i'm like, "you're hewisedawi, you're on top people. you are what you're reading about. you're not just in the history books. you are you," and that's why i take her out here. i'll take them out here, and, you know, you got to be part of the land. you are the land. it's cool to see that cycle, and so it's real personal when my kids get out there like that. risling-baldy: i think there's something really telling about the fact that during colonization they really came after our food and they really watched and focused on how we cared for each other through food. with colonization, everything changes. it's an invasion of who we are as a people. it's an attempted destruction of who we are. man: when settlers came in, they saw a land that was empty, and so they said, "hey. this is an open land. we get full reign of it," and yet it wasn't. every piece of this land was being used in some way, some capacity. it was truly our garden. land was no longer able to be accessed in ways that were done in the past. water was all of a sudden being used by someone else, and they were sayi