Badger Creek is a portrait of Native resilience as seen through a year in the life of three generations of a Blackfeet f | dG1fWmUtejdIRGJjaUE
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00:00In 100 years, we're all going to be ancestors, going to be gone.
00:12Maybe your children's children will be sitting here.
00:16What are they going to know about Pikani?
00:22What are you going to teach them about who we are?
00:27I want to travel, I want to get off the res, I want to do all this stuff, but I still want
00:33to stay home.
00:36It comes back to family.
00:39I want to stay close to my family.
00:41Our home right here is all our kids' home.
00:44It'll always be our kids' and grandkids' home.
00:47We've raised like six kids together, and we've got tons of grandkids.
00:54We call ourselves Nisitapupi, meaning real people.
00:58We're the real people of here, and the Creator created us right here.
01:04Our tribe is like a rope.
01:06There's continuums that we want to preserve.
01:10As soon as we got married, I just woke up one morning and said, I'm going to quit drinking.
01:16And she told me, I will too.
01:18There are young kids still getting that education, but yet they're still holding on to what
01:24they believe, and it can be done.
01:29Our heritage, our history, our religions imprinted in our language.
01:34And to understand fully what we are as a Blackfeet people is in within our language.
01:39We still have the songs and the ceremonies, and we still try today, we try our hardest
01:44to keep these things going so that our people can prosper.
01:48We've been starved, we've been beat, we've been told we were not Indian no more.
01:57We're like coyotes.
01:58Coyotes, they can bounce back so fast.
02:04One minute on your property, you think you got the last one, and a month later, there's
02:09a hundred of them right back there.
02:10They got tough resilience.