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Man: DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME,
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BUT UNDERSTAND ME FULLY AND MY AFFECTION FOR THE LAND.
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I NEVER SAID THE LANDWAS MINE TO DO WITH AS I CHOSE.
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THE ONE WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO DISPOSE OF IT
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IS THE ONE WHO HAS CREATED IT.
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I CLAIM A RIGHT TO LIVE ON MY LAND,
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AND ACCORD YOU THE PRIVILEGE TO LIVE ON YOURS --
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HIN-MAH-TOO-YAH-LAT-KEHT,
CHIEF JOSEPH.
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[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
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[ DRUM BEATS,
CHANTING CONTINUES ]
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[ MORE VOICES ADDED
TO CHANTING ]
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Narrator: THE WEST STRETCHES
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FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
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FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS
TO THE RIO GRANDE --
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MORE THAN TWO MILLION
SQUARE MILES
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OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY
LANDSCAPE ON EARTH.
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ITS TERRAIN HAS ALWAYS
BECKONED -- AND REPELLED.
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IT IS A LAND
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OF ALMOST IMPENETRABLE
MOUNTAIN BARRIERS --
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THE ROCKIES AND WASATCH,
THE BITTERROOTS AND BIGHORNS,
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THE SIERRA NEVADA
AND SANGRE de CRISTO,
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THE CONFUSIONS, THE CRAZIES,
AND THE BLACK HILLS.
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IT IS A LAND OF RIVERS --
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THE COLORADOND COLUMBIA
AND MISSOURI,
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THE SWEETWATER AND THE PLATTE,
SAND CREEK AND THE GREASY GRASS,
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THE RIVER
THAT SCOLDS ALL OTHERS --
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AND THE RIVER OF NO RETURN.
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Man: IT IS A DREAM.
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IT IS WHAT PEOPLE
WHO HAVE COME HERE
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FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME
HAVE DREAMED.
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IT'S A DREAM LANDSCAPE.
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TO THE NATIVE AMERICAN,
IT'S FULL OF SACRED REALITIES.
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POWERFUL THINGS --
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IT'S A LANDSCAPE THAT
HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED.
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AND I SAY ON OCCASION,
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{\an8}IT MAY HAVE TO BE BELIEVED
IN ORDER TO BE SEEN.
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Narrator: THE WEST IS A LAND
OF ENDLESS SEAS OF GRASS,
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UNIMAGINABLE DISTANCES,
INFINITE HORIZONS.
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BUT IT WAS NEVER EMPTY.
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PEOPLE CAME FROM EVERY POINT
OF THE COMPASS.
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TO THE SPANISH, WHO TRAVELED UP
FROM MEXICO, IT WAS "THE NORTH."
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BRITISH AND FRENCH EXPLORERS
ARRIVED BY COMING SOUTH --
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THE CHINESE AND THE RUSSIANS,
BY GOING EAST.
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IT WAS THE AMERICANS --
THE LAST TO ARRIVE --
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WHO NAMED IT "THE WEST."
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BUT TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
ALREADY THERE, IT WAS HOME --
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THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.
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THEY HAD LIVED THERE SO LONG
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THAT THEIR STORIES OF CREATION
LINKED THEM TO THE LAND ITSELF.
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THE COMANCHES SAID
THEY CAME FROM SWIRLS OF DUST.
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THE HIDATSA,
FROM THE BOTTOM OF A BIG LAKE.
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AMONG THE SACRED BUNDLES OF THE
ZUNIS WAS A STONE, THEY SAID,
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WITHIN WHICH BEATS
THE HEART OF THE WORLD.
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BUT SOON
THERE WOULD BE OTHER MYTHS --
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MYTHS OF GOLDEN CITIES,
TREASURE FOR THE TAKING,
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SOULS IN NEED OF SALVATION.
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AND ANOTHER LONGER-LASTING MYTH,
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EVENTUALLY PURSUED
BY TWO AMERICANS
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ACROSS THE VASTNESS
OF THE WEST ITSELF --
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THE MYTH OF AN ELUSIVE NORTHWEST
PASSAGE THAT WOULD LEAD THEM --
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AND THEIR NATION -- TO THE SEA.
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IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS
MORE AMERICANS FOLLOWED --
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MOUNTAIN MEN AND MISSIONARIES,
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SOLITARY ADVENTURERS AND WAGON
TRAINS OF HOPEFUL PIONEERS...
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A WASHED-UP
TENNESSEE POLITICIAN,
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WHO FOUND A SECOND CHANCE
IN THE WEST
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AND CARVED OUT A NEW REPUBLIC
OF HIS OWN...
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A BROAD-SHOULDERED CARPENTER
FROM VERMONT,
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WHO DECLARED HIMSELF CHOSEN
BY GOD
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TO LEAD HIS PERSECUTED PEOPLE
TO SANCTUARY IN THE DESERT...
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AND A DELICATE WELLESLEY
GRADUATE,
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WHO BATTLED FLOOD, DISEASE,
AND FINANCIAL RUIN,
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YET NEVER LOST HER LOVE
OF THE WEST.
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GOLD WAS DISCOVERED,
AND THE WORLD RUSHED IN --
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CHINESE PEASANTS
AND SOUTH AMERICAN ARISTOCRATS,
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AND A PEACH GROWER
FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK,
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WHO LEFT HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER
IN SEARCH OF EASY RICHES,
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ONLY TO FIND NOTHING --
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EXCEPT WHAT HE WOULD REMEMBER
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AS THE GREATEST ADVENTURE
OF HIS LIFE.
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Man:
THE WEST IS NOT ANY ONE THING.
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IT IS A TREMENDOUS COLLECTION
OF STORIES,
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OF INDIVIDUAL HUMAN BEINGS
WHO COULD AT ONE POINT
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DEMONSTRATE THE HIGHEST VALUES
OF HEROISM
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AND THE LOWEST VALUES
OF COWARDICE,
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OF CRUELTY AND NOBILITY,
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AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS
THAT GO INTO MAKE GREAT STORIES,
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{\an8}WHICH IS WHY THE HISTORY
OF THE WEST
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{\an8}IS ONE OF THE GREAT STORIES
OF ALL TIME.
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BUT NO INTELLIGENT PERSON
CAN LOOK AT IT
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WITHOUT FEELING A MIX
OF BOTH PRIDE AND SHAME.
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Narrator: THE WEST WOULD HELP
IGNITE THE CIVIL WAR
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AND WITNESS SOME
OF ITS MOST SAVAGE KILLING.
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THEN, AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER,
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UNION HEROES WHO HAD FOUGHT
TO FREE THE SLAVES IN THE EAST
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WOULD TRY TO SUBJUGATE
THE INDIANS OF THE WEST.
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MEXICAN AMERICANS, WHO HAD LIVED
IN THE WEST FOR CENTURIES,
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WOULD FIND THEMSELVES
OUTNUMBERED
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IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY,
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WHILE A GROUP OF PIONEERS
FROM THE SOUTH
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WOULD FIND IN THE WEST
THEIR OWN PROMISED LAND.
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AND NATIVE PEOPLES WOULD FIGHT
THEIR LAST, GALLANT WARS
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TO HOLD ONTO THEIR LANDS...
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THEN BEGIN A NEW STRUGGLE --
SIMPLY TO REMAIN THEMSELVES.
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Man: I THINK THAT THE WEST
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IS THE MOST POWERFUL REALITY
IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.
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IT'S ALWAYS HAD A POWER,
AN ATTRACTION
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THAT DIFFERENTIATED IT FROM
THE REST OF THE UNITED STATES.
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{\an8}WHETHER THE WEST WAS A PLACE
TO BE CONQUERED,
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{\an8}OR THE WEST AS IT IS TODAY --
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A PLACE TO BE PROTECTED
AND NURTURED.
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IT IS THE REGENERATIVE FORCE
OF AMERICA.
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Narrator: THE WEST
IS A STORY OF CONQUEST --
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OF COMPETING PROMISES AND
COMPETING VISIONS OF THE LAND.
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MANY PEOPLES LAID CLAIM
TO THE WEST,
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AND MANY PLAYED A PART
IN SETTLING IT.
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BUT IN THE END, ONLY ONE NATION
WOULD DEMAND IT ALL --
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AND TAKE IT.
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AND IN THE END, BY MOVING WEST,
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THAT NATION
WOULD DISCOVER ITSELF.
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Man: WHEN AMERICANS TELL STORIES
ABOUT THEMSELVES,
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THEY SET THOSE STORIES
IN THE WEST.
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THE AMERICAN HEROES
ARE WESTERN HEROES.
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WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK
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OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL
AMERICAN CHARACTERS,
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THEY'RE ALWAYS SOMEPLACE
OVER THE HORIZON.
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THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEPLACE
IN THE WEST,
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WHERE SOMETHING WONDERFUL
IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
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{\an8}IT'S NOT WHAT HAS HAPPENED --
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{\an8}IT'S SOMETHING WONDERFUL
IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
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AND EVEN WHEN WE TURN
THAT AROUND --
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EVEN WHEN WE SAY,
WELL, SOMETHING HAS BEEN LOST --
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WHAT'S LOST
IS ALWAYS IN THE WEST.
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[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
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Momaday:
MYTH IS SUCH AN INTEGRAL PART
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OF THE CONCEPTION OF THE WEST.
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PEOPLE THINK ABOUT IT
IN TERMS OF MYTH --
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ALWAYS HAVE, I BELIEVE.
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KIOWA STORY HAS IT
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THAT EIGHT CHILDREN WERE PLAYING
IN THE WOODS,
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AND THERE WERE SEVEN SISTERS
AND THEIR BROTHER.
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THE BOY IS PRETENDING
TO BE A BEAR,
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AND HE'S CHASING HIS SISTERS,
WHO ARE PRETENDING TO BE AFRAID,
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AND THEY'RE RUNNING.
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A TERRIBLE THING HAPPENS
IN THE COURSE OF THE GAME.
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THE BOY
ACTUALLY TURNS INTO A BEAR.
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AND WHEN THE SISTERS SEE THIS,
THEY ARE TRULY TERRIFIED,
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AND THEY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES,
THE BEAR AFTER THEM.
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THEY PASS THE STUMP OF A TREE,
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AND THE TREE SPEAKS TO THEM
AND SAYS,
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"IF YOU WILL CLIMB UP ON ME,
I WILL SAVE YOU."
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SO THE LITTLE GIRLS SCAMPER
ON TOP OF THE TREE STUMP.
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AND AS THEY DO SO,
IT BEGINS TO RISE INTO THE AIR.
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THE BEAR COMES TO KILL THEM,
BUT THEY'RE BEYOND ITS REACH.
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AND IT REARS UP AND SCORES THE
BARK ALL AROUND WITH ITS CLAWS.
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THE STORY ENDS --
THE GIRLS ARE BORN INTO THE SKY,
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AND THEY BECOME THE STARS
OF THE BIG DIPPER.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY
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BECAUSE IT ACCOUNTS
FOR THE ROCK -- DEVIL'S TOWER --
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THIS MONOLITH THAT RISES NEARLY
A THOUSAND FEET INTO THE AIR,
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AND IT ALSO RELATES MAN
TO THE STARS.
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[ DRUM BEATS,
NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
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[ MORE VOICES ADDED
TO CHANTING ]
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Narrator:
FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS,
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THE WEST BELONGED
ONLY TO INDIANS --
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PERHAPS MORE THAN THREE MILLION
OF THEM.
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THE KALISPEL AND CLATSOP
AND TONKAWA...
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THE TEWA, PAIUTE, AND PAWNEE...
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THE HOPI, MOJAVE,
CADDO, AND CHINOOK...
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THE UMATILLA AND THE UTE.
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THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO LIVED
IN LARGE HOUSES
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MADE FROM THE TALLEST TREES
ON EARTH.
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AND PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN ISOLATED
SHELTERS FASHIONED FROM BRUSH.
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PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN SKIN TEPEES
AND TOWERING CLIFF-TOP CITIES.
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SOME STARTED FIRES
TO MAKE PASTURES,
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OR BUILT DAMS AND DIVERTED
STREAMS TO IRRIGATE THEIR CROPS.
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OTHERS DID NOT DARE
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ALTER THE EARTH THEY BELIEVED
TO BE THEIR MOTHER
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AND PRAYED TO THE SPIRITS
OF THE ANIMALS THEY HUNTED.
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Momaday: THE INDIAN FEELS
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THAT HE IS RELATED
TO THE ANIMAL WORLD --
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THAT ALL LIVING THINGS
ARE RELATED.
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IN THE KIOWA ORAL TRADITION,
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ONE OF THE WAYS TO INDICATE
TIME LONG PAST IS TO SAY,
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"WELL, THIS HAPPENED
WHEN DOGS COULD TALK."
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Narrator: IN SOME TRIBES,
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WAR WAS CONSIDERED
THE HIGHEST CALLING,
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AND WEALTH WAS MEASURED
IN SLAVES.
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IN OTHERS,
WOMEN OWNED ALL THE PROPERTY,
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AND WHEN A COUPLE MARRIED, THE
MAN JOINED HIS WIFE'S FAMILY.
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WHILE IN STILL OTHER TRIBES,
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THE PUNISHMENT
FOR AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE
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WAS TO CUT OFF PART OF HER NOSE.
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Man: THE WEST OF THE AMERICAN
CONTINENT WAS AS DIVERSE
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AS ALMOST ANY PLACE
IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD,
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HAD PEOPLE SPEAKING SEVEN
DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FAMILIES,
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{\an8}EACH AS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER
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{\an8}AS EACH ONE IS DIFFERENT
FROM INDO-EUROPEAN.
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YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE
IN THEIR ORDINARY CONVERSATION
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"I," "MY," "ME."
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EVERYTHING IS "WE."
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YOU HAD SOCIETIES THAT WERE
INTENSELY AGRICULTURAL,
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LIKE THE PUEBLOS
IN THE SOUTHWEST.
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WE HAVE CULTURES IN ALASKA
AND THE SUBARCTIC
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THAT DIDN'T SEE SUNLIGHT
FOR HALF OF THE YEAR,
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AND SO THEIR WHOLE CONCEPT
OF TIME WAS DIFFERENT.
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YOU HAD CULTURES ON THE PLAINS
WHERE EACH PERSON DISCOVERED,
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THROUGH A VISION QUEST,
HIS OR HER OWN INNER VOICE,
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AND THEN CAME BACK
AFTER A WEEK OF ISOLATION,
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AND TOLD THE REST OF THE TRIBE,
"WHO I AM."
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AND NOBODY COULD ARGUE WITH THAT
BECAUSE IT CAME FROM WITHIN.
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Woman: YOU KNOW THERE'S THIS
MARVELOUS STEREOTYPE OUT THERE
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THAT BEFORE WHITE PEOPLE CAME,
THE WORLD HERE WAS PERFECT,
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THAT PEOPLE LIVED IN A PARADISE
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IN WHICH THEY WERE THE MOST
ELEGANT, THE MOST MORAL,
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THE MOST ELEVATED
OF ALL HUMANITY.
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THAT'S NOT TRUE.
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WE WERE HUMAN BEINGS, AND WE
LIVED IN OUR OWN SOCIETIES,
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AND WE DID THINGS
THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS DO,
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AND SOME OF IT WAS ELEVATED
AND MARVELOUS AND ADMIRABLE,
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AND SOME OF IT
WAS PRETTY HORRIBLE.
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ED
Narrator: PEOPLE WHO WORSHI
DIFFERENT GODS,
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INHABITED ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT WORLDS,
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AND WERE SOMETIMES UNAWARE
OF EACH OTHER'S EXISTENCE,
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WERE, NONETHELESS,
LINKED TOGETHER.
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WEBS OF ANCIENT TRADING TRAILS
STRETCHED IN EVERY DIRECTION
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AND COVERED EVERY CORNER
OF THE WEST.
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BUFFALO ROBES WARMED PEOPLE
WHO HAD NEVER SEEN A BUFFALO.
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CORNMEAL WAS EATEN BY PEOPLE
WHO HAD NEVER PLANTED CORN.
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AND OCEAN SHELLS DECORATED
THE CLOTHING
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OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED
A THOUSAND MILES FROM THE SEA.
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IN THE HIGH COUNTRY
WHERE THE PRESENT STATES
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OF NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, UTAH,
AND ARIZONA COME TOGETHER,
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THERE ONCE LIVED A GREAT PEOPLE,
REMEMBERED NOW AS THE ANASAZI.
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FOR CENTURIES,
THEIR CIVILIZATION THRIVED,
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TRADING WITH OTHER CULTURES
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TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH,
EAST AND WEST.
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THEY DAMMED STREAMS
TO WATER THEIR CROPS,
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LAID OUT MILE UPON MILE
OF BROAD, STRAIGHT ROADS
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ACROSS THE DESERT,
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AND BUILT LOFTY TOWNS
WHERE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LIVED.
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THE ANASAZI FLOURISHED,
AND THEIR NUMBERS GREW.
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THEN -- THOUGH NO ONE KNOWS
FOR CERTAIN WHY --
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THEY WERE FORCED
TO ABANDON IT ALL.
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NEWCOMERS -- THE ANCESTORS
OF THE UTE AND THE NAVAJO --
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EVENTUALLY TOOK OVER THE REGION.
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THE ANASAZI
WERE NOT THE FIRST PEOPLE
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TO BE DISPLACED BY ANOTHER
IN THE WEST.
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AND THEY WOULD NOT BE THE LAST.
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Dorris: PEOPLE CALLED THEMSELVES
"HUMAN BEINGS" OR "THE PEOPLE,"
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OR, BASICALLY, "US,"
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AND EVERYBODY ELSE, KNOWN
AND UNKNOWN, WAS "THEM,"
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AND IT MADE DEALING
WITH THE CONSTANT SURPRISE
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OF ENCOUNTERING PEOPLE
WHO SPOKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES --
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HAD A DIFFERENT ETHNIC LOOK,
HAD DIFFERENT RELIGIONS,
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DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS --
A LOT EASIER TO DEAL WITH
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BECAUSE "THEY"
WERE ALWAYS BIZARRE.
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AND SO WHEN EUROPEANS ARRIVED
ON THE SCENE,
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THEY WERE JUST ANOTHER CEGORY
OF "THEY."
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THE HARDSHIPS I ENDURED IN THIS JOURNEYING BUSINESS
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WERE LONG TO TELL -- PERIL AND PRIVATION,
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STORMS AND FROST, WHICH OFTEN OVERTOOK ME.
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BY THE UNFAILING GRACE OF D, OUR LORD,
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I CAME FORTH FROM ALL --
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ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEZA de VACA.
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Narrator: ON A COLD MORNING
IN THE AUTUMN OF 1528,
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30 YEARS AFTER CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS FIRST LANDED
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IN THE NEW WORLD,
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A HURRICANE IN
THE GULF OF MEXICO
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BLEW A FRAIL BOAT ONTO THE COAST
OF GALVESTON ISLAND,
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IN WHAT IS NOW TEXAS.
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A HANDFUL OF SPANISH SOLDIERS
STAGGERED ASHORE.
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THEY WERE THE FIRST EUROPEANS
TO SET FOOT IN THE WEST.
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ONE OF THE SHIPWRECKED SURVIVORS
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WAS A NOBLEMAN NAMED
ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEZA de VACA,
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A HARDENED VETERAN
OF HALF A DOZEN WARS
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AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF SPAIN.
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SPAIN HAD ALREADY CONQUERED
MOST OF SOUTH AMERICA,
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CENTRAL AMERICA,
AND ALL OF MEXICO,
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CONVERTING THOUSANDS OF INDIANS
TO CHRIST
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AND STRIPPING THE AZTEC
AND INCAN CULTURES
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OF THEIR ENORMOUS WEALTH.
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NOW CABEZA de VACA'S EXPEDITION
WAS PROBING NORTH,
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IN SEARCH
OF EVEN GREATER TREASURE.
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"WE CAME HERE TO SERVE GOD
AND HIS MAJESTY,"
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ONE CONQUISTADOR WROTE,
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"TO GIVE LIGHT TO THOSE
WHO WERE IN DARKNESS
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AND TO GET RICH
AS ALL MEN DESIRE TO DO."
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CABEZA de VACA AND HIS MEN
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WERE FED AND HOUSED
BY THE COASTAL COCOS INDIANS,
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WHO BELIEVED THE STRANGERS
TO HAVE MAGICAL POWERS.
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BUT WHEN DYSENTERY,
CARRIED BY THE SPANISH,
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KILLED ALMOST HALF THE TRIBE,
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THE INDIANS
TURNED ON THE SOLDIERS.
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CABEZA de VACA
AND HIS COMPANIONS
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HAD HOPED TO COME AS CONQUERORS.
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INSTEAD, THEY ENTERED THE WEST
AS CAPTIVES.
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Cabeza de Vaca:
MY LIFE BECAME UNBEARABLE.
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IN ADDITION TO MUCH OTHER WORK,
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I HAD TO GRUB ROOTS IN THE WATER
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OR FROM UNDERGROUND IN THE CANEBRAKES.
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MY FINGERS GOT SO RAW THAT IF A STRAW TOUCHED THEM,
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THEY WOULD BLEED.
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THE BROKEN CANES OFTEN SLASHED MY FLESH.
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Narrator:
AFTER TWO YEARS OF MISERY,
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CABEZA de VACA FLED HIS CAPTORS.
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HE BEGAN TRADING -- CARRYING
SHELLS AND MESQUITE FRUIT
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TO THE TRIBES OF THE INTERIOR
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AND BRINGING BACK
TO THE COASTAL TRIBES FURS,
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FLINT FOR ARROWHEADS,
AND RED OCHER FOR FACE PAINTING.
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BECAUSE HE BELONGED
TO NO TRIBE HIMSELF,
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HE WAS WELCOMED
WHEREVER HE WENT.
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BY THE SUMMER OF 1534,
CABEZA de VACA
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AND THE THREE REMAINING
SURVIVORS OF THE EXPEDITION
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DECIDED TO TRY TO MAKE THEIR WAY
TO MEXICO CITY.
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THEY WANDERED ON FOOT
FOR TWO YEARS,
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THROUGH TEXAS,
ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE,
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MOVING FROM ONE TRIBE
TO THE NEXT.
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THROUGHOUT HIS JOURNEY,
CABEZA de VACA
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HAD EXPECTED
TO FIND ONLY CRUEL SAVAGES,
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BUT HE MET TRIBES
THAT IMPRESSED HIM
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WITH THEIR GENTLENESS AND THEIR
GENEROSITY TO STRANGERS.
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AND WHEN THEY ASKED FOR HIS
HELP, HE RESPONDED IN KIND,
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SPEAKING OF CHRIST
WHEREVER HE COULD.
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Cabeza de Vaca: SOME INDIANS
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CAME BEGGING US TO CURE THEM OF TERRIBLE HEADACHES.
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SURELY EXTRAORDINARY MEN LIKE US, THEY SAID,
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EMBODIED POWERS OVER NATURE.
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WHEN WE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS OVER THEM
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AND COMMENDED THEM TO GOD,
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THEY INSTANTLY SAID ALL PAIN HAD VANISHED
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AND GAVE US PRICKLY PEARS AND CHUNKS OF VENISON.
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Narrator: SOON CABEZA de VACA
AND HIS COMPANIONS
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FOUND THEMSELVES ESCORTED
FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE
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BY AN ARMY
OF SOME 600 ADMIRING INDIANS.
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IF THEY WERE TO BE CONVERTED
TO CHRISTIANITY,
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CABEZA de VACA
HAD COME TO BELIEVE,
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"THEY MUST BE WON BY KINDNESS,
THE ONLY CERTAIN WAY."
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White: HE BECOMES A CURER.
HE BECOMES A HEALER.
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HE BECOMES AN EMISSARY OF GOD.
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AND CABEZA de VACA BECOMES,
IN EFFECT,
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A LEADER OF INDIAN PEOPLES.
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HE MOVES THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST,
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TRUDGING THROUGH THE DESERT
FROM COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY,
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AND THEN THE DREAM STOPS.
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Narrator: IN THE SPRING OF 1536,
CABEZA de VACA
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AND HUNDREDS OF INDIANS
FINALLY ENTERED MEXICO --
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AND CAME UPON A COLUMN
OF SPANISH SOLDIERS
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WHO HAD COME NORTH, DESTROYING
CROPS, LOOTING VILLAGES,
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SEIZING SLAVES.
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Cabeza de Vaca:
WITH HEAVY HEARTS,
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WE LOOKED OUT
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OVER THE ONCE LAVISHLY WATERED, FERTILE, AND BEAUTIFUL LAND,
354
00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:17,790
NOW ABANDONED AND BURNED, AND THE PEOPLE THIN AND WEAK,
355
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SCATTERING AND HIDING IN FRIGHT.
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Narrator: CABEZA de VACA'S
INDIAN FOLLOWERS WERE CONFUSED.
357
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HOW COULD HE AND THESE SPANIARDS
BELONG TO THE SAME PEOPLE?
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CABEZA de VACA HEALED THE SICK.
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THEY KILLED THE HEALTHY.
360
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,360
HE WANTED NOTHING.
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THEY TOOK EVERYTHING.
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SURE THAT THE SPANISH WOULD
ENSLAVE HIS INDIAN ESCORTS,
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CABEZA de VACA URGED THEM
TO FLEE.
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THEN HE SET OUT AGAIN
FOR MEXICO CITY.
365
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AS SOON AS HE WAS GONE,
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THE SPANISH SEIZED MANY
OF HIS INDIAN FRIENDS.
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White: CABEZA de VACA'S JOURNEY
THROUGH THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORLD
368
00:26:09,540 --> 00:26:11,880
ENDS UP
IN A VERY ORDINARY WORLD,
369
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A WORLD OF SPANISH SLAVERS
AND INDIAN VICTIMS.
370
00:26:16,430 --> 00:26:20,520
BUT IN BETWEEN, IN THAT MOMENT,
THERE WAS A VISION
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OF HOW SOMETHING ELSE
MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED --
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THAT NEVER WOULD
REALLY FULLY HAPPEN,
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BUT WOULD APPEAR IN GLIMPSES
AGAIN AND AGAIN,
374
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AS INDIANS AND WHITES
INTERACTED IN THE CONTINENT.
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Momaday: ALWAYS, WHEN PEOPLE
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CAME INTO THIS LANDSCAPE
WE CALL THE WEST,
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THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM
A NECESSITY TO IMAGINE IT.
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00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:59,370
ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THIS,
I THINK, IS SIMPLY THE VASTNESS.
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WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE GRAND
CANYON, FOR EXAMPLE,
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IT'S ENDLESSLY MYSTERIOUS.
381
00:27:08,020 --> 00:27:14,690
YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL THE SILENCE
COMING UP AND ENVELOPING YOU,
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AND YOU KNOW
THAT THERE ARE PLACES THERE
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WHERE NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN.
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HOLY CATHOLIC CAESARIAN MAJESTY --
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I HAVE DONE ALL THAT I POSSIBLY COULD
386
00:27:33,010 --> 00:27:36,190
TO SERVE YOUR MAJESTY AND TO DISCOVER A COUNTRY
387
00:27:36,220 --> 00:27:39,010
WHERE GOD, OUR LORD, MIGHT BE SERVED
388
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AND THE ROYAL TREASURY INCREASED.
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00:27:42,090 --> 00:27:45,240
AS YOUR LOYAL SERVANT AND VASSAL --
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00:27:45,260 --> 00:27:48,020
FRANCISCO VASQUEZ de CORONADO.
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Narrator: SIX YEARS
AFTER CABEZA de VACA
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RETURNED TO MEXICO CITY,
393
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THE SPANISH VICEROY SENT YET
ANOTHER EXPEDITION NORTHWARD.
394
00:28:02,330 --> 00:28:04,760
THEY WERE SEARCHING
FOR SEVEN CITIES
395
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SAID TO BE FILLED
WITH GOLD AND TREASURE.
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00:28:09,910 --> 00:28:11,760
IN COMMAND OF THE EXPEDITION
397
00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:15,040
WAS THE AMBITIOUS GOVERNOR
OF A MEXICAN PROVINCE --
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FRANCISCO VASQUEZ de CORONADO.
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00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,110
FOR MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS,
CORONADO FOLLOWED
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OLD INDIAN TRAILS ACROSS DESERTS
AND THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS.
401
00:28:30,450 --> 00:28:34,970
FINALLY, EXHAUSTED AND HUNGRY,
HE REACHED AN ADOBE SETTLEMENT
402
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,430
THAT HE HOPED WAS THE FIRST OF
THE FABLED SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD.
403
00:28:40,860 --> 00:28:43,570
IT WAS REALLY THE PUEBLO
OF HAWIKUH,
404
00:28:43,590 --> 00:28:48,010
HOME TO AN AGRICULTURAL PEOPLE
CALLED THE ZUNI.
405
00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:53,410
THE PEOPLE OF THE PUEBLO
SAW THEM COMING,
406
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,070
THE SUN SLANTING
OFF THEIR HELMETS,
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00:28:56,090 --> 00:29:00,360
RIDING ON MONSTROUS ANIMALS NONE
OF THEM HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE.
408
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,790
Man: WHAT WAS GOING ON AT ZUNI
WAS A SUMMER SOLSTICE RITUAL,
409
00:29:05,820 --> 00:29:09,730
AND THESE KINDS OF RITUALS
ARE ALWAYS REGARDED AS PRIVATE.
410
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,330
{\an8}AND SO WHEN CORONADO CAME IN
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{\an8}WHILE THESE RITUALS
WERE IN PROGRESS,
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ZUNI PRIESTS, ZUNI ELDERS
SKETCHED A CORNMEAL LINE
413
00:29:20,190 --> 00:29:25,220
BETWEEN CORONADO'S MEN
AND THE PEOPLE AT ZUNI,
414
00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:29,280
A LINE WHICH CORONADO
WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO CROSS.
415
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:30,200
CORONADO'S MEN,
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00:29:30,230 --> 00:29:34,610
WHO WERE LITERALLY STARVING
TO DEATH BY THAT TIME,
417
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JUST BULLED RIGHT IN.
418
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Narrator: THE ZUNIS FOUGHT BACK.
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Coronado: THEY GREW SO BOLD
420
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THAT THEY CAME UP ALMOST TO THE HEELS OF OUR HORSES
421
00:29:45,130 --> 00:29:46,900
TO SHOOT THEIR ARROWS.
422
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ON THIS ACCOUNT,
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I SAW THAT IT WAS NO LONGER TIME TO HESITATE,
424
00:29:50,690 --> 00:29:54,760
AND AS THE PRIESTS APPROVED THE ACTION, I CHARGED THEM.
425
00:29:54,790 --> 00:29:56,910
[ GUNFIRE ]
426
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,440
Narrator: THE INDIANS FLED
FROM THE SPANISH GUNS,
427
00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:03,610
WHOSE THUNDEROUS SOUND
THEY HAD NEVER HEARD BEFORE.
428
00:30:04,510 --> 00:30:09,470
CORONADO QUICKLY OVERRAN
THE TOWN, SET UP A WOODEN CROSS,
429
00:30:09,490 --> 00:30:10,830
AND DEMANDED THAT THE ZUNI
430
00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:13,870
IMMEDIATELY CONVERT
TO CHRISTIANITY.
431
00:30:16,540 --> 00:30:20,970
BUT HE DISCOVERED
THAT THE ZUNIS HAD NO GOLD.
432
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,230
OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS,
433
00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:29,540
CORONADO WOULD DESTROY
13 VILLAGES.
434
00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:35,080
HE PUNISHED ALL WHO RESISTED HIM
PRECISELY AS REBELLIOUS SUBJECTS
435
00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:37,340
WOULD HAVE BEEN PUNISHED
IN SPAIN,
436
00:30:37,370 --> 00:30:40,170
BURNING 100 MEN AT THE STAKE,
437
00:30:40,190 --> 00:30:43,800
AND KILLING STILL MORE
AS THEY TRIED TO FLEE.
438
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:48,070
Dorris: THERE WAS THE DECREE
THAT WOULD BE READ
439
00:30:48,090 --> 00:30:51,990
WHEN THE SPANISH CAME INTO A NEW
NATIVE COMMUNITY THAT SAID,
440
00:30:52,010 --> 00:30:54,880
IN LATIN,
"EVERYBODY HERE MUST FALL DOWN
441
00:30:54,910 --> 00:30:56,780
"AND WORSHIP JESUS CHRIST,
AND IF YOU DON'T,
442
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,970
"WE WILL TAKE IT THAT YOU
ARE WORSHIPERS OF THE DEVIL,
443
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,080
"AND YOU WILL BE WIPED OUT.
444
00:31:01,110 --> 00:31:03,180
YOU BASICALLY
HAVE FIVE MINUTES."
445
00:31:11,420 --> 00:31:13,610
Narrator:
THAT SPRING, STILL CONVINCED
446
00:31:13,630 --> 00:31:17,300
THAT GREAT RICHES COULD BE FOUND
OVER THE NEXT HORIZON,
447
00:31:17,330 --> 00:31:21,200
CORONADO SENT EXPEDITIONS INTO
THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE.
448
00:31:23,850 --> 00:31:27,800
ONE GROUP MARCHED
TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA.
449
00:31:29,690 --> 00:31:32,110
ANOTHER CROSSED
THE PAINTED DESERT
450
00:31:32,130 --> 00:31:34,100
INTO THE LAND OF THE HOPIS.
451
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,440
AND A THIRD MARCHED FOR 20 DAYS
TO THE EDGE OF A GREAT GORGE --
452
00:31:41,460 --> 00:31:43,760
THE GRAND CANYON
OF THE COLORADO.
453
00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:47,230
NOTHING IN THEIR EXPERIENCE
454
00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:50,080
HAD PREPARED THEM
FOR ITS SHEER SIZE.
455
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,390
Man: CAPTAIN MELGOSA, WITH JUAN GALERAS AND ANOTHER COMPANION,
456
00:31:55,410 --> 00:31:58,470
KEPT DESCENDING IN SIGHT OF THE MEN LEFT ABOVE
457
00:31:58,490 --> 00:32:00,660
UNTIL THEY WERE LOST TO VIEW.
458
00:32:01,310 --> 00:32:02,670
THE MEN WHO REMAINED ABOVE
459
00:32:02,690 --> 00:32:05,650
ESTIMATED THAT SOME ROCKS JUTTING OUT FROM THE CANYON
460
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,850
MUST BE ABOUT AS HIGH AS A MAN.
461
00:32:09,130 --> 00:32:10,570
AT FOUR O'CLOCK,
462
00:32:10,590 --> 00:32:13,940
THEY RETURNED AND SWORE THAT WHEN THEY REACHED THEM,
463
00:32:13,970 --> 00:32:15,300
THEY WERE FOUND TO BE TALLER
464
00:32:15,330 --> 00:32:17,830
THAN THE HIGHEST TOWER OF SEVILLE.
465
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,580
Narrator: BUT ONCE AGAIN,
THEY FOUND NO GOLD.
466
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,510
CORONADO THEN HEARD OF YET
ANOTHER CITY CALLED QUIVIRA,
467
00:32:30,530 --> 00:32:32,170
FAR TO THE NORTH,
468
00:32:32,190 --> 00:32:36,150
FILLED WITH TREASURES
BEYOND HIS WILDEST DREAMS.
469
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:41,400
HE LED HIS MEN TOWARD IT --
OUT ONTO THE GREAT PLAINS --
470
00:32:41,430 --> 00:32:44,960
THROUGH AN OCEAN OF GRASS
SO VAST AND FEATURELESS
471
00:32:44,980 --> 00:32:47,860
THEY HAD TO NAVIGATE
WITH A SEA COMPASS.
472
00:32:48,580 --> 00:32:51,250
Man: WHO COULD BELIEVE THAT 1,000 HORSES
473
00:32:51,270 --> 00:32:56,080
AND 500 OF OUR COWS AND MORE THAN 5,000 RAMS AND EWES
474
00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:00,230
AND MORE THAN 1,500 MEN,IN TRAVELING OVER THOSE PLAINS,
475
00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:02,950
WOULD LEAVE NO MORE TRACE WHEN THEY HAD PASSED
476
00:33:02,980 --> 00:33:06,550
THAN IF NOTHING HAD BEEN THERE -- NOTHING.
477
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,090
Narrator: IN THE END,
QUIVIRA TURNED OUT TO BE
478
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,920
JUST A WICHITA VILLAGE ON
THE BANK OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER,
479
00:33:16,130 --> 00:33:19,810
A CLUSTER OF HUTS
SURROUNDED BY BEAN FIELDS,
480
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,360
ITS INHABITANTS NO WEALTHIER
481
00:33:22,380 --> 00:33:25,860
THAN THE OTHER INDIANS
CORONADO HAD ENCOUNTERED.
482
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,250
de Coronado: THE COUNTRY ITSELF
483
00:33:31,270 --> 00:33:32,800
IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN
484
00:33:32,830 --> 00:33:35,710
FOR PRODUCING ALL THE PRODUCTS OF SPAIN.
485
00:33:35,730 --> 00:33:39,460
BUT WHAT I AM SURE OF IS THAT THERE IS NOT ANY GOLD
486
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,570
NOR ANY OTHER METAL IN ALL THAT COUNTRY --
487
00:33:43,170 --> 00:33:45,650
FRANCISCO VASQUEZ de CORONADO.
488
00:33:48,410 --> 00:33:51,810
Narrator: FINALLY, CORONADO
ORDERED HIS EXHAUSTED MEN
489
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,650
TO BEGIN THE LONG MARCH BACK
TO MEXICO.
490
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,340
HIS SEARCH FOR THE SEVEN CITIES
OF GOLD HAD LASTED THREE YEARS,
491
00:34:00,370 --> 00:34:03,460
LED HIM
ACROSS A QUARTER OF THE WEST,
492
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,190
AND EARNED HIM NOTHING.
493
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:32,530
Man: NEESH-NE-PARK-KE-OOK --
THE CUT NOSE.
494
00:34:32,550 --> 00:34:36,610
MANDEH-KAHCHU -- EAGLE'S BEAK.
495
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,290
Woman: UMENTUCKEN --
MOUNTAIN LAMB.
496
00:34:42,310 --> 00:34:46,470
WAHEENEE-WEA --
BUFFALO BIRD WOMAN.
497
00:34:47,850 --> 00:34:52,300
WATKUWEIS --
RETURNED FROM A FARAWAY COUNTRY.
498
00:34:55,290 --> 00:35:00,890
Momaday: NAMES IN THE INDIAN
WORLD ARE VERY IMPORTANT,
499
00:35:00,910 --> 00:35:03,150
AS IMPORTANT OR MORE IMPORTANT,
I THINK,
500
00:35:03,170 --> 00:35:07,610
THAN IN ANY OTHER SOCIETY
THAT I KNOW.
501
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:12,870
NAMING IS --
IT COEXISTS WITH MEANING.
502
00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:15,660
IT IS INDIVISIBLE WITH BEING.
503
00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:20,630
IF SOMETHING HAS A NAME,
IT IS SAID TO BE.
504
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:24,260
IF IT DOES NOT HAVE A NAME,
ITS BEING IS SUSPECT.
505
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,200
I WAS TAKEN,
WHEN I WAS AN INFANT,
506
00:35:29,230 --> 00:35:32,560
TO DEVIL'S TOWER BY MY PARENTS.
507
00:35:32,590 --> 00:35:34,970
AND WHEN I WAS BROUGHT BACK
TO OKLAHOMA,
508
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,970
WHERE MY GRANDMOTHER LIVED,
509
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,150
AN OLD MAN CAME TO VISIT --
510
00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:44,450
AN OLD MAN WHOSE NAME WAS
PUL HUH, WHICH MEANS "OLD WOLF."
511
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,730
AND HE PICKED ME UP
IN HIS HANDS,
512
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,360
AND HE BEGAN TO TELL STORIES.
513
00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:51,920
AND THIS WAS
THE NAME-GIVING PROCESS.
514
00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:53,830
AND AT THE END,
WHEN HE STOPPED TALKING,
515
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:54,870
HE LOOKED DOWN AT ME
AND HE SAID,
516
00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:57,800
"AND NOW, YOU ARE ZUI TALI."
517
00:35:58,250 --> 00:36:01,790
THAT'S MY INDIAN NAME,
AND IT MEANS "ROCKTREE BOY."
518
00:36:01,810 --> 00:36:04,590
"ZUI" IS WHAT THE KIOWAS
CALL DEVIL'S TOWER.
519
00:36:04,620 --> 00:36:07,720
AND I WAS GIVEN THAT NAME
TO COMMEMORATE
520
00:36:07,740 --> 00:36:10,720
MY HAVING BEEN TAKEN
TO THIS VERY SACRED PLACE.
521
00:36:15,510 --> 00:36:17,860
Narrator:
THERE WAS "CONQUERING BEAR"
522
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,330
AND "ONE WHO YAWNS"...
523
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:27,180
"CHILD OF THE WOLF"
AND "SON OF STAR"...
524
00:36:29,470 --> 00:36:33,820
"ROCK FOREHEAD"
AND "MAN ON A CLOUD"...
525
00:36:36,270 --> 00:36:40,230
"OWL WOMAN," "SOFT WHITE CORN,"
526
00:36:40,260 --> 00:36:42,410
AND
"THE BLIND MAN'S DAUGHTER"...
527
00:36:44,630 --> 00:36:48,270
"YELLOW SMOKE," "THE WHIRLWIND,"
528
00:36:51,830 --> 00:36:54,530
AND
"HIN-MAH-TOO-YAH-LAT-KEKHT" --
529
00:36:54,550 --> 00:36:57,970
"THUNDER ROLLING
FROM THE MOUNTAINS."
530
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,350
SOON, OTHER MEN,
WITH OTHER KINDS OF NAMES,
531
00:37:05,370 --> 00:37:09,080
WOULD BEGIN TO CONVERGE
ON THE INDIAN WORLD --
532
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,850
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE OF ENGLAND...
533
00:37:15,260 --> 00:37:19,540
ROBERT CAVELIER SIEUR
de LA SALLE FROM FRANCE...
534
00:37:21,350 --> 00:37:24,820
VITUS BERING,
SAILING FOR RUSSIA.
535
00:37:25,630 --> 00:37:29,870
AND THEY
WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING.
536
00:37:37,540 --> 00:37:40,680
Man: THE WEST
IS AN INTERRUPTED DREAM.
537
00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:45,310
DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE
THAT HAVE COME TO THE WEST
538
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,200
HAVE INTERRUPTED THE NATURAL
EVOLUTION OF THE GROUPS
539
00:37:50,220 --> 00:37:51,930
THAT THEY FOUND THERE.
540
00:37:52,980 --> 00:37:55,520
AND SO WE HAVE A CONSTANT
MEETING IN THE WEST,
541
00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:59,540
{\an8}A CONSTANT MIGRATION
AND MEETING OF GROUPS.
542
00:37:59,570 --> 00:38:01,420
AND THE REAL STORY, I THINK,
543
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,820
LIES IN HOW THOSE GROUPS
AFFECT EACH OTHER.
544
00:38:23,350 --> 00:38:26,250
Narrator:
BY 1680, AS ENGLISH COLONISTS
545
00:38:26,270 --> 00:38:29,940
WERE CRUSHING INDIAN RESISTANCE
IN NEW ENGLAND,
546
00:38:29,970 --> 00:38:33,370
THE SPANISH WERE FIRMLY IN
CONTROL OF MOST OF THE PUEBLOS
547
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,820
OF THE SOUTHWEST.
548
00:38:36,610 --> 00:38:39,380
EACH PUEBLO
HAD BUILT ITS OWN CHURCH,
549
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,210
AND PRIESTS HAD BAPTIZED
THOUSANDS OF INDIANS.
550
00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:44,850
THE SPANISH HAD ESTABLISHED
551
00:38:44,870 --> 00:38:47,380
A COLONY
THEY NOW CALLED "NEW MEXICO,"
552
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:51,570
CENTERED AROUND ITS GROWING
CAPITAL, SANTA FE.
553
00:38:53,090 --> 00:38:55,570
Oritz: THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
ON THEIR SIDE
554
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,600
SAW WHAT THE SPANIARDS OFFERED
555
00:38:57,620 --> 00:39:00,110
AS JUST ANOTHER POWER
TO ADD TO THEIR OWN.
556
00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,070
THEY CONCEDED READILY
THAT THE SPANIARDS
557
00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:06,100
MUST BE VERY POWERFUL PEOPLE
BECAUSE THEY HAD GUNS,
558
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,620
THEY HAD HORSES.
559
00:39:07,650 --> 00:39:11,750
SO THEY WERE HAPPY ENOUGH
TO ADD THE SPANISH SAINTS,
560
00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:18,640
BUT WITHOUT REPLACING THEIR OWN,
WITHOUT GIVING UP THE VISIONS
561
00:39:18,670 --> 00:39:20,920
AND DREAMS
OF THEIR OWN FOREBEARS.
562
00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:24,070
THIS IS WHAT THE FRIARS
WOULD HAVE NOTHING OF.
563
00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:28,230
FOR THE FRIARS, IT WAS THEIR WAY
OR NO WAY AT ALL.
564
00:39:30,220 --> 00:39:33,960
Narrator: EUROPEAN DISEASES HAD
TORN THROUGH THE PUEBLO PEOPLES,
565
00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:36,210
KILLING A THIRD OF THEM.
566
00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:42,430
SUMMER AFTER SUMMER,
IT HAD REFUSED TO RAIN.
567
00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:44,290
WITH THE DROUGHT CAME FAMINE
568
00:39:44,310 --> 00:39:48,410
AND RAIDS BY THEIR ENEMIES --
THE APACHE AND THE NAVAJO.
569
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,790
ALL THESE MISFORTUNES
COMING AT ONCE
570
00:39:55,820 --> 00:39:59,990
CONVINCED A PRIEST OF
THE TEWA PUEBLO, CALLED Popé,
571
00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:03,280
THAT THE ANCIENT SPIRITS
WERE DISPLEASED.
572
00:40:03,940 --> 00:40:07,620
HE BEGAN PREACHING THAT THE
FOREIGNERS MUST BE DRIVEN OUT.
573
00:40:10,050 --> 00:40:12,790
THE SPANISH REDOUBLED
THEIR EFFORTS TO BLOT OUT
574
00:40:12,810 --> 00:40:15,070
THE PUEBLOS' TRADITIONAL FAITH.
575
00:40:16,470 --> 00:40:21,180
RITUAL DANCES WERE FORBIDDEN,
RELIGIOUS OBJECTS BURNED.
576
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:27,560
[ DRUM BEATS,
NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
577
00:40:28,070 --> 00:40:31,540
TWICE, THE SPANISH HAD Popé
FLOGGED PUBLICLY,
578
00:40:33,020 --> 00:40:35,330
BUT THEY COULD NOT SILENCE HIM.
579
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,980
FINALLY, 47 RELIGIOUS LEADERS
580
00:40:41,010 --> 00:40:44,430
WERE IMPRISONED IN THE PALACE
OF THE GOVERNORS IN SANTA FE
581
00:40:44,450 --> 00:40:46,860
FOR SPEAKING OUT
AGAINST THE SPANISH.
582
00:40:48,370 --> 00:40:50,220
THREE WERE HANGED.
583
00:40:52,100 --> 00:40:54,810
Oritz: IT WAS PROBABLY
THE FINAL INSULT.
584
00:40:54,830 --> 00:40:58,640
THEY UNDERSTOOD ONCE AND FOR ALL
THEN THAT THE SPANIARDS
585
00:40:58,670 --> 00:41:00,900
MEANT TO HAVE
NOTHING LESS
586
00:41:00,930 --> 00:41:02,910
THAN TOTAL VICTORY.
587
00:41:05,950 --> 00:41:09,030
Narrator: Popé BEGAN TRAVELING
FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE,
588
00:41:09,540 --> 00:41:12,910
SPREADING HIS MESSAGE
THAT ALL THE PUEBLO INDIANS
589
00:41:12,930 --> 00:41:16,250
MUST FORGET
THEIR LONG-STANDING DIFFERENCES,
590
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:20,430
BAND TOGETHER,
AND RID THEMSELVES OF SPAIN.
591
00:41:22,650 --> 00:41:26,100
THREE PUEBLO LEADERS,
LOYAL TO SPAIN,
592
00:41:26,130 --> 00:41:29,250
BEGGED THE SPANISH GOVERNOR
FOR HELP.
593
00:41:29,870 --> 00:41:31,390
Man: THE INDIANS OF THIS KINGDOM
594
00:41:31,410 --> 00:41:35,110
ARE ALLIED FOR THE PURPOSE OF REBELLING.
595
00:41:35,140 --> 00:41:39,920
THEY PLAN TO KILL THE PRIESTS AND ALL THE SPANIARDS --
596
00:41:39,950 --> 00:41:42,390
EVEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN --
597
00:41:42,420 --> 00:41:46,590
THUS TO DESTROY THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THIS KINGDOM.
598
00:41:51,340 --> 00:41:55,360
Narrator: ON A PREARRANGED DAY,
PUEBLOS ALL ACROSS NEW MEXICO
599
00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:58,010
ROSE AND OVERTHREW
THE SPANISH --
600
00:41:58,930 --> 00:42:02,290
AT TAOS, SANTA CLARA,
AND PICURIS,
601
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,410
KERES, HOPI, AND SANTA CRUZ.
602
00:42:05,430 --> 00:42:09,050
THEY KILLED THE FRIARS,
LEVELED THEIR CHURCHES.
603
00:42:09,850 --> 00:42:12,250
TWENTY-ONE PRIESTS WERE KILLED.
604
00:42:13,050 --> 00:42:16,370
SO WERE AT LEAST 400 SETTLERS.
605
00:42:19,020 --> 00:42:22,350
SURVIVORS FOUND SANCTUARY
IN SANTA FE,
606
00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:26,100
HUDDLED INSIDE THE PALACE
OF THE GOVERNORS.
607
00:42:26,130 --> 00:42:30,760
2,500 INDIANS SURROUNDED THEM,
CUT OFF THEIR WATER,
608
00:42:30,790 --> 00:42:32,820
BURNED THE REST OF THE CAPITAL,
609
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,330
AND SANG THE CATHOLIC LITURGY
IN LATIN -- TO MOCK THEM.
610
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,320
AFTER 11 DAYS OF SIEGE,
THE SURVIVING SPANISH
611
00:42:41,350 --> 00:42:44,770
FOUGHT THEIR WAY OUT
AND FLED TO MEXICO.
612
00:42:45,830 --> 00:42:48,740
THE INDIANS DID NOT PURSUE THEM.
613
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,980
Oritz: THAT WAS THE WHOLE OBJECT
OF THE REVOLT --
614
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,920
TO GET THE HATED SPANIARDS
TO LEAVE.
615
00:42:56,950 --> 00:42:59,560
AND WHEN THEY ACHIEVED
THAT OBJECTIVE,
616
00:42:59,590 --> 00:43:02,200
THEY SAT BACK AND WERE CONTENT.
617
00:43:04,810 --> 00:43:06,040
Narrator: FOR THE MOMENT,
618
00:43:06,070 --> 00:43:09,320
IT WAS ENOUGH THAT THE LAND
WAS THEIRS AGAIN,
619
00:43:09,350 --> 00:43:11,760
THAT THEY COULD ONCE AGAIN
PRACTICE THEIR FAITH
620
00:43:11,790 --> 00:43:14,660
WITHOUT FEAR OF PUNISHMENT.
621
00:43:14,690 --> 00:43:18,040
Popé HAD LED THE MOST SUCCESSFUL
INDIAN REVOLT
622
00:43:18,070 --> 00:43:20,800
IN ALL
OF NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY.
623
00:43:22,180 --> 00:43:26,050
BUT INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
DID NOT LAST LONG.
624
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,060
THE SPANISH EVENTUALLY RETURNED
AND OVERWHELMED THE PUEBLOS.
625
00:43:32,870 --> 00:43:36,300
BUT THEY GREW MORE TOLERANT
OF INDIAN RELIGION.
626
00:43:36,330 --> 00:43:40,300
INDIANS AND SPANIARDS
BEGAN TO INTERMARRY.
627
00:43:42,030 --> 00:43:45,440
Anaya: THINK OF TWO WORLDVIEWS
COMING TOGETHER
628
00:43:45,470 --> 00:43:48,880
WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
CONCEPTIONS
629
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:52,600
OF THE UNIVERSE AND OF NATURE.
630
00:43:53,970 --> 00:43:58,600
AND A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE SPEAK
OF THE MEETING OF CULTURES,
631
00:43:58,620 --> 00:44:03,500
WE FORGET
THAT BEYOND THE INITIAL CLASH
632
00:44:03,530 --> 00:44:06,450
EMERGES A NEW VIEW OF THE WORLD.
633
00:44:06,470 --> 00:44:10,440
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT
WE CHICANOS REPRESENT TODAY.
634
00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:25,730
[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
635
00:44:35,070 --> 00:44:39,760
[ CHANTING CONTINUES ]
636
00:44:42,980 --> 00:44:48,280
IT HAS A SHAGGY NECK AND A TAIL ALMOST TOUCHING THE GROUND.
637
00:44:49,290 --> 00:44:51,050
ITS HOOFS ARE ROUND.
638
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,330
THIS ANIMAL WILL CARRY YOU ON HIS BACK
639
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,280
AND HELP YOU IN MANY WAYS.
640
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,850
THOSE FAR HILLS THAT SEEM ONLY A BLUE VISION IN THE DISTANCE
641
00:45:00,870 --> 00:45:03,700
TAKE MANY DAYS TO REACH NOW.
642
00:45:03,730 --> 00:45:07,440
BUT WITH THIS ANIMAL, YOU CAN GET THERE IN A SHORT TIME,
643
00:45:07,470 --> 00:45:09,270
SO FEAR HIM NOT.
644
00:45:09,790 --> 00:45:14,410
REMEMBER WHAT I HAVE SAID --
SWEET MEDICINE.
645
00:45:18,380 --> 00:45:20,740
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO CHEYENNE TRADITION,
646
00:45:20,770 --> 00:45:24,010
THERE WAS ONCE A PROPHET
NAMED SWEET MEDICINE
647
00:45:24,030 --> 00:45:27,780
WHO TAUGHT HIS PEOPLE
HOW TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES.
648
00:45:27,810 --> 00:45:32,830
HE SET UP A COUNCIL OF 44 CHIEFS
TO SPEAK FOR ALL THE CHEYENNE
649
00:45:32,850 --> 00:45:35,990
AND PRESENTED THEM
WITH FOUR SACRED ARROWS --
650
00:45:36,020 --> 00:45:38,700
TWO TO SUBDUE
THEIR HUMAN ENEMIES,
651
00:45:38,730 --> 00:45:42,240
TWO TO MAKE THE BUFFALO
FALL BEFORE THEM.
652
00:45:42,270 --> 00:45:45,270
AND HE BROUGHT THEM A WARNING --
653
00:45:45,290 --> 00:45:49,550
STRANGERS CALLED "EARTH MEN"
WOULD ONE DAY APPEAR AMONG THEM,
654
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:53,700
LIGHT-SKINNED,
SPEAKING AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.
655
00:45:53,730 --> 00:45:56,060
AND WITH THEM
WOULD COME A STRANGE ANIMAL.
656
00:45:56,790 --> 00:45:59,430
IT WOULD CHANGE
THE CHEYENNE WAY OF LIFE --
657
00:45:59,450 --> 00:46:03,300
AND THAT OF EVERY OTHER
INDIAN PEOPLE -- FOREVER.
658
00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:09,350
IT WAS THE HORSE.
659
00:46:16,010 --> 00:46:19,630
APACHE AND NAVAJO RAIDERS
GOT THEM FIRST,
660
00:46:19,660 --> 00:46:22,840
BUT WHEN THE SPANISH
WERE DRIVEN OUT OF NEW MEXICO,
661
00:46:22,860 --> 00:46:25,440
THE THOUSANDS OF HORSES
THEY LEFT BEHIND
662
00:46:25,470 --> 00:46:27,550
SPREAD ACROSS THE WEST.
663
00:46:30,490 --> 00:46:33,640
BY THE 1690s,
THE HORSE WAS BEING USED
664
00:46:33,660 --> 00:46:36,430
BY TRIBES
OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS.
665
00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:41,520
BY 1700, IT HAD TRANSFORMED THE
LIVES OF THE KIOWA AND COMANCHE,
666
00:46:41,550 --> 00:46:45,300
ALONG THE EASTERN FOOTHILLS
OF THE ROCKIES.
667
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,370
AT THE SAME TIME,
668
00:46:46,390 --> 00:46:48,620
THE HORSE REACHED THE SHOSHONE
AND BANNOCK
669
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,180
IN WHAT IS NOW IDAHO.
670
00:46:50,940 --> 00:46:53,660
THE NEZ PERCE
STOLE SOME FROM THEM,
671
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,070
AND SOON HAD HERDS THAT NUMBERED
IN THE THOUSANDS
672
00:46:57,090 --> 00:47:00,940
IN THE LUSH WALLOWA VALLEY
OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
673
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:04,950
Momaday: IT MUST HAVE BEEN
674
00:47:04,980 --> 00:47:08,470
THE REALIZATION OF AN ANCIENT
DREAM TO BE ELEVATED,
675
00:47:08,490 --> 00:47:12,450
TO BE SEVERED FROM THE EARTH,
CUT FREE.
676
00:47:13,210 --> 00:47:16,340
WHAT A SENSE OF LIFE
THAT MUST HAVE BEEN,
677
00:47:16,370 --> 00:47:18,590
DIFFERENT TO ANYTHING
THEY HAD EVER KNOWN.
678
00:47:19,820 --> 00:47:21,470
AND WITH THE HORSE,
679
00:47:21,490 --> 00:47:26,710
{\an8}THEIR ANCIENT NOMADISM WAS
REALIZED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT,
680
00:47:26,740 --> 00:47:28,960
AND THEY HAD CONQUERED
THEIR OLDEST ENEMY,
681
00:47:28,990 --> 00:47:30,470
WHICH WAS DISTANCE.
682
00:47:33,620 --> 00:47:37,280
Narrator: THE GREAT PLAINS NOW
BECAME A CROWDED MEETING GROUND
683
00:47:37,310 --> 00:47:40,590
FOR SOME 30 TRIBES
FROM EVERY DIRECTION.
684
00:47:44,620 --> 00:47:45,780
THE HORSE BECAME
685
00:47:45,810 --> 00:47:49,380
THE MOST PRECIOUS SYMBOL
OF WEALTH AND PRESTIGE --
686
00:47:49,410 --> 00:47:52,890
A VALUABLE PRIZE TO STEAL
FROM YOUR ENEMIES
687
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,570
AND A FASTER WAY TO REACH THEM.
688
00:47:56,500 --> 00:48:00,750
A MAN'S BRAVERY WAS MEASURED
BY THE SIZE OF HIS HORSE HERD
689
00:48:00,770 --> 00:48:02,240
AND BY THE NUMBER OF TIMES
690
00:48:02,270 --> 00:48:04,680
HE HAD TOUCHED AN ENEMY
IN BATTLE --
691
00:48:04,700 --> 00:48:06,690
CALLED "COUNTING COUP."
692
00:48:08,810 --> 00:48:12,730
WITHIN EACH TRIBE,
WARRIOR SOCIETIES FLOURISHED --
693
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:18,010
THE BLACKMOUTHS, THE BOWSTRINGS,
THE DOG SOLDIERS.
694
00:48:19,060 --> 00:48:23,370
Momaday: BEFORE THE HORSE,
LIFE MUST HAVE BEEN HARD.
695
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,340
A PERSON WOULD HAVE TO GIVE
696
00:48:25,370 --> 00:48:28,120
VIRTUALLY EVERY HOUR
OF HIS WAKING TIME
697
00:48:28,140 --> 00:48:31,340
TO SOLVING THE SIMPLE PROBLEM
OF SURVIVAL --
698
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,180
"WELL, HOW AM I GOING
TO GET ENOUGH FOOD FOR MYSELF
699
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,580
AND MY FAMILY TODAY?"
700
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,190
BUT WITH THE HORSE,
701
00:48:39,210 --> 00:48:41,850
A HUNTER COULD ACQUIRE ENOUGH
FOOD IN ONE DAY
702
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,190
TO LAST HIM MONTHS.
703
00:48:43,970 --> 00:48:47,920
AND SO HE WAS SUDDENLY GIVEN
A MARGIN OF FREEDOM
704
00:48:47,950 --> 00:48:50,560
THAT HE COULD
NEVER HAVE IMAGINED.
705
00:48:50,590 --> 00:48:52,840
AND SO WHAT HE DID WITH IT,
OF COURSE,
706
00:48:52,860 --> 00:48:56,730
WAS TO CELEBRATE IT IN TERMS
OF THE WARRIOR IDEAL --
707
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,460
"I HAVE LEISURE.
708
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:04,670
"I CAN GO AND HUNT, AND I CAN
VISIT MY ENEMIES AND COUNT COUP.
709
00:49:04,690 --> 00:49:08,710
I CAN BE BRAVE,
AND I CAN ATTAIN GLORY."
710
00:49:08,740 --> 00:49:14,040
[ DRUM BEATS,
NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
711
00:49:15,860 --> 00:49:19,310
Man: I LONGED TO JOIN THE WAR PARTIES I WATCHED GOING OUT.
712
00:49:21,910 --> 00:49:23,780
IN THE EVENINGS, I WANDERED THROUGH THE VILLAGE
713
00:49:23,810 --> 00:49:25,130
UNTIL I FOUND A TEPEE
714
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,110
WHERE SOME OLD MAN WAS TELLING STORIES OF FAMOUS RAIDS.
715
00:49:29,130 --> 00:49:32,860
I WOULD SIT OUTSIDE, MY EAR PRESSED TO THE SKIN WALL.
716
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,930
I HATED THIS QUIET LIFE.
717
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,440
AFTER HUNTING BUFFALO UNTIL I GREW BORED,
718
00:49:38,470 --> 00:49:40,870
I WOULD OFTEN SIT ALONE
ON SOME HIGH RIDGE
719
00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:43,410
AND THINK ABOUT THE HONORS A MAN COULD WIN --
720
00:49:44,430 --> 00:49:45,830
TWO LEGGINGS.
721
00:49:48,050 --> 00:49:52,860
Momaday: THE DOG SOLDIERS WERE
THE ELITE MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS
722
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,300
IN THE TRIBE.
723
00:49:54,330 --> 00:49:59,210
THEY WERE THE LAST LINE
OF DEFENSE FOR THE PEOPLE.
724
00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:01,770
AND SO THEY WERE
GREATLY ESTEEMED.
725
00:50:02,990 --> 00:50:08,540
THE WARRIORS IN THE SOCIETY
WERE OUTFITTED WITH A SASH,
726
00:50:08,570 --> 00:50:11,540
A PARTICULAR SASH
WHICH TRAILED THE GROUND.
727
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,520
AND EACH MEMBER
CARRIED A SACRED ARROW.
728
00:50:14,550 --> 00:50:16,650
AND IN TIME OF BATTLE,
729
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,940
THE DOG SOLDIER WOULD IMPALE
THE SASH TO THE GROUND
730
00:50:19,970 --> 00:50:22,200
AND STAND THE GROUND
TO THE DEATH.
731
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,500
THEY HAD A SONG WHICH ONLY
THE MEMBERS COULD SING,
732
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,610
AND ONLY IN THE FACE OF DEATH.
733
00:50:28,630 --> 00:50:32,230
SO YOU CAN IMAGINE
THAT CHILDREN,
734
00:50:32,260 --> 00:50:36,050
WHEN THEY SAW A DOG SOLDIER
GO BY, MUST HAVE JUST,
735
00:50:36,070 --> 00:50:40,090
"AH, WOW! LOOK AT THAT GUY.
HE'S A DOG SOLDIER."
736
00:50:44,620 --> 00:50:46,230
Man: A MAN COULD NOT EVEN COURT A GIRL
737
00:50:46,250 --> 00:50:48,520
UNLESS HE HAD PROVED HIS COURAGE.
738
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:49,280
THAT WAS ONE REASON
739
00:50:49,310 --> 00:50:52,090
SO MANY WERE ANXIOUS TO WIN GOOD WAR RECORDS --
740
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,620
THEY WERE ALL AFRAID OF WHAT PEOPLE,
741
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,060
AND ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN, WOULD SAY IF THEY WERE COWARDLY.
742
00:50:58,910 --> 00:51:01,720
THE WOMEN EVEN HAD A SONG THEY WOULD SING
743
00:51:01,740 --> 00:51:04,390
ABOUT A MAN WHOSE COURAGE HAD FAILED HIM --
744
00:51:04,420 --> 00:51:07,490
"IF YOU ARE AFRAID WHEN YOU CHARGE, TURN BACK.
745
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,950
THE DESERT WOMEN WILL EAT YOU."
746
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,310
IT WAS HARD TO GO INTO A FIGHT, AND THEY WERE OFTEN AFRAID,
747
00:51:15,340 --> 00:51:19,520
BUT IT WAS WORSE TO TURN BACK AND FACE THE WOMEN --
748
00:51:20,090 --> 00:51:22,320
JOHN STANDS IN TIMBER.
749
00:51:24,660 --> 00:51:28,670
Archambault: AS A LAKOTA WOMAN
FOUR GENERATIONS AGO,
750
00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:32,220
I WOULD HAVE CUT OFF THE ARMS
AND THE LEGS AND HEADS
751
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:35,130
OF THE ENEMIES
THAT MY HUSBAND KILLED,
752
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,940
{\an8}AND I WOULD HAVE PUT THEM
ON A STICK,
753
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,800
{\an8}AND I WOULD HAVE PARADED THEM
IN THE SCALP DANCE THAT EVENING
754
00:51:40,820 --> 00:51:42,690
WHEN WE HONORED OUR MEN.
755
00:51:44,530 --> 00:51:47,380
Woman: WOMEN USED TO GET OUT
AND SHOW, YOU KNOW,
756
00:51:47,410 --> 00:51:49,570
THAT THEY WERE EMOTIONAL --
757
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:53,550
WORRIED ABOUT THEIR WARRIORS
GOING OFF.
758
00:51:53,710 --> 00:51:57,050
AND WHILE THEY WERE GONE,
THEY ALWAYS WATCHED.
759
00:51:57,070 --> 00:52:02,160
WHEN THE HORSES GET TOGETHER,
THEY MAKE A LOT OF DUST,
760
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:04,230
AND WHEN THEY WOULD SEE THIS,
761
00:52:04,260 --> 00:52:07,570
WELL, THEY KNEW THAT THEY
WERE COMING BACK FROM A HUNT
762
00:52:07,590 --> 00:52:09,340
OR A FIGHT, YOU KNOW.
763
00:52:09,620 --> 00:52:14,040
AND THEY RECOGNIZE
THEIR FAMILY MEMBER,
764
00:52:14,060 --> 00:52:18,980
AND THAT'S A WAY
THEY LULUED FOR THEM.
765
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:21,650
[ LULUING ]
766
00:52:24,090 --> 00:52:26,160
THAT'S THE WAY THEY DID IT.
767
00:52:26,770 --> 00:52:28,050
AND THEN THEY DANCED,
768
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:32,480
ALL JOLLY AND HAPPY
AFTER THEY FED THEIR WARRIORS,
769
00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:35,480
AND EVERYBODY SPRUCED UP
AND GOT OUT,
770
00:52:36,030 --> 00:52:38,040
AND THEY HAD
A BIG VICTORY DANCE.
771
00:52:38,060 --> 00:52:41,160
THAT'S WHEN WOMEN ALL GET
IN A LINE AND DANCE AROUND.
772
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,120
Narrator:
ON THE SOUTHERN PLAINS,
773
00:52:45,150 --> 00:52:48,900
THE COMANCHES BEGAN DRIVING
THEIR ENEMIES, THE APACHES,
774
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,790
OUT OF THE GRASSLANDS AND
INTO THE DESERTS AND MOUNTAINS
775
00:52:51,810 --> 00:52:53,180
OF NEW MEXICO.
776
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,720
IN THE NORTH, THE LAKOTA --
777
00:52:56,740 --> 00:52:59,810
OR THE SIOUX,
AS THEIR ENEMIES CALLED THEM --
778
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,030
PRESSED EVEN FARTHER WESTWARD,
779
00:53:02,060 --> 00:53:06,270
PUSHING THE CHEYENNE AHEAD OF
THEM AND DISPLACING OTHER TRIBES
780
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:09,520
AS THEY EXPANDED
ACROSS THE MISSOURI.
781
00:53:10,650 --> 00:53:14,840
Woman: OF COURSE, THE LAKOTA, CHEYENNE, ARAPAHOS,
782
00:53:14,870 --> 00:53:18,020
AND OTHER TRIBES NEVER LET US REST,
783
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,880
SO THERE WAS ALWAYS WAR.
784
00:53:21,690 --> 00:53:24,780
WHEN OUR ENEMIES WERE NOT BOTHERING US,
785
00:53:24,810 --> 00:53:27,800
OUR WARRIORS WERE BOTHERING THEM,
786
00:53:27,820 --> 00:53:32,230
SO THERE WAS ALWAYS FIGHTING GOING ON SOMEWHERE.
787
00:53:32,260 --> 00:53:37,080
WE WOMEN SOMETIMES TRIED TOKEEP OUR MEN FROM GOING TO WAR,
788
00:53:37,100 --> 00:53:41,290
BUT THIS WAS LIKE TALKING TO WINTER WINDS --
789
00:53:42,110 --> 00:53:44,520
PRETTY SHIELD.
790
00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:48,540
John Stands in Timber:
THE WARRIORS CAME OUT
791
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:51,060
ON A HIGH CLIFF TO THE EAST
792
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,950
AND SAW AN ENEMY VILLAGE DOWN THERE, A CROW VILLAGE,
793
00:53:54,980 --> 00:53:57,170
BUT NOBODY SEEMED AROUND.
794
00:53:57,930 --> 00:54:00,950
JUST AS THEY GOT THERE, THEY SMELLED THIS AWFUL SMELL.
795
00:54:01,550 --> 00:54:03,070
AND WHEN THEY WENT INTO THE VILLAGE
796
00:54:03,090 --> 00:54:04,990
AND EXAMINED THE FIRST TEPEES,
797
00:54:05,220 --> 00:54:07,660
THEY FOUND THEM FULL OF DEAD PEOPLE,
798
00:54:07,690 --> 00:54:09,510
LAYING THERE WRAPPED UP.
799
00:54:09,860 --> 00:54:12,770
SO THEY GOT OUT OF THERE AND STARTED BACK.
800
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,190
BUT BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR OWN VILLAGE,
801
00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:18,420
ONE OF THEM GOT SICK AND DIED TOO.
802
00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:19,460
AND WHEN THEY GOT IN,
803
00:54:19,490 --> 00:54:22,640
THE REST OF THEM CAME DOWN WITH SMALLPOX ALSO.
804
00:54:22,660 --> 00:54:24,470
IT KILLED MANY OF THEM --
805
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,320
JOHN STANDS IN TIMBER.
806
00:54:29,810 --> 00:54:32,120
Narrator: SMALLPOX, CHOLERA,
807
00:54:32,150 --> 00:54:36,330
TUBERCULOSIS, MEASLES,
DIPHTHERIA --
808
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:40,020
EUROPEAN DISEASES AGAINST WHICH
THEY HAD NO IMMUNITY --
809
00:54:40,050 --> 00:54:43,400
NOW RACED FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE.
810
00:54:45,820 --> 00:54:48,860
Dorris: WHAT MUST IT HAVE BEEN
LIKE TO LIVE IN A COMMUNITY
811
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:52,740
AND SUDDENLY A DISEASE
THAT YOU HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE,
812
00:54:53,720 --> 00:54:57,730
FOR WHICH YOUR MEDICINES
WERE NOT EFFECTIVE,
813
00:54:58,100 --> 00:55:00,720
AND WHICH HAD HORRIBLY
UGLY SYMPTOMS,
814
00:55:00,740 --> 00:55:03,270
WIPED OUT EVERYBODY YOU SAW?
815
00:55:03,430 --> 00:55:06,690
WAS IT WITCHCRAFT?
WAS IT A PUNISHMENT?
816
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:11,420
WAS IT THE END OF THE WORLD?
WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON?
817
00:55:11,900 --> 00:55:15,480
THEN THOSE PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T
DIE, THEY WERE LEFT STRAGGLERS.
818
00:55:15,510 --> 00:55:17,480
IF THEY WERE CHILDREN,
819
00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:20,860
THEY WERE VERY DEPENDENT
ON ANYBODY WHO ELSE SURVIVED.
820
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,120
IT WAS A TOTAL HOLOCAUST.
821
00:55:25,660 --> 00:55:28,910
AND IT WASN'T THE CAVALRY.
822
00:55:28,940 --> 00:55:33,510
IT WAS A SERIES OF PANDEMICS
THAT WIPED OUT MOST PEOPLE
823
00:55:33,540 --> 00:55:38,080
BEFORE EUROPEANS
EVER ENCOUNTERED THEM.
824
00:56:08,460 --> 00:56:10,720
Man: KNOW THAT, ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE INDIES,
825
00:56:10,740 --> 00:56:16,480
THERE IS AN ISLAND...VERY NEAR TO THE TERRESTRIAL PARADISE,
826
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:18,990
WHICH WAS PEOPLED WITH BLACK WOMEN,
827
00:56:19,020 --> 00:56:21,240
WITHOUT ANY MEN AMONG THEM,
828
00:56:21,270 --> 00:56:22,900
BECAUSE THEY WERE ACCUSTOMED TO LIVE
829
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,890
AFTER THE FASHION OF AMAZONS.
830
00:56:26,260 --> 00:56:29,290
AND THERE REIGNED IN THIS ISLAND, A QUEEN,
831
00:56:30,050 --> 00:56:34,650
VERY LARGE IN PERSON, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL OF THEM.
832
00:56:34,670 --> 00:56:37,570
HER NAME -- "CALAFIA" --
833
00:56:38,390 --> 00:56:41,670
GARCIA ORDOÑEZ de MONTALVO.
834
00:56:46,170 --> 00:56:48,030
Narrator: IN 1533,
835
00:56:48,060 --> 00:56:51,500
A SPANISH EXPEDITION
SENT NORTH FROM MEXICO
836
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,940
HAD DISCOVERED WHAT ITS MEMBERS
ASSUMED WAS A LARGE ISLAND.
837
00:56:56,230 --> 00:57:00,420
THEY NAMED IT CALIFORNIA,
AFTER A MYTHICAL LAND OF AMAZONS
838
00:57:00,450 --> 00:57:03,430
THEY HAD READ ABOUT
IN A POPULAR NOVEL.
839
00:57:05,010 --> 00:57:09,420
BUT THE COST OF COLONIZING
THE SOUTHWEST HAD PROVED SO HIGH
840
00:57:09,450 --> 00:57:13,750
THAT SPAIN MADE NO EFFORT
TO SETTLE THE NEW TERRITORY.
841
00:57:16,230 --> 00:57:18,570
FOR THE NEXT
TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES,
842
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:22,920
CALIFORNIA REMAINED ESSENTIALLY
UNTOUCHED BY EUROPEANS,
843
00:57:22,950 --> 00:57:26,040
HOME TO MORE
THAN 300,000 INDIANS,
844
00:57:26,070 --> 00:57:29,250
LIVING IN HUNDREDS
OF SMALL BANDS.
845
00:57:31,050 --> 00:57:36,030
THEN IN 1767,
IT ALL BEGAN TO CHANGE.
846
00:57:36,060 --> 00:57:39,010
RUMORS REACHED THE SPANISH
THAT RUSSIAN TRADERS
847
00:57:39,030 --> 00:57:42,360
WERE BUILDING OUTPOSTS
ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.
848
00:57:43,050 --> 00:57:46,700
TO PROTECT SPANISH INTERESTS,
MEXICO CITY DECIDED
849
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,690
TO ESTABLISH A CHAIN OF FORTS
AND MISSIONS IN CALIFORNIA
850
00:57:50,710 --> 00:57:53,900
AND SENT A COLUMN
OF SOLDIERS NORTH.
851
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:02,510
WITH THEM WENT A MISSIONARY,
FATHER JUNIPERO SERRA.
852
00:58:04,380 --> 00:58:07,560
SERRA WAS A FORMER TEACHER
OF PHILOSOPHY,
853
00:58:07,580 --> 00:58:10,560
BADLY HANDICAPPED
BY AN ULCERATED LEG,
854
00:58:10,580 --> 00:58:14,580
AND FURTHER WEAKENED BY HIS
HABIT OF SCOURGING HIS OWN FLESH
855
00:58:14,610 --> 00:58:17,500
IN ATONEMENT
FOR THE SINS OF OTHERS.
856
00:58:18,290 --> 00:58:21,990
BUT NOTHING COULD QUELL
HIS MISSIONARY ZEAL.
857
00:58:22,010 --> 00:58:26,730
BY MAY OF 1769,
SERRA HAD ARRIVED IN CALIFORNIA
858
00:58:27,290 --> 00:58:30,430
AND MET
HIS FIRST POTENTIAL CONVERTS.
859
00:58:31,860 --> 00:58:34,520
Serra: I FOUND MYSELF IN FRONT OF 12 OF THEM,
860
00:58:34,540 --> 00:58:38,140
AND I SAW SOMETHING I COULD NOT BELIEVE.
861
00:58:38,170 --> 00:58:41,540
IT WAS THIS -- THEY WERE ENTIRELY NAKED
862
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,980
AS ADAM IN THE GARDEN, BEFORE SIN.
863
00:58:45,410 --> 00:58:47,610
WE SPOKE A LONG TIME WITH THEM,
864
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:51,350
AND NOT FOR ONE MOMENT, WHILE THEY SAW US CLOTHED,
865
00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:54,790
COULD YOU NOTICE THE LEAST SIGN OF SHAME IN THEM --
866
00:58:55,660 --> 00:58:57,530
FATHER JUNIPERO SERRA.
867
00:59:01,130 --> 00:59:02,990
Narrator:
FATHER SERRA AND HIS FOLLOWERS
868
00:59:03,010 --> 00:59:07,720
HELPED ESTABLISH 21 MISSIONS
IN ALL -- SAN DIEGO,
869
00:59:07,740 --> 00:59:13,240
SAN GABRIEL, SAN ANTONIO
de PADUA, SAN JOSE --
870
00:59:13,260 --> 00:59:16,950
AND, ON A MAGNIFICENT BAY
IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA --
871
00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:21,920
SAN FRANCISCO,
ESTABLISHED IN 1776,
872
00:59:21,950 --> 00:59:25,250
THE YEAR 13 COLONIES
ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST
873
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,120
DECLARED THEIR INDEPENDENCE
FROM BRITAIN.
874
00:59:29,650 --> 00:59:33,440
NEAR THE MISSION AT SAN GABRIEL
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
875
00:59:33,460 --> 00:59:35,990
A TOWN SPRANG UP IN 1781,
876
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,240
SETTLED BY PEOPLE
877
00:59:38,260 --> 00:59:42,180
WHOM THE MISSIONARY FATHERS
CONSIDERED LAZY AND CORRUPT,
878
00:59:42,210 --> 00:59:46,500
INTERESTED MAINLY IN DRINKING,
GAMBLING, AND PURSUING WOMEN.
879
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:49,830
IT WAS LOS ANGELES.
880
00:59:54,770 --> 01:00:00,420
[ ROMAN CATHOLIC CHANT PLAYING ]
881
01:00:01,150 --> 01:00:05,220
THE FRIARS BELIEVED THEMSELVES
ENGAGED IN HOLY WORK.
882
01:00:05,820 --> 01:00:09,590
THEY THOUGHT IT THEIR DUTY
TO ROUND UP THE INDIANS,
883
01:00:09,610 --> 01:00:15,030
TO TEACH THEM TO WEAVE, MAKE
BRICKS, TEND CROPS, HERD CATTLE,
884
01:00:15,060 --> 01:00:18,110
AND TO GIVE UP THEIR OLD WAYS.
885
01:00:19,110 --> 01:00:21,090
Man: THE FRIAR FELT THAT IF HE
DIDN'T SAVE THESE PEOPLE,
886
01:00:21,110 --> 01:00:22,530
THEY WERE GOING TO GO TO HELL.
887
01:00:23,290 --> 01:00:26,270
AND SO HIS MOTIVE WAS --
GET THESE PEOPLE BAPTIZED,
888
01:00:26,300 --> 01:00:29,700
GET THEM TO BELIEVE
IN JESUS CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH,
889
01:00:29,730 --> 01:00:31,990
AND GET THEM
TO BECOME CHRISTIANS
890
01:00:32,010 --> 01:00:33,910
SO THAT THEY CAN GO TO HEAVEN.
891
01:00:34,090 --> 01:00:36,380
OTHERWISE, THEY'RE IN THE GRASP
OF THE DEVIL.
892
01:00:36,810 --> 01:00:40,960
{\an8}AND THIS WAS A VERY SERIOUS
RESPONSIBILITY FOR A FRIAR.
893
01:00:42,550 --> 01:00:46,470
Dorris: JUST IMAGINE
IF AN IROQUOIS HOLY MAN
894
01:00:46,490 --> 01:00:51,720
OR A LAKOTA MEDICINE PERSON
SUDDENLY ARRIVED IN PARIS,
895
01:00:51,740 --> 01:00:54,600
TOLD EVERYBODY THAT CATHOLICISM
WAS DEVIL WORSHIP,
896
01:00:54,630 --> 01:00:56,400
AND THAT THEY MUST BURN
897
01:00:56,420 --> 01:00:59,710
EVERY TRAPPING THAT THEY HAD
OF CATHOLICISM
898
01:00:59,730 --> 01:01:03,210
AND COMPLETELY CHANGE
THEIR WORLDVIEW.
899
01:01:03,230 --> 01:01:05,520
I DON'T THINK THE FRENCH
WOULD HAVE BEEN AS POLITE,
900
01:01:06,260 --> 01:01:10,910
{\an8}BUT, IN FACT, MOST MISSIONARIES
DID PRETTY WELL.
901
01:01:10,940 --> 01:01:12,870
PEOPLE TREATED THEM
WITH RESPECT.
902
01:01:12,890 --> 01:01:15,120
PEOPLE GAVE THEM
A PLACE TO LIVE.
903
01:01:15,150 --> 01:01:18,950
OFTEN TIMES,
PEOPLE WENT TO THEIR SERVICES.
904
01:01:18,980 --> 01:01:21,340
SOMETIMES, THEY EVEN BELIEVED
WHAT THEY SAID.
905
01:01:22,730 --> 01:01:24,270
Narrator: THE MISSION INDIANS --
906
01:01:24,300 --> 01:01:26,610
CALLED NEOPHYTES
BY THE FRIARS --
907
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,390
WERE CROWDED INTO BARRACKS.
908
01:01:31,820 --> 01:01:34,700
HANDPICKED INDIAN OVERSEERS
WITH WHIPS
909
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:39,530
DROVE THEM FROM TASK TO TASK,
EVEN TO AND FROM MASS.
910
01:01:41,990 --> 01:01:44,240
THE NEOPHYTES TRIED AGAIN
AND AGAIN
911
01:01:44,260 --> 01:01:46,990
TO ESCAPE INTO THE INTERIOR,
912
01:01:47,020 --> 01:01:50,340
BUT SOLDIERS
WERE SENT TO HUNT THEM DOWN.
913
01:01:54,820 --> 01:01:59,310
DURING THE MISSION PERIOD,
FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN DIEGO,
914
01:01:59,330 --> 01:02:02,900
THREE OUT OF FOUR OF
THE COASTAL INDIANS PERISHED.
915
01:02:05,270 --> 01:02:08,840
"THEY LIVE WELL FREE,"
A PUZZLED FRIAR SAID,
916
01:02:08,860 --> 01:02:10,370
"BUT AS SOON AS WE REDUCE THEM
917
01:02:10,390 --> 01:02:13,270
"TO A CHRISTIAN
AND COMMUNITY LIFE,
918
01:02:13,300 --> 01:02:17,480
THEY FATTEN, SICKEN, AND DIE."
919
01:02:31,630 --> 01:02:33,520
Man: THE OBJECT OF YOUR MISSION
920
01:02:33,550 --> 01:02:36,340
IS TO EXPLORE THE MISSOURI RIVER,
921
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:38,370
AND SUCH PRINCIPAL STREAM OF IT,
922
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,930
AS BY ITS COURSE AND COMMUNICATIONS
923
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:43,380
WITH THE WATERS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN
924
01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:46,720
MAY OFFER THE MOST DIRECT AND PRACTICABLE
925
01:02:46,740 --> 01:02:50,710
WATER COMMUNICATION ACROSS THIS CONTINENT.
926
01:02:52,180 --> 01:02:57,160
THOSE WHO COME AFTER US WILL FILL UP THE CANVAS WE BEGIN --
927
01:02:58,340 --> 01:03:01,040
PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON.
928
01:03:05,700 --> 01:03:12,970
[ DRUM BEATS,
NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
929
01:03:25,550 --> 01:03:26,890
Narrator: FOR CENTURIES,
930
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,500
THE MANDANS
OF THE UPPER MISSOURI RIVER
931
01:03:29,530 --> 01:03:31,790
HAD BEEN ONE OF THE MOST
PROSPEROUS TRIBES
932
01:03:31,810 --> 01:03:33,070
ON THE GREAT PLAINS --
933
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:35,790
LIVING IN PERMANENT VILLAGES
934
01:03:35,810 --> 01:03:38,580
AND GROWING CROPS
IN SUCH ABUNDANCE
935
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:42,340
THAT OTHER TRIBES CAME GREAT
DISTANCES TO TRADE WITH THEM.
936
01:03:45,970 --> 01:03:52,740
EUROPEANS CAME TOO -- FRENCHMEN,
ENGLISHMEN, SPANIARDS.
937
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,230
EACH TIME, THEY BROUGHT FLAGS
938
01:03:55,250 --> 01:03:57,600
AND CLAIMED THAT THE MANDANS
AND THEIR LAND
939
01:03:57,630 --> 01:03:59,800
HAD NOW BEEN ADDED
TO THEIR EMPIRES.
940
01:04:01,310 --> 01:04:02,780
BUT THE MANDANS BELIEVED
941
01:04:02,810 --> 01:04:06,350
THEY HAD MERELY ADDED
THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND SPANISH
942
01:04:06,380 --> 01:04:09,020
TO THEIR LIST OF CUSTOMERS.
943
01:04:12,620 --> 01:04:16,310
EACH COUNTRY WAS SEARCHING
FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE,
944
01:04:16,340 --> 01:04:19,230
A WATER ROUTE BELIEVED
TO CONNECT THE MISSOURI RIVER
945
01:04:19,250 --> 01:04:23,660
WITH THE PACIFIC AND THE RICHES
OF THE ORIENT THAT LAY BEYOND.
946
01:04:24,090 --> 01:04:28,200
WHICHEVER NATION FOUND IT FIRST,
AND THEN CONTROLLED IT,
947
01:04:28,230 --> 01:04:31,330
WOULD CONTROL THE DESTINY
OF THE CONTINENT.
948
01:04:33,820 --> 01:04:36,370
Man: FROM THE TIME OF COLUMBUS,
THE EUROPEANS WERE LOOKING
949
01:04:36,390 --> 01:04:39,880
FOR THE FASTEST ROUTE THEY COULD
TO INDIA AND CHINA.
950
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:41,790
THERE WAS STILL THIS NOTION
951
01:04:41,810 --> 01:04:44,070
{\an8}THAT THERE MUST BE
AN EASY WAY ACROSS,
952
01:04:44,100 --> 01:04:46,760
{\an8}THAT IT COULDN'T BE
THIS BIG A LAND.
953
01:04:46,780 --> 01:04:49,940
AND PARTICULARLY,
THERE MUST A WATER ROUTE ACROSS.
954
01:04:54,300 --> 01:04:57,430
Narrator: ON OCTOBER 24, 1804,
955
01:04:57,460 --> 01:05:00,840
THE MANDANS LOOKED DOWN
FROM THE BLUFFS OF THE MISSOURI
956
01:05:00,860 --> 01:05:04,110
AND SAW THE LARGEST BOAT
THEY HAD EVER SEEN --
957
01:05:04,140 --> 01:05:08,070
55 FEET LONG,
22 OARS AT ITS SIDES,
958
01:05:08,100 --> 01:05:10,610
AND A CANNON MOUNTED IN THE BOW.
959
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:14,160
THEY HURRIED DOWN TO SEE IT.
960
01:05:15,210 --> 01:05:17,650
STRANGERS STEPPED
ONTO THE SHORE,
961
01:05:17,670 --> 01:05:20,540
AND THEIR TWO LEADERS
SPOKE TO THE MANDANS.
962
01:05:21,130 --> 01:05:25,130
Man: CHILDREN, YOUR OLD FATHERS, THE FRENCH AND THE SPANIARDS,
963
01:05:25,150 --> 01:05:28,510
HAVE GONE BEYOND THE GREAT LAKE TOWARD THE RISING SUN.
964
01:05:30,820 --> 01:05:34,170
Narrator: THEY WERE EXPLORERS --
NOT TRADERS, THEY SAID --
965
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,110
ON THEIR WAY FROM ST. LOUIS
966
01:05:36,140 --> 01:05:39,190
TO FIND THE GREAT OCEAN
TOWARD THE SETTING SUN.
967
01:05:39,950 --> 01:05:42,200
Man: CHILDREN, THE GREAT CHIEF
968
01:05:42,220 --> 01:05:44,820
OF THE 17 GREAT NATIONS OF AMERICA
969
01:05:44,850 --> 01:05:47,170
HAS BECOME YOUR ONLY FATHER.
970
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:51,840
HE HAS COMMANDED USTO UNDERTAKE THIS LONG JOURNEY.
971
01:05:52,270 --> 01:05:53,470
Narrator: THE WHITE MEN SAID
972
01:05:53,490 --> 01:05:57,230
THAT THE MANDANS HAD A NEW
"GREAT FATHER," FAR TO THE EAST,
973
01:05:57,620 --> 01:06:00,400
MORE POWERFUL
THAN THE OTHERS BEFORE HIM.
974
01:06:00,780 --> 01:06:03,020
Man: CHILDREN, FOLLOW THESE COUNSELS,
975
01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:05,440
AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.
976
01:06:05,470 --> 01:06:06,590
AND FUTURE AGES
977
01:06:06,620 --> 01:06:09,870
WILL MAKE YOU OUTNUMBER THE TREES IN THE FOREST.
978
01:06:10,580 --> 01:06:13,560
DO THESE THINGS WHICH YOUR GREAT FATHER ADVISES
979
01:06:13,580 --> 01:06:17,110
AND BE HAPPY... LEST BY ONE FALSE STEP
980
01:06:17,140 --> 01:06:19,340
YOU SHOULD BRING DOWN UPON YOUR NATION
981
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:22,390
THE DISPLEASURE OF YOUR GREAT FATHER.
982
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,350
Narrator: THE "GREAT FATHER"
WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON,
983
01:06:28,380 --> 01:06:31,120
PRESIDENT
OF THE NEW UNITED STATES,
984
01:06:31,140 --> 01:06:33,460
WHO HAD JUST PURCHASED
FROM FRANCE
985
01:06:33,490 --> 01:06:35,230
HALF A BILLION ACRES --
986
01:06:35,260 --> 01:06:39,130
BETWEEN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS --
987
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:41,840
DOUBLING THE SIZE
OF HIS YOUNG REPUBLIC
988
01:06:41,870 --> 01:06:44,350
WITH A SINGLE STROKE OF HIS PEN.
989
01:06:45,210 --> 01:06:49,410
JEFFERSON CALLED HIS EXPEDITION
THE "CORPS OF DISCOVERY."
990
01:06:54,490 --> 01:06:55,320
TO LEAD IT,
991
01:06:55,350 --> 01:06:58,340
THE PRESIDENT HAD TURNED
TO HIS PERSONAL SECRETARY,
992
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,360
MERIWETHER LEWIS, A YOUNG
ARMY OFFICER FROM VIRGINIA.
993
01:07:03,780 --> 01:07:07,400
AS CO-COMMANDER,
LEWIS PICKED AN OLD ARMY FRIEND
994
01:07:07,420 --> 01:07:10,320
AND FELLOW VIRGINIAN,
WILLIAM CLARK,
995
01:07:10,350 --> 01:07:13,740
A GREGARIOUS,
SEASONED FRONTIERSMAN.
996
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,460
WITH THEM
WERE FRENCH-CANADIAN BOATMEN,
997
01:07:17,490 --> 01:07:19,240
THREE DOZEN ARMY RECRUITS
998
01:07:19,270 --> 01:07:22,520
FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE,
PENNSYLVANIA, AND KENTUCKY,
999
01:07:22,550 --> 01:07:26,950
AND CLARK'S PERSONAL SERVANT,
A SLAVE NAMED YORK.
1000
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,800
TO ACT AS TRANSLATORS,
1001
01:07:30,820 --> 01:07:35,130
LEWIS AND CLARK HIRED A FRENCH
TRAPPER, TOUSSAINT CHARBONNEAU,
1002
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:38,730
AND HIS 16-YEAR-OLD WIFE,
SACAGAWEA --
1003
01:07:38,750 --> 01:07:44,120
A SHOSHONE WHO HAD BEEN CAPTURED
BY THE HIDATSA AS A SMALL GIRL.
1004
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:51,280
Man: OUR WISH IS TO BE AT PEACE WITH ALL.
1005
01:07:51,310 --> 01:07:54,480
IF WE EAT, YOU SHALL EAT.
1006
01:07:54,500 --> 01:07:58,370
IF WE STARVE, YOU MUST STARVE TOO --
1007
01:07:58,940 --> 01:08:00,640
SHEHEKE.
1008
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:04,730
Narrator: THE EXPLORERS
1009
01:08:04,750 --> 01:08:07,900
SPENT THEIR FIRST WINTER
AMONG THE MANDANS,
1010
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:11,810
WHO SOLD THEM FOOD,
HELPED THEM HUNT BUFFALO,
1011
01:08:11,830 --> 01:08:12,880
AND GAVE THEM ADVICE
1012
01:08:12,900 --> 01:08:16,130
ON WHAT TO EXPECT
FARTHER UP THE MISSOURI.
1013
01:08:19,940 --> 01:08:24,770
IN THE SPRING, THE CORPS
OF DISCOVERY STARTED WEST AGAIN.
1014
01:08:26,850 --> 01:08:28,850
Man: WE WERE NOW ABOUT TO PENETRATE A COUNTRY
1015
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,350
AT LEAST 2,000 MILES IN WIDTH,
1016
01:08:32,090 --> 01:08:36,060
ON WHICH THE FOOT OF CIVILIZED MAN HAD NEVER TRODDEN.
1017
01:08:36,090 --> 01:08:38,490
THE GOOD OR EVIL IT HAD IN STORE FOR US
1018
01:08:38,510 --> 01:08:40,830
WAS FOR EXPERIMENT YET TO DETERMINE --
1019
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:43,290
MERIWETHER LEWIS.
1020
01:08:46,300 --> 01:08:47,700
Narrator: IN THE MONTHS TO COME,
1021
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,630
THEY PASSED THROUGH SOME
OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY
1022
01:08:50,660 --> 01:08:51,640
ON EARTH,
1023
01:08:52,100 --> 01:08:55,160
SPENT WEEKS PORTAGING
AROUND A HUGE WATERFALL,
1024
01:08:55,710 --> 01:08:59,740
AND NOTED ANIMALS NEVER BEFORE
DESCRIBED FOR SCIENCE --
1025
01:08:59,770 --> 01:09:04,140
GRIZZLY BEARS, PRONGHORN
ANTELOPE, BIGHORN SHEEP.
1026
01:09:06,110 --> 01:09:09,650
AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED
BY THE MASSIVE HERDS OF BUFFALO
1027
01:09:09,670 --> 01:09:12,050
THAT SEEMED TO BE EVERYWHERE.
1028
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:18,100
BUT THEY WERE FALLING
BADLY BEHIND SCHEDULE --
1029
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:21,800
THE DISTANCES WERE PROVING
TO BE FAR GREATER
1030
01:09:21,830 --> 01:09:25,420
THAN THE EXPLORERS, JEFFERSON,
OR ANYONE ELSE
1031
01:09:25,440 --> 01:09:27,260
HAD EVER IMAGINED.
1032
01:09:29,830 --> 01:09:33,750
IN EARLY AUGUST,
LEWIS LED A SMALL ADVANCE PARTY
1033
01:09:33,770 --> 01:09:37,900
ALONG INDIAN TRAIL THAT WOUND
WEST INTO THE MOUNTAINS.
1034
01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:43,380
COMING UPON AN ICE-COLD SPRING,
HE WROTE THAT IT WAS
1035
01:09:43,410 --> 01:09:46,840
"THE MOST DISTANT FOUNTAIN
OF THE MIGHTY MISSOURI --
1036
01:09:46,870 --> 01:09:49,380
"ONE OF THOSE GREAT OBJECTS
ON WHICH MY MIND
1037
01:09:49,410 --> 01:09:53,200
HAS BEEN UNALTERABLY FIXED
FOR MANY YEARS."
1038
01:09:55,350 --> 01:09:59,230
THEN, HE CLIMBED TOWARD
THE SHARP RIDGE BEHIND IT.
1039
01:10:00,270 --> 01:10:00,690
Duncan: OF COURSE,
1040
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:02,810
THE MISSION OF
THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
1041
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,960
WAS TO FIND
THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE.
1042
01:10:04,980 --> 01:10:06,820
THAT WAS
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
1043
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:10,690
AND MERIWETHER LEWIS
WAS CLIMBING TO THIS RIDGE
1044
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:14,800
THAT HE THOUGHT -- WAS SURE --
WAS THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.
1045
01:10:16,130 --> 01:10:20,290
AND AS HE WALKED UP THIS SADDLE
IN THE MOUNTAINS,
1046
01:10:20,310 --> 01:10:21,660
HE EXPECTED
THAT WHEN HE GOT THERE,
1047
01:10:21,690 --> 01:10:23,040
HE MIGHT EVEN SEE THE OCEAN,
1048
01:10:23,070 --> 01:10:24,710
BUT CERTAINLY HE WOULD SEE
1049
01:10:24,910 --> 01:10:27,170
THE WESTERN EQUIVALENT
OF THE GREAT PLAINS
1050
01:10:27,190 --> 01:10:28,550
AND A RIVER
THAT WOULD FLOW THERE.
1051
01:10:29,380 --> 01:10:31,160
AND AS HE GOT TO THE TOP,
1052
01:10:31,190 --> 01:10:34,130
HE LOOKED OUT
AND SAW MORE MOUNTAINS --
1053
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,180
SNOW ON THEM, ETERNAL SNOWS.
1054
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:42,310
AND THE MYTH OF THE NORTHWEST
PASSAGE DIED AT THAT MOMENT.
1055
01:10:44,050 --> 01:10:45,620
Narrator: LEWIS HAD, IN FACT,
1056
01:10:45,650 --> 01:10:48,150
CROSSED
THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE --
1057
01:10:48,170 --> 01:10:50,010
THE SPINE
OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
1058
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,830
BEYOND WHICH THE RIVERS
FLOW WEST,
1059
01:10:52,850 --> 01:10:56,690
AND BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES
OF THE UNITED STATES.
1060
01:10:58,620 --> 01:11:03,280
BUT HIS PARTY WAS STILL NEARLY
500 MILES FROM THE PACIFIC --
1061
01:11:03,300 --> 01:11:06,250
AND SUMMER
WAS FAST DISAPPEARING.
1062
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,080
Lewis: IF WE DO NOT FIND THE SHOSHONES
1063
01:11:09,100 --> 01:11:11,500
OR SOME OTHER NATION WHO HAVE HORSES,
1064
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,190
I FEAR THE SUCCESSFUL ISSUE OF OUR VOYAGE
1065
01:11:14,210 --> 01:11:15,510
WILL BE VERY DOUBTFUL --
1066
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:19,010
NOT KNOWING HOW FAR THESE MOUNTAINS CONTINUE,
1067
01:11:19,030 --> 01:11:21,970
OR WHERE TO DIRECT OUR COURSE TO PASS THEM --
1068
01:11:22,700 --> 01:11:24,360
MERIWETHER LEWIS.
1069
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:38,100
Narrator: THE NEXT DAY, HE
CHANCED UPON A SHOSHONE VILLAGE.
1070
01:11:38,120 --> 01:11:40,960
THE SHOSHONE HAD NEVER SEEN
A WHITE MAN BEFORE
1071
01:11:40,980 --> 01:11:43,150
AND WERE SUSPICIOUS OF LEWIS.
1072
01:11:43,690 --> 01:11:47,360
THE FATE OF THE EXPEDITION
NOW LAY IN THEIR HANDS.
1073
01:11:48,100 --> 01:11:51,500
THEN OCCURRED ONE OF THE MOST
EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCES
1074
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:53,000
IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
1075
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:56,100
WHEN THE MAIN PARTY ARRIVED,
1076
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,480
SACAGAWEA,
THE FRENCH TRAPPER'S WIFE,
1077
01:11:59,510 --> 01:12:02,600
SUDDENLY RECOGNIZED
THE CHIEF OF THE SHOSHONE --
1078
01:12:03,580 --> 01:12:06,380
HE WAS HER BROTHER.
1079
01:12:06,410 --> 01:12:08,150
Man:
THE GREAT CHIEF OF THIS NATION
1080
01:12:08,180 --> 01:12:11,510
PROVED TO BE THE BROTHER OF THE WOMAN WITH US.
1081
01:12:11,530 --> 01:12:14,630
THE SQUAW DANCED FOR THE JOYFUL SIGHT,
1082
01:12:14,660 --> 01:12:18,060
AND THOSE INDIANS SANG ALL THE WAY TO THEIR CAMP --
1083
01:12:18,890 --> 01:12:20,370
WILLIAM CLARK.
1084
01:12:22,650 --> 01:12:25,220
Narrator: WITH SACAGAWEA
AS THEIR INTERPRETER,
1085
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,990
THE CAPTAINS EXPLAINED THEIR
NEED FOR HORSES AND GUIDES,
1086
01:12:29,010 --> 01:12:31,970
AND THE SHOSHONES
AGREED TO PROVIDE THEM.
1087
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,620
LEWIS AND CLARK
HAD NO TIME TO REST.
1088
01:12:38,390 --> 01:12:41,630
FROST ALREADY COVERED
THE GROUND EACH MORNING.
1089
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,880
THE SHOSHONE TOLD THEM
OF A STEEP HUNTING TRAIL
1090
01:12:44,910 --> 01:12:48,170
ACROSS THE BITTERROOTS,
BUT IT WAS ROCKY,
1091
01:12:48,190 --> 01:12:51,340
HEAVILY TIMBERED,
AND WITH LITTLE GAME TO SHOOT.
1092
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:56,860
DESPITE THE RISKS,
LEWIS DETERMINED TO TRY IT.
1093
01:13:04,150 --> 01:13:06,310
ON FOOT AND ON HORSEBACK,
1094
01:13:06,330 --> 01:13:09,340
THEY HEADED ACROSS
WHAT ONE OF THE MEN CALLED
1095
01:13:09,370 --> 01:13:13,490
"THE MOST TERRIBLE MOUNTAINS
I EVER BEHELD."
1096
01:13:16,930 --> 01:13:20,280
Clark: SEPTEMBER 16, 1805 --
1097
01:13:20,310 --> 01:13:23,210
BEGAN TO SNOW ABOUT THREE HOURS BEFORE DAY
1098
01:13:23,230 --> 01:13:25,200
AND CONTINUED ALL DAY.
1099
01:13:25,850 --> 01:13:29,900
THE SNOW IN THE MORNING, 4 INCHES DEEP ON THE OLD SNOW,
1100
01:13:29,930 --> 01:13:33,440
AND BY NIGHT, WE FOUND IT FROM 6 TO 8 INCHES DEEP.
1101
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:36,780
I HAVE BEEN AS WET AND AS COLD IN EVERY PART
1102
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,030
AS I EVER WAS IN MY LIFE.
1103
01:13:41,750 --> 01:13:43,470
TO DESCRIBE THE ROAD OF THIS DAY
1104
01:13:43,490 --> 01:13:46,150
WOULD BE A REPETITION OF YESTERDAY,
1105
01:13:46,180 --> 01:13:49,090
EXCEPT THE SNOW, WHICH MADE IT MUCH WORSE.
1106
01:13:51,100 --> 01:13:54,210
Narrator: FOR 11 DAYS,
DESPERATE WITH HUNGER,
1107
01:13:54,230 --> 01:13:56,560
SOMETIMES ENTIRELY LOST,
1108
01:13:56,590 --> 01:14:00,390
THEY TRIED TO FOLLOW THE OLD
TRAIL ALONG THE MOUNTAIN RIDGES
1109
01:14:00,410 --> 01:14:02,290
THROUGH SWIRLING SNOW.
1110
01:14:03,070 --> 01:14:06,350
THEY SHOT AND ATE A COYOTE,
A RAVEN,
1111
01:14:06,540 --> 01:14:10,140
FRANTICALLY SPLASHED
AFTER CRAYFISH IN A STREAM,
1112
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,580
CHEWED EVEN THEIR CANDLES,
1113
01:14:12,610 --> 01:14:15,610
AND FINALLY STUMBLED DOWN
OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS,
1114
01:14:15,630 --> 01:14:17,590
MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE.
1115
01:14:21,710 --> 01:14:25,030
THERE THEY WERE FOUND
BY THE NEZ PERCE.
1116
01:14:26,260 --> 01:14:28,960
Man: THE NEZ PERCES
COULD HAVE KILLED THEM EASILY.
1117
01:14:28,990 --> 01:14:30,520
THEY COULD HAVE WIPED THEM OUT.
1118
01:14:31,550 --> 01:14:34,140
{\an8}BUT ONCE THEY KNEW THE INTENT
OF LEWIS AND CLARK --
1119
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,460
{\an8}THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE
NO HARM DONE TO THEM --
1120
01:14:37,480 --> 01:14:39,070
THEN, OF COURSE,
THEY BECAME VERY FRIENDLY
1121
01:14:39,100 --> 01:14:40,510
AND THEY WERE WILLING TO HELP.
1122
01:14:41,810 --> 01:14:44,330
Narrator: THE NEZ PERCE
GAVE THE STARVING STRANGERS
1123
01:14:44,350 --> 01:14:48,170
DRIED SALMON AND THE ROOTS
OF THE CAMAS PLANT TO EAT,
1124
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:51,900
TOLD THEM IT WAS NOW POSSIBLE
TO REACH THE SEA BY WATER,
1125
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:55,300
AND ALLOWED THE AMERICANS
TO FELL FIVE TREES
1126
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:57,970
FROM WHICH TO MAKE CANOES
FOR THE JOURNEY.
1127
01:15:02,210 --> 01:15:04,950
LEWIS AND CLARK MOVED FAST NOW,
1128
01:15:04,970 --> 01:15:08,390
DOWN THE CLEARWATER,
THEN THE SNAKE,
1129
01:15:08,420 --> 01:15:11,690
THROUGH CURRENTS, ONE MEMBER
OF THE EXPEDITION REMEMBERED,
1130
01:15:11,710 --> 01:15:15,070
"SWIFTER THAN ANY HORSE
COULD RUN,"
1131
01:15:15,100 --> 01:15:19,200
AND, FINALLY,
ONTO THE BROAD COLUMBIA.
1132
01:15:21,260 --> 01:15:22,490
BY LATE OCTOBER,
1133
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:26,060
THEY WERE SEEING SIGNS THAT
THEY WERE NEARING THE COAST.
1134
01:15:26,980 --> 01:15:30,560
SOME INDIANS WORE BLUE JACKETS
AND ROUND HATS,
1135
01:15:30,580 --> 01:15:32,950
BARTERED FROM BRITISH
AND AMERICAN SAILORS
1136
01:15:32,970 --> 01:15:36,860
WHO HAD BEEN TRADING ALONG
THE PACIFIC COAST FOR DECADES.
1137
01:15:38,150 --> 01:15:39,420
Lewis: THE INDIANS INFORM US
1138
01:15:39,440 --> 01:15:42,110
THAT THEY SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE WITH OURSELVES
1139
01:15:42,140 --> 01:15:44,040
AND GIVE US PROOFS OF THEIR VERACITY
1140
01:15:44,070 --> 01:15:46,420
BY REPEATING MANY WORDS OF ENGLISH,
1141
01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:52,270
AS "MUSKET," "POWDER," "SHOT," "KNIFE," "DAMNED RASCAL,"
1142
01:15:52,300 --> 01:15:55,470
"SON OF A BITCH," ET CETERA.
1143
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:05,620
Narrator: BY NOVEMBER, THE RIVER
STARTED TO WIDEN STILL FURTHER.
1144
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:08,570
Duncan: YOU CAN IMAGINE
WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE
1145
01:16:08,590 --> 01:16:10,410
FOR LEWIS AND CLARK.
1146
01:16:10,480 --> 01:16:14,470
THEY HAD BEEN GONE
FOR A YEAR AND A HALF,
1147
01:16:14,500 --> 01:16:15,930
LONGER THAN THEY THOUGHT.
1148
01:16:15,950 --> 01:16:18,600
THEY WEREN'T EVEN IN UNITED
STATES TERRITORY ANY LONGER.
1149
01:16:18,890 --> 01:16:20,250
THEY'RE COMING
DOWN THE COLUMBIA,
1150
01:16:20,270 --> 01:16:23,740
AND, SUDDENLY,
THE WATER TURNS SALTY,
1151
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:26,810
AND THEY START FEELING
SOME TIDAL MOTION,
1152
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:30,970
AND IT WAS THE ONLY TIME THAT
WILLIAM CLARK EVER GOT EMOTIONAL
1153
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,250
IN TWO AND A HALF YEARS
IN THE WILDERNESS.
1154
01:16:36,150 --> 01:16:40,840
Clark: NOVEMBER 7, THURSDAY, 1805 --
1155
01:16:40,870 --> 01:16:45,830
A CLOUDY, FOGGY MORNING, SOME RAIN.
1156
01:16:47,250 --> 01:16:49,080
WE SET OUT EARLY --
1157
01:16:49,100 --> 01:16:52,540
THE FOG SO THICK WE COULD NOT SEE ACROSS THE RIVER.
1158
01:16:56,440 --> 01:17:00,860
Narrator: THEN THE FOG LIFTED,
AND THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY
1159
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,240
FINALLY SAW THE END
OF THEIR LONG TRAIL
1160
01:17:04,260 --> 01:17:07,460
AND A GLIMPSE
OF THEIR YOUNG COUNTRY'S FUTURE.
1161
01:17:08,830 --> 01:17:11,510
Clark:
WE ARE IN VIEW OF THE OCEAN --
1162
01:17:11,530 --> 01:17:13,970
THIS GREAT PACIFIC OCEAN --
1163
01:17:13,990 --> 01:17:17,520
WHICH WE HAVE BEEN SO LONG ANXIOUS TO SEE.
1164
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:21,030
OH, THE JOY! --
1165
01:17:22,090 --> 01:17:24,070
WILLIAM CLARK.
1166
01:17:27,650 --> 01:17:32,260
Narrator: FOR NEARLY 300 YEARS,
EUROPEANS FROM DIFFERENT NATIONS
1167
01:17:32,290 --> 01:17:35,500
HAD BEEN ENTERING THE WEST
FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS,
1168
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:38,170
PURSUING DIFFERENT MYTHS.
1169
01:17:40,950 --> 01:17:44,330
YET EACH INTRUDER HAD LAID CLAIM
TO THE REGION,
1170
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:46,990
AS IF HE WERE THE FIRST
TO DISCOVER IT,
1171
01:17:47,010 --> 01:17:49,140
AS IF THE PEOPLE
ALREADY LIVING THERE
1172
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:53,760
WHOSE WORLD THEY HAD CHANGED
FOREVER, DID NOT EXIST.
1173
01:17:56,090 --> 01:17:59,270
A CONQUISTADOR HAD ETCHED
HIS NAME FOR SPAIN
1174
01:17:59,290 --> 01:18:01,770
ON EL MORRO ROCK IN NEW MEXICO.
1175
01:18:03,730 --> 01:18:06,710
ON BEHALF OF FRANCE,
A NOBLEMAN HAD BURIED
1176
01:18:06,740 --> 01:18:11,070
A LEAD TABLET WITH HIS NAME
ON IT ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS.
1177
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:16,390
A SCOTTISH EXPLORER HAD PAINTED
HIS NAME ON A ROCK
1178
01:18:16,410 --> 01:18:20,430
TO CLAIM THE NORTHWEST COAST
FOR GREAT BRITAIN.
1179
01:18:23,230 --> 01:18:27,430
NOW, IT WAS THE AMERICANS' TURN.
1180
01:18:27,460 --> 01:18:31,290
AT A POINT OVERLOOKING
THE PACIFIC OCEAN IN OREGON,
1181
01:18:31,310 --> 01:18:33,980
CLARK TOOK HIS KNIFE
AND CARVED A MESSAGE
1182
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:35,900
IN THE BARK OF A TREE --
1183
01:18:36,370 --> 01:18:41,000
"WILLIAM CLARK,
DECEMBER 3, 1805.
1184
01:18:41,020 --> 01:18:45,000
BY LAND,
FROM THE UNITED STATES."
1185
01:18:45,970 --> 01:18:49,100
HIS NATION
WAS NOT YET 30 YEARS OLD,
1186
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:53,540
BUT THE UNITED STATES ALREADY
CLAIMED HALF OF THE WEST.
1187
01:18:54,750 --> 01:18:59,690
IN 40 MORE YEARS,
AMERICANS WOULD HAVE IT ALL.
1188
01:19:05,630 --> 01:19:11,720
[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
1189
01:19:12,290 --> 01:19:16,600
Momaday: IF YOU COULD TAKE
A PHOTOGRAPH, AT THAT TIME,
1190
01:19:16,630 --> 01:19:17,950
YOU HAVE ONE WORLD.
1191
01:19:17,970 --> 01:19:20,740
AND IT IS A WORLD
THAT IS FULL OF GOOD THINGS
1192
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:23,740
AS FAR AS THE INDIANS
ARE CONCERNED --
1193
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:30,260
GAME IS PLENTIFUL, THEIR WAY
OF LIFE IS CLEARLY ESTABLISHED
1194
01:19:30,290 --> 01:19:33,060
IN TERMS OF THAT LANDSCAPE.
1195
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:38,000
BUT JUST OFF THE PICTURE PLANE,
THERE ARE THESE THINGS
1196
01:19:38,020 --> 01:19:41,530
THAT ARE ABOUT TO DESCEND
UPON THAT WORLD.
1197
01:19:41,550 --> 01:19:43,580
AND FOR THE INDIAN,
THEY ARE VERY BAD.
1198
01:19:45,710 --> 01:19:48,170
THE CULTURE
IS SEVERELY THREATENED
1199
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:52,670
BECAUSE OF PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE
WHO ARE COMING IN.
1200
01:19:54,660 --> 01:19:56,600
AND THEIR ATTITUDE IS
1201
01:19:56,620 --> 01:20:00,530
THAT EVEN THIS WORLD IS NOT
BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US.
1202
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:08,540
[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
1203
01:20:18,210 --> 01:20:27,700
[ DRUM BEATS,
NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
1204
01:20:40,750 --> 01:20:49,140
[ DRUM BEATS AND CHANTING
CONTINUE ]
1205
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:18,840
FOR OVER A DECADE,
1206
01:22:18,870 --> 01:22:21,250
GENERAL MOTORS HAS BEEN THE SOLE CORPORATE SPONSOR
1207
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:22,970
OF THE FILMS OF KEN BURNS.
1208
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:26,120
WE'RE PROUD OF OUR ASSOCIATION WITH KEN BURNS AND PBS.
1209
01:22:26,150 --> 01:22:27,890
IT'S ALL PART OF GM's COMMITTMENT
1210
01:22:27,910 --> 01:22:29,360
TO SHARE THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
1211
01:22:29,390 --> 01:22:32,360
THROUGH QUALITY TELEVISION PROGRAMMING.
1212
01:22:32,540 --> 01:22:35,060
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT
1213
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:37,300
FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES.
1214
01:22:45,010 --> 01:22:47,710
BY THE CORPORTATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
1215
01:22:47,740 --> 01:22:50,500
AND BY CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR PBS STATION
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