AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 10-10-2022

foreign hello everybody I'm skip Alzheimer welcome to the AV Gates lunchtime streaming show where we watch old 16 millimeter films and uh we just watched a film from the Oregon archive which ultimately came from the Mogul Brothers collection um and I don't know the pronunciation correct pronunciation but it's things peyote I don't know p-u-t I'm not sure anyways it was made by a church mission which visited a specific reservation and what's interesting about this film is I posted it online and a woman found her grandmother in it her grandparents uh so it's exciting this is why I like to digitize and then share the films online because we get this community and people find themselves um anyways I am suffering from a hot Nashville hot chicken sandwich that I had which most places excuse me that are not in Nashville don't know the concept but this restaurant um in Raleigh Beasley's man this is killing me whoo sorry anyways uh Happy uh indigenous people day or Columbus Day uh some of you have the day off and I appreciate you joining us um I'm gonna air and showing uh indigenous people films because they're actually more interesting than the films I have about Columbus um because it actually has footage of of um people um as opposed to Recreations although right off the bat I'm going to show you a film that is a recreation this is Indian family family from long ago uh I think this is an Encyclopedia Britannica uh enjoy [Music] [Music] winter is over now many Sioux families leave their winter hunting grounds in the Hills and go down to the plains to hunt the Buffalo herds red horn the hunter is father of this family he rides first to protect them from enemies sotana his son has seen 11 Summers but shatana is still too young to hunt yellow flower is tatana's sister she walks with the women their mother is away Sada he leads a horse which drags their teepee poles loaded with Emily Goods and grandmother walks last keeping up with the youngest they have journeyed many days and at last they come to the land for the Buffalo herds Graves at the new camping place the women and girls put up the teepees the teepee must face the east braced against the strong wind from the West yellow flower walks round and round she ties the poles tight with a long strip of Buffalo hide then they put the buffalo skin cover around the frame and Peg it down to the ground small sticks fasten the front a hole at the top will let the smoke out from the fire inside soon the camp is set up while the women put up the teepees some of the men go out to hunt food on Hills near the new camp might be rabbit or deer they will bring enough meat until the buffalo hunt each day chatana must learn from his father the things a man must know how the great spirit wakantanka made all things Sky Earth grass and the buffalo he hears stories of great hunters and warriors who were his ancestors and he must know every skill of the Hunter how to track the Running Deer when the prairie dogs come out of their holes that hickory wood makes a strong bow to use buffalo sinew for the bowstring that Flint makes good arrowheads to strike deep into the animal then he must learn to hit a Target in this way chatana practices for the day when he will be a hunter like his father red horn there is time for games too but even in games the boys learn a man's work sometimes they play at hunting Buffalo now they pretend to kill with little sticks but when they become men they will kill with arrows and the Lance they may forget these happy hours some days they play with a rawhide ball it is a contest each tries to be best and the games teach them to be skillful and quick as Hunters must be [Music] the work of the camp is women's work the girls learn from the women [Music] when yellow flower takes a husband she too will make clothes from Buffalo or deerskin as her mother does dyed porcupine quills make the design the thread is Buffalo sinew the all is made of Buffalo bone grandmother teaches a girl to fold stiff Buffalo hide into boxes to carry dried meat a box like this is called a parfleish the women have painted bright designs on each fireplace [Music] with kindness and love the Sioux teach their children what they must learn today the women are cooking rabbit meat yellow flowers mother uses a buffalo stomach filled with water she heats the stones very hot she puts the stones in the water to cook the meat but rabbit meat or deer meat is not enough there will be more meat after the buffalo hunt [Music] after Sundown the chief sends a scout to search out the herd the Scout may look for many days while they wait for the Scout to return red horn remembers other hunts and he paints their story on his teepee he cut the brushes from a buffalo's shoulder blade his paints are mixed with glue from the scrapings of a buffalo hide these are the stories of his life the journeys to different camping places the Thundering herds they have followed the Swift horses he has ridden soon perhaps there will be a new exploit to add to these stories while the men wait in Camp the women prepare for the time when they will have fresh meat and hides they go to find berries to mix with the meat once it is dried this will make the food called pemmican they cut pegs to stake the Skins down for scraping and drying they set up Cottonwood racks to dry the meat on when these things are done the women are ready on the morning of the second day the Scout returns standing Soldier the crier walks through the camp calling out the hunters [Music] and on this morning chatana the boy can ride his White Horse to watch The Hunt he is old enough now to see how red horn strikes down his kill ers [Music] foreign now they can hunt [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] redhorn can give thanks he has killed his Buffalo two other Hunters have killed Bulls too the cows grieved beside them but the hunters have enough food now there is Buffalo for all in the camp the herd has gone it is safe for the women to skin the dead and cut up the meat back at the camp yellow flower hangs the meat on the racks to dry in the Sun and wind later they will mix some of the dried meat with the berries to make pemmican the hide is still soft and wet it can be stretched out to dry with pieces of buffalo horn the women scrape off the shreds of meat later they will tan the hide then they will be busy using the tan skin to repair the teepee to make new moccasins and leggings the work is hard for the women and girls it is long but they are happy for there is enough for all [Music] [Applause] this night they priest in the TV to celebrate the hunt Ana's mother is proud of red horn red horn tells stories of other hunts and dangers passed [Music] soon chatana dreams I too will sit as a great hunter before the fire [Music] this night there is peace and feasting in the camp but the planes make no promises to the Indians in days to come the Buffalo will move on to new pastors the family will need meat and skins for The Long Winter they will move on to the place for all the families of the tribe gather for the big summer hunt again the women must break camp and pack everything the family owns goes with them the TP cover the poles clothes dried meat for the journey packed in par flushes all their goods loaded on the traveler poles to be dragged by the horse the family waits for the signal to move [Music] then all move on mother leading the first prabhua chatana the boy grandmother and yellow flower this family and other families moving to follow the wandering herds always following Buffalo for this was the way of the people who lived on a Great Western Plains [Music] I'm still suffering from that hot chicken sandwich um yeah uh we're not showing films about Columbus today sorry I'm sorry to everybody who didn't like that but it's kind of the deal anyways uh so behind me cameras like all wonky well one I'm wearing a brand new WFMU shirt but behind me I have a film set up on the scanner and this one is got some serious Emulsion damage but it's interesting nonetheless it was made by Centron films it's called navajos of the 70s so let's watch enjoy [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the beginning there was only the land vast beautiful and lonely then according to Navajo mythology first man and first woman ascended through a hole in the Earth emerging from the underworld into Dina the land of the people and they marked its outer reaches with four sacred mouth Within These imaginary boundaries the navajos have ever since found peace for their souls Beyond only danger and unhappiness the actual Navajo reservation is an area of approximately 25 000 square miles mostly in northeastern Arizona but spilling over into Western New Mexico and an area somewhat larger than the state of West Virginia on this land the navajos have lived for hundreds of uninterrupted years with one tragic exception from the beginning of the white man's intrusion into the Southwest first by the Spanish then by The Americans the navajos have made a fierce effort to maintain their own cultural way of because of this desire to remain free and separate they ran afoul of the United States Army which rounded them up in 1864 and moved them Eastward into New Mexico to a desolate place on the staked Plains known as Bosco Redondo the round Grove here they languished and died for five long years before the federal government finally allowed them to return to their beloved Red Rock country a hose named their ordeal the long walk and have ever since reckoned all their dates from this climactic experience when they returned from their captivity they numbered less than ten thousand yet today with one of the highest birth rates in the world their number has grown to nearly one hundred thirty thousand by far the largest of America's remaining 230 Indian tribes foreign still live much as did their forefathers who survived the long walk home the Navajo women still wear the traditional long fluted skirts in the brightly colored Velveteen blouses as do their grandmothers have long ago the modern Navajo man however dresses much more in the style of the western cowboy Levi's bright shirts boots and broad-brimmed hats most of the women and some of the men especially the older ones still wear their hair in the old-fashioned chignon a vertical knot at the back of the head it must be carefully combed with a yucca brush and wound tightly with a cloth band it takes a good deal of time to fix the shinyon properly but then the Navajo women have both the time and the patience for such a job jewelry worn by both men and women even while doing chores has a dual significance for the Navajo first turquoise is considered to be good medicine and good luck and wearing it helps to ward off the evil spirits foreign it represents a visible display of a navajo's savings in times of difficulty jewelry can be put in Pawn with the trader for needed Hard Cash and later redeemed when times improved for homes most navajos still use the one-roomed Hogans of yesterday octagonal Huts built of cedar logs and covered with mud together with the branch and leaf covered at summerhogan which allows cool relief from the Blazing Heat around the edges of the reservation where the white man exerts more influence on the Navajo there are growing numbers of more conventional types of housing even an occasional house trailer is seen but still most of these houses would be considered substandard in that nearly all lack electricity and running water or water of any kind for that matter for water as it has been for countless centuries is one of the most precious Commodities on this arid reservation summer rain clouds well up during the afternoon and the resulting thunderstorms produce pools of much needed water for thirsty animals [Music] after only a day or two in the intense Heat and the low humidity The Water Hole disappears and All That Remains is the dried and parched Earth and again the animals are thirsty water for human use is equally scarce some of the need is supplied by numerous Natural Springs found scattered over the reservation for those navajos living near such a source the spring fills not only the need for drinking water but also often serves as a community laundry where clothes are washed and people bathed in an effort to solve the reservation's water problems the Navajo Tribal Council is digging deep loads throughout the area to help Supply those Indians not living near a natural source still many navajos must obtain their water from sources as far as 20 miles from their Hogans when the Spanish entered the Southwest they brought with them sheep goats and horses all of which were to have a profound effect upon the Navajo in truth they became cultural Essentials those things which men live by and they radically changed the navajo's way of life converting them from Nomads into Shepherds and to some extent farmers for the past four centuries sheep together with the sturdy little goats which thrived so well in this arid land have formed the backbone of the Navajo economy providing food wool and cash [Music] horses which were for centuries of prime importance to the very survival of the Navajo have now declined to a point where they are used mainly for tending sheep and for occasional pleasure purposes by Navajo children [Music] the new Beast of Burden which has displaced the horse is the pickup truck now such a common sight that it can properly be considered the universal sign of the Navajo reservation they are simply everywhere [Music] however many of the older Indians much too poor to afford a pickup still use their teams and wagons to visit among their friends and Neighbors but when it is necessary to go to town for supplies or to attend a squad dance they will manage to obtain a ride with one of their more affluent neighbors who does own a pickup [Music] because of strong religious and spiritual attachments this seemingly unproductive land is the only place on Earth capable of Furnishing nourishment for the Navajo soul whatever this land may do for the Navajo soul it does little to help his physical health as the extremely poor quality of the soil produces only meager poor crops because of this inadequate low quality food together with poor water and few Modern Sanitation methods hospitals such as this one are kept busy treating the ills of the navajos health conditions on the reservation are among some of the worst in the nation however with the acceptance by more and more navajos of modern Medical Care Health Improvement efforts are making good progress also the navajos are increasingly willing to accept and undergo modern dental treatment an area long neglected by most Indians [Music] at many of the reservation hospitals schools are being conducted to train young Navajo women to become nurses and dental assistants Navajo women seem to have a natural aptitude for nursing and Excel in this type of work in the recent past most Indians relied upon the medicine man or singer to administer to their ills through drumming and chanting but the medicine man is disappearing from the culture as are many other old customs and rituals some families are attempting to retain some of the old ways such as this puberty right where friends and relatives gather from all over the valley to help 14 year old Glenda Jackson celebrate her coming to Womanhood on the last day of the four-day ceremony the women gather inside the summer Hogan to help Glenda mix and prepare the huge ceremonial cake while at the same time subjecting her to much good-natured kidding outside the men dig a large hole which is filled with firewood and burned heating the surrounding Earth to a high temperature forming a natural oven right at Sunset the coals are removed and the pit is lined with wet corn husks after which the cake batter is poured in by the buckets full next Glenda performs the ancient ritual required by Navajo tradition [Music] after which she scatters the first handful of sacred cornmeal over the cake and then is joined by family and friends in spreading the rest the batter is then covered with another layer of husks then covered with hot colds and allowed to bake all night at the dawn's first light following a night of prayer and song the medicine man cuts and blesses the cake after which Glenda will take a bite signifying that now she has entered Womanhood Traditions such as this are becoming lost forever because the young navajos are unwilling to learn from their Elders the involved and secret rituals of the past none of the rituals are written down because the navajos do not have a written language this eroding away of the old ways is but one of the problems facing today's navajos foreign two of the major problems facing the navajos are employment and education education has been a difficult problem because of the vastness of the reservation and the sparsity of the population further complicating the problem is the fact that the language of the reservation traditionally has been the native Navajo tongue with English used only by adults for dealing with the white man consequently few children are able to speak more than a few words of English when they start to school and in most cases their teachers speak little or no Navajo foreign to solve this problem the tribal council has instigated a program to train navajos to be teachers children will then have teachers who understand them culturally who are able to speak their native tongue and who can teach them English as a second language also a program is underway to provide more day schools so children can attend classes nearer their homes thus eliminating the long bus trips each day as now required each year over 3 000 teenagers graduate or leave school of these only a little over a third find jobs on the reservation or its fringes the rest must either remain at home unemployed or leave the reservation and seek work in the white man's society older navajos face this same problem of too few jobs and too many people the tribal council makes every effort to attract outside industry by granting 99-year leases and guaranteeing a large and willing labor pool however few companies have taken advantage of the opportunities partly because of the remoteness of the reservation foreign this plant at Shiprock is one of the companies off to the navajos extremely fine eye hand coordination in building delicate electronic components at Sawmill Arizona the navajos themselves have built the world's largest lumber mill [Music] a cold script mining operation on black Mesa near Caliente employs almost entirely Navajo labor this operation alone brings millions of dollars annually into the tribal council Treasury much of this money together with royalties from gas and oil are earmarked for the tribal educational fund to provide College scholarships for Navajo youths [Music] still even large operations such as this make only a small dent in the overall employment problem as they are able to hire relatively few people because of this scarcity of jobs nearly 75 percent of all navajos must depend upon some form of welfare simply to survive the history of the Navajo is that of the people who have for centuries relied upon their own customs and culture to provide the solutions to their problems it remains so to this day for the more the Navajo has learned of the white man and his Society the more convinced he has become of the worth of his own culture and stronger has grown his desire to remain a separate people a new awareness of identity and a new tribal pride has taken hold of the Navajo and is sweeping the reservation foreign yet while the 20th century has brought many outward changes the Navajo of today driving his pickup truck across the rutted valley floor is inwardly little changed from his great-grandfather who made the Long Walk Home a century ago [Music] that's uh navajos in this of the 70s um yeah I guess the I grew up in the 70s and so there was a kind of a re-emergence of interest in uh Native American culture and um it shows up in in lots of different places culturally and in film so Billy Jack was one example of me when I was a little kid watching it my mom took me to see all the Billy Jack movies uh except Billy Jack goes to Washington but we uh you know I learned about the um you know about how mean white people were to Indians from that film uh and then I saw Billy Jack uh exact Revenge it was really fascinating uh anyway so film has not always been kind to the portrayal of uh Native Americans um I looked to the Yale Chronicle of America series that I have shown things from in uh for silent movie day and yeah it's either uh people in blackface are people in red face uh and just not really portraying what was going on at the time and in any accurate way whatsoever so um there were people that tried to capture parts of Indian culture and certainly that last film was something that was contemporary but um and that peyote was an example of someone trying to capture what the life was like on a reservation uh and I have films that kind of capture what uh what's happening uh among art and and crafts amongst the Native Americans in different tribes across the United States but there are some actually interesting resources there's the American Indian film Gallery which has a collection of films that kind of document Native American tribes uh in all the Americas uh north and south and uh this film is one that I actually have in my collection it's called engine talk and generally engine talk it doesn't seem like it would be very sympathetic uh except that it is it's trying to talk about um Native Americans how they communicate with sign language and it is uh was kind of written by Colonel Tim McCoy who uh was the first consultant in many silent western films then became an on-screen figure in numerous westerns his work was notable because the Indians were always portrayed as sympathetic um and so this film brought To Us by Standard Oil is uh kind of a fascinating look at looking at uh uh Native American Sign Language this is engine talk [Music] this was the America of the Indian nations a land of Crystal flowing streams quiet forests and vast plains here the Indian pursued a way of life that changed but little over centuries today there still exists a part of that America caught in our national parks and forests on Indian reservations located in some of these Parks early life is still being followed by descendants of those first Americans but the advantages of the modern world are attractive to these young people just as they are to young people everywhere as a result the old culture already changed is swiftly disappearing the motion picture you are about to see was made to preserve a part of the vanishing culture of the American Indian as Citizens and as oilmen we are particularly interested in all forms of conservation for example in our exploration and drilling operations vital to the expanding power needs of our economy we make sure that the natural beauty of areas surrounding our sites remains undisturbed that fish and wildlife are protected our scientists strive to develop new techniques to avoid waste so the generations may be assured of the vital natural resource oil to meet their needs thus through conservation the natural resources of Scenic Beauty and abundant power can be used to enrich our lives and those of our children [Music] [Applause] foreign foreign [Music] these are the mountains of our West where the sun god seeks his Slumber where the West Wind goes away and the evil spirits look [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] before the coming of the white man this was the Indians country there were many tribes speaking different languages foreign [Music] Plains Indians were nomadic people all was on the move they followed the Bachelor on his migrations and as they moved back and forth across the plains meeting different tribes speaking different languages it became necessary for them to have some sort of winter tribal means of communication and that is how the Indian sign language came about even today when Indians of different tribes meet in Council or in Celebration The Old Timers continue to use this graceful language [Music] break away to The Rolling Plains in the land of the black feet such a powwow is in progress here along the two Medicine River Indians from many of the Plains tribes have gathered to discuss their Mutual problems visit our friends and keep alive the customs and traditions of their forefathers [Applause] one group is playing the other popular and game or stick care they have two bones one wrapped with colored yarn the trick is to guess which hand holds the decorated one beside having the bones tries to confuse the Indian doing the guessing one of the songs is to their friend the rabbit they sing rabbit don't tell him rabbit don't tell him the dances go on day and night the grass dance our dance sources for dance and the rabbit dance [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] smoking the pipe in solemn Council trying to meet the new conditions but mostly lost in Nostalgia for the old days when the Buffalo the elk and the antelope were as thick as the grass on the Prairie while the women has evolved they take charge of the routine work of the camp High Eagle is coming High Eagle is coming [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay okay we were wondering whether it'd be over for the council you know anytime you have a power I'll come along if I possibly can there are many of your old friends here among these missing Indians some control agency Sue from Pine Ridge [Applause] good I'll be glad to see them all foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Music] do you remember how our old friend Chief goes in the lodge used to greet someone he was fond of he'd always say long time no see him but today I see you and the sun is in my heart everything is all right remember Jack it's good to see you she's the Mike chance has asked me to tell the existing in the story of the big end how some became known as black teachers some were called blood I'll tell a story in the sign language and you my friend will interpret for these young educated Indians very few of them understand science or know much about our old customers yeah maybe it's our uncle but we haven't forgotten how to fight you certainly demonstrated that still is too bad to many of the old traditions are slipping away from you young people take the sign language for instance even though some of you may know the meaning of certain signs their origin has been lost time for courtship among the young people for instance made like that why because whenever a young man wanted to talk confidentially to a girl he put his blanket around it that way and talk to her talk as you know it like that but small talk that's a whisper so while he stood talking to her the people of the village would walk past they respected his privacy that's how that sign came about now you take these there's the Indians for instance over here here's an Arapahoe foreign for him like that because years ago the arapahoes tattooed themselves on the chest and the way they tattooed was to take porcupine quills or Cactus needles bind them together and tattoo in the design on the chest now the arapahoes haven't tattooed all for many many years but that's still a sign for that fellow and that's Sue like this some people say that means Cutthroats there's one explanation that's even simpler than that when the shoe first came out onto the planes you are a long bead he made a necklace of it so one Indian meeting another said what you call him that new Indian that's come out here well how you speak him says don't know but he wears this thing here a necklace and look at the different way they wear the hair suing the Arapahoe part the hair in the middle and wear it in two long braids but the Blackfoot like the shushani and the crow has two parts in his hair one on the other side then he roaches his forelock into a sort of pompadour but in one respect they're all alike they all braid their scalp lock and wear it in a single braid behind [Music] then take the sign for the different animals the dog for instance made like that because long before the Indians ever had horses the dog dragged the cowboy that's the mark of the two poles of the travoid then these different animals that have horns and antlers like the buffalo the elf spread antlers Antelope only has two prongs well then there's a sign for the white man he always wore a hat a bread because the Mexicans taught the southern Indians to make bread then they pass it along to the northern tribe and the Mexican the sign for him he was the first man they saw wearing a beard as you know many treaties is a pretty good sign talker you watch your signs carefully and I'll interpret foils he tells his story right here long time ago [Applause] foreign [Music] people had all this country [Music] they were great in numbers there were many lodges in our villages we were strong people figures we were happy foreign [Music] winter one year the game was scarce so just here and there scattered the elf in the Antelope and the buffalo has gone away [Music] so the head chief chief he's over Big Chief he had the headmen called summoned into accounts good night and he told them Keith called them here because the game scared these people were hungry and unless some decision was made they might starve to death now hunger this means to kill put the kill in the direction of oneself means that they've got to be killed by hunger so that unless they arrived at a decision they might start [Music] until Fairchild got a Fairchild is he the sign of the pause no the barrel airs up fair child he got up he said all the pagans that being the sign for the big ants are hungry my children do not sleep at night now night covers over and day opens out there's your negative no the sleep at night they sleep no they cry I'm the mighty Hunter I and mighty in this sense meaning I'm foremost I'm a Hunter the road to look above so he said I hunt away ahead of all the others every little while often I get on my horse and I go hunting but I see no Buffalo I see him now so I give up meaning that he struck an object to which he cannot penetrate and he falls back I give up and return to my teeth [Music] my score meaning the woman who sits beside me and my children and grandchildren because the grandparents carry the children on their shoulders very often they're back they weep when I come back to the TV and food I have not to give buffalo meat I give them no so they will [Music] I say that we should move meaning tearing down the teepees loading up the driveways and moving caps [Music] so then wait and water got up water he's about to walks and waves in water he said my children are hungry [Music] in the past been hungry we possessed that we've had hunger but we've survived we've lived we've come up now maybe so ahead when the snow falls gets deep in the mountains in those mountain peaks the elf will be driven down so I say we stay here the idea being that he plants his lats in the ground and that's where he stayed [Music] and Black Eagle got up the eagle that Eagles black he told us he says [Music] [Music] I've listened to my brother I've listened to my brothers they've spoken straight straight from their hearts I'm an old man I'm worried my heart's all all sort of disturbed our chief he's pretty wise fellow see it that means smart because a wolf or a coyote is the smartest animal they know so our chief is like a wolf he's smart so let him make that big decision that's the thing that has to be done [Music] so the chief said foreign the game meaning the Buffalo your meat is scarce the people are hungry [Music] so I have made the decision I have definitely decided that we will separate [Music] better child you take your van and move towards the Rising Sun see the sun comes up waves in water you will take your band and move toward the setting Zone [Music] Black Eagle your man will remain here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so that our women and children will eat and survive foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] means winter is over winter it's cold cold is finished snow has been piling up and now it's all gone the grass is coming up all indicating spring they came back they met [Music] they've eaten well against another were filmed after that they were strong now this band returning from the East they came across the country if it all burned over fire and there are moccasins and their legs were all they were all black but soot and Ashes [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] this other bands when they returned they came through a country that had Berry patches in it [Music] but if these bushes are here draft is down here free is up here so these bushes have little berries all over them so very fast they'd eaten them and their faces were all smeared [Music] it looked like blood blood of course coming from the nose the same parallel so blood the same it looked like [Music] though the Big Chief gave to that man the name blood [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] today the blood we live in that country the other side of the Canadian border now the Canadian border is indicated by a line that has monuments they live on the other side while they sit down there [Music] thank you but the black feet they live this side of the two Madison Rivers now medicine too and a river is water in a line but in this case it's water that ripples over Stones so it's the blue Medicine River this side of they sit down they occupy their country [Music] but they are all taken they're all the same people [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you stay here everybody have a good time we'll all mingled around together so I told him no I couldn't do it I was sorry my heart was heavy so heavy that it's on the ground I've got to get on my horse go way off Mountain the other side of the wrong ride in the morning when the sun comes up I'll get on the train I'm going away off for our country but when the winter is finished the snow is all gone grass is coming up and spring again welcome back and we'll meet we'll shake hands feet who were filled up to there and we'll sit down we'll load the pipe with the smoke and we'll have a good visit our hearts will be big we'll be happy everything will be all right [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you reportedly this is uh actual uh sign language uh for the tribes that they mentioned um but the whole thing is fictionalized I mean um like uh you know it was shot in contemporary times in 1946 actually and it's interesting so Standard Oil uh sponsored this and there was that little ad for standard oils saying like how you know this is how how we are with nature and all this stuff but you know traditionally oil companies were horrible to uh Native Americans actually they're horrible to almost everybody except for shareholders um so uh this is interesting film it's I I I hesitated showing it until I did a little bit more research because engine talk you know is just like but it is kind of this interesting artifact and it was trying to educate people people uh were interested in Native American cultures uh and you know repeatedly wrote about it and talked about it and all this stuff and um so you know we try to celebrate and watch the films that are actually involving uh indigenous people and not the ones that just have um people in red face or people pretending like they're Native Americans um the crying Indian is a perfect example of this 1970s crying Indian you know that that PSA resonates with all of us um who any of us that saw it you know but the actual crying Indian actor was Italian um he was not Native American at all so but he had a long career playing uh Native Americans so it's it's kind of surprising so some a couple of things um one thank you so much for tuning in today I know today was kind of different but you know any opportunity for me to show films that are related maybe to a specific subject happy to do it um and so we got to watch some films we haven't seen before um if you like what you saw hit the thumbs up or if at least you like the concept of what we're doing maybe this particular show didn't resonate with you but um you know hit the thumbs up subscribe you can also go to 20 or 24 7 online Channel at avgeeks.com uh which has other lunch shows that we've done in the past and other things that we've digitized you can also go to patreon.com avgeeks and you can buy us coffee at Ko Dash fi.com slash AV Geeks where we will also spend that money on ad ass antacids to combat the insanely hot chicken sandwich that I just had um that made me cry and like my face went all went numb um oh yeah yeah the two things one there's a documentary called Rumble which is about Native Americans and popular music in the United States and it is a phenomenal documentary I totally recommend watching that my wife and I also love uh on FX reservation dogs which is a kind of a sitcom about kids growing up on a reservation uh in contemporary times and it starts off with it kind of did I say reservation dogs yeah reservation talks not Reservoir Dogs but it kind of starts off a little like well I know where this is going but then it it veers into this amazing story which is absolutely hilarious incredibly irreverent because there is an insane amount of cursing in this so it's not a family film or Family series and then also really touching poignant moments so I really enjoy uh that and I recommend it and that and Rumble are too great uh contemporary things that um celebrate and look at Native American culture so join us tomorrow where we watch more films from our collection and as always please rewind and love each other I love you guys tuning in every day and um we will see you tomorrow everybody take care bye