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I'm sure spreading I need to report an
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assault
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there are malicious styled police firing
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at point-blank range with high-powered
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me yeah if there's if there's police
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there then these are the ones attacking
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innocent unarmed people we have elders
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here we have children here we have all
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ages here nobody is armed except for the
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police go protect the people from the
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police my name is chase iron eyes I grew
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up on the Standing Rock reservation and
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attended college and Sitting Bull
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college and then at the University of
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North Dakota I obtained bachelor's
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degrees and political science and Native
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American Studies and proceeded to go to
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law school
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I have run for the United States
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Congress North Dakota and our country is
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at a great critical time chase iron eyes
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you are a prominent voice in the world
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of activism and you did a lot of good
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out at Standing Rock and I know that
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that good is not being seen by everyone
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because as it stands right now you are
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facing charges that could land you in
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prison and away from your children for
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six years I'm being charged with
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inciting a riot and criminal trespass
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because I did a couple of live feeds
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inviting activists media inviting anyone
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who would bear witness to that level of
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militarization so you were inviting
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people to be there to support to be
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witness somehow that was construed as
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you inviting people to come for the
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purpose of violence but no riot happened
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we have incited nothing but peace in
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prayer and dignity
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I'm being targeted it was very clear
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from the moment that I walked up to that
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police line one of the officers asks for
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me by name and he said if you don't call
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those people off that Hill we're gonna
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hold you personally responsible for
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anything that happens I had to explain
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to him that I'm not the chief of those
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Indians so to speak
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I can't command anybody to come off that
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Hill but what I could do is relay a
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message and they explained that they
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considered the Landman that we were on
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to be private property that land is ours
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there is no clear title many of those
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arrested are Lakota
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many descending directly from those who
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signed those sacred covenants that we
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call treaties
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this this is the story that we need to
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tell my name is Dan Sheehan and I am the
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chief defense counsel for chase iron
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eyes the only person charged out of 843
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people with inciting the riot or the
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insurrection against the the Dakota
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access pipeline the entire petroleum
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industry the Trump administration is
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trying to make an example out of
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Standing Rock to show that they can
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crush the opposition to any one of these
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pipelines and to and try to intimidate
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everybody around the country and indeed
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around the world and that's why they are
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characterizing the opposition as an
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uprising of anti-christian religiously
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driven indigenous jihadist terrorists
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and Trump is now issuing executive
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orders ordering the opening up of all
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the Indian reservations in the country
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to
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oil drilling in uranium exploration in
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coal mining and also the public parks
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he's now issued orders to allow drilling
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and timber cutting he views all of the
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national parks in Indian reservations as
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just a reserve or material for the
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corporations to make money you know are
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such a beautiful nation of such
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intelligent innovative humans yet we are
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always at odds one has to at some point
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ponder the possibility that it's the way
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our nation has been founded
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you're so right on point our country was
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founded on expropriation subjugation
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genocide slavery we have to move on from
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there and realize that we are connected
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that our
liberation
is tied up together
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one of the most meaningful memories that
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I have Standing Rock is when the
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veterans arrived what I see in that
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moment is soldiers who very likely have
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realized that they were bamboozled and
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she's killing foreign people for their
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oil and here they are now fighting
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against big oil to come back to our lace
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brothers and sisters to say we fought
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you took your land beside treaties that
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we broke I'm gonna come to say what we
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are sorry we were at your service thank
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you
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[Music]
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Standing Rock was the beginning of an
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international spiritual monument that
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lives in our hearts and in our minds
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this is why we are traveling wherever we
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can to spread this message the enemy
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isn't the white men or the United States
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government the enemy is these values
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perpetrated by capital division fear
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that's the enemy
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we are brothers in the same struggle the
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sooner we realize that the better if we
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don't realize that then that's at our
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peril what is the action that you're
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asking people to take we're asking
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people to text the word Lakota la ko ta
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to the number six four three three six
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you'll get a link to sign the petition
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or you could go right to lakota law org
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and join 42,000 other people who've said
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by their voice in their signature that
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they expect Warren County in North
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Dakota to drop every single charge
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against every single water protector but
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we still have Native Americans left in
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this country to be arrested for
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trespassing on their own
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is testament to the stomach strength and
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the undying dignity of the people who
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were here long before us the people who
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have always known what is truly sacred
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in this world
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year
