00:00There's a word they call us now, Native Americans, which is a generic term I never liked.
00:24We are older than Americans, so how could we be Native than something we are older than?
00:28So yes I am Native American, I'm indigenous, I'm aboriginal, I'm sick and tired of all the political correct crap.
00:34You just call me caucasally impaired. Is that better? Does that work?
00:37We're Eastern tribes, Iroquois confederacies, the Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Tuscarora, Mohawk and Senecas.
00:45My Indian name is Wambli Ohitika.
00:49I know it sounds like my dad just looked into a bowl of alphabet soup.
00:53Um, we shall call him.
01:02Our bylaws of the Iroquois confederacy is what Franklin and Jefferson lifted to use what they call democracy here.
01:10So the idea of democracy, that's not imported, that's indigenous and that came from us.
01:16When I was in college I took a Native American studies class and I was the only Native American in the class.
01:22And I got a C.
01:25We have ancient traditions that we have and still use them and that's what keeps us strong.
01:32But at the same time we're also modern contemporary people.
01:36Yeah that's right, Jewish father, Navajo son, that makes me a bargain hunter-gatherer.
01:42I used to hear when I started, gee I never heard of a funny Indian before.
01:47And the woman that said it I thought, she doesn't know better.
01:51And it's also very funny but also real sad at the same time.
01:54A lot of Indians, we don't have a lot of body hair.
01:56I'm mixed blood so I got some, it's like patchy.
01:59Can't grow a beard or nothing.
02:01I tried to grow a goatee once, it just looked like a smiling nut sack.
02:05So you get around Indian people, there's always laughter.
02:08Even in times of stress, sorrow, sadness, there's always that undercurrent of humor.
02:13There's something spiritual, there's always something funny about it.
02:17Because joviality, lightness, laughter.
02:19They say laughter is the language of God.
02:21Oh, my great-great-grandmother was the daughter of Yaqui Chief Standing Deer.
02:25My great-great-grandfather was the son of Zapotec leader Benito Juarez.
02:29And because of that mixture of cultures, that intermingling of indigenous bloodlines,
02:33I stand here tonight looking like Jackie Chan.
02:37The Declaration of Independence, the phrase savage Indian,
02:41is written in it like three or four different times.
02:44And nobody's ever changed it or addressed it or anything.
02:48And so we get people to laugh with us instead of at us.
02:51But we're fighting hundreds of years of stereotypes just by the very act that we're up here.
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03:23Uhh ah, let me do that.
03:24Did you listen to it, right?
03:26No, don't say it ain't that much.
03:28I'm ready, boy, if I have no faith in or anything,
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