Something Inside Is Broken
Something Inside is Broken
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A Native American rock opera about the tragedy at Sutter’s Fort.
A Native American rock opera about the tragedy at Sutter’s Fort.
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Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians, Tuolumne Band of Mewuk, Sacramento City College, Placer Arts Foundation, United Auburn, Indian Community, Starkey Foundation, Moore Foundation
Something Inside Is Broken
Something Inside is Broken
Special | 58m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
A Native American rock opera about the tragedy at Sutter’s Fort.
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[Music] [Singing] Please be seated.
This hearing will come to order.
-Please be seated.
The Senate is now in order.
- The chair recognizes Lizzie Johnson, - Of the Nisenan tribe, - And Mrs. Hunt - Of the daughters of the Western Frontier.
- [Duet] Daughters of the Western Frontier!
- Opening statements will now be heard from Mrs. Johnson.
- Chairman.
Chairman.
Oh Chairman.
I can't do this.
I'm too scared!
- Mr. Chairman, may I read this statement from Mrs. Johnson?
- Please our time is limited.
- Hear!
Hear!
Our time is limited!
- Thank you for admitting us to this committee session.
- I'm about to reveal a document of grave recision.
- Never given any weight.
- In 1852.
- 1852 - Eighteen treaties were negotiated with the tribes... - of California!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Order!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
[background music] [Silence] [Music] - 18 Treaties signed with the Indian Nations.
- Objection!
- Order!
- In friendship and peace negotiated with the tribes... - Of California?
- Yet the Senate refused to ratify them.
- In an executive session, they were declared dead.
- Under an injunction of secrecy - That has not been removed!
- Until now!
- With a strike of your pen.
- 53 years later, you can make amends.
- The tribes have no land!
They are homeless, hungry, trying to survive!
- We are a strong nation and California is a leader, - In the farming industry, all on land that used to be theirs... - Objection!
Hearsay!
- Lies!
- What treaties are you referring to?
- I'm not learned on what you spew.
- You better have a clue.
- [duet] and some evidence to prove this to.
- 18 treaties signed with the Indian Nations.
- 18 signed, but unratified!
- In friendship and peace negotiated with the tribes of California.
- Will someone please bring that document to me.
[Harmonising] [instrument playing] [background music] - [Duet] 18 treaties signed.
- [Duet] Unratified.
- 18 treaties signed - [Harmonizing] Unrecognized, Unrecognized... - Unrecognized.
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Order!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Order!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- Order!
- Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- [Harmonizing] Objection!
- Lies!
- Trickery!
- [All together] 1852.
- [Music stop] - Witness may continue.
[Background Music] - Homaa nisee c'esak' bemi, - Objection!
- Objection - English, please.
- Homaa nisee c'esak' bemi - Translation.
Translation!
- Do you recognize, who I am?
- Homaa nisee c'esak' bemi - Do you recognize, who we are?
- We recognize case number, 95603.
- Homaa nik' c'esak' bemi... - My ancestors long ago... [Singing in background] plowed these fields.
- Nisenan of Placer County.
- Court is now in session.
- As slaves for a man driven by greed... [Overlapping polyphony] vs. Johann Sutter of Sacramento County.
-We will now view evidence for petition number, 95603 - [Overlapping polyphony] Do you recognize, my, plead.
- Where as the Nisenan claim rights to this area in Auburn California.
- [Singing] Do you recognize, what I stand for?
[Overlap singing] - We were stripped out all our grace... when you made us your slave... - Then you tried, to exterminate my, reign... - Objection.
[Singing in background] - Sesay.
Stick to the facts.
-What truth or facts can prove the case I plead... [singing continues] How can I try to undo all that's been decreed... [Singing in background] - You took my people, you took our land.
Then you made us homeless Indians.
- Here I stand... Who I stand.
[music playing] - The state of California.
- Now your testimony, in regard to this case.
- Mrs. Johnson's people are from this place here where Sutter built his Empire.
New Helvetia.
It thrived for 10 years because of their labor until gold was found in Coloma.
- My people have lived in, and roamed this land.
But we have always returned to this place.
Our home sweet home.
- During the gold rush.
300,000 people, migrated to California.
Most of them, men.
Men can be mean.
Especially when they're hungry.
And I don't mean for food.
- Men, have needs.
- Men, are greedy.
- Sutter provided for those needs.
- My people... were haunted like animals.
- [sniffs] My mother and my aunt, ran, from the slavers.
But they survived... On berries.
They slept... under bushes, They hid in caves.
[quavering voice] They were children.
Just children!
[Judge Slams Gavel] [man clearing throat] - I'm sorry.
[crying] - I request a recess.
- The plaintive cannot go on.
-No!
Your honor.
I need to continue.
I need to plead my case.
- Mr. Chairman, the plaintives position will sway the jury!
- Hear!
Hear!
- [shouting] - Recess!
- Move along!
- Recess!
- Recess - Congress needs to understand the gravity of what we are deciding here today.
An entire tribe's homeland is at stake!
An entire tribes' existence!
With one strike of a pen, you would remove them from history.
From everything they have lived and died for.
- Committee, will resume!
[bangs the gavel] [silence] - Do you think they're still following us?
- I don't know, but we must keep going.
We've got to make it back to our village.
- I'm scared Maj Kyle.
- Me too.
- [Men shouting in background] Be strong sisters.
- Come hell or high water.
I swear I'm gonna find them.
- We've got slaves to catch.
- [Noises] - How much longer have we got to keep this pace?
and why do I always gotta be [woman whimpering] the one to drag the slaves?
- As long as it takes.
[woman whimpering] - You are paid bounty hunters for Mr. Sutter.
[Walking] It's your job to find him slaves.
- Especially, young girls and boys.
[woman whimpering] - Easier to train, easier to break.
[Continues whimpering] And [speaking all at once] they don't fight back!
[laughing].
- Op-, there they go boys.
- Back to the trail, let's get them - Ho la - Get going.
[Music starts] [Singing] - Keep it up, Sacramento.
- Welcome to Frontier idol.
And now, introducing your game show host, Peter Hardy Man BURNETT.
Give it up, to the Master of disaster.
The king of Kong.
The soon to be, first Governator of California.
- How is everyone doing out there tonight?
[crowd shouting] Welcome to Alta California, Mexican territory.
It's 1846.
This episode of frontier idol is brought to you by, the Sutter distillery.
Which is making a splash across the great frontier.
All right.
Enough with the advertisements.
Back to the show.
- Frontier idol!
Frontier idol!
frontier idol!
Frontier idol!
- Frontier idol!
- Give it up for our bounty hunters Esclava Uno!
[shouting and clapping] Stirring it up.
Laying it down it's El Negerero D!, [barking] [Crowd cheering] [barking continues] Tying it down his song will find you wherever you are.
Yes, in your darkest moments of existence, he will find you.
It's El Conductor of Mucho Pain.
[whirring sound] [shouting and clapping] And lets not forget about Manuel and Wooden Nickel.
[Shouting and clapping] These are Sutter's Los Cazadores de Recompensas.
They are Sutter's slave hunters.
They travel far and wide to find the best the new frontier has to offer El Capitan, Johann Sutter.
- Sutter is of German descent, but grew up in Switzerland.
He left his home.
Abandoned his wife and five children And came to America.
A bankrupt man in search of a dream.
- With 14 men and 3 small skiffs, he made his way up the Sacramento River, to this place.
[whirring] - Before Sutter, Native people heeded the cycle of the seasons.
Time was infinite.
and lives rhythms, un-changing.
Now, it was all about to change.
- And here now we welcome the guest of honor, - Maj Kyle, Dyppem Kyle and Pulba.
[Shouting]- Bring out the slaves.
They are game.
They are juego.
They are the hunted.
The cazado.
- [Crowd Cheering] Frontier idol!
Frontier idol!
Frontier idol!
[Nisenan song] - Give it up for the slave girls weren't they great!
A big round of applause!
[applauding] And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... Let the games begin.
[Crowd cheering] - [Shouting] Frontier idol!
Frontier idol!
Frontier idol!
[Loud bang] - Stop the music.
Stop the music.
[music stops] Cut, cut, cut.
[Crowd rumbling] - Don't you dare fire that weapon, Esclava Uno, El stupido!
We need slaves not bodies.
This isn't CSI Sacramento.
Don't damage the merchandise la obrera.
Comprender?
- Se!
- We need workers to plow the fields.To fetch the water.
To clean the pig pens.
To service the food.
To serve- Service the men... - ho, ho, ho [noise] - Yeah - What the hell are you doing?
Sutter needs his slaves.
Sutter needs his girls.
And none of this.
Otherwise, you'll all be missing your appendages.
- [Noise] Not that.
- Go, please leave the stage.
Oh my God, I'm working with idiots.
Idiots.
[sobbing] [applauding] [clearing throat] - Join us next time to see how well our slave girls fair on Frontier idol.
[Crowd cheering] Hasta luego!
[music plays] [Clapping] [music stops] [Bang sound] [Noise] Carson!
Carson!
- You done playing with the heathen scum?
- Just doing what I do, Captain.
Doing what you pay me for.
-I pay you too much.
- I do like my job.
[Silence] [Piano playing] [singing] -Framed by the greed and the attitude of a time.
- Polk firmly stated that Mexico will soon fall in line.
- His vision of our borders lie somewhere here in the West.
- Manifest destiny is now at the top of his list... - Shoot first!
Lie later [sword fighting] - The official motto of this land.
- Whether it's Columbus, Polk or Washington - [Duet] or men who aren't as grand.
[ ominous music playing] - 300 dead and counting.
Our bullets [gunshot] ripped through their skin.
- They died without a fight and soon they'll all be dead.
- Captain Fremont you've saved us from the scourage of this here land.
They kill me and eat our cattle, we're glad you took the stand.
- Shoot first!
Lie later The official motto of this land.
- Whether it's Columbus Polk or hard ass Jackson or men who aren't as grand.
- Shoot first!
Lie later the official motto of this land.
- Manifest destiny has begun so you better know which side you're on.
[clanging of swords] - They attacked us first.
It's the good ole standard quote.
- Time to make an example.
And cut these Indian's throats.
- Whether we're talking then or now things really haven't change!
- Laws need to be broken to suit the white men's needs.
- Rules change with the game.
- White lies, White justice.
- Different rules for Indians.
- [Duet] Captain Fremont I promise, I will do whatever I can... - Shoot First!
Lie Later.
The official motto of this land.
- Whether its Columbus, Polk or bounty hunters.
- Their means justify the end.
- Though the numbers don't add up as any fool can see.
- They'll never get back the land we stole through Manifest... Destiny!
[ominous music playing] [Music stops] - I think we've done our part here to help these settlers with their savage concerns.
- Sound the revelry.
[Trumpet playing] - Right face!
[stomping sound of boots] Forward, march!
- [Marching] Left, left, left, right, left - Left, left, left, [music and voice fading] right, left [silence] [Running] [Silence] [Woman crying loudly] - Symyk'ajna me'ukwa [continues crying] - [Singing] wejpem honsynomen honsynomen honsynomen wejpem honsynomen honsynomen honsynomen - The men from the East led by Fremont, the Americans have attacked one of our villages.
- Oh, surely this is a misunderstanding.
- They killed many of our men, women and children.
- I'm sure It's just rumors.
- I've heard nothing from my scout who travel far and wide throughout this valley.
- I visited this place, I saw for myself.
Many dead.
- Are you sure it was these men?
It could have been an enemy tribe.
- I'm certain.
[Silence] [cricket sound] - You must deal with these men or you will be responsible for what my people will do next.
- Wait, wait.
Let talk.
- Too much talk.
- I brought you more men to work your fields.
And also my youngest son Mosus.
- Father no, not Mosus.
- niseek majdy kaateem bolopajkwa - Teach him well your ways and deal with this Fremont and the Americans.
[cricket sound] [Playing intruments] [Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] [Loud music playing] [Applauding] [Cheering] - Welcome back to Frontier idol.
This is new New Helvetia.
Home of Sutter's Fort, Sutter's Distillery, Sutter's Ironworks, Sutter's bread and hat stores.
Weary travelers rest your bones.
Did you just cross the Sierra Nevada mountains, cross the great dessert?
- Were you part of the Donner Party?
Come eat a good homegrown meal, not one of those snacks you survived on all winter - Mountain men, trappers, hunters, frontiersmen, pioneers, all you crazy, Americans.
Welcome to New Helvetia.
If we don't have it You don't want it.
[Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] - Let's welcome back to the stage Esclava Uno.
- Oh hoh - El Conductor of mucho pain [woman laughing] and El Negerero D. - My friends you've reached the end of the line.
- New Helvetia created by non other than Johann Sutter himself.
- Do you need a wheel turned?
- Do you need a horse shoed?
- A beer and a banger.
- Or a whore for your wanger?
We've got it all right here on the New Frontier.
[Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] [Nisenan song] - Are you from Missouri, - Arkansas, - Ohio, - New York City, - Virginia, - Kentucky.
- A patriot from Massachusetts.
- A Redskin Washington?
- [laughs] Getting ahead of myself by a century.
- Make yourself at home.
We don't discriminate.
We don't discriminate.
- Unless of course you're Indian, East or West.
African slave or free gook, Jap, chink, Jew, Polynesian or aboriginal - But cheer up.
We got beer, bangers and whores.
[applauding and cheering] [silence] [Running] [crying] [Instruments playing] [instruments playing] [singing]- Our love is like the spring upon the land.
- Our love is written in the clouds.
[Intruments playing] - My heart blooms like the flowers in your hand.
- My heart was never so full.
[Intruments playing] - The moon hangs so low in the sky.
- The wind was never so still.
- And I'm holding you at last, - And I'm holding you at last, as we wait with hopelessness and fear.
- Holding you under a Nisenan Moon.
Under a blanket made of stars.
Kissing you as our world hangs on the edge.
- I'm scared at the same time so full of love.
[singing ends] [Gunshot] - What the hell are you shooting at, Esclava Uno?
- I thought I saw one of those slave girls.
- How many slave girls, I tell you to shoot Esclava?
- None, El Conductor.
- Right!
Because Mr. Sutter want's them alive!
- Save the lead for the Bucks.
- Negerero which way to Symyjk's village?
- You're the boss man!
El Conductor of Mucho Pain.
- You tell us!
- I need to stop.
El Conductor, I need to stop...[struggling] - They need water [low voice].
- Drink and empty your piss bags and then we move on.
Maybe If you're lucky you'll get a little taste of Sutter's slave girls.
[Background music] [music playing] - What's your story man?
What's wrong with you?
- [Starts singing] You want the story.
I'll spit it out.
This ain't for glory.
- That's what you tout.
- I'd rather sweep this.
Into the cracks.
- Tomorrow they're Mascots in view of the facts.
[singing together] - Give me that Redskin.
I want me a squaw.
- Give me the Redskin.
- Clean 'em up now their Sutter's little whores.
[Girl screaming] - Young once bring more bounty.
- 5 dollars per slave.
- Whoah!
- I want that Redskin!
- 5 dollars pay.
- [Singing together] Give me that Redskin.
I want me a squaw.
- Give me that Redskin.
- Clean them up now, their Sutter's little whores.
- That's what it means son, to be a Redskin.
- That's what it means to burn her name.
- Collect my bounty and then I'm done.
- Huh.
Right!
- For Johann Sutter you'll do the same.
- You want the story?
I'll spit it out [Spitting] This ain't for glory.
- That's what you tout.
[laughing] - All right, break's over.
This ain't no union job.
We're moving out.
- Come on Redskin.
[Nisenan song] - ‘ydawim myseem!
‘ydawim myseem!
[Girl shouting] [Men shouting] [Violin playing] - Captain Sutter needs more workers and women.
[laughs] to work the fields.
- I had agreements with the captain.
I would supply him with the handful of a young men to work the fields.
And that was all.
- Demands change.
Need changed.
Agreements break.
[Snap] - You will meet these demands or be subject to my punishment what I deem necessary.
- I will meet with the captain and make my own demands.
- I'm taking a handful of your women.
[Instrument playing] - No that was not the deal.
Symyk'aj!
- No.
Don't touch her.
[Whipping sound] [groaning] - Ah, we meet again.
I knew you looked familiar.
[Girl screaming] [Girl shouting] - What have we here?
[Girl screaming] I know I've seen you before.
- [Singing together] What have we here?
I know I've seen you before.
- Don't worry, it'll come on back to me.
In time.
In time, my sweetness... - What have we here?
I know I've seen you before.
Don't worry, it will come back to me.
In time.
in time, my sweetness... - What have we here?
Pretty baby, little, pretty girl.
[Nisenan song] [Men singing] [Singing together] What have we here?
Pretty baby, little, pretty girl.
- my slave.
I like what I see.
I like what I see.
- Tie their hands.
Make it tight.
Don't worry pretty baby you get to come on back, with me.
Cause I like what I see.
Tie their hands.
Make it tight.
Don't worry pretty baby you get to come on back with me.
Cause I like what I see.
- Step right up.
Get your slave card.
Get your tin token.
Good for one free shirt at Sutter's surplus store.
[Girl screaming] Jump on board Sutter slave train.
Something's coming.
Coming for you.
Something red, white, and blue.
Johann, he can't protect you.
Something inside is broken.
Something inside just ain't right.
Something inside is broken.
[fighting and shouting] [intense music] [fighting and shouting] [intense music] [Instrument playing] [Instruments playing] - Tie their hands, make it tight, [Nisenan song] Don't worry pretty baby you get to come on back with me.
Cause I like what I see.
Tie their hands, make it tight, [Nisenan song] Don't worry pretty baby you get to come on back, with me.
Cause I like what I see.
I like what I see.
Oh yeah, I like what I see.
I like what I see.
Oh yeah, I like what I see.
[Nisenan song] [Music stop] [Nisenan song] [silence] - Thank you for your continued obedience.
[Removes sword] - We trusted you.
[horse neighing] You said you would protect us.
We want our women back.
- You do not make demands on me.
You need to keep to your promise and keep sending me your young men and girls.
And I will keep your village happy.
- This was not our agreement.
- Well, it is now.
[cricket sound] I will keep peace in this valley.
I will protect you.
You see the strength of my army.
- Sutter!
- Uh - Sutter!
[gun clicks] [Music starts playing] - [singing] He has an army.
Soldiers he trained.
He has your people and nothing you do, will make him change.
He has a fort, gateway of the west.
He's just a man.
That you can't best.
He's like a monster devouring the land His little empire, is not so grand.
He's only human.
Not like me.
I'm special.
He's only human.
But he scares me Something inside is broken.
Something inside ain't right.
Something inside is broken!
Something inside ain't right.
- I told you not to follow.
- I'm a man now father.
I've chosen my path.
- What path?
- I'm going to work at New Helvetia for our village.
- I did not order that.
- I did.
As my own man.
- 'Iine.
'Iine, no.
- Something inside is broken.
What is your business at the Fort?
- Something inside, ain't right.
- I come to work, I'm from Symyk'aj's Village.
- Something inside is broken.
- Open the gate.
[Gate opening] - Something inside ain't right.
- 'Iine!
- Where is my child?
Where is Lay-lan-ee?
- He has your child.
The man in the fort.
He took your children.
His men did extort.
- Where is our mother?
We want our mother?
- Where is my wife?
Where is my wife?
- He has your wife.
The man in the fort.
He took your wife.
His men did extort.
- No.
Let them go, I failed you all.
I failed my people.
I failed my sons.
What can I do.
I've lost all control to the man in the fort.
- c'ajim majdy - - Something 'ydawwisi - inside - himam poo nik' - is broken.
- woolim majdy 'ydawwisi - heelim museem - Something inside - heelim heelim - ain't right.
- museem heelim museem heelim heelim museem - kanteemi meewisi - Something inside - - myseem 'ek'ak'at'omis - is broken.
- mink'i honje meec'ee heelim museem heelim heelim myseem heelim heelim - Message live on.
Message don't fight.
Message live on.
Message don't fight.
Message live on.
Message don't fight.
[Nisenan song] - Fire, fire [Explosion] [silence] - Let's welcome back to the stage Esclava Uno.
[applauding] [shouts with joy] And his compadre El Negerero D!
[barking] And lets not forget about Manuel and Wooden Nickel.
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, wait Compadre.
Uhm, you never said anything about them being natives.
- They're humble now.
They've been turned like zombies!
Best slave trackers I know.
- Great.
They're harmless?
[woman laughing] Oh!
They're harmless.
- Excellent.
Then you go do your stuff.
Go get those heathens.
- Let's welcome back to the stage, Maj Kyle, Dyppem Kyle and Pulba Hailing from the Nisenan territory just north of Sutter's Fort.
-[Background music] [Singing] - One, two, three little Indians.
One, two, three little Indians.
One, two, three little Indians.
One, two, three little Indians.
Emelulu doo ma ma lee Emelulu doo ma ma lee Emelulu doo ma ma lee Emelulu doo ma ma lee - Freedom!
[Thug] [shouts in pain] - 'Iine!
[Thug] [Horse neighs] - Everyone gather your things we leave tonight.
- Dyppem Kyle, run, get the others.
- Mosus!
- He road out with Sutter this morning.
I wil come back for him.
- No !
We need to leave now and never return.
Otherwise it would be the end of us and everyone we just rescued.
[Loud noise] - Let us leave this place and never return.
[Rumbling] [Chaos] [shooting] [Shooting] - Wow, that ws not the ending of tonight's show written n the script.
Chalk one up for those savages.
[Shouting] Remember my friends, anything's possible on Frontier idol.
Join us next time when Sutter returns and the dung hits the fan.
[Banging] I'm Peter Hardiman BURNETT.
And put that in your book, President Polk.
[playing saxophone] [drum roll] [playing saxophone] [drum roll] [horse neighing] - I try my best to give these people a better life.
And new God, a safe place to live.
And in return, this is what I get - That's why we call them savages.
- What do you have?
Speak up Injun.
- I recognized 'Iine, who stabbed El Conductor.
- ‘Iine.
What clan is he?
- SYMYK'AJ.
- Hmm... Mosus?
[Incoming footsteps] - Yes sir.
- SYMYK'AJ, is your father?
- Yes, sir.
- Hmm.
- Who is 'Iine?
[grunts] - I will send my soldiers to your village and have them kill [groan in pain], every last member of your tribe if you do not speak.
- He is my brother.
Fate, is now in your hands.
Find your brother and return him to me.
- Yes sir.
[Crying in pain] - Indians.
- We're under attack.
- Indians!
- Indians, we're under attack!
[Bombing] - Lajuense!
Lajuense!
[Shouting] [Trumpet playing] - Kit Carson where are you?
- Lajuense is dead!
- They killed Crane, Danny and Little Wolf.
- No!
[Stabbing sound] [Shouting] - You soldiers.
Go find me these Indians.
[Noise] - Which way did they go?
- Which way did they go?
I'm gonna kill them.
[Loud music start playing] - Let's give a big New Helvetia.
Welcome to the pathfinder.
A captain of the U.S Army Corps Engineers and future presidential candidate Captain John Fremont.
Kit Carson and his soldiers.
Oh, and a few Delaware Indians.
- Frontier Idol!
Frontier Idol!
Frontier Idol!
- It seems at this last round you lost a few points.
And men.
So now you want me to make up those points, in this next round.
of Frontier Idol.
- There's danger abound and these Indians are deserving a good whooping.
A good whoopin!
Read your book.
Read your book Pull it together Sir, pull it together.
- My man, Lajuense is dead.
Our best cook is dead.
The Indians did this, - the Indians did this.
But Danny and Crain were members of the brigade were they not?
Indians?
Delaware Indians are real good fighters.
Good trackers.
But Indians all the same.
And all Indians must die.
- Manifest destiny.
- Manifest destiny.
- Right you are Captain.
Right you are, sir.
Now your challenge has three paths.
Do you want to find the Indians that attacked your camp or to leave for the Oregon Territories?
Or will you three, single handedly make Alta California part of the USA?
- I will do all 3.
- Bravo, Captain.
- For the U.S of A.
The home of the brave.
- Lajuense is dead.
My best friend, and his best cook are dead.
- I will get revenge.
This Indians are deserving of a good whooping.
- A real good whooping.
- Read your book.
My men and I are on a scouting trip to the Oregon Territories far beyond the reach of Mexico's control.
I'm a proud man, deserving revenge for the death of my best friend and cook.
And the two other Indians.
- Not good cooks.
Not good cooks.
- We will get blood for blood.
- Blood for blood.
- Then push on as I told Mr. Sutter were a force to be reckoned with.
-You just give the one captain - I swear on the life of my wife.
- Jesse Fremont.
- I will get revenge And I swear too on the lives, of all the Indians.
I'm going to kill.
- We will get revenge.
- We will get revenge.
- We will get revenge.
- We will get revenge.
- We will get, revenge.
- I swear.
- Let me tell you about my extermination policy.
[Crown cheering] [Shouting] Indians!
Tell them to go back from where they came from.
- Are these the Indians that attacked us?
- Uh, I don't know.
- Yes or no.
- Uh.
[Groaning] - No!
- Damn.
We take no prisoners.
We take no prisoners.
- Then we kill them all.
- Ready!
Aim!
- No.
- Fire!
[explosion] - No.
- I'd say job well done, sir.
- Let's move out.
- Sound the revelry [Trumpet playing] - Right face.
Forward match.
- Left, left, left right left.
[marching] Left, left, left right left.
[sound fading] [musical instrument playing] [singing] In the night.
Th color spectrum blurs in darkness Making all of us, color-blind.
In the night.
The stars are shinning, just enough for us to make up our own minds.
Create a world in our dreams in mine there's equality Everyone sees eye to eye.
When Dawn breaks, hatred fills the sky, and as the sun raises.
Men will lose their lives.
And even though we look, we can't see each other, for who we truly are.
The colors of the stars.
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
Who's the next victim?
Hands up where I could see 'em We can't breathe.
Streets are crying.
Can you hear 'em?
Whose job is it to heal 'em?
Trail of tears I feel 'em, our dreams we fear ‘em, What does it even mean to be human?
Morals escaped, humanity's trumped over insecurities.
There's no security.
Can't even drink the water.
Prosperity at its finest.
This is the leader that you follow.
Everybody's trying to get highest.
Blood over diamonds.
Gold, is it worth the violence?
The wind no longer allows our tears to be silent.
Justice, it's time to be timeless.
Said faith, If you happen to find us.
If you hear hope hiding, then let love know we're trying to find a way.
What was here yesterday is gone today.
Now it's up to us to change.
But when the dawn breaks sadness fills the sky.
And as the sun raises men will lose their lives and even though we look.
We can't see each other for who we truly are.
The colors of the stars.
What are we fighting for?
[singing] What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
[rustling] [Speaking in Nisenan language] - When can we stop running?
[Music start playing] [Singing] - Dawn draws near.
It's a brand new day.
- When will we be safe?
- We've got to find way.
[guitar playing] [singing together] I'm so scared inside.
* Hold me, I'm right beside you.
I'm never going away.
- My heart has always been yours.
- And I'm here to stay.
- Hold me, - let your heart go.
Let your fears float away.
[Singing together] It's a brand new day.
And we're far form the fears that once kept us apart And we're far from that place that ruined our lives.
- It ruined our life.
Now we can start anew.
We can start again - It's within our grasp to rid this pain that we shed, - from the lies we've been fed - From the deeds that we did, [Singing together] - It's our life.
- It's our time again.
- We can start from that place - that was taken from us, - from our very first kiss - It's just you that I've missed.
[music playing] [rustling] - Mosus, you made it out?
- No.
But you're here with us.
- Yes, we were looking for you, and I followed your tracks - and now you're here.
- Who's we, Mosus?
- We must all go back.
- Why?
- Who's we?
- We've got to set things straight.
- We can't!
- No.
Sutter pardoned your ways.
Don't have fears - He lies.
Please brother, we must go.
- What have you done?
- You betrayed us brother.
- No.
Yes brother.
Hear my plea.
- What have you done?
Mosus?
- I had no choice.
- We all have a choice to do what's right to follow our hearts.
- My brother, our tribe.
- My brother is dead.
He's dead to me.
He's dead to you.
- I never wanted to be the one.
I only wanted to be like you.
I only wanted to make you proud.
And I did as our father offered.
To hold the soldiers vow.
For what's a vow without honor.
What is our life without truth, brother tell me, I didn't do it for you, I didn't do it for me.
I had to follow these orders.
For truth in life, so our tribe survive [sword clashing] and not wiped from this Earth.
I didn't have any choice.
I didn't have any choice.
I'm sorry brother.
[Door opening] - Dawn draws near on New Helvetia.
This is your destiny.
This is the place where I'll set you free.
[clapping] Well done.
You found the murderer and my property.
- Not I Johann, it was one of your soldiers.
Mosus.
He led us directly to them.
He's got a keen eye for tracking.
- Captain Sutter.
You said there would be a pardon.
- Indeed my son, you are pardoned.
And I will let your tribe live.
- But my brother.
You said he would be set free.
- Yes.
He will be freed.
[knock] - Back it up.
[drum roll] - No, no, ‘Iine.
No.
[crying] [crying] [singing] - Men are wretched little things.
What they do to each other.
Is really quite a sin.
They don't know.
- ‘Iine!
- And they don't want to see.
That these wretched things they do repeat in History.
[crying] - No [chains rattling] - What they do, what they say, how they fight and how they play.
Wretched men do wretched things.
[grunts] - We - 'Iine!
[crying] No, 'Iine.
- sometimes blind an eye.
[crying] - How we got here, why at whose misery.
- Let them go!
[sobbing] - Greed.
- Let him go!
- An urge you've got to heed.
or are we wouldn't carelessly take all the things we think we need.
- ‘Iine!
- What I need, what I want, I can't stop and I don't want to.
Wretched men do wretched things.
- ‘Iine!
-No!
[crying] - No... - Justice is mine.
[continues weeping] - Spike this, put it outside the fort for all to see.
[crying] - Thank you for bringing me your brother.
- I did it for my people so you wouldn't kill them.
We all pay a price.
- You will burn in this hell that's in your God's book.
- Oh, but you Mosus you will beat me there.
[Crying in extreme pain] [crying] [Thug] - Chain her in my quarters.
[spit] [continues weeping] [piano playing] [piano playing] - Father, ‘Iine, look!
[piano playing] - No!
[Shouting] [piano playing] - Why?
Oh, why?
do we do, all the terrible things that we do.
Why?
Oh, why?
Do we say then forget the vows we made.
Why are men So bad?
Wretched men in their wretched little world.
Why don't you crawl into your wretched little holes and die.
Die.
and leave this world alone.
And leave this world alone.
[singing] We need to stand, we need to stand.
Let our voice to be heard.
We need to stand, we need to stand.
Let our voice be heard.
[music playing] [silence] [END]
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