
5-09-23:Pinal Cnty Elex, Indian Schools Film, Black Maternal
Season 2023 Episode 91 | 26m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Pinal County Election Problems, Indian Schools Documentary, Black Maternal Care
Pinal County elections chief Virginia Ross had proof of inaccuracies that she didn’t flag before county supervisors certified the November election results. Filmmaker Jim Warne will talk about his award-winning documentary short "Remember the Children." Black women are two to three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, according to the CDC.
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5-09-23:Pinal Cnty Elex, Indian Schools Film, Black Maternal
Season 2023 Episode 91 | 26m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Pinal County elections chief Virginia Ross had proof of inaccuracies that she didn’t flag before county supervisors certified the November election results. Filmmaker Jim Warne will talk about his award-winning documentary short "Remember the Children." Black women are two to three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women, according to the CDC.
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>> Announcer: THIS IS FROM THE FRIENDS OF PBS AND THANK YOU.
>> Ted: GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO ARIZONA HORIZON.
I'M TED SIMONS.
A FEDERAL JURY FOUND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP LIALBEN A CIVIL CASE FOR A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED PRESIDENT TRUMP RAPED HER.
THEY FOUND PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD PAY HER FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
THE JURY OF SIX MEN AND THREE WOMEN TOOK FLEE HOURS THREE HOURS TO REACH THE VERDICT.
TRUMP CALLED THIS IS A, QUOTE, DISGRACE AND WILL APPEAL.
>>> HEARINGS ON A NUMBER OF NEW STATE BUDGET BILLS TO FINE TUNE THIS.
THIS IS A PROPOSAL THAT ALLOWS EACH LAWMAKER TO SPEND 20 AND $30 MILLION ON PROJECTS AND ISSUES OF THEIR OWN CHOICE.
SOME LAWMAKERS POOLED THEIR A LOTMENTS FOR A ONE-TIME TAX REBATE AND A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS POOLED THEIR A LOTMENTS.
WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED IS ANY ATTEMPT TO SLOW DOWN THE UNIVERSAL VOUCHER PROGRAM WHICH HAS SCENE ENROLLMENTS SKYROCKET BETWEEN EXPECTATIONS.
A CAP IS ESSENTIAL TO KEEP THE PROGRAM FROM OVERWHELMING THE BUDGET AND REPUBLICAN LEADERS SAY ANY CAP ON VOUCHERS IS A NONSTARTER.
THE GOVERNOR IS SAYING SOME KIND OF CONTROL OVER THE PROGRAM CAN AND STILL BE NEGOTIATED.
>>> ALL WOMAN WITH A RISK FOR BREAST CANCER SHOULD SCREEN AT AGE 40 AND THAT'S ACCORDING TO A FEDERAL HEALTH TASK FORCE.
PREVIOUSLY IT WAS AT AGE 50 AND THIS FOLLOWS THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RECOMMENDING MAMMOGRAMS FOR WOMEN IN THEIR 40s.
>>> WORKPLACE STRESS, THEY SAY, CAN RUIN YOUR SLEEP.
IT'S NOT THE MOST GROUNDBREAKING OF RESEARCH BUT LACK OF SUPPORT FROM COLLEAGUES AND BOSSES CAN MAKE FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
THEY SAY SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE DEEP BREATHING AND MUSCLE RELAXING EXERCISE AND SUGGESTED TO SET ASIDE A SPECIFIC WORRY TIME AND SPEND A FEW MINUTES OUTSIDE OF BED THINKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT WHAT'S BOTHERING YOU.
>> A >>> THEY SAY THEY GAVE THE PINAL COUNTY CHIEF A $25,000 BONUS.
JEN FIFFIELD, GOD GOOD TO HAVE YOU AND PROBLEMS IN PINAL COUNTY IN NOVEMBER, WHAT WERE THEY?
>> ELECTION DAY CAME AND WENT, RIGHT, AND NOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS AND THEN WE HAD THAT STATE--WIDE RECOUNT ON CHRISTMAS BREAK AND PEOPLE MAY HAVE ZONED OUT AND HUNDREDS OF BALLOTS WEREN'T ORIGINALLY COUNTED IN PINAL COUNTY.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS STRANGE CONSIDERING WE DO HAVE CHECKS AND BALANCES IN THE STATE TO ENSURE OUR ELECTIONS GO CORRECTLY.
AND SO I STARTED TO LOOK AT THE RECORDS THAT THEY HAD BEFORE THEY CERTIFIED THEIR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER.
>> Ted: COULD THESE NUMBERS HAVE OVERTURNED ANY STATE-WIDE RACE?
>> WE HAD THREE RECOUNTED RACES STATE-WIDE AND ESPECIALLY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RACE WHERE A ABE HAMADEH IS STILL IN COUNT ASKING FOR A RECOUNT.
>> Ted: WHO IS VIRGINIA ROSS AND WHAT TO SHE DO?
>> THEY PUT HER IN THIS PLACE OF ELECTION'S DIRECTOR BEFORE THE ELECTION BECAUSE THEY HAD A PRIMARY ELECTION BECAUSE THEY HAD PROBLEMS AS WELL AND PAID HER $40,000 A MONTH, OFFERED HER A $25,000 BONUS IF SHE FIXED ELECTION RESULTS AND SHE CAME IN AND DOCUMENTED ALL OF THE DISCREPANCIES AND THE NUMBER OF BALLOTS CAST, COMPARED TO THE ONES TABULATED AND YET RECOMMENDED CERTIFYING THE ELECTION.
>> Ted: INDEED.
AND SHE WAS A LONG-TIME COUNTY RECORDER.
>> SHE WAS.
>> Ted: BROUGHT IN $40,000 A MONTH AND THE $25,000 BONUS SOUNDS FINE AND DANDY, DID YOU FOUND INACCURACY AND WHAT DOES SHE DO WITH THIS?
>> SHE CAME BEFORE THE SUPERVISORS AND TOLD THEM EVERYTHING WENT WELL AND THEY CERTIFIED THE ELECTION.
SUPERVISORS SAY THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THESE DISCREPANCIES SHE HAD DOCUMENTED.
SHE MOVED TO TEXAS, THEN, AFTER THE ELECTION WAS CERTIFIED, BEFORE THE RECOUNT BEGAN AND RETIRED.
TED SHE >> Ted: GOES TO THE BOARD OF SOUPSUPERVISORS AND EVERYTHING IS OK AND DID SHE DOUBLE DOWN ON THIS?
I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO REACH HER AND COULDN'T FIND A WORKING PHONE NUMBER AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S THINKING.
WE DO KNOW WHAT SHE SAID, THAT IT WAS FINE.
>> Ted: AND THEY SAID GOOD ENOUGH FOR US?
>> WE'RE NOT MARICOPA COUNTY, HAVING ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS.
>> Ted: ONE OF THE SUPERVISORS SAID, WE DON'T WANT TO BE MARICOPA COUNTY AND NOBODY WANTED TO DO ANYTHING.
>> THEY WERE GLAD THEY WERE PASSED THIS.
ONE THING LOOKING FORWARD IS, YOU KNOW, WILL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE MISTAKES AND WHO KNEW ABOUT THEM AND WHAT DOCUMENTS THEY HAD IN PLACE AND MAKE CHANGES PRIOR TO 2024.
>> Ted: ARE THEY WORKING TO THAT END AND SHOWING ANY INDICATION THEY MIGHT BE GOING IN THAT DIRECTION?
>> THEY GAVE A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE CHANGES THEY'RE MAKING AND NOT ABOUT WHAT'S DISCUSSED AND WHO KNEW.
>> Ted: SHE WAS BROUGHT IN BECAUSE OF PROBLEMS IN THE PRIMARY AND WHAT WERE THE PROBLEMS AND WERE THOSE PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS FOUND BY YOU IN THE GENERAL?
>> THEY WERE SIMILAR IN THAT THEY HAD AN INEXPERIENCED DIRECTOR AND THAT'S SOMETHING THEY DID TWICE, PUT THEIR FAITH TO RUN A FULL ELECTION.
THESE WERE DIFFERENT AND IT WAS THE ELECTION DAY THAT MADE IT CRUCIAL AND THEY WERE CONFIDENT THINGS WENT WELL.
>> Ted: PROBLEMS THAT YOU WOULD THINK HAD BEEN ADDRESSED AND THE ELECTION CHIEF SHOULD KNOW AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE KNEW AND DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.
WAS SHE AFRAID SHE WASN'T GETTING THE BONUS?
>> I'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GOING INSIDE SOMEBODY'S HEAD.
THE DOCUMENTS SHOWED ME SO MUCH AND DIDN'T GIVE ME THE PRIVATE CELL PHONE TEXT MESSAGES AND THERE ARE QUESTIONS, YES, SHE'S GONE AND DID THIS, AND NOW WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
>> ONE OF THE SUPERVISORS WAS WONDERING ABOUT THIS?
>> ONE OF THE SUPERVISORS SAID BEFORE THAT VOTE, I HEARD OF OTHER ISSUES, JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AND THE COUNTY ATTORNEY SAID, WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW AND THEY VOTED.
>> Ted: VOTED TO CERTIFY.
SHE LEAVES TOWN WITH A $25,000 BONUS, GREAT JOB AND NOW SHE'S IN TEXAS SOMEWHERE, WHEREVER SHE IS.
IS THERE ANY ATTEMPT BY THE COUNTY TO SAY, WAIT, MAYBE THIS WASN'T WORTHY OF A $25,000 BONUS?
>> THERE WAS, SHOWING HUNDREDS OF BALLOTS OFF AND FOUND THAT SO SIGNIFICANT THEY DISCUSSED TAKING THAT $25,000 AWAY OR TRYING TO CLAW IT BACK BUT THE COUNTY MANAGER DRAFTED IT WITHOUT REVIEW OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY GIVING A BROAD APPROVAL WITH NOT MUCH WAY TO TAKE IT BACK.
>> Ted: INTERESTING.
WHAT SURPRISED THE MOST?
YOU READ THE STORY AND THERE'S A LOT OF BACKGROUND IN HERE AND YOU'RE SHOWING WHAT'S HAPPENING AS FAR AS WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE AS FAR AS BALLOTS ARE CONCERNED.
WHAT SURPRISED THE MOST?
>> THERE WAS THIS ONE POLLING PLACE THAT WAS 98 BALLOTS OFF FROM WHAT WAS CAST AND COUNTED AND I COULDN'T GET PASSED, 90 BALLOTS OUT OF 300 WITH A THIRD JUST DISENFRANCHISED.
TED ANY ATTEMPTS >> Ted: ANY ATTEMPTS TO RECTIFY THIS?
OBVIOUSLY NOT, HUH?
>> THE BALLOT COUNTY PROCESS IS WHERE WORKERS WERE MAKING MISTAKES FROM WHAT I FOUND.
SO, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD ONLY DO THE RECOUNT, THEY SAID, TO CORRECT THIS IN THE END.
>> Ted: INTERESTING.
REACTION SO FAR FROM PINAL COUNTY OFFICIALS?
OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE NOT GETTING MUCH.
AND COUNTY OFFICIALS WANT ARE THEY SAYING IN.
>> ONE SUPERVISOR WILL TALK ABOUT PROBLEMS IN MORE DETAILS.
I HAD A STATE SENATOR CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT I FOUND.
THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW WE CAN HELP PREVENT THIS IN THE FUTURE.
>> Ted: AGAIN, WE WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE RACE, THAT COULD HAVE AFFECTED A STATE-WIDE RACE AND EVEN WITH THE 300, IT ACCIDENT DOESN'T AFFECT STATE-WIDE RESULTS.
>> ABE HAMADEH SAYING THERE'S STILL RESULTS.
>> Ted: JEAN FIFIELD, GREAT WORK AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON.
>> Ted: UP NEXT, RACIAL DISPARITY IN MATERNAL CARE.
>> BLACK WOMEN ARE TWO TO THREE TIMES LIKELY TO DIE IN CHILDBIRTH AND THAT WENT UP DURING THE PANDEMIC.
THIS IS DR. SHARON THOMPSON IS HERE TO TALK ABOUT THIS.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Ted: BLACK MORE TWO TO THREE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE DURING CHILDBIRTH.
WHY?
>> THAT'S A LOADED QUESTION.
THIS IS NOT NEW.
IT'S GREAT THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL, BUT THIS DISPARITY HAS BEEN AROUND 60 YEARS.
>> Ted: ARE WE SEEING NUMBERS GETTING WORSE OR IMPROVING AT ALL AND CHANGED IN ANY WAY?
>> TWO THINGS IN THE U.S., IT'S TOO HIGH FOR EVERYONE.
FOR A COUNTRY OF OUR WEALTH AND EDUCATION, WE WANT NUMBERS IN THE TWO'S AND THREE'S NOT 32.
>> Ted: OH, MY GOODNESS.
>> THAT'S WAY HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, SIMILAR TO US IN TERMS OF GDP AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL.
>> Ted: AGAIN, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE AND WHY IS THAT?
>> THERE ARE MANY FACTORS AND ONE IS THE OVERALL HEALTH OF THE U.S. POPULATION AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES IN EUROPE THAT HAVE INVESTED IN PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE, HEALTHY FOOD AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND WE HAVE NOT INVESTED IN THAT IN AMERICA.
AND OTHER THINGS ARE POLICIES AND PRACTICES WITHIN HOSPITALS AND AROUND THE NATION, HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CENTERS ARE WORK ON THIS AND HOW DO WE HANDLE HEMORRHAGE AND BLOOD PRESSURE ISSUES AND HOW DO WE HANDLE WHEN WOMEN HAVE COMPLICATIONS?
WE HAVE TO HOW TO LOOK AT HOW THEY'RE HANDLED?
>> Ted: I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THEY WERE HANDLED AND THEN SOME A LONG TIME AGO.
AS FAR AS EQUALITY AND EQUITY, DOCTORS, I'VE READ ABOUT THIS, THEY DON'T RECOGNIZE THE NEEDS AND CONCERNS OF BLACK WOMEN.
TALK TO US ABOUT THAT.
>> THAT'S ONE FACTOR THAT'S SO IMPORTANT.
MANY BLACK WOMEN REPORT THEIR COMPLAINTS AREN'T TAKEN SERIOUSLY OR BRUSHED OFF, THAT OH, YOU'RE JUST WORRIED.
THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO TAKE SERIOUSLY, BOTH CLINICIANS AND FAMILIES.
DON'T SAY YOU'RE JUST TIRED OR YOU'RE JUST WORRIED AND TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
THE TRUTH IS PREGNANCY CHANGES EVERY CELL IN YOUR BODY AND WE WANT TO, IN ADDITION TO BEING HAPPY ABOUT THE BODY TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT WOMEN SO WE DON'T MISS CONCERNING SYMPTOMS IN THEY'RE ARISING.
>> Ted: RECOGNIZEINGRECOGNIZING URGENT WARNINGS, THAT'S KNOWLEDGE.
>> THE URGENT SYMPTOMS.
THE CDC HAS A CAMPAIGN CALLED "HEAR HER" ABOUT LISTENING TO WOMEN AND GETTING THEM HELP WHEN THEY REACH OUT.
>> Ted: SO LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT WOMEN AND FAMILIES CAN DO TO GET THESE NUMBERS LOWER.
>> I WILL TELL YOU A COUPLE OF THINGS AND ONE IS PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR HEALTH ALL THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY.
EAT WELL AND LOTS OF VEGGIES AND BE A PARTNER WITH YOUR CLINICIAN AND FINALLY, THOSE COMPLAINTS I WAS TALKING ABOUT, TAKE THOSE SERIOUSLY.
IF YOU HAVE THE THOUGHT, SHOULD I CALL THE DOCTOR, CALL THE DOCTOR.
>> Ted: AS FAR AS HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND BLACK WOMEN NOW, WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?
>> ONE MAJOR CHANGE IS HAVE OBJECTIVE POLICIES AND PRACTICES.
ONE THING THAT WE FOUND THAT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IS SOMETHING CALL QUANTITATIVE BLOOD LOSS AND WHEN WE USE A TOOL THAT BYPASSES US, WE RETUESDAY THEREDUCETHE DISPARITY OF POPULATIONS.
IF MORE AND MORE HEALTH CENTERS GET PASSED THE HUMAN SUBJECTIVE JUDGMENT, WE CAN GET EQUITY.
>> Ted: AND HOSPITALS, HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS, WHAT CAN BE DONE THERE?
>> THEY CAN MAKE SURE YOU'RE USED EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE.
THE MORE THEY RELY ON CONCRETE EVIDENCE AND LESS ON HUMIDITY JUDGMENT, THE BETTER THAT WE DO FOR ALL POPULATIONS.
>> Ted: AND WE TOUCHED ON TO EARLIER, BUT LET'S CLOSE OUT ON THE IDEA OF STATESAS AND MUNICIPALITIES, WHAT CHANGED THERE?
>> WE HAVE A LOOK WAY TO GO IN TERMS OF GETTING RID OF BIASED, FORTUNATELY, MANY PLACES ARE INSTITUTING BIASED TRAINING, ANTI-RACIST TRAINING INCLUDING HERE IN ARIZONA AND HAVING STUDENTS ALONG TALKING TO ERASE THOSE EFFECTS.
>> Ted: THOSE ARE THINGS THEY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF, TRUE?
>> YOU HAVE TO BE OPEN AND TALK ABOUT IT.
IMPLICIT BIASED MEANS YOU DON'T KNOW.
IF WE GET TRAINING, AND TALK ABOUT IT, THE BETTER WE CAN DO.
>> Ted: ARE YOU ENCOURAGED THIS IS MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?
>> WE'RE TALKING AND WORKING ABOUT IT THAN WE HAVE IN PREVIOUS DECADES.
I'M CERTAIN WE'LL FIND SOLUTIONS.
>> Ted: THANK YOU FOR TALKING TO US.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
>> Ted: A DOCUMENTARY TITLED "REMEMBER THE CHILDREN" TELLS A STORY AT NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS.
♪♪ >> THE INDIAN SCHOOL OPENED THE DOORS IN 1998 1998A IT 1998 AND IT WAS EVERYTHING ABOUT WE WERE IN OUR IDENTITY AND IT WAS A LONELY EXISTENCE.
>> Ted: JOINING US NOW IS JIM WARREN AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE FILM.
WHAT GOT YOU STARTED ON THIS?
>> AS AN EDUCATOR AND ADVOCATE, I WENT TO ACADEMICS AND TEACHING AND ADVOCATING ABOUT INDIGENOUS ISSUES AND ALL SORTS OF ELEMENTS.
AND THIS FILM, THE BOARDING SCHOOL, MY MOM IS A SURVIVOR OF INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL AND WENT THERE IN THE 1940'S.
I'M STILL ABLE TO TALK WITH HER AND STARTS OFF THE FILM AND SHE'S MY STAR AND SHE'S AN ADVOCATE, AS WELL.
SHE'S ABLE TO SHARE THOSE STORIES IN AN IMPACTFUL WAY.
>> Ted: DESCRIBE THE RAPID SCHOOL INDIAN SCHOOL IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
>> THEY JUST TORE DOWN THE ORIGINAL BUILDING.
IT USED TO BE A FEW BUR FEW BUR COO TUBURKULOSIS SCHOOL.
>> Ted: THE RESULTS WERE DISEASE, NEGLECT, MALNUTRITION, AND UNMARKED GRAVES.
TALK TO US ABOUT THAT.
THAT MUST HAVE BEEN VERY SOBERING.
>> YES, MANY PEOPLE RECALL THE POPE WAS IN CANADA APOLOGIZING FOR THE ESSENTIAL COOLS SCHOOLS.
WE'RE DOING THE SAME WITH THE 400 BOARDING SCHOOLS THAT WERE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
WE WANT TO FIND THOSE CHILDREN AND GET THEM HOME.
>> Ted: YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR MOM FINDING TIME IN A BOARDING SCHOOL AND HOW DID YOU RESEARCH THIS?
>> WE HAD A RESEARCH TEAM WORKING ON THIS PRIOR TO BRINGING ME IN AS A FILMMAKER.
THERE WERE A LOT OF EXPERTS, FOUND THE NAMES OF THOSE 50 CHILDREN NOT IDENTIFIED, THAT PASSED AWAY AT THE SCHOOL AND WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THOSE KIDS AND UTILIZE THAT RESEARCH TO TELL THE STORY IN A GOOD WAY WITH A LOT OF THE FACTS UNCOVERED THROUGH THAT RESEARCH.
>> Ted: IT SOUTHBOUNDS SOUNDS TO ME IF YOU HAD ENOUGH, YOU WOULD BE OVERRUN BY THE INFORMATION.
>> I TOOK A POSITION BY INDIAN CLOUD RED SCHOOL AND THEY DID RESEARCH FOR THE MISSING CHILDREN, AS WELL.
MANY OF THE SCHOOLS ARE DOING THIS LIGHT CANADA DID OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.
>> Ted: YOU MADE THE FILM WITH REGIONAL LAKOTA PEOPLE, TRUE IN.
>> YES.
>> Ted: TALK TO US ABOUT THAT.
>> HOME IS SOUTH DAKOTA AND I GREW UP IN TEMPE.
AND IT'S PERSONAL TO ME AS A TRIBAL MEMBER TO SHARE MEMBERS OF OUR PEOPLE AND MY FILMS HAVE BEEN ADDRESSING INDIGENOUS ISSUES, MOSTLY ASSOCIATED WITH MY TRIBE AND I DELVE INTO OTHER INDIGENOUS SCHOOLS.
>> Ted: WHEN YOU WERE GO TO ASU, WAS THIS SOMETHING BUBBLING UNDER THE SURFACE OR SOMETHING FRONT AND CENTER WITH YOU?
>> IT WAS KIND OF BUBBLING BECAUSE FRONT AND CENTER WAS ATHLETICS, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS THERE.
AND THAT EXPECTATION WAS GIVEN US TO BY OUR MOM WHO WAS A STRONG RES WOMAN AND GREW UP ON THE RESERVATION AND MADE SURE WE KNEW OUR RESERVATION AND GOING TO AS A STATE ARIZONA STATE.
I GOT A LOT OF PRESS WHERE THERE WASN'T MANY OF US AT THAT TIME.
>> Ted: AS FAR AS THE LAKOTA PEOPLE, THEY SEE THIS FILM AND WHAT IS THE REACTION?
>> HEALING AND A LOT OF TEARING AND FOLKS HIDING IT AND SUPPRESSING IT ALL THESE YEARS AND ABLE TO DISCUSS IT.
WE DO A WARNING THAT SOME OF THESE TRAUMATIC ISSUES MAY COME BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILM FOR OUR ELDERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS THAT LOST THEIR TRADITIONAL WAYS.
>> Ted: TRIGGERS.
WHAT DID MOM AND HOW DOES SHE FEEL?
>> SHE'S GOOD AND AGAIN, SHE'S A STRONG ADVOCATE AND STILL TEACHING AT 84 AND RAN THE INDIAN NURSING PROGRAM AT ARIZONA STATE AND MAKING AN IMPACT TODAY AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE LAKOTA WAY WITH NURSING.
>> Ted: LAST MOUNT POINT ON THIS.
I READ A GRANDFATHER WAS ASKED AND WHY WERE THESE SCHOOLS EXISTING AND HIS QUOTE WAS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW US.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU?
>> IT'S ALMOST STILL RELEVANT TODAY BECAUSE OUR CURRICULUM ISN'T QUITE THERE IN TELLING THE TRUE HISTORY IN INDIAN COUNTRY.
IT'S KEY FOR MORE INDIAN ALLIES TO KNOW WHO WE ARE AS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
NOT JUST A HOLLYWOOD STEREOTYPE, WHICH IS IMPROVING, BUT KNOWING WHO WE ARE IN CURRICULUM, IS IMPORTANT, AND THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE I'LL MAKING TEACHING THROUGH FILM.
>> Ted: THAT'S WHAT THE WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE FROM THIS FILM?
>> YES, LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORY AND THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
>> Ted: THE FILM IS "REMEMBER THE CHILDREN."
JIM WARREN, CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS AND CONTINUED SUCCESS IN YOUR NEXT ENDEAVORERS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND SPENDING TIME WITH US.
>> THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE IT.
>> Ted: AND THAT IS IT FOR NOW.
I'M.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
YOU HAVE A GREAT EVENING!
♪♪
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