Sandy, you've never been up here, right?

- I have not.

- I think that that is the first place.

It looks a little bit spring-fed.

This is the head, Kiamichi River.

- [Colleen] So this is the birthplace?

- [Ken] This is the birthplace.

- I've never seen it before, so this is the first time that I've seen the beginning of a river like this.

If you're looking at it as a birthplace, it looks like a canal, like a birth canal.

It's the beginning of a river.

And how often do you get to stand in the beginning of a river?

(birds chirping) (water splashing) So they would ceremonially bathe in water.

You know, in some tribes, they bathe at sacred times, but there's a cleansing that happens.

So that's why I've wet my hair and my face, just to recognize that this water is special.

- [Ken] I'm gonna do that.

I think I did, but I wanna do it again.

- Yeah.

If you think of how amazing the Kiamichi becomes after this place, our beginnings can be so small and insignificant, but as we grow and people join, our movement could become as significant.

How beautiful that is.

(cricket chirping)