kells 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. ok if you're going rich or salts or or ceremony it's all up to your water boy 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 that'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 there's 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 to talk about the meaning of these treaties and 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 started from christianity you have the pap of will so what has happened since that they used a tool of christianity today europeans to control and because 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 them for good 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 different. into you from europe so sort of this is what. taken control and divided over thirty four million native people killed here on behalf of christianity and

the united states government used the native. cultural standards to formulate your majesty's 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 your opinions of fine don't want to live behind who they are they do really don't want to find out what 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.

why do you think you live here freed. my ancestors come here and live here. and grapple by giving end 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 so this important people in young generation need to know why do the ear pinch of always under that should violate the treaty and force themselves on to destroy mother earth destroying the language destroying it that was rightfully ours we want 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 you call god we all believe in god and he guided created a book that you can read it yourself and they'll tell you things that are common there but you did a little read between the line it tells you how to save yourself and majority of the people who are christianity out in the world only know between that line

and that's very simple very simple as is 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 acted by the united states government so therefore the only limit that they don't have solving authority they don't have enough sovereign protection was to raise your hand to the united states government to serve the united states government using colonization and summation with get with where i think it

never made a people into a concept to live you know. so that that's where they would need that money but i needed people who had been taught to work give me i remember when i when i screw that and they're 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. 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 language i live by looking not every day and finding out what the weather is going to be tomorrow. and now is preparing myself with the animals could they tell you 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 as. hard as a say the people that have come from afar with their gifts and those that have brought the gives to not listen and but still stand with the gifts 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 say

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 that we live a totally you don't see anything machon maclin in a. got a match heard. somebody. break. i don't want to tender heard anybody screaming split i want to look within themselves starts. 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 for we are going for the future generation. thank you very much was a pleasure sitting down with. one of our coverage of

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funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not going to look. at. you guys stick to the jokes i will hand over their stuff that i've got to. in my time i dreamt i was fortunate at the state of solar powered lodge in the heart of the reservation is built singlehandedly by henry red cloud the 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 so they had to use this as logic induct 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 chief leader of the good people diplomat peacemaker. all of that gives me an understanding you know direction on what they saw you know grandfather specter 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 east and once they returned they they said you know people were living on top of each other and there was no way that 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 in. 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 you back when they had the gold rush out west out there they had this trail that they called the bozeman trail and in you know history books there. they called it red clouds war and he was. he and the chiefs that i mentioned as well as to wrap a hole in the cheyenne were able to. shut the road down which encompassed you know

three forts along the way nebraska wyoming and montana forts feather men career and bozeman forts he was able to. close to road down stop stop. western. everybody was had at 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 our culture language hunting the buffalo and all that so . he made a huge impact back then with the law caught on the coat 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 that 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 or sitting in a solar powered lodge 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 couple water non-natives or like a couple water fish if the water cups would fall over the water goes underneath things around things just floods the whole place to. anything and it's its path that it 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 pipes made a. sacred pack and prayers and that seven

you know generation here we are i'm the fifth my children my grandchildren see you know seven in the generation so thinking about the changes that he wanted. because because he was a warrior or chief defending the way of life of being a look and. and 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 their debts 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 per year and in the wind bloweth 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 now it 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 and 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 reported to it as a walkabout where you know really connected so we go out we leave and we get to a certain age then we go out and 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 taken risks and getting . 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 that's basically just get reconnected through everything that's you know natural of 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.

there is a 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 are going to happen because all of these old guys their grandmothers their grandpa was at that time that made good sacret pack for seven generations here we are ok we got that you chuckle and now 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 and they're 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 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 pirates today. probably cry i think he would he would cry he had. one of the grandfather said vision but i think he would cry through a bad brace people and tell people a real you are sure people that you know things are going to be good. to give that power hug that's what we all need to do was get each other you know power hugs 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 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 stuff in here other than encourage unity. what you know needs to happen at one time you know tribe was all all unified you know tribes who are working together moving together harvesting together doing all of these things together. going to war together you know would be finding their way of life your kind and you know children grandmothers you know females and. i think he he would reassure her that things are going to be great well clearly the spirit of

red cloud lives in you and lives and minds of people still today thanks for sitting down means a great inspiration to talk to you thank you very. finally from pine ridge hear their prayers for the tribe and the world. oh oh. well. it's technology innovations all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i've got

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