00:07So when I think of the Declaration of Independence being signed more than 250
00:12years ago, the idea that someone who was not born of nobility would consider
00:17themselves to be equal with someone born of nobility had never existed before on
00:23the planet. The words are extremely revolutionary, but at the same time who
00:30was the independence for and who exactly is still fighting for independence?
00:38When those founding fathers invented the concept of the United States of America,
00:46they had a dream. There were certain rights that are inalienable, that are supposed to be inalienable.
00:58The Dakota have been exiled from this very land for more than 150 years.
01:08We should be very, very proud of our culture, but they did everything they could to make us
01:14feel ashamed of who we were.
01:19Chances are the dominant story is the one that will survive. The data set is already
01:24skewed in favor of a particular story. What I intended to do and I tried to do was
01:30to record the history of our people. We are facing unprecedented times as Americans.
01:41America hasn't had to deal with fascism yet, but we're seeing it happen.
01:47A blueprint has been created. If government fails to provide life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
01:55it is the right of the people to replace the government. The individuals who drafted the
02:02Declaration of Independence expected, expected that their children and their children's children
02:10would take it upon themselves to make government better.
02:14We need new, young leadership coming up. That's my message to the younger people. You know, we need
02:22you. Your people need you. Our own governments, we need you. We need you to take our places.
02:29Where people don't have the power of their story, it's hard for them to imagine a different world.
02:36When people own their stories, then they can envision something different. They can aspire
02:43to something greater. That would be an American experiment that I think we all could get behind.
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