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00:00We're going off-road!
00:02Ah, so much dust!
00:04Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
00:06That was close to that house.
00:09Whoo!
00:10I'm Matterzaps, and I'm on a mission to explore skateboarding outside EDGE.
00:15Hop in as we travel the world meeting skateboarding mavericks to find out what skating means to them.
00:41What's up, Skate Tales?
00:42We're in Globe, Arizona, on the border of the Apache Reservation,
00:47where the Native American skateboarder Doug Miles Jr. and the Apache skateboard crew keep the culture alive.
01:00Oh my god.
01:15Have you guys heard of Apache skateboards?
01:18Which way do I have to go to find them?
01:21Going all the way to San Carlos.
01:23Alright, well, see you guys later.
01:30Look at the size of that teepee.
01:34The Apache must be nearby.
01:43Where's Doug?
01:44Have you seen Doug?
01:45Is Doug around?
01:49Knock, knock, knock.
01:54Come on in, bro.
01:56Hey.
01:57What's up, brother?
01:58Come in.
01:59Matterz.
01:59How you doing, man?
02:00Come through, Matterz.
02:01Hey, yeah, yeah.
02:02Nice to meet you.
02:03Douglas Miles Jr. is one of the scions of a new wave of indigenous skaters fusing their roots in Native
02:09American culture
02:10with the modern movement we know and love as skateboarding.
02:13Born and raised in Arizona's San Carlos Apache Reservation, he was introduced to skateboarding by his father,
02:18the acclaimed fine artist Douglas Miles Sr.
02:22Doug Sr. painted a deck for his son, and given the instant groundswell of interest this created,
02:27he founded Apache Skateboards,
02:29a project whereby the indigenous youth of North America could recognize a connection to their own culture
02:34within this relatively new form of expression.
02:36Native Americans have proven incredibly resourceful in developing and nurturing new iterations of their ancient culture.
02:42And Doug Jr. spent his formative skating years touring other Native American reservations teaching youngsters
02:49how they could become drawn into skate culture without losing sight of their own heritage.
02:55Sometimes when you can't find space for your own chapter, you got to rewrite the book.
03:01What the hell?
03:03You got a lot of dogs out here.
03:05This is not even my dog.
03:08But he showed me the way to here.
03:10This is not even my dog. Get the hell out of here.
03:13Welcome to the res.
03:16Random dogs. Res dogs were just walking over here.
03:19Since how long you guys had this company?
03:23About 20 years.
03:2520 years?
03:25That's the first one.
03:27Yeah, that's the first one right there.
03:29That's the very first one reprinted in Orange County, California at Acme Skateboards.
03:36I remember in the 70s, I was riding a skateboard.
03:40And so when he got into it, I remember I was like, oh yeah, that was a lot of fun.
03:45I started Apache Skateboards around probably around the turn of the century.
03:50Doug Jr., I needed a skateboard one day and I took him to the mall and I didn't have enough
03:56money.
03:57But I had $25 and I said, Doug, I can't buy that board.
04:01I said, I can buy you this one though and I'll paint it when I get home.
04:03Because I've been an artist for a long time.
04:05He says, it's okay, Dad. I just need the board.
04:08And then after I painted one, he took it all around here, you know.
04:11And then I said, what did your friend say?
04:14And he said, they all want money.
04:16So that's how it got started.
04:19Yeah, so Indelica is a brand that I just started, a company.
04:25It has a clothing company.
04:27So I was just making clothes and shirts and hats.
04:30Really just wanted to make dope ass hats.
04:32This is my pro board from Indelica.
04:35It's all about body.
04:36It's all about creativity.
04:37Like I made this with my father.
04:40He's an artist.
04:41So we want to like support artists and skaters and everybody who does like creative stuff.
04:46Like things like that.
04:47This is the cover of the Globe Miami Times, which is a local newspaper.
04:51We were just going to build a skate park in San Carlos.
04:53So I think they did the story on that.
04:56I mean, this is my first cover.
04:59It's Umber Magazine, the Creative Thinkers graphic journal.
05:04Sports issue actually at the front and the back.
05:06Both covers.
05:07Yeah.
05:08So that was pretty rad.
05:10This is from the groundbreaking ceremony at the San Carlos skate park.
05:16Arizona Republic.
05:17We were raising money for a skate park.
05:20And you got it?
05:21And we raised it.
05:22Yeah.
05:22Yeah, we raised it.
05:23Matters, we got it.
05:25We're going to take the Oldsmobile to go to the DIY right now.
05:30Apache skateboards reintroduced a lot of our history into the hands and put it in front of the faces of
05:38younger kids where we weren't really thinking about that stuff.
05:41We weren't thinking like, I didn't have no idea and no clue about history back then until I saw the
05:46boards and then how did we get here?
05:48What happened?
05:50To figure out where I came from and why we're here on the reservation.
05:59What's your name?
06:01Jared.
06:02Jared?
06:02Yeah.
06:03Pleasure.
06:04This is it.
06:04This is the spot.
06:06The DIY.
06:10We had a GoFundMe account, did the fundraiser through like Instagram and social media.
06:16And it just, it was crazy because people just started posting and reposting and reposting.
06:22And then people from all over the country have just been super hyped and helping out.
06:28Couldn't have done it without these dudes, you know, like these are the homies and the homies that you guys
06:33see skating, you know, they did all this shit.
06:40My name is Adam Pinoya and I'm a White Mountain Apache, you know, from this reservation.
06:45And this is where I grew up and where I started skateboarding at.
06:50We were talking about the skate park we're building right now with Doug.
06:53And now I'm trying to do it back for the kids.
06:55I'm not asking for anything out of it.
06:57I'm trying to keep it alive, you know.
07:00You can't let it die because that's an activity for the kids to live on and survive on.
07:06And, you know, try to like lead them away from, you know, the bad, the bad experience that I've been
07:12through.
07:12And I don't want them to go through that.
07:17Before I used to skate, I was like naughty.
07:20I wasn't really a good child, but after I started skating, I just started to just want to skate more.
07:27And that's just what I do now.
07:28I just skate.
07:30So it's like, it brings a lot of influence to a lot of you younger people who kind of don't
07:34have nothing to do here on the reservation,
07:36except just, we all know, drugs and alcohol and stuff like that.
07:41And so this is kind of a big impact.
07:45I see a lot of people come here that we don't normally see, but it's just like, it's good to
07:47see them coming out of their comfort zone to come skate at least.
07:51Do something.
07:52Have fun.
07:53Just have fun in general.
07:56The point is, keep them away from depression.
08:00That's another way of being happy.
08:03Like you're pushing down the sidewalk, it's pushing out the bad energy to get positive energy in you.
08:08That's how I see skateboarding on the reservation, because that's all we got.
08:37Like you're just walking around the sidewalk.
08:38Maybe it's just like the way that would be illegal.
08:40Be like you're a millionaire cut and the way they funded it.
08:43Even if you don't want to go in or leave a buldock just like a cheat sheet.
08:43I mean, you'll win theå„ at the same time than you.
08:43Then you're going to be elizabeth first and okay.
08:45That's very nice, perfect.
08:45That's a good pick and bad thing.
08:45We'll look good.
08:46Good in general if they're coming together.
08:54Hey, hey, hey, hey.
09:24Yeah, I think Apache culture has always had art.
09:27We've always created our own stuff.
09:30We've always been very, very creative people.
09:35He started this, my father, he created this type of style that you kind of see.
09:42But he was an artist since I was even born.
09:47And everything that you see and hear is still Apache culture.
09:51It's still the same thing. It's just the older stuff grew into what it is now.
10:00Yeah, we just met up with Dad, and we're going to go see his artwork, his dad's and Trey's authentic
10:06Apache art right here.
10:09Yes, sir. Hell yeah.
10:10Yeah, so this is a spacecraft gallery, and this exhibition has been put together by my sister.
10:18Oh, I see you made some posters.
10:20Oh, yeah.
10:21What do you think about them?
10:22Skate jam sounds about right.
10:25My homie Trey's got art, my pops has got art, and my sister's got art, which is this one right
10:30here, too.
10:32This is Ruben Ringlero. He is the original Apache filmer.
10:36Yeah.
10:37You know, art has been a big thing in skateboarding, and it's also a big thing in Apache culture.
10:42So what you see here is art from our culture and just us, you know, creating.
10:47Think of it. It's crazy.
10:49This is like four generations of Apache skateboards.
10:52Yeah, man.
10:54Four generations in one room.
10:57Should we check out the art?
10:58Yeah, we should check out the art.
11:01I think we, as indigenous people, we're very creative.
11:04It's in our blood as creative people.
11:08And what we're doing is just a modern way of that, whether it's videography, graffiti.
11:14You know, it's another way for us to express our creativity, you know, besides skateboarding.
11:20But that's what skateboarding does.
11:22I don't think we could do that.
11:23I don't think we would have gotten there maybe without Big Doug's help, you know.
11:27When you're seeing Trey, Doug, and Ruben from Apache Skateboards, you are seeing this history of Apache people played out
11:35in a modern context.
11:37Because they are young men, they are young leaders, and they are a leading community.
11:42Yeah, art has always been a part of Apache culture, and I think cultures around the world, can you see
11:49the face on the front?
11:50Like there's a little Indian face?
11:52It is a way to preserve culture, but also to teach and promote culture at the same time while being
12:01creative.
12:01Creative.
12:14What about life on the rest?
12:16It's like a whole other country?
12:19We have our own laws, and we have our own regulations, and we have our own government there.
12:25It is, it's still, it's still controlled by the United States.
12:29But this was like a prison camp, dude, in San Carlos.
12:33Apaches, there were some over here, but they, not, not really.
12:37Because it's the desert, and there's no water and shit.
12:41Apaches come from the mountains, so wherever we are in Arizona, and you go into the mountains, the higher mountains,
12:47that's where they're from.
12:48Everyone's from the most beautiful places in Arizona, the most beautiful places from New Mexico.
12:53That's where we're all from.
12:54That's where we're supposed to be.
12:58There's not very many jobs on the reservation, which creates a little bit of a harder time.
13:06It's hard, it's hard in the fucking res, bro.
13:09And he's from Latvia.
13:12He's never had fry bread before.
13:13Oh, really?
13:14Yeah.
13:14I don't think so.
13:16I sell fry bread every day.
13:19I've been here for over 25 years.
13:21Okay.
13:23All right, thank you.
13:24Thank you very much.
13:26It's nice and warm.
13:28So before eating this, we're going to enroll.
13:32I'm trying to become an Apache.
13:34We want to get my friend here enrolled, and we'll try it.
13:37What do I have to do?
13:40Will you stamp my cast?
13:45Yeah, but it's like...
13:50Now I'm Apache.
13:52Awesome.
13:56So what's inside these things?
13:57This is a fry bread with beans.
13:59You got a simple version.
14:01It's a fry bread with beans, and there might be cheese in there.
14:04Mmm.
14:05Amazing.
14:06I love the bread.
14:06That was mine, but you can have it.
14:10So we see some skaters skating a porch right there.
14:13I'm going to ask them to join us in the session in the skate park.
14:17These are the younger ones.
14:19Hey, what's up, man?
14:19Hey, I'm with Matters Apps from Element.
14:22Element Skate Team, you guys should come skate the park right now.
14:24Yeah, that's what we're doing right now.
14:26Yeah, come through, bro.
14:27All right, yeah, we'll be over there.
14:29So this is downtown.
14:31And what do the leaders say about skating out here?
14:34They like it because we like our new leader because he's the chairman, and he's the one
14:38that wanted to build the skate park.
14:40So he took some of his funds, and he put it to the skate park, the new one.
14:43So he's cool.
14:44His own fund.
14:45Yeah, there's my pop's big mural.
14:48He's a muralist, too.
14:49Oh, your dad did this one?
14:50Yeah, my pop said that.
14:51You know, skateboarding is more widely accepted now in the world and the community.
14:56But back then, it was the first step to, you know, making skateboarding more accepted
15:04here in San Carlos.
15:05This community is a very open community in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to
15:10kids.
15:10If it's good for kids, then they're going to support it.
15:13Like, right now, the chairman supports skateboarding.
15:21Yeah, this is where me and Trey kind of grew up skating together since we were kids, man.
15:26Twelve years ago, I believe, I was about 16 at the sign.
15:31We couldn't stay out of here.
15:32When they're building construction here, we would hop the fence and skate just the little
15:36parts that they already built, and we would get chased off here all the time.
15:40And eventually, we took down the entrance and the fence, and they just gave up, and we're
15:46here every day ever since.
16:00Solid.
16:02You're here.
16:04You're here.
16:22This is Elijah right here, he rides for Endelica, he's been ripping here in San Carlos since
16:27I was a little kid too.
17:02Definitely grown over the years.
17:05You can definitely see it in generations, like Doug is one generation, then there's
17:09my generation, there's a couple kids who have another generation.
17:13I haven't been back here in a while, but as you can clearly see, the community skating
17:18is well alive and strong.
17:22Yeah, it's grown a lot, it's grown a lot, but it's grown because they go work with
17:26kids in the community, they show kids how to skate and they include kids how to skate.
17:31So, they built the community and they built the culture.
17:36They are the culture.
17:37We are making culture and it's new culture.
17:41It's not like regular mainstream skateboarding culture either, it's different.
17:45Yeah, it's skateboarding, but it's completely different.
17:47We do what we want here.
17:50We do it the way we want to do it.
17:52We don't have to follow any rules.
17:55We don't have to follow the rules of mainstream skateboarding or we don't have to follow their
17:59rules.
17:59Why?
18:00Because they don't live here.
18:03So, we're here at Apache Burger, it's one of the very few restaurants on our reservation.
18:08We're going to get Mather's Apache Burger.
18:10It's a staple in our community.
18:12It's a fry bread with two patties and a classic American cheeseburger inside of a fry bread.
18:20It's time for an Apache Burger.
18:23Look at the size of that thing.
18:30Apache Burger.
18:32Thank you!
18:48We're about to play horseshoe.
18:51Your goal is to swing and try to get your horseshoe like a ringer around the post.
18:58This game's not that easy, but he did tell me that the woman, the mother, is in a high
19:14appraisal in the Apache culture.
19:17People respect the women a lot.
19:20In Apache culture, women can do whatever they want and be whoever they want to be.
19:25I've heard that we are a matriarchal society and that women play a slightly more important
19:32role.
19:32I'm always blessed to be an Apache and to learn more about my culture and, you know,
19:39so.
19:39That was a good shot.
19:41Aim with your whole body.
19:42You want your feet to be across like this, yeah, just perfectly.
19:45Where do I look?
19:47You're looking right at your arrow.
19:51Apache means to be hardworking.
19:55Apache means to be unstoppable.
19:59Apache, to me, means to be high performance.
20:07You've been doing this in your whole life.
20:09It's in my blood.
20:10It's in my blood.
20:14Apache, to me, means to be relentless.
20:18It means to be powerful.
20:22Apache means to be tough.
20:23It means, yeah, all those things for sure.
20:32We're going to skate some streets around Globe.
20:36I don't mean the shoe company, I mean the city of Globe.
20:40We're going to skate around.
21:09You are going to skate around Zoom and pop up.
21:15There you go!
21:35That was awesome!
21:36Hey, thanks, homies.
21:37Nice, thank you.
21:38Yes.
21:40Fuck yeah, baby.
21:41That was fucked.
21:45We're going to give away some boards, shoes,
21:48thanks to Element in DC.
21:50We're going to do a little contest for the natives.
21:53Just got to figure out how to carry all this.
21:57But I think it's doable.
22:01Ah!
22:07Forget about it.
22:10Chilling, chilling.
22:11Everyone say hello.
22:12Give them a round of applause for matters.
22:19We're going to do a little skateboard contest
22:21on this transition right here.
22:24All right, the contest begins in 3, 2, 1, go!
22:33And we got our first winner.
22:35Come on over.
22:36Come on over.
22:38All right.
22:39We got another.
22:41There's nine.
22:41There you go.
22:42You got these ones.
22:43All right.
22:52Skateboarding in the community,
22:53I think skateboarding on the res is growing.
22:57And it's continuing and it will grow
22:59because the community is starting to support it.
23:02They're starting to build skateparks,
23:04more skateparks than what they had before.
23:07You know, there's other communities that are seeing
23:09what communities are doing.
23:11So they're like, hey, skateboarding's popular.
23:14There's something growing there.
23:15So we should do that too.
23:17You know, and it's just going to keep growing.
23:20Woo!
23:21Woo!
23:22Woo!
23:27Woo!
23:28Woo!
23:29Woo!
23:35Woo!
23:35All right, everybody, kick-slip!
23:38Woo!
23:40Woo!
23:40Woo!
23:41Woo!
23:42Woo!
23:43It's inspiring a lot of people to get out there in their community and make a change,
23:48that they have the power to do that with anything, with whatever they're good at.
23:53They can change or bring a positive change to wherever they're at, with whatever they're
23:58good at, so, for sure.
24:09That should be alright.
24:36You want to have that confidence, being anywhere, out there, that you can be alright, that it's
24:41fine, you know?
24:43I want to be able to be put out there somewhere and be like, okay, I know where I am,
24:47I know
24:47those mountains over there, and I know those mountains over there, and I know what grows
24:51here, and I'm fine.
24:52I don't feel like anything, I feel okay, I'm fine.
24:56That was scary.
24:57That was scary.
24:58We found the tarantula.
25:03Oh, it is a hawk.
25:04Is it a hawk?
25:14Oh, wow.
25:16Can you feel the power of the nature flowing through you?
25:19Yeah.
25:20Yes, I think I can feel it.
25:21Yeah.
25:22This isn't bad.
25:23How do you call it usually?
25:25It's the driest it's been, actually.
25:27We usually just use this little strip that's already dry, and we just kind of like needle
25:34through it.
25:35But this is like the best it's been.
25:41This is part of skateboarding ditches.
25:44Sometimes you got to shovel, sometimes you got to build some dams, divert the water another
25:50direction, and soon enough we'll be skating this thing.
26:09fine.
26:21Let's go.
26:22Oh, wow, oh.
26:27OK, I believe we can go.
26:28Bye-bye.
26:28Yeah. No. Yeah,
26:31no.
26:32manager,
26:34this is
26:34a bad idea.
26:34I've got to try the stairs last
26:35night. It's a bad idea.
26:42so what is skateboarding to you skateboarding to me is my gift it's my it's what god gave me
26:50skateboarding is it's not everything to me but it's what god gave me to do for the rest of my
26:56life it's what god gave me to to do to bless the world with it's i am skateboarding you know
27:03like it's me it's what i'm here to do is why i'm on this planet it's why i'm here
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