Tootie's Last Suit | movie | 2009 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Documentary portrait of Tootie Montana, Mardis Gras Indian chief. | dG1fcjh4Q0RXOFlKWFU

Transcript

00:00Oh, my Indian rain, my Indian rain, my Indian rain, my Indian rain, because I love to live

00:10in Indian rain.

00:14My daddy, I can't remember from day one when I was born, I don't remember.

00:19He was nowhere around me, period.

00:21And for many years, I didn't even know what he looked like.

00:24All I knew he was black and he had a mouth full of gold.

00:27And every man I seen with an Indian suit on, black and a mouth full of gold, I thought it was him.

00:33My daddy was great in his way, but he never made the stuff that I made.

00:42I never experienced the White Carnival.

00:45Maybe when I was a child, I used to go to the parade.

00:47Before I started massing as an American Indian.

00:51Experiencing the White Carnival was hard for us because we wouldn't accept it.

00:56The idea of all this was for us to maintain our culture.

01:00That came with us from Africa.

01:02Because if we said anything about Africa, we'd all have been dead.

01:06In all the PR and stuff that has been done, folks have constantly said that he's the chief of the Yellow Pocahontas tribe.

01:16And that's not so.

01:20I'm the chief of the Yellow Pocahontas tribe.

01:22And I know my daddy's a proud person.

01:25Really, to me, it never really mattered what anybody else thought about what I looked like.

01:33I never heard my daddy tell me that you're pretty.

01:39There ain't nobody in this city that makes a suit with so much of them in it like I do.

01:51Nobody.

01:53Nobody.

01:55I'm more serious now about this suit here because I made it one years old.

02:01And my time is shorter than it's ever been.