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there are also flood warnings in coastal areas. at 10:00pm, we will be here with a full round up of the day's news. first, our world: our tribe's addiction. drums and chanting. the great spirit, whose voice i hear in the wind, hear me. i need your strength and wisdom. we are kind of an invisible culture, because people know about native americans, but people don't know about native americans.

i'm tired of being homeless, man. i'm tired of being alone. i'm tired of being too scared to kill myself. law enforcement, search warrant! come to the door! go ahead. violence, murder, overdoses from drugs, and we have to protect our people. it's ok. it's like trying to stop _ a haemorrhage with a band—aid. our communities are sick. we are trying to heal them, but it's a slow, hard process. strength lies in knowing who you are and where you come from, and that's what we're focusing on differently.

indian reservations are a difficult place for our children to grow up, based on what's happened to us. some of them grow up thinking it's indian to be drunk, it's indian to be on drugs, it's indian to be poor, it's indian to be violent. they don't know their history, they don't know the beauty and the strength of where we came from. they don't know what our ancestors did a long time ago, their ways, their culture, that kept us as a people together, that makes us strong, resilient. drums and chanting. on loudspeaker: good morning to you, sir. - good morning. good to see you again. i have been called on by the people,

and they made me their leader of our nation. my name is mark fox. i am the chairman of the mandan, hidatsa, and arikara nation, also known as the three affiliated tribes _ when i serve the best i can, it is an honour to be that, but it is also very difficult. it's very demanding and it is very stressful. one of the biggest reasons why social ills exist in indian country is because the answer has always been economic. but when the united states came in for their own purposes of flood control, recreation and hydropower, flood us out with their dams and destroy our backbone, that's where you begin to see the social ills begin to immensely take off, in the '50s, '60s, '70s, each decade getting worse and worse.

85% of all our crimes committed are alcohol or drug—related. 85%. the reality of the situation is we have to stop being a market. we never had a dea before, created a drug enforcement agency, drug treatment programme, getting people off of drugs, and we try to save lives by building what we're doing now, not ten years from now, not 20 years from now — now. this is good road recovery. they originally built it because we were sending a lot of people out for treatment, and we wanted to be able to try and take care of our own people.

there's two rooms that the clients can stay in, and we have close monitoring. sometimes it's every hour, sometimes it's every three hours. if they have symptoms, we can give them medications, so we can't take all the symptoms of withdrawal away, but we're just trying to get them to stay in treatment. my name isjoy froelich. i am a member of the mha nation. i am arikara, i am also the executive director of recovery services for mha. hi, how are you? somebody�*s waiting? male orfemale? ok, then we need to get over to the male cottage before he gets over there.

i had a warrant for the 24—7 programme because i had two duis here. they arrested me and they took me to burleigh county. 0k, my room, my bed. i don't know how long i'm going to be here. it might be two months, three months, four months, i don't know. my addiction started when i was 13, 14, around then. started with me stealing cigarettes, drinking a beer every once in awhile. then i started smoking more weed, and drinking basically became heavier and heavier. ifell into pills when i was about 16. i loved the way pills made me feel, made me feel confident,

made me feel like, yeah, i was confident, able to talk to chicks, you know? my mom and dad would let me drink with them, as long as i would bust the guitar out, even on school nights. and then being recognised, and having my ego stroked, as a little misunderstood, broken little kid, felt good to me, you know what i mean? when everyone around you is using, and has this life, it becomes normal. the abnormal becomes normal. you are currently looking for treatment services, right? it's heartbreaking. last month, we had two people a week die from overdose. and so our people are dying.

do you use substances as well? i'm just thankful that our council and our tribe is trying to, and is, making a difference, and one of the ways is to try and make a sober community. i'm a drug cop, always been a drug cop. it's poison, and addiction runs rabid. i wanted to do more, i wanted to help my people, so i went into law enforcement. we are going to newtown, to an apartment complex for an overdose death.

it's unfortunate, but i haven't been to a scene like this in a while. he wasn't really on our radar. i know people knew him, but he wasn't somebody who i thought i would be responding to this sort of call with. and to have him lose his life so young, to something like this, it's upsetting. i have relatives that are hooked on meth, and it's tough. close cousins that i grew up with,

i never would have thought would go down that road. you know, you have to arrest family members, you have to make those decisions, and you get ostracised by family, you know, "you're no nephew of mine, you're no cousin of mine, you're no brother of mine." what? what is it? do you need some lovin�*? we know our people are great, and so let's give them every chance possible to have a great life and get back to their roots, get back to who we really were, you know, loving the land, and having community.

it's hard to do that when your community isn't sober. tonight, they have sweat. yep. so we're going to run and get funds for them. how it starts out is that we have wood and we have rocks. we heat the rocks and we take them inside the pit there. it's very similar to a sauna. the thing with this one, it's more connected to nature, you know? we have all the four bases of belief there, fire, the water, the air, then we are setting it directly on the earth there. if you want to tell us a little bit

about what happened to bring you here, why you chose good road, what progress you are making here. and i see you have a thing on. what have you got there? this is a sweet grass, and it's got sage in there, and it has bark from the tree that me and the boys, we cut down during sundance, and the analogy for that was, you know, kind of fighting my addiction, fighting my demons, fighting this darkness inside my soul, our soul. it's like we went to war with it and we cut the tree down. it's to protect me. i got two circular rocks there to protect me from negative energy, negative spirits. for both of you, that was your first sundance? yeah. i know some folks talk about the spirituality. did you find that too? like i say, it was my first time, so it was a new experience for me. mine came afterwards. when i was there it was kind ofjust like learning how they're _

doing everything and how the ceremony went. - afterwards, reflectingj on it was kind of more the learning part of it, - just looking back and thinking about what everything meant - and being able to be a part of that. yeah, it was pretty special. when you get them sober, and you say re—examine who you are, and identify who you are by where you come from, your lineage, your roots. we find when they do that, they find the strength. that's the stark difference between what other treatment might do, non—indian treatment facilities may do, and ours. addiction, it affects families. it doesn't just affect the person

but the whole family. my son is 25. he first came in contact with alcohol and marijuana when he was a teenager. for him it became a problem, it became an addiction. but it continued to get worse and worse and worse to the point where we were staying up at night with him because we were afraid he would vomit and choke or, even just so he would not sneak out of the house and take the vehicle and drive someplace and kill himself or kill others. and he is sober today. he's 18 months sober, i think. and he's doing good and i am just so proud of him because i know that he overcame a lot of hurdles. i'm gonna go somewhere.

i'll be there for a while and then i'll come back. it'll be ok. i'll be careful, you know? it sounds crazy that i am more fearful of him relapsing than i am fearful of him getting shot. but that is just addiction. it tears families apart. what we're going to be doing is going over our dot brief, search warrant of a residence that we have information on, to have some suspected drug activity going on in there.

counsel received information that she is possibly pregnant. when we take her down, just be mindful of that. they said six or seven months but she doesn't look like it. all of us are affected by it, on or off the reservation. i don't think there is one family not affected by addiction to either drugs or alcohol. and it causes a lot of trauma. he thumps on door. law enforcement! search warrant! come to the door! go, go, go! the worst situation that we could everfind in a home is kids being exposed to this.

this being normalised. this fentanyl, if you would tell me ten years ago that this was to come to my reservation and invade and kill this many people, i would never have believed you. this isn't a movie. this isn't a game. this is real. the lives are real and we are just out here trying to save them. that is what i tell my team all the time. every pill, we saved a life. that's all that matters to me. we can't save them all but we can save them one at a time. what's going on?

what's up, bro? good to see you, dude. good to see you too. and i'm back! i am back. i was relieved to be arrested because that was my way out of the chaos and it was a way to keep me from my addiction. there was an opportunity for me to become a better person and become a better father, a better version of myself. yes, i was here earlier this year and, you know, i was in mid—addiction and i abused the grounds and everything and i was totally wrong for that. i do appreciate you coming in and owning up to that. l i am glad you are doing better. i do remember that incident that

i happened, so i do appreciate it| land i appreciate that you are doingl a lot better and that is good enough for us, that you are doing better. thank you. be betterand keep it up, 0k? yes. guitar plays. # said, said that's what you want. # because i've got my baby on my side. # the pain, the pain was going to start. # it has been this way ever since my mother died...#. i have to take action, making it right with people i have done wrong.

oh, my gosh. just for the camera. good to see you. how are you? good to see you. melody. this isjoy. she is the boss of everything. hi. do you want to come into my office? sure. ok. she has already been through so much. we've been kicked out of, like, two or three homes and she is only six, you know? so she's been homeless and all that stuff. but you know what? what did you learn? as long as you have your dad, and your dad has you, that's what matters most. yeah. that is my heart and soul, that's my world, definitely. you're doing awesome.

one day at a time. it is. and i have learned that from you and tyrell and all the guys and all the gals, it is, like, "i am sober today and that is what matters." that's what matters, yeah. and if i am sober today and then i am capable. you know? to be the father i need to be. he sings. i think everybody has a light. when people have addiction that light is covered with darkness and when they get sober they glow and they become what they were meant to become. # it's a lonely road when you're going nowhere. so i've to go with somebody...#.

my plan now — help. be of service. help my people back home any way i can. to show them that you don't have to get drunk to have fun, you don't have to get high to cope, you don't have to live that lifestyle to have a good life. at the heart of what makes us indian is our tribalism. is our communal togetherness. we take care of each other. and that's what allowed us to survive for thousands of years and that's what going to make us survive the next thousand years. # so if i've got to go...#

hello, thanks forjoining me. let's see what the weather's up to over the next ten days or so. i can tell you straightaway there isn't going to be an awful lot of change in the overall weather pattern across the uk. high pressure is in charge. they will be little rain, perhaps just a few fleeting showers and night—time frosts in some areas will continue. it is a strong area of high pressure, almost perfectly round, it's anchored itself across the uk. but if we look at the broad pattern across our part of the world, we notice with the jet stream wrapping around that high pressure, the final letter of the greek alphabet, omega, and weather forecasters, when we see this pattern, it basically means high pressure is locked in, it's not moving away, it's putting a block on weather systems and keeping them at bay. now this omega pattern won't persist for very long. in fact, it will change a little bit, that bottom arm of the jet

stream will eventually cut through, but the high pressure will stick around at least in some shape or form, and will continue to drive and influence our weather. but it does look as though in the first week of march we could see some changes to our weather patterns. more on that towards the end of the weather forecast, but first of all, look at all the cloud we've had across the uk. so by no means is it a particularly sunny area of high pressure. in fact, farfrom it. the clouds keep on streaming towards some of these eastern coasts through the night, but that breeze off the north sea keeps things frost free, generally speaking, around that coastal strip. the frost is across central and more western areas. so the forecast then for sunday shows a few showers, light showers off the north sea, continuing to affect maybe some north—eastern areas. more sunshine i think across southern parts of the uk. temperatures around 7, 8 degrees celsius. the winds won't be quite as noticeable, i think, on sunday. there will be more sunshine around, so this is the wind chill. the feels—like temperature will be

closer to 4 degrees. on saturday is was actually between about one and three, so i don't think it will feel quite so chilly on sunday. here's monday's weather forecast. that high pressure changes shape a little bit, which means the wind direction changes. a bit more cloud drifts into parts of the midlands and also western parts of the uk. temperatures about the same, eight or nine celsius. and again, exposed to that wind on the north sea coast it's always going to feel a little bit colder. now on tuesday there's actually the possibility of a few showers maybe clipping south—eastern parts of the uk, just a very weak weather system brushing us. but the vast majority of the uk under the influence of that large high pressure, and those temperatures between 8 and 10 celsius. here's a look at wednesday, very similar, and i'm not going to go through the details forthursday, friday, saturday and sunday, because it's basically going to be more or less the same with that area of high pressure sticking around. remember, just the odd fleeting shower carried on the breeze out

on the north sea and the temperatures staying about the same. i want to show you what's going to be happening in the first week of march. so, yes, the high—pressure�*s still there, but it takes on this sort of more elongated shape, and drags in colder airfrom the north. now, there is a thinking at the moment, at least some of the computer models are suggesting, that we will see a plunge of, yes, colderair, which could engulf much of northern europe in the first week of march. how cold it's going to get, still a little uncertain, but it does look as though early march is going to be on the cold side.

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