Warrior Women
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In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation as a community of extended families. WARRIOR WOMEN is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both women are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for indigenous cultural values.
Through their story, WARRIOR WOMEN explores what it means to balance a movement with motherhood and how activist legacies are passed down from generation to generation in the face of a government that has continually met Native resistance with mass violence.
Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico
"A powerful and visually stunning film, Warrior Women tells the story of the Red Power era and the American Indian Movement as they have never been told before on screen. Interconnecting past and present, from the 1969-1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island to the 1973 Wounded Knee stand-off to the 1980 Black Hills Survival Gathering to the water protectors at Standing Rock in 2016, this film is an indispensable lesson on the violence of United States colonialism and the central role of women in the making of Indigenous liberation. Warrior Women is an intimate portrait of Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcella Gilbert and a vital historical document that brings to life the intergenerational work of collective freedom. Meticulously researched with extraordinary archival footage, Warrior Women is a uniquely compelling and inspiring film for teaching about the contemporary struggle for Indigenous liberation."
Nick Estes, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico Kul Wicasa, author of Our History is the Future
"Warrior Women profoundly changes our understanding of the Red Power movement. From Alcatraz to Standing Rock, the film charts a familiar yet wonderfully unfamiliar course by telling the story of Indigenous women’s activism. While a compelling story of a mother and a daughter, it is also a story of a movement’s impact on generations of Native people. Clearly indispensable, without Indigenous women’s leadership there would have been no Indigenous movement yesterday, today, or tomorrow. It could not have come at a better time. Moving, inspiring, and hilarious, Warrior Women is a film that stirs us to action in an era when so much is at stake. The urgency and relevance is masterfully told through the full range of the Indigenous experience, a truly human experience—history, humor, violence, and the desire for freedom. An instant classic."
Dina Gilio Whitaker, Colville Confederated Tribes, Lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos
"For at least a generation, the story of the Red Power Movement has been told through a lens that gave us a limited view about the Indian activism of that period. What was missing until now were the voices of the women. Through the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk we are given a glimpse into the ways Native women shaped the movement, branched off into their own organizations, and leaned on each other to create a better world for all Indian people. With rarely seen footage and tons of humor, Warrior Women has earned its place in the canon of Red Power literature and film."
Booklist | Candace Smith
"This inspiring program is a reminder that Civil Rights battles were fought on many fronts and often by grassroots activists. [...] Good resource for Civil Rights' studies."
Educational Media Reviews Online (EMRO) | Reviewed by LaRoi Lawton, Library & Learning Resources Department, Bronx Community College
Highly Recommended
"This film depicts the life of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, and her daughter, Marcy Gilbert, fighting for Indigenous and women's rights now covering over 50 years. Madonna Thunder Hawke and several other Native American women give an enlightening perspective of the perceived “Indian problem” during the heyday of the 1960’s and 1970’s ‘Native American’ civil rights struggle. The film follows their fight to challenge the South Dakota political and economic machines of the day to grab Native American land. At the same time, they are also teaching and re-educating their Native American children and peers on the real racial discord Native Americans have experienced at the hands of the political, economic, and social machines that initiated a legislated genocide of the Native American in South Dakota.
They are mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives. But above all else, these women are deeply rooted in their communities. All across time, and all around the globe, they are brandishing words of unique wisdom, and practical beliefs; they have fought battles in our U.S. Court system and faced off with large corporations attempting to take their lands to drill for oil, looking for precious metals and drilling pipe lines for the expansion of gas deliveries across the country. These awe-inspiring female fighters have each made an indelible mark on Native American history. The “Red Power Movement”, like the Civil Rights Movement will change our understanding of what it means to be a Native American in American society then and now. This film illustrates the real truth around the so-called “Indian problem “and what a group of people did to bring that truth into the light."
Kansas History | Reviewed by Tai S. Edwards, Johnson County Community College
"A must-watch for anyone interested in Indigenous people's history and social justice organizing ... This film does excellent work expanding the social representations of Indigenous people in U.S. society to include twenty-first-century women activists. It also illustrates the long, difficult battle that Indigenous people and nations face to this day in dismantling entrenched, systemic colonialism and protecting their sovereignty."
Point of View Magazine | Chelsea Phillips-Carr
"It is undeniable that Warrior Women is a necessary film. When we look at issues today like the Standing Rock protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline, it is obvious that there is so much more to be done. Learning about the history of Indigenous activism is a benefit to audiences who can better understand the background of North American settler colonialism and its enduring impact. But with the approach of championing the women of these movements, and how their labour and connections have gone beyond the activism in order to sustain cultures amidst struggle, the film offers a celebration of the mothers and daughters who continue to fight, together, for a better future."
Black Girl Nerds | Sezin Koehler
"For those unfamiliar with the trajectory of Indigenous rights and resistance in America, Warrior Women is a great foundation for further study. It highlights the major events that shaped the movement to where we found it in the NODAPL Protests and hints at other events in between that intersect with the variety of civil rights movements developing in America since the 1960s. History is a spiral, and watching the legacies of a hundred years build through just an hour on screen is remarkable indeed. Warrior Women should be required viewing in history classes, and especially at high-school and college ages."
Citation
Main credits
Thunder Hawk, Madonna (on-screen participant)
Thunder Hawk, Marcy (on-screen participant)
King, Christina D. (film producer)
King, Christina D. (film director)
Castle, Elizabeth A. (film producer)
Castle, Elizabeth A. (film director)
Pitman, Anna Marie (film producer)
Other credits
Directors of photography: Andreas Burgess, John G. Larson; editors: Keiko Deguchi, Kristen Nutile; original score by Giulio Carmassi, Bryan Scary.
Distributor subjects
Native American Studies; Women's Studies; Sociology; Ethnic Studies; Environmental Studies; American Studies; U.S. History; Human RightsKeywords
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- [Child] You can\'t get us.
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- [Child] Oh, they\'re running away again.
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(children yell)
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(children chatter)
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- All right, first of all, I
wanna ask you guys something.
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Listen (whistles), yoo-hoo,
what holiday is it today?
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- [Students] Washington\'s birthday.
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- And who was he?
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- [Student] He was a...
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- The first person that says
the father of our country,
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I\'m gonna punch him out.
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What we try to do is
preserving and maintaining
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our language and our ways,
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making our people survive.
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You know, that\'s important.
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I have three children myself, you know.
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- People think Indians always
knew that we were powerful.
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And we always acted
that way, but we didn\'t.
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Everybody accepted the racism.
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But during that time,
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people were standing up and saying,
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hey, yeah, I am Indian.
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We want to be who we are, not who you are.
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(mid-tempo riveting music)
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- This country is built on
the bones of our ancestors.
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We have our culture, we
have our way of life,
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we have our language.
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What we\'re trying to do is retain it.
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Retain our right as a
people, to be Indian.
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- [Marcy] It was truly an
empowering, free, time.
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Watching the women, is amazing
how they handled everything.
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Protecting our people and
our children\'s future,
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and fighting, being warriors in that way.
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- [Madonna] The press,
they just automatically
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gravitated to the men.
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And who really knew what was going on
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and was really running
the show were the women.
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We were a movement of families.
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- [Marcy] Being the daughter of Madonna,
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she definitely had a
reputation of being strong.
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And when someone went to her for help,
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she did what she had to
do to make a difference.
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- [Woman] We\'re here to stay.
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- [Woman] The water.
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- However we get the job done,
you know, whatever it takes.
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When did you start dancing, Marcy, when...
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- [Marcy] I started
dancing when I was two.
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- Two, oh, yeah, two.
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- [Marcy] Back in the day.
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- You were just a
toddler, you were so cute.
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I don\'t know how to explain it.
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It\'s just part of who we are, you know.
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Anybody that\'s dancing, well, I should,
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I can only speak for our
family, our tiospaye.
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They dance for all of us.
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It has a lot to do with how she\'s raised.
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It\'s just what you do.
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It\'s part of, it\'s just who you are.
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(lively drum music)
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C\'mon, let\'s go occupy
that cultural center.
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- [Woman] What\'s going on here?
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- [Madonna] There\'s a
bunch of Indians trying
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to stir up trouble, let\'s go check it out.
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- [Woman] AIMs it again.
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- Yes, the AIMs are at it again.
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I see we all tinted our
hair gray, eh (laughs).
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- My name is Chase Iron Eyes.
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When you think about our,
who we are as the Lakota,
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or the (native word).
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But we\'re all part of the Movement.
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And it\'s a system of families
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that keep who we really are alive.
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In the Indian country they say,
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when you want good words,
they say invite the men.
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But if you want something to
get done, then bring the women.
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(woman laugh)
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- My name\'s Madonna Thunder Hawk,
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and uh, I\'m an old AIMster
gangster from way back.
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And I\'m not afraid of mikes.
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It\'s the land, the land is priceless.
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And that\'s who we are.
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Once the land is gone,
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we\'re gonna just be a
bunch of brown poor people.
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What we do as a people,
everything is related.
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It\'s not just one issue over
here or one issue over there.
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If we can\'t save our children,
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why are we trying to save the land?
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That\'s our future,
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so it\'s all connected
and it\'s all important.
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(children speak at once)
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Survival is being able to
cope with what comes along,
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and yet being yourself,
being what you are,
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and being proud of it.
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In Rapid City, South Dakota,
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they\'re still glorifying the pioneers,
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who hacked through Indian
people to conquer the West.
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So we have to live with that.
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We still have to live
here with this racism.
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Regardless of how acculturated
the Indian person gets,
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there\'s still that inside
that it doesn\'t fit,
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it\'s fighting.
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- [Interviewer] Doesn\'t what you\'re doing,
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making this bit inside not fit,
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aren\'t you making them more Indian,
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making them less able to fit in
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with an open society outside?
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- Yeah, you bet, survival
of our people, you know.
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Survival of our way, you
know, that\'s important.
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Survival School, started out for my kids,
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and my nieces and nephews,
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and then it just mushroomed on us.
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Pretty soon we had all these
kids coming to our door.
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Many of our students are
children that have been,
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have dropped out of the
present education system.
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Not only dropped out,
but have been forced out.
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- Survival School was just a
big house that my mom rented.
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And the young people who
came there were the ones
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whose families were
involved with the Movement.
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They would come and hang out,
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and then they just decided to stay.
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So, my education being an Indian person
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during that time in the \'70s,
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it was a political education.
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- Remember our three subjects,
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when they said, what are our subjects?
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It was natural, you know,
earth, taking care of the earth,
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AKA, natural resources, and our rights,
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our legal rights, and spirituality.
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(chanting in foreign language)
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- [Madonna] I wanted them
to respect knowledge.
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Education on what\'s
relevant to us, our lives.
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(chanting in foreign language)
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Why are treaties so important?
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- [Madonna] That\'s right.
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- [Madonna] Yeah, what about it?
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What\'s happening with all that today?
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- [Madonna] That\'s right, that\'s right.
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Still going on today, right?
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- [Children] Yeah, right.
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- [Madonna] So if it\'s
still going on today,
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then that makes the 1868
treaty relevant today
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just as it was back then, right?
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- [Students] Yeah, right.
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(traditional American Indian music)
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- I grew up in South Dakota,
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mostly on my home reservation,
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
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That\'s when the river was natural,
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and all the willows would grow.
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And we\'d pick the best willows
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and then we\'d peel those willows
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and they were our stick horses.
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And it wasn\'t, you know,
cowboys and Indians,
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it was just Indians.
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And you could drink
water out of the streams
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and rivers and stuff.
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We\'d be gone all day, you
know, \'cause there\'s territory.
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- We\'d get hungry, we\'d
just dig wild onions.
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Those were the days, do you remember,
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just wild and that (laughs).
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- Mm hmm, wild and free.
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- Wild and free.
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- [Madonna] When I was in high
school the government built
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a series of dams all
along the Missouri River.
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We lost almost a million
acres of our land.
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The cottonwoods, and the willows,
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and all the natural food, and
everything, all went under.
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That whole lifestyle changed overnight.
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- Being self-sufficient,
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going out and picking the berries,
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all those things, you know,
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so important to the way we were raised.
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- [Madonna] We had to
move about 50 miles west,
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and it was totally different
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from where I grew up along the river.
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(slow gentle music)
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Social destruction, how do you fight that?
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- From day one when our food changed,
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it was because the government changed it.
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But if it\'s already tilled,
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it shouldn\'t be too hard to get through.
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I\'m working on getting as many
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community gardens in as possible.
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I\'m providing like tilling
services and seeds.
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Through this garden project,
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I\'m hoping that that we can rebuild
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that relationship to the land.
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You know, my wildest dream
would be getting back
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to our traditional foods.
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Our bodies are still very indigenous.
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We\'re looking for timpsila.
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And so we need our own foods.
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We only take the root,
not the whole plant.
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Man, they taste good.
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- They\'re good, are they?
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- Yeah, they taste good fresh.
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- (grunts) Damn, there\'s
a lot of rocks right here.
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- Voila.
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It\'s just I have this constant thing
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that is like what are you gonna do?
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What are you doing?
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How are you going to help your people?
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What are you doing?
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They did this,
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so, you know, the next
generation should be doing this,
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and the next one should
be doing, you know,
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it should always be moving up.
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(slow drumming music)
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- [Madonna] There were several
Red Power organizations,
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but they were mostly local or regional,
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specific to an issue.
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The American Indian Movement was
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the most dominant
organization at the time.
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(mid-tempo mellow music)
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The American Indian Movement started
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in the late \'60s in Minneapolis,
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as a answer to the police
brutality that was going on.
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And then it just mushroomed
and came to Indian country,
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mainly to South Dakota.
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We were the shock troops.
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When I refer to the Movement,
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I am referring to all those
hundreds and hundreds of people
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that were involved wherever we went.
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When I say we, we were the
visible organizers under AIM.
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- It\'s our responsibility.
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We, in a sense, are giving a legacy
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to the yet unborn and the
young Indian people today.
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- She comes from the old Agency
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on Cheyenne River that\'s flooded,
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so she can never really go home.
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So I think that\'s why
she\'s dedicated her life
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because she can\'t really go home.
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(traditional American Indian music)
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When the Movement came, she was just like,
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okay, this is my home.
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She had somewhere where she belonged.
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- That\'s sleeping eagle, yeah (snorts).
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(all laugh)
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I don\'t even know if you
could call it a school.
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We all live and work together.
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(mellow guitar music)
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♪ When the sun shines ♪
00:13:48.293 --> 00:13:51.775
♪ The birds sing ♪
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♪ As you walk alone ♪
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- What drew me, and why I came and stayed
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was because you saw
the best of our people.
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It was a big family and I
think that\'s what made it work,
00:14:04.950 --> 00:14:07.209
and that was what you brought us
00:14:07.210 --> 00:14:10.743
from our traditional ways
was that we\'re all related.
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Remember the hair-braiding lines we had
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\'cause everybody had long hair.
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- [Marcy] Oh, yeah.
00:14:21.300 --> 00:14:23.069
- [Lakota] So we were
constantly braiding hair.
00:14:23.070 --> 00:14:24.959
- And Travis\' hair only grew this long,
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ever, in his whole life until now.
00:14:28.140 --> 00:14:29.416
But he\'d get in line.
00:14:29.417 --> 00:14:30.250
(all laugh)
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And he\'d, when it\'d come
to him, we\'d ask him,
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do you want...
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- Behind the ears, over the ears,
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one braid, tight, up high,
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loose, down low.
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You know, they all had
their own preferences.
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And what would he say?
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- He\'d sit down and go,
00:14:43.527 --> 00:14:47.174
\"Okay, I want two long,
thick, black braids.\"
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(all laugh)
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The other important part
of it was relearning
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and getting connected to our spirituality.
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- The Indian way of life,
00:15:00.581 --> 00:15:02.249
you don\'t separate education,
00:15:02.250 --> 00:15:03.959
you don\'t separate it from the home life,
00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.259
you don\'t separate it
from your spiritual life.
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The way you live your life
every day is your religion.
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It\'s not just, you know,
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something that has a
special day, and that\'s it.
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- [Marcy] The adults were like,
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you decide, it\'s okay to be Christian,
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it\'s okay to pray however you
want to pray, but you decide.
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And we all decided that
we were gonna follow
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the ways that were given to us.
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And we also changed our
mentality about holidays
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and Thanksgiving, we fasted all day.
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We started the day in prayer,
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and we ended the day in prayer,
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in honor of all the people
who aren\'t here any more
00:15:46.430 --> 00:15:48.337
because of the genocide.
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(chanting in foreign language)
00:15:56.464 --> 00:15:58.779
- I mean, you talk about freedom,
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you talk about the Indian
way, all beautiful words.
00:16:03.040 --> 00:16:04.973
But to really see it in action,
00:16:04.974 --> 00:16:07.229
to really see it working,
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man, there\'s nothing like it.
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So I don\'t care what they throw at us.
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I don\'t care what the
system comes up with.
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You know, we\'ve got these young people,
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and they know where they\'re going.
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My generation, I had to search for myself.
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I had to go against society,
so to speak, to be what I am.
00:16:27.581 --> 00:16:29.939
(slow gloomy music)
00:16:29.940 --> 00:16:33.251
- My dad used to say that years ago,
00:16:33.252 --> 00:16:36.089
he said there\'s only one way
to make this reservation work,
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or help the people.
00:16:37.350 --> 00:16:41.039
He said you gotta put all the old people
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in the concentration camps
00:16:42.640 --> 00:16:46.581
and take the kids and raise
them out in the white homes.
00:16:46.582 --> 00:16:48.082
And then they did.
00:16:56.630 --> 00:17:00.079
- Children were literally stolen, forced,
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dragged away from their parents
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to boarding school where
they were mistreated.
00:17:21.170 --> 00:17:23.539
- The whole boarding school scene started
00:17:23.540 --> 00:17:25.643
when we were really young.
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I remember us getting off the bus,
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and all lining up and they
told us to go in the showers.
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And then they took our clothes
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and put them all in a
box and sent \'em home.
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And then from then on,
we wore what we called
00:17:41.520 --> 00:17:43.463
GI clothes, government issue.
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We were just kept totally isolated,
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and they were in control of everything.
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- [Mabel] They would lock
us in upstairs because...
00:17:54.266 --> 00:17:55.099
- [Marcy] Jeez, prison.
00:17:55.100 --> 00:17:56.870
- I was so lonesome at first I thought
00:17:56.871 --> 00:17:58.369
after everybody goes to sleep,
00:17:58.370 --> 00:18:01.039
I could sneak down to her floor.
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You know, and maybe I could talk to her.
00:18:03.300 --> 00:18:06.029
But they locked us, they locked us in.
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- And when I think of, you know,
00:18:07.320 --> 00:18:08.859
when did our activism start?
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Or when did I, you know,
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but I always remember the
story about when you got sick,
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and they wouldn\'t take her
to the hospital or whatever.
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- [Mabel] Yeah.
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- So you went in and barricaded
yourself in there with her,
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until they called Grandma
Faith or something.
00:18:26.250 --> 00:18:29.219
- [Mabel] But Madonna
was always my protector,
00:18:29.220 --> 00:18:30.469
ever since we were little.
00:18:30.470 --> 00:18:33.219
- She grew up in a time
when she had to be tough,
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and she had to not show any weakness,
00:18:35.900 --> 00:18:39.059
so now she has a hard time feeling.
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Not that she can\'t feel,
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she just has a hard time expressing it.
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And of course, grew up in
that time where someone was
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always attacking you, you know.
00:18:49.275 --> 00:18:52.692
(slow unsettling music)
00:18:55.360 --> 00:18:57.839
- [Madonna] Back in the \'40s
and \'50s, we didn\'t do anything
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that might bring attention to yourself.
00:19:05.470 --> 00:19:07.799
There was all these bars on Main Street.
00:19:07.800 --> 00:19:09.589
And you had to pick your route
00:19:09.590 --> 00:19:13.969
because all these older
white guys, you know.
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They just propositioned
you right on the street.
00:19:18.090 --> 00:19:20.159
Even if you had children
with you, it didn\'t matter.
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If you were a Native you were fair game.
00:19:24.620 --> 00:19:27.499
- And you accept being called
dog bitches and whores,
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and dirty squaws, and whatever else.
00:19:29.217 --> 00:19:31.649
And a local rough and tough cowboy,
00:19:31.650 --> 00:19:34.139
he was like threatening to rape us, and...
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- And they were doing that, right?
00:19:35.963 --> 00:19:36.796
They were...
00:19:36.796 --> 00:19:37.629
- [Mabel] Yeah, they were.
00:19:37.629 --> 00:19:38.570
- Raping women and...
- They were.
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- That\'s what they did,
and the Indian women,
00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:42.690
the Indian girls were too scared to tell.
00:19:48.520 --> 00:19:51.923
- All of these white
ranchers, these white cowboys,
00:19:52.840 --> 00:19:54.679
would take these different ones,
00:19:54.680 --> 00:19:56.180
and they would gang rape them.
00:20:03.230 --> 00:20:07.023
They did it to one of
Madonna\'s real close friends.
00:20:09.689 --> 00:20:11.289
The police couldn\'t do anything about it
00:20:11.290 --> 00:20:14.393
because these are white men.
00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:19.109
So then, Madonna, there was a bunch of us,
00:20:19.110 --> 00:20:22.954
there was about maybe
about seven, got together.
00:20:22.955 --> 00:20:26.788
(slow electric guitar music)
00:20:28.030 --> 00:20:32.809
She sent one of our pretty
girls to the dance in Dupree.
00:20:32.810 --> 00:20:35.409
And she said tell them that
you\'ve got some whiskey.
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And brought \'em out to where we all were.
00:20:38.770 --> 00:20:41.270
And then we beat the shit out of him.
00:20:45.060 --> 00:20:48.059
They had brass knuckles,
they had billy clubs.
00:20:48.060 --> 00:20:51.119
They just, just beat the hell out of him.
00:20:51.120 --> 00:20:52.819
Took his pants off,
00:20:52.820 --> 00:20:57.279
and told him next time an
Indian girls gets raped,
00:20:57.280 --> 00:21:01.897
we\'re gonna get you, and we\'re
gonna cut your balls off.
00:21:03.370 --> 00:21:06.220
And from that time, it
didn\'t happen any more.
00:21:13.090 --> 00:21:16.319
- But all my life was built
with just trying to live,
00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:18.139
and trying to be, you know.
00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:21.049
I didn\'t analyze anything
or rationalize anything,
00:21:21.050 --> 00:21:23.803
I was just angry, angry at the world.
00:21:25.565 --> 00:21:28.565
(slow gentle music)
00:21:45.840 --> 00:21:49.379
There was this big federal
program called Relocation.
00:21:49.380 --> 00:21:50.939
So the government thought
00:21:50.940 --> 00:21:54.489
get the Indians off the
reservation, mainstream \'em.
00:21:54.490 --> 00:21:56.940
Well, this is how we\'ll
solve the Indian problem.
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I was in the Bay Area,
and that was in the \'60s.
00:22:05.540 --> 00:22:07.759
So the civil rights
movement was getting going,
00:22:07.760 --> 00:22:10.839
and Haight and Ashbury was
just right down the road.
00:22:10.840 --> 00:22:14.257
(mid-tempo mellow music)
00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:16.843
I loved it.
00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:22.989
There\'s a lot of Indian people
00:22:22.990 --> 00:22:24.760
in the Bay Area from all over.
00:22:31.430 --> 00:22:33.489
We started learning from the farm workers
00:22:33.490 --> 00:22:35.120
about union organizing
00:22:36.090 --> 00:22:38.863
and we had a lot of contact
with the Black Panthers.
00:22:44.780 --> 00:22:47.523
So we started realizing
that we can do something.
00:22:48.910 --> 00:22:51.423
But our struggle was back
home with our people.
00:23:02.897 --> 00:23:05.079
The state of South
Dakota doesn\'t recognize
00:23:05.080 --> 00:23:07.979
the Lakota way of raising children,
00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:10.163
extended family are responsible.
00:23:11.032 --> 00:23:13.163
Hello, my hand are just cold.
00:23:14.080 --> 00:23:16.409
- Oh, really, the person
to talk to right away
00:23:16.410 --> 00:23:18.889
before you leave here is our attorney.
00:23:18.890 --> 00:23:19.723
I\'ve been working with him
00:23:19.724 --> 00:23:21.752
for about going on seven years now.
00:23:21.753 --> 00:23:23.659
It\'s the Lakota Peoples\' Law Project.
00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:24.650
You need to talk with him
00:23:24.651 --> 00:23:28.249
so he can get your case, everything.
00:23:28.250 --> 00:23:32.029
- The UN has a list of violations
00:23:32.030 --> 00:23:34.759
under the category of genocide.
00:23:34.760 --> 00:23:39.760
In that list, there is an item that says,
00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:45.680
that if one culture takes the
children from this culture
00:23:46.330 --> 00:23:49.163
and moves them over and puts
them with another culture,
00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:51.473
that is an act of genocide.
00:23:53.950 --> 00:23:56.479
- So, this is a list of the updated list
00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.339
of the council reps, okay?
00:23:59.340 --> 00:24:01.439
And this is really good
00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:06.440
because I can pick the ones
out that can work with.
00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:10.289
Okay, this is worth its
weight in gold, let\'s go.
00:24:10.290 --> 00:24:12.509
What are we doing sitting here?
00:24:12.510 --> 00:24:14.563
Let\'s hit the road, Jack.
00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:20.129
I mean, there\'s nine tribes in this state
00:24:20.130 --> 00:24:21.649
and they\'re all over the state,
00:24:21.650 --> 00:24:23.049
and zig-zagging around the state,
00:24:23.050 --> 00:24:24.909
traveling around to lobby them,
00:24:24.910 --> 00:24:27.829
prodding them and pushing
them to actually do something.
00:24:27.830 --> 00:24:30.019
Child welfare has to be made
00:24:30.020 --> 00:24:33.449
a priority by tribal government,
otherwise nothing happens.
00:24:33.450 --> 00:24:35.929
Someone\'s got to step up.
00:24:35.930 --> 00:24:37.648
The grandmother took care of those kids
00:24:37.649 --> 00:24:40.649
from the time they were born.
00:24:40.650 --> 00:24:43.149
But who was there to
back up this grandmother?
00:24:43.150 --> 00:24:47.139
You, as an officer of
the Tribal Government,
00:24:47.140 --> 00:24:50.233
you could call up, you know,
how dare you, you know.
00:24:51.900 --> 00:24:53.459
The state is running scared,
00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:57.579
but they recognize the authority
and power you guys have.
00:24:57.580 --> 00:24:59.929
You guys could be calling the shots.
00:24:59.930 --> 00:25:02.609
We just gotta hold the
state\'s feet to the fire.
00:25:02.610 --> 00:25:04.303
You need to take that over.
00:25:08.805 --> 00:25:13.523
All right, yes, rest for the wicked.
00:25:19.087 --> 00:25:21.459
Nobody said, Madonna you\'re
gonna still be living
00:25:21.460 --> 00:25:23.129
hand to mouth when you\'re 70 years old,
00:25:23.130 --> 00:25:24.519
still doing the same thing.
00:25:24.520 --> 00:25:27.549
Nobody said that to me,
or you have to do this.
00:25:27.550 --> 00:25:28.839
I mean there\'s nothing in it for me.
00:25:28.840 --> 00:25:30.589
And let me tell you,
there\'s nothing in it for me
00:25:30.590 --> 00:25:34.039
except for the commitment that
I made, you know, long ago,
00:25:34.040 --> 00:25:35.724
you know, to fight for our people.
00:25:35.725 --> 00:25:39.058
(slow melancholy music)
00:25:46.010 --> 00:25:48.479
- [Announcer] Another dawn
rises over Mount Rushmore,
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.739
over Washington and Roosevelt,
Jefferson and Lincoln.
00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:53.559
But it also rises these days
00:25:53.560 --> 00:25:55.999
over a small band of American Indians.
00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:58.999
They claim these Black
Hills of South Dakota
00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:00.869
are legally theirs by treaty.
00:26:00.870 --> 00:26:03.103
And they have come to take them back.
00:26:03.104 --> 00:26:05.078
- [Man] Our Indian lands!
00:26:05.079 --> 00:26:06.669
(drum bangs)
00:26:06.670 --> 00:26:08.579
- [Madonna] 25 of us
got our stuff together,
00:26:08.580 --> 00:26:12.223
we got our bedrolls and our
back packs and occupied.
00:26:13.530 --> 00:26:17.509
- What I remember is when we
were staying at your house.
00:26:17.510 --> 00:26:20.989
One night you came in, and you
were just like a whirlwind.
00:26:20.990 --> 00:26:22.329
Just picking stuff up,
00:26:22.330 --> 00:26:23.546
and \"I gotta go,\" and \"I gotta go,\"
00:26:23.547 --> 00:26:24.866
and headed out, you know.
00:26:24.867 --> 00:26:26.719
And me and Whitney were like,
00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:28.445
what\'s going on, you
know, what\'s going on?
00:26:28.446 --> 00:26:29.599
(women laugh)
00:26:29.600 --> 00:26:31.719
And then the next morning,
we\'re watching TV,
00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:35.459
and there you guys are, on Mount Rushmore.
00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:37.413
How come I didn\'t I get to go?
00:26:37.414 --> 00:26:38.579
I was really mad.
00:26:38.580 --> 00:26:40.819
And auntie was like, Marcy, you know,
00:26:40.820 --> 00:26:43.146
you know, she\'s really explaining to me,
00:26:43.147 --> 00:26:45.719
\"They\'re doing something
important, you behave.\"
00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:47.439
- [Interviewer] They say they
have a right to the land.
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:52.440
- It\'s never been finally
determined in the courts
00:26:52.530 --> 00:26:56.359
or by, uh, the means that are open,
00:26:56.360 --> 00:26:58.719
as to just who just does own the land.
00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:00.059
It\'s still in litigation.
00:27:00.060 --> 00:27:00.893
- [Interviewer] Do you
think maybe that\'s why
00:27:00.894 --> 00:27:02.353
you\'re letting them stay there?
00:27:03.251 --> 00:27:08.146
- Uh, you know, there\'s a
50% chance they\'re right,
00:27:08.147 --> 00:27:09.382
that it is theirs.
00:27:09.383 --> 00:27:12.799
That does give them
possibly a little bit more
00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:14.600
of a right than you or I might have.
00:27:19.530 --> 00:27:21.799
- In school you would come to visit,
00:27:21.800 --> 00:27:24.539
and I\'d always be like,
my mom\'s here, you know.
00:27:24.540 --> 00:27:26.549
And you looked exactly like you do now,
00:27:26.550 --> 00:27:28.219
(women laugh)
00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:29.637
blue jeans, with your button.
00:27:29.638 --> 00:27:32.859
All my friends thought you were so cool.
00:27:32.860 --> 00:27:35.709
You know, like she was
from somewhere else.
00:27:35.710 --> 00:27:38.143
- I mean, hey, this is
who we are, you know.
00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:41.099
And we have a chance, our generation,
00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:42.399
That\'s the way I looked at it.
00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.919
This is our time.
00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:45.539
You gotta be ready to drop everything
00:27:45.540 --> 00:27:48.540
and go if you feel it\'s important enough.
00:27:48.541 --> 00:27:51.624
(slow mellow music)
00:27:55.830 --> 00:27:58.039
The United States
government had closed down
00:27:58.040 --> 00:28:00.399
the federal prison that was out there,
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:02.399
so it was excess land.
00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.919
According to the statute,
00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:09.459
any unused federal land will
return to the Native people,
00:28:09.460 --> 00:28:13.029
so they just went out there
and staked claim to the island.
00:28:13.030 --> 00:28:15.549
- We, the Native Americans
reclaim this land,
00:28:15.550 --> 00:28:17.359
known as Alcatraz Island in the name
00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:19.739
of all American Indians
by right of discovery.
00:28:19.740 --> 00:28:21.629
We wish to be fair and
honorable in our dealings
00:28:21.630 --> 00:28:23.929
with the Caucasian
inhabitants of this land
00:28:23.930 --> 00:28:25.859
and hereby offer the following treaty.
00:28:25.860 --> 00:28:28.979
- I think we all recognize
that our preoccupation
00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:31.225
with the black problem,
with the brown problem,
00:28:31.226 --> 00:28:34.073
perhaps the red problem
may have been overlooked.
00:28:35.030 --> 00:28:36.959
- When I got there all the press had left,
00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:38.769
and all the weekend warriors had left.
00:28:38.770 --> 00:28:43.283
It was just the hard-core,
militant, activist types.
00:28:44.250 --> 00:28:49.250
Now what we have here is
the model of our island
00:28:51.250 --> 00:28:52.800
and how we\'re going to have it.
00:28:54.540 --> 00:28:56.849
I mean, you protect the
people in all kinds of ways,
00:28:56.850 --> 00:28:58.344
you know, and one of them is having
00:28:58.345 --> 00:29:00.499
a tight community organization.
00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:01.450
Who\'s going to feed who,
00:29:01.451 --> 00:29:04.016
and do we have supplies for the children
00:29:04.017 --> 00:29:05.413
and the babies, you know.
00:29:09.110 --> 00:29:10.379
I mean, it was just a real good
00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:12.939
community-building experience.
00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:15.249
And to not only be a part of something,
00:29:15.250 --> 00:29:16.703
but to help build.
00:29:48.801 --> 00:29:51.707
Alcatraz Island ended because
the federal government
00:29:51.708 --> 00:29:54.973
in no way was gonna return
land to Indian people.
00:30:01.650 --> 00:30:06.149
- When you sent me a letter,
you sent me a long letter,
00:30:06.150 --> 00:30:09.129
it was in line with what
Grandma Aggie used to say.
00:30:09.130 --> 00:30:12.199
She would talk about how
it was, where we were free,
00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:14.319
and where we were strong,
and it was just us.
00:30:14.320 --> 00:30:16.449
And I would always say, can we go there?
00:30:16.450 --> 00:30:17.849
Let\'s go there.
00:30:17.850 --> 00:30:19.556
And she\'d say, \"This is just temporary.
00:30:19.557 --> 00:30:20.679
\"Don\'t worry, (speaking
in foreign language),
00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:22.359
we\'re going to get to go back there.\"
00:30:22.360 --> 00:30:24.869
Your letter, you didn\'t say
we\'re going back to this,
00:30:24.870 --> 00:30:27.249
you said we\'re moving forward.
00:30:27.250 --> 00:30:28.886
And this is what we\'re gonna have.
00:30:28.887 --> 00:30:31.299
And so I thought, oh,
good, it\'s happening.
00:30:31.300 --> 00:30:33.349
And then to top that off,
00:30:33.350 --> 00:30:35.529
you guys were all coming from Alcatraz.
00:30:35.530 --> 00:30:36.769
And it was my graduation,
00:30:36.770 --> 00:30:38.122
and it was Catholic boarding school.
00:30:38.123 --> 00:30:39.066
(women laugh)
00:30:39.067 --> 00:30:41.219
It was all these people
dressed all real nice.
00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:44.366
And then there was this whole
group all with their braids,
00:30:44.367 --> 00:30:48.773
and their red-wrapped hair,
and jeans, and some stuff.
00:30:50.161 --> 00:30:51.649
And then they said Lakota.
00:30:51.650 --> 00:30:53.434
And they\'re like la,
la, la, la, la, la, la.
00:30:53.435 --> 00:30:55.646
(all laugh)
00:30:55.647 --> 00:30:58.271
And I was like, \"That\'s,
that\'s my family.\"
00:30:58.272 --> 00:31:00.609
(all laugh)
00:31:00.610 --> 00:31:04.389
- That\'s how it started
was just reclaiming,
00:31:04.390 --> 00:31:07.903
saying this is who I am, and
this is what I stand for.
00:31:09.070 --> 00:31:12.049
Fourth grade, in boarding
school in Eagle Butte,
00:31:12.050 --> 00:31:13.750
I said I\'m gonna stand up
00:31:14.770 --> 00:31:17.019
by wearing my moccasins to school.
00:31:17.020 --> 00:31:21.359
I remember people asking me
why, why are you wearing those?
00:31:21.360 --> 00:31:23.359
Why aren\'t you wearing shoes?
00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:25.113
I remember being laughed at,
00:31:26.150 --> 00:31:28.699
but the next day, I wore \'em again,
00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:32.699
and other girls were
wearing their moccasins.
00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:37.229
Something as simple as
that was so powerful
00:31:37.230 --> 00:31:39.763
because our people were so oppressed.
00:31:40.890 --> 00:31:44.409
To me it was like the way
I grew up with activism,
00:31:44.410 --> 00:31:46.199
it was like a puzzle,
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.600
there was a part of it
that wasn\'t there for me.
00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:52.419
When I was in seventh grade
00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:54.649
and I lived in Mission with my aunt,
00:31:54.650 --> 00:31:58.304
and I was in track and
I was really good at it.
00:31:58.305 --> 00:32:00.843
I was breaking records and making records,
00:32:01.890 --> 00:32:06.153
but it seemed like no one cared.
00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:13.460
That very next year I started
going to Survival School
00:32:14.490 --> 00:32:16.019
and I got to be around my mom.
00:32:16.020 --> 00:32:19.789
And I was so happy just
to be able to be with her
00:32:19.790 --> 00:32:22.893
and to be a part of all
this stuff she was doing.
00:32:23.972 --> 00:32:27.187
- [Man] You folks always seem
to be always traveling around.
00:32:27.188 --> 00:32:29.109
(all talk at once)
00:32:29.110 --> 00:32:31.299
- It\'s true, we went to California,
00:32:31.300 --> 00:32:34.579
and down into Arizona into Farmington.
00:32:34.580 --> 00:32:36.199
- We had sweat lodges and stuff,
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:37.923
and we went to sweat lodges.
00:32:39.840 --> 00:32:41.915
We had ceremonies, we went to them.
00:32:41.916 --> 00:32:44.993
And we sang, it was pretty fun there.
00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:49.239
- [Marcy] We went where
the adults, the organizers,
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:51.529
and the supporters needed to be.
00:32:51.530 --> 00:32:54.049
You know, one year we
took a whole summer trip,
00:32:54.050 --> 00:32:57.279
and all along the way
there was political trials,
00:32:57.280 --> 00:32:58.549
the fishing rights.
00:32:58.550 --> 00:33:01.419
And, then we always did these debates.
00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:05.123
We had to know our issue,
and then we had to debate it.
00:33:06.520 --> 00:33:10.159
We learned what it meant to
be Indian in this country.
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:11.909
- [Lakota] I remember when we\'d travel.
00:33:11.910 --> 00:33:13.389
We all would pile in,
00:33:13.390 --> 00:33:15.939
and we would squeeze
every single person in,
00:33:15.940 --> 00:33:17.296
and we\'d just be all over the back.
00:33:17.297 --> 00:33:20.319
- In the back of the
pickup with the camper,
00:33:20.320 --> 00:33:22.809
and it was perfectly fine.
00:33:22.810 --> 00:33:25.476
And we figured out how to.
00:33:25.477 --> 00:33:26.310
(Madonna laughs)
00:33:26.310 --> 00:33:27.143
- [Lakota] And remember,
every now and then we\'d say,
00:33:27.144 --> 00:33:29.239
okay, everybody one, two, three, shift,
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.168
and we\'d all be shifting
here, ooh, ah, ooh, ah, ooh.
00:33:32.169 --> 00:33:33.156
(all laugh)
00:33:33.157 --> 00:33:35.609
We took over everywhere we went, remember?
00:33:35.610 --> 00:33:37.619
And we felt confident, that was the thing.
00:33:37.620 --> 00:33:38.659
- [Marcy] That was the thing.
00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:41.749
We were in power because you guys
00:33:41.750 --> 00:33:44.419
let us do our own thinking.
00:33:44.420 --> 00:33:46.999
- [Lakota] We owned the world.
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:49.089
That\'s what it was like for us.
00:33:49.090 --> 00:33:51.219
Anywhere we went, it was our land.
00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:52.053
- [Marcy] It was empowerment.
00:33:52.054 --> 00:33:54.330
- [Lakota] Anywhere we went
it was our place to be.
00:33:59.108 --> 00:33:59.941
- [Man] Just wanted to talk
00:33:59.942 --> 00:34:01.519
about the meaning of sovereignty.
00:34:01.520 --> 00:34:03.000
- [Woman] What does sovereignty mean?
00:34:04.970 --> 00:34:06.520
- [Madonna] Self-determination.
00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:09.340
- [Madonna] Freedom?
00:34:10.770 --> 00:34:12.273
- [Madonna] Independent nation?
00:34:13.570 --> 00:34:15.909
- [Man] Maybe somebody can tell,
00:34:15.910 --> 00:34:18.260
tell us a little about
the Fort Laramie Treaty?
00:34:42.388 --> 00:34:45.989
- The riot police in North
Dakota arrested protestors
00:34:45.990 --> 00:34:49.229
who\'ve been blocking
construction of an oil pipeline.
00:34:49.230 --> 00:34:50.679
- [Newscaster] The camp\'s
blocked construction
00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:53.749
of a nearly 1,200 mile
pipeline that would carry
00:34:53.750 --> 00:34:57.299
crude oil from the Bakken
Oil Fields to Illinois.
00:34:57.300 --> 00:35:00.019
Builders want to tunnel
under the Missouri River.
00:35:00.020 --> 00:35:01.719
- [Newscaster] Native
Americans say the project
00:35:01.720 --> 00:35:03.829
is destroying sacred sites
00:35:03.830 --> 00:35:05.679
and could pollute the Missouri River,
00:35:05.680 --> 00:35:08.328
a clean water source for millions.
00:35:08.329 --> 00:35:11.412
(slow subdued music)
00:35:12.510 --> 00:35:14.357
- [Man] Yeah, bring the flag up.
00:35:20.247 --> 00:35:22.809
- The fire keeper guy,
he didn\'t leave, did he?
00:35:22.810 --> 00:35:24.169
- [Woman] Jake Yellow Horse.
00:35:24.170 --> 00:35:25.003
- Yeah.
00:35:25.003 --> 00:35:25.957
- [Woman] I don\'t know, we didn\'t see him.
00:35:25.958 --> 00:35:29.737
- \'Cause I\'m gonna be on the
mike, I need to talk about him.
00:35:29.738 --> 00:35:31.716
We need a good crew that\'s gonna
00:35:31.717 --> 00:35:33.820
batten down the hatches in case of rain.
00:35:33.821 --> 00:35:34.654
- Okay.
00:35:34.655 --> 00:35:35.769
- Okay.
00:35:35.770 --> 00:35:39.709
Good morning, first of all,
I wanna thank everybody.
00:35:39.710 --> 00:35:43.699
But, in particular, I wanna
thank the younger people.
00:35:43.700 --> 00:35:44.560
Of course, at my age,
00:35:44.561 --> 00:35:46.629
everybody younger than
me is younger, I guess.
00:35:46.630 --> 00:35:50.159
But, yeah, you know, I\'m one
of the old, old, old school,
00:35:50.160 --> 00:35:53.389
you know, Wounded Knee days and all that.
00:35:53.390 --> 00:35:56.549
So, and I\'m so glad I\'m still alive,
00:35:56.550 --> 00:35:58.853
and I\'m here and I get to see all this.
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.179
It takes a lot of organization, you know,
00:36:02.180 --> 00:36:05.089
supplies are coming in all the time.
00:36:05.090 --> 00:36:07.193
This whole camp is running on volunteers.
00:36:08.900 --> 00:36:11.259
The main thing is just
to, to show support.
00:36:11.260 --> 00:36:16.149
And the tribes are coming
in from all over, everyday.
00:36:16.150 --> 00:36:18.899
- It was amazing for
me to watch, you know.
00:36:18.900 --> 00:36:22.959
These elderly women, you know, she\'s 76,
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:26.623
still managing this big major happening.
00:36:27.700 --> 00:36:30.450
It reminded me of Survival
School, actually (chuckles).
00:36:31.570 --> 00:36:33.199
\'Cause Mom was always like,
00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:34.190
you\'re gonna do this,
00:36:34.190 --> 00:36:35.023
and you\'re gonna do that,
00:36:35.024 --> 00:36:37.053
and this is why and just get it done!
00:36:39.930 --> 00:36:41.577
You guys watch out for snakes.
00:36:44.150 --> 00:36:46.703
Come here guys, I wanna
show you this plant.
00:36:46.704 --> 00:36:48.109
(speaking in foreign language)
00:36:48.110 --> 00:36:50.499
You can make (speaking in
foreign language) with that,
00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:52.423
and put it on, it\'s like lotion.
00:36:53.660 --> 00:36:55.109
It\'s really good for your skin.
00:36:55.110 --> 00:36:57.319
- [Woman] But I just wanna
take a couple seconds,
00:36:57.320 --> 00:36:59.609
not too long \'cause it know it gets tough,
00:36:59.610 --> 00:37:00.443
but stay up here.
00:37:00.444 --> 00:37:02.670
Let\'s just listen to the
water for a little bit.
00:37:15.950 --> 00:37:17.369
- [Woman] A lot of things ground you,
00:37:17.370 --> 00:37:18.999
and water is one of them.
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.049
And by ground you, it just
makes you feel at ease,
00:37:22.050 --> 00:37:24.689
it makes you feel better about everything.
00:37:24.690 --> 00:37:25.859
But right now, really quick,
00:37:25.860 --> 00:37:27.139
let\'s all take a little bit
00:37:27.140 --> 00:37:28.289
of (speaking in foreign language).
00:37:28.290 --> 00:37:32.129
That\'s what as Lakota,
Dakota, Nakota people
00:37:32.130 --> 00:37:33.879
we call (speaking in foreign language).
00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:35.389
- [Child] Thank you.
00:37:35.390 --> 00:37:38.769
- You guys know why your parents
00:37:38.770 --> 00:37:40.223
or grandparents brought you?
00:37:42.359 --> 00:37:44.139
- [Child] They brought us to school.
00:37:44.140 --> 00:37:45.140
- This is why.
00:37:45.141 --> 00:37:47.139
- [Child] They brought us here to learn.
00:37:47.140 --> 00:37:48.626
- This is why you\'re here.
00:37:48.627 --> 00:37:49.869
- [Child] For the river.
00:37:49.870 --> 00:37:50.870
- Yep.
00:37:51.550 --> 00:37:53.259
- [Child] Fight the pipe.
00:37:53.260 --> 00:37:55.019
- Fight the pipeline.
00:37:55.020 --> 00:37:59.139
They\'re trying to put a
big hole underneath it,
00:37:59.140 --> 00:38:02.199
and they\'re gonna try to
put oil through there.
00:38:02.200 --> 00:38:03.309
And we don\'t want that
00:38:03.310 --> 00:38:06.393
because if we don\'t have
any water, everything dies.
00:38:07.690 --> 00:38:09.363
If you guys don\'t get water,
00:38:10.570 --> 00:38:14.809
your body starts to
break down and you die.
00:38:14.810 --> 00:38:16.823
Everybody needs water.
00:38:19.810 --> 00:38:24.810
Our school was based on
what was going on then
00:38:26.890 --> 00:38:28.529
and what needed to happen.
00:38:28.530 --> 00:38:30.369
We kinda made up our own rules.
00:38:30.370 --> 00:38:31.739
That\'s what you guys are gonna do,
00:38:31.740 --> 00:38:33.389
\'cause this is yours.
00:38:33.390 --> 00:38:36.213
It\'s not ours, this is yours.
00:38:40.367 --> 00:38:42.463
Okay, that\'s good.
00:38:44.288 --> 00:38:46.038
It\'s supposed to be windy tomorrow.
00:38:47.070 --> 00:38:48.476
- On Alcatraz Island I was 30,
00:38:48.477 --> 00:38:50.799
and I was one of the old guys.
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.859
You know, so I\'ve always
been one of the oldest,
00:38:52.860 --> 00:38:54.651
older elders, and that\'s okay.
00:38:54.652 --> 00:38:56.859
I\'m glad I\'m still here,
00:38:56.860 --> 00:38:59.399
\'cause many of my contemporaries are not.
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:04.053
They\'ve crossed over, and so
I represent a lot of people.
00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:08.803
My ancestors gave me this
blood, gave me this life.
00:39:10.330 --> 00:39:12.823
You know, and, simple as that.
00:39:17.160 --> 00:39:19.453
We have to stay at it.
00:39:20.589 --> 00:39:22.819
You know, and we won\'t back down.
00:39:22.820 --> 00:39:26.939
It\'s the only tactic we
have because we\'re unarmed.
00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:29.353
All we have is our land
and our treaty rights.
00:39:32.520 --> 00:39:34.879
Oh, the Cubs are here, the Black Panthers,
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:36.929
the New Black panthers.
00:39:36.930 --> 00:39:38.139
Did you see it?
00:39:38.140 --> 00:39:40.619
- [Woman] We\'re here to stay!
00:39:40.620 --> 00:39:43.189
- [Madonna] They might push and push,
00:39:43.190 --> 00:39:47.159
but because the world\'s
watching, it\'s a standoff.
00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:49.469
- [Newscaster] Thousands of
demonstrators are hunkered down
00:39:49.470 --> 00:39:51.189
in the middle of a winter storm.
00:39:51.190 --> 00:39:53.689
North Dakota\'s governor says
winter weather conditions
00:39:53.690 --> 00:39:55.149
at their camp are life threatening
00:39:55.150 --> 00:39:57.559
and has ordered protestors to leave.
00:39:57.560 --> 00:40:00.560
(slow guitar music)
00:40:06.167 --> 00:40:07.297
(woman laughs)
00:40:07.298 --> 00:40:08.131
- [Man In Coat] Thank you.
00:40:08.132 --> 00:40:10.298
- [Woman] Have a good day.
00:40:14.047 --> 00:40:19.047
- When I think of my
people, Indian people,
00:40:20.250 --> 00:40:21.749
I think, of course, of Wounded Knee,
00:40:21.750 --> 00:40:24.119
because that was the awakening.
00:40:24.120 --> 00:40:27.173
That was the rise of our people.
00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:33.339
- And we know now that there
is going to be increased
00:40:33.340 --> 00:40:37.073
hostile activity against the
American Indian Movement.
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:43.469
With that, AIM must also
increase its activity.
00:40:43.470 --> 00:40:45.929
- [Madonna] Wounded Knee, we
were just on our way through.
00:40:45.930 --> 00:40:47.399
A lot of different
stories of what happened
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:48.233
with different people
00:40:48.234 --> 00:40:50.699
\'cause not everybody got
the same information.
00:40:50.700 --> 00:40:53.492
I was there, so this is what
I can remember happened.
00:40:53.493 --> 00:40:54.326
(slow tense music)
00:40:54.327 --> 00:40:57.579
There was always, always a committee
00:40:57.580 --> 00:41:01.043
or a group of people that
would request our presence.
00:41:02.540 --> 00:41:04.639
They wanted us to come
down to the reservation
00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:06.943
and meet in the community of Calico.
00:41:08.380 --> 00:41:09.999
We were just gonna go for the day
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.033
and be back in Rapid that night.
00:41:13.290 --> 00:41:17.269
We got word that Porcupine
Community wanted us over there,
00:41:17.270 --> 00:41:18.809
\'cause they knew we were on the rez.
00:41:18.810 --> 00:41:21.883
We had to turn off and go
north through Wounded Knee.
00:41:23.530 --> 00:41:25.359
We had a whole bunch of cars.
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.019
I was like in the middle.
00:41:27.020 --> 00:41:30.849
And I happened to look over
towards the BIA building,
00:41:30.850 --> 00:41:32.614
and I noticed there was a lot of,
00:41:32.615 --> 00:41:34.509
looked like of military vehicles.
00:41:34.510 --> 00:41:36.499
And then I looked up to
the top of the BIA building
00:41:36.500 --> 00:41:37.929
and there was sandbags,
00:41:37.930 --> 00:41:40.193
and you could see barrels of big guns.
00:41:41.470 --> 00:41:42.899
I don\'t know what they
thought we were doing.
00:41:42.900 --> 00:41:44.783
We were coming through town, you know.
00:41:46.830 --> 00:41:50.003
It wasn\'t planned, I mean I
had my 10-year-old son with me.
00:41:53.020 --> 00:41:55.619
- Well, I think the federal
people are just itching
00:41:55.620 --> 00:41:58.689
to come in here and annihilate
the entire population.
00:41:58.690 --> 00:42:00.399
It\'s what it looks like.
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.969
The local bureau officials
just don\'t seem to realize it.
00:42:02.970 --> 00:42:05.159
They\'ve been so used to
pushing Indians around.
00:42:05.160 --> 00:42:07.829
They\'ve pushed us around
for years and years.
00:42:07.830 --> 00:42:09.530
Well, this is the last stand here.
00:42:14.790 --> 00:42:16.369
- [Newscaster] There was
gunfire in Wounded Knee
00:42:16.370 --> 00:42:18.229
for the second consecutive night.
00:42:18.230 --> 00:42:20.183
- We knew when there was
going to be a firefight,
00:42:20.184 --> 00:42:22.062
And one night, they opened up.
00:42:22.063 --> 00:42:25.739
I could just feel it going
over my head, those tracers.
00:42:25.740 --> 00:42:29.313
And I thought, I thought I was dead.
00:42:31.410 --> 00:42:32.709
- [Newscaster] The first
blood that was spilled
00:42:32.710 --> 00:42:35.189
at this Wounded Knee episode
was spilled Thursday night
00:42:35.190 --> 00:42:38.173
in a gun battle in which two
young Indians were wounded.
00:42:39.300 --> 00:42:41.869
- It was very, very real.
00:42:41.870 --> 00:42:45.709
I didn\'t know if I was gonna
see my mom and brother again.
00:42:45.710 --> 00:42:48.009
- [Madonna] In the news,
we were the terrorists.
00:42:48.010 --> 00:42:49.069
We were the militants.
00:42:49.070 --> 00:42:50.559
- [Marcy] Yeah, they made
it sound like you guys
00:42:50.560 --> 00:42:55.419
had all these guns, and
all these weapons, and...
00:42:55.420 --> 00:42:57.649
- There was only one AK-47.
00:42:57.650 --> 00:42:59.709
Bobby was carrying it behind us,
00:42:59.710 --> 00:43:03.225
carrying that AK and no
ammo for it or nothing.
00:43:03.226 --> 00:43:04.059
He\'s walking up like that,
00:43:04.060 --> 00:43:05.396
and he was turned around and they said,
00:43:05.397 --> 00:43:07.609
oh, now, look at this guy,
00:43:07.610 --> 00:43:09.979
just \'cause the press
is in here, look at him.
00:43:09.980 --> 00:43:11.609
You know, he said, \"Yeah, man.\"
00:43:11.610 --> 00:43:13.740
He went like this, and
here they took his picture.
00:43:13.741 --> 00:43:15.621
(all laugh)
00:43:15.622 --> 00:43:16.455
- I know.
00:43:16.456 --> 00:43:18.699
- The famous picture of Wounded Knee
00:43:18.700 --> 00:43:20.399
with this warrior with a AK,
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.719
and here we were just teasing him
00:43:22.720 --> 00:43:23.769
and raising cane with him.
00:43:23.770 --> 00:43:25.270
That\'s why he\'s just laughing.
00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:32.329
After about a week into
being in Wounded Knee,
00:43:32.330 --> 00:43:34.719
oh, it was nice, the sun was shining.
00:43:34.720 --> 00:43:38.071
It was just a warm breeze,
and then some guys walked by.
00:43:38.072 --> 00:43:40.078
They were just enjoying the day too.
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:43.589
And they came walking by, \"Hey,
Madonna, what\'s happening?\"
00:43:43.590 --> 00:43:45.664
I said, oh, it\'s really nice, I said.
00:43:45.665 --> 00:43:48.129
And that\'s when I really realized
00:43:48.130 --> 00:43:52.199
that there\'s very few people
that experience true freedom,
00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:54.469
and that was one of
them, physical freedom.
00:43:54.470 --> 00:43:56.919
But also mentally, you know, physically,
00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:58.909
everything, emotionally,
00:43:58.910 --> 00:44:03.910
now I understand why my
ancestors did what they did.
00:44:04.635 --> 00:44:08.968
(traditional American Indian music)
00:44:24.377 --> 00:44:26.699
Two Indian men were
killed in Wounded Knee,
00:44:26.700 --> 00:44:30.119
and after that the elders,
chiefs, and headmen,
00:44:30.120 --> 00:44:34.365
they decided then that the
Occupation had to come to an end.
00:44:34.366 --> 00:44:38.283
(chanting in foreign language)
00:44:40.385 --> 00:44:41.999
The federal government,
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:46.649
rather than see it as an
issue of treaty violations,
00:44:46.650 --> 00:44:48.889
they made us all criminals,
00:44:48.890 --> 00:44:51.283
charged us all with federal offenses.
00:44:53.680 --> 00:44:55.499
- [Newscaster] Officers
in armored vehicles
00:44:55.500 --> 00:44:58.919
wearing riot gear are
pouring in with air support,
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:01.699
battle lines drawn, now making arrests.
00:45:01.700 --> 00:45:03.019
- I\'m looking for Marcy right now.
00:45:03.020 --> 00:45:05.399
Where you can see behind
me, in that light,
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:07.229
that\'s where we\'re right
at the front lines.
00:45:07.230 --> 00:45:09.683
You can hear the rifle cracks from the,
00:45:10.970 --> 00:45:13.600
from the, um, from the bullets.
00:45:13.601 --> 00:45:16.499
Mind telling me how
you\'re feeling right now?
00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:21.500
- Beyond words, beyond
angry, sad, heartbroken.
00:45:21.620 --> 00:45:23.255
This is what our country has come to.
00:45:23.256 --> 00:45:26.116
Our laws don\'t mean shit
when money is involved
00:45:26.117 --> 00:45:28.513
and oil and corporate greed is involved.
00:45:29.650 --> 00:45:31.989
- \'Cause people were just going down,
00:45:31.990 --> 00:45:34.777
and those guys that were shooting the,
00:45:35.660 --> 00:45:37.496
they were taking headshots.
00:45:37.497 --> 00:45:38.719
Man, it was frustrating,
00:45:38.720 --> 00:45:43.720
\'cause those cops were
just enjoying themselves.
00:45:44.350 --> 00:45:46.816
You know, shooting at us and,
00:45:46.817 --> 00:45:50.592
and you know, target
practice, basically, you know.
00:45:50.593 --> 00:45:52.336
- On the hills all around,
00:45:52.337 --> 00:45:56.679
you can see where the
government had their posts
00:45:56.680 --> 00:45:59.669
and their APCS and all their weaponry.
00:45:59.670 --> 00:46:03.149
The church, of course, as you
can see has been burned down
00:46:03.150 --> 00:46:05.869
for obvious reasons, I believe.
00:46:05.870 --> 00:46:08.079
It was full, so riddled with bullet holes
00:46:08.080 --> 00:46:11.019
that you could tell what kind of weaponry
00:46:11.020 --> 00:46:13.689
the government was using
against the Indian people.
00:46:13.690 --> 00:46:15.084
- The documents prove for the first time
00:46:15.085 --> 00:46:18.999
that the FBI undertook a program in 1968
00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:22.008
to harass and destroy new
left political organizations
00:46:22.009 --> 00:46:26.129
whose views the federal
police agency disagreed with.
00:46:26.130 --> 00:46:28.069
Wrote FBI Director Hoover,
00:46:28.070 --> 00:46:30.599
the purpose of the
program would be to expose
00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:32.113
and disrupt the new left.
00:46:33.690 --> 00:46:36.129
- I remember sleeping
outside during the summer,
00:46:36.130 --> 00:46:40.849
and I woke up and there was
two feds with guns in my face.
00:46:40.850 --> 00:46:42.919
And we\'re all kids!
00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:44.299
If you were an Indian person,
00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:47.399
you were a target for something.
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:49.299
And so, learning how to live
00:46:49.300 --> 00:46:51.572
in this environment as a young person
00:46:51.573 --> 00:46:55.423
and figuring out how to protect
ourselves and each other.
00:46:57.240 --> 00:46:59.159
- You know, we had to have security
00:46:59.160 --> 00:47:01.359
\'cause the violence projected at us,
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:02.648
sometimes we get shot at.
00:47:02.649 --> 00:47:05.699
But the thing about is,
it\'s like oppression itself,
00:47:05.700 --> 00:47:08.299
it\'s like it\'s happening,
but at the same time,
00:47:08.300 --> 00:47:10.619
we\'re together so we\'re having fun.
00:47:10.620 --> 00:47:12.275
- [Marcy] Well, remember GI George?
00:47:12.276 --> 00:47:13.109
- Oh, yeah (laughs)!
00:47:13.110 --> 00:47:18.109
- George Mackie, he was, he
was serious about security,
00:47:18.340 --> 00:47:20.634
so he even had us do drills, remember?
00:47:20.635 --> 00:47:22.399
(all laugh)
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:26.849
So my thing was, my drill was my rifle had
00:47:26.850 --> 00:47:28.919
to be near the door,
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:32.749
and I had to grab my rifle, jump out,
00:47:32.750 --> 00:47:34.148
and roll under the trailer.
00:47:34.149 --> 00:47:36.149
(all laugh)
00:47:36.150 --> 00:47:38.299
One night, Gibby and
Little Dave were there
00:47:38.300 --> 00:47:40.669
\'cause they were out riding horses.
00:47:40.670 --> 00:47:43.319
And here, all of a sudden,
the door busts open
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:44.779
and they just fell in.
00:47:44.780 --> 00:47:47.029
And they\'re like, they\'re shooting at us.
00:47:47.030 --> 00:47:48.563
So again, the lights went out,
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:52.009
everybody hit the floor.
00:47:52.010 --> 00:47:53.415
You, me, and Maggie were crawling down.
00:47:53.416 --> 00:47:55.992
(all laugh)
00:47:55.993 --> 00:47:57.299
They were crawling down the hallway
00:47:57.300 --> 00:47:58.876
\'cause I wasn\'t by my rifle.
00:47:58.877 --> 00:48:01.759
(all laugh)
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:04.649
By the time I even opened
the door to jump out
00:48:04.650 --> 00:48:06.900
and roll on the ground,
they\'re already gone.
00:48:10.160 --> 00:48:11.914
You know, we were defending our people,
00:48:11.915 --> 00:48:14.019
at war with the government,
00:48:14.020 --> 00:48:16.423
and we needed to be able
to be strong that way.
00:48:18.470 --> 00:48:21.459
- I remember one time,
walked in on you talking
00:48:21.460 --> 00:48:25.763
with somebody and you were, you were sad.
00:48:26.790 --> 00:48:29.589
What are we gonna do, we have no food?
00:48:29.590 --> 00:48:33.679
Well, just tell them all to
go home, you know, for now.
00:48:33.680 --> 00:48:36.680
So we\'re all saying goodbye,
and it was probably about noon.
00:48:37.540 --> 00:48:39.566
By five o\'clock everybody came back,
00:48:39.567 --> 00:48:41.869
and they said we don\'t have to eat.
00:48:41.870 --> 00:48:42.797
And I remember that.
00:48:42.798 --> 00:48:46.412
It\'s okay, I don\'t have
to eat, I don\'t need food.
00:48:46.413 --> 00:48:47.779
(all laugh)
00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:49.469
Every single one came back.
00:48:49.470 --> 00:48:52.069
They didn\'t wanna, they said we\'ll fast.
00:48:52.070 --> 00:48:54.019
We could do that, you
know, for our brothers,
00:48:54.020 --> 00:48:54.853
and for the cause.
00:48:54.854 --> 00:48:55.982
Everything was for the cause.
00:48:55.983 --> 00:48:57.456
(all laugh)
00:48:57.457 --> 00:49:00.624
(upbeat lively music)
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:05.979
- There was a lot of the AIM leadership
00:49:05.980 --> 00:49:10.980
and membership that were
being railroaded into prison.
00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:14.459
And so we had political prisoners.
00:49:14.460 --> 00:49:16.919
And our Survival School was, you know,
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:18.853
like, what, what can we do?
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:24.329
So the first year, the Run
for Freedom was in 1977.
00:49:24.330 --> 00:49:26.543
We went through all four seasons.
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:31.963
And as we ran, we prayed for
political prisoners everywhere.
00:49:37.300 --> 00:49:39.179
- [Madonna] I was sent
out around the country,
00:49:39.180 --> 00:49:42.433
but also internationally,
to get the word out.
00:49:47.050 --> 00:49:48.479
- [Marcy] That\'s also around the time
00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:51.789
they started sending me
to places like Geneva
00:49:51.790 --> 00:49:54.623
to bring international
awareness to our struggle.
00:49:55.610 --> 00:49:58.009
You know, when you grow
up with the Movement,
00:49:58.010 --> 00:50:02.920
you\'re expected to be powerful and strong,
00:50:04.740 --> 00:50:08.334
and take on anybody, you know.
00:50:08.335 --> 00:50:09.275
At the same time, you know,
00:50:09.276 --> 00:50:12.383
I was a teenager trying
to figure out who am I.
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:16.488
It felt like a lot, a lot of pressure.
00:50:16.489 --> 00:50:19.656
(slow reserved music)
00:50:21.770 --> 00:50:25.089
- [Madonna] She was so
busy taking on the work
00:50:25.090 --> 00:50:28.529
of trying to help her people,
and all of those guys,
00:50:28.530 --> 00:50:30.739
you know, it swallowed them up.
00:50:30.740 --> 00:50:33.409
- She wasn\'t there for us emotionally,
00:50:33.410 --> 00:50:37.563
so I didn\'t know how to be
there for me emotionally.
00:50:40.860 --> 00:50:42.763
I found other ways to find that.
00:50:44.170 --> 00:50:48.157
Drinking was fun and that\'s where I went.
00:50:51.353 --> 00:50:55.123
And I, and I left, I literally, I was out.
00:50:56.330 --> 00:50:58.069
- Yeah, there was times when I was worried
00:50:58.070 --> 00:50:59.789
about where she was
and what she was doing,
00:50:59.790 --> 00:51:03.089
but I thought, well, if there
was certain things happening
00:51:03.090 --> 00:51:06.489
that I\'m sure someone would tell me,
00:51:06.490 --> 00:51:08.410
or she would tell me herself.
00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.423
You just cross your fingers,
that\'s all you can do.
00:51:16.710 --> 00:51:20.773
Wow, I can\'t even keep
track of this stuff here.
00:51:22.555 --> 00:51:23.653
It\'s thick.
00:51:25.830 --> 00:51:28.409
Like when my children were little,
00:51:28.410 --> 00:51:30.409
they knew how to travel to rallies,
00:51:30.410 --> 00:51:32.629
they knew how to set up camp,
00:51:32.630 --> 00:51:34.953
they knew how to do all
that kind of that stuff.
00:51:36.780 --> 00:51:40.649
When they would play,
they\'d play having meetings.
00:51:40.650 --> 00:51:42.023
They didn\'t play dolls.
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.233
One of them was pretending they were me,
00:51:46.070 --> 00:51:47.319
and she was standing there like this,
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:49.289
and she was really talking.
00:51:49.290 --> 00:51:53.423
They\'re going, so you
know, that was kinda like,
00:51:54.970 --> 00:51:58.329
I don\'t know, that kinda like
told whole story, I guess.
00:51:58.330 --> 00:51:59.899
That they grew up with that,
00:51:59.900 --> 00:52:04.203
knowing that we were, I don\'t know,
00:52:06.410 --> 00:52:07.823
warrior women I guess.
00:52:10.376 --> 00:52:13.209
(slow rock music)
00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:17.209
- Uranium in the Black
Hills of South Dakota,
00:52:17.210 --> 00:52:19.209
industrialists say it is valuable.
00:52:19.210 --> 00:52:22.469
Environmentalists and some
residents say it is dangerous.
00:52:22.470 --> 00:52:23.949
- [Madonna] Union Carbide was planning
00:52:23.950 --> 00:52:28.889
on exploratory drilling for
possible uranium mining.
00:52:28.890 --> 00:52:31.373
We organized Women of All Red Nations.
00:52:33.138 --> 00:52:35.239
- It\'s not going to be
so nice in the future
00:52:35.240 --> 00:52:38.439
when the rest of the effects
of the radiation come home.
00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:40.099
- When WARN did the,
00:52:40.100 --> 00:52:42.029
we found the radiation
and the water study,
00:52:42.030 --> 00:52:43.929
and all the spontaneous abortions,
00:52:43.930 --> 00:52:44.763
I mean we knew that stuff.
00:52:44.764 --> 00:52:46.529
And I was even living proof,
00:52:46.530 --> 00:52:48.459
\'cause me and three other of our friends
00:52:48.460 --> 00:52:50.859
on the rez got pregnant at the same time.
00:52:50.860 --> 00:52:52.899
Two of them had spontaneous abortions,
00:52:52.900 --> 00:52:55.679
the other one had severe birth defects,
00:52:55.680 --> 00:53:00.132
and Tisti was born normal
because we had separate water.
00:53:00.133 --> 00:53:00.966
- [Crowd] What do we want?
00:53:00.966 --> 00:53:01.874
No nukes!
00:53:01.874 --> 00:53:02.768
When do want it?
00:53:02.768 --> 00:53:03.650
Now!
00:53:03.651 --> 00:53:04.749
- Women of All Red Nations,
00:53:04.750 --> 00:53:06.959
we were involved in the initial, you know,
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:09.459
forming of the Black Hills Alliance.
00:53:09.460 --> 00:53:12.023
Third generation ranchers got involved.
00:53:12.860 --> 00:53:15.909
That was the first Cowboy
and Indian Alliance
00:53:15.910 --> 00:53:18.153
in the history of South Dakota.
00:53:21.910 --> 00:53:26.229
And we kicked Union Carbide
out of the Black Hills.
00:53:26.230 --> 00:53:29.909
When we say local, we\'re
talking about our general area,
00:53:29.910 --> 00:53:32.030
Nebraska, South Dakota, parts of Iowa.
00:53:33.270 --> 00:53:34.699
We were part of organizing
00:53:34.700 --> 00:53:37.669
this international survival gathering.
00:53:37.670 --> 00:53:41.269
You know, we had these, 10,000
people showed up for that.
00:53:41.270 --> 00:53:44.419
We just had everybody that wanted to come
00:53:44.420 --> 00:53:48.049
and have a workshop related
to modern-day survival,
00:53:48.050 --> 00:53:50.259
alternative energy sources and stuff,
00:53:50.260 --> 00:53:52.609
wind generation, solar, geothermal,
00:53:52.610 --> 00:53:55.530
all those kinds of things,
going green, you know.
00:53:55.531 --> 00:53:56.364
(crowd cheers)
00:53:56.365 --> 00:53:59.399
- [Woman] I\'d like you all to
welcome Madonna Thunder Hawk.
00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:01.529
She\'s one of the very
fine ladies in America
00:54:01.530 --> 00:54:03.899
who\'s trying to stop
this cultural genocide
00:54:03.900 --> 00:54:05.513
of the Native American peoples.
00:54:07.310 --> 00:54:11.579
- The landladies and the
landlords of this land,
00:54:11.580 --> 00:54:13.773
this Indian territory, welcome you.
00:54:14.870 --> 00:54:16.382
I\'m glad that you\'re all here.
00:54:16.383 --> 00:54:17.819
(crowd cheers and applauds)
00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:20.099
- I\'m here at the camp right now.
00:54:20.100 --> 00:54:22.116
And, uh, so it\'ll be just a matter of time
00:54:22.117 --> 00:54:24.403
before an official statement is released.
00:54:29.490 --> 00:54:30.859
Well, the Secretary of the Army called me,
00:54:30.860 --> 00:54:32.182
and they denied the easement.
00:54:32.183 --> 00:54:34.539
(both laugh)
00:54:34.540 --> 00:54:36.999
- Okay, now what does mean down the road?
00:54:37.000 --> 00:54:39.539
- I, well, I think down the road,
00:54:39.540 --> 00:54:41.745
there\'s still a lot of work
that needs to be done, you know,
00:54:41.746 --> 00:54:42.579
I mean, Trump gets in so...
00:54:42.580 --> 00:54:44.499
- \'Cause Trump is still
coming, man, you know.
00:54:44.500 --> 00:54:46.219
- But, at least this will kinda
give us a little reprieve.
00:54:46.220 --> 00:54:47.481
- Yeah, give breathe, yeah.
00:54:47.482 --> 00:54:48.502
- [Woman On Left] We won!
00:54:48.503 --> 00:54:52.420
- [Madonna] (laughs) Yes, yes.
00:54:55.386 --> 00:54:59.740
(chanting in foreign language)
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(cars horns honk)
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We, as indigenous, have been
here and will always be here.
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We belong here.
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We have inherent rights,
and we know who we are.
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(crowd cheers)
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- When you\'re a revolutionary,
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you have to make those sacrifices.
00:55:28.120 --> 00:55:30.993
What she was doing, rebuilt a nation.
00:55:33.370 --> 00:55:36.839
It\'s easier for me to think about her
00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:41.639
as Madonna, the activist,
rather than my mom
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because all that other
stuff gets in the way.
00:55:45.165 --> 00:55:49.199
And then I can see her for who she is,
00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:51.302
and probably the way other
people see her, you know.
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That she\'s a real cool,
strong, beautiful woman.
00:55:55.696 --> 00:55:59.863
(man speaks faintly over speaker)
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One of the things I do take pride in
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:15.320
is taking the time to be with
my children and raising them.
00:56:15.350 --> 00:56:18.509
Being actively involved in their lives,
00:56:18.510 --> 00:56:21.453
\'cause that was something
my mom didn\'t get to do.
00:56:22.330 --> 00:56:24.499
I\'ve never tried to talk to her about it
00:56:24.500 --> 00:56:29.249
because I realize that she wasn\'t raised
00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:32.223
to be open with her feelings.
00:56:34.030 --> 00:56:37.244
Mom always tells me that
Grandma Faith was not the kind
00:56:37.245 --> 00:56:40.069
who was gonna hold you and kiss you,
00:56:40.070 --> 00:56:42.489
and tell you that she loved you.
00:56:42.490 --> 00:56:47.490
Grandma Faith went to boarding
school when she was four?
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She spent her whole 18 years there,
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:52.119
all those formative years.
00:56:52.120 --> 00:56:55.299
That\'s when you learn how to
be a parent for your children.
00:56:55.300 --> 00:56:58.889
There were no loving adults
there to teach them how to hug.
00:56:58.890 --> 00:56:59.890
There was no one.
00:57:00.670 --> 00:57:02.799
So I had to learn how to parent.
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:04.719
I was the one who initiated saying
00:57:04.720 --> 00:57:06.233
I love you to my family.
00:57:08.550 --> 00:57:10.829
I just kept saying it,
you know, I love you guys.
00:57:10.830 --> 00:57:11.879
You know, I love you, you know.
00:57:11.880 --> 00:57:13.619
Pretty soon it became a normal thing,
00:57:13.620 --> 00:57:15.556
so now we\'re able to say that.
00:57:15.557 --> 00:57:18.470
But we wasn\'t never like that, you know.
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:23.563
- She\'s more loving, more emotional,
00:57:27.240 --> 00:57:28.390
and that\'s a good thing
00:57:29.500 --> 00:57:34.500
\'cause that cycle was broken
by her, her generation.
00:57:46.650 --> 00:57:48.650
(sighs)
00:57:52.830 --> 00:57:54.030
It\'s tougher every year.
00:57:55.790 --> 00:58:00.213
I do this mainly for myself,
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:07.280
\'cause if you\'re not physically
able to do community work,
00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:16.760
I mean, hey, get on the couch,
grab the remote, you know.
00:58:20.740 --> 00:58:25.740
And then complain, and whine
about politics, and stuff.
00:58:30.290 --> 00:58:34.223
So, that\'s why I do it.
00:58:37.154 --> 00:58:40.904
The only thing I\'m
running against is myself.
00:58:41.893 --> 00:58:44.089
I don\'t run against time.
00:58:44.090 --> 00:58:47.077
I\'m grateful for all the time I have.
00:58:51.930 --> 00:58:54.339
- I\'ve been invited to go to Geneva
00:58:54.340 --> 00:58:55.809
because they want to bring back
00:58:55.810 --> 00:58:59.799
all the original 1977 delegates.
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:03.529
I\'m running the show, at
the UN I\'m running the show.
00:59:03.530 --> 00:59:04.899
Okay, I\'m just gonna keep in mind
00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:06.589
that you guys didn\'t
know what you were doing,
00:59:06.590 --> 00:59:07.423
but you did it anyway.
00:59:07.424 --> 00:59:08.509
- We did it anyway, and we just said that.
00:59:08.510 --> 00:59:10.029
- So we do it anyway.
00:59:10.030 --> 00:59:12.809
- You know how to do all that.
00:59:12.810 --> 00:59:15.586
Just say sit down.
00:59:15.587 --> 00:59:17.129
(both laugh)
00:59:17.130 --> 00:59:19.169
- Okay, you\'re done, you
already had your turn.
00:59:19.170 --> 00:59:20.931
- Hey, you\'re done, now move over.
00:59:20.932 --> 00:59:22.519
(Marcy laughs)
00:59:22.520 --> 00:59:24.049
My daughter\'s trying
to take pictures of me,
00:59:24.050 --> 00:59:25.428
now move over.
00:59:25.429 --> 00:59:27.846
(both laugh)
00:59:31.790 --> 00:59:34.179
- My name is Marcella Gilbert.
00:59:34.180 --> 00:59:38.399
I am Lakota from South
Dakota in the United States,
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:40.429
and I will chair this session.
00:59:40.430 --> 00:59:45.430
Anyone who wants to share
their statements or their ideas
00:59:45.619 --> 00:59:49.959
in reference to the role
of women in the protection
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:54.275
and advancement of the
rights of indigenous peoples.
00:59:54.276 --> 00:59:56.919
(audience applauds)
00:59:56.920 --> 00:59:59.159
- My name is Madonna Thunder Hawk.
00:59:59.160 --> 01:00:00.599
I\'m with the, um, a member
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of the Lakota Nation in North America.
01:00:03.430 --> 01:00:07.039
I also wanted to introduce my daughter.
01:00:07.040 --> 01:00:11.389
She was here in 1977 when
she was 16 years old.
01:00:11.390 --> 01:00:15.099
She was the youth then, and
she got to come this time.
01:00:15.100 --> 01:00:16.833
If you\'d just stand up, Marcella.
01:00:16.834 --> 01:00:19.834
(audience applauds)
01:00:21.107 --> 01:00:24.461
I know she didn\'t want me to
do that, but I did it anyway.
01:00:24.462 --> 01:00:26.400
(audience laughs)
01:00:26.401 --> 01:00:29.651
(gentle guitar music)
01:00:31.550 --> 01:00:34.449
- I mean, I\'m really proud to be AIM.
01:00:34.450 --> 01:00:38.639
It\'s a family legacy that
needs to be kept alive
01:00:38.640 --> 01:00:43.629
because we were a large
part of it, huge part of it.
01:00:43.630 --> 01:00:45.313
It really is who we are.
01:00:49.150 --> 01:00:53.633
- It was just really awesome,
course my daughter was there.
01:00:54.760 --> 01:00:58.049
That just made it that much better.
01:00:58.050 --> 01:00:59.979
And she\'s really, you know,
01:00:59.980 --> 01:01:04.573
excited and enthused to pick
up this international work.
01:01:06.873 --> 01:01:08.489
And that\'s gonna, that\'s what we need.
01:01:08.490 --> 01:01:13.490
We need the younger generation
to pick up the reins.
01:01:15.221 --> 01:01:16.479
- On your mark.
01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:18.570
- [Child] Get set, go!
01:01:18.571 --> 01:01:20.613
- [Child] Woo hoo!
01:01:53.484 --> 01:01:56.989
♪ I think I\'ll write a song ♪
01:01:56.990 --> 01:02:00.832
♪ A different song for you ♪
01:02:00.833 --> 01:02:04.524
♪ Remind us of love we had ♪
01:02:04.525 --> 01:02:08.205
♪ And never found again ♪
01:02:08.206 --> 01:02:12.140
♪ When we were alone again ♪
01:02:12.141 --> 01:02:15.937
♪ You took your hand away ♪
01:02:15.938 --> 01:02:19.826
♪ To get us through the eye ♪
01:02:19.827 --> 01:02:23.690
♪ I wanted to settle down ♪
01:02:23.691 --> 01:02:28.691
♪ But fall away, I fall away ♪
01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:33.564
♪ I never got my girl ♪
01:02:33.565 --> 01:02:36.732
♪ And now I fall away ♪
01:03:12.510 --> 01:03:15.876
♪ Remember life we lived ♪
01:03:15.877 --> 01:03:19.637
♪ That summer of \'71 ♪
01:03:19.638 --> 01:03:23.550
♪ We used to take a dive ♪
01:03:23.551 --> 01:03:27.646
♪ For the day would fly away ♪
01:03:27.647 --> 01:03:31.230
♪ The ground is going in ♪
01:03:31.231 --> 01:03:35.034
♪ Returning from beyond ♪
01:03:35.035 --> 01:03:38.788
♪ I never found my mate ♪
01:03:38.789 --> 01:03:43.006
♪ And now I fall away ♪
01:03:43.007 --> 01:03:48.007
♪ Fall away, I fall away ♪
01:03:50.578 --> 01:03:52.588
♪ I never got my girl ♪
01:03:52.589 --> 01:03:55.756
♪ And now I fall away ♪
