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Ready?

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Mighty cooty fiyo!

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Indian Red

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Indian Red

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I’m Herreast Harrison

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wife of the late
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr.

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And I'm welcoming you

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to my new home.

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And if you're interested in how

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I came about  having this new home,

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it is due mainly to Hurricane Katrina.

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To that storm

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I owe the fact that I no longer have
a permanent residence.

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It was

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destroyed

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after the storm, really by floodwaters.

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I don't even know of any of my friends.

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you know,
that lives were lost in the storm.

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So for me, the reality

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- and I guess
it's like a death too -

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were the cultural things,

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because most of these things were handmade.

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with love and care.

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Where my people were brought from,
they did it orally.

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You know,
maybe it wasn't written.

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But I was like, okay, I'm
gonna leave some things.

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I’m gonna leave these quilts

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I’m gonna leave these beaded pieces

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I’m gonna leave all this paper,
all these magazine articles...

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All of this. These are the contributions,
you know,. Lost all of that.

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But all I have left
now is the house, the frame.

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I'll put it back together

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because all my memories are here

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of a life with the Big Chief

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Donald Harrison, Sr.

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What a man.

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Quite a man.

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And I miss him so.

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My husband was involved

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in a tradition here in New Orleans
called the Masking Tradition.

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as Native Americans.

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The media
has dubbed it Mardi Gras Indians.

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I'm opposed to that term,
but sometimes it used just to be able

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to have people understand
that these men come out on Mardi Gras.

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But it's it really was a freedom movement
just to involve themselves

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in their African-ness.

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I started what’s called Guardians Institute

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And it will be

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to promote education

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about culture and to be of service,

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I hope, to the men that still practice

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keeping this tradition alive.

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I'm already committed to children.

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But in the aftermath of Katrina,
everything takes on a new sense of urgency

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and anything that you can do for children
to provide some sense of what the world

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was like and normalcy, you have to do
it if you don't is criminal.

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So, anyway,

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that's my little philosophy on kids.

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I think it's incumbent upon us as adults
to make sure we actively work

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to give our children more than this.

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This can't be our legacy to our children.

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If the elders are displaced
or the elders are traumatized,

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their bodies are physically traumatized

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and they can't carry on those traditions

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and the children are not here,

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our traditions will die out
in two generations or less.

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Because there's really no one to carry it on.

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By being in this black plastic bag.

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It was saved.  My nephew

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Johnny Booker wore this

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and he was Donald’s Wild Man.

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When they masqueraded in the neighborhood,

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they brought beauty, eloquence,

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power to the people in the neighborhood.

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What these men really had done
was to retain all

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those African elements

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right in plain view

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of people who said,
“you cannot have anything African

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going on here.”

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They used that relationship
with an indigenous people,

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crossed it all up and did their thing.

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It survived

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in the top of a closet. That’s Donald Junior.

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Yeah, it works a little bit.

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You know to lose your home
or the home that you were raised in

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is a horrific thing.

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And I'm glad that my mother decided
to come home and put it back together.

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And I know she wants to

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put a museum here ,

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and do different things.
A community center to help people.

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You know, my parents have always been
those kind of people.

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Very, very helpful.

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Our house was like the library.

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Before Internet, before all of that
technology was available to us,

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we had

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at least three sets of encyclopedias,

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seven language
dictionaries, everything,

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all sorts of reference books.

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People would come over
to do their homework where we were.

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The house had a mood.

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It had a vibe.

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I can remember I asked my son,

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are you sad that we live in the Ninth Ward

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because all his friends have
these big fancy houses and stuff?

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And he said, “No, it's like because that's
why they like to come down here,

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because what's going on in
their houses is not what happens here.

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We talk.

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We have these rap sessions,

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listen to music.

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It was more cerebral than

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playing video games and watching MTV.

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They were there until they went off to

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New York,

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Kiel the Cooper Union
and for Christian

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Berklee College of Music in Boston.

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I just graduated from art school,
from Cooper Union.

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So I was doing
fine arts photography and video stuff,

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and now I'm looking into trying
to go to grad school for film. So

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that's the plan.

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We'll see how it works out.

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Play that tambourine, mate.

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Ooo nah nay

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Ooo nah nay

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Ooo nah nay

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Ooo nah nay

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Ooo nah nay

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Here comes the boy

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early in the morning

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Here come the Big Chief,

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go send the warning.

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Down by the bayou

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Shoot that fiyo

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Down by the river

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Stand and deliver

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There was a little bitty boy

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with a heart of steel

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Said he would not bow

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Said he would not kneel.

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He met everybody

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He’s a hundred and one

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Met everybody

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Let ‘em come now.

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Oo nah nay.

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Well, the first thing I did was buy a gun

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because

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we were
basically the only ones on the block.

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So it's like, protect yourself,

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you know?

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So, I mean, I seen it all.

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I drove around the whole city,
Lakeview and Chalmette, everywhere.

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I wanted to see the devastation,

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but just living in it,
driving in it every day

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is depressing

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because you just look at it
and it's like that’s somebody’s life.

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Look at that.

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Where are these people?
Are they coming back?

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These are the things that
you're thinking about.

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Before the hurricane I was going to build
a house here with a studio

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and an office, and then I lost my day job.

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But then when you lose your job, of
course, nobody wants to give you a loan.

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So the musician's village
is going to be two blocks up.

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And they accept people who are artists.

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They accept that as a valid form of income.

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So I'll be able to get a house there.

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Do you work for Habitat? No, okay.

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The heat, the humidity,
dirt under your feet.

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I feel like I'm in a village in West Africa.

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This is going to be my house.

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Wait, this is your house? Yeah. Awesome.

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I’m Gil.

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Thank you for working on my house.

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Thank you for letting us work on your house.

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So you’re an artist?

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I’m a Mardi Gras Indian.

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You’re ... I'm sorry?

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A Mardi Gras Indian.

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What does that mean?

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Oh, well here. If you come Sunday...

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Once you see it, you’ll be changed forever.

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I think there's a

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certain sadness that I hear

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after living through Katrina.

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I really can hear the difference
in what I'm living

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and the music that I play.

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A certain ...

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... melancholy.

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Before I experienced Katrina,

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I always said I would do my best to

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work hard and

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achieve whatever I was put here to do.

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But after Katrina, it's even deepened.

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it's depressing for me

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because I get calls, on an average maybe
ten a week, from Mardi Gras Indians,

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social and pleasure club members,
brass band musicians

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looking for affordable housing.

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And there's nothing I can do to help.

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I helped a lot of them
fill out applications for Habitat,

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Some of them have major credit issues.

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Creative people live creatively
in the way they pay their bills also.

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It's a reality for many people.

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And you can't make qualitative judgments.

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“They go out there and they parade and
they spend 25 hundred dollars on a pair ...

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an outfit to wear for one day.”

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Basically that might be their Prozac.

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That might be what they
need to go and work at a ...

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basically ...

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... boring, unfulfilling job every day

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is to be in that community on that
one day in a parade or in an Indian suit.

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And people sometimes make that judgment:

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“Well, they spend thousands of dollars
on an Indian suit.”

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You don't understand
why they necessarily need to do that.

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You need to do it
for a number of reasons.

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It may be spiritual fulfillment
you're doing it for.

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But it also may serve

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other purposes

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for you.

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And I know for me it can be my Prozac.

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It really can.

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Making an Indian suit
can definitely be my Prozac.

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If it's very difficult living here now.
It's very, very difficult.

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You just start crying at the drop of a hat.

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It's overwhelming.

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You try to laugh it off,
but it's not really funny.

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It's not.

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It's not.

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Everything you try to do is like:

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bang, a wall.
Talk to FEMA, people hang up in your face.

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FEMA's like a governmental terrorist

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organization. Psychological terrorism.

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No matter what you do,
it's always a wall.

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Nothing is easy.

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Nothing.

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When I tell you nothing is easy. Nothing.

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I love this city, man.

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I live in New York now.

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I don't know that lady, you know,

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But she not going to pass me
and not speak.

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It really wasn't my experience
here that men weren't around.

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They were.
But just culturally were matriarchal.

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And it makes me happy to know

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that the grandmothers are coming back.
Because they're sweet women and

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you meet people from that age bracket
and they've seen a lot of ugly.

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And for them to still be able
to retain that type of hope

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and sincerity and love
for their neighbors is really cool, man.

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And my grandmother won't even duck.
Like people will be shooting and stuff

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and she'll just continue cooking, which,
to be honest with you

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has always
kind of scared the shit out of me.

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It's like, why is she not ...

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You know what I mean?

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It's not cool to be used
to that type of stuff, you know?

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But yeah, she would always just continue
what she was doing.

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She was always like the old lady
that would look out the window.

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We were like,
“Get down. Like, what are you doing?”

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I mean, if someone's shooting,

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you know, those bullets

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don't have any regard
for the right target.

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If they're flying through the air.
They'll get anybody:

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Me, an old lady sitting on my porch,
or standing out

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or coming out to get in my car.
Or even in bed.

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People have been killed in bed
in their own houses.

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Children have been killed in their homes
here in this city.

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It's just awful.

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And all Katrina did was to expose
some of the things that are happening here:

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the sharecropper type education
the children are getting

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just to

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guide them and herd them
into those low-paying

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tourist-oriented jobs, low-paying jobs

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that no one could take care of themselves.

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in this job market.

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So we're back at the Harrison house.

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And we have two trailers on site.

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Such posh living

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Such a posh existence.

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[voices from inside the house]

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This is my son.

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He went to tape the National Guard.

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Well, I mean, there is a presence.

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But every time I've seen them, they've had ...

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... African-American males ...

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... you know, um ....

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Had them?

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Yeah, had them ...

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Jacked up.

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That's the reality
of living in New Orleans right now, that ...

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That was my reality before.

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Before Katrina.

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It is true, and it's any urban area.

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But, you know, it’s like you can’t ...

00:16:38.230 --> 00:16:39.398
It’s elevated.

00:16:39.465 --> 00:16:41.600
It's like you don't even change a lane
without a blinker.

00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.770
You don't give them any reason at all.

00:16:44.770 --> 00:16:47.673
Not that that would stop them,
but don't give them any.

00:16:49.141 --> 00:16:50.275
It seems like New Orleans

00:16:50.275 --> 00:16:53.212
is going to hell in a hand-basket, huh?

00:16:54.113 --> 00:16:59.018
More jails, different kind of laws,

00:16:59.018 --> 00:17:02.187
to be able to make sure
that these people

00:17:02.187 --> 00:17:04.323
are sentenced to

00:17:05.190 --> 00:17:07.226
longer sentences and

00:17:08.627 --> 00:17:12.664
more policemen on the force, different

00:17:13.032 --> 00:17:16.935
policing techniques, everything to deal
with putting them in jail.

00:17:19.271 --> 00:17:22.307
Don’t you have any other innovative ideas

00:17:22.307 --> 00:17:27.579
about what to do for this
major national problem?

00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:31.183
I said: I don't have the whole answer.
I just have the answer for me.

00:17:31.583 --> 00:17:35.854
and that's to to do something
in the community that would engage

00:17:35.854 --> 00:17:38.157
a few kids in my community.

00:17:38.190 --> 00:17:39.358
And a woman -

00:17:39.691 --> 00:17:42.961
- she operated daycare centers,
nursery schools,

00:17:43.662 --> 00:17:46.031
She and I, back from the ‘60’s forward

00:17:46.932 --> 00:17:49.201
and she told the story about

00:17:49.334 --> 00:17:53.505
I think it’s the starfish?
About the woman picking the starfish up

00:17:53.505 --> 00:17:56.542
on the shore and throwing them
back into the ocean.?

00:17:56.542 --> 00:17:58.277
And someone asked:

00:17:58.277 --> 00:18:01.747
“What good is that, to pick up one at a time
and throw it back into the ocean?”

00:18:02.247 --> 00:18:05.617
And she said: “Well,
it made a difference to that one!”

00:18:22.634 --> 00:18:24.803
Oh, that’s Cherice now.

00:18:30.809 --> 00:18:32.611
Oh, mom, that might be the people.

00:18:33.812 --> 00:18:38.717
[phone rings]

00:18:43.989 --> 00:18:46.125
Oh, that was somebody else.

00:18:47.259 --> 00:18:50.229
Shame on her, she didn't come.

00:18:57.503 --> 00:18:58.170
G’morning!

00:18:58.837 --> 00:19:00.706
Good morning. Hi, how are you?

00:19:05.210 --> 00:19:08.347
Well, we didn't know we were doing this
yesterday at this time.

00:19:09.148 --> 00:19:12.117
The NBA called at 9:15

00:19:12.618 --> 00:19:14.786
and asked to arrange

00:19:14.786 --> 00:19:17.055
something for two players from the Rockets

00:19:17.489 --> 00:19:21.059
to participate
in a reading activity at the school.

00:19:21.226 --> 00:19:25.998
I'm actually going to the school
- the principal who kind of mentored me,

00:19:26.265 --> 00:19:28.901
that was my principal
for 20 years - Rosalind Smith.

00:19:29.401 --> 00:19:33.772
And she embraced bringing indigenous
cultural traditions into the school.

00:19:33.772 --> 00:19:36.975
So, God,

00:19:37.409 --> 00:19:40.245
in her wisdom,

00:19:42.114 --> 00:19:43.382
Not his.

00:19:44.983 --> 00:19:47.052
Made it all fall together

00:19:47.052 --> 00:19:49.421
in less than 24 hours.

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I’m the Big Chief.

00:20:10.108 --> 00:20:12.811
right on that line.

00:20:15.948 --> 00:20:17.249
And a period.

00:20:18.217 --> 00:20:20.953
I'm supposed to be playing “What
a Wonderful World”,

00:20:20.953 --> 00:20:22.221
which should be cool.

00:20:23.455 --> 00:20:26.024
I haven't played the song
since I was probably

00:20:26.291 --> 00:20:27.960
a little bit older than them.

00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:30.829
Should be cool.
We’ll see how it goes.

00:20:31.430 --> 00:20:33.732
“I've seen Trees of green ...

00:20:33.732 --> 00:20:36.068
red roses too.

00:20:43.108 --> 00:20:45.310
I watched them grow.

00:20:45.811 --> 00:20:49.481
They learned so much more than I’ll ever know.

00:20:52.751 --> 00:20:55.287
And I think to myself,

00:20:55.287 --> 00:21:00.025
what a wonderful world.

00:21:02.394 --> 00:21:03.962
And then lastly

00:21:03.962 --> 00:21:06.198
The first family, that's what I call them.

00:21:06.598 --> 00:21:09.801
Mrs. Herreast Harrison

00:21:09.801 --> 00:21:12.871
Christian Scott ...
Cherice Nelson

00:21:12.871 --> 00:21:15.374
We're glad that Donald’s here because

00:21:15.374 --> 00:21:19.144
he travels all over the world.
Christian’s right there with him now,

00:21:19.144 --> 00:21:20.879
following those footsteps.

00:21:20.879 --> 00:21:25.651
We want to take advantage of what
this whole family is doing and give back.

00:21:25.951 --> 00:21:29.855
So please join me
in the last rousing warm applause

00:21:30.188 --> 00:21:33.225
for the whole family who has shown us

00:21:33.525 --> 00:21:34.793
how to give back.

00:21:34.793 --> 00:21:37.963
Thank you so much.

00:22:35.454 --> 00:22:36.822
Reading and

00:22:38.323 --> 00:22:40.659
literacy is is one of the

00:22:43.595 --> 00:22:46.264
most paramount challenges

00:22:46.264 --> 00:22:50.335
that our people have had to deal with
for a very long time.

00:22:50.969 --> 00:22:54.639
And it's something that for generations
we weren't allowed to do.

00:22:55.140 --> 00:22:57.242
So since you are allowed to do it now,

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it's up to your generation to fix some

00:23:00.545 --> 00:23:02.581
of these problems that we’ve had in the past.

00:23:02.581 --> 00:23:05.751
So I beg you guys to read.

00:23:06.284 --> 00:23:08.520
Just like the Big Chief said.

00:23:40.118 --> 00:23:44.089
I used to love to run in the wildflowers

00:23:44.456 --> 00:23:47.759
when I was young
and to suck the honeysuckles.

00:23:47.793 --> 00:23:50.796
You know, when you pull them apart
their little tips are sweet.

00:23:51.563 --> 00:23:54.366
I came from a one-horse town.

00:23:54.533 --> 00:23:56.401
If you blink, you know, you missed it.

00:23:56.401 --> 00:23:58.904
They would call you “Auntie”.
“Auntie.”

00:23:59.971 --> 00:24:02.874
Or “Susie.”
Out of your name.

00:24:03.508 --> 00:24:06.111
All little African-American children were “Auntie”.

00:24:06.378 --> 00:24:08.547
We knew that wasn't our name.

00:24:08.547 --> 00:24:10.015
So we would say that's not our name.

00:24:11.049 --> 00:24:13.919
But we would do a little cussing with it.

00:24:13.919 --> 00:24:15.487
“My name is not Auntie!”

00:24:18.523 --> 00:24:20.625
It’s a wonder we didn't get strung up.

00:24:20.625 --> 00:24:24.663
Two little kids. Like the pictures
in Jackson, at Jackson State.

00:24:24.729 --> 00:24:25.430
Where they had this woman,

00:24:25.430 --> 00:24:28.567
she was impeccably dressed,
hanging from that bridge - her and her son.

00:24:29.534 --> 00:24:30.869
Horrific-looking picture.

00:24:30.869 --> 00:24:32.904
She was so neatly attired.

00:24:32.904 --> 00:24:34.139
And I always thought about that.

00:24:34.139 --> 00:24:37.142
That could have been me.

00:24:37.142 --> 00:24:41.880
In the small town where I came from,
it was not uncommon to find

00:24:43.014 --> 00:24:44.749
young men hung.

00:24:44.749 --> 00:24:45.650
When I was a child,

00:24:45.650 --> 00:24:47.352
I remember that as a child.

00:24:47.352 --> 00:24:50.155
And I think I left there when I was seven.

00:24:50.155 --> 00:24:53.992
Probably when I was about 5,
there was a young man by the name of Roy,

00:24:54.426 --> 00:24:56.428
they had found hanged like that.

00:25:59.291 --> 00:26:02.093
You ain’t an Indian
until you put that needle in your hand.

00:26:02.761 --> 00:26:06.097
That's when you know you an Indian.
You put that needle in your hand.

00:26:07.699 --> 00:26:10.735
and you look at your fingers
and see your fingers all chewed up from that needle

00:26:10.735 --> 00:26:12.671
and you still decide you still want it.

00:26:13.872 --> 00:26:15.807
You’re an Indian then.

00:26:17.542 --> 00:26:18.877
But she's an expert at it.

00:26:18.877 --> 00:26:20.679
She's a master beader.

00:26:20.679 --> 00:26:23.748
This piece really goes
with the Guardians of the Flame

00:26:24.316 --> 00:26:29.788
because he's showing them
the tradition, and he's passing it down.

00:26:29.788 --> 00:26:32.958
And that's what we are about.
On his arm right here

00:26:32.958 --> 00:26:35.961
I did five lines
and it took me two and a half hours.

00:26:36.061 --> 00:26:37.696
Two and a half hours
just to do that one little part.

00:26:37.696 --> 00:26:42.133
Five lines!
It’s very tedious and time-consuming.

00:26:42.300 --> 00:26:46.938
This part right here, this yellow-gold
color, took me like five days to do.

00:26:50.342 --> 00:26:53.578
Ha!

00:26:53.578 --> 00:26:56.948
Because I showed you how to do it.

00:26:58.550 --> 00:27:00.619
They don't want to know
the Indians for that.

00:27:00.619 --> 00:27:03.388
They want to know them
for : “Oh, they fight,

00:27:03.421 --> 00:27:05.123
They do this and that.”

00:27:05.123 --> 00:27:06.658
Something negative.

00:27:06.658 --> 00:27:08.560
Instead of: This is art.

00:27:08.560 --> 00:27:12.731
They'll put it in the category of folk art
because you're not trainer or...

00:27:12.764 --> 00:27:15.033
I went to Xavuer for art.

00:27:15.934 --> 00:27:18.303
I went to the Art Institute of Atlanta for art.

00:27:20.705 --> 00:27:24.275
What makes that better than this?

00:27:26.177 --> 00:27:27.646
They still were trained.

00:27:27.646 --> 00:27:31.683
You didn't just pick up a needle
and put a bead on. Someone trained you.

00:27:31.683 --> 00:27:34.152
It just wasn't in a school setting.

00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.389
That line is not center,
that line is off-center.

00:27:37.622 --> 00:27:39.457
You know what I'm saying?

00:27:39.457 --> 00:27:43.161
Like I was telling you with the piece,
with the beads -  to use the beads a certain way.

00:27:43.161 --> 00:27:47.399
Most of the other guys ...
they call it a typewriter stitch.

00:27:47.399 --> 00:27:49.434
Everything is straight across like this.

00:27:49.434 --> 00:27:50.702
I never did bead that way.

00:27:50.702 --> 00:27:55.440
I always follow the contours.
And I do different things with the beads

00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:59.611
to create different tensions
or an atmosphere.

00:28:00.111 --> 00:28:01.579
But you stone very well though.

00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:02.647
I gotta give you credit for that.

00:28:02.647 --> 00:28:04.082
Thank you.

00:28:04.082 --> 00:28:05.583
You’re welcome.

00:28:09.421 --> 00:28:12.590
So we try to use these drums
as healing instruments with young people

00:28:13.158 --> 00:28:17.729
to help them get in touch with their gifts
and also to use the drums

00:28:18.329 --> 00:28:22.133
to go into their subconscious,
into the subconscious part of their soul.

00:28:22.267 --> 00:28:23.134
New Orleans Music -

00:28:23.134 --> 00:28:24.669
at this point, I really feel we’re at a crossroads

00:28:24.669 --> 00:28:28.473
and our music and our culture
has to reflect the change we want to see

00:28:28.473 --> 00:28:32.010
in this city, not the way it was before,
what we want it to be today.

00:28:32.177 --> 00:28:33.912
And that's what our music has to be about.

00:28:33.912 --> 00:28:36.781
And I think this is a great example
of what Cherice is doing

00:28:37.082 --> 00:28:39.284
with the Guardians Institute
and the Guardians of the Flame.

00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:42.887
I want it so quiet

00:28:43.021 --> 00:28:45.123
I wanna hear this pin drop.

00:29:03.441 --> 00:29:05.877
The tradition of the Mardi Gras Indians comes from ...

00:29:06.311 --> 00:29:08.046
It's a blend of,

00:29:08.813 --> 00:29:11.483
I’d say, three cultures:
African culture,

00:29:12.050 --> 00:29:14.819
a Native American culture
and a Caribbean culture.

00:29:15.520 --> 00:29:17.889
These djembe drums,
these are the drums of the Bambara.

00:29:18.289 --> 00:29:21.926
The people who played
these drums were brought to Louisiana

00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:23.128
in the 1700’s.

00:29:23.461 --> 00:29:26.865
In the swamps they met Native
American people in their villages.

00:29:27.866 --> 00:29:29.934
And so what happened was

00:29:29.934 --> 00:29:34.272
the enslaved Africans began
to spend more time in those villages.

00:29:34.272 --> 00:29:36.708
Enslaved Africans
would run away to the swamps,

00:29:36.708 --> 00:29:39.377
They would become what they call Maroon.

00:29:39.811 --> 00:29:42.347
Over time, all these rhythms
started to blend together.

00:29:42.981 --> 00:29:45.750
But one of the most popular rhythms
that came out of the Congo Square

00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:48.052
was the one called the Bamboula.

00:29:48.686 --> 00:29:52.090
And the Bamboula became
what we now know as the Second Line.

00:29:52.524 --> 00:29:55.660
Bamboula. Bamboula.

00:29:55.994 --> 00:29:57.462
This is the syncopation of New Orleans.

00:29:57.462 --> 00:29:59.931
This is the rhythm of New Orleans,
this beat right here.

00:30:01.499 --> 00:30:04.569
And the drum is saying: bam bou la.

00:30:04.569 --> 00:30:06.037
The bell part

00:30:06.037 --> 00:30:09.974
The Mardi Gras Indians started playing
the bell part on the tambourine.

00:30:09.974 --> 00:30:13.111
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

00:30:13.111 --> 00:30:17.015
Put the two parts together.

00:30:24.422 --> 00:30:27.125
So the Guardians of the Flame
were the first ones to come on the scene

00:30:27.125 --> 00:30:29.260
with the djembe drums
and the djun djun drums

00:30:29.761 --> 00:30:33.198
which come back to the first Africans
that were brought to Louisiana.

00:30:33.898 --> 00:30:36.467
And I said, the third influence
is the Caribbean tradition.

00:30:36.467 --> 00:30:42.006
You see the women over there sewing

00:30:42.006 --> 00:30:45.910
and they’re sewing beadwork, the same kind of
beadwork you see in Haiti,

00:30:47.979 --> 00:30:50.682
the kind of beadwork you see in Yorubaland.

00:30:50.682 --> 00:30:53.451
And so once again,
the third influence

00:30:53.451 --> 00:30:57.121
is the beadwork from the Caribbean abnd Africa,
the drumming from Africa.

00:30:57.322 --> 00:31:01.426
And the style of the suit which
came from Native American traditions.

00:31:01.693 --> 00:31:04.629
All three of those traditions together,
they were all about freedom.

00:31:04.796 --> 00:31:08.600
They were about people who refused
to submit to slavery.

00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:10.568
A parade?

00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:25.550
A parade!

00:31:36.861 --> 00:31:39.530
Yeah, that’s authentic.
That’s as real as it gets.

00:31:40.098 --> 00:31:41.966
That's really real.

00:31:42.066 --> 00:31:43.968
No police escorts.

00:31:43.968 --> 00:31:47.205
We taking our community, doing our own thing.

00:32:23.074 --> 00:32:25.543
I have an appointment to ...

00:32:27.045 --> 00:32:29.514
... see a man about a horse

00:32:30.148 --> 00:32:32.917
Trying to get some things going here
in New Orleans.

00:32:34.285 --> 00:32:36.821
I'm really done with corporate America

00:32:36.821 --> 00:32:39.090
but you gotta eat.

00:32:39.090 --> 00:32:41.392
Christian’s busy.

00:32:42.360 --> 00:32:44.462
You know, the Grammy nom.

00:32:44.462 --> 00:32:46.831
And so he's really excited about that.

00:32:46.831 --> 00:32:50.468
He's going to be in Ebony magazine
the February issue,

00:32:51.002 --> 00:32:53.972
and then People magazine,
I believe, the March issue.

00:32:54.038 --> 00:32:55.740
Hopefully he'll get even more busy

00:32:55.740 --> 00:32:59.243
then I won't have to deal with
seeing a man about horse.

00:33:06.751 --> 00:33:09.053
[smoke alarm goes off]

00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:10.788
What living! ... What living!

00:33:11.756 --> 00:33:12.523
I said it.

00:33:12.523 --> 00:33:14.859
I said it’s about to get smoky in here
in just a minute.

00:33:14.859 --> 00:33:17.228
[smoke alarm continues]

00:33:31.442 --> 00:33:33.811
Actually he has a booking agent.

00:33:34.412 --> 00:33:36.647
He has a personal manager.

00:33:36.647 --> 00:33:40.351
What he doesn't have is a person that ties
all those strings together for him.

00:33:40.485 --> 00:33:44.522
He had been doing a lot of this stuff
himself, and it's taxing on him

00:33:44.522 --> 00:33:49.027
to have to keep all of those balls
in the air and not drop any of them.

00:33:49.027 --> 00:33:51.662
I said, okay, you know, he's a man.

00:33:51.996 --> 00:33:52.864
Let him do his thing.

00:33:52.864 --> 00:33:58.069
When he realizes he has resources
at his disposal, then he'll come to me.

00:33:58.069 --> 00:34:00.204
And he did it, you know?

00:34:00.204 --> 00:34:03.241
It's a beautiful thing
because I was like doing a happy dance,

00:34:03.241 --> 00:34:07.178
When he called me and said:
“Mom,can you help me out with this?”

00:34:07.178 --> 00:34:09.447
I’m like: “Yeah, I can. ...
I quit!”

00:34:13.384 --> 00:34:15.353
It was a good thing.

00:34:16.621 --> 00:34:19.123
I was waiting for it to happen.

00:34:19.123 --> 00:34:21.659
[smoke alarm stops]

00:34:26.931 --> 00:34:28.766
Well, I’ve always  said
if you listen to a Big Chief sing,

00:34:28.766 --> 00:34:31.602
you can hear the way a trumpeter...

00:34:31.602 --> 00:34:34.338
It's almost very similar
to what Louis Armstrong would be doing.

00:34:34.972 --> 00:34:36.274
Like if a.

00:34:37.241 --> 00:34:39.143
“Shallow waters, oh mama...”

00:34:39.410 --> 00:34:41.579
Early in the morning when the sun come up,

00:34:41.779 --> 00:34:44.682
[scats]

00:34:44.682 --> 00:34:48.052
You can hear the same ...
That was a revelation for me

00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:51.823
when I really started singing chants,
saying, okay, that's the same thing

00:34:52.590 --> 00:34:55.593
that a trumpet is doing in a traditional
big brass band.

00:34:56.094 --> 00:34:57.361
It's almost the same notes.

00:34:57.361 --> 00:34:59.597
And I told my nephew,
I said, Listen to the correlation.

00:35:00.331 --> 00:35:02.433
He's singing the same thing
that you would be playing

00:35:02.867 --> 00:35:05.870
if you were doing riffs as a trumpeter.

00:35:06.571 --> 00:35:09.941
So I could hear the correlation there
and I could hear the correlation

00:35:10.508 --> 00:35:11.309
and the rhythms

00:35:12.343 --> 00:35:14.912
of a traditional jazz band

00:35:15.513 --> 00:35:18.416
and what the Mardi Gras Indians do.

00:35:19.083 --> 00:35:21.586
And the accent

00:35:21.586 --> 00:35:22.820
is the same accent.

00:35:22.820 --> 00:35:24.388
You know, New Orleans music,

00:35:24.388 --> 00:35:27.091
Everything is like a tapestry of fabric.

00:35:27.091 --> 00:35:28.726
Everything is together.

00:35:28.726 --> 00:35:30.228
You listen to the Neville Brothers.

00:35:30.228 --> 00:35:32.797
Oh, that sounds like the Mardi Gras Indians.

00:35:33.297 --> 00:35:35.133
Listen to Professor Longhair.

00:35:35.133 --> 00:35:37.068
Oh, yeah, that
that part is the Mardi Gras Indians.

00:35:37.068 --> 00:35:39.537
You listen to Donald Harrison,

00:35:39.537 --> 00:35:40.805
Oh, yeah. That's where he got that from.

00:35:41.172 --> 00:35:43.541
You go to a funeral.
Of course there’s jazz funerals here.

00:35:44.208 --> 00:35:46.177
If you go to a wedding,

00:35:46.277 --> 00:35:47.812
there's going to be jazz.

00:35:47.812 --> 00:35:49.247
If you go

00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:52.183
to a parade, it's
going to be a jazz parade.

00:35:53.851 --> 00:35:57.088
It appears that they're about
to have a Social and Pleasure Club parade.

00:35:57.822 --> 00:36:01.859
They're called Neighborhood Productions.

00:36:01.859 --> 00:36:05.730
They’re organizations that come out
on Sundays and parade in the community.

00:36:06.030 --> 00:36:08.266
It's an African-American phenomenon.

00:36:08.266 --> 00:36:10.501
They bring beauty.

00:36:10.501 --> 00:36:13.871
And I think they’re pivotal,
just as the Mardi Gras Indians are,

00:36:13.871 --> 00:36:16.841
to rebuilding the neighborhood.

00:36:19.577 --> 00:36:22.046
Cultural traditions
are things that anchor communities.

00:36:22.680 --> 00:36:24.448
You've seen them before?

00:36:24.916 --> 00:36:27.351
You never seen ‘em?
Oh, well, you gotta see this.

00:36:28.052 --> 00:36:29.120
Don't leave.

00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:30.388
You about to see -

00:36:30.388 --> 00:36:31.722
You bouts to see somethin’.

00:36:46.037 --> 00:36:48.773
People come back from out of town
for these events.

00:36:49.040 --> 00:36:50.474
They come back

00:36:50.808 --> 00:36:53.644
for Indians practice

00:36:53.644 --> 00:36:56.380
on Sundays,  and Mardi Gras day
to see the Indians.

00:36:57.481 --> 00:36:59.784
They come back because they provide

00:36:59.784 --> 00:37:04.655
a spiritual connection.
And it definitely builds community

00:37:04.655 --> 00:37:07.124
because you're part of something
that's very special and unique

00:37:07.625 --> 00:37:09.994
and you feel part of a community.

00:37:09.994 --> 00:37:11.028
You don't necessarily feel

00:37:11.028 --> 00:37:14.799
part of the community
of the people who gather at City Hall.

00:37:14.799 --> 00:37:17.168
You feel part of this community

00:37:17.168 --> 00:37:19.270
because you have a voice
and you know it's for you.

00:37:19.270 --> 00:37:21.138
It’s about you.
It is you.

00:38:00.544 --> 00:38:02.513
From the oldest

00:38:02.513 --> 00:38:04.582
to the youngest,

00:38:04.582 --> 00:38:06.917
From the richest to the poorest,

00:38:07.418 --> 00:38:10.288
everyone knows these songs when they hear them.

00:38:11.822 --> 00:38:13.391
And they all get up

00:38:13.391 --> 00:38:16.627
and Second Line, which is ... the people who
didn’t pay any money

00:38:16.627 --> 00:38:19.563
to come to the parades.
We call them the Second Line

00:38:20.665 --> 00:38:23.334
because they join in
and just have fun for free.

00:38:23.868 --> 00:38:26.370
Now everybody Second Lines

00:38:26.671 --> 00:38:30.274
to what we call traditional jazz
in New Orleans and has a good time.

00:38:30.441 --> 00:38:32.643
That’s our cultural music.

00:38:51.162 --> 00:38:54.031
The first day care center was opened a
in half of this house.

00:38:54.332 --> 00:38:57.601
and I operated day nurseries for 32 years.

00:38:59.437 --> 00:39:01.839
My oldest daughter was six, I think.

00:39:03.641 --> 00:39:05.409
And my children are stair steps.

00:39:05.409 --> 00:39:07.178
Really steps.

00:39:07.178 --> 00:39:13.451
Like the first two are 13 months apart.
And the next two are 15 months apart.

00:39:13.451 --> 00:39:16.787
It’s like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:39:16.987 --> 00:39:18.556
They were like little teachers.

00:39:18.556 --> 00:39:20.791
my children, when they weren't in school,

00:39:20.825 --> 00:39:22.927
they would come in
in the afternoon and help.

00:39:22.927 --> 00:39:25.629
Like the grunts - you start off as a grunt

00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:28.299
take the diaper pail out, change diapers

00:39:28.299 --> 00:39:29.300
and stuff like that.

00:39:30.501 --> 00:39:32.803
Because I had to actually

00:39:33.337 --> 00:39:36.941
let him know:
“You can not do this continuously,

00:39:36.941 --> 00:39:40.544
because we have four children
and they have to be educated.

00:39:41.412 --> 00:39:44.648
So you have to stop.

00:39:44.648 --> 00:39:45.616
He did.

00:39:45.616 --> 00:39:47.651
He knew the value of education.

00:39:47.651 --> 00:39:50.388
He wanted his children
to be knowledgeable.

00:39:50.588 --> 00:39:54.558
He said knowledge is something
that no one can take away from you.

00:39:55.393 --> 00:39:57.361
You could take away anything.

00:39:57.361 --> 00:40:00.831
But you can't take away
the knowledge that I’ve acquired.

00:40:00.931 --> 00:40:03.434
So for 20 years he did not mask.

00:40:04.402 --> 00:40:07.571
I don’t know if they told you the story
of how my father would quiet us down

00:40:08.406 --> 00:40:09.707
when we were little.

00:40:09.707 --> 00:40:12.109
He had this recording of

00:40:12.109 --> 00:40:14.879
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
doing Salt Peanuts

00:40:15.112 --> 00:40:18.649
Live from Massey Hall,
where Dizzy Gillespie actually goes:

00:40:18.649 --> 00:40:20.151
Salt Peanuts!
Salt Peanuts.!

00:40:20.484 --> 00:40:23.020
So he would put the record on
and get us to go:

00:40:23.020 --> 00:40:24.822
Salt Peanuts!
Salt Peanuts!

00:40:25.923 --> 00:40:29.627
After a while, we would ... Salt Peanuts! Salt Peanuts!
Then he could go back to reading  the newspaper.

00:40:30.261 --> 00:40:32.630
We were hearing all this,
but not really knowing that

00:40:32.630 --> 00:40:36.167
we were absorbing this wonderful music,

00:40:36.534 --> 00:40:39.270
because when you're that young,
it’s like it’s noise.

00:40:39.370 --> 00:40:40.371
I do a lot of clinics

00:40:41.505 --> 00:40:43.073
in elementary schools.

00:40:43.073 --> 00:40:45.009
I use Salt Peanuts.

00:40:45.009 --> 00:40:47.178
All the students would see me, and go:
Salt Peanuts! Salt Peanuts!

00:40:47.178 --> 00:40:50.414
So it still works - to this day,

00:40:50.414 --> 00:40:53.684
You can get elementary school students
to love jazz with Salt Peanuts.

00:40:54.652 --> 00:40:55.953
As you get older

00:40:55.953 --> 00:40:56.520
you recall it.

00:40:56.520 --> 00:40:57.988
When you hear it again, you recall it.

00:40:57.988 --> 00:41:00.691
Oh.
I know that.

00:41:01.459 --> 00:41:03.227
Did that happen to you guys?

00:41:03.227 --> 00:41:06.730
Did you guys ...
Did you and Chris ever sing Salt Peanuts?

00:41:06.730 --> 00:41:08.399
Sing Salt Peanuts?
Yeah.

00:41:08.399 --> 00:41:11.469
Oh, yeah. And one time he played ...

00:41:11.469 --> 00:41:12.870
Yes. Yes he did.

00:41:14.371 --> 00:41:16.607
Salt Peanuts! Salt Peanuts!
Okay, Pawpaw...

00:41:16.607 --> 00:41:20.277
By the time we were born
he didn't play the record anymore.

00:41:20.277 --> 00:41:21.345
He would just scat it.

00:41:21.345 --> 00:41:24.114
[scats]

00:41:24.114 --> 00:41:26.650
Chris and Kiel.
Salt Peanuts! Salt Peanuts!

00:41:28.118 --> 00:41:29.019
Kiel Chris!
Salt Peanuts! Salt Peanuts!

00:41:29.720 --> 00:41:31.555
Kiel Chris!
Kiel Chris!

00:41:32.356 --> 00:41:35.993
I use my father's tactics to this day.

00:41:37.127 --> 00:41:41.031
And in 1988, he decided
he wanted to do it again.

00:41:41.198 --> 00:41:43.501
He started sewing first,
and then he formed the group.

00:41:43.901 --> 00:41:46.403
And then he gave it
the name Guardians of the Flame.

00:41:47.137 --> 00:41:50.641
He knew he was getting on in years

00:41:51.575 --> 00:41:55.212
and he was attempting, really, to create

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:58.349
something that would last

00:41:59.617 --> 00:42:01.619
past his time here.

00:42:02.319 --> 00:42:05.289
Long time ago after I be dead

00:42:06.023 --> 00:42:13.531
Guardians of Flame
going to keep me again - everybody be scared.

00:42:17.535 --> 00:42:19.336
my name is Brian Nelson,

00:42:19.336 --> 00:42:21.572
the Big Chief of the Guardians of the Flame
Mardi Gras Indians.

00:42:22.640 --> 00:42:24.508
I was basically born into it

00:42:24.508 --> 00:42:26.977
when I was a baby

00:42:26.977 --> 00:42:28.245
in my mother’s womb.

00:42:29.113 --> 00:42:30.915
My grandfather used to play

00:42:30.915 --> 00:42:32.783
Indian Red.

00:42:32.983 --> 00:42:35.719
And I've been doing it ever since.

00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:37.488
My grandfather passed away

00:42:37.488 --> 00:42:40.291
in 1998

00:42:41.725 --> 00:42:43.994
and he made me his Chief.

00:42:43.994 --> 00:42:45.429
He made me a Chief at that time -

00:42:46.096 --> 00:42:47.031
one month before he died

00:42:47.031 --> 00:42:53.137
he made me the Big Chief.
I was 16 years old at the time, okay?

00:42:53.938 --> 00:42:56.674
And here I was a Chief.

00:42:56.707 --> 00:42:59.877
You sit at the knees of the elders.

00:42:59.877 --> 00:43:00.711
You learn to sew.

00:43:00.711 --> 00:43:02.713
You learn to sing.

00:43:02.713 --> 00:43:05.583
You learn the social interaction of the tradition.

00:43:05.816 --> 00:43:08.185
It’s very formal.

00:43:08.852 --> 00:43:10.521
The transmission is

00:43:11.488 --> 00:43:12.556
in order.

00:43:12.556 --> 00:43:14.558
We're like African villages.

00:43:14.558 --> 00:43:16.093
We police ourselves.

00:43:16.093 --> 00:43:18.495
If there's an incident
at Indian practice,

00:43:18.495 --> 00:43:20.731
there's not an Indian in the city
that I know of. -

00:43:20.731 --> 00:43:23.601
unless he is scary -
that will call the police.

00:43:23.767 --> 00:43:24.668
We gonna handle it in the community.

00:43:24.668 --> 00:43:26.270
They handle their own stuff.

00:43:26.270 --> 00:43:27.871
It always was about being pretty.

00:43:27.871 --> 00:43:30.874
And of course,
they may have had some beefs

00:43:31.108 --> 00:43:34.712
and all of that stuff,
but they wanted to be pretty.

00:43:35.245 --> 00:43:40.551
Indians today, it’s not all that violence.
It’s like she said:  it’s all about looking pretty.

00:43:40.618 --> 00:43:41.719
That's what it's all about.

00:43:42.653 --> 00:43:44.955
It’s all about looking pretty.
And how good you can play.

00:43:46.290 --> 00:43:48.993
How good you can sing.
it's all about this kind of stuff.

00:43:49.293 --> 00:43:51.362
You have to realize
there are fewer than 500

00:43:51.829 --> 00:43:55.299
active Mardi Gras participants in the world,
probably at any given time.

00:43:56.333 --> 00:43:58.636
All the people in the world ,
there are only 500 people

00:43:59.470 --> 00:44:02.306
actively doing this, and maybe

00:44:03.707 --> 00:44:06.210
1500 that can.

00:44:08.145 --> 00:44:09.613
That's a pretty elite group.

00:44:09.780 --> 00:44:12.783
The processions are going to happen right there

00:44:12.783 --> 00:44:13.951
in the street

00:44:14.518 --> 00:44:18.188
This where it's authentically practiced.

00:44:18.355 --> 00:44:21.992
And I can sit on my porch
and wait for you to come and follow you.

00:44:22.526 --> 00:44:25.763
If I can't get enough when you pass
in front of my house, I can follow you for

00:44:26.130 --> 00:44:28.265
three or four, six, seven, 8 hours.

00:44:29.199 --> 00:44:30.901
Why would I pay?

00:44:30.901 --> 00:44:33.037
I'm getting the real deal.

00:44:35.005 --> 00:44:36.907
And the spiritual aspect of it.

00:44:36.907 --> 00:44:38.809
Because they get so much more from it.

00:44:38.809 --> 00:44:42.179
Because it's not that barrier
between the audience

00:44:43.013 --> 00:44:44.281
and the participants.

00:44:45.182 --> 00:44:46.283
We’re all together.

00:45:25.489 --> 00:45:29.593
Tonight is the annual Mardi Gras Indian

00:45:29.593 --> 00:45:31.128
Crystal Feather reception.

00:45:31.128 --> 00:45:32.463
And it's a dinner party.

00:45:32.463 --> 00:45:35.299
Just to say thank you.
It's our way of saying:

00:45:35.332 --> 00:45:37.367
Hey, come have a good time with the Indians.

00:45:42.005 --> 00:45:43.974
And we have a brass band to come in at the end

00:45:43.974 --> 00:45:46.810
because everything in New Orleans
ends with a brass band.

00:45:46.977 --> 00:45:51.281
We give an Elder Award.
We kinda make a big deal over the elders.

00:45:51.281 --> 00:45:53.283
And so where an elder

00:45:53.417 --> 00:45:57.387
maybe wouldn’t come and dance and have fun,

00:45:57.688 --> 00:46:00.958
we create a safe space
and we herald them for that.

00:46:01.859 --> 00:46:02.960
We herald that.

00:46:03.293 --> 00:46:05.395
Then it’s like they get this energy.

00:46:05.796 --> 00:46:07.164
I don't even know where it comes from.

00:46:07.164 --> 00:46:10.033
And they .... really ...

00:46:10.033 --> 00:46:13.170
When they get the energy, then everybody -
- young and old

00:46:13.270 --> 00:46:15.439
have to applaud that.

00:47:06.657 --> 00:47:10.294
I got in the circle once,

00:47:11.261 --> 00:47:14.531
since they have all that hype
about how violent it is ...

00:47:15.499 --> 00:47:19.536
And I know my husband is a tough cookie,
so he' can take care of himself.

00:47:19.536 --> 00:47:22.005
But my son was in that circle.  So I ....

00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:26.577
about ten people deep,
I got to the middle of that circle,

00:47:27.811 --> 00:47:28.846
he’s dancing with another Chief

00:47:28.846 --> 00:47:32.749
It’s an out of body experience.
It’s a transformation for them.

00:47:36.854 --> 00:47:40.390
I would say to any child that  have the experience

00:47:41.024 --> 00:47:44.528
of masking Mardi Gras Indian

00:47:45.462 --> 00:47:48.332
I think they would come into
a real revelation of what it is

00:47:48.332 --> 00:47:51.001
for the soul and spirit to meet.

00:48:18.695 --> 00:48:20.831
Carnival morning, 2006

00:48:20.831 --> 00:48:25.335
when my son came out of St Augustine's
church dressed

00:48:25.335 --> 00:48:27.537
in full Mardi Gras Indian regalia,

00:48:27.537 --> 00:48:30.674
looking like a prince or something.

00:48:30.674 --> 00:48:32.509
He was so regal looking.

00:48:33.543 --> 00:48:37.347
And I looked at my son and I thought, Wow,

00:48:37.981 --> 00:48:42.352
his father's spirit is still here
because he's doing what his father loved.

00:48:42.886 --> 00:48:45.555
I was realizing how close I am to Mardi Gras

00:48:47.024 --> 00:48:50.761
I’m getting to those patches.

00:48:50.761 --> 00:48:53.897
But I’m going to need your assistance.

00:48:54.932 --> 00:48:57.434
He’s asking early.

00:48:57.434 --> 00:48:58.835
Some patches.

00:48:58.835 --> 00:49:01.171
Oh, I know. I already know.

00:49:01.171 --> 00:49:02.739
I know that.

00:49:06.176 --> 00:49:08.078
If you keep it stagnant,

00:49:08.078 --> 00:49:12.783
If I did exactly what my father did -
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Sr. -

00:49:13.917 --> 00:49:15.919
then it wouldn’t be alive.

00:49:16.653 --> 00:49:20.057
I want to take it,
for me, to the roots

00:49:20.657 --> 00:49:22.960
and say I’m not even a Mardis Gras Indian anymore.

00:49:24.161 --> 00:49:28.498
I’m branching off
in another direction.

00:49:28.498 --> 00:49:30.634
And I have the utmost respect for everyone
who’re still part of that tradition

00:49:31.568 --> 00:49:34.171
But I'm not part of it anymore.

00:49:34.871 --> 00:49:36.873
I just have a group in New Orleans

00:49:36.873 --> 00:49:39.209
that perpetuates African culture.

00:49:39.476 --> 00:49:43.180
I love it. You've gone home

00:49:43.613 --> 00:49:44.247
Full circle.

00:49:44.514 --> 00:49:47.985
You've gone home and I really love that.

00:49:54.558 --> 00:49:56.893
It’s called Tipitina’s Intern Program

00:49:57.260 --> 00:49:59.696
where I teach

00:49:59.696 --> 00:50:02.866
young high school students
who are very talented

00:50:03.767 --> 00:50:07.637
get them to be at a professional level
when they're leaving high school

00:50:08.405 --> 00:50:11.408
so they can actually work and make money.

00:50:17.047 --> 00:50:18.315
1 - 2 - 3 - 4

00:50:22.586 --> 00:50:23.987
One more time.
Wake up, y’all.

00:50:24.588 --> 00:50:26.823
It’s night time.
You’re supposed to be awake

00:50:27.657 --> 00:50:30.527
So we're just going to do
4-bar sections.

00:50:30.527 --> 00:50:32.529
The first ... Hu Tah Nay?

00:50:40.537 --> 00:50:42.706
Really concentrate on the rhythm and read it.

00:50:42.706 --> 00:50:44.341
I know it’s a tricky rhythm

00:50:44.341 --> 00:50:46.410
because it's not giving
you anything to hold on to.

00:50:47.477 --> 00:50:49.880
You ready?
No, but try it anyway.

00:50:50.647 --> 00:50:53.450
You look like this.

00:50:53.450 --> 00:50:54.484
I want you to look like this.

00:50:54.484 --> 00:50:56.953
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:50:57.487 --> 00:50:58.922
Like you really mean it, OK?

00:50:58.922 --> 00:51:02.192
1 -2 - 3 - 4

00:51:14.971 --> 00:51:18.041
1 - 2 - 3 - 4

00:51:51.608 --> 00:52:05.522
I say, Mighty cootie fiyo,
Indian Red, Indian Red.

00:52:05.522 --> 00:52:09.493
Why should I say the word slave
when no one is born a slave?

00:52:09.593 --> 00:52:11.661
People are born human beings.

00:52:11.661 --> 00:52:15.765
So if it takes me 20 words to call it
on any particular day,

00:52:15.765 --> 00:52:19.002
depending upon the situation,
that's what it needs to be called.

00:52:19.002 --> 00:52:23.073
It needs to be called
a stolen human being.

00:52:23.073 --> 00:52:25.041
That's what it needs to be called.

00:52:25.041 --> 00:52:30.547
If it needs to be said
said that this child,

00:52:30.547 --> 00:52:33.750
whose mother was most likely raped

00:52:35.218 --> 00:52:36.887
so that

00:52:37.254 --> 00:52:42.492
this plantation owner
could have free labor,

00:52:42.492 --> 00:52:46.663
then that's what I need to say to say that.
Because it needs to be contextualized.

00:52:47.164 --> 00:52:51.635
Human beings are oppressed
systemically, intentionally

00:52:52.669 --> 00:52:55.438
systems are set up so that people function

00:52:55.438 --> 00:52:58.975
at what our society deems as successful.

00:53:00.143 --> 00:53:04.080
And yeah, I may be happy
because of the inherited

00:53:04.080 --> 00:53:06.716
generational trauma
that we have found a way

00:53:07.517 --> 00:53:10.620
to manifest as something joyful.

00:53:10.620 --> 00:53:14.191
But at the same time, why must our joy

00:53:14.858 --> 00:53:17.160
come from feeling

00:53:17.627 --> 00:53:21.298
when we have to live through this reality

00:53:21.598 --> 00:53:25.869
of systemic, institutionalized

00:53:27.404 --> 00:53:29.706
ways of keeping certain

00:53:29.706 --> 00:53:32.008
segments of society disenfranchised.

00:53:36.313 --> 00:53:38.281
Sankofa means to look back

00:53:38.281 --> 00:53:41.918
and this is actually
what Guardians Institute is all about.

00:53:41.918 --> 00:53:46.356
What we started
11 years ago

00:53:46.890 --> 00:53:49.025
and what we are continuing today

00:53:49.392 --> 00:53:54.364
is to try to encourage you
to look to your future

00:53:54.631 --> 00:54:00.170
and to try to build a healthy community
through art.

00:54:00.670 --> 00:54:05.542
And we're desirous of building a facility
just for this Institute

00:54:05.742 --> 00:54:08.845
because we don't actually have a facility
for the Institute,

00:54:09.312 --> 00:54:11.915
even though we had
a groundbreaking in February.

00:54:12.382 --> 00:54:15.318
And since this is the first site
of the Institute,

00:54:15.619 --> 00:54:18.555
we want to plant a tree there
in memory of the Chief.

00:54:19.189 --> 00:54:24.361
He said that children
should carry this tradition on.

00:54:24.894 --> 00:54:27.063
So  - you are the children.

00:54:31.701 --> 00:54:34.104
So that's where I've been -

00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.308
- trying to get the house together
and try to do this.

00:54:38.441 --> 00:54:40.710
But still doing the programs that we do,

00:54:41.311 --> 00:54:42.979
still doing that.

00:54:49.653 --> 00:54:52.822
When they get ready to export the culture
of Louisiana for tourists to come,

00:54:53.156 --> 00:54:55.191
they export what we do in the communities.

00:54:55.692 --> 00:54:58.228
So what happens? The culture is pimped.

00:54:58.561 --> 00:55:04.301
So now you have this wide array of people
pimping the culture to get money to serve

00:55:04.301 --> 00:55:08.838
a underserved audience so that they can
maintain their middle class existence.

00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:10.440
Mostly white.

00:55:11.141 --> 00:55:13.209
You come with your cameras

00:55:13.209 --> 00:55:15.879
you come and you shoot us.

00:55:15.879 --> 00:55:17.881
You get your best shot,

00:55:17.881 --> 00:55:20.317
and then you put brown bodies on the wall

00:55:21.151 --> 00:55:23.553
and sell them.

00:55:23.553 --> 00:55:27.123
You don't give them a name just like
they did in the logs, the manifests.

00:55:28.058 --> 00:55:29.225
You don't identify

00:55:30.593 --> 00:55:32.595
the group affiliation.

00:55:32.595 --> 00:55:35.365
If you do this,
you're very proud of the group you’re in.

00:55:36.066 --> 00:55:38.835
I will be a Guardian of the Flame
until the day I die.

00:55:39.402 --> 00:55:43.573
So if you put my picture up
and you say Sapphire Queen

00:55:43.940 --> 00:55:46.976
and not Cherice Harrison-Nelson
Guardians of the Flame,

00:55:47.210 --> 00:55:48.878
you are taking.

00:55:49.145 --> 00:55:51.881
If you put my picture up

00:55:51.881 --> 00:55:52.916
and you sell it for $500

00:55:53.350 --> 00:55:56.953
and you keep all of the money,
you are taking my labor.

00:55:57.354 --> 00:56:01.091
They’ll take the logo of people second-lining

00:56:01.758 --> 00:56:04.761
incorporate it, and they can’t even use it.

00:56:06.062 --> 00:56:07.964
You do it,
but we own it

00:56:11.167 --> 00:56:13.370
This is the Guardians Institute

00:56:13.770 --> 00:56:16.272
Here, it is.
It’s even bigger.

00:56:16.272 --> 00:56:18.842
This is the house and this is the lot.

00:56:18.842 --> 00:56:20.877
All right.  Isn’t that wonderful?

00:56:21.644 --> 00:56:23.580
Okay.

00:56:25.148 --> 00:56:28.618
Now all I got to do is go out
and a raise million dollars

00:56:28.952 --> 00:56:29.686
Think I can do it?

00:56:31.254 --> 00:56:33.223
Can I?

00:56:34.991 --> 00:56:37.961
Hey, the real Big Chief.

00:56:38.628 --> 00:56:40.864
Boom, boom, early that morning.
Hey, the real Big Chief.

00:56:40.864 --> 00:56:42.665
Who the real Big Chief?

00:56:42.665 --> 00:56:46.035
I mean, it's just a challenge,
but it's a mock challenge.

00:56:46.503 --> 00:56:48.805
I ain’t seen you.
I been to Congo Square.

00:56:48.938 --> 00:56:50.273
I been down by the bayou.

00:56:50.273 --> 00:56:52.175
I've been uptown,
I been downtown.

00:56:52.175 --> 00:56:53.877
I put the oil in the ground.

00:56:54.277 --> 00:56:55.478
I’m the one got the heart of steel.

00:56:55.478 --> 00:56:57.447
I was a little bitty boy.
Look at me.

00:56:57.447 --> 00:56:59.649
I’m a Big Chief with old-time ways.

00:57:04.654 --> 00:57:08.491
I remember when I was  a small child,
like maybe 3 or 4,

00:57:09.259 --> 00:57:12.695
getting dressed as a Mardi Gras Indian

00:57:12.695 --> 00:57:13.830
Someone would hold me

00:57:13.830 --> 00:57:16.166
or I'd be standing on the side.

00:57:16.166 --> 00:57:19.903
I just remember feathers
going really fast everywhere

00:57:21.004 --> 00:57:23.940
and drums being played and people singing.

00:57:28.511 --> 00:57:31.981
[Music : Two-Way Pockey Way]

00:57:45.428 --> 00:57:47.564
Brother!
You looking good, man!

00:57:47.564 --> 00:57:49.132
You looking good.

00:57:53.236 --> 00:57:54.537
Yeah! New Orleans!

00:57:59.976 --> 00:58:01.244
I ain't know no Indians come
in the Ninth Ward.

00:58:02.846 --> 00:58:04.514
We from uptown.
We been living here over 30 years.

00:58:04.514 --> 00:58:06.950
And I ain’t know they come this way.

00:58:06.950 --> 00:58:08.818
It's a historical house here, man.

00:58:11.921 --> 00:58:16.159
Young Guardians, here they come!
Young Guardians of the Flame!

00:58:24.801 --> 00:58:30.139
Big Chief, Donald Harrison, Sr!
I’m the Big Chief, Brian Nelson!

00:58:47.657 --> 00:58:50.860
We changed to a Maroon Society in 2012

00:58:52.095 --> 00:58:54.964
to embrace maroonism.

00:58:55.164 --> 00:58:56.833
Maroons by definition are

00:58:57.667 --> 00:59:01.037
Africans who self-emancipate themselves.
And we consider ourselves

00:59:01.037 --> 00:59:03.206
emancipated.

00:59:29.666 --> 00:59:31.968
This is the Legacy Stage.

00:59:31.968 --> 00:59:34.170
We have had events

00:59:34.170 --> 00:59:36.472
where people
who lived in this neighborhood

00:59:37.140 --> 00:59:40.043
before Hurricane Katrina came back

00:59:40.877 --> 00:59:43.446
who tried to revitalize this neighborhood.

00:59:43.846 --> 00:59:46.516
So we would have books for the kids

00:59:46.716 --> 00:59:50.186
barbecuing, grilling, all kinds of food.

00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:52.322
Just to say:
you came back,

00:59:52.522 --> 00:59:56.259
you tried to make a neighborhood again.

00:59:56.259 --> 00:59:57.760
Are we all ready?

01:00:23.653 --> 01:00:25.989
All I know is
if somebody wants to learn it,

01:00:25.989 --> 01:00:27.824
I want to pass it on.

01:00:27.824 --> 01:00:31.461
Because if those great musicians
hadn't taken the time to teach me

01:00:31.461 --> 01:00:33.963
and they didn't have the faith in me,

01:00:33.963 --> 01:00:36.299
I wouldn't be able to pass it on.

01:00:36.733 --> 01:00:37.467
They did it for me,

01:00:37.467 --> 01:00:39.702
so I'm doing it for everybody I can.

01:00:40.036 --> 01:00:42.105
It’s like the African proverb:

01:00:42.105 --> 01:00:44.107
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.

01:00:44.107 --> 01:00:45.208
How do you teach children?

01:00:45.208 --> 01:00:46.743
One little bit at a time

01:00:46.743 --> 01:00:48.411
that they can build something else on.

01:00:50.279 --> 01:00:51.481
I tell these guys:

01:00:51.481 --> 01:00:54.450
You guys have to know New Orleans music
back and forward

01:00:54.951 --> 01:00:57.120
Because that’s your heritage.

01:00:58.054 --> 01:00:59.689
When people of African descent

01:01:00.323 --> 01:01:02.392
came to America

01:01:02.859 --> 01:01:05.161
in the bowels of those ships,

01:01:05.428 --> 01:01:10.800
they were socialized in a manner
where they should forget their past.

01:01:11.868 --> 01:01:14.771
But in this tradition that did not happen.

01:01:15.872 --> 01:01:19.308
Every element about that masking tradition

01:01:19.709 --> 01:01:22.111
is about memory.

01:01:22.111 --> 01:01:25.381
Remembering that past.

01:01:26.749 --> 01:01:27.550
For children

01:01:27.550 --> 01:01:30.520
whose ancestors were
uprooted from their country

01:01:31.754 --> 01:01:33.056
and brought here

01:01:33.690 --> 01:01:36.959
and their names taken away from them.

01:01:37.660 --> 01:01:41.264
if you've had your names taken,
you've been taken from your land ...

01:01:41.631 --> 01:01:44.500
...but not to be bitter,

01:01:45.768 --> 01:01:49.472
but just to try to ...

01:01:49.472 --> 01:01:53.976
gain some pride
and some dignity for yourself,

01:01:53.976 --> 01:01:57.213
where you could stand up tall as a person

01:01:57.780 --> 01:02:00.817
and no matter what you didn't have,

01:02:01.784 --> 01:02:04.053
you found a way to do some things

01:02:04.053 --> 01:02:05.822
to bring honor and glory.

01:02:11.227 --> 01:02:13.262
And I have been blessed.

01:02:14.964 --> 01:02:17.800
And this is just my little space
in the world

01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:21.904
that I thought
that I could try to help create.

01:02:22.205 --> 01:02:24.207
I call it my footprint.

01:02:24.540 --> 01:02:27.143
I did something. I made a footprint.

01:02:28.411 --> 01:02:31.314
Guard your tradition.

01:02:31.314 --> 01:02:35.885
Guard your legacy.