the the. the the. what's up people i'm out in martin and this break in the set so yesterday we devoted our entire show they had wallace who tried to pine ridge reservation in south dakota but it simply wasn't enough and so tonight will continue to explore one of the most important and under reported issues in america today the abysmal failure by the federal government to uphold centuries old treaties in the avenues that the soup people are taking on power themselves and build a sustainable future now let's break the set. the the look it was a little very hard to. see. why he ever had sex with the terror threat there's no.

such. little. place. like. the black hills of south dakota contains some of the oldest mountains in the world it's an area of five thousand square miles that have been held sacred to the lakota people for hundreds of years nine hundred sixty eight the us government signed the fort laramie treaty which granted sovereignty the native residents and prevented outside settlers from ever occupying the land however this all changed in eight hundred seventy four when gold was discovered miners flooded the area in just under

a decade the us government had taken near full control of the black hills. fast forward a century to one thousand nine hundred eighty when a landmark supreme court decision granted one hundred six million dollars in the suv for both damages and ownership of the land but tribal leadership refused to entertain the notion that the black hills could be bought with interest the offer by the u.s. now sits in a trust and it's worth over a billion dollars and although there are rumors of potential negotiations happening nearly every single tribe member i spoke to was adamant the black hills are not for sale for western minds it's kind of hard to grasp why the second most economically devastated community in the country would turn down a billion dollars so i sought to find out why. our culture our language our souls our our ceremonies all of the earth water way and. everything you know coexist on the earth here where we're related to and everything that is comes from

the black hills the black hills my grandfathers told me you know it's really par for a spiritual thing is not in those no money a price you can put on that and so that's the reason why we never sell the all the land with then does red border that is not dark brown. was stolen by the federal government and given to the white people the black hills should be restored to its proper ownership. aside from the forced destruction of a culture and the genocide the took place against the indigenous population of north america one of the darkest stains that carries over to this day is the

blatant violation of over five hundred longstanding treaties between the federal government and native american communities every single one of these treaties is either been changed or destroyed over the years despite the words of andrew jackson who stated as long as the grass grows in the water runs these treaties will never be broken so the talk about the meaning of these treaties in the historical context of where pine ridge finds itself today i spoke with floyd looks from buffalo hand heads going to the sioux nation treaty council i first asked him how christianity has played a role in this aeration of native culture. in american immigrants was takers do not give yours and it all starts from christianity you have the pap of will so what has happened since that they used a tool of christianity europeans to control and cause all of the military and

i kind of felt outward afterwards going from this country to another country because that's not the way i was brought up if a your opinion so smart why can't they speak our language. if they have dr degree and everything oh i can't these people are language and live the way we live they forget through a very important part of their upbringing as their curriculum they call family tree every one of you and we are bloodline come from one different. into from europe so sore this is what. taken control and divided over

thirty four million native people killed here on behalf of christianity in the united states government used the native. cultural standards to formulate united states government everything that the united states government have done. after the imitating a native people even these tires everything that was made here belong to native depletes disproves these are all under our language which is the treaty this is under our law seven laws we have as treaty and people need to look behind where they come from europe in south fine don't want to live behind who they are they really don't want to find

out of it what do you say to people who say we can't go back to fortunately the only way to move forward with the treaty and treaty is you know. why do you think you live here freed. my ancestors come here and live here. and grap about given and to indonesia and give them billions of dollars because you give a right to bring up your children give you a house has to you know rip the country for this important people in young generation need to know why do the ear pinch of always under that should violate the treaty and forcing themselves on to destroy mother earth destroying the language destroying it that was rightfully ours when we're not angry we speak the truth

we're not frustrated. we speak the reality of the european people develop a curriculum that all chinamen black man red man white man strips stick to their own cultural languages status forcing themselves out to believe in something that the other nations don't believe in afghanistan korea vietnam we have no business over there and we're going to lose is there any way to save the earth from ourselves we believe in the great spirit which we call god we all believe in god and he guided created a book that you can read it yourself and it tell you things that are common there but you did a little read between unlined it tells you how to save yourself and majority of

the people who go to christianity out in the world only know between that line and that's very simple very simple as has given you shall receive it's simple it is good well their self and humble yourself and respect yourself and they would ask for anything in return and they will guide you to the point where you can be free earlier you were speaking about fighting fire with fire can you talk about the conflict between the ira and the traditional government tribal councils in fact that body united states government so therefore they are only limited they don't have sovereign authority they don't have a no sovereign protection wants to raise your hand to the united states government

to serve the united states government using colonization and summation with get when and where i think it never made a people into the concept to live you know. so that's that's where they would need that money but i made it people had been taught to work getting me i remember when i when i school that in there not a well mechanic lay bricks and butcher and the fifth one was. create bricks. and so when we came out of high school we had a welding you know we had a trade we can go to work why are the black hills not for sale i believe is that if we ever lose control. of that area that we give in to pray and protect self-destruction will be brought on in place of that nature

has of language i live by looking not every day and finding out what the weather is going to be tomorrow. and now is prepared myself with the animals because they tell you well what is coming also and on two thousand and sixteen to two thousand and twenty is the big change that they had also in our prophecies what was prophesied they call that the seven fire he said those that would live. how does it say the people that have come from afar with their gifts and those that have brought the gets to not listen and but still stand what the gift that they brought which is technology. they in turn will destroy themselves for it is there anything

else you'd like to say when you state treaty just our way of life. it's a way of life just the way we think the way the the way we you know and we live a totally you don't see anything matching maclin in a. european house put every piece got a match curtains and chairs. some you can see don't consist of don't break. don't want tender heard anybody streaming split i want them to look within themselves to hearts. and make a decision before it's too late because people need to think about the next generation seven generation for their children. and i have a clip where we are going there we met you know that for the future generation.

thank you very much it was a pleasure sitting down. here most part one of our coverage of pine ridge yesterday be sure to watch where hope meet the bear i'm sorry where despair meets hope on youtube dot com slash breaking inside i'm also pleased to let you know that yesterday was our three hundred episode and that we just picked ten million views on our channel also thank you everyone for watching and scribing the ground for more in pine ridge right after the break. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough to. stay where it's not story. let's get this guy like you would smear that guy stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media are working for each other right prime station. they did rather well.

i think. they would like to go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy trade albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of trans national corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once it's all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then walk a bit there. in

my time line ridge i was fortunate not to state a solar powered lodge in the heart of the reservation is built singlehandedly by henry red cloud a fifth generation descendant of chief red cloud the only native american lawyer to ever defeat the us army at war one of most important leaders in american history today henry uses his logic conduct workshops on renewable energy and teach the oglala sioux tribe everything there is to know about solar and wind power i sat down with henry to discuss the legacy of his great great grandfather and how renewables and help build a sustainable future for the reservation. we grow up learning about crazyhorse american history but not red cloud you're his great great grandson what is the legacy of red cloud mean to you basically his whole life you know war you're more to leader of the good people diplomat peacemaker. all of that gives

me an understanding you know direction on what they saw you know grandfather specked which included you know sitting bull big for this spot it. a young man afraid of his horses red cloud and the various ones that was able you know fortunate to go out and you stand in one state return day they said that you know people were living on top of each other and there was no way that oh war can continue and be won so they need to re strategize and look to seven generations on how. can we will survive how they can adapt to this new way. so that's what i'm doing here today is offering the old ways and lookin towards renewable

energy to become in a sustainable well why was red cloud such an important figure in american history. he he was able to back when they had the gold rush out west out there they had this trail that they called the bull was meant to go in and you know history books. they called it red cloud's war and he was. he and the cheese that i mentioned as well as to wrap a hole in the chai and were able to. shut the road down which encompassed you know three forts along the way nebraska wyoming and montana forts feather men curry and bozeman forts he was able to. coast a road down stop stop the. western. everybody west had that west everybody decided our there was there were stories

over and you know gold you know gold nuggets laying everywhere there was a huge you know a stampede of people and at that time there were just only protecting. their way of life there in all culture language it's one thing to buffalo and all this so. he made a huge impact back then with a look at the dakota post and in a shine and said what do you see as the biggest threat facing today we're live in you know two lives here we live the western culture eastern culture as well as our own so we're livin it's like. two different patterns. and. it's to rally the community we still have the concept here family extended family in that. community. and to to.

to do small things rallied you know community you know bring in the community together do small things small projects and get everybody involved because at the grassroots level people want and they would like a change they would like to see a change right now we're sitting in a solar powered lobby that you yourself built with your own hands what drove you to do this and what made you devote your life to renewable energy thinking of my grandfather's. dream his vision on how to coexist with the non-natives he said it was like a like a cup of water non-natives are like a cup of water if so if the water. should fall over the water den goes underneath

things around things just floods the whole place to. anything and that's its path that that takes out. and he said that we need to live in balance with this new way in order to survive we're looking down seventy you know generations so in turn all of these grandfathers they feel their pikes made a. sacred pack and prayers and that said you know generation here we are on the fifth my children my grandchildren see you know seven in the generation so thinking about the changes that he won it. was because he was a warrior or chief. defending their way of life of being a look at that and. then was able to see go out to new york city

washington d.c. back in one thousand nine hundred and seeing how much you know people were out there ok this is what we need to do we need to come back make some kind of peace agreement and then we need to look to the seven generation going. so people can still live and this generations to come so utilizing take in my understanding that he said it's take a look. it's it's a good way of life and then take the non-native and there's a few things in there that's good take those combine them and come up with a unique thing that you understand and then non-native understands how realistic would it be to implement renewables across pine ridge and what renewables work

right now on the reservation were in the area we were put in the area or so windy in the sun shines all the time to get so high. we we have here here we have over three hundred days of you know sunlight you know poor year and in the wind blows all the time so we're putting those all these areas were over time now it's been a hundred and forty forty years over time we have something you know and. it's something that we're already in bracing in a real sense our language culture and all this. and so we have all of this comes back full circle we have a commodity we can do something. but we think big when farms solar

farms. i have been doing renewables now if or fifteen years here on the rest started out doing it just as a hobby stumbled on the fact that hey this works this can really in as well as creating new jobs when it comes to the overall problems humanity is facing today materialism consumers an endless war what knowledge do you think humanity can learn from the oglala sioux tribe i believe that you know at some point in our lives we all your some people you know we report to it as a walkabout where you know really connected so we go out we leave we get to a certain age then we go or maybe even say ok take a walk about it can be work in here or go or you know searching and not really

you know some people walk all their lives and walk about all their lives. it's getting reconnected to your you know getting reestablished take and rex and get. in and you know some people take this walk about be gone for three four years and say aha i know what to do now and then i know what i have to do and it's basically just get reconnected through everything that's you know natural to the earth the wind that blows through your hair and the sun and all of this stuff just didn't get reconnected where do you see pine ridge ten years from now. thirds or change there's a change coming we've been. i believe that you know pine ridge is. where had it for something really good. economically everything that we've

been trying to do for the past hundred forty years things ever are going to happen because all of these old guys their grandmothers their grandpa was at that time that made that sacred pack for seven generations here we are ok we got that each outgoing no babies are are here so the next you know ten years it's going to be a positive change things are going to change of course when there's a huge you know change are there's a change within oneself there's always you know something there on a roll a stumbling block or something but we nevertheless just you know move forward. i see a good within the next you know ten years with you know a curtain current knowledge of the you know people here on the rise there is going to be a huge story and henry what do you think your great great grandfather red cloud would say if you saw pine ridge today probably cry i think you

would he would cry he had. one of the grandfathers had a vision but i think you would cry feel bad and brace people and tell people are really assure people that you know things are are going to be good. to give that power hug. that's what we all need to do is give each other you know power hoax pat on the back you're doing great just you know keep on going how can i get involved how can i help and. so if you know. if you should you know come back i think some emotions will happen but he'll be happy he'll be happy hope of seeing them but you know people are are doing not only myself but there's a whole array of you know people here doing so and who have and encourage unity

which you know needs to happen at one time you know a tribe was all all unified in a trice were working together moving together harvesting together doing all of these things together. going to war together you know defending their way of life defending you know children grandmothers you know females and. i think he. he would reassure you that things are going to be great well clearly the spirit of red cloud lives in you and lives and millions of people still today thanks for sitting down means a great inspiration to talk to you thank you thank you. finally from pine ridge hear their prayers for the tribe and the world.

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