hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin task hollywood guy usual suspects favorite movie proud american first of all i'm just as george washington and r.v.'s just. joined the big boys because this is my buddy max the famous financial guru and we'll he's a little bit different i understand your abraham lincoln hall i know there were no windows up last but not least my larger than life. 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 gotten so crazy i was naked. hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pilgrimage.

let's go for i'm the last 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 sorby out 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 roll. what do you think so far did. he belt. this on the road but i didn't see. that support. the driver awareness to.

so that's not just some kind of an indian custom and this comes. as the daves convenience store david spleens to stephen why starting his own business was important what that means for his people so that was my little store right we bought it probably about fifteen years ago and we've been running it since then there was no indian owned businesses here on standing up and i wanted to show our members that we could do it we could own our own businesses we could have our own commerce with each other i'm sure i wanted to be an example and i also wanted to be a robot we bought it and it was really challenging because. standing rock we have about. forty percent poverty rate. with poverty we have high unemployment we have. high abuses those abuse alcohol abuse high rates a drop of high school drop off. all the symptoms of poverty exists on standing up.

and it's a result of all the things that have taken place over time over two hundred years. david love to hear more about the history of the land yeah there's a long history in the way they took the federal government took and took and took it to the point where not just standing off but all indian tribes all in the nations i say stop doing that every since this these lands were discovered we have been considered less than human was the fourteen hundreds with the with the roman catholic church and the people bulls and the. dr of discovery when you discover new lands those lands are yours with all the riches and when the question is asked what about the people who are are part of that land and they said well they're less than human because they don't know about god they don't know about the church and that was 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 a judge based his ruling off of the doctrine of discovery and that became the foundation of taking 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 trails that the black hills know that's the bozeman chill 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 to be very soon ish and 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 he was our economy the buffalo were part of who we are. the railroad systems came through our lands and for sport. people on the rail system would shoot buffalo and just kill of his pictures in the north korea story that showed mountains of buffalo skulls they had 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. two 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 of those secret prisons so we didn't have a voice we didn'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 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 time 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 they came because we're standing up against. this pipeline is going to cost

a millisecond of the river and if anything happens to it the first people impacted by this is our people so. we wanted to do a more in-depth. study environmental impact statement what impact will it have on people as well. this is where they can feel right but also this whole field right here this whole field on the side was the cap was the chief piece and everything and on top of media center but it was nicknamed facebook feel. this ill here is. why facebook killed as i was only place people to 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 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 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. maybe military just like you know with the gaza strip 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 protests. rights to

a peaceful protest i watched people shot with rubber bullets i watched peaceful prayerful water protectors get mason pepper sprayed and none of them fighting back one time we had measured 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 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 their turn around. because you were outraged there were to land this guard dog but on the goes over to

deal. thing on. the news. so this is this is our community cannonball these are whole thing 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. so we get little things like this this is a fee much trailer during katrina they need a temporary hall before they got and and after the housing was the needed they even gave them and they shipped them up here for us all the problem with these fema trailers a very low efficient it's. a hundred bucks a month to heat in the wintertime. a hundred bucks

a month to cool in the summer time. so it's just a bad design that's a bad bit i'm going to explain the solution and all that and i'll be ready for disappointment but it's better than nothing what we got here this is the kind of all i meant to school so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well anticipated that you're comin in this area and being that you can't be within fifty feet. they put the fence up to remind you. 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 you could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it. i mean your list put me in the. school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took part in this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

i've been saying the numbers mean some big matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars more in tempe each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to the old for rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent raise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and twenty rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one just shows you know for two minutes the one and only. in america. right now what we've got here this is the kind of. so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well anticipated that

you're comin in this area. within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. just to turn left. and stephen does his best to get further than fifty feet away from the school we can turn to. dave's house which is one hundred feet of earth. what we're going to do is we're going to drive straight up here and then we will just back all i'm going to turn left here we'll send it back it there to go out the same one a street. 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 lambs but it's my army actually it belongs to the good people at outdoorsy ok. i was just going to help you.

steven indeed head inside so stephen can get a little more person. don't know you. i'm curious about you the story because you're a little rambunctious sense of humor but you have your knowledge is extensive like you almost talk like a lawyer but you don't have a lot of gray so i'm just wondering how did you have fifteen all this knowledge. get 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 law. i went and i was on it is an honor to get up. there with. anybody who ever gives you heard of trying to discuss. and it's a doctor of law what makes it even better so i got a doctor 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

the coach he was the head coach for basketball he was the head coach for cross-country and in one nine hundred seventy nine his team 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. 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 creature in the world. and

then when i was a senior and i was playing basketball. i said if i score thirty points today then i get a kiss says ok so what the cold does in the hole 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 i do through this week to be first so we play and i score thirty points. so then that i get a kiss and it's like wired into the slate 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 then order to score some points you had to score some points you can ask her if that's true. and she'll confirm but i think

even then she was hopeful that i would score so we both went to school we want to dakota state university you know there's there's something about both the call and i. usually both of us chose to come back standing 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 a tribal council to get into politics and i get on tribal council at 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 they left . so now i launch i'm a 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. if when

we go to my teen years go by and the chairman seat comes. so and i get in the ivy left in two thousand and thirteen. and in order for us to accomplish economic development business the moment in order first accomplish government reform in order for us to get the workforce and the skill set the answer lies within education in lies with investing in our youth so as a chairman what i did was i focus on. what we can do for those kids how can we empower our kids. it's a back outside problem or. dave take steven 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 the where the cannonball community was this is a result of the flood control that 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 forty 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 the natural habitat and we were forced to relocate on the hilltops 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 you know 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 rail system where your reasons for this had to be in the forty's so there was a thriving economy that was. a result of the river but when the federal

government flooded the land those industries the businesses have died but this is just an example you have three infrastructure projects that have a significant impact on our people and our child when i say significant impact i mean literally changing the way we live if you see where the tower is that is where the pipeline goes there's a high chance that that can break and if it gets into water the spill response plan the company has pushed everything on to this side of the river not the side that's off the reservation sort of pushed everything this is right below my house and they're saying this is where we're going to clean it up when we say what impact is going to happen if this is all it's there's no impact you have nothing to worry about but we know this because we were told the same thing over and over in the past and i said why do you need this infrastructure project what's the reason for austin river with this pipeline right here this point and they said well we need it

for three reasons we need it for economic development we need it for energy independence for this station and we need it for national security so i said. we already pay for. energy independence with this dam you create hydro power we're already paying for it we already pay for national security you take in the gold on the black hills to back you. who are already paying for economic development you took our land those three things our people have been paying for we continue to pay for it we pay the cost now who benefits we live in a state of dependency we have high rates of poverty we have all the symptoms that's the cost that we pay for this nation and our 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 native american any city that's all stuff that. about when i. and

a buddy 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 that 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 steps 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 which is 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 what 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 it continue to. make change. inspired and not just do things that are standing right but where for all that sounds pretty good sir thank you again we should think of. this part of the pilgrimage has 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 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.

next time on the great american pilgrimage he's got a good gig for the next eight years now. this is no one. i was told by your crew. i would get credits in production. for saving them yeah they were all three of you had them working on them and we can do that i have the power to do that all. now. although no get out while you had more than one.