fight the system because the system is crushing them where they stand today we'll show you what happens when a community out of options chooses stand together against the storm rather than give up so now let's start watching mohawks. you. want to. do the. real thing is what. i've heard a lot of. what the like you know that i got. with. the. native american adults of non hispanic descent are at greater risk of psychological distress and poor overall health than any other racial group they are also the most likely to have unmet medical and psychological needs and those needs stem from

trauma not only in their current lives but in the lives of those that came before them. john to deal with often talk about. d.n.a. remember it's all we have to do is remember it's in our d.n.a. remember it's in our d.n.a. . and that's before anybody was taught but that kind of stuff but in fact it resonates and people clinically that have historical trauma in the united states people from the african-american community and the first nation and business communities of america. and of course you know people who are descendants of holocaust survivors the jewish community others have as well japanese american a term of survivors but no i was i was aware where he was going with this and i supported it and tire lay and i thought it's about. what

is historical traum. the run for freedom as a white man i'm on the run and i'm treated like lakota but as soon as i get in the car and leave nobody's looking at me that way anymore but it's every single frickin day of their life they should there's no way out of. her goodnight religion never been to an indian reservation you have you probably saw serious poverty alcoholism drug abuse the history of oppression against indigenous people goes back to money and power in the cradle of civilization black lands minister of indigenous affairs red circle society plain one of. the historical traumas that our people have suffered in the past is. the. the abduction of our spiritual power. if we look at our history as human beings

we go back as far as thirty b.c. . when egypt became a province of rome. the roman empire. adopted and abducted certain powers oblast and sacred things and sacred items from them. and incorporated it into their daily lives. obtaining that power for their own personal use. and so when we look at moving forward in history we look at. the creation of the valladolid. and they valladolid was a document that was. to discuss whether native americans in this country indeed had souls. and if they did. were they entitled to basic human rights in fifteen forty two

a bishop in mexico bartholomew down a cost stated that europeans had the right to colonize and slave and even exterminate indigenous people because they were in his mind barbaric uninstructed in letters and the art of government and completely ignorant and reasoning and totally incapable of learning anything but the mechanical arts that they are sunk in vice are cruel and are of such character that is neater teaches they are to be governed by the will of others it was also. further in history. affidavit or contract if you will. that was drafted up by the roman. catholic diocese is referred to as the roman pontiff x. . and the roman pontiff x. was. or was an issue to the world and all the inhabitants that all things inhabited in concord belong to the church and this led to the

mercenary disbursements of people like john cabot. and josh cartier. and the part. so that we speak of most frequently today is christopher columbus and while many believe the days of colonization is over the remnants of that genocide still echo across the land very long executive producer of the documentary dodging bullets explains how life is still fundamentally different for first nations people we get pulled over in a car like i did a little of my own and. i responded that very different than if you're african-american or if you're india. because you may get shot. you never know you have it you may get shot by this cop you know. that's what that's what historical trauma is every minute you may get shot you may get lynched. that's within daily existence. and it goes back to your first nation

person i mean you think of lynchings. well the largest mass hanging in u.s. history by lincoln's to create right here in minnesota under separate twenty six eight hundred sixty two three hundred three male members of the sioux tribe were found guilty of stealing food that was meant for the reservations back from white settlers who had stolen it in the end president abraham lincoln compromised and instead of hanging all three hundred three he agreed to only have minnesota hanging thirty nine of them so centuries have passed since rome began annihilating native people and cultures we asked antony stately c.e.o. native american community clinic what trauma looks like today for the indigenous and first nations so when you look at the native american population compared proportionately we are more likely to be killed by police that african-americans and biologicals rather and other racial. and those are things that people don't really think about they think of because while there are so few of us that were

insignificant right. but when you look at the partial impact of things like these conditions on the native people. my people these are my relatives the people that live here. that to me is the problem where we are the first peoples of this country we are the first people of the state of minnesota that the credit ojibwe people. we deserve better treatment than we're getting richer. while the opioid epidemic has ravaged the whole country native americans and american indians have been targeted throughout history for extermination by any means necessary and it seems and many applicants that means came at the end of a prescription pad. its chemical work for people been surviving that supported by the water the drugs are not the answer never read the solution they are part of the pharmaceutical companies bombardment to keep people asleep to keep people still

keep using the words prosperity theory because nothing is a conspiracy that can. here's the theory when your truth my truth his truth is truth everybody's truth is truth we all are experiencing a different way some people experience in this way some people experience it this way but when they all have similar aspects and they all come together then obviously it's happening just because certain people don't want to accept that this is reality and do something about it doesn't mean it's not but the power that people give away every day by consenting to the process that like i said is fraudulent that is oppressive that is you know the gentrification of this country in a mass scale all the way across the board. in the tent city known as the wall of forgotten natives in downtown minneapolis minnesota the issue of opiate addiction is on the front of many minds and despite the fact that less than a third of residents at the encampment are struggling currently with opiate addiction or abuse their struggle is money many understand and are well aware of

how it got into their community on the sort of call well companies telling their doctors to close post course and then after they stop it stop and stop pushing an event was being held accountable for their play of what they're heard by the people that give or addictive than heroin that was fallen and that became i have put them in. the wallet forgotten natives has had help from one group in particular seems to want natives against terror when american indian movement. are supported not and i was here first to jump honest right away. so we're just supporting them doing what we can what is going down started when our new twenty fifteen was having a lot of photos and gas so being in this field of you know i. offer ducks and we're going to a lot of me and instead of peanuts i want to do action because action makes those

started they start to talk and struggle with. you know. so that way it's interacting with. a and our way and to the stately c.e.o. native american community clinic had this to say about the heroin epidemic and why it's hitting indigenous populations particularly hard the heroin epidemic of course caught everybody in the entire nation by surprise but the conditions for this situation here were really out of five by the heroin epidemic because you have a group of individuals at a community that are already significantly franchised and oppressed and excluded from almost practically every opportunity that exists for the rest of the nation right we have the highest rates of poverty we have the highest rates of lack of education we have the highest rates of joblessness we have the highest rates of practically every social and health and economic indicator that you can thank god

that prevents us from being able to be successful i think that the heroin epidemic is a lot of people and all that we are eleven probably will have a lot of drug use. supported or the comforts of color or the troy well and all that they can make a profit off of who are profiting from the poverty of others is not only found in the drug trade but also in the highrise luxury condos that are popping up in every u.s. metropolitan city while in their shadow the working class and poor are struggling to even find a roof to put over their family's head and as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our full shows at r.t. dot com coming up the second half of our investigation into the wall a forgotten natives in minneapolis minnesota stay tuned to watching the hawks. to.

see. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to get us a little the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. what hopes and plans to you should. be put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be rich. that you'd like to be for us this is what the before three of them or can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of college. there should be.

some is on already has a significant portion of all u.s. commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess their goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america would be amazon commerce and they need artificial intelligence to do that an artificial intelligence needs data to run effectively so jeff bezos but the call out to all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data all the people living in your town and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get anything. minneapolis minnesota has a population of approximately four hundred twenty two thousand people with a twenty thousand annual budget of over one and a half billion dollars with twenty four million dollars allocated for fordable housing this comes just three years after the completion of the u.s.

bank stadium the new home of the bike you spoke balti it can comfortably so. over sixty six thousand football fans it was made possible by about three hundred fifteen million dollars in the state of minnesota and approximately one hundred fifty million dollars from the city of minneapolis for the billion dollar projects the super bowl that was held here just last year netted the city over three hundred seventy million dollars but for the people here at the tent city known as the wall of forgotten natives they wonder where all that money could have gone. because just a mile from the billion dollar stadium is an encampment of between one hundred fifty and two hundred tents housing almost exclusively members of the indigenous peoples of minneapolis and their families in camera first came to my attention that was really through the conversations i have with my staff back and probably met

arrived when there was maybe like four tents or four or five towns where early august was really one it started to get more attention and the thing going on both in the community but also within the city and the county because the tent city on the intamin grew very rapidly one week or the spartans next week it was you know forty interns and it's week it's kind of proliferation of my staff has been down here during our reach and trying to connect people to help care services and a number of things for quite a while and something we've been funded to do through the state of minnesota for probably the last six or seven months and while many news reports falsely claim that the majority of the camp were people with opioid addictions that had been evicted from public housing our investigation found that only about twenty five percent of the residents are there or due to opioid addictions or drug arrests for an pair o. national information coordinator for the american indian movement explains currently what's going on murder and always. will recall of the wall of forgotten

need. just got over one hundred sixty five close to two hundred tents up and down there's three or four block area they were not your couple of months bringing attention to homelessness of american indians in our own homeland this land here was look or a flat we got people out here from from little kids. to grandmas and grandpas in their seventy's remember to use luckily the frankly street corner that the encampment he's in contains most of the organizations that are available to help american indians but even going a few blocks away from that how has prevented challenge which is where people like anthony stately the c.e.o. of the native american community clinic comment i formed a partnership with the red lake nation and also arden ization called the live out the group. the three of us went into our partnership together to deliver onsite

medical services because it became. fairly evident to me and to a number of the folks that i work on my own with the inside of my life there's a saying that there were a number of people here who had and that meant that medical and chronic medical conditions like. the opener and the solar arrays and that several people didn't like use metaphors and several of other people have that with their conditions so really my my desire to kind of get medicals onsite medical services were recognizing that people were not going to go even five hundred feet to the big clinic that is right at the corner or two blocks to my clinic to get medical care because he's on all kinds of insurance right away. they're homeless and all the things that that all the things that are important to them that mean everything to them in their world or their belongings and their ten and when they would leave to go and do things like seek services you that mcclintock are across the street at

the outside edge and services ten people it's a. times to other things which is a traumatic event to somebody who's currently it's mid october the temperature during the day is around in the fifty's but it does get down into the thirty's at night which is why the plan right now is to move the people that are currently living at the wall forgotten natives across the street to a location behind me which is owned by the red lake nation now eventually there's going to be affordable housing for these people on that list but many on the ground feel that the city's goal of getting everyone at the encampment into permanent housing by december is lofty at best james alan cross the founder of natives against heroin who've been overseeing the camp and explains what i think is going to go well in the over a year i think that the first process of is get them over to their the center over there their role like purchase well to go and help people that don't want to be in or the rules or curfew are so we all continue to talk with the city called the

mayor and everybody else in the hierarchy of all why the place where we're going to have these relatives because i know they don't want to see where they came from many coming here to be with their people instead of sleeping in cars or under bridges is a step up and gives them a sense of community that isn't always possible when suffering from homelessness especially when you're a member of an oppressed people but as thomas anderson told me it's not about us and them the wall of forgotten natives is all of us i think that. the police brutality obviously the lack of understanding of when people need help and healing they look at people as less and when it comes to you know nonviolent drug offenses that are policies and statutes that are not law. people are just dismissed they they use the word crazy the is the word mentally ill they use the words of labeling so where they can dismiss things that all that's their problem that's not you know

our problem that's not our children that's their children when there were. i guess that all four of those directions all directions all nations all conscious of you being. going through homewards arguments that means we're all related we're all relatives. currently the tent city known as the wall of forgotten natives in minneapolis minnesota holds over two hundred homeless members of the american indian community and according to a little coverage it is gone you would think the driving force behind this homelessness is the opioid epidemic but there is much more to the minneapolis tent city and those like it around the country while indigenous american indians constitute only about one percent of minnesota's population twenty percent of homeless youth aged twelve to twenty seventeen in the state are american indian according to the northeast regional project near the half of all american indian homeless adults reported having been physically abused as a child

a rate thirteen percent higher than the national average the report also showed that american indians experience homelessness are more likely to experience major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder more than their counterparts with fifty six percent reporting a serious or persistent mental health condition now ever mental illness and have buz affect all demographic so what is taking an already oppressed and marginalized group american indians and shoving them off the cliff well. in a twenty seven thousand u.s. department of housing and urban development surveyed by ramsey county minnesota which included st paul the twin city of minneapolis it was found that quote stagnant wages guy rocketing rents and a lack of affordable housing were the biggest contributors to a rising rate of homeless people in cities across the united states for the residents of a wall of forgotten natives their ability to found a follower of fordable housing has become much harder in the last decade see in

twenty ten the average rental price in minneapolis was about twelve hundred and ninety dollars a month by twenty fifteen that price of risen to fourteen hundred fifty thousand dollars a month and by twenty eighteen the average rental price now in minneapolis has jumped to over sixteen hundred dollars a month clyde bell in court one of the founders of the american indian movement told the guardian. it's unfortunate that they have to occupy these urban lands to demonstrate the fact that we don't have access to affordable housing anymore and the racism is what is pushing the american indians of minneapolis to the brink it didn't happen by accident see a whole new way of making a profit from the struggles of others as emerged from the ashes of the twenty eight mortgage crisis it turns out the banks are packaging and selling portfolios of one family rental properties in urban and suburban areas even better the federal

government is subsidizing loans for those investors to buy into those portfolios one investment group just rated fifty one point three million dollars and financing for eight hundred twenty four unit portfolio with with locations in jacksonville florida memphis tennessee atlanta georgia birmingham alabama and histon texas all under the freddie mac's single family rental pilot so while these portfolios cash in most of the new housing being developed in cities like minneapolis is not for young people it's not for extended families like those at the wall of forgotten natives but for baby boomers flush with cash from selling their homes and downsizing to luxury apartments in the city centers in fact data from the u.s. census bureau indicates that from two thousand and nine to twenty fifteen the percentage of the renting population over fifty five years of age surged twenty eight percent in comparison rentals in the thirty four and under

a chaotic category only increased by three percent and finally according to a report this summer from the lincoln institute of land policy vacant homes have increased by more than fifty percent from three point seven million in two thousand and five to five point eight million in two thousand and sixteen so there seems to be fund public funds available for private individuals and corporations to profit from homelessness hit cities like many out there as have to struggle to find homes for a couple of hundred people which begs the question. why aren't we helping the working class like those living at the wall of forgotten natives instead of subsidizing luxury rentals for baby boomers. be good to each other out there and in this world we are not told we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you this is watching the hawks have a great day and night everyone. dallas

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used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race often spearing dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. to. the russian military deteriorated terribly the soviet union and russia was always going to rebuild its military the question is how can we the united states and russia construct a relationship where we are both confident that all of the intention for more confident of the intentions of the other so that we're not worried it's not that we shouldn't. but we should make sure that our counterparts understand why we have it

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