Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty
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CROW COUNTRY: OUR RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY is a 20-minute documentary that enlightens its audience to one tribe’s struggle to retain food security. The Crow Indian Reservation is the largest reservation in Montana, encompassing 2.2 million acres of land. There are approximately 8,000 Crow (Apsáalooke) tribal members who live there. In 2017, the Crow Agency laid off 1,000 of its 1,300 employees due to federal government cutbacks, ultimately straining tribal operations and leaving many families struggling to make ends meet. In 2019, the only grocery store on the reservation burnt down, and the owners are not planning to rebuild. For the Crow, the federal and tribal governments are both failing its people.
The Crow Tribe— like most tribes— have been reliant on federal, tribal and non profit food distribution centers. As a result, tribal nations across the country are exploring the idea of ‘food sovereignty,’ the inherent right of a community to identify its own food systems. Returning to traditional and nutritious foods have been shown to be an effective way to restore Native food systems and create employment. However, restrictions on ancestral hunting grounds are preventing tribal members from providing for themselves and their families. CROW COUNTRY tells the stories of three Apsáalooke tribal members: a journalist; an elder; and a hunter, as they try to address these issues, and focuses on their resilience despite the hardships that they face.
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Main credits
Spoonhunter, Tsanavi (film director)
Spoonhunter, Tsanavi (film producer)
Spoonhunter, Tsanavi (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Cinematographer & editor, Christian Lee Collins; composers, Shawn Sullivan, Javier Gardeazabal.
Distributor subjects
"Native Americans","Food Sovereignty","Food Insecurity","Indigenous Studies",Hunting,Reservation,Keywords
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(Peggy White Well Known Buffalo) Are you guys making food boxes?
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Are the food boxes being taken out?
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-(Peggy) That's pork loin?
-(worker) 6, 12
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Okay, bring us a cart.
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That's really important that
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you give that out today.
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People are hungry
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and they've been asking for meat and we're -
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We're running kind of behind schedule.
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Hopefully you guys aren't
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that hungry!
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Hunger is a pain
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I felt a lot of times in my lifetime
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when I was growing up.
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I saw how the people
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themselves were taken care of.
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*speaks in crow*
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We're under federal law
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being a Crow tribe.
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They're supposed to keep us
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Good and healthy, and we're not.
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(Luella) We live in a food desert.
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It's a major issue here.
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People don't really have
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access to fresh food.
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Fresh vegetables, produce
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and stuff like that
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because grocery stores
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are miles and miles away.
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The more isolated these stores
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are, the harder it is to get food.
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A lot of the people here
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don't have vehicles
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that they can use to go in and out,
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so they're depending on catching rides.
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It gets difficult for a lot of families,
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so then then you have all
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these people who rely on
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hunting for their meat sources.
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(Prinz Three Irons) That's one thing when you're hunting:
you never slam your door.
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There's probably over couple
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hundred families that depend
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on hunting on this reservation.
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Because they have feeds
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traditional feeds.
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They really depend on, on buffalo
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and elk and deer.
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These are elk tracks here.
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They scrape their
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scrap their feet, drag their feet basically,
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but they're still moving.
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Actually going down,
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down, down, below and feeding.
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*two gun shots*
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About a quarter down
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and I shot from there all the way
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across that open, open space there.
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It's really, really difficult.
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One of many attempts in the future.
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Alright, we're pretty mch done for this area.
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So I'm heading back to the truck
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and talk about our second option.
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When I was growing up with Grandfather,
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he always talked about
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respecting the the land
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and then respecting the mountain itself.
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That mountain is an old man
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and you have to respect their mountain.
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If you don't respect it.
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It's not going to give you what you need.
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And have respect for them game
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you're killing and then
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you only take what you need.
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There's usually three
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to four families in one household
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on this reservation.
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And you look at that:
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It can only last
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for a month for one elk.
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And if you really process it right,
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it's not that much.
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(Luella) Hi, my name is Luella Brien,
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I'm with the Big Horn County News
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in Hardin, Montana.
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- (Rusty) Is there anything going on, on the rez?
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- (Luella) You know what we could do?
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Emergency food boxes in Lodge Grass.
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The food bank, they load up a trailer
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and they take that food over there.
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And it's for elders, elders, food boxes.
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So we'll see what Ellie says.
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-(Rusty) You didn't get yours yet?
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- (Luella) Shut up, I'm only an honorary elder.
- (Rusty) *laughs*
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But we could just do a story about that
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because I don't think a lot of people know about it.
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I was definitely surprised
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at the lack of coverage that we have
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when it comes to food issues.
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They don't cover,
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you know, what happens
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when these communities
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are not getting served.
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People in Hardin
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are really the only ones
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with the grocery store in the county.
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Lodge Grass has a grocery store
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is so overpriced though
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that a lot of people don't utilize it.
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Crow's, grocery store burned down,
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and that's in here.
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Power struggle, oh right here!
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decimated by internal fire.
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(Peggy) This is the Crow Merch
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where everyone came to buy food.
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-(Jim Watt) Then we took it over and we built this
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building in late 2011
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and it burned down in the end
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of January of this year.
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-(Peggy) This whole parking lot
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would be full every day.
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This was the busiest place
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and in here was, um, man
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people bought everything he had
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the best chicken on the rez.
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And then the food late at night
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we just can come in buy food, you know?
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That was the best time I came
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because it was all on sale
- *group laughter*
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After that burned down,
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it was like the people couldn't
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go to a supermarket to buy what you need.
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- (Jim) I don't know if you want
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to build a new grocery
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store, might be easier
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to tear down, start over.
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I don't know.
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I'm not interested in doing it.
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I'm, a,
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getting too old and tired.
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I guess, so.
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-(Peggy) It's, it's just a real big loss
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for the people here on the reservation.
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(Luella) I don't know.
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Ok
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-(Aureila) That's a long time.
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-(Luella) Medicine and bread.
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For the people out there
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who are living on food stamps
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and cash assistance solely,
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they're not going to have
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as many options as me.
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Red potatoes are
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Six bucks?
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-(Auriela) That's a lot.
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-(Luella) I know, but they're really good.
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So that question of do
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I want good food or do I want more food?
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Is right in the front
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of everybody's minds.
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Any study across
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this country is going to tell you that
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if you live in a food desert,
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you're making poor choices
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because there are only
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poor choices to make.
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I can't afford to buy,
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you know, the meat that
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I want to buy all the time
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you know, the good lean stuff.
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See, this is like a prime example:
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Lean $5.75, regular
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$3.49.
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So, do I get the regular ham
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or the lean ham?
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*Whispers* This one.
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This is your Christmas present. Aye.
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We need to get your grandma a paper
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at the office.
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So, now that I've got my shopping done
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I am driving 25 miles back to my house.
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It's almost 9:00 o'clock.
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And then I'm going to cook
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the chicken patties
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and the instant macaroni
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because that's quick
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and then we'll eat a late dinner and
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go to bed. Which is probably not healthy,
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but that's what we do
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a lot of the time.
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Alright, kiddo!
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(Peggy) start making boxes.
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Put a little bit of everything
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and start lining 'em up.
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*Speaks in Crow*
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Sovereign foods, growing it and eating it
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and knowing what it's made out of.
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When people like my grandmother
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only lived on that. Today,
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we don't have that.
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*Speaks in Crow*
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- (Peggy) Hey, you two! Mark!
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They need a case of oranges
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and a case of apples.
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When I was growing
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up, there was eight in a family
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and we had to survive
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on a certain income.
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You know, certain amount of money
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and not only that was raised
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with the commodities.
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Thank you.
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- (worker) Right here.
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- (Peggy) *Speaks in Crow*
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-(Man) Hello, how are you? Good to see you.
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-(Peggy) I saw how the tribes were taken care of,
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so I started a little tiny source of food bank
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in a trailer house.
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I became a nonprofit
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and I started from there. Every day
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here I get like 90 to 100 people.
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-(Juanita Yellowmule) I visit Peggy's
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at least once a week
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because the community that we live
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in a lot of the children
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there kind of come to our house.
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Peggy knows what I do when I come.
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She'll try to stock me up with extra *laughs*
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Are we ready? OK, hands together.
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-(everyone, in unison) God is good, God is great
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thank you for our food
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by his hands we shall be fed,
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give us now our daily bread.
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In Jesus name we pray, amen, a'ho!
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Make your plates and eat your food.
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Let me get a spoon for those eggs.
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I wasn't getting paid.
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I'm still in
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I'm still owed 11 pay periods from the tribe.
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A lot of families
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you know that were affected then
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and then there's you know even more now.
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I see the struggle in
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just the little community that I'm in.
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So, if you can imagine
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what the whole reservation is going through.
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Some of the stuff that Peggy gave us.
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She gave us a lot of a lot of eggs.
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If I see that I can't use something right
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away, I'll offer it
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to others that I know that need it.
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It's usually the kids' friends
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that are always, you know,
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we always have them over.
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-(Milton) They're actually my cousins!
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-(Juanita) OK cousins, yeah.
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My husband does work.
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He works for the coal mine.
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The Apsáalooke Coal Mine.
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Yeah.
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Because of you know his job,
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we don't qualify for any
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other assistance.
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We're always like,
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I mean, it's we're like $27.00 over the.
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*laughs*
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I mean, it's not a lot.
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(Conrad Yellowmule) Reservation life is pretty tough
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when you don't have a lot of help,
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just like my wife says, I'm
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pushing it to have a job
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when the snow gets bad.
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You know we can't make it to town
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sometimes the roads are closed and
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and I'm at work and the road.
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So we use a lot of that game.
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(Luella) There's a lot of families who,
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you know, survive solely on wild
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game as their protein source.
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And then that's where we get
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this whole Herrera case.
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Clayvin Herrera was facing
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charges in Wyoming regarding poaching.
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They said he illegally killed elk.
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Herrera's side was saying
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we have these inherent
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treaty rights from, you know, this treaty
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that was signed
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in the 1800s. And it made
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all the way to the Supreme Court.
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(Clayvin Herrera) When everything went down,
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I was the Captain of fish and game.
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We went hunting and we
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we seen heard of elk.
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I have three daughters
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that I raised on my own
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and we were getting low on food
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and I didn't want to get on food stamps
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or like commodities or anything.
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I had some bullets.
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I had some gas and that's all you need.
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We had the right to hunt there
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and I wasn't going to let any outsider
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tell us how to hunt on Crow Country,
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because this is our land.
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It was a big case
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and it started growing.
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No matter what my name
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was going to be involved in either
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the downfall of Indian rights
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or the strength and sovereignty,
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and I didn't want to be responsible
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for making Indian lives worse
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than they already are.
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(Luella) For him to fight it
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that whole time was amazing
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because it gets really hard for a native
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to fight against
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the system for that long.
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And a lot of times
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you just want to give up. And the fact
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that he didn't was phenomenal
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because it didn't just affect him, it's
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affecting the entire tribe.
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(Clayvin) Well, I knew I was gonna win because
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I was raised to know
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that we had our rights in that,
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I was raised by my parents
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to be a good person and I knew
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right from wrong and
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I didn't do anything wrong that day.
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(Prinz) On top of this Ridge,
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there's probably about 60
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to 40 head of elk.
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And right now, we're at
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the state line right now.
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What frustrates me is the most is,
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seeing elk in front of you
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and you can't shoot it.
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I'd rather play it safe
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and just turn around and see what
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where else would get some elk at.
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(Luella) I want to see my people with options.
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The ability to choose your future
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is something that a lot of us don't have.
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And so hopefully we get to a point
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where we can do what we want
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and be who we want to be.
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(Peggy) A'ho - ha!
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(Peggy) When you don't give a child enough to eat
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they don't develop fully.
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We want our children,
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our young native children,
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to grow to be strong.
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(Prinz) There's not any place on Earth like this,
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and just to have experience
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on our reservation
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and our home is something we honor.
