Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows the Bad River Band | dG1fNXRQSmtsWUJLeFE
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 This is a story of the Batterver people
00:06 and their home on Lake Superior.
00:08 Our people have been here for millennia.
00:11 They've had to fight for who they are.
00:14 And the Ojibwe have been resisting ever since.
00:19 There was a black car that used to ride around.
00:22 We see that coming, we run.
00:24 They basically just grab kids and take them and take them
00:26 off to these boarding schools.
00:28 They were modeled after prison systems.
00:31 It was a genocidal project.
00:34 The whole idea was your culture is primitive.
00:38 The oppression and racism just hit a pinnacle.
00:41 It was all built up.
00:43 You punk.
00:44 I thought Native people were going to get killed.
00:46 [GUNSHOTS]
00:49 There's always some kind of threat.
00:52 They've had to fight to protect their land.
00:55 Seems improbable that a pipe would be hanging in midair.
00:58 That's a ticking time bomb.
00:59 When the meander reaches the pipeline, apocalyptic.
01:03 It breaks, you know.
01:04 This is going to pour right into Lake Superior.
01:08 That's bad.
01:09 It is the grandmother of the Great Lakes.
01:11 It is the freshwater stronghold of planet Earth.
01:15 Trying to shut down a pipeline, that's a major endeavor.
01:19 It's a David and Goliath type of situation, right?
01:21 You got to stop it.
01:22 My little tribe is protecting water for the planet.
01:26 It'll be one hell of a fight.
01:30 This is a story of defiance.
01:33 We got to protect our water.
01:36 To die first, we have to.
01:41 [WATER BUBBLING]
01:44 [AUDIO OUT]
01:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]