Let's go look in the yurt, I wanna see it. 914 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,199 Fuckin' DAPL helicopter flying over us. 915 00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:12,760 (propellors whirring) 916 00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,480 They fuckin' permitted that pipeline to go through. 917 00:55:15,519 --> 00:55:18,880 And it's devastating with what happened, 918 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,400 Trump's administration. 919 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,800 And our spirits are all tired, but we don't have a choice. 920 00:55:26,199 --> 00:55:27,880 - I'm a little angry because we came out here 921 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,599 and our whole camp, you know, from where we first started, 922 00:55:31,639 --> 00:55:33,159 it is all gone. 923 00:55:33,199 --> 00:55:35,000 That's where we all became friends at, you know? 924 00:55:35,039 --> 00:55:39,360 A lot of us and it's gone now, it's just gone. 925 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,440 I don't get why they just, didn't have to do that, you know? 926 00:55:44,119 --> 00:55:46,679 - [Reporter] And how was Waste Win feeling? 927 00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,519 We're all sad. 928 00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,559 It's all happening all at once. I mean, I don't know. 929 00:55:56,159 --> 00:55:58,239 [Waste] Two, three years ago, 930 00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,039 I worked for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and I testified 931 00:56:01,079 --> 00:56:04,039 at the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission 932 00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:09,679 that Dakota Access had not been consulting with the tribe. 933 00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:14,519 And at that time I was so resigned that nobody cared, 934 00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:18,559 and so for it to take on the life that it has. 935 00:56:18,599 --> 00:56:22,239 But, with the army Corps's blessing, 936 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:23,599 with this we'll lose everything. 937 00:56:23,639 --> 00:56:25,320 There's nothing left. 938 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,039 It's just heartbreaking. 939 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,039 - [Reporter] The Army Corps of Engineers 940 00:56:35,079 --> 00:56:37,079 told Congress Tuesday it will allow 941 00:56:37,119 --> 00:56:39,480 the nearly $4 billion oil project 942 00:56:39,519 --> 00:56:43,199 across under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota. 943 00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,760 The tribe is now promising a legal battle. 944 00:56:47,039 --> 00:56:49,719 - The Army Corps has issued their intent 945 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,079 to approve of the permit. 946 00:56:52,119 --> 00:56:55,719 And so they're notifying Congress. 947 00:56:55,760 --> 00:57:00,760 So between now and the end of the day tomorrow, 948 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,159 we have to file some kind of action. 949 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,719 And DAPL has been fined $15,000 950 00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,519 by the North Dakota Utilities Commission. 951 00:57:10,559 --> 00:57:15,199 So what's 15,000 for desecrating 26 graves? 952 00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:18,639 It's horrible to us, but nothing to them. 953 00:57:18,679 --> 00:57:23,199 So this has been 10 years that we have been in this fight 954 00:57:23,239 --> 00:57:26,519 and struggle against Keystone, Keystone XL, and DAPL. 955 00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,960 So it's been a long haul. 956 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,039 And never giving up and not stopping. 957 00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,360 (wind howling) 958 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,800 (machine whirring) 959 00:58:03,719 --> 00:58:05,320 We had been meeting about, 960 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:06,599 you know, what is our next step? 961 00:58:06,639 --> 00:58:08,039 What are we gonna do? 962 00:58:08,079 --> 00:58:12,480 And we decided to have another prayer camp. 963 00:58:12,519 --> 00:58:16,880 And we were singing our ceremony songs, 964 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:18,519 our sundance songs. 965 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,079 And as we were having ceremony, 966 00:58:23,119 --> 00:58:25,199 they called a code red for law enforcement, 967 00:58:25,239 --> 00:58:29,199 all officers to respond within a 100 mile radius. 968 00:58:29,239 --> 00:58:30,519 And they surrounded us. 969 00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:34,679 There was 76 of us that got arrested. 970 00:58:34,719 --> 00:58:39,800 They loaded up two vans and headed to Cass County jail. 971 00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,559 They write our names and they take a picture of us. 972 00:58:42,599 --> 00:58:44,800 Then they put us in like big dog kennels. 973 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,480 So then the men were on one side, 974 00:58:47,519 --> 00:58:48,880 the females were on another side, 975 00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,239 and there was a tarp separating us. 976 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,199 But some of the National Guardsmen and police 977 00:58:53,239 --> 00:58:55,559 were going behind the men, in front of the men, 978 00:58:55,599 --> 00:58:57,199 and then taking selfies. 979 00:58:57,239 --> 00:58:59,800 They were like really laughing and posing with the men 980 00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:01,280 in the cages behind them. 981 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,519 But as I was standing there, 982 00:59:03,559 --> 00:59:06,400 I looked at some of the men in the van 983 00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,559 and they were yelling, you know, stay strong, sister. 984 00:59:11,599 --> 00:59:13,280 (somber music) 985 00:59:19,159 --> 00:59:21,840 (Waste crying) 986 00:59:29,519 --> 00:59:31,480 - Little in, although that things like that 987 00:59:31,519 --> 00:59:33,599 just bring us closer together. 988 00:59:37,599 --> 00:59:42,639 - Then when you know you get booked, you have to get naked. 989 00:59:43,639 --> 00:59:48,119 And the jailer told me to 990 00:59:51,039 --> 00:59:52,559 give them my underwear 991 00:59:52,599 --> 00:59:57,199 and I just, you know, acted like it was nothing 992 00:59:57,239 --> 01:00:00,440 because if you act like it's something, 993 01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,199 they're just gonna play games with you even more. 994 01:00:03,239 --> 01:00:05,599 - They want a reaction for everything. 995 01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:07,599 - You're never gonna break our spirit. 996 01:00:09,119 --> 01:00:12,079 If anything, you're gonna embolden and empower us 997 01:00:12,119 --> 01:00:15,960 to even stand up more so for our children 998 01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,760 don't ever have to go do things like that. 999 01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,639 (voices clamoring) 1000 01:00:34,199 --> 01:00:37,159 (knife chopping) 1001 01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,119 (pan sizzling) 1002 01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,000 Put all of it in there this time. 1003 01:00:51,039 --> 01:00:52,360 [Son] I don't like onions. 1004 01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,960 - You don't even notice all the stuff you have 1005 01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,079 with onions. 1006 01:00:56,119 --> 01:00:57,039 Don't complain. 1007 01:00:58,119 --> 01:00:59,599 - [Man] I was trying to order it today, 1008 01:00:59,639 --> 01:01:01,559 but scheduling found out. 1009 01:01:02,599 --> 01:01:03,639 (girl screaming) 1010 01:01:03,679 --> 01:01:07,719 That little white dog, it's right there. 1011 01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,000 - [Reporter] Was it weird coming back to life in your house? 1012 01:01:11,039 --> 01:01:12,000 Yeah, it was kind of sad. 1013 01:01:12,039 --> 01:01:14,719 It was really sad, I think. 1014 01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:16,079 For me it was. 1015 01:01:16,119 --> 01:01:17,599 And then now with the like upcoming deadline 1016 01:01:17,639 --> 01:01:20,239 for them to close the camp and everything, 1017 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:24,039 it's even more real, I guess. 1018 01:01:29,719 --> 01:01:30,440 You okay? 1019 01:01:37,119 --> 01:01:39,280 Even after Trump's done, 1020 01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,440 you know, there'll be, there still will always be hope. 1021 01:01:46,639 --> 01:01:48,119 Being at camp, 1022 01:01:48,159 --> 01:01:50,440 being out there's really has really strengthened me. 1023 01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:54,199 It's hard though because it affects your life 1024 01:01:54,239 --> 01:01:58,679 like so intensely and personally, 1025 01:01:58,719 --> 01:02:03,000 it kind of basically takes over everything in your life 1026 01:02:03,039 --> 01:02:04,800 to make the stand that you do, 1027 01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:08,079 and relationships suffer. 1028 01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,559 (rain pattering) 1029 01:02:15,239 --> 01:02:16,679 Kristen, text my mom for me. 1030 01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,199 Just tell her we're all on our way to court 1031 01:02:20,239 --> 01:02:21,679 at Morton County. 1032 01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,480 (wind howling) 1033 01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:40,000 - [Cameraman] What happened, ladies? 1034 01:02:40,039 --> 01:02:44,400 - We plead not guilty to engaging in a riot 1035 01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:49,039 and criminal trespass and they will set our court date 1036 01:02:49,079 --> 01:02:51,320 for a jury trial at a later date. 1037 01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,239 - [Reporter] The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1038 01:02:56,280 --> 01:02:58,840 say they will not extend today's deadline, 1039 01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:00,679 but officials have made it clear 1040 01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:05,039 today's mandatory evacuation order will be enforced. 1041 01:03:05,079 --> 01:03:06,239 - Man, these things are slippery. 1042 01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,440 We don't have our cell phone. 1043 01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:12,360 Nobody's going in, 1044 01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:14,800 so we figured we could come in this way and walk. 1045 01:03:20,039 --> 01:03:21,639 - [Cameraman] What do you think's happen today? 1046 01:03:21,679 --> 01:03:25,320 - They're gonna arrest everybody, try to. 1047 01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,280 'Cause they're protecting everyone. 1048 01:03:31,239 --> 01:03:33,639 (soft music) 1049 01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:58,199 Now I've experienced this whole new, different life 1050 01:03:58,239 --> 01:03:59,719 with the camp and this movement 1051 01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,760 that I'm always gonna wanna strive for that now. 1052 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,119 I'm always gonna want that for my children. 1053 01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,960 So despite what anybody says, 1054 01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,400 this was a movement out of love. 1055 01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:22,599 (rhythmic drumming) (singing in foreign language) 1056 01:04:34,639 --> 01:04:37,239 - [Reporter] Some protestors began ceremonially setting fire 1057 01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:38,679 to parts of their camp, 1058 01:04:38,719 --> 01:04:39,960 preferring to burn it 1059 01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:41,400 rather than have it seized and destroyed. 1060 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,440 Many of the protestors vowed to persist 1061 01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:47,079 and keep Standing Rock in the spotlight. 1062 01:04:50,039 --> 01:04:52,599 (somber music) 1063 01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:17,599 [Waste] I have 79 messages. 1064 01:05:17,639 --> 01:05:18,760 [Woman] Ho. 1065 01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,079 Hope Shay gets to spend her birthday here. 1066 01:05:21,119 --> 01:05:22,039 - [Reporter] So you're saying you're getting 1067 01:05:22,079 --> 01:05:23,519 a lot of birthday wishes? 1068 01:05:23,559 --> 01:05:25,480 - Yeah, a lot of people wish me happy birthday. 1069 01:05:25,519 --> 01:05:29,000 And I tried to like thank them. 1070 01:05:29,039 --> 01:05:30,239 - [Driver] So where are we going? 1071 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,440 - [Waste] To Washington Monument. 1072 01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:33,760 [Driver] I think it's this. 1073 01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,599 - [Waste] You're gonna arrive in one minute. 1074 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,199 Look it right now. 1075 01:05:40,239 --> 01:05:44,000 You guys are gonna get charged with jaywalking. 1076 01:05:44,039 --> 01:05:45,159 It's cool. 1077 01:05:46,719 --> 01:05:50,400 Those two red light top on top look like eyeballs. 1078 01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:54,519 (singing in foreign language) 1079 01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:12,320 - This is what America believes in, 1080 01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,679 like all these flags, all these buildings, big architecture. 1081 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,079 Homage to all these presidents that killed Natives. 1082 01:06:20,119 --> 01:06:22,039 But outta respect, 1083 01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,559 our grandparents all fought their wars for them too. 1084 01:06:25,599 --> 01:06:30,519 So out of respect, let's all try to be positive here. 1085 01:06:32,199 --> 01:06:35,519 At the Washington monument, Connie sang the Flag Song, 1086 01:06:35,559 --> 01:06:38,920 which is our Lakota national anthem, 1087 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:40,239 because there's flags all the way 1088 01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:42,000 around the Washington Monument. 1089 01:06:42,039 --> 01:06:44,400 And I felt angry 1090 01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:49,400 thinking of our camp is all displaced, 1091 01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:50,639 yet we came together today. 1092 01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:58,239 [Woman] What do we want? 1093 01:06:58,280 --> 01:06:59,719 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1094 01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:01,119 [Woman] When do we want it? 1095 01:07:01,159 --> 01:07:02,639 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1096 01:07:02,679 --> 01:07:04,000 [Woman] What do we want? 1097 01:07:04,039 --> 01:07:05,400 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1098 01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:07,000 [Woman] When do we want it? 1099 01:07:07,039 --> 01:07:08,719 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1100 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,000 [Woman] What do we want? 1101 01:07:10,039 --> 01:07:11,360 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1102 01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,039 [Woman] When do we want it? 1103 01:07:13,079 --> 01:07:14,760 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1104 01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:16,119 [Woman] What do we want? 1105 01:07:16,159 --> 01:07:17,400 [Crowd] Keep to themselves. 1106 01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:19,360 I'm tryin' to do a Live Feed. 1107 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,800 But it keeps cutting me off. 1108 01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:25,000 * Mní wióni * 1109 01:07:25,039 --> 01:07:26,519 * Water is life * 1110 01:07:26,559 --> 01:07:27,840 * Mní wióni * 1111 01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:29,039 * Water is life * 1112 01:07:29,079 --> 01:07:30,599 * Mní wióni * 1113 01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:31,960 * Water is life * 1114 01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:33,280 * Mní wióni * 1115 01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:34,719 * Water is life * 1116 01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,599 (crowd cheering) 1117 01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:54,559 (bright music) 1118 01:07:58,079 --> 01:07:59,559 This is a new day. 1119 01:07:59,599 --> 01:08:00,880 We are together. 1120 01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:02,559 We stand with Standing Rock! 1121 01:08:02,599 --> 01:08:05,599 (audience cheering) 1122 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,400 (rhythmic drumming) 1123 01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,840 (singing in foreign language) 1124 01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,680 - The experiences that I went through 1125 01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:22,319 alongside hundreds or thousands of other people 1126 01:08:22,359 --> 01:08:26,600 affected me so much that I have obligation 1127 01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,640 to honor the journey that we've been through 1128 01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:34,000 and the collective movement that happened 1129 01:08:34,039 --> 01:08:36,239 to keep it moving forward. 1130 01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:44,600 - We're still gonna pursue the legal avenues. 1131 01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:47,720 We have 56 actions that we pursue at all levels. 1132 01:08:50,359 --> 01:08:53,199 But we are also going to the United Nations, 1133 01:08:53,239 --> 01:08:56,600 and we're going to create footprints in the world court. 1134 01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,119 If nothing else, I have to leave a footprint. 1135 01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:15,439 (horns honking) 1136 01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:32,479 I helped to coordinate the conference in Geneva. 1137 01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:35,640 The first time that Indian people had gone to the UN 1138 01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:37,560 since 1926. 1139 01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,159 And so it's been an endeavor of generations 1140 01:09:41,199 --> 01:09:43,199 and intergenerational work. 1141 01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:50,039 Madam Chair, 1142 01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:53,840 I have had the honor and privilege to be at the heart 1143 01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:57,399 of the two largest American Indian gatherings to date, 1144 01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:59,119 both hosted in Standing Rock, 1145 01:09:59,159 --> 01:10:01,159 the homeland of Sitting Bull's people, 1146 01:10:01,199 --> 01:10:03,920 the Hunkpapa Lakota and Ocheti Sakowin. 1147 01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:06,600 We, the First Nation representatives, 1148 01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,479 share the same intent as the original colonists 1149 01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:11,520 who left the government and homelands 1150 01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,880 to form a new government because they could no longer 1151 01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:16,399 support a nation that oppressed them. 1152 01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:19,199 They had no voice and were slaves to the elite, 1153 01:10:19,239 --> 01:10:22,239 which led them to take their family to escape the tyranny 1154 01:10:22,279 --> 01:10:25,199 and live as free men, so ordained by their creator. 1155 01:10:25,239 --> 01:10:28,680 We're all setting on a path to reclaim everything 1156 01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:31,600 and make them responsible and accountable. 1157 01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,039 (audience applauding) 1158 01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:39,239 - [Trump] I'm pleased to announce 1159 01:10:39,279 --> 01:10:41,279 that the Dakota Access pipeline 1160 01:10:41,319 --> 01:10:44,399 is now officially open for business. 1161 01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:48,920 A $3.8 billion investment that was stalled 1162 01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,560 and nobody thought any politician 1163 01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:55,560 would have the guts to approve that final leg. 1164 01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:57,800 And I just closed my eyes and said do it. 1165 01:10:57,840 --> 01:10:59,840 (audience applauding) 1166 01:10:59,880 --> 01:11:02,680 - Waste Win Young is a former tribal 1167 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:04,279 historic preservation officer 1168 01:11:04,319 --> 01:11:06,000 for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, 1169 01:11:06,039 --> 01:11:07,520 where she currently lives. 1170 01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:10,199 We are thrilled to have her here to speak about the past, 1171 01:11:10,239 --> 01:11:13,359 present, and future of the NoDAPL movement. 1172 01:11:13,399 --> 01:11:14,199 Thank you. 1173 01:11:14,239 --> 01:11:17,560 (audience applauding) 1174 01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,399 - One of the big pushes has been to divest 1175 01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,439 from financial institutions. 1176 01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:25,880 And when we went to Norway, 1177 01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:28,600 we met with DNB Bank and they announced 1178 01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:33,560 that they were pulling a $250 million credit line from DAPL. 1179 01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:36,000 I don't know if you guys seen it, but DAPL already leaked. 1180 01:11:36,039 --> 01:11:40,039 And we're going to do a divestment tour. 1181 01:11:40,079 --> 01:11:42,159 We're meeting with the banks in Paris 1182 01:11:42,199 --> 01:11:46,199 and Brussels and Amsterdam. 1183 01:11:46,239 --> 01:11:49,520 Then we're ending at the United Nations in Geneva. 1184 01:11:51,239 --> 01:11:56,159 Our community does not support or want or never consented 1185 01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,279 to the Dakota Access pipeline. 1186 01:11:59,319 --> 01:12:03,920 Wealth should not come at the expense of Indigenous people. 1187 01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:05,199 It should not come at the expense 1188 01:12:05,239 --> 01:12:07,039 of marginalized communities. 1189 01:12:07,079 --> 01:12:08,560 - So Phyllis, what do you think of (indistinct) 1190 01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:09,640 having been in Europe 1191 01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:11,760 doing the type of work you used to do? 1192 01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:15,319 - [Phyllis] (laughing) Well, I'm glad she went, 1193 01:12:15,359 --> 01:12:17,399 and she went in my stead. 1194 01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:19,800 I'm confident that she can hold her own. 1195 01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:23,479 She comes from a circle, a (speaking in foreign language). 1196 01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:25,680 And that's just the way we are. 1197 01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:29,399 - I ask that the Swiss people stand with us. 1198 01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,279 - How have you seen Waste Win change 1199 01:12:32,319 --> 01:12:34,640 since all of this began a year ago? 1200 01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:38,199 - I watched her go through some pains 1201 01:12:38,239 --> 01:12:40,800 because she was a national voice. 1202 01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,399 So I'm very proud of her. 1203 01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,439 And I know the efforts that she made 1204 01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:48,800 on behalf of all of our people. 1205 01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:52,359 And I would never ask for anything more than what she did. 1206 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,039 (voices clamoring) 1207 01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:11,520 - So the next award is for Standing Rock water protectors. 1208 01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,199 Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, Phyllis Young. 1209 01:13:15,239 --> 01:13:18,079 (audience applauding) Welcome. 1210 01:13:18,119 --> 01:13:22,119 (speaking in foreign language) 1211 01:13:27,359 --> 01:13:29,279 - I extend my hand with a good heart. 1212 01:13:30,319 --> 01:13:32,720 I'm woman who stands by the water 1213 01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:35,039 and woman who loves the water. 1214 01:13:35,079 --> 01:13:36,600 (speaking in foreign language) 1215 01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:38,159 This is for you. 1216 01:13:38,199 --> 01:13:41,840 We are Lakota, Dakota and Nakota, 1217 01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:46,319 and it means friend and ally. 1218 01:13:46,359 --> 01:13:49,359 And you put W-O in front of (speaking in foreign language), 1219 01:13:53,119 --> 01:13:54,640 it means peace. 1220 01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:59,760 We represent the 1% left of Indigenous people 1221 01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:01,760 in this country. 1222 01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:06,159 We have endured and we have survived every atrocity 1223 01:14:06,199 --> 01:14:10,520 that has been imposed upon us and we will continue. 1224 01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:14,279 - What did I do so wrong other than say, 1225 01:14:14,319 --> 01:14:16,119 my water has a right? 1226 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,119 I watch everybody talk, 1227 01:14:20,399 --> 01:14:23,279 but do you understand what it's like to have those roots 1228 01:14:23,319 --> 01:14:26,960 going right out of your feet, straight down into the ground? 1229 01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:29,359 You cannot separate us from this Earth. 1230 01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:35,640 - Remember we Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Oceti Sakowin, 1231 01:14:36,920 --> 01:14:40,600 we are the predecessor sovereign of this territory. 1232 01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:45,399 And if no one likes it, they need to secede from us. 1233 01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,640 They need to go away from us. 1234 01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:50,039 (audience applauding) 1235 01:14:55,039 --> 01:14:57,239 I was good American for 40 years. 1236 01:14:57,279 --> 01:15:00,600 Time to be a good member of Oceti Sakowin. 1237 01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,159 I owe the rest of my life to make the best 1238 01:15:03,199 --> 01:15:05,239 for my own people. 1239 01:15:05,279 --> 01:15:07,199 The oratory is over. 1240 01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:09,960 The rhetoric is over. 1241 01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,800 In America, it's time for action. 1242 01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,239 (audience applauding) 1243 01:15:22,039 --> 01:15:25,119 - [Woman] The solution for Indigenous peoples 1244 01:15:25,159 --> 01:15:28,680 is not in the halls of the Supreme Court. 1245 01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:30,079 It's at Standing Rock. 1246 01:15:31,199 --> 01:15:32,760 That's where our answers are. 1247 01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:35,600 It's wherever the struggle is. 1248 01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:38,520 It's wherever people are daring to be free. 1249 01:15:38,560 --> 01:15:41,239 (wind rustling) 1250 01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:51,640 - I'm not sad, which I thought I would definitely be, 1251 01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:52,640 but I'm not. 1252 01:15:55,359 --> 01:15:58,199 We took a stand for our water. 1253 01:15:59,239 --> 01:16:02,079 Like we lived here and stood our ground, 1254 01:16:02,119 --> 01:16:04,640 so nobody can ever take that from us. 1255 01:16:06,399 --> 01:16:10,439 No matter how the local media tries to portray us 1256 01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:16,279 or tarnish our names or paint us as 1257 01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,439 violent, 1258 01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:20,640 lazy, 1259 01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:23,760 bad. 1260 01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:31,079 We're just people from here that stood up 1261 01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:33,760 and asked 1262 01:16:36,119 --> 01:16:38,279 everybody to come and stand with us. 1263 01:16:40,039 --> 01:16:41,079 And they did. 1264 01:16:45,039 --> 01:16:48,039 (dramatic music) 1265 01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:46,199 (singing in foreign language) 1266 01:21:46,239 --> 01:21:48,520 (rhythmic drumming)