campbell. it is this is richard roth fifty four. more about the people. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin task hollywood guy usual suspects favorite movie proud american first of all i'm dressed as george washington and our visa is to. join the big boys because this is my buddy max famous financial guru and will he's a little bit different. there were no windows up last but not least my larger than life. the knight and aspiring star rio. with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have fun. every day americans. want what's america to our ancestors suffered the most and see how things got so crazy i was naked. keep my finger on the start to

bridge the gap this is the great american pilgrimage. school for i've been lucky to tell you more. people. pick back up with their hero in north dakota and the pilgrimage continues on stephen and dave head out on the road to take a tour of standing rock there we go and drive the sort of guys one two three. and stephen is excited to show dave his r.v. and his awesome driving skills somebody gregorio. but don't don't don't just put him on the bed to lay down now the role. what do you think so far did. the belt. i think

she felt. it was time for me to put my nose. so that's not just in front of an indian. as the big convenience store dave explains to stephen why starting his own business was important what that means for his people overall is my little store we bought it probably about fifteen years ago and we've been running it since then there was no indian owned businesses here on spending and i wanted to show our members we could do it on our own businesses we could have our own commerce with each other sure i wanted to be an example and i also wanted to be a role model we bought it and it was really challenging because. we have about. forty percent poverty rate. with poverty we have high unemployment we have. abuses those abuse alcohol abuse.

all the symptom of the poverty exists on setting off. the result of all the things that have taken place over time over two hundred years. dave i'd love to hear more about the history of the. long history where they took the federal government. to the point where not just but all in all in the nation and i think. every since these lands were discovered we have been considered less than human with a fourteen hundred foot with the roman catholic church and the papal bulls in the. doctrine of discovery when you discover new lands those lands are yours. and when the question is what about the people who are part of that land then they are less than human because they don't know. they don't know about the church and that was

in the fourteen hundreds and that kind of laid out the history for this government and the foundation for the law when it came to property in eighteen or eighteen twenty three there was a case johnson versus mcintosh and the judge based his ruling off of the doctrine of discovery and that became the foundation of taken our lands. wasn't tell eight hundred fifty one where the federal government said we should enter into agreement so this agreement became the first treaty eight hundred fifty one is the treaty that defined the lands where we are today and it was over sixty million acres with the sixty million acres we had disputes because more and more westerners were going through our treaty lands to bozeman montana they called it the bozeman trail so from that point of the bozeman trail is that the black hills know that's the bozeman trail goes to bozeman montana so the rocky mountains in montana where i go and there was gold discovered now that was eight hundred sixty eight and short

a short time after that eight hundred seventy four. custer general custer led an expedition into the black hills on the black hills. the heart of our people where our tribes are degrees to nation so this is our origin story this is where we came from we came from the black hills we came from wind came and we came with the buffalo at one time as far as i can see there were buffalo. and the buffalo was everything it was our our our our relatives. he he provided our our housing for us with their t.p.c. provided food he provided tools he provided anything and everything we needed it was a he was our economy the buffalo were part of who we are. so they wrote systems came through our lands and for sports. people on the rail system was she buffalo and just killed those pictures in the north korea story that showed mountains of buffalo skulls they have to go out. because the buffalo falls. on the prairie

because there were so much everywhere a million so there were seventy million buffalo really eighteen hundred by the end of the two hundred there was less than one hundred that changed our will life and that was the result of one infrastructure project so this is the type of stuff that has been happening to our our nation over and over and over in eight hundred seventy seven after gold was discovered the federal government came in and cost them through congress to take more so they took our black hills by eight hundred eighty nine they put us on a reservation standing rock sioux tribe was established as two point three million acres the size of connecticut. by nine hundred ten. we had less than a million acres left over half of the it was dispersed to non indians coming onto the reservation for settlement and they disregarded us at that time we were not even considered citizens of this country. we wish we didn't become citizens until

nineteen twenty four those are pretty serious and so so we don't have a voice we don't have a say but yet every action that they took a negative impact on us and the reason why they took the land was for economic development. stephen is learning how the history of the treatment of native americans is repeating what we're going right now as. last year and we have a movement that started here on standing with friends our top story tonight the ongoing dispute at the standing rock reservation tensions are heating up once again at the dakota access pipeline that's where thousands of people have been coming to for months this is a three point eight billion dollars pipeline that cuts across four u.s. states the struggle to protect the drinking water and sastra lands from the pipelines construction at times led to violent confrontations between activists who call themselves water protectors and the police if you were to come here last year at this. there would be cars horseback riders. and tepees there were people coming

from all over we had over ten thousand people come to standing rock and they came because we're standing up against. this pipeline is going to cost on the other side of the river and if anything happens to it the first people impacted by this is are people. we wanted to do a more in-depth. study environmental impact. what impact will it have on people as well. this is where they can feel right but also the whole field right here this whole field on the side was the cap was the chief piece and everything and on top we had media center but it was nicknamed facebook kill. you know this ill here. in my facebook killed because i was only place people could get on facebook well thank goodness for that. there wasn't even wife i was just just getting ready to record any connection to the internet was really fun. and this was the main entrance into the cast of flags from all the nations that came and visited

all fun and not like the one fly post and the other come around the corner there's a bridge here and this is called the backwater bridge there was a confrontation here where the militarized police watered down protesters. with water extreme temperatures cold temperatures and they use water and if you go around the corner where everything really started there was a the role of the pipeline and then they needed to build an access road access road was being built that's where the main. protest began about was another alter case and we had there was a attack dogs you so as time progressed the police became more and more militarized more and more force was used and there were more and more people coming there are thousands of people right now heading to standing rock to be water protectors build those maybe military build up just like you know with you guys this trip looks like the group amnesty international says. it's very concerned about how police in north

dakota have treated protesters it says the use of force by police violates protesters rights to a peaceful protest i watched people shot with rubber bullets i watched peaceful prayerful water protectors get mace and pepper sprayed and none of them fighting back one time we had better and all around the world. to stand with over four thousand veterans that said all the people and that's what happened here there was an awakening because there was an awakening tribes namo that this is a turning point for us to try to make our lives better and come away from. what the the federal government has left who supported by the way that bill solidarity we're not able people are wondering if we're going to and not not tomorrow. right here where the upcoming approach is that's where the pipeline crossing actually is this route coming up here on the right and you could turn over to turn around.

you can see the route bridge there were to land this guard but on the go go over the hill. and on. the news. so this is this is our community cannonball these are good halls of thing and urban development sure they're lower income housing and the rent depends on the salary that you make so the incentive not to work because if you don't have income you don't have to pay for the house there's not enough. mana people who live here right so we get little things like this this is a fee much trailer of being katrina they need a temporary hall before they got and and after the housing was the needed they immigrated them and they shipped them up here for us. the problem with these fema

trailer is they are very low efficient so. the hundred bucks a month for heat in the winter time and a hundred bucks a month to cool in the summer. so it's just a bad design that's a bad idea but it's one the solution an all out another way for us climate but it's better than nothing what we got here this is the kind of voluntary school so what's with the fence around just an elementary school while the anticipated. be within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. when the ruling class is to protect themselves.

for henry manuka with the new school coach so for those who insist of it not stiff the question is for us but all yes a chance but us now with your bible verses on what they're for everyone that is for you cooks involved with the provide some. one else child seemed wrong wrong wrong just don't call. me that you get to shape out disdain you can't get educated and in gains from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

right now what we've got here this is the kind of voluntary school so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well anticipated that you're comin in this area be within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. to turn left. and stephen does his best to get further than fifty feet away from the school. which is one hundred feet of earth. what we're going to do is drive straight up here and then we will just back off i'm going to turn left here back in there to go out to see what a street in the back off i'm going to be. a big test being.

creative and just put a cherry on top and say hey dave i've driven these suckers a whole bunch and. it's it's it's your lamp but it's my arm actually it belongs to the good people that outdoorsy ok. i was just going to help you. steven and dave head inside so stephen can get a little more personal. truths about you the stars because you're a little rambunctious. but you have your knowledge is extensive like you almost talk like a lawyer but you don't have a lot of so i'm just wondering how did you have fifteen all this knowledge. here where did you find the time to go to law school. who got an honorary degree

from vermont law. they asked me to come and give a pot. i went and i was on it is an honor to get us there in the skill set the answer lies within education in lies with investing in our youth so as a chairman what i did was say focus on. what we can do for the kid how can we empower our kids. let's head back outside. dave take stephen outside to show him the views and also help him understand the problems brewing in his backyard well dave this is the view from your backyard here this is it and you have this beautiful body of water tell me about it right here where we're looking was once where the cannonball community was this is a result of the flood control if you look at the river it's not a liver anymore it's a lake so what the federal government that in one thousand nine hundred four to pass the pics. and in fifty it actually flooded. because of the flood it killed all

the park cottonwood trees it killed all the plants and killed all of the natural habitat and we were forced to relocate on the hill pups so that's why our community was up here today so i understand before this what looks like a lake there was a thriving part of your career in. industry or business that was coming out of it or yeah there was it was easy to access the other side of the river so we had our tribal members they were able to cross the river and they were able to help the farmers and ranchers on that side if you go further south along the river they have a hotel they have. a bank and they have a railroad system where your resists are the first nations the first people of these lands the first occupants of these lands saying that that's not right and listen for once like we don't have to be the victim anymore so in order for you to not be the victim you have to learn how to for good. not forget but let's learn how

to forgive and let's find a way so that our children and their children and their children have a better than what we have today i'm no longer going to be the chairman. it was on air and a privilege for me but i'm focusing on what can i do to continue the movement continue to. make change. inspired not just new things are standing off but. for all it sounds pretty good sir thank you again we shouldn't think of. this part of the pilgrimages come to an end as our hero says goodbye to dave he's bequeaths with the kids had with the sacred tribal seal for dave this is a pretty big deal for stephen he has gained further insight into the problems

facing the ancestors of the original americans. now our hero sets his sights on the midwest where he will hopefully find max and continue on this great european building. next time on the great american pilgrimage he's got a good gig for the next two years no no no no it doesn't say anything but this is the worst possible thing because. i was told by your crew. that i would get credits and production. well. source feeding them yeah i know they were hungry i'm working all day and then and we can do that i have the power to do that all. that all the no you get out while you had more than one.

what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. more somehow want to. have to go right to be cross it's like that before three in the morning can't be good that. i'm interested always in the waters of our. prosecution will need to become almost. a full focus on. where you push us on the threat of fines can also by the number one proceed do i mean jani i mean do the political pressure on the build you've done to them in conclusion or through security genocide.