Black Indians
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In New Orleans, a century-old tradition rooted in Native American and Black slave communities lives on. Each year for Mardi Gras, "Black Indians" celebrate their culture through elaborate, hand-beaded costumes worn in neighborhood parades. Following the Washitaw Nation and its "Big Chief" David Montana, the film traces a hidden history of America, one that gave birth to Jazz.
Citation
Main credits
Béranger, Jo (film director)
Béranger, Jo (screenwriter)
Poulain, Hugues (film director)
Poulain, Hugues (screenwriter)
Patrouilleau, Edith (film director)
Patrouilleau, Edith (screenwriter)
Pfohl, Christian (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Hugues Poulain; editing, Hugues Poulain [and 5 others].
Distributor subjects
Black History; New Orleans; African-American Studies; Indigenous Studies; JazzKeywords
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(leaves rustling) (gentle music)
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♪ Like an angel, like
an angel, like an angel ♪
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♪ I've seen you dancing ♪
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♪ Like an angel, like
an angel, like an angel ♪
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♪ Blue light pop ♪
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♪ Steppin' out of a dream
into old New Orleans ♪
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♪ On stage in a ballroom
down on magazine ♪
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♪ Sunshine like a gift
of the Magdalene ♪
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♪ Your smile gentle falls
like a much needed run ♪
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♪ On the desert of my heart ♪
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(leaves rustling)
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♪ Where you made a red sea-car ♪
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♪ Like an angel, like
an angel, like an angel ♪
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♪ I've seen you dancing ♪
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♪ Like an angel, like
an angel, like an angel ♪
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♪ Blue lights pop ♪
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(leaves rustling)
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♪ Steppin' out of a dream
into old New Orleans ♪
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♪ On stage in a ballroom
down on magazine ♪
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♪ Sunshine I just
don't know what to do ♪
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♪ With all this love
I have for you ♪
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♪ So reckon I'll just
put it all into this song ♪
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♪ Sing sunshine waltz
till you sing along ♪
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♪ Like an angel, like
an angel, like an angel ♪
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♪ I've seen you dancing ♪
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(cars revving)
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♪ Like an angel, like
an angel, like an angel ♪
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♪ Blue lights pop ♪
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♪ Steppin' out of a dream
into old New Orleans ♪
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♪ On stage in a ballroom
down on magazine ♪
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♪ On stage in a ballroom
down on magazine ♪
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(birds chirping)
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(footsteps tapping)
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begin to just light
up the neighborhood.
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I saw a man coming
down the street
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and he was hollowing and raving,
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and I didn't know
what was going on,
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but I started seeing people
coming out of their houses,
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everybody coming out.
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And drums and
tambourines ringing.
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What's going on?
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So, never did I ever suspect
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that that man that
lived in that house
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was an Indian chief.
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His wife was beautiful,
she had black hair.
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She looked like
a Seminole Indian.
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So, I asked my babysitter,
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"Who was that and
what's going on?"
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She said, "The
Indians are coming."
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(group singing in
foreign language)
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(car whooshing)
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(birds chirping)
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been around before jazz.
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Yeah.
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It's been around before
Louis Armstrong blew his horn.
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Take that and jazz
out of New Orleans
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and you ain't got
New Orleans no more.
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(woman laughs)
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Oh, yeah.
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(door thuds)
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(group singing in
foreign language)
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(teacher laughs)
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I'm telling you.
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(teacher laughing)
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Isn't she beautiful?
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(resident chuckles)
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She's so beautiful.
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I'm doing white
buffaloes this year.
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I am the chief of
the Washitaw Nation,
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David Montana.
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Follow your passion.
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(footsteps tapping)
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Of course.
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I'm a new tribe,
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Washitaw Nation.
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It was a nation of Black
people that was here
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during the time of the
Tunicas, the Ouachita,
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and the Tunicas.
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They ran up Baton
Rouge, Louisiana,
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where they had owned
land during the 13 colonies
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as far as Canada
from down to Louisiana.
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Of course, we know
New Orleans was here
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way before the United
States was the United States.
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Well, that's here,
ancient people.
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They called those the
people of the mounds,
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the ancient ones.
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And they had been along here
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with the Native
American Indians.
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They were Black here.
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They just didn't tell
a Black man's story.
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They discovered America.
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Christopher Columbus,
he did not discover.
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America was here
before he was born.
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Do you know Thanksgiving
is a slap to the face
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to the Native American people?
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Most people in New Orleans
are going to the grocery
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to prepare their
tables with turkeys
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and different kind of things
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that they're gonna eat
to acknowledge that day.
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But that day is really a
horrible day to the people
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that it took effect to.
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Some Blacks
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and mostly Native American
Indians were slaughtered.
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The children was received
small pox from blankets
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that was given to them.
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They thought that they were
getting something of comfort
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and they were really some
crippled, crooked minds
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behind what they were doing.
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This is how they stole.
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This is how they took
everything away from it.
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Then they took it, they
made laws behind it
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and they say,
"Hey, this is ours.
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Don't break our law
'cause if you break our."
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Well, what about you
breaking the laws of theirs,
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of mankind?
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What was wrong
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with what they had going
in their mind for a lot of it?
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They were good people.
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They accepted you all when
you come over on the boats.
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They accepted
you with open arms,
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but then you ran trick
and game on them.
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You poison their
women and children
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and you killed their men.
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(woman singing in
foreign language)
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there was no such
thing as a Black in prison.
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(woman singing in
foreign language)
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And then after the
end of Reconstruction,
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when we was
literally sold out again,
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the prisons became
the way they are now,
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just about 80 to 90%
African American,
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and it have been
that ever since.
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And we was forced into a
period that was worse than slavery
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because during
slavery you had value.
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But during the period of
Jim Crowism, you lost value.
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Many slaves ran away and
went and lived in the bayous.
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By living in the bayous,
some of them was captured
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by some of the Native Americans
and sold back into bondage.
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Other tribes embraced them
and accepted them into it.
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(beads rattle)
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that understanding,
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because I had to get
comfortable in myself about
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why I'm doing what I'm doing,
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I do believe that when
they fled to the swamps,
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they did take them in.
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If I'm going to
flee the plantation
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to hide from my slave masters,
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I have to hide by
people who look like me.
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I can't hide by people
who I don't look like
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because when they go searching,
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I'm gonna stick out
like a sore thumb.
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So this concept of the
Indian, what we think of
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as the red men with
the long black hair,
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I couldn't have been
hiding with them
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because dark skin with my
tight hair, I would stick out.
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Because trust me, when
they fled the plantations,
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they went looking for them.
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People went looking for them.
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They hired people.
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They hired other Black
people to go look for them.
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They had white
people looking for them.
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They wanted their property
back 'cause we were property.
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those Native American
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that accept runaways.
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That's why we do it
on Mardi Gras Day.
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It was the only time
we was legally able
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to pay homage to them.
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as Indians out of respect
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and honor for what was done.
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And Mardi Gras was something
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that Black people
never could be a part of.
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We had carnival.
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We didn't have Mardi
Gras, we had carnival.
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And the practice of
carnival is something you find
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throughout the world
through Indigenous People.
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Trinidad has carnival.
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Brazil has carnival.
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Haiti has carnival.
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Cuba has carnival.
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Columbia has carnival.
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So, we have carnival.
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Mardi Gras, which
means Fat Tuesday,
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that's a European thing.
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The French had that.
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Well, you know, New Orleans
was finally by the French,
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so they came over here with us.
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But in New Orleans, Black
people weren't allowed
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to be a part of Mardi Gras,
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so we had our own carnival
in the neighborhoods.
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tribes here in the South
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was the Cherokee.
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There was over 800,000.
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They were the largest.
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The Seminole was 7,000.
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Chippewa, Choctaw,
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many of our families
are mixed through that.
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My great-grand-grandmother
was full-blooded Crow.
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This is how it began,
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was when Buffalo Bill Cody
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came to New Orleans with
his Wild Wild West show,
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and Buffalo Bill Cody ran out
of money and he needed a ship.
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He still was waiting on
the ship to take his people
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over to England to do the show.
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So, while they spent almost
half of the year living here,
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the Native
Americans locally here
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and African Native Americans,
we celebrate and pay homage
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to our Native American
brothers and sisters,
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out of the oppression
that brought us all together.
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(gentle music)
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knowing that I was Native.
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I grew up that always
knowing who I was
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and always being
proud of who I was.
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And so I never, ever denied
or never hid that I was home
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or hid that I was
Native American.
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Sometimes the African slaves
or the Africans that were here,
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they gathered
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and some of the Native
Americans gathered with them.
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One place was Congo
Square and they would gather
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and they would exchange things
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that they had with each other.
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They would celebrate
certain ceremonies together
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or certain times
of year together.
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And sometimes the
Africans would adopt
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some of the Native
American songs
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or sometimes the lifestyle.
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And the same thing
with Native Americans.
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They looked at
some of the things
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that the African were
doing and they'd say,
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"Wow, that's
something like we do."
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the Native Americans
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that just wanted to
get their land back
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because they're seeing
what they have lost.
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Y'all said y'all was
at Congo Square.
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Congo Square, before it
became an African nucleus,
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it was a burial ground
for the Homo Nation,
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'cause the Homo Nation
used to be all right up in here.
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into the sacredness
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of the space down here
because of Congo Square,
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because we're surrounded
by water on three sides,
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because we bury our
dead on top of the ground.
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You talking about a lot of
energy, just ancestral stuff.
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(upbeat music)
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♪ Let the spirit is dance ♪
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♪ Let the spirit stand ♪
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♪ We are the
people of the trance ♪
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♪ We talk to the spirit ♪
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♪ The spirit come into us ♪
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♪ This is our church ♪
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♪ The tree, the sky ♪
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♪ The breeze ♪
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♪ The air, the flowers ♪
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♪ That's our church ♪
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(upbeat percussive music)
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♪ And when we dance, they say ♪
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♪ Get our feet talk to
the ears of Mother Earth ♪
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♪ Ah, yes they do ♪
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♪ And that's how Mother
Earth hear our prayers ♪
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♪ From the drum to
dance, the trance, people ♪
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(upbeat percussive music)
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♪ He comes the drum
coming down the street ♪
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♪ People drop
days of their feet ♪
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♪ Here comes the drum
and the people cry ♪
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♪ Oh, Lord is a good Lord ♪
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♪ He hot, play the drums ♪
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♪ He hot, they play the drums ♪
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♪ Hey, hey, hot,
they play the drums ♪
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♪ Walking down the street,
that's what they done ♪
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(upbeat percussive music)
00:17:55.134 --> 00:17:59.467
(upbeat percussive
music continues)
00:18:04.073 --> 00:18:06.823
(crowd cheering)
00:18:25.397 --> 00:18:29.730
(upbeat percussive
music continues)
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(crowd cheering)
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wise to know who we are.
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Ancestors from the east,
come and be with us.
00:18:51.376 --> 00:18:54.876
Bring us self-knowing
and self-discipline.
00:18:55.783 --> 00:18:58.616
Let us go inside
to see the beauty
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and bring it from the inside out
00:19:02.114 --> 00:19:05.635
for we are the
children of the beloved,
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this thing called life.
00:19:07.324 --> 00:19:11.267
Each one of us individualized
as the creative power,
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ancestors from the south,
the place of courage.
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Give us the courage, give us
the courage to speak the truth
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about what we need,
what our people need.
00:19:22.088 --> 00:19:24.280
We have all the answers.
00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:27.932
Bring us the healing through
our songs, through our dance,
00:19:27.932 --> 00:19:30.496
through our laughters,
through going inside
00:19:30.496 --> 00:19:34.060
and knowing that the
love resides inside.
00:19:34.060 --> 00:19:36.832
Give us the courage to
stand up and be strong.
00:19:36.832 --> 00:19:38.416
Ancestors from the east.
00:19:38.416 --> 00:19:42.024
(percussive music)
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The place of new
beginnings where the sun sets.
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Let us know that
each day as a sunset,
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we can be renewed by
the renewing of our minds.
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Let us take back our
minds from capitalism.
00:19:54.717 --> 00:19:57.336
Let us take back our
minds from slavery.
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Let us take back our minds
00:19:58.726 --> 00:20:03.087
from post-traumatic slave
syndrome and trauma.
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Let us take back our minds
00:20:04.860 --> 00:20:07.004
and know that we
are part of the earth.
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Oh, Grandmother Earth,
I bless you, I honor you
00:20:11.695 --> 00:20:14.009
and we stand on the ground
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in which our people
were brought here.
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We are the survivors.
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We are the strong ones.
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Ashe, we are your weapon.
00:20:22.221 --> 00:20:23.638
Ashe, Ashe, Ashe.
00:20:25.727 --> 00:20:28.644
(percussive music)
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Relationship with the moon
and the sun and the stars.
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And as we touch our hearts,
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we remember that
we are the star people.
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We are the star people.
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Our light is bright and
who you are counts,
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what you do matters.
00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.328
Thank you for this
opportunity to be together
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to say spirit is great
and spirit lives within us.
00:21:00.110 --> 00:21:01.209
00:21:01.209 --> 00:21:04.709
(upbeat percussive music)
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00:21:10.728 --> 00:21:11.895
Get it, Blake.
00:21:13.012 --> 00:21:13.845
Yeah.
00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:15.852
Yeah!
00:21:19.736 --> 00:21:23.236
(upbeat percussive music)
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(upbeat percussive
music continues)
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who's now deceased,
00:22:00.300 --> 00:22:04.467
her name was Flora Genis,
but she was the daughter
00:22:07.489 --> 00:22:09.822
of Cherokee and Black mixed,
00:22:15.004 --> 00:22:17.753
and his name was
Horace Whitehead.
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And I'm just so happy
that I can go back
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and trace it back to that point.
00:22:22.121 --> 00:22:24.948
So now I'm trying to get
before Horace Whitehead
00:22:24.948 --> 00:22:26.678
on her side.
00:22:26.678 --> 00:22:29.503
So I really feel like what
I'm doing is a combination
00:22:29.503 --> 00:22:32.769
of not just something with
the Black Indian tradition,
00:22:32.769 --> 00:22:35.829
but it's also something in
my own personal family life.
00:22:35.829 --> 00:22:38.040
(family laughing and chattering)
00:22:38.040 --> 00:22:39.161
00:22:39.161 --> 00:22:41.647
with my daddy on the Saturday,
00:22:41.647 --> 00:22:44.479
he would give us an allowance.
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If you would sit,
00:22:45.827 --> 00:22:49.721
you had to sit about four
or five hours for 50 cent.
00:22:49.721 --> 00:22:54.077
If I had to use the
laboratory, I had to stop.
00:22:54.077 --> 00:22:58.840
He saw me go up the stairs
after I picked all these bees
00:22:58.840 --> 00:23:00.996
and separated the colors,
00:23:00.996 --> 00:23:04.163
and something said
stop and look back.
00:23:05.073 --> 00:23:07.728
And I could see him
taking bees out of the ones
00:23:07.728 --> 00:23:11.228
that I picked and
putting back in the mix.
00:23:12.711 --> 00:23:15.219
And I say, "Oh." (chuckles)
00:23:15.219 --> 00:23:16.647
So, this is me.
00:23:16.647 --> 00:23:17.659
This is part of me.
00:23:17.659 --> 00:23:20.565
This is part of many people
in New Orleans that do this.
00:23:20.565 --> 00:23:23.689
There are about
maybe 37 or 38 tribes.
00:23:23.689 --> 00:23:27.428
I can't name them all,
there's so many now.
00:23:27.428 --> 00:23:29.409
00:23:29.409 --> 00:23:33.589
You have to sew, it
takes over your life.
00:23:33.589 --> 00:23:35.428
You travel with it.
00:23:35.428 --> 00:23:38.113
You go by somebody
house, you're sewing.
00:23:38.113 --> 00:23:41.212
Somebody come and
say you wanna sew.
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You can start running from you
00:23:42.048 --> 00:23:43.765
'cause she gonna make you sew.
00:23:43.765 --> 00:23:46.350
If you spending time doing this,
00:23:46.350 --> 00:23:47.494
you don't have time to go out
00:23:47.494 --> 00:23:49.694
and get involved with
some illegal activity,
00:23:49.694 --> 00:23:51.611
or delinquent behavior.
00:23:52.928 --> 00:23:57.174
Masking as an Indian
gives you self-confidence.
00:23:57.174 --> 00:23:59.330
You become empowered.
00:23:59.330 --> 00:24:01.002
Sewing is meditative.
00:24:01.002 --> 00:24:04.178
It helps to relax your
mind, helps you to focus.
00:24:04.178 --> 00:24:07.082
There's so many benefits of
it that the community can gain,
00:24:07.082 --> 00:24:11.944
so that's what they need
in order to be successful.
00:24:11.944 --> 00:24:14.177
Sometimes they don't
know what they wanna be,
00:24:14.177 --> 00:24:15.618
but just sitting at a table,
00:24:15.618 --> 00:24:18.984
can you imagine you have a
table full of kids sitting there
00:24:18.984 --> 00:24:20.893
with a couple of adults?
00:24:20.893 --> 00:24:22.966
Well, we ain't looking at
TV or playing a video game.
00:24:22.966 --> 00:24:24.605
Now we can talk.
00:24:24.605 --> 00:24:25.514
Imagine that.
00:24:25.514 --> 00:24:27.740
So many people can do talk,
00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:31.015
and then you can answer
questions and things come up.
00:24:31.015 --> 00:24:34.765
So it's extremely
important to the community.
00:24:45.868 --> 00:24:47.868
00:24:48.838 --> 00:24:53.171
This crowd here produces
the figure of the guardian,
00:24:55.296 --> 00:25:00.129
the queen, guardian of the
pipe, the sacred pipe of peace.
00:25:03.072 --> 00:25:08.072
I'm the medicine man of the
tribe of the Carrollton Hunters.
00:25:09.298 --> 00:25:11.850
I'm also the medicine man
00:25:11.850 --> 00:25:15.084
for the tribe of red,
white, and blue.
00:25:15.084 --> 00:25:18.334
And I am the medicine
man for the tribe
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:21.541
of the young hunters.
00:25:21.541 --> 00:25:25.874
I would be the one who
would bring them down to meet
00:25:31.012 --> 00:25:32.429
the other chiefs.
00:25:34.312 --> 00:25:37.395
You gonna practice
while you're here?
00:25:38.666 --> 00:25:39.499
Hm?
00:25:42.145 --> 00:25:45.978
(singer singing indistinctly)
00:25:50.802 --> 00:25:51.635
Wait a minute.
00:25:51.635 --> 00:25:52.968
Back to Houston?
00:25:54.631 --> 00:25:59.381
Yeah, well, let me call one
of my chiefs and see if they.
00:26:00.372 --> 00:26:01.455
There, chief.
00:26:04.744 --> 00:26:05.827
Oh, not much.
00:26:06.741 --> 00:26:09.241
You going to practice tonight?
00:26:11.537 --> 00:26:12.370
Hello?
00:26:15.798 --> 00:26:19.158
If they're going,
going, going, going.
00:26:19.158 --> 00:26:19.991
Big Queen.
00:26:21.301 --> 00:26:26.064
You know if how to one of
the guys practice tonight?
00:26:26.064 --> 00:26:28.352
Then I could call Skeeter.
00:26:28.352 --> 00:26:29.347
Let me do that.
00:26:29.347 --> 00:26:31.723
I'm gonna call
you, let you know.
00:26:31.723 --> 00:26:33.079
Okay.
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:34.540
I guess, I guess.
00:26:34.540 --> 00:26:35.373
Oh.
00:26:36.872 --> 00:26:38.539
I'll call Chief Joe.
00:26:40.349 --> 00:26:42.849
Hey, Chief, this medicine man.
00:26:44.731 --> 00:26:45.564
Yeah.
00:26:45.564 --> 00:26:47.877
I was wondering, do you
know if how to one of those
00:26:47.877 --> 00:26:50.627
is having their
practice tonight?
00:27:02.923 --> 00:27:03.913
(Dwight coughs)
00:27:03.913 --> 00:27:06.124
Hey, Chief, this is Medicine.
00:27:06.124 --> 00:27:08.863
Give me a holler if you can.
00:27:08.863 --> 00:27:10.590
What's going on, Spy?
00:27:10.590 --> 00:27:11.507
Hey, Chief.
00:27:14.052 --> 00:27:14.885
I was wondering,
00:27:14.885 --> 00:27:19.052
you know if how to one
is having practice tonight?
00:27:19.995 --> 00:27:24.461
He said that they've
been on and off, on and off.
00:27:24.461 --> 00:27:28.878
Say it's a possibility that
they having practice tonight.
00:27:28.878 --> 00:27:32.821
(crowd chattering)
(sirens blaring)
00:27:32.821 --> 00:27:36.308
(crowd oohs) (upbeat music)
00:27:36.308 --> 00:27:40.641
(group singing in
foreign language)
00:28:06.371 --> 00:28:11.371
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:28:36.049 --> 00:28:41.049
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:29:06.409 --> 00:29:11.409
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:29:36.373 --> 00:29:41.373
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:30:06.183 --> 00:30:11.183
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:30:36.521 --> 00:30:41.521
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:31:06.299 --> 00:31:07.847
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:31:07.847 --> 00:31:12.180
(both speaking in
foreign language)
00:31:36.180 --> 00:31:41.180
(group singing in foreign
language continues)
00:31:49.475 --> 00:31:51.975
(car revving)
00:31:53.732 --> 00:31:56.315
(ship revving)
00:32:00.603 --> 00:32:03.353
(cars whooshing)
00:32:09.130 --> 00:32:14.130
anyone else that's in America
00:32:14.132 --> 00:32:16.990
and the same thing I know
with the Mardi Gras Indians
00:32:16.990 --> 00:32:19.223
that I've known and the
Black Indians that I know
00:32:19.223 --> 00:32:21.126
and they're all different.
00:32:21.126 --> 00:32:23.370
Some do some things, some don't,
00:32:23.370 --> 00:32:26.370
some know their
history, some don't.
00:32:27.462 --> 00:32:30.542
that I got of them
00:32:30.542 --> 00:32:33.248
when I first saw them was,
00:32:33.248 --> 00:32:35.498
wow, these are ghost suits.
00:32:37.087 --> 00:32:40.156
They're even talking
about these are spirit suits,
00:32:40.156 --> 00:32:41.289
and I go, "Beautiful,"
00:32:41.289 --> 00:32:43.702
'cause what they're doing
basically is showing their aura.
00:32:43.702 --> 00:32:46.366
And then the tradition of it
00:32:46.366 --> 00:32:47.703
has been going on
for a hundred years.
00:32:47.703 --> 00:32:52.399
I mean, to me it was the most
poetic response to oppression
00:32:52.399 --> 00:32:54.468
that I have ever seen.
00:32:54.468 --> 00:32:59.468
Here are people that are
told they're ugly, ignorant, lazy,
00:32:59.739 --> 00:33:02.335
and they walk out on
Mardi Gras with this outfit
00:33:02.335 --> 00:33:04.808
that they can't figure out
how they put it together.
00:33:04.808 --> 00:33:06.216
(Goat chuckles)
00:33:06.216 --> 00:33:07.535
And they've been sewing what?
00:33:07.535 --> 00:33:08.868
How long?
00:33:08.868 --> 00:33:09.701
From last Mardi Gras to this?
00:33:09.701 --> 00:33:11.468
They're motherfuckin' lazy.
00:33:11.468 --> 00:33:12.304
And you think I'm ugly?
00:33:12.304 --> 00:33:14.003
No baby, I'm pretty.
00:33:14.003 --> 00:33:15.587
Check me out, I'm pretty.
00:33:15.587 --> 00:33:18.597
And the whole thing became
pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.
00:33:18.597 --> 00:33:20.973
(lighter clicks)
00:33:20.973 --> 00:33:25.890
And their legend is part of
the process of making the suit.
00:33:26.765 --> 00:33:29.924
What he's saying, if I come
from Blackfeet in his mind,
00:33:29.924 --> 00:33:32.917
he might not even mean
a hereditary descent,
00:33:32.917 --> 00:33:36.863
but a spiritual, a Blackfoot
warrior is telling him
00:33:36.863 --> 00:33:39.702
or in communication with him.
00:33:39.702 --> 00:33:42.847
And so I had friends who were
leading ghost dance ceremonies
00:33:42.847 --> 00:33:45.159
at the time and I said,
00:33:45.159 --> 00:33:48.424
"Look, I would like to get
an invitation for these guys
00:33:48.424 --> 00:33:52.007
to come ghost dance
and see how we do this,
00:33:52.983 --> 00:33:54.463
how we make our ghost shirts
00:33:54.463 --> 00:33:59.406
just like they make their big
spirit outfit that they wear."
00:33:59.406 --> 00:34:02.122
And so, the guy who
was doing the pipe,
00:34:02.122 --> 00:34:05.959
Cam Knight Chase
Lowell, he did four days,
00:34:05.959 --> 00:34:10.079
four nights fasting, no food,
no water, praying constantly.
00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:14.127
That's how you decide
and that's the medicine way.
00:34:14.127 --> 00:34:17.947
And he was sitting there
and he had his tobacco
00:34:17.947 --> 00:34:20.358
that's always
laid out in a circle
00:34:20.358 --> 00:34:24.191
with the basic colors
red, black, white, blue.
00:34:27.627 --> 00:34:32.513
And he was praying and
praying at the end of the final day
00:34:32.513 --> 00:34:35.690
and he looks down and the
little tobacco things stand up
00:34:35.690 --> 00:34:39.254
and they start dancing
around in a circle.
00:34:39.254 --> 00:34:40.972
And he's going, "What?"
00:34:40.972 --> 00:34:43.799
And then he feels this old
man on his shoulder tapping him
00:34:43.799 --> 00:34:46.032
and he's offering him a pipe.
00:34:46.032 --> 00:34:49.189
And the guy said, "The tobacco's
dancing, leave me alone."
00:34:49.189 --> 00:34:50.643
(Goat chuckles)
00:34:50.643 --> 00:34:53.158
And then he
realized, oh, my God,
00:34:53.158 --> 00:34:56.908
that was part of the
vision to take the pipe.
00:34:58.176 --> 00:35:01.531
So, I said, "I have approval
now to take the pipe
00:35:01.531 --> 00:35:03.198
and to do ceremony."
00:35:04.512 --> 00:35:06.012
And I told Tootie,
00:35:07.709 --> 00:35:10.265
"Cam say you can
come to 20 or the 27th,
00:35:10.265 --> 00:35:11.663
what's it gonna be?"
00:35:11.663 --> 00:35:12.851
He says, "The 27th."
00:35:12.851 --> 00:35:14.454
I said, "Okay."
00:35:14.454 --> 00:35:18.275
So we got everybody
together for the 27th.
00:35:18.275 --> 00:35:22.404
Local Indians were kind of
upset and they called me to drum,
00:35:22.404 --> 00:35:26.144
"Come to the drum so
we can talk about this."
00:35:26.144 --> 00:35:27.607
I said, "Okay."
00:35:27.607 --> 00:35:30.529
And we come to the drum
and they're all totally against
00:35:30.529 --> 00:35:33.173
doing any kind of native
ceremony with these guys
00:35:33.173 --> 00:35:37.829
that they considered mascots
and hooligans and Ruffians.
00:35:37.829 --> 00:35:39.732
They didn't like them.
00:35:39.732 --> 00:35:43.272
And they tried to convince
me and I was going,
00:35:43.272 --> 00:35:44.605
"Well, I'm here.
00:35:46.638 --> 00:35:50.400
I'm here to answer prayers
and that's Buffalo Medicine.
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.612
These people have been
praying for over 120 years
00:35:53.612 --> 00:35:56.736
that you would understand them.
00:35:56.736 --> 00:35:59.236
They have a song, Indian Red."
00:36:00.267 --> 00:36:02.100
I said, "If I'm right,
00:36:04.392 --> 00:36:06.724
there will be a sign
from Buffalo Nation
00:36:06.724 --> 00:36:09.401
that what I have done is good.
00:36:09.401 --> 00:36:12.173
If I'm not right,
there will be no sign,
00:36:12.173 --> 00:36:14.578
and you will be right."
00:36:14.578 --> 00:36:16.074
So we did ceremony.
00:36:16.074 --> 00:36:19.814
We had, oh, gosh, a couple of
hundred Indians in the Congos.
00:36:19.814 --> 00:36:23.224
We were all in full regalia
in August at high noon.
00:36:23.224 --> 00:36:24.057
Oh, Lord.
00:36:25.237 --> 00:36:27.899
And we did the pipe
and in Lakota way,
00:36:27.899 --> 00:36:31.617
they only put six pinches
of tobacco in the pipe,
00:36:31.617 --> 00:36:34.367
and pray and then
pass it around.
00:36:35.478 --> 00:36:40.478
That six pinches of tobacco
smoked over 200 people that day.
00:36:42.052 --> 00:36:43.989
The very next day
it was announced
00:36:43.989 --> 00:36:46.786
that the white
buffalo had been born.
00:36:46.786 --> 00:36:47.619
(gentle percussive music)
00:36:47.619 --> 00:36:52.036
(singer singing in
foreign language)
00:37:11.322 --> 00:37:13.987
(knuckles rapping)
00:37:13.987 --> 00:37:14.820
(door clicks)
00:37:14.820 --> 00:37:16.143
00:37:16.143 --> 00:37:17.584
That's the Big Chief.
00:37:17.584 --> 00:37:18.651
00:37:18.651 --> 00:37:19.685
Come all the way over here.
00:37:19.685 --> 00:37:20.618
00:37:20.618 --> 00:37:21.500
Beautiful.
00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:22.853
This is the cuffs.
00:37:22.853 --> 00:37:24.481
00:37:24.481 --> 00:37:27.011
00:37:27.011 --> 00:37:29.291
00:37:29.291 --> 00:37:31.130
00:37:31.130 --> 00:37:31.963
00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:35.188
00:37:35.188 --> 00:37:38.099
Don't get me wrong 'cause
this is what you go see.
00:37:38.099 --> 00:37:40.504
(Goat laughs)
00:37:40.504 --> 00:37:43.335
That's back, that's
watching my back.
00:37:43.335 --> 00:37:45.183
sure.
00:37:45.183 --> 00:37:46.547
That was the boots.
00:37:46.547 --> 00:37:50.463
I gotta finished putting
the marabou on the boot,
00:37:50.463 --> 00:37:52.296
and this is the crown.
00:37:53.387 --> 00:37:54.470
I'll do this.
00:37:55.963 --> 00:37:57.019
00:37:57.019 --> 00:37:57.987
Okay.
00:37:57.987 --> 00:38:00.615
Yes. (chuckles)
00:38:00.615 --> 00:38:01.911
00:38:01.911 --> 00:38:03.704
Well, you don't have
much weight on you,
00:38:03.704 --> 00:38:05.189
and that's good too, you know.
00:38:05.189 --> 00:38:06.576
You ain't got no fat.
00:38:06.576 --> 00:38:09.240
else is perfect.
00:38:09.240 --> 00:38:10.490
00:38:11.460 --> 00:38:12.814
Oh.
00:38:12.814 --> 00:38:14.736
I can do that dance.
00:38:14.736 --> 00:38:16.157
(both laughing)
00:38:16.157 --> 00:38:18.824
00:38:20.613 --> 00:38:21.520
You gonna be out there?
00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:23.597
going to be uptown, yeah.
00:38:23.597 --> 00:38:24.935
on the fire, right?
00:38:24.935 --> 00:38:25.991
I'm gonna sit down a minute.
00:38:25.991 --> 00:38:27.069
00:38:27.069 --> 00:38:30.414
We're in St. Joseph's night now.
00:38:30.414 --> 00:38:32.297
00:38:32.297 --> 00:38:33.373
00:38:33.373 --> 00:38:35.364
So we'll get the dress twice.
00:38:35.364 --> 00:38:39.973
for the peace of the family.
00:38:39.973 --> 00:38:41.271
For the last couple of years,
00:38:41.271 --> 00:38:43.643
Darryl and I have been feeling.
00:38:43.643 --> 00:38:45.740
Well, I won't call it a feeling.
00:38:45.740 --> 00:38:47.720
It just was a lot of
misunderstanding
00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:50.070
and things people said,
this, that and the other.
00:38:50.070 --> 00:38:52.668
So, I wanna keep peace.
00:38:52.668 --> 00:38:56.892
So this is why I made the
coming of the sacred white buffalo
00:38:56.892 --> 00:38:58.003
to keep peace.
00:38:58.003 --> 00:39:02.086
And for every member
in my family that's troubled
00:39:03.140 --> 00:39:06.033
with war amongst one another,
00:39:06.033 --> 00:39:10.807
they wanted these buffaloes
on my suit, be of peace to them.
00:39:10.807 --> 00:39:14.106
I give thanks to God for
guiding my hands and my eyes
00:39:14.106 --> 00:39:16.153
and my thoughts to the ideas.
00:39:16.153 --> 00:39:19.288
And I give thanks to
my helpers like Dennis
00:39:19.288 --> 00:39:21.818
and the many others
that come through
00:39:21.818 --> 00:39:23.171
to help finish the suit.
00:39:23.171 --> 00:39:27.421
So, as far as I'm concerned,
the hatchet is buried.
00:39:28.286 --> 00:39:30.189
00:39:30.189 --> 00:39:33.951
hope when we out there,
00:39:33.951 --> 00:39:38.868
we meeting other tribes that
everybody keep their man mind,
00:39:40.470 --> 00:39:43.903
the respectful mind of
things and respect the art
00:39:43.903 --> 00:39:46.972
and the beauty that
the culture brings.
00:39:46.972 --> 00:39:49.427
The culture don't bring
no fighting and all that.
00:39:49.427 --> 00:39:53.283
No, that's not our culture
to be fighting all the time.
00:39:53.283 --> 00:39:55.145
The culture is about
what's beautiful
00:39:55.145 --> 00:39:58.562
that so many people
have created and done
00:40:00.022 --> 00:40:03.582
and what they do to
keep the culture alive.
00:40:03.582 --> 00:40:05.397
That's more important
than anything.
00:40:05.397 --> 00:40:09.995
And I want you all to know
that the culture cannot be sold,
00:40:09.995 --> 00:40:11.688
it can only be told.
00:40:11.688 --> 00:40:13.218
00:40:13.218 --> 00:40:15.704
wow, this looks like jewelry."
00:40:15.704 --> 00:40:17.299
Well, I'm a jeweler.
00:40:17.299 --> 00:40:20.579
That's why it
looks like jewelry.
00:40:20.579 --> 00:40:23.160
And my dad and them
did carpentry work
00:40:23.160 --> 00:40:25.659
and he did a lot
of stuff on this suit.
00:40:25.659 --> 00:40:27.618
You might say, "Oh,
this look like carpet."
00:40:27.618 --> 00:40:30.544
Well, all that goes into
a suit, mathematics.
00:40:30.544 --> 00:40:31.377
(knuckles rapping)
00:40:31.377 --> 00:40:32.238
Excuse me one moment.
00:40:32.238 --> 00:40:35.238
(footsteps tapping)
00:40:36.151 --> 00:40:38.414
I had my glasses on.
00:40:38.414 --> 00:40:39.762
I told her off, I had to come.
00:40:39.762 --> 00:40:40.759
You brought the little chain?
00:40:40.759 --> 00:40:42.042
I'm gonna pass
back later for you.
00:40:42.042 --> 00:40:43.209
00:40:44.095 --> 00:40:46.568
You look nice, I love this tie.
00:40:46.568 --> 00:40:49.507
chain is heavy enough.
00:40:49.507 --> 00:40:50.340
00:40:51.497 --> 00:40:52.713
00:40:52.713 --> 00:40:54.155
and can you put
it back together?
00:40:54.155 --> 00:40:55.079
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:56.575
little piece down there?
00:40:56.575 --> 00:40:57.408
00:40:57.408 --> 00:40:59.708
this for Mother's Day.
00:40:59.708 --> 00:41:00.656
00:41:00.656 --> 00:41:02.953
because see the piece I
have is made just like this,
00:41:02.953 --> 00:41:04.153
but it stops right there.
00:41:04.153 --> 00:41:05.188
00:41:05.188 --> 00:41:07.405
the same extensions.
00:41:07.405 --> 00:41:08.518
with it like that too.
00:41:08.518 --> 00:41:10.445
extension with this here,
00:41:10.445 --> 00:41:11.278
that's beautiful.
00:41:11.278 --> 00:41:12.782
00:41:12.782 --> 00:41:15.871
The clouds aligned
with a silver lining.
00:41:15.871 --> 00:41:18.512
I got to put another
plat, Dennis.
00:41:18.512 --> 00:41:20.114
Got to put another breadlock.
00:41:20.114 --> 00:41:21.311
do with the black,
00:41:21.311 --> 00:41:22.472
putting all the red lines.
00:41:22.472 --> 00:41:23.781
00:41:23.781 --> 00:41:26.244
She's fighting
over for his place.
00:41:26.244 --> 00:41:27.805
Look what my queen told me.
00:41:27.805 --> 00:41:30.137
She say, "Yeah,
'cause I go with Fi-yi-yi."
00:41:30.137 --> 00:41:31.890
She said, "Fi-yi-yi
don't want you."
00:41:31.890 --> 00:41:34.954
(group laughing)
00:41:34.954 --> 00:41:37.260
Steve, you know Steve
would carry the stick.
00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:39.377
You got a big mouth,
man, you can hear him.
00:41:39.377 --> 00:41:41.123
You can hear him
three blocks away.
00:41:41.123 --> 00:41:42.144
You can hear him.
00:41:42.144 --> 00:41:45.648
Making noise from
driveway to drive.
00:41:45.648 --> 00:41:47.021
When you look up, I got five.
00:41:47.021 --> 00:41:48.462
When you look up, I got 10.
00:41:48.462 --> 00:41:52.136
I'm about 25, 30 deep
when the police stopping us.
00:41:52.136 --> 00:41:53.724
(group laughing)
00:41:53.724 --> 00:41:55.447
Y'all good.
00:41:55.447 --> 00:41:58.407
The police used to stop
you when you get too big.
00:41:58.407 --> 00:42:00.698
I mean, we just children
playing in the Treme
00:42:00.698 --> 00:42:02.037
in the neighborhood.
00:42:02.037 --> 00:42:07.037
(train horn blowing)
(bell clinking)
00:42:08.012 --> 00:42:09.665
(hen clucking)
00:42:09.665 --> 00:42:14.181
(bell clinking) (train rattling)
00:42:14.181 --> 00:42:15.169
00:42:15.169 --> 00:42:17.237
how you can get two Fremont.
00:42:17.237 --> 00:42:18.748
00:42:18.748 --> 00:42:22.876
you can get a home security
system valued at $850,
00:42:22.876 --> 00:42:24.381
free with any plan.
00:42:24.381 --> 00:42:26.002
American Residential Warranty
00:42:26.002 --> 00:42:27.608
for 24 hours a day.
00:42:27.608 --> 00:42:31.680
service is incredible.
00:42:31.680 --> 00:42:36.388
don't just dash it in there.
00:42:36.388 --> 00:42:37.710
Put a little hot glue.
00:42:37.710 --> 00:42:39.609
Cut it in half.
00:42:39.609 --> 00:42:41.102
And put a little hot glue.
00:42:41.102 --> 00:42:43.118
And put some here up.
00:42:43.118 --> 00:42:45.604
Just make that,
make it fill in there.
00:42:45.604 --> 00:42:47.187
Go around in there.
00:42:49.820 --> 00:42:50.987
And then good.
00:42:51.830 --> 00:42:54.922
All the holes fill in there.
00:42:54.922 --> 00:42:55.989
00:42:55.989 --> 00:42:59.736
we're gonna get up
to a low 70s by 6:00.
00:42:59.736 --> 00:43:03.832
00:43:03.832 --> 00:43:05.009
it's too tight.
00:43:05.009 --> 00:43:06.318
00:43:06.318 --> 00:43:10.985
I'm gonna take them out.
00:43:14.653 --> 00:43:19.153
based paper, Publisher David.
00:43:20.314 --> 00:43:22.147
00:43:24.370 --> 00:43:27.620
We gonna be back
there holding it, bro.
00:43:29.643 --> 00:43:32.476
We gonna be back
there holding it.
00:43:39.173 --> 00:43:42.256
(car engine revving)
00:43:43.890 --> 00:43:46.292
00:43:46.292 --> 00:43:47.246
00:43:47.246 --> 00:43:48.445
My boy.
00:43:48.445 --> 00:43:49.278
00:43:49.278 --> 00:43:50.425
00:43:50.425 --> 00:43:51.793
No Uber.
00:43:51.793 --> 00:43:55.221
(vehicles revving)
00:43:55.221 --> 00:43:58.138
(group chattering)
00:43:59.335 --> 00:44:01.315
00:44:01.315 --> 00:44:02.982
That one is on, bro.
00:44:04.362 --> 00:44:06.445
00:44:07.958 --> 00:44:09.675
00:44:09.675 --> 00:44:11.424
(group laughing)
00:44:11.424 --> 00:44:12.841
00:44:19.433 --> 00:44:21.105
00:44:21.105 --> 00:44:21.938
All right.
00:44:23.547 --> 00:44:27.547
(group chattering and laughing)
00:44:28.453 --> 00:44:31.324
(bells ringing)
00:44:31.324 --> 00:44:34.583
♪ Watch your tonation ♪
00:44:34.583 --> 00:44:35.710
♪ Don't bow down ♪
00:44:35.710 --> 00:44:38.460
♪ Don't know how ♪
00:44:41.859 --> 00:44:44.776
(group chattering)
00:44:48.443 --> 00:44:51.443
(percussive music)
00:44:58.366 --> 00:45:00.277
00:45:00.277 --> 00:45:01.483
00:45:01.483 --> 00:45:02.316
00:45:02.316 --> 00:45:03.885
♪ That nation ♪
00:45:03.885 --> 00:45:06.922
♪ Who got the fire that nation ♪
00:45:06.922 --> 00:45:09.879
♪ Who got the fire that nation ♪
00:45:09.879 --> 00:45:12.774
♪ Who got the fire ♪
00:45:12.774 --> 00:45:13.868
♪ The fire ♪
00:45:13.868 --> 00:45:16.216
(group laughing)
00:45:16.216 --> 00:45:18.196
♪ We are the nation ♪
00:45:18.196 --> 00:45:20.493
♪ Watch your tonation ♪
00:45:20.493 --> 00:45:22.632
♪ Don't bow down, oh ♪
00:45:22.632 --> 00:45:24.753
♪ Don't know how ♪
00:45:24.753 --> 00:45:26.927
♪ Okay, get ready ♪
00:45:26.927 --> 00:45:29.136
♪ On this super Sunday ♪
00:45:29.136 --> 00:45:31.292
♪ Who run call your mama ♪
00:45:31.292 --> 00:45:33.642
♪ Who run call your daddy ♪
00:45:33.642 --> 00:45:35.947
♪ Who you call the king ♪
00:45:35.947 --> 00:45:38.095
♪ Who you call the tradition ♪
00:45:38.095 --> 00:45:40.348
♪ Are you all this tradition ♪
00:45:40.348 --> 00:45:42.716
♪ In a new rolling city ♪
00:45:42.716 --> 00:45:44.934
♪ One for nobody ♪
00:45:44.934 --> 00:45:47.437
♪ For we are the pretty ♪
00:45:47.437 --> 00:45:49.527
♪ For the pretty in the white ♪
00:45:49.527 --> 00:45:51.848
♪ For the pretty in the white ♪
00:45:51.848 --> 00:45:54.114
♪ For you don't deny ♪
00:45:54.114 --> 00:45:56.545
♪ For you don't deny ♪
00:45:56.545 --> 00:45:58.921
♪ Oh, sing everybody ♪
00:45:58.921 --> 00:46:01.311
♪ Oh, sing everybody ♪
00:46:01.311 --> 00:46:03.626
♪ Sing like you happy ♪
00:46:03.626 --> 00:46:05.995
♪ Oh, sing like you happy ♪
00:46:05.995 --> 00:46:08.177
♪ You might not see me ♪
00:46:08.177 --> 00:46:10.614
♪ Oh, you might not see me ♪
00:46:10.614 --> 00:46:13.781
♪ Sing like you happy ♪
00:46:19.636 --> 00:46:23.386
(David singing indistinctly)
00:46:49.282 --> 00:46:53.865
(David singing
indistinctly continues)
00:47:06.196 --> 00:47:08.506
♪ Oh, he's all in black ♪
00:47:08.506 --> 00:47:10.805
♪ Oh, pale orange black ♪
00:47:10.805 --> 00:47:13.208
♪ Wait till you
get him rolling ♪
00:47:13.208 --> 00:47:15.681
♪ Oh, how he gonna act ♪
00:47:15.681 --> 00:47:17.933
♪ I don't know ♪
00:47:17.933 --> 00:47:20.302
♪ But I don't care ♪
00:47:20.302 --> 00:47:22.697
♪ We don't worship our nation ♪
00:47:22.697 --> 00:47:25.062
♪ We go everywhere ♪
00:47:25.062 --> 00:47:27.449
♪ I don't want nobody ♪
00:47:27.449 --> 00:47:29.780
♪ With a family in the heat ♪
00:47:29.780 --> 00:47:32.201
♪ I wake up in the morning ♪
00:47:32.201 --> 00:47:34.516
♪ But they won't pay no loan ♪
00:47:34.516 --> 00:47:36.927
♪ What they wait
for the queen y'all ♪
00:47:36.927 --> 00:47:39.318
♪ We gonna carry all y'all ♪
00:47:39.318 --> 00:47:41.768
♪ We going around
the bend y'all ♪
00:47:41.768 --> 00:47:43.410
♪ Ain't nobody need us ♪
00:47:43.410 --> 00:47:46.564
(performer laughing)
00:47:46.564 --> 00:47:49.080
♪ Our pretty,
pretty queen y'all ♪
00:47:49.080 --> 00:47:51.388
♪ In New Orleans y'all ♪
00:47:51.388 --> 00:47:53.731
♪ Not just wait around y'all ♪
00:47:53.731 --> 00:47:56.085
♪ But demolish your love ♪
00:47:56.085 --> 00:47:58.373
♪ We are the nation ♪
00:47:58.373 --> 00:48:00.837
♪ We watch it die nation ♪
00:48:00.837 --> 00:48:03.334
♪ We gon' bob down long ♪
00:48:03.334 --> 00:48:05.710
♪ They don't know how long ♪
00:48:05.710 --> 00:48:08.284
♪ I go a little lower ♪
00:48:08.284 --> 00:48:10.748
♪ I go a little lower ♪
00:48:10.748 --> 00:48:13.414
♪ I know we can't get up ♪
00:48:13.414 --> 00:48:15.192
♪ I'm trying to be ♪
00:48:15.192 --> 00:48:18.339
(group cheering)
00:48:18.339 --> 00:48:21.256
(group chattering)
00:48:30.449 --> 00:48:33.199
(wind whooshing)
00:48:48.247 --> 00:48:51.250
peaceness of this year.
00:48:51.250 --> 00:48:54.209
Let's keep the
peace in the south
00:48:54.209 --> 00:48:56.917
and show them
what it's all about.
00:48:56.917 --> 00:48:59.831
The needle in trade from
the bottom of your feet
00:48:59.831 --> 00:49:01.750
to the top of your head.
00:49:01.750 --> 00:49:05.111
That's where it
all starts out at.
00:49:05.111 --> 00:49:06.617
First of all, I'm just so proud
00:49:06.617 --> 00:49:09.830
to be a New Orleanian, you know?
00:49:09.830 --> 00:49:14.247
Second of all, I'm proud
to be of the Montana family,
00:49:15.198 --> 00:49:16.562
you know, of Edward.
00:49:16.562 --> 00:49:17.635
This is Edward.
00:49:17.635 --> 00:49:18.468
Bosco.
00:49:19.527 --> 00:49:20.360
Bosco.
00:49:22.634 --> 00:49:24.384
Pretty white buffalo.
00:49:25.645 --> 00:49:27.606
♪ We gon' bob down long ♪
00:49:27.606 --> 00:49:30.773
(tambourine clinking)
00:49:32.029 --> 00:49:34.946
(group chattering)
00:49:42.054 --> 00:49:43.449
00:49:43.449 --> 00:49:47.199
(motorcycle engines revving)
00:49:48.729 --> 00:49:50.819
♪ I want to join nation ♪
00:49:50.819 --> 00:49:52.381
(upbeat band music)
00:49:52.381 --> 00:49:54.009
00:49:54.009 --> 00:49:54.842
Come on.
00:49:55.934 --> 00:50:00.934
(upbeat band music)
(crowd chattering)
00:50:15.283 --> 00:50:16.647
00:50:16.647 --> 00:50:17.897
Way down south.
00:50:19.444 --> 00:50:21.210
How you doing?
00:50:21.210 --> 00:50:23.960
(group cheering)
00:50:26.216 --> 00:50:27.572
Beautiful.
00:50:27.572 --> 00:50:28.405
Wonderful.
00:50:29.584 --> 00:50:32.501
(crowd chattering)
00:50:37.557 --> 00:50:40.307
(group cheering)
00:50:42.347 --> 00:50:44.228
00:50:44.228 --> 00:50:46.412
Let's go get them.
00:50:46.412 --> 00:50:47.912
Let's go get them.
00:50:48.940 --> 00:50:53.940
(upbeat band music)
(crowd chattering)
00:50:54.491 --> 00:50:56.295
Let's go get them.
00:50:56.295 --> 00:50:57.795
Let's go get them.
00:50:59.567 --> 00:51:02.571
I can't go no more.
00:51:02.571 --> 00:51:03.855
I'm pretty on the font.
00:51:03.855 --> 00:51:05.772
I'm pretty on the back.
00:51:07.495 --> 00:51:11.165
(performer speaks
in foreign language)
00:51:11.165 --> 00:51:12.378
00:51:12.378 --> 00:51:14.283
00:51:14.283 --> 00:51:15.392
It's pretty looking.
00:51:15.392 --> 00:51:17.065
Looking good.
00:51:17.065 --> 00:51:18.942
Looking good.
00:51:18.942 --> 00:51:20.145
My big David.
00:51:20.145 --> 00:51:21.228
My big David.
00:51:22.410 --> 00:51:23.818
I love it.
00:51:23.818 --> 00:51:26.434
00:51:26.434 --> 00:51:29.351
(crowd chattering)
00:51:36.763 --> 00:51:39.930
(tambourine clinking)
00:51:42.382 --> 00:51:46.715
(group singing in
foreign language)
00:51:52.674 --> 00:51:53.987
♪ High street ♪
00:51:53.987 --> 00:51:56.266
♪ What this all about ♪
00:51:56.266 --> 00:51:58.326
♪ My name's Raya now ♪
00:51:58.326 --> 00:52:00.558
♪ My name's Raya now ♪
00:52:00.558 --> 00:52:02.770
♪ Gang of the nation ♪
00:52:02.770 --> 00:52:04.847
♪ Long as a nation ♪
00:52:04.847 --> 00:52:07.026
♪ Big big banner ♪
00:52:07.026 --> 00:52:09.259
♪ Got big Montana ♪
00:52:09.259 --> 00:52:11.580
♪ Hell's gamma small ♪
00:52:11.580 --> 00:52:13.516
♪ Got big Montana ♪
00:52:13.516 --> 00:52:15.683
♪ Hell's gamma small ♪
00:52:15.683 --> 00:52:17.894
♪ God is my name ♪
00:52:17.894 --> 00:52:20.133
♪ God is my name ♪
00:52:20.133 --> 00:52:23.883
(group singing indistinctly)
00:52:50.778 --> 00:52:54.528
(group singing indistinctly)
00:53:03.416 --> 00:53:04.333
00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:13.949
(group singing indistinctly)
00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:20.187
♪ Oh, I am the big chief ♪
00:53:20.187 --> 00:53:22.328
♪ Oh, I am the big chief ♪
00:53:22.328 --> 00:53:24.532
♪ The big chief of the nation ♪
00:53:24.532 --> 00:53:28.093
♪ Of the Washitaw Nation ♪
00:53:28.093 --> 00:53:31.843
(group singing indistinctly)
00:53:33.491 --> 00:53:36.241
(group cheering)
00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:46.909
(group singing indistinctly)
00:54:02.664 --> 00:54:03.764
(crowd chattering)
00:54:03.764 --> 00:54:06.097
00:54:08.035 --> 00:54:11.358
I'm pretty all over,
like a front leaf cloth.
00:54:11.358 --> 00:54:13.921
I'm pretty at the front,
I'm pretty at the back.
00:54:13.921 --> 00:54:17.551
I'm the second chief
there with the big old hand.
00:54:17.551 --> 00:54:19.210
Red, that's what I know.
00:54:19.210 --> 00:54:21.988
Some like the rock,
but I like the roll.
00:54:21.988 --> 00:54:22.821
(crowd chattering)
00:54:22.821 --> 00:54:24.296
00:54:24.296 --> 00:54:27.277
the hot now in the morning.
00:54:27.277 --> 00:54:28.696
00:54:28.696 --> 00:54:30.544
I do flag roll way uptown.
00:54:30.544 --> 00:54:32.436
I do flag roll on bottom.
00:54:32.436 --> 00:54:34.471
I do flag roll for the
whole neighborhood.
00:54:34.471 --> 00:54:36.132
I'm shooting fire at them.
00:54:36.132 --> 00:54:37.320
Boom, boom.
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:39.267
Red, white, way uptown.
00:54:39.267 --> 00:54:40.158
I'm sober.
00:54:40.158 --> 00:54:41.511
I'm all brand.
00:54:41.511 --> 00:54:43.844
Keep your mind at your roll.
00:54:45.240 --> 00:54:46.417
Boom.
00:54:46.417 --> 00:54:47.584
Yo, come, Red.
00:54:49.959 --> 00:54:50.876
00:54:55.574 --> 00:55:00.574
(group singing indistinctly)
(percussive music)
00:55:10.808 --> 00:55:14.558
(group singing indistinctly)
00:55:23.767 --> 00:55:27.267
(upbeat percussive music)
00:55:49.428 --> 00:55:51.743
loud you sing the song,
00:55:51.743 --> 00:55:55.220
it's how nice you
make the song sound.
00:55:55.220 --> 00:55:56.443
As this is what they did,
00:55:56.443 --> 00:55:59.860
call and respond to
the old ancient ones,
00:56:01.220 --> 00:56:04.303
the ancient ways
of the Black people.
00:56:05.728 --> 00:56:08.588
And I learned how
to control my voice
00:56:08.588 --> 00:56:11.801
from the peddlers
of New Orleans.
00:56:11.801 --> 00:56:14.696
♪ I got watermelon
red to the right ♪
00:56:14.696 --> 00:56:17.005
♪ I got peaches,
oranges, bananas ♪
00:56:17.005 --> 00:56:20.505
♪ Three pounds for a quarter. ♪
00:56:20.505 --> 00:56:24.573
I was Catholic and I would
sit and mark the priests.
00:56:24.573 --> 00:56:28.990
(David speaking
in foreign language)
00:56:32.871 --> 00:56:37.871
And they say (speaking
in foreign language).
00:56:38.456 --> 00:56:41.686
♪ Because I love
to hear you call ♪
00:56:41.686 --> 00:56:44.436
♪ My Indian way ♪
00:56:45.303 --> 00:56:47.705
That's the song we
sing, that's the prayer.
00:56:47.705 --> 00:56:52.080
And they call out the
different members of the tribe,
00:56:52.080 --> 00:56:56.402
spy boy, flag boy, big
chief, little chief, trail chief.
00:56:56.402 --> 00:56:59.268
(group singing in
foreign language)
00:56:59.268 --> 00:57:02.021
00:57:02.021 --> 00:57:04.925
You know, but you have
a spy man, a spy boy,
00:57:04.925 --> 00:57:07.290
which is no more
than a point man,
00:57:07.290 --> 00:57:10.494
big chief, first chief,
second chief, third chief.
00:57:10.494 --> 00:57:12.661
You had your medicine man.
00:57:13.630 --> 00:57:14.660
It was teaching you the things
00:57:14.660 --> 00:57:17.247
that you need in
order to survive.
00:57:17.247 --> 00:57:19.589
(percussive music)
00:57:19.589 --> 00:57:21.502
00:57:21.502 --> 00:57:24.434
The chief is a
lot like the leader,
00:57:24.434 --> 00:57:29.267
which is a lot like Shango,
who is the king in Ifa, right?
00:57:31.489 --> 00:57:35.406
And then you have the
flag boy and the spy boy,
00:57:36.251 --> 00:57:38.424
which is over communication.
00:57:38.424 --> 00:57:41.258
The wild man though I think
would be more like Ogun,
00:57:41.258 --> 00:57:44.122
'cause Ogun is that
energy that's kind of raw.
00:57:44.122 --> 00:57:46.912
And if you ever saw a wild man,
his costume he have horns on
00:57:46.912 --> 00:57:49.495
and fur and he's swam all back.
00:57:51.358 --> 00:57:56.284
And I'm watching this going,
"This is just like Dorisha
00:57:56.284 --> 00:57:58.336
and these people don't know."
00:57:58.336 --> 00:58:01.900
So that's how I know
spirit is speaking,
00:58:01.900 --> 00:58:06.846
spirit is living through it,
and that's what keeps it going.
00:58:06.846 --> 00:58:09.698
(percussive band music)
00:58:09.698 --> 00:58:13.281
On that day, the guy
could be a brick mason
00:58:14.133 --> 00:58:18.631
or a iron worker or a baker
or a shoemaker or whatever.
00:58:18.631 --> 00:58:20.882
But on that day, he's a chief.
00:58:20.882 --> 00:58:22.466
So, he gets in the streets,
00:58:22.466 --> 00:58:24.862
and on that day, he
can brick wall the police
00:58:24.862 --> 00:58:26.483
and walk by him.
00:58:26.483 --> 00:58:28.567
You have to understand
what that means
00:58:28.567 --> 00:58:33.290
for a Black man to do that in
the 1800s and the early 1900s
00:58:33.290 --> 00:58:37.373
and not go to jail or
not get killed behind that.
00:58:38.755 --> 00:58:40.889
When you become a chief,
00:58:40.889 --> 00:58:44.112
even the police recognize
that you're somebody
00:58:44.112 --> 00:58:47.926
and they will allow them to
be that, take over for the day.
00:58:47.926 --> 00:58:52.176
So, it is the very essence
of the act of resistance
00:58:53.286 --> 00:58:56.639
because we defined
it for ourselves,
00:58:56.639 --> 00:58:59.554
named it for ourselves,
created for ourselves
00:58:59.554 --> 00:59:04.315
until the point where people
began to leave from downtown,
00:59:04.315 --> 00:59:06.306
from seeing Rex
and Zulu and stuff
00:59:06.306 --> 00:59:09.500
and want to come
find the Indians.
00:59:09.500 --> 00:59:12.478
(crowd chattering)
00:59:12.478 --> 00:59:16.395
(both chattering indistinctly)
00:59:20.568 --> 00:59:23.568
(upbeat band music)
00:59:25.305 --> 00:59:26.138
00:59:26.138 --> 00:59:27.065
Let's do this, come on.
00:59:27.065 --> 00:59:30.565
(upbeat percussive music)
00:59:57.364 --> 01:00:01.697
(upbeat percussive
music continues)
01:00:27.288 --> 01:00:31.079
(upbeat percussive
music continues)
01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:33.996
(crowd chattering)
01:00:57.467 --> 01:00:58.300
(upbeat percussive
music continues)
01:00:58.300 --> 01:00:59.195
01:00:59.195 --> 01:01:02.945
(vendor speaks indistinctly)
01:01:14.084 --> 01:01:17.189
here, and have us a fun party.
01:01:17.189 --> 01:01:20.635
Second line, sell out, beverage.
01:01:20.635 --> 01:01:22.601
You know, this is
every Sunday day for us.
01:01:22.601 --> 01:01:25.288
This how we enjoy
ourself in Louisiana.
01:01:25.288 --> 01:01:28.566
baby, everything cold.
01:01:28.566 --> 01:01:31.094
Everything cold, baby.
01:01:31.094 --> 01:01:32.537
This is how we do it.
01:01:32.537 --> 01:01:34.287
This is how we do it every year.
01:01:34.287 --> 01:01:36.037
Same spot every year.
01:01:38.470 --> 01:01:40.282
Getting money, baby,
getting the money.
01:01:40.282 --> 01:01:41.790
Do all this now, baby.
01:01:41.790 --> 01:01:46.790
(upbeat percussive
music) (crowd chattering)
01:01:54.353 --> 01:01:58.436
(performer singing indistinctly)
01:02:21.252 --> 01:02:24.778
(crowd chattering continues)
01:02:24.778 --> 01:02:26.318
(performer singing indistinctly)
01:02:26.318 --> 01:02:29.068
(beads rattling)
01:02:30.425 --> 01:02:34.508
(performer singing indistinctly)
01:02:37.608 --> 01:02:40.265
(performer singing indistinctly)
01:02:40.265 --> 01:02:43.345
(tambourine rattling)
01:02:43.345 --> 01:02:47.428
(performer singing indistinctly)
01:02:54.458 --> 01:02:57.375
(crowd chattering)
01:03:08.180 --> 01:03:11.680
(upbeat percussive music)
01:03:15.299 --> 01:03:19.466
(performers
singing indistinctly)
01:03:20.402 --> 01:03:23.319
(crowd chattering)
01:03:34.761 --> 01:03:38.538
(tambourine rattling)
01:03:38.538 --> 01:03:42.705
(performers
singing indistinctly)
01:03:58.808 --> 01:04:01.558
(water sloshing)
01:04:03.971 --> 01:04:06.232
(bike rattling)
01:04:06.232 --> 01:04:09.399
(ship engine revving)
01:04:10.535 --> 01:04:13.618
(vehicles whooshing)
01:04:19.037 --> 01:04:21.787
01:04:22.821 --> 01:04:27.320
I was riding down the street
around the corner by Mama D.
01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:30.036
David came riding on a bicycle,
01:04:30.036 --> 01:04:31.951
and I was like, "Who
is this man dressed up
01:04:31.951 --> 01:04:34.558
with a suit on a bicycle?"
01:04:34.558 --> 01:04:36.402
That just looked crazy to me.
01:04:36.402 --> 01:04:37.235
01:04:37.235 --> 01:04:38.442
01:04:38.442 --> 01:04:40.537
01:04:40.537 --> 01:04:41.980
01:04:41.980 --> 01:04:43.062
01:04:43.062 --> 01:04:43.895
Yeah.
01:04:43.895 --> 01:04:45.853
01:04:45.853 --> 01:04:47.534
That's my queen.
01:04:47.534 --> 01:04:50.518
So I met her after Katrina,
01:04:50.518 --> 01:04:53.343
and she said, "I wish to
be Tootie Montana's queen.
01:04:53.343 --> 01:04:56.502
I understand you're
Tootie's nephew."
01:04:56.502 --> 01:04:58.791
I said, "Yes, I am."
01:04:58.791 --> 01:05:02.839
She said, "Well, would
you like to have a queen?"
01:05:02.839 --> 01:05:07.839
I said, "I have to check with
my lady friend first, Sandra."
01:05:09.723 --> 01:05:10.573
And I asked Sandra, I said,
01:05:10.573 --> 01:05:13.587
"You wanna be my queen
before I pick a queen?"
01:05:13.587 --> 01:05:15.193
'Cause I had my grandbaby,
01:05:15.193 --> 01:05:18.790
which is her grandbaby,
my little queen.
01:05:18.790 --> 01:05:22.145
And she said, "Man,
no, you pick a queen."
01:05:22.145 --> 01:05:24.496
And I pick Ausettua,
01:05:24.496 --> 01:05:28.659
only because she was
powerful and she can dance
01:05:28.659 --> 01:05:32.743
and she wear the long
dreadlocks and she's Black,
01:05:32.743 --> 01:05:36.743
and she does the dance
and I make her look good.
01:05:38.226 --> 01:05:39.925
She make me look good.
01:05:39.925 --> 01:05:44.070
Four generations of the
Carnival Indians, I wanna say,
01:05:44.070 --> 01:05:48.743
dates back in my family to
maybe the late 1800s by uncle
01:05:48.743 --> 01:05:51.348
by the name of B'Kate Baptiste.
01:05:51.348 --> 01:05:55.681
Led on to Edward, my
father, who loved it so dearly.
01:05:56.796 --> 01:05:59.137
The work that I sit
here and do only
01:05:59.137 --> 01:06:03.335
because I have that passion
and that burning passion
01:06:03.335 --> 01:06:06.239
because my father
loved it that great
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:10.072
till the last day of the
year he dies in 1994.
01:06:12.383 --> 01:06:14.891
That was a suit he was building,
01:06:14.891 --> 01:06:17.302
and he didn't get
a chance to finish it.
01:06:17.302 --> 01:06:19.133
And I picked those pieces up
01:06:19.133 --> 01:06:24.053
and I had two months to
complete what he had started.
01:06:24.053 --> 01:06:27.213
Then Tootie, but
Tootie was the great one
01:06:27.213 --> 01:06:30.917
'cause Tootie the one
that took it to the next level
01:06:30.917 --> 01:06:33.400
from what his daddy taught him.
01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:36.999
During that time, they
fought when they met,
01:06:36.999 --> 01:06:40.538
so you didn't really
go too close to that.
01:06:40.538 --> 01:06:43.020
You stood off as a kid
if he was brave enough
01:06:43.020 --> 01:06:44.428
to peep at it and see it.
01:06:44.428 --> 01:06:47.315
But most people would watch
it from the venetian blinds
01:06:47.315 --> 01:06:50.333
of their living rooms
around my house.
01:06:50.333 --> 01:06:53.335
You could hear them
coming up the street, (chooing)
01:06:53.335 --> 01:06:57.049
because back then the designs
were made out of aluminum
01:06:57.049 --> 01:06:58.976
from the old American
can company.
01:06:58.976 --> 01:07:01.080
They got a lot of
the scrap metal
01:07:01.080 --> 01:07:02.742
and they cut their
little different figures
01:07:02.742 --> 01:07:04.917
and designs and
put them together.
01:07:04.917 --> 01:07:06.818
A lot of people
say, "You hear that?
01:07:06.818 --> 01:07:07.926
Come on, let's go inside."
01:07:07.926 --> 01:07:10.030
Here come the
Indians, they'll run in.
01:07:10.030 --> 01:07:12.403
Because they would truly fight.
01:07:12.403 --> 01:07:15.360
They would be full at
what they liked to do,
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:20.027
but it was people like Tootie,
Bordalas, Monk Boudreaux,
01:07:22.885 --> 01:07:26.018
these cats from all
different parts of the city
01:07:26.018 --> 01:07:27.884
that kept it peaceful.
01:07:27.884 --> 01:07:30.797
was at the city council
01:07:30.797 --> 01:07:34.565
pleading to stop harassing
the Mardi Gras endings
01:07:34.565 --> 01:07:37.416
when he had a heart attack
in Dallas in the council floor.
01:07:37.416 --> 01:07:40.916
fighting to preserve
01:07:42.090 --> 01:07:45.108
the Mardi Gras Indian tradition,
01:07:45.108 --> 01:07:48.373
but he died there in resistance
01:07:48.373 --> 01:07:51.366
that he wasn't gonna
allow somebody else,
01:07:51.366 --> 01:07:54.111
another race of
people to tell him
01:07:54.111 --> 01:07:57.111
that he cannot
practice his culture.
01:08:00.475 --> 01:08:04.808
To me, some of the greatest
African American leaders
01:08:06.067 --> 01:08:10.150
as far as Black resistance
came from New Orleans.
01:08:11.124 --> 01:08:15.428
Huey P. Newton, the founder
of the Black Panther Party
01:08:15.428 --> 01:08:17.678
was from here in Louisiana.
01:08:18.792 --> 01:08:21.542
Geronimo G. Jagger,
H. Rob Brown.
01:08:23.475 --> 01:08:28.142
We have a rich history of
those who have never accepted.
01:08:30.172 --> 01:08:34.221
control us, not them,
01:08:34.221 --> 01:08:36.443
'cause most white folk,
when they get in trouble,
01:08:36.443 --> 01:08:40.546
if it ain't a hard crime or
they get slapped on their wrist.
01:08:40.546 --> 01:08:42.533
Black men never gets
slapped on their wrists.
01:08:42.533 --> 01:08:45.376
You're ask going to jail
'cause he got to make bond.
01:08:45.376 --> 01:08:47.355
You got to pay the bonds bills,
01:08:47.355 --> 01:08:50.020
then you got to pay the court.
01:08:50.020 --> 01:08:52.722
And it's like a revolving door.
01:08:52.722 --> 01:08:54.418
And the police is out here,
01:08:54.418 --> 01:08:55.365
they looking for people
01:08:55.365 --> 01:08:58.137
when they do wrong
stuff to take them to jail.
01:08:58.137 --> 01:09:00.964
But a lot of times they done
put three, four, five charges.
01:09:00.964 --> 01:09:02.427
They catch you for one thing,
01:09:02.427 --> 01:09:03.747
but when they finish with you,
01:09:03.747 --> 01:09:06.090
you got about three
or four charges on you
01:09:06.090 --> 01:09:08.323
'cause they're
talking to you bad.
01:09:08.323 --> 01:09:09.532
And if you talk back to,
01:09:09.532 --> 01:09:12.349
"Oh, you talking back,"
you're resisting arrest.
01:09:12.349 --> 01:09:13.867
That's a bill you got to pay.
01:09:13.867 --> 01:09:16.848
And if you wanna be
free, you got to pay that bill.
01:09:16.848 --> 01:09:19.708
If you don't pay that
bill, you got to go to jail.
01:09:19.708 --> 01:09:22.625
If you go to jail,
you got to work.
01:09:23.899 --> 01:09:26.164
So, they make you work for free
01:09:26.164 --> 01:09:28.417
until you do your
time, free labor.
01:09:28.417 --> 01:09:31.066
Give that money that
we make to the people
01:09:31.066 --> 01:09:32.480
that's teaching our children.
01:09:32.480 --> 01:09:35.251
Give it to the schools,
give it to the universities,
01:09:35.251 --> 01:09:38.111
give it to the scientists,
the people that are studying
01:09:38.111 --> 01:09:41.114
and making a better
life for people to leave.
01:09:41.114 --> 01:09:43.947
(trumpet blowing)
01:09:45.449 --> 01:09:46.392
(crowd chattering)
01:09:46.392 --> 01:09:47.392
01:09:48.647 --> 01:09:50.407
Damn right damn.
01:09:50.407 --> 01:09:51.740
Washitaw Nation.
01:09:53.068 --> 01:09:55.269
01:09:55.269 --> 01:09:57.852
01:09:59.045 --> 01:10:01.200
01:10:01.200 --> 01:10:04.114
Old Bob Downs don't know her.
01:10:04.114 --> 01:10:04.947
Yes, yes.
01:10:05.814 --> 01:10:09.195
(crowd chattering)
01:10:09.195 --> 01:10:12.440
We're not a tribe,
we're not a gang.
01:10:12.440 --> 01:10:15.901
We're a nation, Washitaw Nation.
01:10:15.901 --> 01:10:18.818
(crowd chattering)
01:10:19.727 --> 01:10:20.644
01:10:24.727 --> 01:10:27.615
Pretty big chief of
the Washitaw Nation.
01:10:27.615 --> 01:10:29.514
(crowd chattering)
01:10:29.514 --> 01:10:31.931
Old Bob Downs don't know her.
01:10:32.928 --> 01:10:36.000
(percussive music)
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:36.833
Oh, yeah.
01:10:38.413 --> 01:10:39.746
(upbeat percussive music)
01:10:39.746 --> 01:10:40.579
01:10:45.457 --> 01:10:46.290
Oh.
01:10:47.482 --> 01:10:48.815
Washitaw Nation.
01:10:54.005 --> 01:10:55.849
(performer singing
in foreign language)
01:10:55.849 --> 01:10:57.499
(upbeat percussive music)
01:10:57.499 --> 01:11:00.249
(David shouting)
01:11:04.077 --> 01:11:08.327
(performers whooping
and shouting)
01:11:13.382 --> 01:11:17.596
♪ Go to the crown,
go to the crown ♪
01:11:17.596 --> 01:11:20.803
♪ Go to the crown,
Old Bob Downs ♪
01:11:20.803 --> 01:11:22.324
♪ Go Big Chief,
go to the crown ♪
01:11:22.324 --> 01:11:27.324
♪ Well, Bob, get ready,
'cause you're out of sight ♪
01:11:27.570 --> 01:11:32.560
♪ Well, you are all in
white, thank Jove, tonight ♪
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:37.492
♪ Well, tighten your cam,
pull out your wreaths ♪
01:11:37.492 --> 01:11:42.473
♪ Well, nobody needs
this beef, beef, beef ♪
01:11:42.473 --> 01:11:47.463
♪ Well, the golden
crown, the golden crown ♪
01:11:47.463 --> 01:11:50.662
♪ Take his name 'cause
he won't bow down ♪
01:11:50.662 --> 01:11:52.485
(performers
singing indistinctly)
01:11:52.485 --> 01:11:54.802
♪ Oh, gang, get ready ♪
01:11:54.802 --> 01:11:57.080
♪ Oh, gang, get ready ♪
01:11:57.080 --> 01:11:59.456
♪ Oh, we are the nation ♪
01:11:59.456 --> 01:12:01.778
♪ Oh, we are the nation ♪
01:12:01.778 --> 01:12:04.352
♪ We want five dollars ♪
01:12:04.352 --> 01:12:06.607
♪ Not on the ground ♪
01:12:06.607 --> 01:12:09.126
♪ We're dirty ground ♪
01:12:09.126 --> 01:12:11.436
♪ Where is the queen of ♪
01:12:11.436 --> 01:12:13.746
♪ Oh, where is the queen of ♪
01:12:13.746 --> 01:12:16.155
♪ Hope you need it on time now ♪
01:12:16.155 --> 01:12:18.542
♪ Hope you need it on time now ♪
01:12:18.542 --> 01:12:23.492
♪ We'll make you sound good ♪
01:12:23.492 --> 01:12:25.824
♪ Sing everybody ♪
01:12:25.824 --> 01:12:28.244
♪ Sing everybody ♪
01:12:28.244 --> 01:12:30.393
♪ Oh, we are the nation ♪
01:12:30.393 --> 01:12:32.117
♪ Oh, we are the nation ♪
01:12:32.117 --> 01:12:35.472
destiny and David is really,
01:12:35.472 --> 01:12:38.129
it's an honor to be his queen.
01:12:38.129 --> 01:12:40.840
He is so sincere and
genuine and passionate
01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:42.545
about what he does.
01:12:42.545 --> 01:12:45.654
You know, you want
your chief to be a person
01:12:45.654 --> 01:12:49.747
who has integrity, a
person who loves people
01:12:49.747 --> 01:12:54.497
and a person who receives
and accepts his responsibility.
01:12:55.885 --> 01:13:00.052
(performers
singing indistinctly)
01:13:02.377 --> 01:13:05.742
(chickens clucking)
01:13:05.742 --> 01:13:09.909
(performers
singing indistinctly)
01:13:13.504 --> 01:13:16.485
(car engine revving)
01:13:16.485 --> 01:13:19.402
(percussive music)
01:13:35.133 --> 01:13:38.878
(performers singing
indistinctly continues)
01:13:38.878 --> 01:13:41.628
(kids screaming)
01:13:42.681 --> 01:13:46.826
(neighborhood cheering)
01:13:46.826 --> 01:13:48.895
01:13:48.895 --> 01:13:50.557
Y'all are dead.
01:13:50.557 --> 01:13:52.265
with them glasses on.
01:13:52.265 --> 01:13:53.823
(group laughing)
01:13:53.823 --> 01:13:55.495
01:13:55.495 --> 01:13:58.862
(group laughing)
01:13:58.862 --> 01:13:59.820
01:13:59.820 --> 01:14:01.487
One more time, baby.
01:14:04.667 --> 01:14:07.584
(crowd chattering)
01:14:11.344 --> 01:14:12.177
01:14:12.177 --> 01:14:14.884
We're trying to
get to St. Margaret.
01:14:14.884 --> 01:14:15.801
01:14:18.260 --> 01:14:20.093
♪ Hey ♪
01:14:25.410 --> 01:14:30.410
(percussive music)
(crowd chattering)
01:14:55.041 --> 01:14:56.628
(percussive music continues)
(crowd chattering continues)
01:14:56.628 --> 01:14:59.378
(cars whooshing)
01:15:10.647 --> 01:15:11.480
01:15:12.881 --> 01:15:15.798
(crowd chattering)
01:15:22.695 --> 01:15:25.431
(crowd chattering)
01:15:25.431 --> 01:15:29.181
(percussive music continues)
01:15:31.470 --> 01:15:34.053
(honk blowing)
01:15:45.957 --> 01:15:49.124
(tambourine clinking)
01:16:06.868 --> 01:16:10.868
(David singing in indistinctly)
01:16:17.447 --> 01:16:21.447
(group singing in indistinctly)
01:16:23.170 --> 01:16:26.063
(percussive music)
01:16:26.063 --> 01:16:30.063
(group singing in indistinctly)
01:16:53.376 --> 01:16:56.555
(percussive music continues)
01:16:56.555 --> 01:17:01.388
(group singing in
indistinctly continues)
01:17:23.417 --> 01:17:27.167
(percussive music continues)
01:17:29.241 --> 01:17:33.977
traditional spot of last year.
01:17:33.977 --> 01:17:37.431
For all the Indians in the
city that don't come out
01:17:37.431 --> 01:17:39.653
to watch y'all or
see about y'all,
01:17:39.653 --> 01:17:41.314
I like for them to challenge me
01:17:41.314 --> 01:17:44.229
and come into the
St. Margaret home
01:17:44.229 --> 01:17:46.360
and visit the people
that can't come out.
01:17:46.360 --> 01:17:49.894
I do every year what St.
Joseph would've done.
01:17:49.894 --> 01:17:52.413
I visit the people of the need.
01:17:52.413 --> 01:17:55.772
And to me, you guys
need us like we need y'all.
01:17:55.772 --> 01:18:00.685
And we didn't only come in
costume, we came in prayer
01:18:00.685 --> 01:18:03.677
for those who are
sick to get better.
01:18:03.677 --> 01:18:06.603
I have a sister
here, Judy Lewis.
01:18:06.603 --> 01:18:07.835
(group clapping)
01:18:07.835 --> 01:18:08.918
There she is.
01:18:10.856 --> 01:18:13.760
(group singing indistinctly)
01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.677
(percussive music)
01:18:40.406 --> 01:18:43.741
(group singing
indistinctly continues)
01:18:43.741 --> 01:18:47.491
(percussive music continues)
01:19:10.238 --> 01:19:13.390
(group singing
indistinctly continues)
01:19:13.390 --> 01:19:17.140
(percussive music continues)
01:19:40.268 --> 01:19:41.753
(group singing
indistinctly continues)
01:19:41.753 --> 01:19:45.586
(crowd cheering and clapping)
01:19:47.827 --> 01:19:49.038
some kind of way touch.
01:19:49.038 --> 01:19:51.089
01:19:51.089 --> 01:19:53.102
Touch your neighbor.
01:19:53.102 --> 01:19:54.275
hour, first of all,
01:19:54.275 --> 01:19:56.622
just to say thank you God.
01:19:56.622 --> 01:19:57.455
Thank you, Father.
01:19:57.455 --> 01:19:58.613
giving us help this strip
01:19:58.613 --> 01:20:01.473
and we woke up this
morning in our right mind.
01:20:01.473 --> 01:20:04.553
We knew where we were,
we give thanks for that.
01:20:04.553 --> 01:20:08.150
We give thanks for all of
our family and our friends.
01:20:08.150 --> 01:20:10.271
We give thanks
for our life thus far.
01:20:10.271 --> 01:20:11.530
01:20:11.530 --> 01:20:13.574
today we still are living.
01:20:13.574 --> 01:20:15.288
We are on this
side of the living.
01:20:15.288 --> 01:20:16.121
01:20:16.121 --> 01:20:17.532
but at this moment,
01:20:17.532 --> 01:20:20.244
at this time it is peace.
01:20:20.244 --> 01:20:21.969
There is no controversy.
01:20:21.969 --> 01:20:23.693
There is no animosity.
01:20:23.693 --> 01:20:25.357
There is no gunshot.
01:20:25.357 --> 01:20:26.536
There is no knife.
01:20:26.536 --> 01:20:28.940
It's all about peace and love.
01:20:28.940 --> 01:20:31.640
And that is the Christ's
love that we seek to have.
01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:34.687
Love one another as he loved us.
01:20:34.687 --> 01:20:37.301
So we just wanna make
sure that we continue
01:20:37.301 --> 01:20:39.369
with this energy and this spirit
01:20:39.369 --> 01:20:42.757
because we appreciate
the life of our elders.
01:20:42.757 --> 01:20:44.198
The sacrifice that you made
01:20:44.198 --> 01:20:46.304
so that we could be
where we are today.
01:20:46.304 --> 01:20:48.628
And if God should
bless us so much
01:20:48.628 --> 01:20:51.047
that we can be in the
spot where you are,
01:20:51.047 --> 01:20:52.690
we will just say
thank you, Lord.
01:20:52.690 --> 01:20:53.523
01:20:53.523 --> 01:20:54.605
01:20:54.605 --> 01:20:55.452
Hallelujah.
01:20:55.452 --> 01:20:57.542
(group clapping)
01:20:57.542 --> 01:21:02.542
♪ This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine ♪
01:21:03.042 --> 01:21:05.639
here, to be amongst many,
01:21:05.639 --> 01:21:10.472
to live of the living and be
part of it, to be recognized,
01:21:12.179 --> 01:21:16.179
to have something good
in mind and can teach it.
01:21:18.520 --> 01:21:20.751
And it's just great to live
01:21:20.751 --> 01:21:24.227
because after you're
gone, you're gone.
01:21:24.227 --> 01:21:27.414
But there's places
you go when you die.
01:21:27.414 --> 01:21:30.164
Where does your
last breath blow?
01:21:31.489 --> 01:21:34.239
Is it the hurricanes
that we had,
01:21:36.260 --> 01:21:38.620
the last breath of all
the people at the left,
01:21:38.620 --> 01:21:40.714
the face of the earth?
01:21:40.714 --> 01:21:44.739
It's still a gushy wind,
but it goes somewhere.
01:21:44.739 --> 01:21:46.866
(blows) I just blew
air out my body.
01:21:46.866 --> 01:21:48.125
It went over there,
01:21:48.125 --> 01:21:51.621
but it mixed in with
all the rest of the air.
01:21:51.621 --> 01:21:55.200
So then when you get the
stones that rotates the earth
01:21:55.200 --> 01:21:59.737
and it comes back, just
like I've heard people say
01:21:59.737 --> 01:22:02.620
the way the stones
come in from Africa
01:22:02.620 --> 01:22:07.110
is the same way they brought
the slave ships in from Africa.
01:22:07.110 --> 01:22:09.108
(cars revving)
01:22:09.108 --> 01:22:09.955
(rain pattering)
01:22:09.955 --> 01:22:12.441
01:22:12.441 --> 01:22:14.520
the tradition was
just looked at as,
01:22:14.520 --> 01:22:18.139
oh, that's just them Black
people thing that they do.
01:22:18.139 --> 01:22:20.515
There was always
people from other cultures
01:22:20.515 --> 01:22:22.568
who enjoy coming to see it,
01:22:22.568 --> 01:22:25.432
but that's just the
Black thing that they do.
01:22:25.432 --> 01:22:27.873
They didn't really
care about it.
01:22:27.873 --> 01:22:29.873
But when Katrina struck,
01:22:30.910 --> 01:22:34.361
and the thought that
they would not have it,
01:22:34.361 --> 01:22:36.611
then it became our culture.
01:22:37.882 --> 01:22:40.414
We can't lose our culture.
01:22:40.414 --> 01:22:43.868
So that was one
good thing Katrina did.
01:22:43.868 --> 01:22:45.362
01:22:45.362 --> 01:22:47.982
I started doing
the family culture,
01:22:47.982 --> 01:22:51.238
pick up the needle and
thread, sew, make the costume,
01:22:51.238 --> 01:22:56.238
bring New Orleans back, be
another Indian on the streets.
01:22:56.760 --> 01:22:59.075
Make this city be what
it's supposed to be,
01:22:59.075 --> 01:23:01.276
what it always have been.
01:23:01.276 --> 01:23:03.406
And you don't love
a city if you don't do,
01:23:03.406 --> 01:23:05.904
if you can do what
make a city go,
01:23:05.904 --> 01:23:09.072
you're supposed to be
in that city and make it go.
01:23:09.072 --> 01:23:13.087
And me massing with the
Washitaw Nation makes it go.
01:23:13.087 --> 01:23:15.754
My little part of the city
that I do with the people
01:23:15.754 --> 01:23:20.511
that are with me, my queens,
my lady friend, my children,
01:23:20.511 --> 01:23:24.395
my children that help, the
people that help, friends,
01:23:24.395 --> 01:23:27.299
I am the proud one to wear it.
01:23:27.299 --> 01:23:29.551
(percussive music)
(crowd chattering)
01:23:29.551 --> 01:23:33.222
♪ Washitaw, Washitaw,
Washitaw, Washitaw ♪
01:23:33.222 --> 01:23:37.251
♪ Washitaw, Washitaw,
Washitaw, Washitaw ♪
01:23:37.251 --> 01:23:42.001
♪ Washitaw, Washitaw,
Washitaw, Washitaw ♪
01:23:45.943 --> 01:23:50.943
(percussive music)
(group cheering)
01:23:54.438 --> 01:23:58.188
(group singing indistinctly)
01:24:16.406 --> 01:24:18.271
(percussive music)
01:24:18.271 --> 01:24:22.021
(group singing indistinctly)
01:24:46.386 --> 01:24:48.875
(percussive music continues)
01:24:48.875 --> 01:24:53.458
(group singing
indistinctly continues)
01:25:08.513 --> 01:25:11.430
(crowd chattering)
01:25:16.116 --> 01:25:18.199
01:25:20.511 --> 01:25:24.261
(group singing indistinctly)
01:25:38.383 --> 01:25:42.087
(upbeat percussive music)
01:25:42.087 --> 01:25:45.837
(group singing indistinctly)
01:26:08.307 --> 01:26:12.382
(upbeat percussive
music continues)
01:26:12.382 --> 01:26:16.965
(group singing
indistinctly continues)
01:26:32.677 --> 01:26:36.136
what's coming from within
01:26:36.136 --> 01:26:39.064
and what's coming
from within is spirit.
01:26:39.064 --> 01:26:42.331
And spirit don't know, oh,
you're not over here no more.
01:26:42.331 --> 01:26:43.398
You're over here.
01:26:43.398 --> 01:26:44.630
Spirit gonna still come out.
01:26:44.630 --> 01:26:46.709
It's just gonna
come out, you know?
01:26:46.709 --> 01:26:50.922
So, that's what makes
it really pretty awesome.
01:26:50.922 --> 01:26:52.290
Yeah.
01:26:52.290 --> 01:26:56.040
(group singing indistinctly)
01:26:57.191 --> 01:26:58.974
01:26:58.974 --> 01:27:01.504
of what we have been given,
01:27:01.504 --> 01:27:03.517
not only would the
world be at peace,
01:27:03.517 --> 01:27:05.767
it would be in soul all day
01:27:07.906 --> 01:27:10.739
because the eternal
now is a song,
01:27:12.141 --> 01:27:13.703
and that's why people love music
01:27:13.703 --> 01:27:17.091
because you can get
out of this area of time.
01:27:17.091 --> 01:27:19.268
And if you are
rooted, if you really,
01:27:19.268 --> 01:27:20.823
if the spirits that got you,
01:27:20.823 --> 01:27:25.815
if the music is making you,
oh, yeah, dance, whatever.
01:27:25.815 --> 01:27:27.482
Yeah, that's church.
01:27:29.623 --> 01:27:30.582
(group cheering)
01:27:30.582 --> 01:27:33.179
need to know about us.
01:27:33.179 --> 01:27:37.060
They need to know who
are we, where we come from,
01:27:37.060 --> 01:27:40.678
why we tick the way
we tick, you know?
01:27:40.678 --> 01:27:42.928
And it's a reason for that,
01:27:44.451 --> 01:27:47.129
because we come from people,
01:27:47.129 --> 01:27:49.796
human beings, good human beings.
01:27:52.462 --> 01:27:54.680
♪ They run call you mama ♪
01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:57.118
♪ They run call you daddy ♪
01:27:57.118 --> 01:27:59.521
♪ Your children too ♪
01:27:59.521 --> 01:28:01.967
♪ Oh, here comes the Indians ♪
01:28:01.967 --> 01:28:04.423
♪ Oh, they coming for you ♪
01:28:04.423 --> 01:28:06.825
♪ I hear them singing ♪
01:28:06.825 --> 01:28:09.264
♪ I hear their call ♪
01:28:09.264 --> 01:28:11.605
♪ Oh, it's so pretty ♪
01:28:11.605 --> 01:28:14.095
♪ It make them all come around ♪
01:28:14.095 --> 01:28:16.551
♪ Oh, I am the big chief ♪
01:28:16.551 --> 01:28:18.945
♪ Oh, I am the big chief ♪
01:28:18.945 --> 01:28:21.286
♪ The big chief of the nation ♪
01:28:21.286 --> 01:28:23.776
♪ Of the Washitaw Nation ♪
01:28:23.776 --> 01:28:26.226
♪ Of the great creation ♪
01:28:26.226 --> 01:28:28.657
♪ Oh, we like to design ♪
01:28:28.657 --> 01:28:31.110
♪ The beautiful suit y'all ♪
01:28:31.110 --> 01:28:33.471
♪ Oh, come, come one on ♪
01:28:33.471 --> 01:28:35.950
♪ Oh, they come in
from the north y'all ♪
01:28:35.950 --> 01:28:38.557
♪ Oh, they come in
from the south y'all ♪
01:28:38.557 --> 01:28:41.137
♪ Oh, they bearing
from the east y'all ♪
01:28:41.137 --> 01:28:43.661
♪ Oh, they come in
from the west y'all ♪
01:28:43.661 --> 01:28:46.223
♪ Oh, they come to
see the best y'all ♪
01:28:46.223 --> 01:28:48.785
♪ Oh, we are the Indians ♪
01:28:48.785 --> 01:28:51.217
♪ The Carnival Indians ♪
01:28:51.217 --> 01:28:53.769
♪ From New Orleans y'all ♪
01:28:53.769 --> 01:28:56.519
♪ I say Carnival ♪
01:28:57.938 --> 01:29:00.521
(gentle music)
01:29:11.435 --> 01:29:14.933
♪ It seems like
America's got two faces ♪
01:29:14.933 --> 01:29:16.022
♪ Who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:16.022 --> 01:29:18.013
♪ Swing them, who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:18.013 --> 01:29:21.445
♪ One Jayne Wayne, the
other John Wayne Gacy ♪
01:29:21.445 --> 01:29:22.787
♪ Who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:22.787 --> 01:29:25.020
♪ Swing them, who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:25.020 --> 01:29:28.540
♪ One so crazy, one
so sane, swing them ♪
01:29:28.540 --> 01:29:29.827
♪ Who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:29.827 --> 01:29:32.049
♪ Swing them, who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:32.049 --> 01:29:35.218
♪ These two faces,
honey, they the same ♪
01:29:35.218 --> 01:29:36.979
♪ Whoo, swing them,
who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:36.979 --> 01:29:39.300
♪ Swing them, who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:39.300 --> 01:29:42.919
♪ Bush and Carey, Huckleberry
and Tom, swing them ♪
01:29:42.919 --> 01:29:44.294
♪ Who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:44.294 --> 01:29:46.160
♪ Swing them, who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:46.160 --> 01:29:50.223
♪ Rafting down that
Euphrates to Babylon ♪
01:29:50.223 --> 01:29:51.576
♪ Who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:51.576 --> 01:29:53.976
♪ Swing them, who bop, shabop ♪
01:29:53.976 --> 01:29:57.363
♪ Babylon, oh, Babylon ♪
01:29:57.363 --> 01:30:01.124
♪ He might sound plain
crazy, might be dead wrong ♪
01:30:01.124 --> 01:30:05.216
♪ But Babylon, oh, Babylon ♪
01:30:05.216 --> 01:30:08.982
♪ According to the
ladies in the Pentagon ♪
01:30:08.982 --> 01:30:13.982
♪ Ain't enough
whores in Babylon ♪
01:30:14.438 --> 01:30:17.492
♪ Armageddon, army get off ♪
01:30:17.492 --> 01:30:19.332
♪ Well, well, who's your daddy ♪
01:30:19.332 --> 01:30:21.067
♪ Honey, who's your boss ♪
01:30:21.067 --> 01:30:24.498
♪ Swing it, who bop, shabop,
swing it, who bop, shabop ♪
01:30:24.498 --> 01:30:28.485
♪ Now live and direct
from the Middle Ages ♪
01:30:28.485 --> 01:30:31.949
♪ Who bop, shabop,
swing it, who bop, shabop ♪
01:30:31.949 --> 01:30:34.415
♪ Strutting out
that history's blue ♪
01:30:34.415 --> 01:30:37.202
♪ Come and make your
way, who bop, shabop ♪
01:30:37.202 --> 01:30:40.586
(woman speaking
in foreign language)
01:30:40.586 --> 01:30:45.586
♪ Oh, warly child, you
ain't getting bop, shabop ♪
01:30:46.482 --> 01:30:51.482
♪ Brought to you by a belly
bird, who bop, shabop, swing it ♪
01:30:53.606 --> 01:30:57.417
♪ This is the bandit that
adheres to the priming of a ship ♪
01:30:57.417 --> 01:31:00.563
♪ Who bop, shobop ♪
01:31:00.563 --> 01:31:04.325
♪ Be a little bit
still if you run ♪
01:31:04.325 --> 01:31:07.559
♪ Who bop, shabop ♪
01:31:07.559 --> 01:31:11.409
♪ Oh, Babylon, oh, Babylon ♪
01:31:11.409 --> 01:31:14.995
♪ He might sound plain
crazy, might be dead wrong ♪
01:31:14.995 --> 01:31:19.043
♪ But Babylon, oh, Babylon ♪
01:31:19.043 --> 01:31:22.387
♪ Ain't these old alumni
of the skull and bones ♪
01:31:22.387 --> 01:31:26.575
♪ Go and boo-yah,
boo-yah, bring it on ♪
Distributor: Impronta Films
Length: 91 minutes
Date: 2024
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: College, Adults
Color/BW:
Closed Captioning: Available
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