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(chanting in foreign language)
(drumming)

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-: Keep it rolling, please.

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This, Mark Glover, we want to thank you

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for putting yourself at risk

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for such a great cause.

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Can you give us a little insight of how you feel

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and what's going on through your mind, please?

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-: I've never been under a bulldozer before.

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Cameraman: Yes, sir.

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-: I don't know what happens when this thing starts to roll,

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but right now my heart's at peace

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because this machine is not rolling.

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It is not creating a pipeline.

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(metal clanging)

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Newscaster: The protest led by

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the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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against an oil pipeline in North Dakota

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is inspiring opponents of similar projects

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to keep fighting despite the odds.

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One such project is being built in West Texas

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by the same company that's behind

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the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Marfa Public Radio's Travis Bubenik reports.

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Travis: Travel this region's highways

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and you'll see miles of green pipe stretched across

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the high desert, waiting to be buried underground.

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Construction crews are working to get the project

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up and running in the next few months.

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Opponents have been organizing

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against this pipeline for more than a year.

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Their efforts have been peaceful and legal,

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and mostly unsuccessful.

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An Energy Transfer representative

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declined an interview request saying in a statement

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the company respects everyone's right to peacefully protest.

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But the company's CEO, Kelcy Warren,

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has described the tactics of some

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Dakota Access protestors as terrorism.

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-: Do you think all the protestors

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are gonna go away once you're done?

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-: Absolutely.

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What is there to protest?

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-: They are determined to stop your project.

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-: They will not stop our project, that's naive.

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They're not stopping our project.

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Protestors: It is our duty to fight for our freedom!

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Protestor: It is our duty to win!

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Protestors: It is our duty to win!

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Man: You can look at this pipeline and say that

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it puts our water at risk.

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It puts our sacred sites at risk.

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Travis: This pipeline is the first of its kind and size

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in this borderlands region of Texas, known mostly

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for sprawling ranches and dark skies.

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Some of the more diehard opponents here

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feel a sense of urgency, and see

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the Standing Rock Sioux's success in North Dakota

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as a model for more intense tactics.

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Lori: We're hoping to be forming an encampment

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where other people from around Texas and from Standing Rock

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will come and help us to thwart this pipeline.

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Here we are at Two Rivers Camp.

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Right now it's in its very very nascent stages.

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With the help of everybody that comes out,

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we should be able to get a really great camp going here

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with the Society of Native Nations

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and people from all over.

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This is Reef, say hi, Reef.

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-: Hi.

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I know, I look weird.

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I just drank some coffee.
(laughing)

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-: I think we should build a camp, you know?

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It just seemed like the most logical next thing to do

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and it seemed that people from Standing Rock,

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as it was getting colder, would want to come down here.

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So initially when I got involved in the pipeline fight,

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it was kind of an in my backyard thing.

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It was, I mean I was concerned

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about the rest of the environment and the world too,

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but it was being built within a quarter mile of our home,

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and so if it blew up, we could be wiped out.

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And I really didn't know about

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the oppression of indigenous people and their rights,

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and the lack of consultation

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and the state of that oppression in Texas.

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None of the tribes who were really from this area,

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none of them have federal recognition,

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none of them are consulted.

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So there's this really screwy system,

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or lack of a system even, for indigenous people in Texas.

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(singing in foreign language)

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-: In theory, if I have two more big batteries

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we actually have enough to power the refrigerator,

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and even a small AC when it gets too hot in here.

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The more we can become self-sufficient,

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the more we can become you know, renewable energy

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and not have to depend on anything else,

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then all the better, you know?

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Technically this camp is almost 100% self-sufficient.

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-: See how that--
-: Little bit closer?

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-: Hm, you know what?

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That kind of felt like it had a sweet spot.

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-: We're just gonna use the natural law of convection,

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the second law of thermodynamics.

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I have no idea if this thing is gonna create enough water,

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enough hot water for this 55 gallon barrel,

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considering it gets down to 22 degrees at night.

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So if it does get down to 22 degrees at night,

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is this thing gonna heat up that?

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I don't know.

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But we're gonna try.

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You know, and if it works then we're like bingo bango bongo

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and if it doesn't, we're gonna put a smaller tank on it.

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Is it coming out?
-: Not yet.

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Oh, there we go.

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There's two things happening here.

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One of them is to resist this pipeline.

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The other one is Native peoples coming together

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and really understanding that we need to come together

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and show the world how we can live

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on this land with each other.

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There's also Native peoples who've been living

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out here for really thousands of years.

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Many of them don't even identify as Native,

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but they've just been people that have

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lived off of this land for more than 10,000 years out here.

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(drone whirring)

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-: Anybody wanna walk with me--
-: Look, look!

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Look up!

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(drone whirring)

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(atmospheric music)

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Man: Creator put everything here

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before he put humanity here.

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So he put the mountains, the grass, the air,

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the trees, all these animals that we can survive out of,

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the rivers, all the things in the river.

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And those are the things the Creator thought about

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before putting us here.

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We were the last beings on this earth.

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And for that purpose alone, we're nobodies.

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We're just occupying the land.

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The land belongs to itself.

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Native American people have never forgotten that.

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(truck beeping)

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-: We're here on the autumnal equinox.

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We're bearing witness here.

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We're bearing witness, and our hope is that

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more of us come together to serve as protectors.

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-: Well, this is David Keller reporting live

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from Trap Springs site, archeological site,

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northern Brewster County.

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We are right here witnessing, at this very moment,

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the destruction of this ancient archeological site

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by bulldozers that have just arrived.

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These are projectile points, they're dart points,

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or dart point fragments.

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This one's fragmentary.

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The tip is broken.

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This is the base.

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This one's complete.

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And this one's also again, broken.

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On both sides of the right of way

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are bedrock mortar holes where indigenous people

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pounded grains and seeds into food.

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This is one of those features.

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This is one of about a dozen of these on the site.

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About 100 yards behind me

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is a series of remains of earth ovens.

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This right of way that they've cleared through the site

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basically cuts through that prehistoric kitchen.

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When they dig the actual pipeline trench,

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that will destroy anything that's deeply buried,

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and those of course are often

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some of the most significant things

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that we have on archeological sites

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are deeply buried deposits.

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On sites like this, along an ancient Indian trail,

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those deposits could be 12,000 years old.

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It could represent the full swing

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of human adaptation to this region.

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Almost as a final indignity,

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they dropped a Porta Potty right in the site.

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-: I am Xoxi Nayapiltzin.

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My people are the (speaking foreign language).

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They've been walking this land for 18,000 years.

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We are here today to honor

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all of those grandmothers that made these

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mortar holes and fed their families.

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(wind whistling)

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The wind, the water, the air.

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Everything has its own life.

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Just like we want respect from each other,

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we need to respect that.

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When I see signs out there that say keep it in the ground,

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you know you want to keep it in the ground?

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We can do this overnight.

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How did we all get out here?

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Look at those cars out there.

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Where are you going tonight?

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It's cold out there today.

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We're gonna turn our heaters on.

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In the morning, we're gonna take a hot shower.

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You give that up, they won't have any place to sell the oil.

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But we're not gonna do that.

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And that's not my fight.

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My fight is let's do it responsibly,

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let's do it safely.

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-: We were hoping that they would route around the site,

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that they would be more respectful of the features

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and artifacts on this site,

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but instead as you can see

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they're just plowing right through it.

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-: Most people think they cannot relate

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their own life history to that of Native Americans,

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but Native Americans are human beings,

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and if you are a human being

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then this site here is human history.

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So it is everybody's history.

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Nopalitos are the ones that you,

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that you eat because they're the new growth.

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So they're really tender.

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And then you rinse it off

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to take all the glochids off.

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Grab a piece.

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Well, it sticks if it's,

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if it's moist.

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So what do you think?
-: That's delicious.

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-: The idea that it's a trackless desert is totally false.

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This is not a desert, it's a home

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for human beings for many millennia.

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Even Americans who were born here

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think of Native American history

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as almost on the same level as Martian history, you know?

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They have no connection as far as

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a sense of human kinship to Native Americans

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who are just human beings who crossed the Bering Strait

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rather than came on the Mayflower.

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Trap Springs is one of 50 million pieces of a puzzle.

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As you bring more and more archeological sites together

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you start building a picture of life in 10,000 years ago.

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And as there were no archeological surveys even

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in the rest of the pipeline,

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we don't even know how many hundreds,

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if not thousands of sites

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have been destroyed by that pipeline.

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It wasn't that long ago before it wasn't just sites

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that were being destroyed, it was peoples.

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This is something most Texans don't know,

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but look at this.

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This is what not only sites were destroyed.

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This is called "The Conquest of Texas,"

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and the subtitle is "Ethnic Cleansing

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"in the Promised Land from 1820 to 1875."

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(atmospheric music)

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-: The first scar, first modern scar we have here

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in the Trans-Pec was here, you know?

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There used to be routes here where people used to migrate,

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and they used to just follow the riverbeds, the arroyos.

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This is my pomegranate orchard.

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I guess I'm calling myself now the pomegranate king

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of the tri country area.

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So this is my way of getting back to the land

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to what is sacred.

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Pomegranates have a lot of benefits you know.

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(sighing)

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That'll give back to you.

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The Native

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indigenous person, you know,

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you live in America

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and so you're segregated.

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So consequently, you're looked at

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as a third class citizen in this country.

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There was that understanding

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that we were people of color.

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That we were Native, you know?

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But at the time you were trying

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to acculturate into this culture of America.

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It was not until I was in the military

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that I was in a sense forced

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to speak English as my primary language.

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You leave behind what you have

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in order to try to get to this other point.

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It takes an individual's self-awareness

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to eventually say yes, this is who I am.

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I accept this.

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(wind whistling)

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Man: Oh wow, Brandy really did it up in here.

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I haven't been in here for a few days.

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-: I'm coming here from the University of Texas,

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where I'm doing my PhD in environmental thought,

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environmental ethics.

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-: Let me explain about the indigenous tribe

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that I come from is the Kumeyaay,

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Southern California, Western Arizona, and Northern Mexico.

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My tribe within the Kumeyaay Nation is Tipai,

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and then I'm a member of Campo Band of Mission Indians.

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-: So I'm really thankful that I came

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where there is room and attention

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for also educating me about perspectives,

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which I'm ignorant of for me as also European

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who is trying to decolonize and de-hegemonize himself.

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I want to ask people who are involved

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in protesting, protecting, fighting

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a very controversial energy project

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to ask them about their ideas, beliefs, values, opinions.

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To see if their metaphysical assumptions

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and their moral standard can become part of

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the policy processes which lead to

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the design of such infrastructures.

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To see if there is room for voices

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which usually are tacit, are not well heard.

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(horn blowing)
(drumming)

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(car honking)

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(atmospheric music)

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(chanting in foreign language)

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(shouting)

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-: All right, we're here live at Two Rivers Camp

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and we're asking everybody to say some prayers

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for two of our water protectors

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that are still in the county jail over there.

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Looks like one of the water protectors

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is getting charged with a misdemeanor trespassing.

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The other one is gonna have misdemeanor trespassing,

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and also a felony charge for

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criminal mischief.

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(crickets chirping)

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(kids cheering)

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♪ Which side are you on, my people ♪

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-: All right, guys.

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Live from Balmorhea Springs

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with Two Rivers Camp

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and we still got resistance going, we need you to get here,

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got a few more weeks before the pipeline is done.

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We're enjoying the springs today

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so we remember what we're fighting for

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and we're letting all these folks here know

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how important this is.

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This is one of the few water holes in the area

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We're in a desert and this is potentially gonna be gone.

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Where my parents are from in Big Spring,

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the water's already polluted.

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They haven't been able to drink the tap water for decades.

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Is that gonna happen here?

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Not if you help us.

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(atmospheric music)

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-: We have continuing coverage tonight

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on a story we've been following for you closely.

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Multi-billion dollar company Apache Corporation

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announced today major plans to expand its drilling

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to the southern area of Reeves County,

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primarily around Balmorhea.

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-: The company is calling their discovery Alpine High,

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and they're projecting to produce

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at least three billion gallons of oil.

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-: We're here in Balmorhea, and you see these blue dots?

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That's the San Solomon Spring group.

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Six major springs.

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Balmorhea State Park.

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We have a major underground river here.

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It is also the deepest underwater cave in the United States.

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It's the second deepest cave in Texas.

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In September of last year,

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Apache Corporation made an announcement

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that they found a bunch of oil and gas.

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People had been looking for oil and gas

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in this part of the state for some time,

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and weren't able to find it.

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They found it.

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You're dealing with an ultra sensitive system.

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Take all the precautions, and then take a few more.

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Build in some redundancy.

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It's not a matter of any particular

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political persuasion or position.

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It's just the science shows it all over and over.

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And so if you drill in this dashed line,

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and something bad happens,

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it's going to go to the springs.

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(people chattering)

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(atmospheric music)

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(electronic music)

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-: I'm gonna introduce 5,000 blue dots,

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which represent 5,000 drilling permits

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let between 2009 and '14.

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We were still one of the darkest spots left around.

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Our concern is not with what's happened,

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so much as what could happen in the future.

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So when we realized the threat was coming from oil and gas,

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like I said six years ago

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is when I first reached out to them

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and I got an introduction to Stacy Locke,

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president of Pioneer Energy.

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He says you know, when I'm out there on that ranch

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I can see the Milky Way from horizon to horizon.

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Waxes poetically about how beautiful it is,

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and he says I think it's worth protecting.

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Here's my rig fleet.

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Go see what you can do about the lighting.

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So this is a dark sky friendly drilling rig.

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As close to dark sky friendly as you can get.

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You don't see the glare from the light sources.

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You see well lit area underneath.

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And I went up and looked down

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and then aimed it up to the horizon.

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And that's not population.

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That's all oil and gas activity.

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So you know, there's the city of Pecos.

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There's Fort Stockton.

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But all the rest of that is oil and gas.

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It's all oil and gas.

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-: It wasn't more than five, six years ago

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that I stopped right here, I looked up at the sky,

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and it was just marvelous.

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Every star was out there,

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and I actually put my finger up there

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and there wasn't a space in the sky

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that I could put my finger and not cover up a star.

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I tried that last week.

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I can put both fists up there

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and not cover up a star,

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because you can't see 'em anymore

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because of the pollution that we have through this activity.

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I mean.

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What we're doing is obvious.

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Human beings are,

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like I said, we're just the most

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destructive organism on this planet.

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(alarm buzzing)

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(explosion booming)

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(swing music)

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-: Benzene, alpha-benzene, toluene,

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trichlorfon, hexane.

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All the ones you've seen over and over again,

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and that's in that report.

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And then the next page shows you the citizens health impacts

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that they filled out the health surveys.

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Asthma, respiratory, nasal, nosebleed,

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throat infection, persistent coughs,

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sinus, severe headaches, eye burning,

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skin rash, ringing in ears, headaches, nerves.

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All the same things over and over and over again.

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How many times do we have to document

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that the requirement will be to these facilities

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associated with oil and gas drilling and production

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to reduce those emissions.

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Uh-huh.

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-: Wilma, you say these are coming to our area.

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I thought we were only having pipelines

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going through our area, but these things

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clearly come to the surface.

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Where do they come to our surface?

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-: If they drill wells, they have to run a pipeline

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from the well to the major transmission line.

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-: This is what comes after.

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That's the little dirty secret

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that they were keeping from us.

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Okay, now they can start fracking all,

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even for shale it's running underneath us.

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It's in Ojinaga.

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There's a huge expanse of it.

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This is the dirty little secret.

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-: Mhmm.
-: Okay?

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-: You know the Society of Native Nations,

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they've been bringing a lot of the supplies.

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But yeah, we've been getting quite a few donations

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that are from the local community,

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or just people coming out to the camp to help out

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and just drop things off, you know, whatever we need.

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Yeah, it's definitely shaping up,

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becoming much more feasible

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as far as the idea of this being a long term thing.

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Everyone's got family back home with jobs.

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I can't tell ya how many people I've spoken to

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that just quit their job to come do this full time

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because again, what good is a job in 10 years

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if we're all being poisoned from the water?

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So...

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(people chattering)

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-: We were originally gonna go to Standing Rock,

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but it started blizzarding

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and the cops got a little harsh,

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and then we found about this place, Two Rivers Camp

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and it wasn't overrun by cops,

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and it is warm, nice weather.

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So we decided to come here

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and help support the pipeline protest.

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-: Why did you choose now to come out?

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-: Well, mostly I'm a disabled vet

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and a single stay at home dad,

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and I home school three boys,

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and I also work part-time in the industrial hemp

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and legal cannabis industry.

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Yeah, we've been involved with land defense

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and environmental protection for quite some time.

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-: So you are willing to get arrested.

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-: I am, I am.

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My son has a pretty good support system

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and extended family, both here on camp

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and we have family out in Texas

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that he's got people to take care of him

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if I should choose to do that,

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and, yeah, otherwise my life is pretty much

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in a position where I'm open

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to be able to do those kinds of things, so.

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Well, we're gonna have to start a pile of stuff

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that's gotta go inside.

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-: I talked to a couple other vets,

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one in particular down here.

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We both agreed and felt this was,

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we were finally taking care of,

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looking out for and protecting the citizens of this country.

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We were finally kinda standing up for them,

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but yeah especially the guys up in Standing Rock.

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You know, not just the vets,

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a lot of people did it,

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but the vets too that I'd talked to

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and heard 'em say that they finally felt

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they were truly protecting the citizens of this country.

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(birds twittering)

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(crickets chirping)

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-: Think we planted a total of 80 seeds, heirloom.

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It's getting legs.

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Western leopard frog, I think.

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They can hibernate for five years until it gets water.

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Man: Had you known a lot of Native American people

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before this endeavor?

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-: Yeah, a little bit, I mean I was born in Oklahoma,

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and so was my dad.

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There were more Indians at my dad's funeral

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than there were others.

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He went to school with 'em

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and his grandmother, my great grandmother was a cachita.

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Mostly known as Ouachita.

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They walked with the Choctaw on the Trail of Tears.

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And her name was Betty Love.

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So when I tend the fire for the sweats,

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I can't do the sweats man, they're too hot, too intense.

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It's all about bringing those who have passed

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through this earth, and those who are alive now,

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into the sweat.

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And when I brought the rocks in I was always thinking

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I'm bringing in Betty Love.

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I mean this state doesn't hardly recognize

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Native American rights.

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I mean what do we got, three tribes?

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Three reservations in the whole goddamn state?

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Kind of a punch in the face.

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But, there surely was a lot of history down there.

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Right here, I mean 12,000 years ago

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they were irrigating the Rio Grande.

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They were probably, in fact I read

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they were irrigating 20 miles up the Alameda,

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which is right over there.

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History starts with the cowboy,

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history starts with the cattle drives to Dodge City

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and our equipment and our men and women all over the world,

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Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, wherever.

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Not only do they bring oil know-how,

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but they bring the ideology of Texas

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which you might say is slash and burn.

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And if you could change that,

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you know, in a lot of ways,

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you change Texas and you change the world.

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We need to be aware of that.

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That's a big calling, to change Texas.

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(crickets chirping)

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(train horn blaring)

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(train tracks rattling)

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(drumming)

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(sighing)

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-: Hey, good morning, people of West Texas and Texas

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and the United States.

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This is Lori Glover with the Big Bend Defense Coalition.

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This is a gate of an Energy Transfer Partner's

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pipeline company lay down yard.

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They come in every day,

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park their cars and get their stuff to work.

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So we're here, locked down, to try to block them

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from starting their work day.

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-: We don't know what the charges are, who can tell us?

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Do you know what the charges are, sir?

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-: False imprisonment.
-: For both of them?

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-: It really pains me to see the destruction

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and to feel that we have no recourse,

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and that due process has not been provided.

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Reporter: That was Lori Glover.

00:36:20.550 --> 00:36:23.096
Today, she and another protestor arrested

00:36:23.096 --> 00:36:25.230
for trespassing on pipeline

00:36:25.230 --> 00:36:27.523
private property in Presidio County.

00:36:28.520 --> 00:36:31.532
-: CEO Kelcy Warren, such an important topic.

00:36:31.532 --> 00:36:34.000
It's being covered by the mainstream media.

00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.150
Of course, the leftist mainstream media.

00:36:36.150 --> 00:36:37.300
They don't really know the facts,

00:36:37.300 --> 00:36:38.280
they don't know the process.

00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:40.000
They're just jumping on the bandwagon now

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.450
because it's the new, hip, cool thing to do

00:36:41.450 --> 00:36:43.510
to protest anything and everything.

00:36:43.510 --> 00:36:45.020
But now the protests are getting violent,

00:36:45.020 --> 00:36:48.063
and not just North Dakota, but in Texas as well.

00:36:48.063 --> 00:36:50.880
-: Oh my gosh, it's really sad to see what's happened.

00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.500
This is not a peaceful protest.

00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:54.020
These are violent people,

00:36:54.020 --> 00:36:57.060
and they just want to stop fossil fuels.

00:36:57.060 --> 00:36:58.630
This is really not about

00:36:58.630 --> 00:36:59.970
what they're trying to make it out to be.

00:36:59.970 --> 00:37:02.910
It's about stopping fossil fuels, which they can't do.

00:37:02.910 --> 00:37:05.350
-: Well and beyond that, it's about stopping fossil fuels,

00:37:05.350 --> 00:37:07.410
but also stopping progress,

00:37:07.410 --> 00:37:09.040
stopping an industrial revolution

00:37:09.040 --> 00:37:10.780
that needs to take place in this country

00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:12.260
for us to have energy independence.

00:37:12.260 --> 00:37:16.028
And so they're outright protesting progress.

00:37:16.028 --> 00:37:18.361
(whooshing)

00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:25.800
-: We've had, I believe, five or six lockdowns.

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:28.810
The first one was me and Jackie,

00:37:28.810 --> 00:37:30.430
who got out with misdemeanors.

00:37:30.430 --> 00:37:33.110
Thereafter, everything was a felony,

00:37:33.110 --> 00:37:35.883
and felonies are expensive.

00:37:37.240 --> 00:37:40.290
The local lawyers are not into pro bono.

00:37:40.290 --> 00:37:42.010
We've been fighting this thing two and a half years

00:37:42.010 --> 00:37:44.260
and some of the locals are a little worn out.

00:37:45.950 --> 00:37:48.100
So we get what's called a low bono,

00:37:48.100 --> 00:37:51.060
and that's about 10 grand in legal fees

00:37:52.740 --> 00:37:56.910
per felony, and I believe we've got five or six

00:37:56.910 --> 00:37:58.860
already in Presidio County.

00:37:58.860 --> 00:38:03.483
We've got four kids, and the youngest one is eight.

00:38:04.370 --> 00:38:09.370
I have four cars and the average age is 23 years old.

00:38:09.510 --> 00:38:12.943
None of them have gas in their tanks right now.

00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:25.023
I got a buck 17 in the bank.

00:38:26.910 --> 00:38:29.023
That's 17 cents and a buck.

00:38:32.210 --> 00:38:36.140
So, you know,

00:38:36.140 --> 00:38:37.590
they beat us down with money.

00:38:39.910 --> 00:38:41.070
-: Hi, everybody.

00:38:41.070 --> 00:38:43.140
I know a lot of you are probably

00:38:44.610 --> 00:38:49.020
really confused and concerned about

00:38:52.180 --> 00:38:55.773
the risks that I've chosen to take.

00:38:57.590 --> 00:39:00.060
And many of you are aware that

00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:04.010
I was arrested for blocking construction

00:39:04.010 --> 00:39:05.633
of the Trans Pecos Pipeline.

00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.983
And was given a very harsh charge

00:39:12.610 --> 00:39:16.673
of criminal mischief, which is a felony.

00:39:21.970 --> 00:39:25.270
-: Coming to you live from Austin, Texas.

00:39:25.270 --> 00:39:28.183
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Headquarters.

00:39:28.183 --> 00:39:32.180
(protestors chanting)
(drumming)

00:39:32.180 --> 00:39:35.280
The water protectors and earth protectors have all gathered

00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:38.340
from all over the place to protest what is happening.

00:39:38.340 --> 00:39:39.360
-: This controversy started

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:42.550
with a protest over a pipeline in South Dakota.

00:39:42.550 --> 00:39:45.660
-: And now it is stopping work on a Texas pipeline.

00:39:45.660 --> 00:39:48.927
Environmental activists say there is a conflict of interest

00:39:48.927 --> 00:39:52.273
on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Board.

00:39:52.273 --> 00:39:53.670
(drumming)
(chanting)

00:39:53.670 --> 00:39:55.880
Reporter: Protestors chanted all morning,

00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:58.590
partnering with similar protests in the Dakotas,

00:39:58.590 --> 00:40:02.270
activists had their eye on one man, Kelcy Warren.

00:40:02.270 --> 00:40:04.600
He's a major donor to Governor Greg Abbott,

00:40:04.600 --> 00:40:07.010
CEO of the company behind the controversial

00:40:07.010 --> 00:40:10.770
Dakota Access Pipeline, and Abbott's appointee

00:40:10.770 --> 00:40:12.860
to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

00:40:12.860 --> 00:40:15.900
-: Can't trust this commission as long as Kelcy Warren

00:40:15.900 --> 00:40:17.730
is sitting here at this dais.

00:40:17.730 --> 00:40:20.150
Reporter: Several times, people openly taunted him

00:40:20.150 --> 00:40:22.700
as speaker after speaker came to say

00:40:22.700 --> 00:40:25.330
it was a conflict of interest for him

00:40:25.330 --> 00:40:27.083
to vote on any pipeline.

00:40:29.110 --> 00:40:32.177
-: How would you feel if I went to your place

00:40:33.590 --> 00:40:35.390
and dig up your ancestors

00:40:37.170 --> 00:40:39.120
like you have been doing to our people?

00:40:41.370 --> 00:40:42.453
And it hurts.

00:40:44.328 --> 00:40:46.523
Do you think that it's right for you to go

00:40:47.453 --> 00:40:50.847
and dig up burial ground, sacred burial ground?

00:40:52.161 --> 00:40:53.744
-: I think that would be bad.

00:40:53.744 --> 00:40:56.170
Pete: But you have been doing that.

00:40:56.170 --> 00:40:58.170
-: No, sir, I obviously don't believe so.

00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:02.447
-: We have proof that you have been doing that.

00:41:02.447 --> 00:41:05.310
But I'd be glad to sit down with you

00:41:08.343 --> 00:41:09.443
and show you the facts

00:41:12.126 --> 00:41:15.351
if you would give me that respect.

00:41:15.351 --> 00:41:16.934
-: Yes, sir, I will.

00:41:20.343 --> 00:41:21.539
-: Thank you.
-: Thank you.

00:41:21.539 --> 00:41:23.155
-: Thank you.
-: Thank you.

00:41:23.155 --> 00:41:26.322
(audience applauding)

00:41:36.991 --> 00:41:39.908
(birds twittering)

00:41:54.310 --> 00:41:58.070
-: These laws are designed to protect these oil and gas men.

00:41:58.070 --> 00:42:00.380
Austin's all screwed up, they're all paid off.

00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:01.710
It's a donor state government.

00:42:01.710 --> 00:42:04.760
If you donate to 'em, they'll do what you want.

00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:06.277
And that's what oil and gas has found out,

00:42:06.277 --> 00:42:09.753
and for 112 years they've been dictating what law should be.

00:42:10.670 --> 00:42:13.580
And that's what this case was about today.

00:42:13.580 --> 00:42:15.627
-: They offered me six months

00:42:15.627 --> 00:42:18.193
deferred adjudication probation.

00:42:19.100 --> 00:42:20.723
I have a $500 fine.

00:42:25.685 --> 00:42:28.320
And a class A criminal mischief misdemeanor.

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:32.028
We came very close today to actually going to trial,

00:42:32.028 --> 00:42:35.510
because there was, I pled nolo contendere

00:42:35.510 --> 00:42:36.700
and we weren't sure if the judge

00:42:36.700 --> 00:42:38.833
was gonna let me say nolo contendere,

00:42:38.833 --> 00:42:40.530
which is no contest,

00:42:40.530 --> 00:42:44.000
'cause I did not want to state that I am guilty.

00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:47.920
I do not feel, I feel that I was protecting the people.

00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:50.573
That I am not a criminal, that I am not guilty.

00:42:52.430 --> 00:42:54.370
I'm guilty of violating the letter of the law,

00:42:54.370 --> 00:42:55.910
but not the spirit of the law.

00:42:55.910 --> 00:42:59.030
(drumming)
(chanting)

00:42:59.030 --> 00:43:02.597
-: This morning, father of four sits underneath a bulldozer

00:43:02.597 --> 00:43:07.594
to try and bring light to what the oil and gas industry,

00:43:07.594 --> 00:43:11.860
the strongest entity in the world does

00:43:11.860 --> 00:43:14.600
when they want something, when they want profit.

00:43:14.600 --> 00:43:16.810
And that's why I'm underneath a bulldozer today

00:43:16.810 --> 00:43:18.940
with my right hand chained

00:43:20.080 --> 00:43:23.383
to my sister on the other side of these tracks.

00:43:26.350 --> 00:43:28.260
-: How are you doing?
-: I'm good.

00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:31.010
Cameraman: Okay, can you tell us a little bit

00:43:31.010 --> 00:43:34.480
about how you feel, and just some of your insights

00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:35.580
of what you wanna say?

00:43:37.910 --> 00:43:40.900
-: What I wanna say is that this is just an outrage

00:43:40.900 --> 00:43:43.260
they can do this, they can build these pipelines

00:43:43.260 --> 00:43:45.220
without people's permission on their land.

00:43:45.220 --> 00:43:46.300
Cameraman: Yes, ma'am.

00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:48.010
-: That they can do all these sorts of pipelines

00:43:48.010 --> 00:43:49.720
without doing environmental studies

00:43:49.720 --> 00:43:51.580
that they're supposed to do.

00:43:51.580 --> 00:43:53.240
They can just steal land from people,

00:43:53.240 --> 00:43:56.080
they can contaminate the water, and they don't care.

00:43:56.080 --> 00:43:57.303
It's all about a profit.

00:43:58.520 --> 00:44:00.323
And they don't care about the people.

00:44:01.420 --> 00:44:04.500
-: We have the beautiful people of Two Rivers Camp

00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:06.450
and we're gonna continue to tell people

00:44:06.450 --> 00:44:08.350
about Two Rivers Camp, to please support them,

00:44:08.350 --> 00:44:09.183
please help them.

00:44:09.183 --> 00:44:10.870
We have people of Native Nations.

00:44:10.870 --> 00:44:15.460
This is basically an all out lockdown on Highway 67.

00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:17.700
We have Miss Lori Glover.

00:44:17.700 --> 00:44:19.270
We have Lori there from Two Rivers,

00:44:19.270 --> 00:44:22.060
our brothers from the Native Nations,

00:44:22.060 --> 00:44:23.430
and again we have the workers,

00:44:23.430 --> 00:44:26.090
and workers of course we're here in peace.

00:44:26.090 --> 00:44:28.073
But in protest as well.

00:44:29.190 --> 00:44:32.130
-: In Presidio County what began with a simple ID check

00:44:32.130 --> 00:44:34.100
of a law enforcement during

00:44:34.100 --> 00:44:36.370
that Trans Pecos Pipeline protest

00:44:36.370 --> 00:44:39.050
led them to discover one of the protestors

00:44:39.050 --> 00:44:41.210
was actually a fugitive on the run.

00:44:41.210 --> 00:44:43.900
-: That's right Pete Hefflin was actually Pedro Gutierrez,

00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:45.660
a fugitive for more than 10 years,

00:44:45.660 --> 00:44:47.650
and after an appearance in district court today,

00:44:47.650 --> 00:44:51.010
he'll have to face those charges back in California.

00:44:51.010 --> 00:44:52.680
Police then fingerprinting the suspect

00:44:52.680 --> 00:44:54.680
to discover just how severe his crime...

00:45:02.690 --> 00:45:07.340
-: We didn't know anything about Pete's past.

00:45:07.340 --> 00:45:12.330
It devastated us, and we were very angry and upset and hurt.

00:45:12.330 --> 00:45:14.270
The camp had to distance itself,

00:45:14.270 --> 00:45:17.100
and basically cut him off.

00:45:17.100 --> 00:45:21.040
And that was, it was very confusing

00:45:21.040 --> 00:45:23.660
and very hard to do because when you get to know somebody

00:45:23.660 --> 00:45:25.980
and in your presence they've been

00:45:25.980 --> 00:45:28.030
this really wonderful person,

00:45:28.030 --> 00:45:30.840
and then there's this hidden side,

00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:32.640
you know this hidden side of them.

00:45:32.640 --> 00:45:34.180
-: A hidden record.

00:45:34.180 --> 00:45:37.763
Pete was charged with parole violation.

00:45:39.860 --> 00:45:41.310
And he went back to California

00:45:41.310 --> 00:45:42.920
and straightened it out, and that was it.

00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:43.920
He's a free man.

00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:45.370
He served his time.

00:45:45.370 --> 00:45:47.460
-: They knew that he had violated that parole.

00:45:47.460 --> 00:45:48.530
They had already found that out,

00:45:48.530 --> 00:45:49.950
but didn't let anybody know.

00:45:49.950 --> 00:45:51.276
They waited until he came back

00:45:51.276 --> 00:45:56.239
so that he would be affiliated with our camp, you know?

00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:59.740
They could have went and found him where he lived.

00:45:59.740 --> 00:46:02.290
They had that information, but they waited.

00:46:02.290 --> 00:46:03.610
They waited strategically

00:46:03.610 --> 00:46:05.970
so that they could make the camp look bad.

00:46:05.970 --> 00:46:08.310
Energy Transfer Partners was working

00:46:08.310 --> 00:46:12.140
with our local Presidio County Sheriff's Department.

00:46:12.140 --> 00:46:14.134
They contracted with Sheriff Danny Dominguez

00:46:14.134 --> 00:46:19.134
to be their private security, him and his deputies.

00:46:19.400 --> 00:46:22.870
So from the very beginning, there was conflict of interest.

00:46:22.870 --> 00:46:24.690
Part of the private investigation they're doing

00:46:24.690 --> 00:46:26.970
is looking for weak links, you know?

00:46:26.970 --> 00:46:28.798
Unearthing things that people don't know

00:46:28.798 --> 00:46:33.120
to turn public support away against the camp.

00:46:33.120 --> 00:46:34.999
You know, the camp wasn't about Pete.

00:46:34.999 --> 00:46:38.570
The camp was about stopping the Trans Pecos Pipeline.

00:46:38.570 --> 00:46:40.533
Man: One man does not make a camp.

00:46:40.533 --> 00:46:43.020
I mean, there were 500 to 1,000 people

00:46:43.020 --> 00:46:44.560
that went through that camp.

00:46:44.560 --> 00:46:46.303
-: Everybody working together,

00:46:46.303 --> 00:46:48.323
supporting one another.

00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:52.577
And that was just, you know,

00:46:55.780 --> 00:46:57.363
it's irreplaceable, really.

00:46:58.210 --> 00:47:01.210
(atmospheric music)

00:47:33.130 --> 00:47:34.670
-: Tore every bit of vegetation up.

00:47:34.670 --> 00:47:37.130
Any sites, any archeology that was out there,

00:47:37.130 --> 00:47:40.920
and they go across that drainage up there

00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:42.990
and it's got archeology all over it, both sides.

00:47:42.990 --> 00:47:44.023
We can walk this.

00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:46.940
I wouldn't want to, but we could

00:47:46.940 --> 00:47:50.088
and I could just point out all the fire cracked rock,

00:47:50.088 --> 00:47:51.980
the chipped stone artifacts

00:47:53.350 --> 00:47:55.650
that they just pulverized with their machines.

00:48:04.870 --> 00:48:06.165
'Cause that's when you know,

00:48:06.165 --> 00:48:09.670
I mean it had been only a couple of weeks since the ATP

00:48:09.670 --> 00:48:12.773
had bulldozed those sacred sites in North Dakota.

00:48:13.740 --> 00:48:15.852
And so I mean it was in the news,

00:48:15.852 --> 00:48:19.237
so it was really kind of a poignant time

00:48:19.237 --> 00:48:22.973
to be defending a site.

00:48:25.430 --> 00:48:28.530
You know and I think part of us felt like

00:48:28.530 --> 00:48:30.020
once we put it up on social media,

00:48:30.020 --> 00:48:31.600
the whole world was watching,

00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:34.510
and so we were kind of curious

00:48:34.510 --> 00:48:37.150
why where's the outrage, you know?

00:48:37.150 --> 00:48:38.850
Why aren't more people outraged?

00:48:38.850 --> 00:48:41.390
If people only knew

00:48:42.540 --> 00:48:45.530
what was at stake.

00:48:45.530 --> 00:48:50.530
That the level of outrage would stop this from happening.

00:48:52.140 --> 00:48:53.463
That was very naive.

00:48:55.330 --> 00:48:57.220
But it was kind of close to what

00:48:57.220 --> 00:48:59.310
started happening up in North Dakota.

00:48:59.310 --> 00:49:03.520
That was the level of outrage we needed right here,

00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:05.070
and would it have stopped it?

00:49:05.070 --> 00:49:06.100
I don't know, but it sure

00:49:06.100 --> 00:49:07.850
wouldn't have made it easy for 'em.

00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:26.730
-: We're just closing the camp down, packing up,

00:49:26.730 --> 00:49:30.810
getting ready to transition to something else.

00:49:30.810 --> 00:49:33.150
We're thinking about how we want to live life differently.

00:49:33.150 --> 00:49:35.660
We're discussing different types of government.

00:49:35.660 --> 00:49:40.210
We're discussing different types of ways to approach life

00:49:40.210 --> 00:49:42.710
spiritually and economically,

00:49:42.710 --> 00:49:45.980
but right now I'm just feeling like, you know,

00:49:45.980 --> 00:49:48.681
there's a lot of flies and I wanna get done

00:49:48.681 --> 00:49:53.140
and just have some

00:49:54.820 --> 00:49:59.260
space to kind of learn from the mistakes

00:49:59.260 --> 00:50:01.828
that were made on this campaign,

00:50:01.828 --> 00:50:04.150
and also the successes.

00:50:04.150 --> 00:50:08.350
Someday we will have enough people

00:50:08.350 --> 00:50:11.420
standing together to actually

00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:13.653
shut some of this stuff down for real.

00:50:17.256 --> 00:50:20.256
(atmospheric music)

00:50:51.909 --> 00:50:55.780
-: You know in our cosmic vision, everything is a cycle.

00:50:55.780 --> 00:50:58.253
There's actually no death, you know?

00:50:58.253 --> 00:51:02.343
The death of something is the birth of something else.

00:51:05.700 --> 00:51:08.740
And that's the way I saw

00:51:08.740 --> 00:51:11.050
that one specific ceremony

00:51:11.050 --> 00:51:12.620
that you witnessed is that

00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:16.610
we weren't there, or at least I wasn't there

00:51:16.610 --> 00:51:20.010
to see the death, the passing of the site,

00:51:20.010 --> 00:51:22.740
but the resurgence, the rebirth,

00:51:22.740 --> 00:51:25.763
the awakening of what we have.

00:51:26.601 --> 00:51:29.601
(people chattering)

00:51:30.660 --> 00:51:34.090
-: Today we would like to do a blessing of the water.

00:51:34.090 --> 00:51:35.160
The guest that we have

00:51:35.160 --> 00:51:38.340
that will be doing this blessing is Larry Yazzie.

00:51:38.340 --> 00:51:40.490
Shake your head Larry, everybody see Larry?

00:51:42.980 --> 00:51:44.210
-: Thank you, Dale.

00:51:44.210 --> 00:51:45.200
How's everybody doing today,

00:51:45.200 --> 00:51:46.843
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls?

00:51:46.843 --> 00:51:47.870
(crowd cheering)

00:51:47.870 --> 00:51:49.400
My name is Larry Yazzie.

00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.470
My Indian name is (speaking in foreign language).

00:51:51.470 --> 00:51:54.500
I come to you from the Meskwaki Nation of Central Iowa,

00:51:54.500 --> 00:51:58.310
and I want you to dance with me in your mind.

00:51:58.310 --> 00:52:01.840
Maybe some of us are having some hard times in our lives.

00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:02.690
I know that I do.

00:52:02.690 --> 00:52:06.830
I face some daily challenges, so thank you,

00:52:06.830 --> 00:52:09.224
ladies and gentlemen, the beautiful eagle dance.

00:52:09.224 --> 00:52:13.724
(drumming)
(chanting)

00:52:18.950 --> 00:52:21.820
What happened in Standing Rock, there was a movement.

00:52:21.820 --> 00:52:24.700
It created a movement not just in North Dakota,

00:52:24.700 --> 00:52:26.120
not just in Standing Rock.

00:52:26.120 --> 00:52:28.490
It created a movement worldwide.

00:52:28.490 --> 00:52:32.770
People from all over the world came together as one.

00:52:32.770 --> 00:52:35.280
And this movement, they say that

00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:36.740
they put out the fire at Standing Rock.

00:52:36.740 --> 00:52:39.600
It just created more fires throughout the world,

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and this movement comes down here in Texas.

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I mean you're in the heart of oil country,

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and to come here and start a camp,

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it takes a lot of heart

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and it takes a lot of hard work.

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You have to really humble yourself to be in this life,

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because we're only in this life for a short period of time.

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We go on to another life in another dimension,

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but while we're here we have to preserve for our children.

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(people chattering)

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(crickets chirping)