2.1. Indian reservations

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Watch and listen from the beginning to minute 6:23 and write from one to three words in each gap.

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Watch from minute 6:23 to the end and decide if the following statements are True or False.
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The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation had told the courts -- there's an ongoing lawsuit right now -- they told the courts, "Here is a sacred site that's in the direct path of the pipeline. "On September 3rd, the following day, Dakota Access, LLC skipped 25 miles ahead in its construction, to destroy that site. And when that happened, the people in camp rushed up to stop this, and they were met with attack dogs, people, private security officers, wielding attack dogs in 2016.
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But I interviewed one of the women, who had been bitten on the breast by one of these dogs, and the ferocity and strength of her was incredible, and she's out right now in another resistance camp, the same resistance camp I'm part of, fighting Line 3, another pipeline project in my people's homelands.
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Because we are resilient, we are fierce, and we are teaching people how to reconnect to the earth, remembering where we come from. So much of society has forgotten this.
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This was a baby's rattle. That's what they told the Indian agents when they came in. It was a baby's rattle.
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Five billion dollars we've cost them so far, hanging out with banks.
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Education is foundational. Education shapes our children. It shapes the way we teach. It shapes the way we learn. In Washington State, they've made the teaching of treaties and modern Native people mandatory in school curriculum. That is systems change.
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Treaties have been broken since the day they were signed. Are you meeting those requirements? That would change our lives, if treaties were actually upheld. Those documents were signed. Somehow, we live in this world where, in 2017, the US Constitution is held up as the supreme law of land, right? But when I talk about treaty rights I'm crazy. That's crazy. Treaties are the supreme law of the land, and that would change so much, if you actually asked your representative officials to appropriate those budgets.
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Forty percent of Native people are under the age of 24. We are the fastest-growing demographic in the United States.

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Here you have ten extraordinary Native American Sites protected on public lands that are worth a visit.