1 00:00:02,266 --> 00:00:04,200 [Wind blowing] 2 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:10,066 [Horn blowing] 3 00:00:10,066 --> 00:00:21,266 ♪ 4 00:00:21,266 --> 00:00:23,933 [Drums beating] 5 00:00:23,933 --> 00:00:27,700 ♪ 6 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:29,666 Woman: If we don't know the roots that we come from, 7 00:00:29,666 --> 00:00:31,900 we don't really understand where we're going. 8 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:33,733 [Person chanting] 9 00:00:33,733 --> 00:00:37,100 Woman: Aztec dancing is a form of heightened meditation. 10 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:40,633 The dances move our spirit to connect with the land. 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,200 Hoo ah! 12 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,633 We allow the drum to take our body and move it 13 00:00:47,633 --> 00:00:50,433 and to move our feet. 14 00:00:50,433 --> 00:00:52,566 And we're actually manifesting our thoughts 15 00:00:52,566 --> 00:00:54,400 through the prayers. 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,366 It allows you to get in this wave of this vibration 17 00:00:56,366 --> 00:00:58,366 through the drums and through the songs. 18 00:00:58,366 --> 00:01:01,933 It moves you, and then the healing begins. 19 00:01:01,933 --> 00:01:08,433 ♪ 20 00:01:08,433 --> 00:01:11,400 Dulé: We're on the north side of Houston right now. 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,566 Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. 22 00:01:14,566 --> 00:01:18,200 70,000 Indigenous people here. That's a large population. 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,566 There should be programs and systems in place 24 00:01:20,566 --> 00:01:22,033 to make sure that 25 00:01:22,033 --> 00:01:25,466 that community's history stays alive. 26 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,600 Abuela M'api Rainflowa 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,733 is fighting for her people to be seen 28 00:01:36,733 --> 00:01:39,566 and using her artistry to connect to her roots 29 00:01:39,566 --> 00:01:44,166 and maintain the story of the Indigenous people here in Texas. 30 00:01:44,166 --> 00:01:46,266 Abuela M'api Rainflowa: Hi. Dulé: How is everything? 31 00:01:46,266 --> 00:01:48,766 Abuela M'api: Good. Dulé: Dulé. Very nice-- 32 00:01:48,766 --> 00:01:50,366 Abuela M'api: Hold on. I'm gonna teach you. 33 00:01:50,366 --> 00:01:52,100 Our handshake is like this. Dulé: I love it. 34 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:53,833 Abuela M'api: And then camaraderie here. 35 00:01:53,833 --> 00:01:55,600 Yeah, and then back to your heart space. 36 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,266 You touch the vein. Dulé: Here? I love it. 37 00:01:57,266 --> 00:01:59,700 Boom. Oh, come on, now. Ha ha! 38 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:01,033 Abuela M'api: Now you got it. 39 00:02:05,333 --> 00:02:07,133 A lot of us grew up around here. 40 00:02:07,133 --> 00:02:09,933 This is our home base park. 41 00:02:09,933 --> 00:02:12,766 What we're gonna do is we're gonna siembra the land, 42 00:02:12,766 --> 00:02:15,433 which means, like, fertilize it or seed it. 43 00:02:15,433 --> 00:02:17,300 We're going to get it ready for our dance. 44 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:19,666 We're in what's called Sun Dance season right now. 45 00:02:19,666 --> 00:02:21,300 That's why we're going to teach you Sun Dance, 46 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:23,666 the actual dance, the Aztec/Mexica dance. 47 00:02:23,666 --> 00:02:25,600 Anytime dancers dance, what we're doing is we're 48 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,466 connecting with the land. Dulé: Mm-hmm. 49 00:02:27,466 --> 00:02:29,766 Abuela M'api: We're asking it to be fertile. 50 00:02:29,766 --> 00:02:32,966 We're asking it to cleanse us, too. You can look around. 51 00:02:32,966 --> 00:02:34,500 There's a lot of unhoused relatives here. 52 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,433 Dulé: Right. 53 00:02:36,433 --> 00:02:37,866 Abuela M'api: There's a lot of addiction and problems. 54 00:02:37,866 --> 00:02:40,000 And so we feel like when we push out this, 55 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,666 it actually, like, changes. 56 00:02:41,666 --> 00:02:43,766 Dulé: So you're using your, like, the dance 57 00:02:43,766 --> 00:02:46,600 to really send out good energy. Abuela M'api: Mm-hmm. 58 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,933 Dulé: In the first few minutes of us here meeting, 59 00:02:48,933 --> 00:02:50,766 I can tell there's so much history. 60 00:02:50,766 --> 00:02:52,300 Abuela M'api: Uh-huh. 61 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:53,633 Dulé: How did you tap into all the history? 62 00:02:53,633 --> 00:02:55,566 Abuela M'api: Ah, yeah. 63 00:02:55,566 --> 00:02:58,800 That's a whole story in itself. Dulé: See? Ha ha!