are really. with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road to have some fun. every day americans. want what's america. suffered the most and see how things got. i was naked. keep my finger on the start to bridge the gap this is the great american pilgrimage. you pick back up with our 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 to drive the story one two three. and

stephen is excited to show dave his r.v. and his awesome driving skills somebody gregorio. but don't just put him on the bed to lay down the road. what do you think so far did. this on the road. that's important. so that's not just some custom. as they leave dave's convenience store dave explains 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 then there was no indian owned businesses here. and i wanted to show our members. we could do it we could own 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 robot. 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 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 in prison 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 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 and they came because we're standing up against. this pipeline is going to cost on the other side of the river. if anything happens to it the first people impacted by this is art. people. we wanted to do

a more in-depth. study environment and. what impact will it have on people as well. this is where they can do the right but also this whole field right here is a whole field on the side was look at who's the chief b.s. and everything and on top media center but it was nicknamed facebook feel great i know this is illegal here. why facebook killed because i was only place people could get on facebook well thank goodness for that. there wasn't even life i was just just getting ready to record any connection to the internet was really there oh that's fun. 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 that or 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. removed

water extreme temperature cold temperatures and they used water then if you go around the corner as a lawyer everything really started there was a the route of the pipeline and then they needed to build an access road where the access road was being built that's where the main. protest began was another alter case and we had there was a attack dogs you so as i progressed the police because thing as a woman for twenty eight years and i fully recount this. problem should have gone away from by now but they had been 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 god you paid for that it's horrible nobody can change genders it's impossible. is delusional it's a mental illness. this is now one of my confession from my flesh she shall be called woman. she was taken.

in a world of big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

right now what do we got here this is the kind of. so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well they anticipated your comin in this area and then within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. to turn left. and here ouse stephen does his best to get further than fifty feet away from the school we could turn into 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 off i'm going to turn this race left here we'll send it back it. they're

to go out to see what a street in the back caught. 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 in the last thirty years. it's it's it's your land but it's my army actually it belongs to the good people at outdoorsy ok. i was just going to help you. steven and dave head inside says stephen king get a little more personal. i'm curious about you the stars because you're a little rambunctious humor but you had 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 to end 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 lost. the ask me to come to give a particular i went and i was on it is on and. there were. very very rigorous you heard of trying to destroy the only law school and it's a dr of law what 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 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. state. 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 tree 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 kid this is ok so what the cold 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 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 scores points you can ask if that's true. and still confirmed but i think we'll even then she was hopeful that i would score so we both went to school we want to go to 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 base and we turned out ok so what's wrong with this picture here does something wrong one has to change it are the codes one how do you change the codes you have

to become the government you have to become the code maker you have to be on a tribal council to get into politics and i get all tribal council first and if they've got a chance i'll just say i'm going to run and so i put my name in the hat and they left. the launch on the council and i come in my eyeballs i just want to play after four years my brother 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 two years go by and the chairman succumbed. so and i think in the idea left in two thousand and thirteen. and in order for us to accomplish economic development business at the moment in order first to accomplish government reform in order for us to get the workforce and the skill set that answer lies within education and lies within investing in our youth so as a chairman what i did was. focus on. what we can do for those kids

how can we empower our kids. let's head back outside more. dave take stephen outside to show him the view 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 yet 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 and if you look at the river it's not a liver anymore it's a lake so what the federal government does in one thousand nine hundred four to pass a pix lonna and in fifty it actually flooded. because of the flood it killed all the park cottonwood trees it killed all the plants or killed all of 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 is a thriving part of your career in. industry or business that is coming out of it or

you know there was it was easy access to the 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 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 those businesses died but this is just an example you have three infrastructure projects that have a significant impact on our people and when i say significant impact i mean literally changing the way we live if you can see where the towers that is where the pipeline goes there's a high chance that that. brake and if it gets in the water the spill response plan

the company has pushed everything on to this of the river not the site that's off the reservation sort of push 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 it going to have unless they say oh it's there's no impact you have nothing to worry about but we know it is because we were told the same thing over and over in the past and i say what why do you need this infrastructure project what's the reason for crossing the river with this pipeline. 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 nation 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 your currency we're 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 i go the problems with native american indians today that's all stuff to talk about when i. know anybody 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 the one thousand nine hundred seventy eight hundred is happening today and it's the two thousand that's happening right now in the high plains a perfect example of it it's twenty seven you know to be there with all the. ology 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 i say somewhere 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 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 then an

awakening that you hear is who 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 it continue to. make change. inspired not just new things are standing off but for 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 kid. 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. i was told by your crew. then that i would get credits in production. yeah they were all three of you have been working. and i mean we can do that i have

the power to do that is all. no. no why don't you just knew you had more than one. show the. same wrong. just don't call. me if you get to shape out. and in again because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

prosecution will need to be criminals in this show before the pump is all. over you question the threat of fines can also by the number one proceed to i mean yeah i mean i mean political pressure on the only moon controlled to securely jennifer knows what the bundled up business models he was by american corporations jadhav wasing completely is sold on could be mental disease as an abuse. on the scene and the solution. lies up in association with people. i know who can he saw as it is just simply his ability to maintain an investigative documentary. ghost war on oxy.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. let it be an arms race. hearing dramatic developments only. i don't see how it will be very clear. patty.

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