the night an aspiring star rio with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have some fun. every day americans. want what's america to our ancestors suffered the most and see how things got crazy i was naked. you might think. we start to bridge the gap this is the great american pilgrimage. with a cult 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. don't don't don't just put him on the bed to lay down the road. for you think so far did. the belt. on the. seat belt on that support. the driver awareness. so that's not just some custom in this town. as they leave dave's convenience store david spleens to stephen why starting his own business wasn't important what that means for his people. we bought it probably about fifteen years ago and we've been running it since there was no indian owned businesses here. and i

wanted to show our members we can do it on our own businesses we can have our own commerce with each other i want to be an example and i also want to be a role model. really challenging because. we have about. forty percent poverty rate. with poverty we have high unemployment we have. abuses alcohol abuse. all the symptoms of poverty exists on. the result of all the things that have taken place over time over two hundred years. i'd love to hear more about the history of the. long history the way they took the federal government. to the point where not just but all in all in the nation.

these lands were discovered we have been considered less than human with a fourteen hundred foot with the roman catholic church and the papal bull. doctrine of discovery when you discover new lands. and when the question is what about the people who are part of that and they say they're less than human because they don't know. they don't know about the church in the four hundred. history for this government and. the foundation for the law when it came to property eighteen eighteen twenty three. versus macintosh and the judge based off of the doctrine of discovery and that became the foundation of. eight hundred fifty one where the federal government we should enter into agreement agreement became the first treaty as a treaty define them. 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 on the bozeman trail is that the black hills know that's the bozeman trail goes to bozeman montana so run the rocky mountains in montana gold and there was gold discovered. 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 to greece to nation said this is our origin story this is where we came from we came from the black hills we came from when 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 provided our our

housing for us with thirty 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 sport. people on the real system would shoot buffalo and just kill them first pictures in the north korea storable site that showed mountains of buffalo skulls they have to go out and pick up the buffalo stalls. on the prairie because they were so much everywhere for a million so there were seventy million buffalo in the early eight hundred by the end of the two hundred there was less than one hundred that changed our will life and that was the 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 the skull for the federal government came in and cost and not through congress to take more land so they took our black hills by eight hundred eighty nine. and 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 bridge was dispersed and not 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 there are those who prefers it so so we don't have a voice we don't have a say but yet every action that lead to a negative impact on us and the reason why they took the land was poor 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

work 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 times lead 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 from the standing rock and they came because we're standing up against. this pipeline is going to cross 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 of the greatness what impact will it have on people as well. this is where the capital right. field right here is hold still.

aside was the cat was the chief piece and everything and on top of media center but it was nicknamed facebook he'll. know this ill here. in my facebook kill as i was only place people can get on facebook well thank goodness for that. there wasn't even wife. just getting ready to record any connection to the internet was really fun. this was the main entrance into the cast of flags from all the nations that came in business all fun and not like the ones like boston and you come around a 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 the attack dogs used 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 the most elite 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 they use so 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 spray and none of them fighting back and one time we had better and all around the world. to stand with over four thousand veterans ten thousand people and that's what happened here there was an awakening because there was an awakening try. namo that this is

a turning point for us to try to make our lives better and come away from. what the federal government has left who supported the bill when that bill solidarity we're not able people are wondering if we're going to and not not tomorrow. right here where the upcoming approaches that's where the pipeline crossing actually is michiru coming up here on the right and you could turn marriage turn around. because you won't break their word landis card but bring on the goes over the hill . thing on. the news. so this is this is our community cannonball these are white house housing and urban development sure they're lower income housing and the rent depends on the salaries

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 common a lot of people who live here right so we get little things like this this is a fee much trailer during katrina they need a temporary hall before they got in and after housing was a needed they seem a good omen they ship them up here for us all the problem with these fema trailers the they are very low efficient it's. a hundred bucks a month to heat in the wintertime eight hundred bucks a month to cool in the summertime. so it's just a bad design that's a bad if they're not going to win a solution and all that they're not ready for this climate but it is better than nothing what we got here this is a cannonball and she's cool so what's with this fence around just an elementary school well they anticipated that you're comin in this area and then that she can be within fifty feet of us. they put the fence up to remind you. no i'm kidding.

others financial survival guide i don't find any i prize on a teacher's. face almost five. as last time i buy it from the future trucker watch kaiser. forman are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. seemed

wrong. but all quotes just don't call. me to get to shape out just they become educated and it gains from it because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. my body told me that i belong with the born if my thoughts my mind with and then along with the girls. of surgery starts to be of any particular. football person. i was born a male had a sex change when i was thirty years old. i've now been living as

a woman for twenty eight years and i fully recall that this. problem should have gone away from by now but they hadn't so these surgeries are nothing more than plastic surgery i've had several female to male friends and you look at it and you just go oh god you paid for that it's horrible nobody can change genders is impossible. is still luzhin it's a mental illness. this is now one of my confession for my flesh she shall be called woman pushy was taken out of me. right now when we got here this is the kind of all images so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well bit anticipated that you're comin in this area and been that you can be within fifty feet of

a school they put the fence up to remind you. to turn left. your ouse stephen does his best to get further than fifty feet away from the school we could turn to he ends up at dave's house which is one hundred feet of earth so what we're going to do is we're going to drive straight up through here and then we will just back from a turn or just left here we'll send it back it there to go out to see what a straight man will back off i'm going to be. a big festering. 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 land but it's my art actually it belongs to the good people at outdoorsy ok. i was just going to help you. steven and dave head inside so steven can get

a little more personal. i'm curious about you the stars because you're a little rambunctious humor but you have your knowledge as extensively you almost talk like a lawyer but you don't have a lot of gray so i'm just wondering how did you have just ten all this knowledge. out here where did you find the time to go to law school i went to law school i got an honorary degree from vermont last. asked me to come again but. i went and i was on it is. there were. very very rigorous you heard of trying to discourage now you know it's law school and it's a doctorate of law makes it even better so i got a doctorate degree we could be that quick from there where you from did you play ball with i was raised on the pine ridge reservation all the way up to sixth grade my dad was a coach he was the head coach for basketball he was the head coach for cross-country

and in one nine hundred seventy nine his teen won. country states by the time i reached sixth grade he became the director slash basketball coach for united types technical college so he brought us up to bismarck north dakota after high school. in the co she actually snag me if you remember nicole was dave's wife from the last episode. became my high school sweetheart we ended up going to bismark state college so who talked to first so i'll tell you what happened. that's what i want to know we were we were. good friends her dad worked with my dad but she didn't know. i had a major crush on her she was like the most beautiful people through in the world and then when i was a senior and i was playing basketball. i said if i score thirty

points today and i get a kiss this is ok so what the cole doesn't know is that i can score anytime i want but i don't i try to get the team i'm a team player i want everybody to skip school. so we play and i score thirty points. so then i get a kiss and it's like wired into this place buzzing usually you know there's an old saying. when you're dating someone you want to score some points you literally took as the literal idea and in order to score some points you had to score some points you can ask her if that's true. and still confirmed but i think even then she was hopeful that i would score so we both went to school we want to work

dakota state university you know there's there's something about both the call and i saw on usual both books chose to come back standing up and raise our kids here now the grass always seems greener off the reservation but we were both raised on his vision and we turned out ok so what's wrong with this picture here does something wrong what has to change are the codes one how do you change the codes you have to become the government you have to become the coachmaker you have to be on the tribal council to get into politics and i get on tribal council first and if they've got a chance i just say i'm going to run and so i put my name in the hat and the. salon launchable council and i come in my eyeballs i just want to put after four years my mother touch it because i think it's i'm one of seventeen and i can't change it i can't reform the government my tears go by and the chairman see and i

ancestors suffered the most so it's our responsibility to remember that you know the messaging today either in the culture or in the media or whatever is like you know of the problems with a merican unease that is you know that that's old stuff to talk about when i. ne body what do you think about that they'll say well that was enough. we were not the ones who took your land that was our ancestors so get over it they don't really understand that that behavior that was done in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight hundred is happening today and it's the two thousand it's happening right now in the high plains a perfect example of it it's twenty seventeen intervene and with all the technology that we still have these squabbles and whatever it's funny because there are so many times when you're talking and i'm missing and i'm risk on or when i say something but the problem has been listening that's why he's been so quiet the scepticism and the lack of understanding. across the country with all the issues i

think it's just more it's mostly people wanting to be heard and having a willingness to listen to tell me what in all of who you are and all of what you said what's america to you. to me personally absolute straight up. america represents this is my perspective and i don't want to offend anybody but it represents somebody who is a perpetrator who. raped somebody early on. did it again. did it again. and everybody thinks it's ok and awakening that she here is the first nations the first people of these lands the first 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 forgive 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 we have today i'm no longer going to be the chairman. it was honor and a privilege for me but i'm focusing on now what can i do to continue to move on to need to. make change. inspired not just new things are standing off but where for all sounds pretty good sir thank you dan appreciate it i think with. this part of the pilgrimage it's come to an end as our hero says goodbye to dave he's bequeaths with the kids. with the sacred tribal seal for a date this is

a pretty big deal for stephen he is gay and 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 american. next time on the great american pilgrimage he's got a good gig for the next eight years now. this is no morning. i was told by your crew. i would get credits in production. source feeding them yeah i know they were all three of them work and then then then and then we can do that i have the power to do that is all of us old enough that all the beans not know we get out while you had more than one. so the.

cranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slowed down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. with

politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be cross dislike them before three of them or ten people that i'm interested always in the water out. there should be. prosecution will need to become almost. clear where you can push. this thread you'll find. somebody known to seem to i mean yeah i mean mean i . political pressure on the. business models used by american corporations. as you. see i don't see. a solution. in

association between. those it is just really his will to lead to. an investigative documentary. ghost you'll. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm show business i'll see you then. in our review of the week's top stories british authorities release photos of two men they claim carried out the poisoning of former russian spy certainly a script to his daughter. there are major inconsistency version of events.

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