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the settlements have cooled, the banks of the home for thousands of years. many different coaches live here, but they're all americans, the for members of the jump to tribes, to a group of unique cowboys. the delta here right is the mississippi river, is intriguing from the land water and in the june eat through the soul of america. the

today is a special day for payton and jays, members of the jump to people. the tribe has lived along the banks of the mississippi river for centuries. they hated for a place that sacred to the truck to an ancient earth work mount built by indigenous peoples around $400.00 c. the 2 young men will take part in the coming of age, which you will let the site. this is a c. anyway, amount is a very special place to us. and we just decided to be here. they will perform a dunce, and the elder will say a few words. i'm glad you guys are here, young people that we can teach you and you guys learn the know our way to keep our,

the way he's going. i am very proud and honored that our mother mine is still here and we can still keep the honor and tradition go behind the non the why a lies at the age of a sacred truck to cite the area or is characterized by water and swamps. the top lines, the most sacred place, the non e y, a cage, choked to legend has it that this is the 1st place of humanity. with people 1st to merge stone to the surface of the other tribes, then migrate to the knoll directions. only the chuck to remain choosing to stay close to the mother mound.

the echo. okay. i saw a lot about him at the idea of good, nice, thank you. young people for coming i do. we carry a great spirit in us. why? yeah. and it's up to us to pass it on. i from a go, but i thank you for everything you've learned ish, but don't forget it. and i'll go wherever your feet touch the earth and never forget where you come from. me. i thank you. yeah. use yeah, yeah, way ah, ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, how much is the coach? it was low when the choked to was approved by european central is even the origin of the chuck to name is on. so it's a some belief, it's derived from the woods to read the people

the chip, to what driven on the land in the 19th century. and could only remain if they agree to become american citizens. families within the last of the plots of land to work according to your p unknowns. peyton and his father demanded descendants from these shop to people there ending the special day by fishing together. the, i am proud to be a talk to mr van and chuck danes. i am probably because we still learn about our cultures and traditions. and we'll see what we came from. the jump to the ground to their own reservation in 1945. now they also have the right to sales governance. chopped out is represented through our indian cultures. mississippi

band of trump dot indians was recognized back in early uh, 19 hundreds. uh, i believe that the mississippi mississippi jumped. i was involved here from the dance and rabbit is treated through the trills of tiers. and um, i'm glad that our ancestors had evolved here. and um, i'm proud that we are still here. and they know, going anywhere in the mississippi, chuck to a reservation covers about 140 square kilometers in 10 different rural areas. in the states, the mississippi river is nearly full 1000 kilometers long. and while it's the country's most important river, it's not the longest. memphis, tennessee, in new orleans louisiana to key cities in the lower mississippi delta,

which ends at the river's mouth. the men's that sees the gateway to the southern course of the mississippi and is named after the ancient egyptian city of memphis, once the gateway to the nile delta. the name led to the selection of a gloss pyramid as a new land mom. the but for most memphis still stands for blues and rock and roll the and beale street. he's the hoss of its music scene. the careers of many stones began here, louie armstrong, johnny cash, and of course the king of rock and roll. elvis presley the senior night on the taylor dreams of having a korea like this. she's performing in memphis for the very 1st time

the there's a special spirit here, a just with arts, in general, all forms of art, music, visual art. this, everything there is this. i feel like there's a, it's in the air. the city sits high expectations on musicians. naomi road alone has good luck, john. good tom. this is my grandfather's guitar. he passed away this past year, but he was in a sibling band for a new travel with his brothers and sisters, and played together. and he's the only other musician in the family that really took it seriously and took it professionally. so he passed it down to me, i guess,

to carry on his legacy, which is really cool. naomi is also playing in a bar on bill street the teen roof. will anyone come to watch her play? what a hood dreams for the future. and 10 years i hope to hope to place a lot of people hope to get my music out there and just travel and play music. that's all i want to do. the the,

the teen roof is feeling up. naomi's got a crowd the she survived to baptism by fire in memphis. the musicians perform through the 19 pods on beale street. but doing these already breaking back at the jump to a reservation, the, the state of mississippi is celebrating its native american peoples and a heritage with american indian day. it's also an important day for the morris family. and the lake is mother tell. so to hurry up in chuck to make a mistake, he's taking part in the joke tools,

annual highschool princess pageants as a little bit nervous too. and this is the 1st time they ever did on stage question during the american indian princess pageant too. so i got prepared for that, so just keep practice one more, but the mother dimitria is a full the princess. and now i'm a lake, a hoops to carry on the tradition the, the morris family, like most of the tribes have a good life on the reservation. having the right to operate to can see notes keeps the shop to some financial security the they also have their own police force coolant system and fire department. the lake is high school

home to the seas. princess pageant also benefits from the casino. the patrons who had he's coming of age ceremony yesterday was last year's prince. i like to ask symbolism, tips. honestly, just going out there having fun in being yourself. so it is been, it's more like has to a mother has spent months making the lake is dress willow, the if it pay off who who the event starts at the sports field, the way most shocked or events do with traditional dances the lake here into the fellow contestants of being judged

by the reigning prince and princess, as well as a jury. each girl must give a speech the most important thing about being chalk. those are coach our culture and make those who we are and talked on people who could tell plenty outside cooking, dish or color it may be were, is a tradition that's been passed out for so many generations to y'all called the last . and i think we would, you re be impressed by lake is use of jump to she was the only one to speaking anything but english american indian de high school friends this, that is going to be a contestant. number 11, list length of re morris. they would maybe

future contestants will be encouraged to use more truck to in the speeches the american indian day festivities of winding down after a day full of native american tradition. peyton and his friends celebrate with another american tradition, hamburgers and coke. the macon state. we native americans are still american and we do have the american food burgers, pizzas, check in, cries and coke just says regular americans, personally, i enjoy the native condition more is that fryeburg may be payton's generation will take the best of these traditions and create new ones

unique to the young choctaws of mississippi, the land that would later become the state of mississippi was settled by europeans in the late 17th. an 18th centuries, they built their own culture and customs with them and to build you repeat in style houses. the many of those living in the lower mississippi delta still take pride in preserving some of those traditions. julie bo check nick named mustang julie hopes to be part of a classic cars show today. but her cars breaks a jammed and it wants stuff or the husband tom is

lending a hand. i think guys, they think i'm kind of an anomaly because a lot of their wives don't jump in and work on the car so they work on their own car. i know one gal who, one is in temper own gas. julie needs to be on the road in 3 hours or risk missing the show. she and her husband done collects just any old cars. they see their old emotive restoration as an act of patriotism. the old cars are part of our heritage and it shows how far we've come. i mean, you say a t bucket roaster, clicking down the road, you know, or like change any bang, bang, or you say one of these. and, you know, it just brings back memories to people. the ford model a was part of if it's to bring mobility to the american methods in the late 19 twenties. but sixty's models hold a special place in this couple thoughts. the 1969, you'll notice we've got 69 corvette and 69 mustang. that was

a year allowed and fast, you know, that was the year we landed on the moon. that was the year that america was at. it's truly greatest. and i think america is going to be great. again, we're bringing back the muscle car. thank goodness show. here we go. julie hopes they fix the problems. she's ready to roll, dressed as if it was still the sixty's. the

last year we are 9 to 30 model a and our 1930 model a we ended up winning people's choice. so that was exciting. the julie could be on route to picking up another award this year, but then she smells trouble. we're have a little bit of a something might be burning, so we're going to stop and check it out. he's the count, show this to julie before it again, but i think we're making this show i'm going to pump the brakes a little bit on the way there and the all the good spots are already taken by the time she writes

the it's a very patriotic so it's a case where for space, for military. and so usually people the way the american flag american cons from the 1950s, sixties and seventies. oh, and some things in common. they size and they love of gasoline. truly. first checks out the competition. the other mustangs look pretty cool to julio and stands out move in her account. does she have a shorter the price? never $2969.00. 1969 a year. it's

a lot and it was a great so beautiful car was ever one coming out. that's okay. last year the lady julie knows that more and more women and becoming hobby mechanics and giving men a run. so the money the mississippi was an important transport route even before cause and trains were invented. but the water level has full and steadily and recent ease making inland navigation. honda not only with goods transported on the river slaves, what is so once an important congo giving rise to the phrase sold down the river. still today, over a 3rd of mississippi into black making it one of the us states with the largest african american populations. a different kind of

a quick story in club is about 250 kilometers south of memphis. the greenville the delta hill right is jesse brown boards, 3 horses here in larry pellet stable. i would say they'll ride tomorrow with just the door to jordan, taking part for the 1st time the death here. 3 is a group african american, cowboy, you know, real capital i learned from occurs and a lot of history, real capital, no fake, no notes here. we're really right. it's important given to feed my kids and pass it down and keep the door cuz of what

all the technology going on. the horses, you know, sometimes these things are going to pay how does 10 year old jordan feel about this 1st, right. as a cal go, i'm very nervous. oh but i feel like my dad will show me to a lot of stuff. so i'm excited to at the same time. as we'll discover the new business he's will found it. the delta he'll right is hold the traditional barbecue the night before group rides. jim and lindale, poor to tell some interesting, if not entirely true legends about cowboys know, cowboy, a lot of black ro cows. now, i mean, a lot of black work ranches back in the old days and hate to say it, but a lot of was call boys a lot back in the days too. so somebody boys working account who was the name

originally came about, they will tell more. it'll tell you this. that's where they came from. you got some real famous blackout boys as well. you know that make movies and stuff. we know john wayne, the duke is one of the most famous white cowboys that ever lived. but he's not the original cowboy, he is an ex. according to puerto hollywood turned it to rugged 3 names. the african american cow hands into a monica of a white heroes who became the stuff of legend for the delta heal. right. is real cowboys? a blank wall to wall weight. oh mine. oh bill. sit off tomorrow morning and ride the horses all the way to the banks of the mississippi.

the around $500.00 columbus is for the sale, environmental research here and photographer been deb. he's already on route to his destination. the miles of the monkey mississippi river on the gulf of mexico. fun to a huge river delta. the louisiana has sort of the fastest for roading coast in the world. we're losing thousands of square miles of westland. and that's a combination of factors including sea level rise and

natural subsidence for the same thing been has the monitoring changes to the delta c years. he built this small sail boat a few months ago. been in friend, richie a sailing to a remote highland and the delta. they want to cancel the 9th and spend the following day exploring the i feel like slowing down taking half a day to get anywhere. that process of slowing down kind of helps me see this landscape better and more clearly. growing up here was a good way to understand this landscape. right? i'm, i spent holidays and summer's all my dad shrimp out learning these waters. i learned to swim right over there and much of these areas have,

have washed away into something unrecognizable. the bin is looking for a remote island to spend the night on because tomorrow he wants to do something out of the ordinary. go ahead and assemble my powered paraglider so that i'm ready to go early in the morning. i usually wake up an hour before sunrise and kind of set things up, but it takes a little longer to put the loader back together after sailing the mississippi river delta base. and it's

a low lying area and the islands of flats. the best way to explore them is from the bins. power power glider is perfect, but it's ranges limits it been in richey enjoy evenings like this is trying to get a little fire started. we don't really need it this evening, but it's more for psychological reasons, right? little warrants that scares us any animals. there's a few priorities on the island. nothing to worry about that. i have seen cougar footprints just about 10 miles from here. the to spend a peaceful night where the mississippi meets the gulf of mexico. little do they know what tomorrow will bring? the

the delta hill right is get the horses ready the next morning, 10 year old jordan is supposed to join them for the 1st time. no problem says stable. oh no larry the they got it. that's news, a little more play. i didn't of white, you know, they have more fail when they rad, or they'd be, want to move a little more style, a, get a, get up to, you know, you know, so, and so is a, do it going to be easy. jordan's big moments the well, well over larry is confident jordan can keep pace during the ride. others on

convinced, including the father, jesse. oh, oh, it doesn't say i'm a little bit afraid if she can't do it. i really want it to do it. i have a rose and horse and a long time though. i never put the rope. i'm a safe guess. i always put the children close. it quits for now. stores don't be. i know you're nervous right now, but you're gonna get try again. yeah. okay. the, the delta hill right, is considered themselves america's true cowboys. it's the one that off to the us civil war. one in every full, campbell ways was black. but hollywood wrote them allison with history, the

even one brain go away. and it to the cowboys in mississippi deal to, you know, let him know black cowboys is the 2. i know we always be around, it is more the family in the head coach. and so i me, oh oh or fam, eric close always animal agriculture to warranty, maureen, 3 other things that we're here to say the deal. so he'll write is more recognition for their role in history because black cowboy is played an important part in building american, the

environmental research here and photographer been den gets he's paraglider ready for take off early in the morning. he wants to explore parts of the mississippi delta, starting from the silence the very when the today, it's a little bit i the been has been flying and documenting the loss of islands in the delta for years. hurricane ida came through this area last fall and came through just a little bit west of here and it really damaged a lot of islands, a little bit west of here. and so i'm kind of also curious to see if hurricane ida damage came this far east pots of the delta has been cleared to make

lanes for launch condo sheets and pipelines. the work helps the water sweep more and more little islands away. sounds like something just broke. the engine stopped and ben was making an emergency landing. it's good. he wasn't out over the war. so yes. exactly. sure. what head could have been uh been trying to make the best of things. he patches up the propeller and the other pods. a built probably snapped time for a 2nd attempt. he doesn't want to make an emergency landing in these alligator infested waters. 6 is the most at risk of running smoothly. been can stone to take pictures the

he quickly realizes that shoots waves of land, the gain be lost in recent months. more than 50 full square, columbus is a washed away each year. the, the, the new orleans, the city's deep water contained a port contributes to the last land as ships need, if a deep and navigation channels you will, lindsey is known by many different names. the parents of the south queen of the south, the birthplace of jazz, and the big easy,

the french quarter is the cities historic hans, the shop to trade in goods at its french market. and joe, nevada now stands here, a gift from france. the african american symbols lift them up, bringing jazz and food to new orleans. the. the french quarter is home to do pre stance. christina box is performing a love spell for one of our clients. the, i've seen the elders take one sofa candle like this and move mountains with it. so it's really all about sharing sanctions with what we do. we're serving the

why below, why spirit switch. so it is intermediaries between humans and the supreme creates a lot of people assume that a mambo, i'm a sideway. no, not yet. i'm still on my way up. so i worked under my mom, but my bone, mambo sally glass cement of today. christina is meeting with mumbo sally and for the match, she always performs the same rituals as part of the training to become a member of a subway will find priestess. that 1st stop the symmetry. christina drew strings here from her ancestors. she feels and especially strong connection to her deceased grandfather. what are uh, family transitions over there with us we they call it god speed for

a reason. if we call the name their right. like my grandfather who i've been talking about is right behind me. you can feel what i do with my gifts. i listen to my body. i feel the changes in the energy mix stop condos. gwen slaves gathered here once a week in the 19th century. it was the only place they were committed to dance and speaks in native languages. but they still weren't allowed to practice voodoo here . who do practitioners would instead bring this sacrifices to the trees, which also served as gallows, the

fisheries were used to be able. they were used to hang, you know, my ancestors and many other ancestors who actually vibrating right now. i have shows all over my body, just speak in these words about them. i can hand them, i can fill them. christine is food still help is the temple of her mom. but sally and the the reparations are really being made for the mess, which the high priestess himself will love to see the fellow in who has been practicing booter since 1977. christina hopes to follow in her footsteps. the

that's been a lot of burden on her shoulders and i expect that christina is going to expect her to go all the way that she will become a member of a subway. definitely. i want to go as far as the why want me to go? and as many people as i can bring awareness to and bring them to, to religion. i'm off of the the rituals big enough to sun down who to follow is no longer have to hide their religion. originally from west africa, buddha was brought here by the slave trade from haiti. once demonized and suppressed respect to the religion is now growing. the and christina also has faith that one day she too will be a member a so great the

a vintage, there's a small community nestled among swamps about 100 kilometers southeast of new orleans. the richey blinking co work a month load seedlings on these narrow boats at the merino no longer contains jones to help his friends been the paraglider study. the shrinking delta richie is actively conversing. it's the today. what we're going to be doing is we're going to be planning from cypress trees out in the wetland areas. and i began doing this work around 2009 or

so 2010. and i was working in the oil and gas industry and i was driving the boat's here in the harbor. right. and i was going back and forth between the harbor and the spots on the golf and noticing a lot of land loss over the years. and i wanted to be doing anything i could to, to be slowing that down and so planting trees was something that i could do within my own power. richie and my couple ready planted several 1000 trees in the mississippi delta. the tree roots give the islands greatest ability. so the notice easily washed away routine knows if it's a, just a drop in the bucket. but because it's better than doing nothing, the

richie grows the seedlings, and these are on god and receives no financial assistance from the governmental aid organizations. he used to work as a fisherman and later on an offshore oil. rig richie now has a job with the local township, but he's most devoted to his work in the delta. so you can see there's water in the ground here, very high water table. this island is at risk because it doesn't have a single tree. and the roots of the plans aren't more than a couple of centimeters deep mock has been planting trees alongside richie for years. my family came here in early 1700 has been living here ever since. and if it goes away,

we go way the humans that we're living here before they built earth and mountains made on a one basket of money show of the time. they pulled their efforts in labor together to live in these exceedingly productive places. and when the europeans got here, we built levies and we started controlling nature. and where we find the problems here is where we try to control nature too much. since the building of the lives in the 19 thirty's, the sea level here has risen by about 9 millimeters each year. and about 5000 square kilometers of land has been lost in mississippi river, it has provided for my family for generations. and the delta is in peril, right? and so we're, i'm doing what i can and others are to, to help restore this area because they don't take care of us and into the future. and the mississippi river brings all americans together in one way or another, right? it makes us who we are. scientists expect that most of the little islands will be

gone for good in just 20 years. but richey and others who leased by the mississippi, refused to give up hope just yet the to the point. strong opinions, clear position, international perspective, direct set to be elephant in the room ahead of the case upcoming election. so let's talk about it. what is the state of the nation more than 4 years after leaving the you and pretty labor government offer a fresh start? joining us this week on to the point, to the point thing. in 13 minutes on d, w, the

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