Examines the historic confrontation between the Mohawks, Québec police,…
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock
- Description
- Reviews
- Citation
- Cataloging
- Transcript
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the world oppose the project because the pipeline runs under the Missouri river, a source of drinking water for over 18 million people, and pipeline leaks are commonplace. Since 2010 over 3,300 oil spills and leaks have been reported.
Moving from summer 2016, when demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline's demolishing of sacred Native burial grounds began, to the current and disheartening pipeline status, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock is a powerful visual poem in three parts that uncovers complex hidden truths with simplicity. The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather; and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.
The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. The film documents the story of Native-led defiance that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. It asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'
'Our students ask: what are we to do? And for those of us who don't know what to say, Awake shows us what we must do, and how we must do it. And we must do it now! We are all at Standing Rock: if we do not act to protect Earth now, who will?' Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics and Provost of Rachel Carson College, University of California, Santa Cruz
'Very compelling. Awake makes essential connections between one local struggle, the health of the planet, and the real and symbolic violence of the Western industrial society. Emotionally touching as well as visually striking, this is an ideal introduction to the water protectors and their cause.' Dr. Anna J. Willow, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Ohio State University
'Fear stops many an incipient movement cold. Not Standing Rock. By taking the viewer inside the participants' marches, discussions, and confrontations, this cinematically stunning account brings us face-to-face with the activists' theme: 'We defeat fear every day.'' Charles DiSalvo, Professor of Law, West Virginia University, Author, M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma
'An essential watch...Provides an insider's view of what happened at the Standing Rock protests...Compelling videography and heart rendering voices explain the meaning and context of the Water Protector's actions. This film is easy to add to any classroom because it is segmented into 4 stand-alone parts. Highly recommended.' Dr. Janneli F. Miller, Visiting Professor, Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Fort Lewis College
'Witness these strong hearts fighting for our shared future, resisting violence and repression, and see what we are all capable of. Haunting and inspiring.' Will Potter, Author, Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
'A lesson in resistance for the rest of us...Evocative...Awake, a Dream From Standing Rock not only serves as a vital record of one of the biggest protest movements since Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter, but its events are also fresh. That swift response, a wake-up call, in the form of a visual poem, is a testament to the filmmakers' artistry, and urgency.' Jude Dry, IndieWire
'Provides a powerful picture of the people who have made Standing Rock, North Dakota, one of the most-watched places on earth.' Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter
'The best film that we've seen thus far about a crucially important moment in history. The film takes us inside this moment, showing viewers a truly unique perspective on this series of events that have completely changed the playing field for everyone involved in environmental conservation, social justice and indigenous rights.' Matthew Podolsky, Wild Lens
'Awake allows us to experience the pain of the Standing Rock people as the Dakota Pipeline is built in their midst. We see them fight a battle between 'greed, fear, money, violence, hate, and oil' and 'generosity, faith, freedom, peace and water.' We hear their anguished voices, we witness their helpless suffering, and we wonder what will become of their way of life.' John Copeland Nagle, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, Author, Law's Environment: How the Law Shapes the Places We Live
'Hard-hitting...intense...With soaring cinematography, Fox graphically depicts what's at stake.' Ed Rampell, The Progressive
'The film urges everyday people and journalists not just to get their cameras out and record, or their notebooks out and write, but to actually participate in the actions first.' Cecelia Barrow, Everyday Embellishments blog
'Awake is a timely introduction to how national movements can coalesce around the kinds of important stories we struggle to adequately share across any one spectrum of communication. The power of storytelling in this context inherently promotes the mobilization of knowledge to do work for not only those directly affected communities, but for anyone who demands that how we share information is more relevant and accountable.' Dr. Kojun 'Jun' Ueno Sunseri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California - Berkeley
'AWAKE is a lovely meditation on the importance of place, spirituality, and community for modern Native Americans. It is also a sobering reminder that dispossession and injustice at the hands of governments and private interests, so much a part of Native America's past, continue to this day. Future environmental activists will find it an inspiring example of peaceful organizing for resistance and change.' Dr. Brian Allen Drake, Environmental History, University of Georgia, Author, Loving Nature, Fearing the State
Citation
Main credits
Fox, Josh (film director)
Fox, Josh (screenwriter)
Fox, Josh (editor of moving image work)
Fox, Josh (cinematographer)
Spione, James (film director)
Spione, James (editor of moving image work)
Spione, James (cinematographer)
Dewey, Myron (film director)
Dewey, Myron (editor of moving image work)
Dewey, Myron (cinematographer)
Cadotte, Kyle (film producer)
Pugliese, Teena (film producer)
Schlosberg, Deia (film producer)
Good Feather, Doug (film producer)
Ptesan Hunka, Floris (screenwriter)
White Bull, Floris (screenwriter)
Other credits
Screenwriting, Josh Fox, Floris Ptesan Hunka, Floris White Bull; cinematography & editing, Josh Fox, James Spione, Myron Dewey.
Distributor subjects
Activism; American Studies; Anthropology; Climate Change/Global Warming; Ecology; Energy; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Justice; Geography; Global Issues; Human Rights; Indigenous Peoples; Native Americans; Sociology; WaterKeywords
00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.240
I had a horrible dream last night.
00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:05.480
I don't know why.
00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:09.240
I did all of my usual things for
this time of the season.
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:15.160
I was chopping wood, drying meat...
00:02:15.761 --> 00:02:20.766
gathering berries, digging teem scilla
making preparations.
00:02:22.920 --> 00:02:25.960
I carried water from the river
to our fire.
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.560
I put my five little ones to bed,
smiling and squirming.
00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.720
In their eyes the usual recognition.
00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:47.160
Gratitude. Peacefulness. Love.
00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.400
They asked me to tell them the
stories of the stars.
00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:55.960
The beginning of life.
00:02:57.840 --> 00:02:59.840
Till they fall fast asleep...
00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:03.800
dreaming their Lakota dreams.
00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:09.840
As I climbed up to bed, something
flashed across my mind.
00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:13.880
Like a shock from far away.
00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:16.400
An explosion.
00:03:16.948 --> 00:03:19.283
I tried to catch it
but it disappeared.
00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:23.440
That's when the dream began.
00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.720
A long dark moment unfolded.
00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.800
As if I was traveling across
hundreds of years.
00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:41.920
All things became afraid.
00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:44.840
All living things fought to survive.
00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:51.440
Trees became fearful of being
chopped down.
00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.120
Rivers ran scared of being poisoned.
00:03:57.160 --> 00:03:59.880
Even the air ran for its own breath.
00:04:02.868 --> 00:04:06.121
It was the fear that had
contaminated the world.
00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:32.680
I looked at my five children sleeping
in their beds.
00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:38.280
What would they do...
00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:41.520
...if their water was ruined?
00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.880
How would they live?
00:04:57.423 --> 00:05:08.976
(Lakota song)
00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:11.120
Right here...
00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:13.120
...just rinse 'em off.
00:05:15.023 --> 00:05:17.026
(Water Protectors chanting)
00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.680
We're all unarmed, stand down!
00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:44.800
Everybody's unarmed here - stand down.
00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:50.120
You're on court land, you're out of
your jurisdiction in this water.
00:05:58.275 --> 00:06:02.530
(Lakota song)
00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:05.960
The dream went deeper.
Underground.
00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:08.560
Under the earth.
00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.640
A fire under the earth.
00:06:10.955 --> 00:06:14.458
The oil that caused it
spread everywhere.
00:06:14.625 --> 00:06:17.670
Up through the water and into
the scorched skies.
00:06:18.200 --> 00:06:22.720
Rising oceans, collapsing cities,
millions fleeing their homes...
00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.600
...starvation, death and ruin.
00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.720
In my dream, my friends and loved ones
were sent to the last place...
00:06:31.886 --> 00:06:35.855
...on Earth that still had clean air,
clean water...
00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.080
...unpolluted and uncontaminated.
00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:43.120
A great river ran through this
center place...
00:06:43.400 --> 00:06:44.960
Mni Sose...
00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:48.240
We needed to protect the water
at all costs.
00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:52.840
Was this a vision of the future?
00:06:53.640 --> 00:06:54.920
The present?
00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:56.520
The past?
00:06:57.418 --> 00:06:58.836
I don't know.
00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.200
The battle for the future is laid
out clearly before me.
00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:11.880
One one side: greed, fear, money,
violence, hate, and oil.
00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:20.080
On the other: generosity, faith,
freedom, peace, and water.
00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:26.280
The black snake has been prophesied
for generations.
00:07:26.520 --> 00:07:28.080
Ihanni
00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:32.480
It was foretold that it would bring
death.
00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.440
That it would be the youth that
would rise up.
00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:40.520
And that behind them the mothers
would rise.
00:07:41.080 --> 00:07:43.720
And behind them, our warriors
would rise.
00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:49.920
We, the seventh generation, are
given the task of defeating it.
00:07:55.601 --> 00:07:59.230
It is called the
Dakota Access Pipeline
00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.160
...and it is proposed to carry
billions of gallons of crude oil...
00:08:03.326 --> 00:08:05.653
From the Bakken shale
in North Dakota...
00:08:05.820 --> 00:08:07.280
...to Illinois.
00:08:07.960 --> 00:08:11.320
To do that it has to run underneath
the Missouri River.
00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.200
The Mni Sose.
00:08:13.366 --> 00:08:16.121
The water source for
17 million Americans...
00:08:16.621 --> 00:08:21.126
...and the only source of water for my
home - Standing Rock Nation.
00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:25.920
Pipelines like the black snake
have burst in the past,...
00:08:26.756 --> 00:08:28.926
...permanently destroying
watersheds...
00:08:29.301 --> 00:08:32.471
...like the Kalamazoo river
and many others.
00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:37.720
In fact there have been thousands
of spills in the past six years.
00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:40.360
Thousands.
00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:42.640
We ran [We ran]
00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:44.120
For our people [For our people]
00:08:44.286 --> 00:08:47.026
We ran [We ran]
For water [For water]
00:08:47.520 --> 00:08:48.720
[Water is life]
00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:52.960
The youth counsel of our nation took
it upon themselves...
00:08:53.126 --> 00:08:56.286
...to set about the task of
waking the world to our dream.
00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:00.520
They ran from our reservation at the
center of the continent...
00:09:00.680 --> 00:09:04.200
...all the way to the headquarters
of the colonial system.
00:09:04.680 --> 00:09:06.120
Washington D.C.
00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.720
We ran [We ran]
For our brothers [For our brothers]
00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:11.240
And our sisters.
00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:13.520
[Obama! Obama!]
00:09:13.680 --> 00:09:15.760
They ran their to speak
to the president...
00:09:16.280 --> 00:09:19.800
And ask him, "please, don't destroy
the last place we have...
00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:24.560
...stop the black snake and start
the healing of this continent."
00:09:27.160 --> 00:09:32.000
The first days on the blockade, we
asked for people to come...
00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:34.520
...to stand with us.
00:09:34.680 --> 00:09:36.520
It was a shot in the dark.
00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.520
If anybody would hear us,
if anybody would care.
00:09:45.280 --> 00:09:48.760
The camp grew along the banks
of the Missouri River.
00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.800
We called it Oceti Sakowin.
The Seven Council Fires.
00:09:56.280 --> 00:09:58.440
Thousands from all over the
continent...
00:09:58.931 --> 00:10:01.143
...and the world
came to pray with us,...
00:10:02.018 --> 00:10:04.688
...to face the fear with love.
00:10:04.920 --> 00:10:07.720
We call ourself Water Protectors.
00:10:08.520 --> 00:10:10.960
We are here to protect the water.
00:10:11.800 --> 00:10:14.320
And the people that answered
those calls...
00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.960
...were the stronghearts of
their nation.
00:10:20.203 --> 00:10:32.215
(Lakota singing)
00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.920
I did two tours in Iraq. '03 and '04.
00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:42.760
I came back angry and guilty and...
00:10:44.640 --> 00:10:47.000
...for the things that we
did over there.
00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:51.560
Once we got there we realized
this war is not about terrorists...
00:10:51.880 --> 00:10:55.440
...this war is about oil.
This war is about money.
00:10:55.990 --> 00:11:00.035
My vow, today, is to fight for
clean water,...
00:11:00.285 --> 00:11:04.040
...to fight for a
beautiful environment,...
00:11:04.206 --> 00:11:08.376
...because the beauty of the land will
always show us...
00:11:08.566 --> 00:11:10.963
...that we need to take care
of each other as well.
00:11:11.963 --> 00:11:14.091
I was sitting in my apartment
in Washington D.C...
00:11:14.425 --> 00:11:15.885
I'm an attorney out there.
00:11:16.051 --> 00:11:18.970
And, as an indigenous woman, as a
keeper of the water,...
00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:22.880
...and also as someone that knows how
much these projects...
00:11:23.046 --> 00:11:24.685
...disparately impact
our communities,...
00:11:24.851 --> 00:11:26.353
...I got in my car and I came here.
00:11:26.520 --> 00:11:29.231
It really wasn't a choice,
it was, I had to be here,...
00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.025
...and I had to throw
everything I possibly could...
00:11:31.191 --> 00:11:32.693
...to try and help stop
this pipeline from happening.
00:11:32.860 --> 00:11:37.531
What's going on here at Standing Rock
isn't just about Standing Rock.
00:11:37.726 --> 00:11:40.113
It's not just about stopping
a pipeline.
00:11:40.280 --> 00:11:43.280
It's not just about
the Missouri River...
00:11:43.446 --> 00:11:45.873
...although there is 18 million
people who get their water from...
00:11:46.040 --> 00:11:47.081
...the Missouri River,...
00:11:47.248 --> 00:11:50.626
...this is about the entire planet,
the planet as a whole.
00:11:50.800 --> 00:11:52.520
This is about the survival
of humanity.
00:11:52.680 --> 00:11:55.000
We're all here for the same reason...
00:11:56.550 --> 00:11:59.845
...and I'll protect them with my life.
They're my family.
00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:03.760
[Police: Move to the south]
00:12:03.973 --> 00:12:07.603
[Go back to the south camp.
Back to the south camp.]
00:12:16.800 --> 00:12:19.400
This is where my story enters
the dream.
00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:26.280
That's when I learn that at the base
of the system is a person in a cage.
00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:32.600
As we were arrested, they put
numbers on our arms.
00:12:34.213 --> 00:12:37.758
We were put in cages like dog kennels.
00:12:39.676 --> 00:12:44.431
The images are burned into my mind
right now of these, uh...
00:12:46.266 --> 00:12:52.940
...the sounds of my people screaming,
in horror.
00:12:53.280 --> 00:12:57.120
Our young people shot off those
horses with those rubber bullets.
00:12:57.486 --> 00:13:01.281
And it's something I can't escape
from right now.
00:13:02.281 --> 00:13:05.953
We're not violent criminals
and we're not bad people.
00:13:06.161 --> 00:13:10.456
We're not murders, and we're
not rapists. We're not drug dealers.
00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.960
Just, uh, everyday people that just
want a better life for our children.
00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.800
I never understood what they said when
they talked about...
00:13:22.970 --> 00:13:27.015
...people with PTSD, and what
they experience.
00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:33.120
I understand it now and I wouldn't
wish that on anybody.
00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:40.240
I hear noises and it brings me right
back to that moment.
00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:44.400
But it never stops.
00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:50.240
It was as if this ancient battle was
playing itself out.
00:13:51.280 --> 00:13:52.840
Right before my eyes.
00:13:55.251 --> 00:14:00.465
They came to our sacred burial ground
we call Turtle Island.
00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.480
They walked upon the burial sites of
our ancestors.
00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.360
We pleaded with them to leave.
00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.240
The Water Protectors came...
00:14:15.271 --> 00:14:19.401
...and they brought with them their
beautiful spirits and their prayers.
00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.988
The youth counsel and friends who
had come to protect the water...
00:14:24.155 --> 00:14:25.573
...had come to see and realize...
00:14:25.740 --> 00:14:29.245
...that we are not separate
from spirit and from life.
00:14:30.203 --> 00:14:33.540
They stood in the water, saying
"we are praying for you."
00:14:34.625 --> 00:14:37.878
These people are true warriors,
these young people.
00:14:38.520 --> 00:14:39.600
Our Youth.
00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:44.400
They were in the water, and
they didn't get cold.
00:14:46.095 --> 00:14:49.096
They were sprayed with
pepper spray and mace,...
00:14:50.098 --> 00:14:51.808
...and they didnt get angry.
00:14:53.280 --> 00:14:54.960
They cried tears of joy.
00:14:55.770 --> 00:15:00.108
They didn't hurl ugly insults
as they were taunted.
00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:04.320
But they prayed for these
people that were spraying them.
00:15:05.880 --> 00:15:08.320
We were in the water we are here
to protect the water...
00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.240
...so the water's gonna protect us
in turn.
00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.720
I was in there for maybe an hour,
an hour and a half...
00:15:13.880 --> 00:15:16.600
...and I didn't get hypothermia,
that water's freezing.
00:15:16.760 --> 00:15:20.040
Spirits on our side as we are up there
on the front lines...
00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.320
...one of the brothers, and I say
brothers, they are still our...
00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.640
...brothers and sisters. He fainted.
00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.840
He was on the front lines, and he
he fainted.
00:15:29.240 --> 00:15:31.640
-There's, there's prayer here
-Strong prayer
00:15:31.800 --> 00:15:34.840
Strong prayer, and we're absolutely
protected by spirit.
00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.200
They too are human beings despite
all of the armor they have on.
00:15:39.520 --> 00:15:41.240
-They're tired
-Emotionally
00:15:41.400 --> 00:15:43.320
-And look at us, we're happy
-You know, we're happy
00:15:44.800 --> 00:15:48.800
We defeat fear everyday.
00:15:49.920 --> 00:15:52.240
The battle raged for several days.
00:15:53.745 --> 00:15:57.498
It's the same story of the
Battle of Little Bighorn,...
00:15:58.250 --> 00:15:59.960
...but it's today.
00:16:01.461 --> 00:16:04.465
The police continued to abuse their
authority, with violence,...
00:16:05.590 --> 00:16:07.801
...just like the Seventh Cavalry.
00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:11.480
Reporters were shot in the middle
of interviews.
00:16:12.400 --> 00:16:13.760
[Oh!]
00:16:18.686 --> 00:16:20.271
[You got hit?]
00:16:20.771 --> 00:16:23.191
[Oh my god.
He just shot you?]
00:16:24.693 --> 00:16:28.738
Because they stood with us,
they were open targets.
00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.000
What do we do when our
land is under attack?
00:16:33.160 --> 00:16:34.800
Stand up, fight back!
00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:36.920
What do we do when our water
is under attack?
00:16:37.400 --> 00:16:38.920
Stand up, fight back!
00:16:39.280 --> 00:16:41.280
What do we do when our people are
under attack?
00:16:41.760 --> 00:16:43.600
Stand up, fight back!
00:16:43.760 --> 00:16:45.840
This is illegal, they are on treaty
land right now.
00:16:46.006 --> 00:16:49.091
It is illegal for them to be there,
and it is illegal for them to even...
00:16:49.258 --> 00:16:54.681
...lay their hands or even spray us
with their weapons on our land.
00:16:54.848 --> 00:16:57.893
Our ancestors are buried on that
mountain behind them.
00:16:58.060 --> 00:17:01.063
It is called Turtle Island,
and our ancestors are up there.
00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.640
When people come up here, we
ask that they come here in prayer...
00:17:03.806 --> 00:17:06.985
...not in violence. If you're going to
be violent, we ask you to stay home.
00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:09.600
We're peaceful protectors.
00:17:10.030 --> 00:17:17.788
Those are our, our synagogues. Those
are our Eiffel towers, our pyramids...
00:17:17.955 --> 00:17:18.830
...you know?
00:17:18.996 --> 00:17:21.083
You don't see, when you
look out on the land,...
00:17:21.250 --> 00:17:22.793
...you don't see
anything like that,...
00:17:23.001 --> 00:17:25.295
...like how it comes up
out of the ground.
00:17:25.753 --> 00:17:29.048
Everything about us was
with the earth,...
00:17:29.215 --> 00:17:31.510
...including our sites.
00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:39.141
(Lakota song)
00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:42.520
We have everything we need at camp.
00:17:43.855 --> 00:17:49.445
We chop wood, carry water,
tend to the sick and injured.
00:17:51.800 --> 00:17:53.240
We create art.
00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:56.680
We report to the outside world.
00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.640
We cook for ourselves.
00:18:02.791 --> 00:18:05.751
There's no money.
There's no electricity.
00:18:08.171 --> 00:18:11.425
There's no hate.
There's no fear.
00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.720
There's no starvation.
00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:17.720
There's no homelessness.
00:18:20.266 --> 00:18:22.518
Above all else, we pray.
00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.920
We lose track of days.
00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.760
Not mandated by a clock or a calendar.
00:18:55.760 --> 00:18:57.000
We are here to serve.
00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:01.280
We face death on the front lines.
00:19:02.360 --> 00:19:06.480
[Mni Wiconi - Water Is Life]
00:19:07.360 --> 00:19:10.840
We will not be violent, we will not
fight back in that way.
00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:14.120
We will not feed into the negativity.
00:19:14.988 --> 00:19:18.491
We won't give that negativity life.
We won't give it our life.
00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:24.440
We are something new on the planet.
But we are not.
00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.320
We are something very old.
00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:31.680
We are warriors of peace.
00:19:32.760 --> 00:19:34.760
We won't surrender.
00:19:45.800 --> 00:19:47.800
This is my weapon.
00:19:47.980 --> 00:19:50.356
I'm gonna kill them with candy
and love and hugs.
00:19:59.360 --> 00:20:02.200
Well I only brought a certain amount
of candy for you guys.
00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:04.440
-OK
-Happy late Halloween
00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.520
Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
00:20:07.686 --> 00:20:09.918
Give it to the people,
the police, that are good,...
00:20:10.085 --> 00:20:11.878
...and have a good heart only.
00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:14.560
-No DAPL workers.
-OK
00:20:20.636 --> 00:20:22.931
Tomorrow I'm gonna
bring them a poster.
00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:29.960
I'm here to protect the water and
to connect back to my roots.
00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:34.360
And remind - remember, who I truly am
and what I am here to accomplish.
00:20:34.600 --> 00:20:37.360
Because along the way we've lost it
by working and...
00:20:37.520 --> 00:20:40.200
...not having time to ourselves
to get to know who we truly are...
00:20:40.360 --> 00:20:41.440
...and what we're here to do.
00:20:42.360 --> 00:20:44.400
What are they gonna do, shoot me?
00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:45.880
Ok, and then what?
00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.560
Take one for the team? Take one
for the water, and our people?
00:20:52.080 --> 00:20:53.640
Of course.
00:20:54.336 --> 00:20:58.050
They honestly believe that the
pipeline's not gonna burst...
00:20:58.320 --> 00:21:02.040
They've made it OK for them to think
that, it's OK for it to happen...
00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:04.040
...and it's not as bad as it seems.
00:21:04.600 --> 00:21:09.520
So, I wanna show them that what we're
doing isn't to hurt DAPL
00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:15.200
We're not trying to hurt each other.
They are in between DAPL and us.
00:21:17.193 --> 00:21:19.988
So I just want them to feel.
They could feel it.
00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:31.081
(drums and singing)
00:21:33.335 --> 00:21:36.253
On the day that we call
Survivor's Day,...
00:21:36.421 --> 00:21:41.426
...(Thanksgiving), as Americans all
sat down to their dinner table,...
00:21:42.510 --> 00:21:44.136
...we built a bridge,...
00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:48.058
...a bridge so that people could get
across to Turtle Island...
00:21:48.558 --> 00:21:52.228
To pray and show that we
are still here.
00:21:53.080 --> 00:21:55.440
[Police: We do not
want a confrontation]
00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.640
[Police: the building of the bridge
is an act of aggression...]
00:21:58.806 --> 00:22:02.446
[...to come over to this side, and
we cannot allow that to happen.]
00:22:05.241 --> 00:22:09.203
They had been brutalized,
but the people weren't afraid.
00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:14.840
People were doing what their heart was
telling them to do.
00:22:17.120 --> 00:22:20.800
[Police: there does not
need to be a confrontation today]
00:22:22.050 --> 00:22:24.845
[Police: Please go back
across the river]
00:22:26.178 --> 00:22:30.391
Today, as Americans may know,
today is Thanksgiving.
00:22:31.266 --> 00:22:36.146
As Americans may not know, because of
what we've been taught in our lives...
00:22:36.940 --> 00:22:39.441
...is that Thanksgiving is actually
a massacre,...
00:22:40.360 --> 00:22:43.840
So for our Native American brothers
and sisters to be here...
00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.960
...to be in a protective stance,
to say water is life...
00:22:48.126 --> 00:22:54.123
...and to show no fear, unarmed, it
makes their ancestors proud,...
00:22:54.750 --> 00:22:56.125
...and it rewrites history.
00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:01.840
Today we rewrite Thanksgiving, we
take back Thanks-taking...
00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:03.280
...Thanks-killing.
00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:08.400
And we rewrite it as a peaceful,
prayerful action that shows life.
00:23:09.638 --> 00:23:13.058
Being a native person, we are taught
to be gracious hosts.
00:23:13.226 --> 00:23:14.643
We are taught to
be inviting people,...
00:23:14.811 --> 00:23:17.146
...to feed whoever is coming
into our homes,...
00:23:17.688 --> 00:23:21.860
...to feed tham and make them feel
comfortable, and that's what happened.
00:23:22.026 --> 00:23:25.571
People came over and they
were lost, scared, cold...
00:23:26.080 --> 00:23:30.240
...and we warmed them, fed them,
taught them the land..
00:23:30.406 --> 00:23:31.911
...and helped them.
00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.240
But it totally flipped.
00:23:35.165 --> 00:23:38.960
That gracious host mentality was
taken full advantage of.
00:23:40.040 --> 00:23:41.720
They make you react.
00:23:42.255 --> 00:23:45.300
The react mode is a lower mode.
00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.600
Prayerful mode is the power, cause
you carry the truth.
00:23:50.013 --> 00:23:53.391
[Police: Respect your right to
assemble. Please assemble...]
00:23:53.683 --> 00:23:57.353
[...on the other side of the river.
On the other side of the river,...]
00:23:57.770 --> 00:24:00.065
[...you can protest all day.]
00:24:00.231 --> 00:24:04.276
[Protestor: We are mourning this day,
which is why we are doing this.]
00:24:04.693 --> 00:24:06.530
[This is a day of mourning for us.]
00:24:06.905 --> 00:24:10.491
[They celebrate it, we do not.
Remember that.]
00:24:10.825 --> 00:24:14.370
[Stay prayerful, stay peaceful.]
00:24:15.246 --> 00:24:17.665
[Police: Your actions are aggressive.]
00:24:19.750 --> 00:24:22.253
[Police: We have to take it as an
act of aggression.]
00:24:23.128 --> 00:24:25.381
[Police: We will begin with water...]
00:24:27.216 --> 00:24:30.595
[Police: Please move back
across the river.]
00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.320
I hate Thanksgiving so much.
00:24:35.320 --> 00:24:38.520
I struggle with Thanksgiving
every single year.
00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:41.920
It's the beginning of the genocide.
00:24:42.120 --> 00:24:45.920
All I want is for my children to have
a future, nothing more nothing less.
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:48.080
Just a future.
00:24:49.280 --> 00:25:09.300
(drums and singing)
00:25:10.343 --> 00:25:13.011
Those officers drink water from the
Missouri River.
00:25:13.320 --> 00:25:16.240
I told them the other day, what are
you gonna say when you go...
00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:21.120
...home tonight, and your son or
daughter wakes up in the middle...
00:25:21.311 --> 00:25:25.313
...of the night and says "Dad," or
"Mom, can I have a drink of water?"
00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:28.360
Are you gonna tell them that you
were there, protecting that...
00:25:28.600 --> 00:25:30.480
...source of life for them?
00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:33.600
Or are you gonna tell them that you
had a gun pointed at my head...
00:25:33.825 --> 00:25:36.326
...for protecting that water
for your children?
00:25:42.666 --> 00:25:46.630
The day after Survivor's Day, the
police put razor wire around...
00:25:46.921 --> 00:25:50.341
...our burial ground, Turtle Island...
00:25:51.091 --> 00:25:53.093
...as if they owned it.
00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:57.680
It is us who belong to the land.
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:02.040
We belong to the water.
00:26:03.520 --> 00:26:05.520
We belong to the air.
00:26:08.040 --> 00:26:10.040
We belong to all of creation.
00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:14.480
And it's not the other way around.
00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:19.440
I am from here.
00:26:19.911 --> 00:26:22.623
I am born of the Oceti Sakowin people.
00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:27.280
But I know that I am a guest here.
00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:29.880
We are all guests.
00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.000
We are all guests on Mother Earth.
00:26:34.166 --> 00:26:36.428
Unci Makhá
00:26:37.888 --> 00:26:40.225
We're all guests in this dream.
00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.800
The Dakota Access Pipeline
isn't the only snake there is.
00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:54.320
There's hundreds that are
being proposed.
00:26:56.600 --> 00:26:59.200
To drill across the United States.
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:02.640
To put a pipeline in
everyone's backyard.
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:08.280
A horrifying vision of this country.
00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:15.560
This is just one of the battles
that we all need to fight.
00:27:18.763 --> 00:27:21.515
Tatanka-Iyotanka
00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:26.040
Sitting Bull was a prophet.
00:27:27.355 --> 00:27:31.275
One of the things that he said
was that:
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.720
"If a man loses something, and goes
back to look for it, he'll find it."
00:27:40.743 --> 00:27:42.995
He is speaking to us in this day,...
00:27:43.413 --> 00:27:47.250
...and how to reclaim our identity,
and to heal.
00:27:50.211 --> 00:27:55.883
When you come to camp, you're
greeted by security at the front gate.
00:27:56.801 --> 00:27:59.303
Saying "welcome home."
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:04.040
Our camp is a place to relearn
values we've lost.
00:28:05.016 --> 00:28:07.311
And that's why it's home.
00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:13.720
I am not dreaming.
00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:17.600
I am awake.
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:23.480
I have been woken by the
spirit inside.
00:28:25.205 --> 00:28:30.000
That demanded I open my eyes
and see the world around me,...
00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.240
...see that my children's future
was in peril,...
00:28:44.848 --> 00:28:48.060
...see that my life couldn't wait in
slumber any more,...
00:28:52.040 --> 00:28:57.440
...see that I was honored to be
among those who are awake,...
00:29:01.448 --> 00:29:04.451
...to be alive at
this point in time,...
00:29:06.661 --> 00:29:09.331
...to see the rising of the
Oceti Sakowin,...
00:29:13.461 --> 00:29:15.338
...to see the gathering of nations,...
00:29:16.546 --> 00:29:23.428
...and, beyond that, a gathering of
all races and all faiths.
00:29:25.600 --> 00:29:29.280
Will you wake up and dream with us?
00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:33.880
Will you join our dream?
00:29:35.858 --> 00:29:37.860
Will you join us?
00:32:01.670 --> 00:32:05.300
[At this time, please
conclude your ceremony.]
00:32:05.716 --> 00:32:08.093
[Please conclude your ceremony.]
00:32:15.310 --> 00:32:17.103
Still not done!
00:32:17.270 --> 00:32:19.105
Church isn't over!
00:32:42.753 --> 00:32:44.671
[In reference to our agreement,
I allowed you time...]
00:32:44.838 --> 00:32:47.716
[...to complete your ceremony, please
move to the South of the bridge.]
00:33:05.316 --> 00:33:08.528
[I wanted to tell you...]
00:33:08.696 --> 00:33:10.448
[Wopila]
00:33:10.615 --> 00:33:13.533
[Wopila for taking time...]
00:33:14.743 --> 00:33:17.955
...to allow us to sit here in prayer.
00:33:19.123 --> 00:33:21.791
[So I wanted to say "Thank you."]
00:33:23.418 --> 00:33:25.713
Thank you!
00:34:20.476 --> 00:34:23.728
The 9 AM meeting's held at the giant
dome. See this white...?
00:34:23.896 --> 00:34:26.148
That's a freezer.
The other side of that.
00:35:08.773 --> 00:35:12.068
We have a pile running over
there already of all accessories...
00:35:12.235 --> 00:35:16.531
...so if you don't mind putting them
over there. Thank you!
00:35:56.613 --> 00:36:53.795
(singing)
00:37:06.933 --> 00:37:09.895
[Remember, we're standing for
something that is greater...]
00:37:10.061 --> 00:37:11.646
[than our pride.]
00:37:12.315 --> 00:37:14.816
It's greater than our ego.
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:18.236
It concerns the people of this world.
00:37:18.403 --> 00:37:19.946
The planet.
00:37:20.113 --> 00:37:23.575
The Earth is our mother, and the
way we treat her is very important...
00:37:23.783 --> 00:37:26.286
...because let's be realistic here.
00:37:26.453 --> 00:37:29.206
She's going to continue on.
We will not outlive her.
00:37:29.956 --> 00:37:33.585
So if she has to go on without us,
that's what's going to take place.
00:37:34.128 --> 00:37:35.503
But if we come together in unity,
00:37:35.671 --> 00:37:38.548
and we starting changing our behavior,
and the way we think,...
00:37:38.923 --> 00:37:40.383
...the way we treat her...
00:37:40.550 --> 00:37:43.303
...We become coherent.
We become one with her again.
00:37:43.761 --> 00:37:47.725
As we give and show that love, and
we stand in that prayer in unity.
00:37:47.891 --> 00:37:51.020
That's what this is all about.
00:37:51.186 --> 00:37:53.813
In protecting the water, we're
protecting each other...
00:37:53.981 --> 00:37:55.775
...and our future generations.
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:59.278
Just keep that in mind,
and thank you all for being here.
00:37:59.528 --> 00:38:02.531
Love, prayers, positive energy,
and respect to every single...
00:38:02.698 --> 00:38:04.075
...one of you standing here.
00:38:04.241 --> 00:38:06.993
Mni Wiconi!
00:38:16.753 --> 00:38:18.088
Awesome!
00:38:18.255 --> 00:38:20.173
Yes, thank you!
00:39:03.925 --> 00:39:05.635
[Water is life!]
00:39:05.801 --> 00:39:07.721
[They're bringing the tear gas.]
00:39:15.896 --> 00:39:17.898
[Anyone need blankets and scarves?]
00:39:22.445 --> 00:39:23.528
[Medic!]
00:39:30.535 --> 00:39:51.931
(singing)
00:39:55.643 --> 00:39:57.646
[We know who's responsible!]
00:39:57.896 --> 00:39:59.356
[Bank of America,...]
00:39:59.523 --> 00:40:03.193
...Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs,...
00:40:04.026 --> 00:40:05.988
[...JP Morgan Chase...]
00:40:06.196 --> 00:40:08.156
...Shame on you!
00:40:08.531 --> 00:40:14.036
[Shame on you! (Chants) Shame on you!
Shame on you! Shame on you!]
00:40:14.203 --> 00:40:18.416
[Shame on you!
Shame on you!]
00:40:18.625 --> 00:40:22.505
(gunfire)
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.548
[We need a medic!]
00:40:26.258 --> 00:40:27.175
[Medic's coming through!]
00:40:27.341 --> 00:40:28.093
[Head wound?]
00:40:29.553 --> 00:40:31.346
[We got water?]
[Yeah, but we only have one.]
00:40:31.596 --> 00:40:33.515
[He also needs a blanket.
Who has a blanket?]
00:40:33.681 --> 00:40:35.266
[There's a blanket right behind him!]
00:40:39.855 --> 00:41:31.490
(singing)
00:41:52.928 --> 00:42:13.115
(singing)
00:42:21.665 --> 00:42:25.418
[Police: Can you please move so you
do not get pushed into the fire!]
00:42:35.636 --> 00:42:40.308
(gunfire, yelling)
00:42:41.893 --> 00:42:43.895
(explosion)
00:42:45.438 --> 00:42:48.858
[Water is Life! Mni Wiconi!]
00:43:02.455 --> 00:43:06.668
[Water is life! Water is life!
Water is life! Water is life!]
00:43:13.591 --> 00:43:22.475
(singing)
00:43:44.038 --> 00:44:01.723
(singing)
00:44:54.693 --> 00:44:57.070
[Communications are a bit difficult,
because we're pretty far away...]
00:44:57.236 --> 00:44:58.446
[...from the nearest city.]
00:44:58.613 --> 00:45:00.698
Batteries go down really fast
in the cold,...
00:45:00.865 --> 00:45:03.368
...and power, where do they
get power?
00:45:03.868 --> 00:45:07.455
Well, some of it is sustainable.
Check this out.
00:45:10.125 --> 00:45:13.628
Wonder why I'm pedaling like this?
It's not just for exercise,...
00:45:13.795 --> 00:45:15.005
...although that works, too.
00:45:15.171 --> 00:45:17.715
It's also to create power.
00:45:18.175 --> 00:45:22.095
The person that brought this here,
Mike Cobb, he can have about...
00:45:22.261 --> 00:45:27.266
...25 devices that work,
that get all powered up...
00:45:27.433 --> 00:45:30.395
...and then people don't have to worry
about their batteries going dead,...
00:45:30.561 --> 00:45:32.188
...but they do have to
put in a little work...
00:45:32.355 --> 00:45:34.315
...to make sure that their
phones are charged.
00:45:36.151 --> 00:45:37.235
[(Cameraman) You like,
paused for a few seconds...]
00:45:37.401 --> 00:45:39.988
...that's perfect for my wide
shot, because i can cut to it.
00:45:40.363 --> 00:45:44.576
(helicopter noise)
00:45:44.826 --> 00:45:46.161
[All day, all night, brother.]
00:45:46.328 --> 00:45:48.913
[Only time they quit
was during the storm.]
00:45:52.250 --> 00:46:20.736
[Lacota music from boom box.]
00:46:21.530 --> 00:46:27.035
[Oceti Sakowin camp is here for
one reason and one reason only.]
00:46:27.243 --> 00:46:31.706
[To protect the water for us,
and for our children,...]
00:46:31.873 --> 00:46:34.333
[...and for the children
yet to be born.]
00:46:35.543 --> 00:46:37.838
[Let's not lose sight of that fact.]
00:46:38.796 --> 00:46:42.425
We try to do these things in
a prayerful and in a good way.
00:46:42.591 --> 00:46:43.968
In a peaceful way.
00:46:44.343 --> 00:46:45.803
Look to the elders,...
00:46:46.136 --> 00:46:50.433
...look to people who are set up
in the leadership positions...
00:46:50.641 --> 00:46:53.520
...to guide us in how we can
do this is the best way.
00:46:54.395 --> 00:47:00.110
We must remain peaceful and
prayerful in everything that we do.
00:47:00.693 --> 00:47:06.533
Otherwise... We've seen the results of
small incidents that have happened.
00:47:06.991 --> 00:47:09.828
And it dilutes our message.
00:47:10.286 --> 00:47:12.746
We are here to stop a pipeline.
00:47:12.915 --> 00:47:17.878
We are here to protect water
for 18 million people downstream.
00:48:00.420 --> 00:48:01.546
[So, I would say...]
00:48:01.713 --> 00:48:05.133
...come here, and take a look. I would
say "Come here, take a look."
00:48:05.300 --> 00:48:07.676
Even if you didn't agree,
go to the back line.
00:48:07.843 --> 00:48:11.180
Watch what's going on. Watch the
people being rubber-bulleted...
00:48:11.348 --> 00:48:14.643
...for doing peaceful protest.
00:48:14.810 --> 00:48:18.021
If a 62-year-old woman is
threatening to you,...
00:48:18.188 --> 00:48:19.898
...I don't think you should
be behind a badge.
00:49:25.463 --> 00:49:29.633
[I don't think that anybody has
a right to come and destroy...]
00:49:29.885 --> 00:49:33.138
...the water that I grew up on,
the land that I walk on,...
00:49:33.305 --> 00:49:36.306
...and the place where I bury
my children and my father.
00:49:36.933 --> 00:49:38.518
I'm sorry. Could you do that again?
00:49:38.685 --> 00:49:40.478
I'm sorry, you cast a shadow
right in the middle of the picture.
00:49:40.645 --> 00:49:42.230
[What's your hope for today?]
00:49:42.396 --> 00:49:43.148
My hope for today?
00:49:43.398 --> 00:49:46.233
To honor the veterans, because
the veterans are here,...
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:48.236
...because they have served,...
00:49:48.445 --> 00:49:53.116
...and they have done everything you
could possibly imagine to stand.
00:49:53.491 --> 00:49:56.370
[We didn't build that barrier.
Morton County did.]
00:49:56.536 --> 00:49:58.871
Okay. Parts of it are gone now today.
00:49:59.038 --> 00:50:00.748
Do you know when they left
or how they got out...
00:50:00.915 --> 00:50:04.836
[You know, Morton County's getting
sued. The governor's getting sued...]
00:50:26.650 --> 00:50:28.610
[Hey! They denied the permit!]
00:50:28.776 --> 00:50:29.401
[What?!]
00:50:29.568 --> 00:50:31.530
[They denied the permit to drill!]
00:50:31.738 --> 00:50:32.821
[Whoa, what?]
00:50:33.030 --> 00:50:34.281
[That's what they just announced.]
00:50:34.490 --> 00:50:46.168
(cheers and applause)
00:50:46.335 --> 00:50:49.798
(car horn honking)
00:50:49.965 --> 00:50:52.508
[They were waiting
for the final permit...]
00:50:52.675 --> 00:50:55.553
...from the Army Corps of Engineers
and President Obama...
00:50:55.761 --> 00:51:00.683
...to drill under the water. The
Army Corps has denied that permit.
00:51:01.100 --> 00:51:03.103
(cheers, drums, and singing)
00:51:08.191 --> 00:51:10.443
[Ho! It's victory time!]
00:51:10.776 --> 00:51:41.223
(cheers and drums)
00:51:42.225 --> 00:51:43.351
[Don't forget the families...]
00:51:43.518 --> 00:51:47.980
...that were united here today.
And cultures that we've lived.
00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:51.485
It took a nation
and the world to do it.
00:51:52.068 --> 00:51:56.865
This is family's land, and the
family's land belongs to the people.
00:51:57.031 --> 00:52:56.758
(Lakota thank you song)
00:53:45.890 --> 00:53:47.891
I got involved by DNA.
00:53:48.058 --> 00:53:50.395
You know, water is life.
We're part of water.
00:53:51.186 --> 00:53:55.608
And what I've seen
happening here in Cannonball...
00:53:55.775 --> 00:53:58.945
...is what's happened back on my
homeland, my reservation.
00:53:59.195 --> 00:54:00.905
That's why I got involved.
00:54:01.196 --> 00:54:06.368
Our traditional food source is gone.
Our water quit running through.
00:54:12.750 --> 00:54:17.171
And when we got here, it was something
that I've seen was lacking...
00:54:17.338 --> 00:54:19.715
...was filming from an
indigenous perspective.
00:54:20.341 --> 00:54:22.885
And our story wasn't
being told correctly.
00:54:23.051 --> 00:54:25.930
And as I started documenting,
I started documenting that...
00:54:26.096 --> 00:54:28.056
Morton County wasn't involved
in the very beginning.
00:54:28.223 --> 00:54:31.018
It was the DAPL police.
They just kind of aided them.
00:54:32.645 --> 00:54:36.023
One thing we wanted to share is what
we're doing here, this round dance.
00:54:36.190 --> 00:54:37.691
It's not just for show.
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:41.361
It's an expression of
kinship and friendship.
00:54:41.528 --> 00:54:44.073
The police first, thank
you for witnessing this.
00:54:44.656 --> 00:54:47.951
To take this back to your leaders,
to your own families,...
00:54:48.118 --> 00:54:51.998
...to say that this fight is
based in love and peace,...
00:54:52.165 --> 00:54:56.795
...that the camp that you see down
there is nonviolent direct action.
00:54:57.003 --> 00:54:59.755
As our relatives,
if you're in uniform,...
00:54:59.921 --> 00:55:01.548
...if you can't come
and dance with us.
00:55:01.715 --> 00:55:03.635
Share this space.
00:55:06.011 --> 00:55:09.431
Don't be scared. We're not going to
judge you if you dance kind of goofy.
00:55:09.598 --> 00:55:10.475
It's all right.
00:55:10.891 --> 00:55:14.520
In the beginning, I witnessed the
Morton County Police Department...
00:55:14.686 --> 00:55:17.440
...participating in the ceremony,
taking that medicine,...
00:55:17.815 --> 00:55:21.318
...sharing that medicine,
participating in the round dances,...
00:55:21.485 --> 00:55:24.321
...smiling, and greeting
people in a good way,...
00:55:24.488 --> 00:55:25.865
...the way it was supposed to be...
00:55:26.031 --> 00:55:28.158
...when you participate
in a ceremony together.
00:55:29.826 --> 00:55:31.830
[But then they removed themselves
from the circle...]
00:55:31.996 --> 00:55:33.665
[...and that's when
the violence began.]
00:55:33.831 --> 00:55:36.793
Ok, we're live. What just
happened over here...
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:40.213
...was they stopped a
construction site down here...
00:55:40.380 --> 00:55:41.798
...on a Saturday.
00:55:41.965 --> 00:55:43.800
And they didn't think anybody knew.
00:55:44.508 --> 00:55:47.303
But they've got people down
there monitoring this area....
00:55:47.886 --> 00:55:50.140
...members down there making
sure that they're not drilling.
00:55:50.515 --> 00:55:51.725
They got pepper sprayed.
00:55:51.891 --> 00:55:54.601
I'll post some videos some of the
members getting pepper sprayed...
00:55:54.768 --> 00:55:56.061
...and attacked by dogs
00:55:57.980 --> 00:56:00.023
Everyon's doing okay.
Everyone's a little shaken up here.
00:56:00.275 --> 00:56:01.525
And we're doing all right.
00:56:01.691 --> 00:56:05.363
We've got close to 1,000 people
over here, all the way down.
00:56:06.696 --> 00:56:08.700
So it's pretty intense here,
what's going on here.
00:56:08.866 --> 00:56:09.908
I'm over here.
00:56:10.076 --> 00:56:12.536
We've got some relatives
on horses that are farther down...
00:56:12.828 --> 00:56:15.456
...making sure that
the warriors are okay.
00:56:15.956 --> 00:56:17.458
And it's pretty intense...
00:56:17.625 --> 00:56:22.671
...you know the way the officers
are treating people here, bystanders.
00:56:24.756 --> 00:56:27.343
[He got sprayed in the face
by the private security.]
00:56:27.551 --> 00:56:30.221
[He got maced, and then
another woman got bit by a dog.]
00:56:31.848 --> 00:56:33.600
[From DAPL private security]
00:56:34.141 --> 00:56:37.853
Morton County had covered the tracks
of the Dakota Access security...
00:56:38.020 --> 00:56:39.313
...by not charging them at all.
00:56:39.813 --> 00:56:44.151
And for that the water protectors
therefore got the charges.
00:56:44.860 --> 00:56:47.030
Felony Trespass
00:56:47.571 --> 00:56:49.781
Among those who were charged
was Amy Goodman...
00:56:50.408 --> 00:56:53.243
...for Inciting a Riot
and Trespassing.
00:56:53.995 --> 00:56:56.038
[I think it's important to emphasize
that the tribe has been...]
00:56:56.205 --> 00:56:58.123
[...using the lawful process...]
00:56:58.290 --> 00:57:02.086
...to vindicate its important
legal rights in this matter.
00:57:02.253 --> 00:57:05.673
[And when its concerns weren't
listened to it brought a lawsuit.]
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:07.758
[On Friday afternoon, we filed...]
00:57:07.925 --> 00:57:09.801
...some very
important evidence...
00:57:09.968 --> 00:57:15.183
[...about the discovery of some sacred
major culturally significant sites...]
00:57:15.766 --> 00:57:17.726
[...that were directly
in the pipeline's route.]
00:57:17.893 --> 00:57:20.313
...and it was miles away from where
any construction was happening...
00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:24.983
[And we were stunned and shocked to
hear that they took that information]
00:57:25.150 --> 00:57:26.776
[...and Saturday morning,
over a holiday weekend,...]
00:57:26.945 --> 00:57:29.155
...went out and
bulldozed the entire site.
00:57:29.321 --> 00:57:32.116
[So are you suggesting
you basically gave...]
00:57:32.283 --> 00:57:37.121
...the court what the Dakota
Access Pipeline Company...
00:57:37.288 --> 00:57:41.500
...and Energy Transfer would
use as a roadmap to destroy?
00:57:41.666 --> 00:57:42.460
[That looks like...]
00:57:42.626 --> 00:57:43.795
...what has
happened here.
00:57:43.961 --> 00:57:46.630
On September 3rd,
during the dog attacks,...
00:57:46.796 --> 00:57:48.633
...as I was reporting
up on the hill...
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:53.596
...documenting that moment, that
the desecration of sacred land,...
00:57:53.930 --> 00:57:57.350
...the Dakota Access Pipeline
jumping forward 20 miles....
00:57:57.766 --> 00:58:01.980
...was hurting the people, hurting the
women, hurting the elders...
00:58:02.438 --> 00:58:05.691
...to see the ancestors' lands
being desecrated.
00:58:07.276 --> 00:58:11.113
The goal is to educate and empower
Digital Smoke Signals.
00:58:12.031 --> 00:58:14.616
My job and role there was
to educate and empower...
00:58:14.783 --> 00:58:18.370
...not just our indigenous people, but
our also non-native relatives...
00:58:18.536 --> 00:58:19.746
...that come in solidarity.
00:58:19.913 --> 00:58:25.586
They come to camp, come to learn,
they come to find their own spirit...
00:58:26.003 --> 00:58:27.588
...and connection to the Earth...
00:58:28.130 --> 00:58:32.426
...in the hopes that they also too can
let go of some of that pain...
00:58:32.593 --> 00:58:37.431
...and hurt, and their history, their
family history, and the US history.
00:58:43.938 --> 00:58:45.648
I think it's important to
educate yourself...
00:58:45.815 --> 00:58:46.983
...about the indigenous people,...
00:58:47.150 --> 00:58:49.526
...the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe.
00:58:50.110 --> 00:58:51.946
Oklahoma, the Trail of Tears.
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:53.405
Tecumseh
00:58:53.823 --> 00:58:54.573
Sitting Bull
00:58:54.740 --> 00:58:56.951
Your contribution will be,
when you start to see us...
00:58:57.118 --> 00:58:58.911
...fighting for the land,
you'll understand why,...
00:58:59.661 --> 00:59:02.915
...even if it's for
clean water as you see,...
00:59:03.625 --> 00:59:05.585
...because for us we're
connected to the Earth,...
00:59:05.751 --> 00:59:07.795
...and that's why we protect
the Earth where we're at.
00:59:07.961 --> 00:59:12.383
We protect our food source, our water,
our medicines, for future generations.
00:59:12.883 --> 00:59:14.010
When you're disconnected,...
00:59:14.176 --> 00:59:16.261
...like Dakota Access Pipeline
is disconnected,...
00:59:16.428 --> 00:59:20.391
...they can desecrate the land with
no consequence in their mind,...
00:59:20.558 --> 00:59:22.268
...but there's that
spiritual consequence,...
00:59:22.601 --> 00:59:24.228
...that emptiness that they have.
00:59:24.770 --> 00:59:28.273
That's the consequence,
and that's the result.
00:59:28.733 --> 00:59:32.070
[The reason I came here
was to protect the water,...]
00:59:32.236 --> 00:59:34.363
[...to protect future generations.]
00:59:34.530 --> 00:59:36.240
[I feel that it's my duty,...]
00:59:36.448 --> 00:59:39.993
...as a big sister, to stand up
for the children.
00:59:40.328 --> 00:59:42.955
[When I first saw a picture
of one of my friends,...]
00:59:43.121 --> 00:59:46.791
[...he had locked himself down
to a piece of equipment,...]
00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:49.878
...it was like an invitation
for me to finally, like...
00:59:50.045 --> 00:59:52.756
[...be involved in all the things
that I feel strongly about,...]
00:59:52.923 --> 00:59:54.341
[...and defending what I believe in.]
00:59:54.675 --> 00:59:57.636
[Right before I got here,
I had a dream about my mom,...]
00:59:57.803 --> 00:59:58.930
[...who had passed away,...]
00:59:59.096 --> 01:00:01.056
[...and in my dream, my mom
had asked me for water...]
01:00:01.223 --> 01:00:02.641
[...that I wasn't
able to give her,...]
01:00:02.808 --> 01:00:05.645
[...and so I just woke up and started
fundraising to bring supplies...]
01:00:05.811 --> 01:00:07.021
...to Standing Rock.
01:00:07.188 --> 01:00:09.231
[Spiritual people
all over the world,...]
01:00:09.398 --> 01:00:10.608
[...you know, they're
talking about...]
01:00:10.816 --> 01:00:11.985
[...what's happening to...]
01:00:12.776 --> 01:00:14.986
[...their communities,
their territory,...]
01:00:15.153 --> 01:00:17.448
[...as we stand here
at Standing Rock.]
01:00:17.615 --> 01:00:19.950
[We're up against
a corrupt system,...]
01:00:20.116 --> 01:00:25.790
[...because, all my life, you know we
pray for the health and well-being...]
01:00:25.956 --> 01:00:28.668
...of our people,
but we never got that.
01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:34.090
[We see the abuse that they're
putting on our reservation.]
01:00:34.256 --> 01:00:37.176
[Our reservations were
concentration camps 100 years ago.]
01:00:37.635 --> 01:00:40.596
[And we're trying
to heal as a nation.]
01:00:41.096 --> 01:00:43.808
This fight we see here,
what's happening here on the ground...
01:00:43.975 --> 01:00:45.810
[...in Standing Rock Sioux Nation,...]
01:00:45.976 --> 01:00:48.061
[...it matters to
fight this pipeline...]
01:00:48.228 --> 01:00:50.815
[...to the communities here,
to the people here,...]
01:00:50.981 --> 01:00:53.358
[...but it also matters, because it
connects to the greater struggle...]
01:00:53.525 --> 01:00:54.943
[...for us to protect Mother Earth...]
01:00:55.110 --> 01:00:57.155
[...and to protect our
future generations...]
01:00:57.446 --> 01:00:59.656
[...from destructive
climate change.]
01:00:59.823 --> 01:01:00.533
[When we talk about...]
01:01:00.700 --> 01:01:03.870
...this pipeline, we have to talk
about where the oil's coming from.
01:01:04.036 --> 01:01:05.663
[When we talk about where
the oil's coming from,...]
01:01:05.830 --> 01:01:07.790
[...we have to talk about
the man camps that are there...]
01:01:07.956 --> 01:01:10.460
[that threaten the very lives
of our women and children.]
01:01:10.710 --> 01:01:14.046
[That's the thing, that climate change
isn't just about the Earth,...]
01:01:14.213 --> 01:01:16.590
...isn't just about the environment.
Climate change is about...
01:01:16.756 --> 01:01:19.510
[...our relationship to each other,
and how we treat each other,...]
01:01:19.676 --> 01:01:21.261
[...and it's about climate justice.]
01:01:21.428 --> 01:01:22.721
[That's what it's about.]
01:01:23.055 --> 01:01:24.223
Justice.
01:01:25.600 --> 01:01:29.186
We were cruising down 134,
hitting the 1806.
01:01:29.353 --> 01:01:31.688
We saw South Dakota
highway patrol there,...
01:01:31.855 --> 01:01:35.275
...and decided to strike up
a conversation with them...
01:01:35.441 --> 01:01:37.611
...to educate them
about the indigenous issues.
01:01:37.778 --> 01:01:40.406
Most of the officers
that I have spoken with,...
01:01:40.573 --> 01:01:42.408
...when you ask them
about the indigenous issues,...
01:01:42.575 --> 01:01:44.826
...had no clue on why they were there.
01:01:44.993 --> 01:01:47.788
They were just there on assignment,
there on duty.
01:01:47.955 --> 01:01:49.998
[Hey, we're just doing
a documentary here;...]
01:01:50.165 --> 01:01:52.668
[...is there anything we need
to know about this road?]
01:01:53.626 --> 01:01:55.253
[Are we safe? Or anything like that?]
01:01:56.130 --> 01:01:59.425
Yeah. For the past...
It's been safe today, so...
01:01:59.841 --> 01:02:01.510
Looks like there's
some protests up here.
01:02:01.676 --> 01:02:02.928
That's probably why
you're up here. Isn't it?
01:02:03.095 --> 01:02:04.846
[We're just documenting...]
01:02:05.013 --> 01:02:08.810
Oh, yeah, you guys. You're just up
here, just decided to come up here?
01:02:08.976 --> 01:02:09.310
[Well yeah.]
01:02:09.476 --> 01:02:11.186
Why do you come up here
to the middle of North Dakota...
01:02:11.353 --> 01:02:12.396
...if you don't know what's going on?
01:02:12.563 --> 01:02:13.773
There's no reason to
come up here is there?
01:02:13.940 --> 01:02:16.441
[Let me tell you something, we've
been here for over 500 years.]
01:02:16.608 --> 01:02:17.401
Yeah?
01:02:17.568 --> 01:02:18.986
[We've been here
predating Western contact]
01:02:19.153 --> 01:02:21.071
[Yeah, we've got all kinds
of reason to travel through here.]
01:02:21.238 --> 01:02:23.281
So you just came up here now and
decided to do a documentary?
01:02:23.448 --> 01:02:25.743
[I've been up here many times working
with the youth, at-risk youth,...]
01:02:25.910 --> 01:02:28.955
[...teen suicide, sexual abuse, all
those issues that are happening...]
01:02:29.121 --> 01:02:31.415
[...from over the last 500 years.]
01:02:31.581 --> 01:02:33.000
[We're doing
historical trauma training.]
01:02:33.166 --> 01:02:35.961
[You know you're on,
you're on, what is it,...]
01:02:36.128 --> 01:02:38.630
[...sacred sites that are
all around here, right?]
01:02:38.796 --> 01:02:40.256
I've heard there are sacred sites.
01:02:40.423 --> 01:02:42.385
Well, what makes
this road here sacred?
01:02:42.551 --> 01:02:44.761
I guess I'm kind of curious
since you said it's a sacred site?
01:02:44.928 --> 01:02:46.346
[Ah, how about this?]
01:02:46.513 --> 01:02:49.016
[Paiute prayer]
01:02:49.433 --> 01:02:52.353
[We're a power in place.
Where I pray right now is sacred.]
01:02:52.520 --> 01:02:52.895
Okay.
01:02:53.061 --> 01:02:55.271
[It does not have to be
designated as sacred by you...]
01:02:55.438 --> 01:02:58.150
[...or anyone else in this country.
It's where we pray.]
01:02:58.733 --> 01:03:00.653
[You seem pretty reasonable,...]
01:03:00.820 --> 01:03:03.655
[...but I have seen things from
Local Morton County.]
01:03:03.865 --> 01:03:08.828
...I personally experienced things
that, from them, that just... just...
01:03:08.995 --> 01:03:12.290
...just feels just like
violations of the Constitution.
01:03:12.456 --> 01:03:16.001
[What constitutional rights
do you feel you had violated?]
01:03:16.168 --> 01:03:17.878
What, uh, what rights?
01:03:18.045 --> 01:03:20.965
[So, last month on the 6th,
I was filming,...]
01:03:21.131 --> 01:03:23.466
[...and I started flying a drone.]
01:03:23.968 --> 01:03:26.386
[They came up
and tried to steal my drone.]
01:03:26.553 --> 01:03:28.221
[And I was totally cooperative.]
01:03:28.471 --> 01:03:30.850
[Now, if he had been a neutral
officer, you know,...]
01:03:31.016 --> 01:03:33.393
...he would have just came up and
politely reminded me...
01:03:33.560 --> 01:03:36.563
"Hey sir. You need to be at this
distance away from the crowd."
01:03:36.730 --> 01:03:38.983
"If you're not going to listen,
you should land it."
01:03:39.150 --> 01:03:42.445
You know, it's the equivalent of
jaywalking in the drone world.
01:03:42.611 --> 01:03:45.531
[While this was happening, they
were allowing the spray-painting...]
01:03:45.698 --> 01:03:47.700
[...on the blades of the
machines to happen...]
01:03:47.866 --> 01:03:49.701
[...and weren't saying
anything about it.]
01:03:49.868 --> 01:03:52.996
So it's like they're creating a
narrative that they want,...
01:03:53.163 --> 01:03:56.500
...allowing actions that they want to
happen to make us seem unlawful,...
01:03:56.666 --> 01:03:59.128
...meanwhile targeting me
because I'm filming.
01:03:59.295 --> 01:04:00.963
[Police: You said your constitutional
rights were violated there...]
01:04:01.130 --> 01:04:02.005
[My right to film!]
01:04:02.171 --> 01:04:04.508
[Police: What constitutional amendment
do you feel was, uh,...]
01:04:04.675 --> 01:04:05.508
...was violated there?
[My right to film.]
01:04:05.676 --> 01:04:09.180
[My right to document.
The freedom of press.]
01:04:09.346 --> 01:04:11.015
The freedom of the press?
Are you the press?
01:04:11.348 --> 01:04:13.266
[Yeah, independent media.]
01:04:13.433 --> 01:04:15.936
Who do you work for?
Who's the press agency?
01:04:16.103 --> 01:04:17.271
[I'm independent media.]
01:04:22.610 --> 01:04:24.986
[Like I said, they're tipping
the scales of justice,...]
01:04:25.153 --> 01:04:27.906
[...and it's not in our favor, and
it's not to make a just outcome.]
01:04:28.073 --> 01:04:30.951
[It's, in effect, to deny us justice.]
01:04:32.076 --> 01:04:34.038
[So there's a lot of
behind-the-scenes stuff...]
01:04:34.205 --> 01:04:35.915
[...that people need to be
aware of right now.]
01:04:36.081 --> 01:04:38.041
[What's happening now is going
to set the precedent,...]
01:04:38.208 --> 01:04:40.586
...I believe, for future
movements like this.
01:04:40.753 --> 01:04:42.421
And we all know,
with Trump coming in,...
01:04:42.588 --> 01:04:44.131
...there's going to be more
movements like this,...
01:04:44.298 --> 01:04:47.385
...because us, the people,
we love the Earth, we love each other.
01:04:47.551 --> 01:04:48.970
We're not going to stop standing up.
01:04:49.136 --> 01:04:51.763
So, we've got to pay attention.
We've got to get the word out.
01:04:51.930 --> 01:04:54.683
We've got to make sure that our
water protectors are protected.
01:04:54.850 --> 01:04:56.143
Know your law.
Know your rights.
01:04:56.310 --> 01:04:57.895
Know your 1st Amendment,
your 4th Amendment.
01:04:58.061 --> 01:04:59.813
They cannot come into your
vehicle without a warrant.
01:05:00.396 --> 01:05:01.523
Probable cause.
01:05:01.690 --> 01:05:02.900
They can't just bully their way.
01:05:03.066 --> 01:05:04.735
[They have no warrant
to grab anything.]
01:05:08.821 --> 01:05:11.116
[So, did you guys have a warrant
to go through that vehicle?]
01:05:11.325 --> 01:05:12.285
[Yep.]
01:05:12.535 --> 01:05:15.996
[Can we see the warrant for
that vehicle you just went through?]
01:05:16.621 --> 01:05:19.208
[They had no warrant! They
can't go through the vehicle!]
01:05:19.583 --> 01:05:22.126
Know the rules and laws.
For Indian people it's double.
01:05:22.293 --> 01:05:24.255
We know federal law.
We've got to know state law.
01:05:24.421 --> 01:05:26.923
Man, it's hard to be
indigenous, you know?
01:05:27.090 --> 01:05:29.218
We've got to know
cultural law, protocols...
01:05:29.385 --> 01:05:31.511
It's not easy, but we do it.
01:05:31.678 --> 01:05:33.555
[How did you...
Can I see your warrant that...?]
01:05:33.721 --> 01:05:34.640
You're free to leave.
01:05:34.848 --> 01:05:36.850
[You said you had a warrant.]
You're free to leave.
01:05:37.183 --> 01:05:38.351
You're free to leave.
01:05:38.518 --> 01:05:40.688
[Can I see the warrant?
That's all I'm asking.]
01:05:40.855 --> 01:05:41.730
[Can I see the warrant?]
01:05:41.896 --> 01:05:42.856
You can talk to the
State's Attorney's office,...
01:05:43.023 --> 01:05:44.816
...and the can discuss that with you.
You're free to leave.
01:05:44.983 --> 01:05:48.028
[Okay, so for the record,
you said you had a warrant.]
01:05:48.861 --> 01:05:49.738
[That's all I'm asking.]
01:05:49.905 --> 01:05:50.238
You're free to leave.
01:05:50.405 --> 01:05:51.531
[I'll leave, but
you've gotta answer...]
01:05:51.698 --> 01:05:52.950
You can discuss that with
the State's Attorney, sir.
01:05:53.116 --> 01:05:53.533
You're free to leave.
01:05:53.741 --> 01:05:54.701
[Who's the State's Attorney?]
01:05:54.868 --> 01:05:57.245
You can look that up as well. I don't
need to give you any information.
01:05:57.411 --> 01:05:58.205
Thank you very much.
01:05:58.371 --> 01:05:59.665
[Shouldn't you give me some paperwork?
You've stolen property.]
01:05:59.831 --> 01:06:01.166
Nope, We have not stolen anything.
01:06:01.333 --> 01:06:02.835
We've simply seized
evidence of a crime.
01:06:03.001 --> 01:06:03.960
You're free to leave.
Good day.
01:06:04.126 --> 01:06:06.338
[Where's the crime at? Can you
tell me where the crime was at?]
01:06:06.505 --> 01:06:07.840
Our business here is...
[You took property,...]
01:06:08.006 --> 01:06:10.843
[...and I'm asking you for correct
information is all I'm...]
01:06:11.010 --> 01:06:11.801
Can you talk to an attorney?
01:06:11.968 --> 01:06:14.221
[Yes, but the attorney's
going to ask you this too.]
01:06:14.388 --> 01:06:15.430
[This makes no sense.]
01:06:15.596 --> 01:06:16.848
The attorney will have to right to...
01:06:17.015 --> 01:06:18.058
[Which county is 54?]
01:06:18.225 --> 01:06:19.851
The attorney can ask
the questions, okay?
01:06:20.018 --> 01:06:21.853
[All I'm asking is for names...]
That's what I'm telling you.
01:06:22.020 --> 01:06:23.313
[And that's as simple as it gets.]
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:25.565
[I'll leave, but just
what i'm saying is...]
01:06:25.731 --> 01:06:26.983
Thank you for...
[Because all I need is a name,...]
01:06:27.150 --> 01:06:28.943
[...and that shouldn't be a problem.]
Thank you for leaving. Okay.
01:06:29.570 --> 01:06:31.196
[Wow. Well thank you guys for...]
01:06:31.363 --> 01:06:33.406
[...I don't even know what this is.
All I'm asking for is...]
01:06:33.573 --> 01:06:36.535
...what county is this in?
What the badge name is?
01:06:38.370 --> 01:06:41.998
The name is on here, though.
What is the name on here?
01:06:42.165 --> 01:06:43.958
Good night. Have a nice day.
01:06:44.125 --> 01:06:46.628
[I don't know why they couldn't
just politely tell you...]
01:06:47.003 --> 01:06:49.715
...what was going on, explain the
of paper that they just gave to you.
01:06:49.881 --> 01:06:51.008
I don't know why that's so difficult.
01:06:51.175 --> 01:06:55.053
I thought that police were in the
business of trying to serve people.
01:06:55.220 --> 01:06:56.680
[And that's clearly
not what's going on.]
01:06:56.846 --> 01:06:59.766
[We can also ask "What does it
mean to be harassed, you know...]
01:07:00.558 --> 01:07:03.353
[...by an officer. If they follow you,
what is the distance...]
01:07:03.520 --> 01:07:06.190
[...of being harassed, just in
your professional opinion?]
01:07:06.398 --> 01:07:07.315
There's no distance.
01:07:07.481 --> 01:07:09.360
[They can follow you as long as
they want, just to follow you?]
01:07:09.735 --> 01:07:12.195
[What if they stop when we stop,
and then we go and they go,...]
01:07:12.361 --> 01:07:13.488
[...and we stop and they stop?]
01:07:14.948 --> 01:07:16.241
[Hey, how are ya?]
01:07:16.408 --> 01:07:18.118
Myron, how're you doing?
01:07:18.285 --> 01:07:18.953
[I don't know your name.]
01:07:19.120 --> 01:07:19.661
Huh?
01:07:19.828 --> 01:07:20.913
[I don't know who you are.
What's your name?]
01:07:21.080 --> 01:07:22.371
Oh, well I know who you are.
What's up?
01:07:22.706 --> 01:07:25.375
[Just wondering what's going on.
You guys are...]
01:07:26.501 --> 01:07:27.168
We're what?
01:07:27.335 --> 01:07:29.171
[Following us, you know,
just standing there.]
01:07:29.796 --> 01:07:30.798
Just patrolling.
01:07:30.965 --> 01:07:33.716
[Just patrolling? That's kind of...
quite a bit of patrol.]
01:07:33.883 --> 01:07:34.426
Yep.
01:07:34.593 --> 01:07:36.886
[Is there something that we
need to be safe from, or...?]
01:07:37.053 --> 01:07:37.680
No.
01:07:37.846 --> 01:07:38.721
[...for our safety? No?]
01:07:38.888 --> 01:07:39.973
No. We're just out patrolling.
01:07:40.140 --> 01:07:41.475
[Okay. What are you guys...]
01:07:41.641 --> 01:07:42.435
Have a good day.
01:07:42.601 --> 01:07:44.103
[What are you guys
out here looking for?]
01:07:46.855 --> 01:07:47.856
[So what do you think of that?]
01:07:48.023 --> 01:07:50.985
Guy knew me by my name, you know?
01:07:51.568 --> 01:07:55.071
So it's, that's pretty, uh,
that's pretty crazy.
01:07:55.405 --> 01:07:58.783
[Yeah, well, you know you... Yeah.]
01:07:59.201 --> 01:08:00.786
[For being a journalist!]
01:08:00.953 --> 01:08:02.830
For being a journ...
native journalist at that!
01:08:03.830 --> 01:08:08.126
[So they're keeping a close eye
on people through Facebook...]
01:08:09.461 --> 01:08:12.130
So we'll go here again.
We're going live here guys.
01:08:13.631 --> 01:08:19.680
Aho relatives. Besha Tuvano.
Have a good day.
01:08:19.846 --> 01:08:23.516
[Morton County's not the problem.
They're a part of the problem.]
01:08:23.683 --> 01:08:26.353
And they become the distraction
from the oil company.
01:08:26.520 --> 01:08:27.896
[Right. They become
a puppet on strings.]
01:08:28.063 --> 01:08:30.231
And so, that's what I've seen.
[By money...]
01:08:30.731 --> 01:08:32.693
[And when I was
documenting these guys,...]
01:08:32.901 --> 01:08:34.611
[...it wasn't who I
wanted to document,...]
01:08:34.778 --> 01:08:36.571
[...because while they were doing
what they were doing,...]
01:08:36.738 --> 01:08:39.366
[...Dakota Access Pipeline was
moving all their equipment.]
01:08:39.533 --> 01:08:40.116
[Right.]
01:08:40.283 --> 01:08:42.786
...and that's when I first realized
this was a distraction.
01:08:42.953 --> 01:08:45.788
Well and that's why I'm a fan of live
feeds rather than a news clip.
01:08:45.956 --> 01:08:46.290
Right.
01:08:46.456 --> 01:08:48.208
You know, a news clip
is cut here and there...
01:08:48.375 --> 01:08:51.670
...to where a live feed
is a full length video.
01:08:52.505 --> 01:08:54.548
You can't, you can't argue with that.
01:08:54.715 --> 01:08:57.801
[Well I think the real danger is,
is that the powers that be...]
01:08:57.968 --> 01:09:02.471
[...will try to elevate the status of
what we're trying to do here...]
01:09:02.638 --> 01:09:04.391
[...as domestic terrorism.]
01:09:04.558 --> 01:09:09.230
[That becomes a justification for more
vicious and massive repression.]
01:09:09.396 --> 01:09:12.065
Because human rights
have already been violated...
01:09:12.231 --> 01:09:13.483
...on a number of different levels.
01:09:14.150 --> 01:09:16.153
[They're using domestic resources...]
01:09:16.320 --> 01:09:19.071
[...on behalf of an
international corporate entity...]
01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:24.035
[...to contain and repress
sovereign nations...]
01:09:24.201 --> 01:09:26.330
[...as well as citizens
of the United States...]
01:09:26.496 --> 01:09:28.498
[...who are in solidarity
with sovereign nations.]
01:09:28.748 --> 01:09:31.376
[But as I said, the real danger is...]
01:09:31.543 --> 01:09:35.505
[...is that for them to begin
to consolidate their resources,...]
01:09:35.671 --> 01:09:39.885
[...and treat this movement as if it's
a domestic terrorist movement.]
01:09:40.093 --> 01:09:42.596
[This is just another moment...]
01:09:42.763 --> 01:09:47.391
...in the increasing fascist policies
of this government,...
01:09:47.560 --> 01:09:49.936
...both in terms of
what's going on here,...
01:09:50.103 --> 01:09:53.481
...but also as we move
into a Trump moment.
01:09:53.648 --> 01:09:55.483
But it's a very very crucial issue,...
01:09:55.650 --> 01:09:57.068
...and i just want you
to know, my brother,...
01:09:57.235 --> 01:10:01.740
...you use my name on any occasion
to defend the dignity...
01:10:01.906 --> 01:10:04.158
...of my precious indigenous
brothers and sisters.
01:10:04.326 --> 01:10:05.160
That's what I'm here for.
01:10:05.326 --> 01:10:06.328
Thank you. I appreciate it.
01:10:06.495 --> 01:10:08.038
That's what I'm here for, my brother.
01:10:08.955 --> 01:10:11.958
[automated recording: We're
sorry, your call can not be...]
01:10:12.626 --> 01:10:13.460
[Police: Morton County
Sheriff's department.]
01:10:13.626 --> 01:10:16.630
[Hi. I need to report,
um, an assault.]
01:10:16.796 --> 01:10:18.048
[Police: Where did it occur at?]
01:10:18.506 --> 01:10:19.383
[Standing Rock.]
01:10:19.550 --> 01:10:23.386
[There are innocent, unarmed
people being attacked with water...]
01:10:23.553 --> 01:10:25.888
[...and malicious-style police,...]
01:10:26.055 --> 01:10:29.726
[firing at point-blank range
with high-powered mace...]
01:10:29.893 --> 01:10:31.228
[...on unarmed people.]
01:10:31.395 --> 01:10:33.438
[Who protects the people?]
01:10:33.605 --> 01:10:36.816
[Police: Ma'am, yeah, if there's
police there, then it has been...]
01:10:36.983 --> 01:10:39.778
[The police are the ones attacking
innocent, unarmed people,...]
01:10:39.945 --> 01:10:43.198
[...so what do we do to stop the
police literally hitting people...]
01:10:43.365 --> 01:10:44.658
[...at point-blank range in the face?]
01:10:44.825 --> 01:10:47.703
[People can lose eyes. People are
going to get hypothermia.]
01:10:47.870 --> 01:10:50.455
[People could die. We have elders
here. We have children here.]
01:10:50.621 --> 01:10:51.706
[We have all ages here.]
01:10:51.873 --> 01:10:54.083
[Nobody is armed
except for the police.]
01:10:54.250 --> 01:10:56.711
[Who protects the people
from the police?]
01:10:59.171 --> 01:11:01.716
[Police: Well, uh,
I guess if you want to, uh,...]
01:11:01.883 --> 01:11:03.551
[Police: ...put it up
the chain of command,...]
01:11:03.718 --> 01:11:06.263
[Police: ...the next person to talk
to would be the governor's office.]
01:11:06.430 --> 01:11:12.895
(rap song starts)
01:11:13.395 --> 01:11:15.021
Love is the strongest
01:11:15.230 --> 01:11:16.773
This path is the hardest
01:11:16.940 --> 01:11:20.110
But if weren't strong enough
to do it we wouldn't see it.
01:11:20.276 --> 01:11:21.903
Our prayers would not be needed
01:11:22.070 --> 01:11:23.696
This movement's very needed.
01:11:23.863 --> 01:11:27.075
Indigenous wisdom unheeded
and sacred things depleted
01:11:27.241 --> 01:11:30.203
I'm Mexicano, ma Lakota,
and I'm white, too
01:11:30.370 --> 01:11:33.665
I'm mixed with everyone
so part of me's just like you
01:11:33.831 --> 01:11:37.210
Every group of human beings
shares the same stars
01:11:37.376 --> 01:11:40.755
And if the Earth is not your mother
Are you from Mars?
01:11:57.981 --> 01:12:01.151
This side of the planet's
been in decline since 1492
01:12:01.610 --> 01:12:03.361
500 years and counting
01:12:03.528 --> 01:12:08.283
Surviving the genocide they call
"Colonizing my Turtle Island"
01:12:08.450 --> 01:12:11.286
What is a fossil fuel?
Continued destruction, nothing new
01:12:11.453 --> 01:12:13.038
Live in a system
Taking our children
01:12:13.205 --> 01:12:14.915
Shifting their feelings
Till nothings true
01:12:15.081 --> 01:12:17.960
I had that money in front of me
but I left it
01:12:18.126 --> 01:12:21.755
'Cus oil money's dirty
if my Mother gets disrespected
01:12:21.921 --> 01:12:24.006
We're disconnected,
these times are hectic
01:12:24.173 --> 01:12:25.258
And feeling heavy
01:12:25.425 --> 01:12:28.636
But we still love all living beings
and suffer for the many
01:12:28.803 --> 01:12:32.140
We are a peaceful people
Thats why we walk with prayer
01:12:32.306 --> 01:12:35.518
And if that wasn't true
We wouldn't be standing here
01:12:36.228 --> 01:12:37.395
We're peaceful people
01:12:37.855 --> 01:12:39.021
Who walk with prayer
01:12:39.690 --> 01:12:40.815
Turtle Island
01:12:41.441 --> 01:12:42.441
Have no fear.
01:12:42.608 --> 01:12:45.361
Despite what they show
in the media
01:12:45.570 --> 01:12:47.865
We're kind people, hold your ground.
01:12:48.073 --> 01:12:49.783
Change is coming now...
(music ends)
01:12:50.200 --> 01:12:54.413
This was a moment in time where the
United States has the opportunity,...
01:12:54.580 --> 01:12:56.873
...Obama had the opportunity,...
01:12:57.040 --> 01:12:58.416
...to late the nation heal...
01:12:58.583 --> 01:13:01.170
...by supporting the
indigenous issues there.
01:13:01.753 --> 01:13:08.135
This is a moment in history that
America can make a wrong right,...
01:13:08.593 --> 01:13:10.428
...and help a nation heal.
01:13:11.138 --> 01:13:12.513
Not just a select few.
01:13:13.140 --> 01:13:16.393
The whole nation
as the world is watching
01:13:17.435 --> 01:13:20.730
In the beginning, my job was to
educate and empower...
01:13:20.896 --> 01:13:25.193
...and teach our non-native
relatives digital protocol.
01:13:25.360 --> 01:13:27.611
When and when not to film.
01:13:27.778 --> 01:13:31.408
Not to film the children without
the permission of the parents.
01:13:31.991 --> 01:13:35.370
Not to film ceremony -
those times are sacred.
01:13:36.288 --> 01:13:41.751
And also to participate in the
ceremony before you film.
01:13:41.918 --> 01:13:44.253
Connect your spirit so
you know why you're there.
01:13:44.420 --> 01:13:46.088
Educate and empower yourself.
01:13:46.590 --> 01:13:50.093
To learn about us.
To learn about yourself.
01:13:50.843 --> 01:13:52.720
To learn why we are
all there together,...
01:13:52.886 --> 01:13:54.263
...and why your spirit drew you there.
01:13:56.308 --> 01:13:58.643
That was important to share.
01:14:00.270 --> 01:14:03.315
Things changed.
They made sense after I was here.
01:14:03.481 --> 01:14:06.108
They made sense, all the things that,
when you're talked to,...
01:14:06.275 --> 01:14:07.110
...and you don't listen...
01:14:07.485 --> 01:14:09.821
Here, your spirit listens.
01:14:10.280 --> 01:14:13.783
And when you get more
connected to ceremony,...
01:14:13.950 --> 01:14:16.495
...and part of that ceremony you
start to really figure that out.
01:14:18.371 --> 01:14:21.833
I know almost dying a few
years ago opened my eyes...
01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:23.376
...to why I had to come home.
01:14:23.793 --> 01:14:27.505
What I thought was a good life
at that time. Teaching was.
01:14:28.340 --> 01:14:33.053
But as I start to find
myself looking back,...
01:14:33.636 --> 01:14:36.890
...and then looking forward,
and I'm supposed to be here.
01:14:59.370 --> 01:15:01.790
In January, in the dead of winter,...
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:05.501
...I brought my babies back
to look out over the camp.
01:15:06.211 --> 01:15:09.631
I know it might be the last time.
01:15:12.508 --> 01:15:17.013
I was thinking
everything's in limbo,...
01:15:22.393 --> 01:15:25.188
...but I look at the camp
and I'm happy.
01:15:26.273 --> 01:15:29.776
In December 2016,
because of our outcry,...
01:15:30.276 --> 01:15:33.238
...President Obama stopped
the pipeline temporarily,...
01:15:33.863 --> 01:15:37.241
...sent the whole project back for a
full environmental impact study.
01:15:38.826 --> 01:15:42.496
A bold victory for the rule of law,
and for the people.
01:15:44.040 --> 01:15:45.958
But this moment didn't last long.
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:48.836
The black snake attacked.
01:15:50.046 --> 01:15:54.216
On his second day in office, Trump
ordered the black snake forward,...
01:15:54.383 --> 01:15:58.888
...overturning the will of the people,
and the rule of law itself,...
01:15:59.723 --> 01:16:03.726
...and in mid-February
the drilling began again.
01:16:05.603 --> 01:16:07.981
We couldn't do anything to stop it.
01:16:09.398 --> 01:16:12.235
[This struggle unites everybody.
In our country,...]
01:16:12.526 --> 01:16:14.320
...your average American
should be worried...
01:16:14.486 --> 01:16:17.281
...about the constitutional violations
that are being perpetrated out here.
01:16:17.490 --> 01:16:19.075
[They were saying the were
going to fine anybody...]
01:16:19.241 --> 01:16:20.868
[...that's sending humanitarian aid.]
01:16:21.286 --> 01:16:22.828
We don't know where
we're heading with Trump.
01:16:22.995 --> 01:16:26.541
We could be facing fascism
or authoritarianism,...
01:16:26.708 --> 01:16:30.295
...Orwellian-like, and we
need to be prepared for that.
01:16:36.385 --> 01:16:38.261
[Reporter: Okay, yeah,
the MRAP armored vehicle...]
01:16:38.428 --> 01:16:39.846
[...has passed through
the concrete barrier.]
01:16:40.096 --> 01:16:41.723
[Or are those humvees? Okay.]
01:16:42.015 --> 01:16:44.141
[Looks like they're getting ready
to make a move on camp,...]
01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:47.853
[...on territory that is treaty
territory of the great Sioux nation..]
01:16:48.020 --> 01:16:49.856
[...under the
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868.]
01:16:51.441 --> 01:16:55.070
On February 22nd,
the Army Corps of Engineers...
01:16:55.486 --> 01:16:59.073
...and the state of North Dakota
deployed federal and state troops...
01:16:59.240 --> 01:17:01.075
...to clear out our main camp.
01:17:02.535 --> 01:17:04.955
Morton County Sheriff's department,...
01:17:05.205 --> 01:17:09.166
...the genealogical and ideological
descendants of General Custer,...
01:17:09.416 --> 01:17:11.503
...came in with military force.
01:17:13.671 --> 01:17:15.631
They slashed teepees with knives,...
01:17:15.923 --> 01:17:18.176
...and arrested dozens
of water protectors...
01:17:18.343 --> 01:17:20.220
...engaged in peaceful prayer,...
01:17:20.386 --> 01:17:22.013
...at gunpoint,...
01:17:22.430 --> 01:17:24.431
...including many elders.
01:17:26.308 --> 01:17:28.311
[They're moving in.]
01:17:30.021 --> 01:17:33.066
[Oceti Oyate camp has been
completely occupied now.]
01:17:33.775 --> 01:17:35.901
[Protester: You look like a
very prayerful man.]
01:17:36.151 --> 01:17:39.530
[Protester: Why don't you be honorable
and set down your badge right now?]
01:17:40.198 --> 01:17:43.743
[Protester: In front of 6,100 people.]
01:17:47.580 --> 01:17:48.581
(screaming)
01:17:48.748 --> 01:17:51.000
[Ow! Oh sh**! Ow!]
01:17:51.751 --> 01:17:54.921
[My hip! My hip! My hi..aaah!
He broke my hip!]
01:17:55.505 --> 01:17:57.173
[Reporter: Yeah, they're
running after someone.]
01:17:58.050 --> 01:18:02.595
[Reporter: Oh! Oh. Another officer
just tackled and took someone down.]
01:18:03.180 --> 01:18:05.348
The police brutalized
the water protectors,...
01:18:05.515 --> 01:18:07.391
...and the press wants more,...
01:18:07.725 --> 01:18:09.351
...but we kept our honor.
01:18:10.395 --> 01:18:14.315
We remained non-violent
with tears in our eyes.
01:18:16.401 --> 01:18:20.030
The people remained strong
until the last minute.
01:18:20.321 --> 01:18:25.035
(singing)
01:18:25.951 --> 01:18:29.621
To keep them from the disrespect
of the invading officers,...
01:18:30.040 --> 01:18:33.376
...structures were burnt in ceremony.
01:18:46.473 --> 01:18:51.686
[Protestors: Mni Wiconi!
Water is life! Water is life!]
01:18:51.978 --> 01:18:59.068
(cries and yells)
01:18:59.360 --> 01:19:03.781
The physical manifestation of
our dreams went into the sky...
01:19:04.198 --> 01:19:06.660
...in smoke and flames.
01:19:10.413 --> 01:19:14.918
Although our camp is gone,
our spirit is not broken.
01:19:16.085 --> 01:19:18.171
It is stronger than ever.
01:19:19.380 --> 01:19:21.675
It has spread throughout the land,...
01:19:22.508 --> 01:19:24.176
...throughout the world,...
01:19:24.803 --> 01:19:28.223
...like cottonwood seeds in the wind.
01:19:29.933 --> 01:19:31.476
[Protestor: We are water protectors.]
01:19:31.643 --> 01:19:35.438
We are against a horrible pipeline
that will destroy 600 acres...
01:19:35.605 --> 01:19:36.731
...of wetland forest.
01:19:36.898 --> 01:19:39.775
[Reporter: Demonstrators who refer to
themselves as "water protectors..."]
01:19:39.941 --> 01:19:42.320
[Reporter: ...chained to
55 gallon barrels.]
01:19:46.156 --> 01:19:51.328
[Crowd: Liar! Liar! Liar!]
01:19:51.496 --> 01:19:53.456
[Protestors: No! More! Sabal Trail!]
01:19:53.623 --> 01:19:55.708
[Protestors: ...Our lives and our
water are not for sale!]
01:19:55.875 --> 01:19:59.045
[Reporter: Members of No Plains
Pipeline voiced their opposition...]
01:19:59.211 --> 01:20:01.130
[Reporter: ...to the Diamond Pipeline.]
01:20:01.296 --> 01:20:03.175
[Reporter: When an encampment
could start, groups say...]
01:20:03.341 --> 01:20:05.801
[Reporter: ..."It could start
as early as today."]
01:20:06.511 --> 01:20:09.346
What started in Standing Rock
is now all over the world,...
01:20:09.513 --> 01:20:12.100
...and the battle wages on.
01:20:12.641 --> 01:20:14.476
Protest camps are being built...
01:20:14.643 --> 01:20:17.855
...to fight pipelines and fracking
across the globe,...
01:20:19.106 --> 01:20:21.860
...to stop the Diamond
Pipeline in Oklahoma,...
01:20:22.485 --> 01:20:24.778
...the Bayou Bridge
Pipeline in Louisiana,...
01:20:25.405 --> 01:20:27.823
...and in Florida.
01:20:29.200 --> 01:20:33.120
In Australia, they are locking
the gates to gas drilling.
01:20:33.788 --> 01:20:38.376
In the Amazon, indigenous people
fight against oil pipelines.
01:20:39.293 --> 01:20:40.003
In the U.K.,...
01:20:40.170 --> 01:20:41.045
...in France,...
01:20:41.211 --> 01:20:41.880
...Spain,...
01:20:42.046 --> 01:20:43.088
...Poland,...
01:20:43.298 --> 01:20:45.050
...and Germany,...
01:20:45.258 --> 01:20:46.216
...in Africa,...
01:20:46.508 --> 01:20:48.470
...in the South Pacific,...
01:20:48.636 --> 01:20:49.678
...and in Asia.
01:20:50.263 --> 01:20:55.101
All over the world, water protectors
and land defenders are rising up.
01:20:55.726 --> 01:21:00.690
We are planet protectors now,
global protectors.
01:21:01.691 --> 01:21:03.860
We have awoken.
01:21:04.193 --> 01:21:07.030
We will wake up millions more.
01:21:09.198 --> 01:21:11.241
Will you wake up?
01:21:11.408 --> 01:21:14.495
Will you join the millions of people
that are taking their money...
01:21:14.661 --> 01:21:16.288
...out of banks that fund
these pipelines,...
01:21:16.538 --> 01:21:19.166
...in a massive divestment campaign?
01:21:19.500 --> 01:21:36.768
(singing)
01:21:37.435 --> 01:21:38.770
Will you join the water protectors...
01:21:38.936 --> 01:21:41.606
...rising up in the streets
across the nation?
01:21:41.773 --> 01:21:45.110
In New York, San Francisco, Omaha...?
01:21:45.443 --> 01:21:49.530
Every city and every
corner of the nation, big and small.
01:21:50.365 --> 01:21:53.033
It was just a small group of kids
who started this entire thing,...
01:21:54.201 --> 01:21:58.415
[...and to see what great change
we brought on as youth...]
01:21:58.581 --> 01:22:01.500
[That was amazing.
That was powerful.]
01:22:01.668 --> 01:22:03.670
It is not done,
what is happening here.
01:22:03.836 --> 01:22:07.340
The fight is not over,
and it doesn't intend to be soon.
01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:12.053
This movement has
always been of the people.
01:22:12.220 --> 01:22:13.721
Not of any government
01:22:14.221 --> 01:22:18.141
It was always We the People
that were always on the ground,...
01:22:18.310 --> 01:22:20.020
...on the front lines.
01:22:20.186 --> 01:22:22.105
It was always the people that led.
01:22:22.646 --> 01:22:24.315
Common people.
01:22:24.773 --> 01:22:27.026
So the people have to continue that.
01:22:28.445 --> 01:22:30.738
So although our camp has burned,...
01:22:31.030 --> 01:22:34.491
...it has sprung up thousands
of places across the globe,...
01:22:34.700 --> 01:22:39.538
...spurring growth
as the wildfires cross the prairies.
01:22:43.460 --> 01:22:46.378
The spirit of our people
cannot be conquered,...
01:22:46.545 --> 01:22:50.050
...because we are the spirit
of the water and the Earth itself.
01:22:52.135 --> 01:22:54.845
Our ancestors are calling on us.
01:22:55.305 --> 01:22:58.850
We have the chance to resist
and to change America,...
01:22:59.016 --> 01:23:01.476
...the globe, forever.
01:23:02.520 --> 01:23:05.731
So I'll ask you once again...
01:23:06.691 --> 01:23:09.860
Will you join us?
01:23:11.153 --> 01:23:16.033
Will you join our dream?
01:23:17.660 --> 01:23:21.915
[Crowd chanting: Water is life!
Water is life! Water is life!]
01:23:22.081 --> 01:23:27.753
[Water is life! Water is life!
Water is life! Water is life!]
01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:35.720
[Water is life! Water is life!
Water is life! Water is life!]
01:23:36.095 --> 01:23:41.141
(music starts)
01:23:57.741 --> 01:24:00.245
Give, always give what you can
01:24:00.411 --> 01:24:03.038
Even if your allies
draw lines in the sand
01:24:03.205 --> 01:24:06.041
And dig, always dig a little deeper
01:24:06.208 --> 01:24:08.836
Sometimes it’s hard
to be my brother’s keeper
01:24:09.003 --> 01:24:11.505
Love
So you let love in
01:24:11.671 --> 01:24:14.050
Baby, I am home
in the wake of your skin
01:24:14.216 --> 01:24:17.261
And it's crazy,
how we wear our ceremony
01:24:17.428 --> 01:24:20.098
Always be open
to your path and your journey
01:24:20.265 --> 01:24:23.435
Yes, she cradles my loneliness
01:24:23.810 --> 01:24:26.478
A home that I forage, nest
01:24:26.645 --> 01:24:28.271
Universal test
01:24:28.438 --> 01:24:31.191
Feel the weight of my love
Put your hand on my chest
01:24:31.358 --> 01:24:34.070
And rest in the cradle of my arms
01:24:34.236 --> 01:24:37.490
The battle that we face
is the place where our scars come from
01:24:37.656 --> 01:24:39.700
And to pick up the gun
01:24:39.866 --> 01:24:43.705
My love, we are destined
to teach these ones to be brave
01:24:43.871 --> 01:24:45.581
And never run away
01:24:45.748 --> 01:24:49.168
Courage is birthed from the womb
on the first light of day
01:24:49.335 --> 01:24:53.923
Yeah, the day you were born, you came
out perfect, never meant to be torn
01:24:54.090 --> 01:24:57.676
In silence
never been so loud in the violence
01:24:57.843 --> 01:25:00.388
Never been so proud of a people
01:25:00.555 --> 01:25:02.140
When we’re fighting for a change
01:25:02.306 --> 01:25:04.808
Not afraid to lose it all
despite all the rage
01:25:04.975 --> 01:25:07.645
We are animals
And we cannot be caged
01:25:07.811 --> 01:25:11.731
Provoke us to fight, so we burn a
little sage and write poetry
01:25:11.898 --> 01:25:14.193
Wiser than the enemy will ever be
01:25:14.360 --> 01:25:15.695
The minority
01:25:15.861 --> 01:25:17.071
And authority
01:25:17.238 --> 01:25:19.740
Are you here to protect or arrest me?
01:25:19.906 --> 01:25:22.576
I can’t tolerate the hate
and I'm losing sleep
01:25:22.743 --> 01:25:23.451
Can’t breathe
01:25:23.618 --> 01:25:25.288
'Cause they’re choking out a war in me
01:25:25.455 --> 01:25:27.748
Immorality
Yeah
01:25:27.915 --> 01:25:30.876
Love letters to God
01:25:33.003 --> 01:25:37.341
I wonder if she reads them
or if they get lost
01:25:37.508 --> 01:25:40.386
In the stars
01:25:40.636 --> 01:25:43.138
Stars
01:25:43.305 --> 01:25:45.433
In the stars
01:25:49.770 --> 01:25:53.273
So many parts to a heavy heart
01:25:54.441 --> 01:25:59.238
If there's no beginning
then where would you start?
01:25:59.863 --> 01:26:02.158
Start
01:26:02.325 --> 01:26:05.118
Start
01:26:05.285 --> 01:26:07.913
Where would you start?
01:26:33.105 --> 01:26:37.068
Human souls, so we
carve 'em into story Totem poles
01:26:37.360 --> 01:26:39.986
Because we’re always
searching for a certain goal
01:26:40.153 --> 01:26:42.823
A pattern of physics, a role
01:26:42.990 --> 01:26:44.575
Don’t believe all you’re told
01:26:44.741 --> 01:26:47.078
And open
Open up your fist
01:26:47.245 --> 01:26:49.871
A misconception,
you can fight like this
01:26:50.038 --> 01:26:52.625
In praise, with the power of prayer
01:26:52.791 --> 01:26:56.420
If God’s on our side, we can
take the stairs to the heavens
01:26:56.586 --> 01:26:58.505
Flipping through my chapter seven
01:26:58.671 --> 01:27:01.008
I live with the snakes
in the great deception
01:27:01.175 --> 01:27:03.886
No court in this country for men
01:27:04.053 --> 01:27:06.721
Who steal from the Mother
on paper with pen
01:27:06.888 --> 01:27:09.266
And we’re tripping
Down a red dirt road
01:27:09.433 --> 01:27:12.436
And we’re asking
Is this the way we should go?
01:27:12.603 --> 01:27:15.188
Kissing, soft top feet of my goddess
01:27:15.356 --> 01:27:17.900
We walk the earth,
baby, yeah we got this
01:27:18.066 --> 01:27:20.486
Focus, and it’s redirected
01:27:20.653 --> 01:27:23.155
Grateful, and I’m resurrected
01:27:23.321 --> 01:27:25.616
Stubborn, but I know the way
01:27:25.783 --> 01:27:28.326
You’re the skin on my drum
To your rhythm I will sway
01:27:28.493 --> 01:27:31.121
Take my hand
I won’t lead you astray
01:27:31.288 --> 01:27:33.791
We will not go gently
into the darkest of days
01:27:33.958 --> 01:27:36.460
Grandma’s here
and she says persevere
01:27:36.626 --> 01:27:39.088
Take a walk in her moccs
taste the trail of tears
01:27:39.255 --> 01:27:42.133
And our fears
are the same as they ever were
01:27:42.300 --> 01:27:44.968
Beers numb the pain of a holocaust
01:27:45.135 --> 01:27:47.388
Gears, always mobbing in motion
01:27:47.555 --> 01:27:49.931
Maybe, baby, be an island or an ocean
01:27:50.098 --> 01:27:53.601
Your arches, how they
bend and contract on my conscience
01:27:53.768 --> 01:27:56.230
Never slipped
through the grip of my thesis
01:27:56.396 --> 01:27:58.941
And my theory is
I shine in your presence
01:27:59.108 --> 01:28:01.276
A deliverance
yeah
01:28:01.651 --> 01:28:06.198
Love letters to God
01:28:06.406 --> 01:28:10.745
I wonder if she reads them
or if they get lost
01:28:10.911 --> 01:28:13.621
In the stars
01:28:13.788 --> 01:28:16.625
Stars
01:28:16.791 --> 01:28:19.211
In the stars
01:28:23.090 --> 01:28:26.510
So many parts to a heavy heart
01:28:27.720 --> 01:28:32.725
If there’s no beginning,
then where would you start?
01:28:33.225 --> 01:28:35.645
Start
01:28:35.895 --> 01:28:38.271
Start
01:28:38.438 --> 01:28:42.193
Where would you start?
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 89 minutes
Date: 2017
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10 - 12, College, Adults
Color/BW:
Closed Captioning: Available
Interactive Transcript: Available
Existing customers, please log in to view this film.
New to Docuseek? Register to request a quote.