"Should the system collapse, we indigenous people will survive, we do know that."
Her tribe was forcibly displaced by the US government over a century ago. Today, she is speaking out about a new threat Native Americans face. However, Casey Camp Horinek hasn't lost hope. This is her message.
Her tribe was forcibly displaced by the US government over a century ago. Today, she is speaking out about a new threat Native Americans face. However, Casey Camp Horinek hasn't lost hope. This is her message.
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00:00Should the system decide to collapse, which I don't believe it has to, by the way,
00:06I believe that we can create a just transition into renewable energies where life can continue as it is, only healthy.
00:14But should it collapse first, before we have the good sense to do that, we know how to survive, we indigenous people.
00:23And we've done this before and before throughout creation.
00:28My sons, my daughters know how to build a fire, how to hunt, how to fish, where the water is, where the berries are, where the mushrooms are,
00:37where the wild potatoes live, how to capture the honey from the bees, even if we get stung, because that's their territory.
00:47We have ways that we're going to move on, and we're hoping that it doesn't come to that, and it doesn't need to.
00:56We can, together, rise up and make a difference.
01:26The indigenous people bear an undue burden of the extractive industry on their land and stealing from our Mother the Earth.
01:46In Canada, the tar sands are an example of what happens when you go to extreme energy extraction,
01:54and you're bringing up bitumen, which is going to create a carbon bomb once it reaches the open market and is set free,
02:02and it will cause a temperature rise.
02:05In my backyard, fish kills, five of them in the last few years in the Salt Fork River that runs through our community,
02:14directly related to fracking and directly related to injection wells.
02:21Earthquakes by the dozens, tornadoes that are huge.
02:25I could give you one example after another.
02:33We've seen that for generations, so of course hope is alive.
02:38If one considers the devastation that we've lived with, the genocidal process that we've lived with,
02:45there's only the strongest of us left.
02:48So we will survive. We do know that.
02:51But I believe that it is up to you and every other person to say,
02:57we've got to stop what's going on in the Amazon, in that living forest right now, today, not tomorrow.
03:05We have to put people in a position, through election or through revolt,
03:10and say, we demand that things change here on Earth while we have a chance to.
03:17Or else we are neglecting our duty as people, as humans, as part of a life cycle.
03:24So there's always hope, but it takes action to make that hope into a reality.
03:40I think I would say the same thing to anyone, anywhere.
03:45We live by a seventh-generation philosophy.
03:48What are you leaving for your generations to come?
03:52What is your legacy?
03:54Is it the golden room in the Trump Tower?
03:58What are your children going to eat, that golden faucet?
04:04Or do you want your great-great-great-grandchildren to have air to breathe,
04:09water to drink, and an Earth to love them?