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[sirens blaring]

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[horn honking]

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[laughs]

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I\'m a little scared right now
to go through this intersection.

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[rousing guitar]

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[Dawn]
This is the blindspot
right here.

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I\'m all paranoid, going through
the freakin\'... [laughs]

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[muffled call from dispatch]

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[Dawn]
I\'m not God.

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Not Superman,
not Superwoman.

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I\'m Dawn White.

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And...

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I do my part.

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[driving instrumental]

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[female
vocal harmony]

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A lot of people
that live here work.

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They want us to do a lot of
security checks through here.

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Get complaints
of the ATVs,

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cars driving fast...

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When the paydays come,

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or the disbursements,
their oil royalties,

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you\'ll see a spike of assaults.

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I\'ve gone to homes where kids,
they just continue to keep playing.

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but when they get
desensitized like that,

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that\'s a problem
for society.

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What if a woman
is getting raped, or beat?

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And she\'s screaming?

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How many times have you heard
where nobody called 9-1-1?

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Nobody...

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nobody did anything.

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[melancholy guitar]

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[muffled call from dispatch]

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[Dawn]
Don\'t you think that\'s
just kind of sad?

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That they become
desensitized to cries for help?

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That\'s how I feel.

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[melancholy guitar strumming]

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[guitar brightly
strumming]

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[Woman]
I think we were visiting one
of my mom\'s high school friends

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and I was so bored.

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So my mom said, \"Why don\'t
you try to cross-stitch?\"

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She didn\'t do it.
So I sat down on one summer

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and just read the book
on how to do it.

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And it was
pretty easy, so.

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A lot of people are
surprised to see me do it,

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because it seems
very like, sort of

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old lady domestic.

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But...my products are not
necessarily traditional.

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[Western-style guitar]

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My name is Sarah Deer.

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I\'m a citizen of the
Muscogee Creek nation
of Oklahoma.

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I\'m a lawyer, professor,
and advocate.

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I started working on the issue
of violence against Native women

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as an undergraduate law
student at the age of 20.

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And ever since then,
I have tried to build my life

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my career, my passion,
around the lives and safety

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of Native women.

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It seems to me that all of the
challenges that Native people

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and Native nations
are experiencing today

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all connect to rape.

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So if we look and say,

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we\'ve got this huge
alcohol and drug problem.

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Why are people medicating
themselves

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with alcohol and drugs?

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Because they\'ve
experienced trauma.

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We say, why do we have
such a high suicide rate

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in our Native nations?

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Why are people
killing themselves?

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It\'s because
they were raped.

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We can look at questions about
fetal alcohol syndrome.

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Why are women drinking
during pregnancy?

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Because maybe the pregnancy
was a result of rape.

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For me, it just all connects
at that very rudimentary level

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People are being raped,
therefore,

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these various social harms
are happening.

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[Dawn]
This plate might possibly
be enrolled,

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or I mean, is enrolled,
but might possibly be...

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[indistinct response
from dispatch]

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[sirens blaring]

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[Dawn]
Okey-dokey.

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Alright.
I guess we\'ll be running
code to Parshall then.

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[Western-style guitar]

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[Dawn]
I have been working for more
than 8 years now, off and on,

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in law enforcement
services.

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I\'m an Arikara woman,
US Veteran, eight years.

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Um.

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Other than that,
I\'m...

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I\'m Dawn White.

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[Male Officer]
I was like, yeah,
I got PTSD real bad,

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and I started talking about,
like, military stuff.

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And then he\'s like--

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-[Dawn] Gadewoltz!
-What?

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[Dawn]
Look that way.

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What? I don\'t have
no hickeys or nothing.

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[Dawn]
Jesus H. Christ!

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[laughter]

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[Male Officer]
What?

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What are you
Jesus H. Christ-ing about?

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[Dawn]
-That looks like
goddamn hickeys to me!

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-That\'s a scar
from the military.

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-Ah, bullshit.
Those are just red.

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See? Look!

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Does that look like
a hickey?

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[laughter]

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Is she doing video?

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[Dawn]
I joined the military

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because I needed to get away
from Fort Berthold

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And it was something
that I wanted to do.

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I was 19 years old
when I left,

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and to be in
different cultures,

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it is a culture shock.

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Being a Native female, um,

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when people would
look at me,

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the way I would speak,
or the way I would talk.

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Right off the bat,
you know: \"you\'re not white\"

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You know?

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\"And you\'re not Hispanic.\"
You know, and uh,

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\"well - what are you?\"

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And then I\'d tell them,
I\'m like, I\'m Arikara.

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I\'m from Fort Berthold
Indian Reservation.

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And when you say Fort Berthold
Indian Reservation...

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they think like,
this big stockade,

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and we\'re living
in teepees,

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and you know, we\'re still in
buckskin and moccasins

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and I was like...Okay, people.
You know? [laughs]

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When it came to dating,
there would be ones

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that only wanted to go out
with me because, as they put it,

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\"Oh, I\'ve never been
with a real Indian before.\"

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And I was like,

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well, you\'re not gonna
go out with me now.

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You know, I was like,
I\'m not an oddity.

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And that\'s how I felt.

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I don\'t feel like other races
really look at us as

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a true human being.

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We\'re a novelty,
or we\'re, you know,

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we\'re something...in a museum.

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That should be in a museum
or something.

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How you look at something
in a museum.

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It\'s not real.

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It was something
of the past.

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[indistinct chatter
from radio]

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10-4.

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I’ll be 10 to 2.

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-Hello, Sergeant Dawn White,

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Three Affiliated Tribes
Law Enforcement.

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Reason for the stop is you
did a U-turn on a one-way.

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This is a one-way, sir.

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A part of my life
I really don\'t talk about

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is being in the military,
is um...

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I was a victim of a
sexual assault there.

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And, um,

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it took me a long time
not to tell anybody

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or talk about it
or say anything.

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When you\'re a female
and you first come in,

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they do tell you
the statistics.

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You have a high chance
of being assaulted.

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And I remember this one colonel,
she got up and she said,

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\"If it\'s happening,
you need to just lay there

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and not fight back.\"

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And I stood up and I said,

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\"How can you say
that kind of statement

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when we\'re soldiers?

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You train us to fight.\"

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You know, and then,

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I guess you have
to know it,

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when it actually does
happen to you,

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what\'s going through
the motions.

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You...

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can\'t do anything
for yourself.

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You\'re in such a
shocked stage that

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you don\'t...
you can\'t scream.

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You can\'t, you know,

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yell. You can\'t...
you can\'t fight.

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You just-- you\'re stuck
in your body.

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[ominous music]

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[Dawn]
It\'s never gonna
go away.

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And anybody
that tells you that,

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it\'s never gonna
go away.

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It\'s there.

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It does carry over
to the job.

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Investigating
sexual assaults.

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I know what that fear is.
I know how it grips you.

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I want to catch
this person for them.

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I want to bring them
to justice.

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Because the only thing
that the person

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that did that to me got

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was just kicked out
of the military,

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and not allowed to re-up

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and a dishonorable
discharge.

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Was that enough?

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Probably not.

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But it\'s something that
I had to accept.

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[somber guitar]

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[Sarah]
I mean racism,

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It\'s sort of ever-present in the
lives of Native women.

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You ask an average American
to name a Native woman.

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They’re gonna say
Pocahontas, Sacagawea.

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So when you think about
those iconic images

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of Sacagawea
and Pocahontas,

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those stories are
very much about

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those women\'s roles for men.
Right?

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At the service of men.

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So that\'s what the average
American thinks of.

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They don\'t think of
independent Native women.

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They think of
subservient Native women,

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they think of
drunk Native women,

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they think of...you know,
hottie Native women.

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but they don\'t really
think of an independent...

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person, with the
self-determination

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and the honor to be
just a person.

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Because I think
Native women

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are so highly sexualized
and stereotyped,

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predators are
attracted to them.

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They see her, and they think
...safe victim.

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Right? I can
attack this person,

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because no system
really values their life,

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or their experience.

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[gentle foreboding guitar]

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[insects chirping]

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[Little Boy]
-What\'s that?

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[Woman]
-Do they smell funny?

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Here.

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Are those for your dad?

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-Yeah.
-I like them.

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For when he gets home
from work?

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Yeah.

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[Western-style guitar]

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My name is
Loreline Lacroix.

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I\'m from Red Lake,
Minnesota, and I live in

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White Bear Lake,
Minnesota.

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I currently am working
with women

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in the Fort Berthold
Reservation area.

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I\'m working on issues
of sexual assault,

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domestic violence,
and prostitution.

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So when I was about 2 years old

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I started seeing my mom
getting beaten.

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I seen her crying a lot.

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I seen her
sexually assaulted.

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And I remember I used to hide
behind a chair, similar to these

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and just peek around the corner,
wondering if it was over yet.

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I was just a witness, and so for mr
me it was normalized, you know?

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When you see that
consistently happening,

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and you hide
behind something,

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it just becomes normal.
A normal behavior,

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especially at such
a young age.

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My stepfather had his first
felony case

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of child abuse against me
at the age of two.

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As I grew older,

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when I was nine years old,
I was sexually assaulted

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for the first time.
Molested.

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Um.

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And then I was raped
at the age of 12.

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Around that period
of time,

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my mom started having
a lot of relationships.

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And they were
unhealthy relationships.

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They were a lot of

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men coming in and out
of her life.

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And as a result of that,
my sister was raped.

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My sister was molested, and
her best friend was raped

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by one of my mom\'s
boyfriends.

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And that night--
I remember that night,

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because I could hear them

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crying in the other room,
whimpering.

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And my sister was maybe
seven years old,

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eight years old,
nine years old.

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And I knew it was
something bad because,

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the way she was crying,
she was petrified.

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And she was looking
out the back window,

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and she was just scared.

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And I told her,

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if she didn\'t tell me
why she was crying,

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I was gonna beat her up.

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I didn\'t know
what else to say.

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And she wouldn\'t tell me.

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And she was just
hysterical.

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And I looked
out the window,

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and I could see shadows
behind the garage.

00:16:33.993 --> 00:16:35.327
It was my mom\'s
boyfriend.

00:16:35.327 --> 00:16:38.197
He had my sister\'s
best friend,

00:16:38.197 --> 00:16:40.265
and he was raping her
behind our garage.

00:16:41.166 --> 00:16:42.401
She started telling me

00:16:42.868 --> 00:16:44.737
this had been going on
for a long time.

00:16:45.504 --> 00:16:47.072
And I kept looking
at my little sister,

00:16:47.072 --> 00:16:48.874
and she was so tiny.

00:16:49.274 --> 00:16:50.376
I kept thinking to
myself,

00:16:50.376 --> 00:16:53.178
why is this happening
to her? Why not me?

00:16:53.379 --> 00:16:54.413
Why didn\'t he choose me?

00:16:54.413 --> 00:16:56.782
I\'m a developed young lady
at this point.

00:16:56.782 --> 00:16:58.884
Why is he choosing
my younger sister?

00:16:59.451 --> 00:17:01.720
Once my mom brought
the situation up to him,

00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.689
he beat my mom
from head to toe.

00:17:04.289 --> 00:17:05.924
When she was 26 years old,

00:17:05.924 --> 00:17:07.893
my sister called me
one night and told me,

00:17:07.893 --> 00:17:10.396
I\'m giving you one hour
to get here.

00:17:10.396 --> 00:17:11.597
If you don\'t get here
in one hour,

00:17:11.597 --> 00:17:12.931
I\'m gonna kill myself.

00:17:12.931 --> 00:17:13.966
[sobs]

00:17:14.700 --> 00:17:18.404
And my sister was
so strong.

00:17:18.404 --> 00:17:21.540
She called me and she said,
I\'ve lost my mind.

00:17:22.741 --> 00:17:24.443
I\'ve been at work today,
and I\'ve been serving

00:17:24.443 --> 00:17:27.046
empty tables all day long.

00:17:27.479 --> 00:17:29.481
[ominous instrumental]

00:17:33.585 --> 00:17:35.554
My sister\'s developed
schizophrenia

00:17:35.554 --> 00:17:37.289
because of the rape.

00:17:37.289 --> 00:17:38.657
Because of not having

00:17:38.657 --> 00:17:41.393
social support systems
in place to deal

00:17:41.393 --> 00:17:44.496
with the traumatic event
that happened to her.

00:17:51.270 --> 00:17:53.238
When you talk to
victims of violence,

00:17:53.238 --> 00:17:55.808
oftentimes, we do
take responsibility

00:17:55.808 --> 00:17:58.944
for our perpetrator\'s
actions.

00:17:59.678 --> 00:18:01.346
Only because we feel like

00:18:01.346 --> 00:18:05.017
somebody has to take
responsibility.

00:18:08.954 --> 00:18:11.256
[somber guitar]

00:18:18.831 --> 00:18:20.332
[Loreline mumbles
a question]

00:18:20.999 --> 00:18:22.501
[Younger Boy]
Wambdi, can I have one?

00:18:22.501 --> 00:18:23.602
Who are you playing with?

00:18:23.936 --> 00:18:25.504
No one.
Chontay is there.

00:18:25.504 --> 00:18:26.805
Really? What\'s he doing?

00:18:27.639 --> 00:18:30.042
[Loreline]
As an adult, I grew up
and had my first

00:18:30.042 --> 00:18:32.544
um, domestic violence
relationship at 18.

00:18:32.811 --> 00:18:35.180
Started becoming a pattern
of behavior where I would

00:18:35.180 --> 00:18:37.483
seek out relationships
that were unhealthy.

00:18:37.716 --> 00:18:39.618
And then I met
my husband, and I--

00:18:39.618 --> 00:18:40.652
for the first time
in my life,

00:18:40.652 --> 00:18:42.554
I was in a relationship
where I wasn\'t being

00:18:42.554 --> 00:18:46.391
violated in some physical
or sexual sense, and

00:18:46.391 --> 00:18:49.161
for me it was an awakening
that I had to change

00:18:49.161 --> 00:18:50.963
the way that my life
was going,

00:18:50.963 --> 00:18:53.465
or I was no longer
gonna be alive.

00:18:57.402 --> 00:19:00.139
You take those traumas,
and those...

00:19:00.139 --> 00:19:03.342
that broken spirit, and
you somehow try and mend it.

00:19:03.342 --> 00:19:05.911
And it\'s a slow process.

00:19:05.911 --> 00:19:08.080
And you have to
work at it.

00:19:08.213 --> 00:19:09.982
And you have to learn
to love yourself again

00:19:09.982 --> 00:19:11.650
when you didn\'t
love yourself before,

00:19:11.650 --> 00:19:13.719
because you felt that
nobody could love you.

00:19:13.719 --> 00:19:17.322
How could somebody love you
and do this to you?

00:19:21.226 --> 00:19:26.865
[spare slide guitar]

00:19:37.276 --> 00:19:39.411
I currently am working
with women

00:19:39.411 --> 00:19:41.747
in the Fort Berthold
Reservation area.

00:19:42.080 --> 00:19:43.882
I\'m working on issues
of sexual assault,

00:19:43.882 --> 00:19:46.552
domestic violence,
and prostitution.

00:19:46.552 --> 00:19:47.452
Like I tell the women:

00:19:47.452 --> 00:19:49.188
When you talk to me,
you\'re talking to me.

00:19:49.188 --> 00:19:51.190
Anything you divulge to me
stays with me.

00:19:51.190 --> 00:19:53.125
Anything I can do for you,
I\'m gonna do for you.

00:19:53.125 --> 00:19:55.727
I don\'t have boundaries.
I don\'t have a 9-5

00:19:55.861 --> 00:19:57.296
where I clock in,
and I clock out.

00:19:57.296 --> 00:19:59.798
My phone is open
24 hours.

00:19:59.798 --> 00:20:01.900
When you call me,
I\'m gonna answer.

00:20:01.900 --> 00:20:03.302
You know, when I
respond to a call,

00:20:03.302 --> 00:20:05.437
I\'m able to see myself
in that woman.

00:20:05.437 --> 00:20:06.972
All the shit
that I been through.

00:20:06.972 --> 00:20:08.307
I\'m able to somehow

00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:09.575
deal with it.

00:20:09.875 --> 00:20:12.878
So I\'m able to fix
my human spirit,

00:20:12.878 --> 00:20:14.079
my spirit,

00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:16.448
through helping
other women.

00:20:19.051 --> 00:20:21.486
I feel like I’ve been
damned my whole damn life,

00:20:21.486 --> 00:20:23.555
and that through some
grace of God,

00:20:23.822 --> 00:20:26.658
or whatever the--
whatever the being is

00:20:26.658 --> 00:20:28.760
that\'s given me
this grace, it\'s...

00:20:28.894 --> 00:20:30.162
it\'s somehow
letting me fix

00:20:30.162 --> 00:20:32.431
everything that\'s been
wrong in my life.

00:20:42.407 --> 00:20:44.743
Rape survivors blame
themselves.

00:20:44.743 --> 00:20:47.412
I think that\'s one of the most
common features

00:20:47.412 --> 00:20:48.447
of surviving rape

00:20:48.747 --> 00:20:51.316
is, \"I should have.\"
\"I could have.\"

00:20:51.316 --> 00:20:52.484
\"I wish I had.\"

00:20:52.851 --> 00:20:58.523
Um, and that - that self-blame
is somehow--

00:20:58.523 --> 00:21:02.094
it\'s sometimes as harmful
as the rape itself.

00:21:02.527 --> 00:21:05.530
You\'ve been violated in the most
serious way that you can be

00:21:05.530 --> 00:21:06.932
and left alive.

00:21:06.932 --> 00:21:10.202
And now, you\'re
feeling like...

00:21:10.535 --> 00:21:12.638
\"I could have stopped it.\"

00:21:12.638 --> 00:21:16.141
And that gets in the way
of healing.

00:21:16.475 --> 00:21:19.211
And that\'s why accountability
is so important.

00:21:19.211 --> 00:21:21.113
If the perpetrators...

00:21:21.113 --> 00:21:23.148
are not being held
accountable,

00:21:23.148 --> 00:21:25.484
then who\'s left to sort of
take the blame?

00:21:25.484 --> 00:21:26.852
It\'s the victim.

00:21:26.852 --> 00:21:28.353
And she hates
herself for it,

00:21:28.353 --> 00:21:30.188
and she thinks that, um,

00:21:30.188 --> 00:21:32.691
she deserved it,
at the end of the day.

00:21:32.691 --> 00:21:36.228
And again, you see the parallel
with Native nations.

00:21:36.995 --> 00:21:38.864
You know, maybe we
were a weak people.

00:21:38.864 --> 00:21:41.166
Maybe we didn\'t have
the strength to survive

00:21:41.166 --> 00:21:42.734
as a sovereign nation.

00:21:42.901 --> 00:21:44.970
Maybe we don\'t deserve
to be sovereign.

00:21:45.304 --> 00:21:48.140
I mean, it\'s a real
interesting parallel

00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:50.309
between what those women
are experiencing

00:21:50.309 --> 00:21:52.177
and what the nation
has gone through.

00:21:54.980 --> 00:21:57.349
[machines screeching]

00:22:03.188 --> 00:22:05.857
[industrial noise
intensifies]

00:22:09.928 --> 00:22:13.665
Prepared for it or not, it came.

00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:16.768
And now we\'re dealing
with it.

00:22:17.836 --> 00:22:20.605
The oil industry
brought the workers.

00:22:20.605 --> 00:22:23.342
This is a 24-7 business.

00:22:23.875 --> 00:22:26.511
The transients,
the \"man camps,\"

00:22:26.511 --> 00:22:28.180
the sex offenders...

00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:31.750
Coffee sometimes just
doesn\'t cut it for them.

00:22:32.250 --> 00:22:35.754
They need a stimulant.
You know, meth industry...

00:22:37.556 --> 00:22:40.392
You gotta look at the drug
dealers as businessmen, too.

00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:43.962
They seen an opportunity,
they seized it.

00:22:44.930 --> 00:22:47.232
They\'re going where
the money\'s at.

00:22:47.432 --> 00:22:49.534
The money\'s right here.

00:22:50.602 --> 00:22:54.573
It\'s uh, situations
we\'ve never had before.

00:22:54.573 --> 00:22:59.745
Academy? Academy doesn\'t teach
you how to do a pursuit

00:22:59.745 --> 00:23:01.947
on a semi driver.

00:23:02.781 --> 00:23:05.784
I mean, who’s gonna win
in that situation?!

00:23:06.418 --> 00:23:09.221
[Sarah]
The idea that you have
a huge influx

00:23:09.221 --> 00:23:13.825
of men who feel entitled to
money and resources and women...

00:23:14.059 --> 00:23:17.329
it\'s the same story
of the Gold Rush.

00:23:17.329 --> 00:23:20.265
Colonialism, sometimes, people
all put in the past tense.

00:23:20.632 --> 00:23:21.833
They say \"well,
that happened.\"

00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:23.235
\"Christopher Columbus came,

00:23:23.235 --> 00:23:26.671
and then we had Indian Wars
and reservations.

00:23:26.671 --> 00:23:28.407
And that was all
in the past.\"

00:23:28.507 --> 00:23:31.276
It\'s very present
in the lives of survivors,

00:23:31.276 --> 00:23:32.811
and in the lives
of Native people.

00:23:32.811 --> 00:23:35.981
Because they see every day,
they see their land being taken,

00:23:35.981 --> 00:23:38.750
they see their rights being
taken, they see court cases

00:23:38.750 --> 00:23:41.319
basically dehumanizing
them all over again.

00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:43.922
So colonialism is still very
much part of our lives

00:23:43.922 --> 00:23:46.024
as Native people.
It hasn\'t ended.

00:23:46.191 --> 00:23:49.161
I think along with, um,
sort of the colonial

00:23:49.161 --> 00:23:51.763
Manifest Destiny
philosophy,

00:23:51.763 --> 00:23:55.267
there\'s an assumption that
Native bodies and Native land,

00:23:55.434 --> 00:23:58.537
are open for anyone.

00:23:58.537 --> 00:24:01.006
That no permission
is needed to

00:24:01.006 --> 00:24:04.543
attack a Native body,
or invade Native land.

00:24:05.377 --> 00:24:08.680
It\'s almost like Native women
are rapeable.

00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:10.782
Like they\'re seen as
rapeable because,

00:24:10.782 --> 00:24:12.651
there\'s not gonna be any
accountability,

00:24:12.651 --> 00:24:15.787
and they\'re not
valued people, anyway.

00:24:18.390 --> 00:24:20.192
[industrial humming]

00:24:22.727 --> 00:24:25.130
[somber guitar]

00:24:34.406 --> 00:24:36.341
[Sarah]
So this, um, this is
one of my favorites.

00:24:36.341 --> 00:24:40.912
Um, my grandpa was really...
[laughing] outspoken.

00:24:40.912 --> 00:24:43.748
And he was really mad
about a minimum wage fight

00:24:43.748 --> 00:24:45.650
in the Kansas legislature.

00:24:45.650 --> 00:24:47.185
And he said some
things to the press

00:24:47.185 --> 00:24:48.887
that I thought were
really out there, like,

00:24:48.887 --> 00:24:50.889
\"I\'m gonna get a tomahawk
and do some chopping.\"

00:24:50.889 --> 00:24:53.058
Like, Grandpa,
you didn\'t say \"tomahawk.\"

00:24:53.058 --> 00:24:56.328
And he\'s like...\"Well, I wasn\'t
getting anywhere

00:24:56.328 --> 00:24:57.229
with anything else,

00:24:57.229 --> 00:24:59.231
so I thought I would
pull that out.\"

00:24:59.231 --> 00:25:02.100
I was like, \"I don\'t think
you should\'ve said that.\"

00:25:02.901 --> 00:25:04.269
[Sarah]
Anyway, we have
this around,

00:25:04.269 --> 00:25:06.438
and of course
I adore Obama.

00:25:06.438 --> 00:25:10.876
And as you know, he has been
the champion of Native women.

00:25:10.876 --> 00:25:13.211
The first president really
to take up the cause.

00:25:13.712 --> 00:25:15.514
So, um, it\'s nice
to have him around.

00:25:15.514 --> 00:25:16.448
But sometimes...

00:25:17.048 --> 00:25:19.718
Sometimes, he needs
to be put in time-out.

00:25:19.718 --> 00:25:21.720
You know? Because he is
the federal...

00:25:22.220 --> 00:25:24.890
the face of the
federal government.

00:25:24.890 --> 00:25:26.591
Not all his policies
are good.

00:25:26.691 --> 00:25:27.759
But, um,

00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:31.129
but he hangs around in my office
to keep me company.

00:25:31.696 --> 00:25:33.098
Professor Deer?

00:25:33.098 --> 00:25:35.033
American Indian and
Alaska Native women

00:25:35.033 --> 00:25:37.369
are also significantly
more likely

00:25:37.369 --> 00:25:38.603
to have experienced
violence

00:25:38.603 --> 00:25:40.705
by an interracial
perpetrator.

00:25:40.705 --> 00:25:42.274
and significantly
less likely

00:25:42.274 --> 00:25:43.942
to experience violence

00:25:43.942 --> 00:25:46.044
by an intra-racial
perpetrator

00:25:46.044 --> 00:25:48.380
when compared to
non-Indian victims.

00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:49.381
This matters

00:25:49.381 --> 00:25:52.484
because tribal nations,
with one exception,

00:25:52.484 --> 00:25:55.053
are not allowed to
prosecute non-Indians

00:25:55.053 --> 00:25:56.087
for any crime.

00:25:56.421 --> 00:25:58.657
[Patrick Leahy]
Welcome Senator Sessions
and Mrs. Sessions.

00:25:58.657 --> 00:26:01.393
Let\'s deal with the
Violence Against Women Act

00:26:01.393 --> 00:26:02.727
that you voted against.

00:26:03.094 --> 00:26:06.231
You strongly opposed

00:26:06.231 --> 00:26:09.301
the Violence Against Women
Reauthorization Act

00:26:09.301 --> 00:26:10.902
of 2013.

00:26:10.902 --> 00:26:13.738
Spoke against it.
You voted against it.

00:26:14.239 --> 00:26:15.840
That law expanded
protections

00:26:15.840 --> 00:26:17.442
for some of the most
vulnerable groups

00:26:17.442 --> 00:26:21.012
of domestic violence and
sexual assault survivors.

00:26:21.446 --> 00:26:23.648
Uh, so when we voted
in the committee,

00:26:23.648 --> 00:26:27.085
8 of the 9 Republicans
voted against the bill.

00:26:27.419 --> 00:26:30.088
One of the more
concerning provisions

00:26:30.322 --> 00:26:34.192
was a provision that gave
tribal courts, uh,

00:26:34.492 --> 00:26:40.098
jurisdiction to try persons who
were not, um, tribal members.

00:26:40.365 --> 00:26:46.871
If you are a tribal woman, and
you are raped on Native land,

00:26:47.539 --> 00:26:50.809
tribes don\'t have any authority
over that perpetrator

00:26:50.809 --> 00:26:53.945
if he\'s a non-Indian,
even if he\'s your husband.

00:26:54.145 --> 00:26:58.550
The local police in that area
don\'t have any authority.

00:26:58.850 --> 00:27:01.886
The county sheriff doesn\'t
have any authority.

00:27:02.053 --> 00:27:04.889
The state trooper can\'t come in
and arrest him.

00:27:05.190 --> 00:27:07.525
And the only person

00:27:07.525 --> 00:27:10.528
that has any authority
over that non-Indian

00:27:11.529 --> 00:27:13.531
is some federal agent

00:27:14.065 --> 00:27:18.470
in Madison, Wisconsin,
500 miles away!

00:27:19.204 --> 00:27:22.073
[sirens blaring]

00:27:24.175 --> 00:27:25.977
[muffled voice on the phone]

00:27:25.977 --> 00:27:27.379
Hi, this is
Sergeant Dawn White.

00:27:27.379 --> 00:27:29.514
Three Affiliated Tribes
Law Enforcement.

00:27:29.881 --> 00:27:30.682
Um.

00:27:30.915 --> 00:27:35.086
I guess you called 9-1-1,
but if all parties involved

00:27:35.086 --> 00:27:39.724
are non-Native, um...
I -I can\'t arrest anybody.

00:27:40.325 --> 00:27:41.593
[Man on Phone]
Goddamn...

00:27:42.360 --> 00:27:46.164
[Dawn]
That\'s one of the things
that is hard for me, to tell

00:27:46.164 --> 00:27:55.206
a Native whose aggressor,
or the suspect, is non-enrolled.

00:27:55.840 --> 00:27:59.444
There might not be
an arrest made right now.

00:28:01.346 --> 00:28:02.347
I don\'t like that.

00:28:02.914 --> 00:28:05.216
We don\'t have
jurisdiction over

00:28:05.216 --> 00:28:07.952
non-Indians, in terms of
criminal authority.

00:28:08.253 --> 00:28:11.022
Tribes can\'t prosecute
most non-Indians

00:28:11.022 --> 00:28:14.392
for things they do to Native
women on the reservation.

00:28:14.526 --> 00:28:18.596
Now, most of the perpetrators
of violence against Native women

00:28:18.596 --> 00:28:20.098
are non-Native.

00:28:20.598 --> 00:28:22.701
It\'s a really
significant fact,

00:28:22.701 --> 00:28:26.905
because most crime
in America is intra-racial.

00:28:27.238 --> 00:28:31.109
So, a white woman is more likely
to have a white perpetrator.

00:28:31.309 --> 00:28:34.913
And the only exception to that
general rule is Native women.

00:28:35.146 --> 00:28:38.416
And tribes don\'t have
jurisdiction over those men.

00:28:39.084 --> 00:28:44.589
The irony is the federal system
simply has ignored Native women.

00:28:44.789 --> 00:28:48.593
They are the responders,
and they don\'t respond.

00:28:49.227 --> 00:28:53.231
So, it has created sort of a
jurisdictional vacuum.

00:28:53.231 --> 00:28:56.835
It\'s created sort of a
protection for these

00:28:56.835 --> 00:28:59.471
non-Native men,
largely white men,

00:28:59.471 --> 00:29:01.306
who commit crimes
against their wives,

00:29:01.306 --> 00:29:04.943
their girlfriends...
strangers, neighbors.

00:29:04.943 --> 00:29:07.312
and the tribe can\'t do
anything to stop them.

00:29:07.445 --> 00:29:08.680
It\'s not that...

00:29:08.913 --> 00:29:10.815
because my
great-grandmother

00:29:10.815 --> 00:29:11.783
and my grandmother,

00:29:11.783 --> 00:29:13.651
and my mother were raped,
I will be raped.

00:29:13.651 --> 00:29:15.987
It\'s because
perpetrators know

00:29:15.987 --> 00:29:19.023
that great-grandma,
and grandma and mom\'s case

00:29:19.023 --> 00:29:20.458
was never prosecuted.

00:29:24.095 --> 00:29:25.764
[melancholy guitar]

00:29:36.207 --> 00:29:37.842
As an enrolled member of
the White Earth Ojibwe

00:29:37.842 --> 00:29:39.277
Nation in Minnesota,

00:29:39.277 --> 00:29:40.879
I live, work, and
raise my children

00:29:40.879 --> 00:29:42.180
on my reservation.

00:29:42.180 --> 00:29:43.314
I have worked
for over 15 years

00:29:43.314 --> 00:29:44.549
addressing
domestic violence

00:29:44.549 --> 00:29:46.184
and sexual assault
of Native women.

00:29:46.184 --> 00:29:48.219
I have witnessed and heard
countless stories

00:29:48.219 --> 00:29:50.355
of human trafficking
occurring, to the point

00:29:50.355 --> 00:29:53.892
we have girls as young as
12 years old who are victims.

00:29:54.125 --> 00:29:56.561
We have mothers who call local
county sheriff\'s departments

00:29:56.561 --> 00:29:58.797
reporting their daughters
missing only to be told,

00:29:58.797 --> 00:30:00.732
\"We have better things
to do with our time.\"

00:30:00.732 --> 00:30:02.200
Or, \"Why don\'t you be a mother,

00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:03.835
and know where the hell
your daughter is?\"

00:30:03.902 --> 00:30:06.304
Native women experience
violent victimization

00:30:06.304 --> 00:30:09.140
at a higher rate than
any other U.S. population.

00:30:20.718 --> 00:30:24.022
[Lisa]
My step-father is
non-Indian.

00:30:24.022 --> 00:30:27.992
He\'s white.
And he was very brutal.

00:30:27.992 --> 00:30:30.261
I mean, the violence
in our home was just...

00:30:30.728 --> 00:30:34.833
it was just really bloody.
It was really...really horrific.

00:30:34.833 --> 00:30:38.169
It was really, um,
traumatizing.

00:30:38.736 --> 00:30:39.838
Non-stop.

00:30:40.405 --> 00:30:43.708
So my earliest memory
would be at the age of 4.

00:30:44.909 --> 00:30:48.179
And he\'s beating her.
We\'re in this trailer house.

00:30:48.179 --> 00:30:50.615
Then all of a sudden,
I could hear this sickening thud

00:30:50.615 --> 00:30:53.051
as he beat my mother over the
head with a shotgun.

00:30:53.585 --> 00:30:55.186
And then, the only screams
that could be heard were mine

00:30:55.186 --> 00:30:58.256
coming from under the table,
because he beat her unconscious.

00:30:58.256 --> 00:30:59.557
And I think she\'s dead.

00:31:00.225 --> 00:31:02.861
And I crawl over to my mother.

00:31:03.228 --> 00:31:05.897
And I put my face down
by her mouth,

00:31:05.897 --> 00:31:07.298
And I can\'t feel
her breath.

00:31:07.298 --> 00:31:09.701
So I\'m crying again.
[gasps violently]

00:31:09.701 --> 00:31:11.603
And then I make myself
stop crying,

00:31:12.203 --> 00:31:13.571
so I could put my head
on her chest,

00:31:13.571 --> 00:31:15.206
to see if I could
feel it rising.

00:31:15.206 --> 00:31:17.876
Um. I could--
I could feel her breath.

00:31:18.109 --> 00:31:21.412
So then, um, her shirt\'s
all splattered with blood.

00:31:21.613 --> 00:31:24.749
I take her blood-strewn
hair from her face,

00:31:24.749 --> 00:31:27.819
I grab a blanket off the couch,
and I cover her up.

00:31:29.721 --> 00:31:32.957
So I guess that\'s where my
advocacy really started.

00:31:38.229 --> 00:31:39.998
[ambient string music]

00:31:39.998 --> 00:31:41.733
[door opens]

00:31:46.504 --> 00:31:47.505
Hey, sweetie.

00:31:47.739 --> 00:31:48.573
Hey, Mom.

00:31:51.976 --> 00:31:53.912
-We got company.
-Really?

00:31:54.913 --> 00:31:56.180
No, that\'s fine.
You\'re fine.

00:31:59.851 --> 00:32:03.254
My daughter was assaulted
when she was 17.

00:32:03.688 --> 00:32:06.591
It was methodical, it was
thought out, it was planned.

00:32:06.991 --> 00:32:09.127
Four white guys pulled up
in a black SUV

00:32:09.127 --> 00:32:11.029
with tan leather interior.

00:32:11.296 --> 00:32:14.299
They were trying to coax her
to get into the car to go party.

00:32:14.299 --> 00:32:16.334
And she\'s like,
\"No, no, no, no.\"

00:32:16.501 --> 00:32:19.270
And they were getting
more persistent, and she ran.

00:32:19.504 --> 00:32:20.271
And...

00:32:20.438 --> 00:32:22.440
two jumped out,
chased her down.

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.175
drug her back
to the vehicle.

00:32:24.709 --> 00:32:28.613
And one drove, um,
two held her down,

00:32:28.613 --> 00:32:30.014
and a fourth one
raped her.

00:32:30.515 --> 00:32:31.616
They were white.

00:32:31.616 --> 00:32:34.152
They had blond hair,
blue eyes. Bandanas.

00:32:34.152 --> 00:32:36.387
And the one that
raped her used a condom.

00:32:36.854 --> 00:32:38.623
They knew they were
coming here to hunt.

00:32:38.856 --> 00:32:40.491
They knew they were
gonna come here, and--

00:32:40.491 --> 00:32:42.126
and rape with impunity,

00:32:42.126 --> 00:32:43.995
because they can.
And they did.

00:32:49.901 --> 00:32:53.171
[cars roaring by]

00:32:56.541 --> 00:32:57.542
[Lisa]
Within Northeast Montana,

00:32:57.542 --> 00:32:59.010
there are currently
three man camps,

00:32:59.010 --> 00:33:01.079
with several more
only 70 miles away

00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:02.814
in the neighboring state
of North Dakota.

00:33:03.214 --> 00:33:04.882
Many tribal advocates
have responded to victims

00:33:04.882 --> 00:33:06.918
that have been trafficked
at the man camps,

00:33:06.918 --> 00:33:08.820
often preying on
young Native women.

00:33:09.687 --> 00:33:11.255
Groups of men
from the man camps

00:33:11.255 --> 00:33:13.524
use free access
to drugs and alcohol

00:33:13.524 --> 00:33:15.727
as the method of coercion
for young Native women

00:33:15.727 --> 00:33:17.595
to get in the car
and go partying.

00:33:17.895 --> 00:33:20.498
This has resulted in 11
young Native women,

00:33:20.498 --> 00:33:23.067
ranging from the ages of
16 and 21 years of age,

00:33:23.067 --> 00:33:26.170
reporting rape, gang rape,
and other sex acts.

00:33:26.170 --> 00:33:27.338
the majority of
these victims

00:33:27.338 --> 00:33:29.440
are afraid to report
due to fear and shame.

00:33:29.941 --> 00:33:31.743
The Fort Peck tribe’s
SORNA program

00:33:31.743 --> 00:33:33.344
reports that one year ago,

00:33:33.344 --> 00:33:35.513
there were 48
registered sex offenders.

00:33:35.513 --> 00:33:38.549
Now, there are over 600
registered sex offenders.

00:33:44.722 --> 00:33:48.092
I was thinking back to war.

00:33:48.092 --> 00:33:51.262
When warring occurred
between tribes.

00:33:51.529 --> 00:33:54.265
And it wasn\'t so much
about spilling blood.

00:33:54.265 --> 00:33:56.067
It was more about
counting coup.

00:33:56.634 --> 00:34:03.074
Counting coup was being able to
make it to your - your enemy,

00:34:03.908 --> 00:34:05.877
be able to touch him
without harming.

00:34:05.977 --> 00:34:10.081
Right? To be able to let them
know that you can touch them.

00:34:10.581 --> 00:34:14.085
So the last call
I ever got from my mom,

00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:17.488
she called and I had just
picked up two-by-fours

00:34:17.488 --> 00:34:19.590
to fix this house
I was renting.

00:34:19.924 --> 00:34:24.962
And she calls and said that
he had, um... he had hit her.

00:34:25.296 --> 00:34:26.831
He had choked her.

00:34:26.831 --> 00:34:29.500
So...I\'m gonna fly up there,
and I\'m like,

00:34:29.500 --> 00:34:31.302
You should call the cops!
\"No, no, no.

00:34:31.936 --> 00:34:33.271
Just stop and get me
some cigarettes.

00:34:33.271 --> 00:34:36.808
He won\'t-- um, he took my
cigarettes away from me.\"

00:34:37.275 --> 00:34:38.242
Okay.

00:34:38.476 --> 00:34:41.079
So, I had to stop
and buy her cigarettes.

00:34:41.312 --> 00:34:44.115
And I had to try to stay,
you know, under the...

00:34:44.115 --> 00:34:45.850
stay at the speed limit,

00:34:45.850 --> 00:34:47.185
because I\'m off
reservation.

00:34:47.185 --> 00:34:49.520
Not that you can speed
on the reservation!

00:34:49.921 --> 00:34:51.489
Um. They all know me.

00:34:51.489 --> 00:34:54.292
But-- not that I speed
anyways, but... [laughs]

00:34:54.292 --> 00:34:55.827
Well, that they know of.
[laughs]

00:34:57.628 --> 00:34:59.464
[laughs]

00:34:59.464 --> 00:35:00.998
And, so.

00:35:02.033 --> 00:35:04.635
All the way there,
I’m just so agitated.

00:35:04.635 --> 00:35:06.971
I just remember, um, I just
remember my hands up on top,

00:35:06.971 --> 00:35:09.207
and I\'m hitting the top
of my dashboard.

00:35:09.207 --> 00:35:10.541
I\'m just-- I\'m furious.

00:35:10.541 --> 00:35:13.611
And all I\'m thinking is:
That fucker\'s gonna pay.

00:35:14.112 --> 00:35:15.613
Thirty-some years
of beating my mother.

00:35:15.613 --> 00:35:17.148
Fucker\'s gonna get it.
I\'m gonna give him

00:35:17.148 --> 00:35:18.516
the fucking beating
of a lifetime.

00:35:18.516 --> 00:35:19.350
He has it coming.

00:35:19.350 --> 00:35:20.618
I\'m gonna take that
two-by-four,

00:35:20.618 --> 00:35:21.686
and I\'m gonna hit him
across the face!

00:35:21.686 --> 00:35:23.621
And I’m gonna beat him
and make him bloody,

00:35:23.621 --> 00:35:24.856
and I\'m gonna make
him hurt.

00:35:25.156 --> 00:35:26.991
Give him all this pain
that he deserves.

00:35:26.991 --> 00:35:28.993
That fucker\'s gonna pay,
that fucker\'s gonna pay

00:35:28.993 --> 00:35:30.027
is all I could
think about.

00:35:30.461 --> 00:35:31.162
And...

00:35:32.463 --> 00:35:34.132
then I get there,
and I pull up.

00:35:34.398 --> 00:35:35.733
And then I had
to breathe.

00:35:36.667 --> 00:35:37.168
[deep breath]

00:35:37.168 --> 00:35:38.836
And then I had to think.
Okay.

00:35:39.070 --> 00:35:43.407
This isn\'t about you, Lisa.
This is about your mom.

00:35:43.407 --> 00:35:44.675
This is about Mom.

00:35:45.576 --> 00:35:48.546
And if I were to go in there
and beat the hell out of him,

00:35:49.147 --> 00:35:50.414
If I went in
and did that,

00:35:50.915 --> 00:35:53.084
my mother would pay for it
at a later time.

00:35:53.084 --> 00:35:56.420
Because the chances of her
leaving were very slim to none.

00:35:56.521 --> 00:35:58.256
And I totally went into
advocate mode.

00:35:58.256 --> 00:35:59.690
I\'d come with my camera.

00:35:59.924 --> 00:36:02.894
Took a picture of her--
her bruised face.

00:36:03.327 --> 00:36:05.429
Took a picture of where
her neck was red,

00:36:05.429 --> 00:36:06.998
where he had
strangled her.

00:36:07.265 --> 00:36:09.567
Took pictures of where her
blood was on the floor.

00:36:10.001 --> 00:36:13.037
Um. You know, so,
collecting evidence, right?

00:36:13.738 --> 00:36:15.940
And then, there sat the
cordless phone.

00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:17.608
\"Mom,\" I said,
\"We\'re closing in on that

00:36:17.608 --> 00:36:19.010
12-hour window for him--

00:36:19.010 --> 00:36:21.212
for law enforcement to
arrest him for this.

00:36:21.212 --> 00:36:23.114
Otherwise, he\'s not
gonna get arrested.\"

00:36:24.081 --> 00:36:26.584
And--and she\'s like, \"Well...\"

00:36:26.584 --> 00:36:28.719
You know, and that\'s
what victims do.

00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.289
They got them--
they got them so...

00:36:31.789 --> 00:36:36.127
You know, warped into believing
that - that they deserved it.

00:36:36.227 --> 00:36:38.729
And I said, \"He has
no right to touch you.

00:36:39.397 --> 00:36:41.966
He needs to be held accountable
for what he\'s done!

00:36:43.134 --> 00:36:44.869
Our window
is closing, Mom.\"

00:36:44.869 --> 00:36:46.204
She picked up the phone.

00:36:46.771 --> 00:36:50.975
Turned it on, and then...
She shut it off, set it down.

00:36:52.643 --> 00:36:53.544
\"Mom.

00:36:54.212 --> 00:36:57.215
All these years, he\'s gotten
away with all of this.

00:36:57.915 --> 00:36:59.450
You\'ve done nothing
to deserve this.

00:36:59.450 --> 00:37:01.919
You deserve to be safe
in your own home.

00:37:01.919 --> 00:37:04.789
You deserve to not have your
blood spilled on the floor.\"

00:37:04.789 --> 00:37:06.090
She picked the phone up.

00:37:06.490 --> 00:37:07.992
This ha-- 12 times.
I counted.

00:37:07.992 --> 00:37:08.893
She picked the phone up,

00:37:08.893 --> 00:37:10.461
turned it on, shut it off.
12 times.

00:37:10.461 --> 00:37:12.129
Picked it up, down.
Picked it up, down.

00:37:12.163 --> 00:37:13.164
Then finally she
picked it up,

00:37:13.164 --> 00:37:14.432
and finally she called.

00:37:16.934 --> 00:37:18.636
[upbeat guitar]

00:37:24.308 --> 00:37:25.843
He got charged
with a felony.

00:37:26.177 --> 00:37:29.146
And he did, like,
three months in jail.

00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:32.149
Which is the first time
he was ever arrested.

00:37:32.516 --> 00:37:34.752
I mean, first time
he has ever been arrested

00:37:34.752 --> 00:37:36.454
and charged for
domestic violence.

00:37:36.654 --> 00:37:40.591
And after that,
he hasn\'t hit her again.

00:37:40.591 --> 00:37:43.527
Later on I realized,
I counted coup on my enemy.

00:37:43.594 --> 00:37:46.664
I could hold him accountable
without laying a finger on him.

00:37:47.431 --> 00:37:49.367
My mother could
hold him accountable.

00:37:55.006 --> 00:37:56.974
[First Daughter]
You have a new
high chair...

00:37:56.974 --> 00:37:58.509
[Lisa]
Did you see your buns
I made you?

00:37:58.509 --> 00:37:59.277
Yeah.

00:37:59.477 --> 00:38:00.778
[Second Daughter]
Hey, those are mine!

00:38:00.778 --> 00:38:02.146
-Nuh-uh.
-Uh-huh!

00:38:03.648 --> 00:38:05.349
[family chatters
playfully]

00:38:10.955 --> 00:38:13.791
[uplifting female vocals]

00:38:40.751 --> 00:38:45.423
Self-determination says that we
have indigenous solutions

00:38:45.423 --> 00:38:47.558
to our indigenous
problems. Right?

00:38:47.558 --> 00:38:50.895
That we do not need
an external government,

00:38:50.895 --> 00:38:54.598
and specifically one that has
done so much harm to our people,

00:38:54.598 --> 00:38:56.400
to bring us our solution.

00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:59.537
And so the infrastructure
to really develop

00:38:59.537 --> 00:39:04.108
a comprehensive anti-rape
strategy for tribal nations

00:39:04.108 --> 00:39:08.612
has to be paired with the power
to actually exercise authority

00:39:08.612 --> 00:39:10.014
in the cases of rape.

00:39:10.414 --> 00:39:14.452
So, tribal sovereignty
is integral to ending rape.

00:39:14.452 --> 00:39:16.887
And at the same time,
ending rape

00:39:16.887 --> 00:39:19.290
is integral
to tribal sovereignty.

00:39:29.967 --> 00:39:32.103
[Dawn]
The women that been
working here,

00:39:32.570 --> 00:39:34.805
held down the job,
you know,

00:39:35.206 --> 00:39:36.707
we make it look easy.

00:39:37.775 --> 00:39:40.077
Because a female energy
brings something different

00:39:40.077 --> 00:39:41.312
to the table.

00:39:42.413 --> 00:39:45.249
You know, we\'re more apt
to talk to you.

00:39:45.249 --> 00:39:49.620
And talk about why you\'re,
you know...you\'re messing up.

00:39:49.954 --> 00:39:51.322
And get you
to calm down,

00:39:51.322 --> 00:39:53.257
get you, you know,
so that

00:39:53.791 --> 00:39:55.559
you know, you don\'t
fight us.

00:39:56.093 --> 00:39:56.794
You know?

00:39:57.328 --> 00:39:58.896
We all get to go home.

00:40:08.139 --> 00:40:09.774
And welcome, people!

00:40:09.774 --> 00:40:12.176
It’s that time again.
It\'s two o\'clock,

00:40:12.176 --> 00:40:14.011
and it\'s The Voice
on KMHA.

00:40:14.011 --> 00:40:16.847
Before we get started, I want
to share our mission statement.

00:40:17.081 --> 00:40:18.349
Our mission is
to allow everyone,

00:40:18.349 --> 00:40:20.451
especially the youth on
Fort Berthold Reservation

00:40:20.451 --> 00:40:21.786
and in the
listening areas,

00:40:21.786 --> 00:40:23.354
to have a voice to
express their opinions

00:40:23.354 --> 00:40:26.190
and have a chance to solve
the issues we face every day.

00:40:26.190 --> 00:40:28.292
This is not a show for the
complainers, people.

00:40:28.292 --> 00:40:29.527
We\'ll focus on the
pressing issues

00:40:29.527 --> 00:40:31.028
in our communities,
and ways

00:40:31.028 --> 00:40:33.364
we can come together
to solve them.

00:40:44.875 --> 00:40:46.210
[Chalsey groans]

00:40:46.210 --> 00:40:47.211
You got it.

00:40:51.816 --> 00:40:53.150
[Chalsey]
What up, guys?

00:40:53.451 --> 00:40:54.618
[mumbled greetings]

00:40:56.687 --> 00:40:57.455
Alright, so has everybody

00:40:57.455 --> 00:40:58.956
actually figured out
what they\'re doing?

00:40:59.023 --> 00:41:00.224
-I have no idea.
-No.

00:41:00.224 --> 00:41:01.192
Okay.

00:41:01.459 --> 00:41:02.526
My name is Chalsey Snyder.

00:41:02.526 --> 00:41:04.562
I’m a member of the
Three Affiliated Tribes:

00:41:04.562 --> 00:41:06.530
the Mandan, Hidatsa,
and Arikara.

00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:07.298
I\'m 29 years old.

00:41:07.298 --> 00:41:09.366
I have a beautiful
four-year-old daughter.

00:41:09.366 --> 00:41:12.503
I’m from New Town, and then
moved to Alabama,

00:41:12.503 --> 00:41:14.805
then moved back here
in 2007.

00:41:15.139 --> 00:41:17.174
Uh, that was when I realized
this is my home,

00:41:17.174 --> 00:41:19.043
this is my place,
this is where I belong.

00:41:19.844 --> 00:41:21.011
One of the best things
about coming home

00:41:21.011 --> 00:41:22.513
was meeting
Loren Whitehorn.

00:41:22.513 --> 00:41:23.714
She became my
best friend.

00:41:23.881 --> 00:41:25.850
Two weeks after I met her,
she was in the delivery room

00:41:25.850 --> 00:41:27.351
when I gave birth
to my four-year-old child.

00:41:27.351 --> 00:41:29.320
Then she was
my daughter\'s godmother.

00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.655
And uh, she passed away
in 2013.

00:41:31.655 --> 00:41:34.091
It was May 26th of 2013.

00:41:38.696 --> 00:41:40.030
Human trafficking
was identified

00:41:40.030 --> 00:41:42.032
on the Fort Berthold
Reservation

00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:43.767
by a number of different people,

00:41:43.767 --> 00:41:45.703
Loren Whitehorn
being one of them.

00:41:45.703 --> 00:41:49.707
Two men basically were
branding these young women

00:41:49.707 --> 00:41:52.843
with these tattoos, saying,
\"You\'re our property.\"

00:41:52.843 --> 00:41:56.013
And using intimidation,
coercion, threats,

00:41:56.013 --> 00:41:58.048
um, to force them
into sex acts,

00:41:58.048 --> 00:42:02.219
not only for um, drugs,
but for money.

00:42:03.954 --> 00:42:05.356
[Chalsey]
I\'ll start,

00:42:05.356 --> 00:42:07.758
and if you have any questions,
I\'m kind of a fast reader,

00:42:07.758 --> 00:42:10.027
so be sure to say,
\"Hey, stop. Slow down.

00:42:10.027 --> 00:42:11.295
I have a question
about that,\"

00:42:11.762 --> 00:42:13.264
Labor trafficking is the
recruitment,

00:42:13.264 --> 00:42:15.232
transportation, transfer,
harboring,

00:42:15.232 --> 00:42:17.401
enticement, provision,
obtaining,

00:42:17.401 --> 00:42:19.637
or receipt of a person
by any means;

00:42:19.637 --> 00:42:21.872
including electronic
or telephonic.

00:42:21.872 --> 00:42:23.774
[Chalsey]
It was right around
the end of 2011, um,

00:42:23.774 --> 00:42:24.742
that she brought me in,

00:42:24.742 --> 00:42:26.577
because she knew
I worked with the courts.

00:42:26.577 --> 00:42:28.746
And I started
drafting this code.

00:42:28.746 --> 00:42:30.414
And I pulled from
federal code,

00:42:30.414 --> 00:42:32.416
I pulled from state codes.

00:42:32.416 --> 00:42:33.884
I pulled from
other reservations\'

00:42:33.884 --> 00:42:35.252
sexual abuse codes.

00:42:35.252 --> 00:42:37.655
What Loren\'s Laws
will allow us to do is,

00:42:37.655 --> 00:42:41.892
if there are any drops, um,
in the federal government,

00:42:41.892 --> 00:42:43.627
let’s say they drop a case
for whatever reason

00:42:43.627 --> 00:42:44.962
regarding human trafficking,

00:42:44.962 --> 00:42:47.765
or labor trafficking,
sex trafficking.

00:42:48.165 --> 00:42:50.134
We can then take the power
and jurisdiction

00:42:50.134 --> 00:42:51.569
back into our hands,

00:42:51.569 --> 00:42:54.505
And say, \"No. We’re going
to take this case,

00:42:54.505 --> 00:42:56.340
and we\'re gonna
prosecute this case here.\"

00:42:56.607 --> 00:42:58.475
Or, when they\'re done
serving their federal time

00:42:58.475 --> 00:42:59.743
and their federal
penalties,

00:42:59.944 --> 00:43:02.346
we can bring them back here
and prosecute them again

00:43:02.346 --> 00:43:03.847
because it\'s not
considered double jeopardy.

00:43:04.248 --> 00:43:05.649
We\'re a semi-sovereign
nation.

00:43:05.849 --> 00:43:08.352
So it allows us
to really kind of, um,

00:43:08.352 --> 00:43:11.522
take back that retribution
for those victims.

00:43:12.089 --> 00:43:13.691
There will be a 30-day
comment period,

00:43:13.691 --> 00:43:15.526
and if there’s no
amendments proposed,

00:43:15.926 --> 00:43:19.496
um, then I will be back to ask
that you ratify this code.

00:43:19.697 --> 00:43:22.199
And-- and in memorial
of Loren Whitehorn,

00:43:22.366 --> 00:43:25.803
who worked tirelessly, uh, with
victims of human trafficking

00:43:25.803 --> 00:43:27.171
here on our reservation.

00:43:28.105 --> 00:43:29.840
[Chalsey]
The things I do,
I do for my family,

00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:31.475
and I do
for my people, but,

00:43:31.942 --> 00:43:33.377
this code
that I\'m writing,

00:43:33.944 --> 00:43:35.012
I do for Loren.

00:43:35.613 --> 00:43:37.948
Because nobody on this
reservation cared

00:43:38.482 --> 00:43:40.618
more about women,
and uh,

00:43:40.618 --> 00:43:43.320
gave more of themselves
than Loren did.

00:43:48.058 --> 00:43:49.293
Any other discussion?

00:43:49.526 --> 00:43:51.128
If not, I’ll call
for the vote.

00:43:51.128 --> 00:43:53.530
All in favor, signify by
raising your right hand.

00:43:54.398 --> 00:43:54.865
Unanimous.

00:43:54.865 --> 00:43:56.734
Motion carried through.
Thank you, Chalsey.

00:43:56.734 --> 00:43:58.802
Thank you!
Thank you so much.

00:43:58.802 --> 00:44:00.337
[applause]

00:44:01.405 --> 00:44:02.706
[Chalsey]
Thank you, thank you,
thank you!

00:44:02.706 --> 00:44:04.174
Thank you guys so much.

00:44:04.842 --> 00:44:05.542
[Chalsey breathes deeply]

00:44:05.542 --> 00:44:06.744
Thank you!

00:44:07.077 --> 00:44:08.212
Thank you so much.

00:44:11.181 --> 00:44:12.149
Yes!

00:44:13.050 --> 00:44:13.984
[Chalsey]
And...

00:44:14.885 --> 00:44:16.320
[laughter]

00:44:17.321 --> 00:44:18.255
[Man]
One out of two\'s
alright.

00:44:18.255 --> 00:44:20.391
[Chalsey]
I know, right?
Oh man, though.

00:44:20.391 --> 00:44:21.892
Okay, I know you\'re
not about hugs,

00:44:21.892 --> 00:44:23.527
but you gotta give me
a hug on this one.

00:44:23.527 --> 00:44:24.862
-You get a hug.
-I get a hug.

00:44:28.232 --> 00:44:30.234
[uplifting female
vocals]

00:44:52.623 --> 00:44:53.390
Okay, turn.

00:44:54.458 --> 00:44:55.426
Keep turning.

00:44:55.959 --> 00:44:57.194
[hums \"Nutcracker\" theme]

00:44:57.194 --> 00:44:58.729
[laughter]

00:45:13.777 --> 00:45:16.747
[mellow instrumental]

00:45:24.221 --> 00:45:25.456
I’m Patty Stonefish.

00:45:25.456 --> 00:45:28.926
I\'m mixed Lakota, and...
Arming Sisters is a non-profit

00:45:28.926 --> 00:45:30.994
that aims to utilize
women\'s self-defense

00:45:31.228 --> 00:45:32.996
as a tool to bring about
self-empowerment,

00:45:32.996 --> 00:45:35.432
love and ownership of body
to Indigenous women.

00:45:35.799 --> 00:45:37.234
[Patty]
I believe that one of
the quickest ways

00:45:37.234 --> 00:45:39.970
to empower the mind is
through physical action.

00:45:39.970 --> 00:45:41.438
I\'m gonna go through
body language,

00:45:41.438 --> 00:45:44.808
verbalization, awareness,
trusting your intuition,

00:45:44.808 --> 00:45:46.844
removing yourself from
the situation,

00:45:46.844 --> 00:45:48.011
and personal defense.

00:45:48.645 --> 00:45:50.748
The main point of these

00:45:51.081 --> 00:45:52.683
is to re-empower yourself.

00:45:53.517 --> 00:45:55.185
[women yell]

00:45:55.619 --> 00:45:56.520
[laughter]

00:45:56.520 --> 00:45:58.789
[Patty]
Honestly I don\'t know
a single Native woman

00:45:58.789 --> 00:46:00.624
who hasn\'t been
attacked in some way.

00:46:00.624 --> 00:46:03.293
Verbal, physical, um,
myself included.

00:46:03.627 --> 00:46:05.295
Uh, when I was first
attacked when I was 12,

00:46:05.295 --> 00:46:08.866
I didn\'t say anything about my
experience for about 6 years.

00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:11.335
After all that, I’ve had the
training in taekwondo

00:46:11.335 --> 00:46:14.204
and self defense, and been
a lot more confident.

00:46:14.204 --> 00:46:16.807
I\'ve learned to react to
things a lot differently.

00:46:16.807 --> 00:46:19.343
Taxi cab driver
groping my thigh...

00:46:19.343 --> 00:46:20.144
I broke his finger.

00:46:20.144 --> 00:46:22.146
So when I’m doing that,
I already have his fingers

00:46:22.146 --> 00:46:23.614
and now I can
just push down.

00:46:24.882 --> 00:46:26.183
Having self-defense
behind you

00:46:26.183 --> 00:46:27.985
in that event that
you are attacked,

00:46:28.619 --> 00:46:29.486
I believe it
does give you

00:46:29.486 --> 00:46:31.388
some kind of back-up
in your mind.

00:46:31.388 --> 00:46:33.323
And realize that,
wait a second,

00:46:34.291 --> 00:46:36.126
I\'m not going to
beaten down.

00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:37.528
This isn\'t where I end.

00:46:37.528 --> 00:46:39.530
This isn\'t where
I stop my life.

00:46:39.797 --> 00:46:41.231
Whether or not I get out
of this situation,

00:46:41.231 --> 00:46:43.700
I\'m going to be alright.
I go on.

00:46:44.234 --> 00:46:45.669
The moves are
very simple.

00:46:45.669 --> 00:46:47.037
You can go out there
and teach

00:46:47.037 --> 00:46:48.906
your friends, your family,
your sisters.

00:46:48.906 --> 00:46:50.374
There\'s definitely
a ripple effect,

00:46:50.374 --> 00:46:51.809
so if I can just get

00:46:51.809 --> 00:46:53.410
one woman at
every stop

00:46:53.410 --> 00:46:55.312
to go out and teach
one more woman,

00:46:55.879 --> 00:46:57.981
that would be amazing.
I would be happy.

00:46:58.582 --> 00:47:00.150
His rib cage is
wide open.

00:47:00.751 --> 00:47:03.987
His instep is open,
his crotch is open,

00:47:03.987 --> 00:47:06.690
his shins, his knees--
knees are very fun.

00:47:06.690 --> 00:47:07.658
Choke me.

00:47:08.158 --> 00:47:10.060
Choose either arm.
Over.

00:47:10.527 --> 00:47:13.730
Keep my - my elbow\'s here,
and your arms are tight.

00:47:14.898 --> 00:47:16.366
Same with you.
Choke me.

00:47:17.501 --> 00:47:18.368
I\'m gonna go over,

00:47:18.368 --> 00:47:19.937
so my arms gets yours
completely,

00:47:19.937 --> 00:47:20.938
and you\'re locked up.

00:47:21.405 --> 00:47:23.006
Same thing when
someone\'s choking you.

00:47:23.006 --> 00:47:24.708
So if I\'m here.
Choose a side.

00:47:25.075 --> 00:47:27.177
There we go!
Oh my gosh.

00:47:28.445 --> 00:47:29.680
Because a lot of
Native women

00:47:29.680 --> 00:47:30.881
have been attacked,

00:47:31.381 --> 00:47:33.050
My aim is no longer
to prevent that,

00:47:33.050 --> 00:47:34.685
because it\'s already
happened.

00:47:35.085 --> 00:47:37.588
My aim becomes...healing.

00:47:38.755 --> 00:47:44.061
And...helping women realize
just how strong they are.

00:47:44.795 --> 00:47:46.597
[Patty]
We are bombarded
constantly

00:47:46.597 --> 00:47:49.900
with these stories
of rape and abuse

00:47:49.900 --> 00:47:51.435
that just all end

00:47:51.435 --> 00:47:53.904
with the victim being
a helpless victim.

00:47:54.605 --> 00:47:57.875
You never hear about how
she recovered afterwards.

00:47:58.141 --> 00:48:00.878
You never hear about
the ones that fought back.

00:48:01.245 --> 00:48:04.815
When I.... do self-defense,
I want it to be more

00:48:04.815 --> 00:48:06.250
of an empowerment.
You\'re just like,

00:48:06.250 --> 00:48:08.485
\"Wow. I took down
this 6-foot-tall guy

00:48:08.485 --> 00:48:09.786
with his finger!

00:48:10.087 --> 00:48:11.421
He\'s on the ground.\"

00:48:11.588 --> 00:48:13.123
Suddenly your mind
kicks back and is like,

00:48:13.123 --> 00:48:14.925
wait, I--
I can do this.

00:48:15.125 --> 00:48:16.593
I\'m powerful.
i can heal.

00:48:16.593 --> 00:48:18.829
I, you know, I\'ve been
through something,

00:48:19.096 --> 00:48:20.564
but I can come
through it.

00:48:26.637 --> 00:48:28.005
[Patty]
Most of the time,

00:48:28.005 --> 00:48:29.139
when people are
attacked,

00:48:29.139 --> 00:48:31.675
oftentimes, we don\'t even say
it out loud to ourselves.

00:48:31.842 --> 00:48:33.110
I didn\'t for six years.

00:48:33.677 --> 00:48:35.846
Because the second
you say it out loud,

00:48:35.846 --> 00:48:36.947
it becomes real.

00:48:38.515 --> 00:48:40.284
There\'s something
really powerful

00:48:40.284 --> 00:48:41.585
about sharing
your story.

00:48:41.585 --> 00:48:44.521
It\'s all that weight that you
don\'t have to hold on your own.

00:48:44.521 --> 00:48:45.522
And I\'ll share mine.

00:48:45.522 --> 00:48:48.458
If anyone else wants to share
theirs, they\'re welcome to.

00:48:48.592 --> 00:48:51.128
My first attack
was when I was 12.

00:48:51.662 --> 00:48:54.131
[Patty]
One thing for sure
is that

00:48:54.331 --> 00:48:56.266
the more times
I repeated my story,

00:48:56.266 --> 00:48:57.868
and the more women
I shared it with,

00:48:58.035 --> 00:48:59.036
it becomes lighter.

00:48:59.102 --> 00:49:01.638
The burden is definitely
lifted every time.

00:49:01.972 --> 00:49:03.707
I know there are a lot of women
out there who

00:49:03.707 --> 00:49:05.142
haven\'t said anything.

00:49:05.142 --> 00:49:07.811
If they can just hear that
someone else has been through it,

00:49:07.811 --> 00:49:10.547
and know they\'re no alone,
It\'s a huge step.

00:49:10.547 --> 00:49:12.549
It brings strength.
Not only to you,

00:49:12.950 --> 00:49:15.352
but...to everyone around you.

00:49:18.989 --> 00:49:21.525
[gentle guitar]

00:49:26.029 --> 00:49:29.333
[Sarah]
We are so indebted to women
who have told their story,

00:49:29.700 --> 00:49:32.536
and have been explicit about
what they went through,

00:49:32.536 --> 00:49:34.071
and shared it with
strangers,

00:49:34.071 --> 00:49:35.339
and shared it with
filmmakers.

00:49:35.339 --> 00:49:37.074
and shared it with
novelists.

00:49:37.074 --> 00:49:39.142
And I\'ve talked to
so many survivors

00:49:39.409 --> 00:49:41.712
who say, \"I don\'t know
if I can tell my story.\"

00:49:41.712 --> 00:49:43.246
And they feel bad
about that.

00:49:43.680 --> 00:49:45.882
And I always say,
\"You don\'t owe anybody

00:49:45.882 --> 00:49:47.985
anything.
You live your life.

00:49:48.251 --> 00:49:49.886
Right? You survived.

00:49:50.053 --> 00:49:52.155
You put your pieces
together the way

00:49:52.155 --> 00:49:53.890
that you want
to put them together.\"

00:49:54.191 --> 00:49:56.393
But those women who do choose
to tell their stories,

00:49:56.393 --> 00:49:58.996
they are responsible
for legislative change.

00:49:59.396 --> 00:50:02.099
Because we can hand somebody
a list of numbers and say,

00:50:02.099 --> 00:50:04.234
\"Percentage-wise,
blah blah blah.\"

00:50:04.234 --> 00:50:06.837
But if there’s no humanity
behind those numbers,

00:50:06.837 --> 00:50:10.674
if there\'s not a visceral
sort of storyteller

00:50:10.674 --> 00:50:12.943
explaining what that
data really means,

00:50:13.276 --> 00:50:15.779
then I don\'t think you\'d get
social change out of that.

00:50:15.879 --> 00:50:17.881
Um, I\'m so grateful.

00:50:17.881 --> 00:50:20.083
I--I can\'t tell
my story yet.

00:50:28.525 --> 00:50:31.261
[light guitar and
female vocals]

00:50:47.144 --> 00:50:48.745
[Filmmaker]
-Oh, we got amazing stuff.

00:50:49.279 --> 00:50:51.548
I\'m sorry I kind of
rambled, but it\'s like I,

00:50:51.548 --> 00:50:55.118
I forget-- I forget that
these things happened.

00:50:55.385 --> 00:50:56.453
You know? Ido.

00:50:56.887 --> 00:50:58.622
I completely forget how...

00:50:59.389 --> 00:51:01.458
how crazy my life
really is.

00:51:02.059 --> 00:51:03.427
Like, it\'s unbelievable.

00:51:03.427 --> 00:51:05.095
I have to stop and reflect
right now,

00:51:05.095 --> 00:51:07.764
because I guess I\'ve never
heard myself say these things.

00:51:08.632 --> 00:51:11.134
And like I said, it\'s kind of...
a surreal feeling.

00:51:11.134 --> 00:51:12.969
Like an out-of-body
experience.

00:51:14.004 --> 00:51:16.139
In the sense that,
by talking to you,

00:51:16.139 --> 00:51:19.276
I\'m finally admitting to myself
that these things are real,

00:51:19.276 --> 00:51:20.610
and that - that
they\'ve happened.

00:51:23.814 --> 00:51:26.149
I guess not everybody
wants to do this, you know.

00:51:26.149 --> 00:51:29.653
Not every survivor needs to
put themselves in the forefront.

00:51:29.753 --> 00:51:30.854
But if you feel a passion,

00:51:30.854 --> 00:51:33.290
and you feel a burning
in your heart, do it.

00:51:33.423 --> 00:51:35.158
You know? It helps.

00:51:35.158 --> 00:51:39.262
♪ Oh, when the stars
are gone ♪

00:51:41.431 --> 00:51:46.636
♪ We\'re lifted by
our sister\'s arms ♪

00:51:47.537 --> 00:51:51.341
♪ With every one,
a revolution comes ♪

00:51:51.341 --> 00:51:55.112
♪ these scars are one ♪♪

00:51:57.347 --> 00:51:59.382
[Dawn]
We didn\'t let these
things happen.

00:52:00.150 --> 00:52:02.552
Not to our children,
not to our old people.

00:52:03.353 --> 00:52:06.356
And somewhere
along the way,

00:52:07.524 --> 00:52:09.392
we stopped voicing
who we were.

00:52:10.227 --> 00:52:14.030
In my eyes, where I think
a lot of it came from is when

00:52:14.164 --> 00:52:16.833
my grandmas and grandpas
went to boarding school.

00:52:18.368 --> 00:52:23.840
Hit, whipped. Any time
they spoke their language.

00:52:25.509 --> 00:52:26.910
But that\'s who we were.

00:52:27.978 --> 00:52:30.313
[Dawn]
You know like,
even now. You know.

00:52:32.048 --> 00:52:33.717
\"Oh, don\'t say stuff
like that.\"

00:52:33.917 --> 00:52:35.152
\"Don\'t speak out.\"

00:52:36.553 --> 00:52:38.989
There\'s only a few of us
that speak out,

00:52:38.989 --> 00:52:41.358
and then, you know,
\"Oh, they\'re radical.\"

00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:44.528
Are we really radical?

00:52:44.528 --> 00:52:46.830
Or are we just trying
to get out the truth?

00:52:48.431 --> 00:52:50.267
These are human rights
violations.

00:52:50.834 --> 00:52:55.038
Only human beings can fix this
issue by creating social change.

00:52:55.438 --> 00:52:57.040
You need everybody\'s
involvement.

00:52:57.107 --> 00:52:58.175
Not just victims,

00:52:58.441 --> 00:52:59.743
not just NGO\'s,

00:52:59.743 --> 00:53:01.077
not just government
officials,

00:53:01.077 --> 00:53:03.413
not law enforcement,
but everybody.

00:53:04.014 --> 00:53:05.849
And it starts at your
kitchen table.

00:53:07.751 --> 00:53:09.019
That\'s where it needs
to start.

00:53:09.386 --> 00:53:10.754
Yeah, we don\'t
have time.

00:53:11.188 --> 00:53:13.890
They need to just pull their
heads out of their asses

00:53:13.890 --> 00:53:16.526
and realize, oh!
They\'re human beings.

00:53:16.526 --> 00:53:19.029
They\'re being victimized
far greater than

00:53:19.462 --> 00:53:20.897
anybody else in this
country,

00:53:20.897 --> 00:53:22.566
and we’re the ones
that are holding up

00:53:22.566 --> 00:53:25.068
because of our archaic
systems and laws?

00:53:25.936 --> 00:53:28.438
Geez, we might want to protect
them before they die.

00:53:28.438 --> 00:53:31.775
But oh wait! Let\'s see. We
wanted to exterminate them.

00:53:31.775 --> 00:53:34.211
There was actually
a termination era.

00:53:34.277 --> 00:53:36.646
We did commit
acts of genocide,

00:53:36.646 --> 00:53:38.715
and a holocaust
did happen here.

00:53:39.049 --> 00:53:41.218
Um, do we really
want them to live?

00:53:41.218 --> 00:53:42.619
Is that what
they\'re doing?

00:53:42.819 --> 00:53:45.288
Do they want us to
eventually die out?

00:53:45.288 --> 00:53:46.990
Because that\'s what\'s
happening.

00:53:47.224 --> 00:53:49.125
It shouldn\'t have to be
this complicated.

00:53:49.793 --> 00:53:52.963
So I guess if the one thing
would be for them to do is, one,

00:53:52.963 --> 00:53:54.731
put us on the endangered
species list,

00:53:54.731 --> 00:53:55.799
and hurry the hell up.

00:53:56.266 --> 00:53:57.100
Hurry up.

00:53:57.434 --> 00:53:59.436
We don\'t have
your privilege of time.

00:54:00.770 --> 00:54:03.473
So we talk about the
constitutional rights.

00:54:03.473 --> 00:54:06.843
Don\'t women on
tribal lands deserve

00:54:06.843 --> 00:54:09.446
their constitutional right
of equal protection?

00:54:09.446 --> 00:54:11.848
And not to be raped
and battered and beaten

00:54:11.848 --> 00:54:14.451
and dragged back onto
Native lands

00:54:14.451 --> 00:54:17.621
because they know they can
be raped with impunity?

00:54:17.821 --> 00:54:19.356
Ain\'t they women?

00:54:19.823 --> 00:54:22.359
Why can\'t tribes
prosecute non-Indians?

00:54:22.759 --> 00:54:24.661
Tribes cannot prosecute
non-Indians

00:54:24.661 --> 00:54:28.632
because the Supreme Court
ruled in 1978

00:54:28.632 --> 00:54:30.934
that tribes had lost
certain aspects

00:54:30.934 --> 00:54:32.302
of, uh, jurisdiction.

00:54:32.302 --> 00:54:34.971
But I will note that
one of the final lines

00:54:34.971 --> 00:54:37.507
in the Oliphant decision
was that Congress

00:54:37.507 --> 00:54:39.309
has the power to restore
that jurisdiction.

00:54:39.309 --> 00:54:41.144
-So that\'s something
that we could change?

00:54:41.144 --> 00:54:42.112
-Absolutely.

00:54:47.651 --> 00:54:49.786
[Sarah]
One of the things that\'s
just constantly missing

00:54:49.786 --> 00:54:51.621
from the discussion is,

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how do we restore
the dignity of survivors?

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And to tell a story from
their perspective,

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and put them in that
position of being

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dignified, and respected,
and honorable.

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That\'s where the revolution
is going to happen.

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When those women
are transformed.

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And they get to dictate the
parameters of their life,

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and exercise their
individual sovereignty.

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And so I thInk it\'s
really important

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that those women\'s
voices and faces

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be elevated to a place
of real dignity.

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[upbeat pop vocals]

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♪ I know what
you\'ve been through ♪

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♪ I walk beside you ♪

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♪ I know what
you\'ve been through ♪

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♪ I walk beside you ♪♪