WEBVTT 00:02.266 --> 00:04.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% [Wind blowing] 00:07.300 --> 00:10.066 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% [Horn blowing] 00:10.066 --> 00:21.266 align:left position:50% line:89% size:40% ♪ 00:21.266 --> 00:23.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% [Drums beating] 00:23.933 --> 00:27.700 align:left position:50% line:89% size:40% ♪ 00:27.700 --> 00:29.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Woman: If we don't know the roots that we come from, 00:29.666 --> 00:31.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% we don't really understand where we're going. 00:31.900 --> 00:33.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% [Person chanting] 00:33.733 --> 00:37.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Woman: Aztec dancing is a form of heightened meditation. 00:37.100 --> 00:40.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The dances move our spirit to connect with the land. 00:43.600 --> 00:45.200 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% Hoo ah! 00:45.200 --> 00:47.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We allow the drum to take our body and move it 00:47.633 --> 00:50.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% and to move our feet. 00:50.433 --> 00:52.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% And we're actually manifesting our thoughts 00:52.566 --> 00:54.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% through the prayers. 00:54.400 --> 00:56.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It allows you to get in this wave of this vibration 00:56.366 --> 00:58.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% through the drums and through the songs. 00:58.366 --> 01:01.933 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% It moves you, and then the healing begins. 01:01.933 --> 01:08.433 align:left position:50% line:89% size:40% ♪ 01:08.433 --> 01:11.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Dulé: We're on the north side of Houston right now. 01:11.400 --> 01:14.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. 01:14.566 --> 01:18.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% 70,000 Indigenous people here. That's a large population. 01:18.200 --> 01:20.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% There should be programs and systems in place 01:20.566 --> 01:22.033 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% to make sure that 01:22.033 --> 01:25.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that community's history stays alive. 01:31.600 --> 01:34.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Abuela M'api Rainflowa 01:34.600 --> 01:36.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% is fighting for her people to be seen 01:36.733 --> 01:39.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and using her artistry to connect to her roots 01:39.566 --> 01:44.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and maintain the story of the Indigenous people here in Texas. 01:44.166 --> 01:46.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Abuela M'api Rainflowa: Hi. Dulé: How is everything? 01:46.266 --> 01:48.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Abuela M'api: Good. Dulé: Dulé. Very nice-- 01:48.766 --> 01:50.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Abuela M'api: Hold on. I'm gonna teach you. 01:50.366 --> 01:52.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Our handshake is like this. Dulé: I love it. 01:52.100 --> 01:53.833 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Abuela M'api: And then camaraderie here. 01:53.833 --> 01:55.600 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Yeah, and then back to your heart space. 01:55.600 --> 01:57.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You touch the vein. Dulé: Here? I love it. 01:57.266 --> 01:59.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Boom. Oh, come on, now. Ha ha! 01:59.700 --> 02:01.033 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% Abuela M'api: Now you got it. 02:05.333 --> 02:07.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% A lot of us grew up around here. 02:07.133 --> 02:09.933 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% This is our home base park. 02:09.933 --> 02:12.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% What we're gonna do is we're gonna siembra the land, 02:12.766 --> 02:15.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which means, like, fertilize it or seed it. 02:15.433 --> 02:17.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We're going to get it ready for our dance. 02:17.300 --> 02:19.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% We're in what's called Sun Dance season right now. 02:19.666 --> 02:21.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% That's why we're going to teach you Sun Dance, 02:21.300 --> 02:23.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% the actual dance, the Aztec/Mexica dance. 02:23.666 --> 02:25.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Anytime dancers dance, what we're doing is we're 02:25.600 --> 02:27.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% connecting with the land. Dulé: Mm-hmm. 02:27.466 --> 02:29.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Abuela M'api: We're asking it to be fertile. 02:29.766 --> 02:32.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% We're asking it to cleanse us, too. You can look around. 02:32.966 --> 02:34.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% There's a lot of unhoused relatives here. 02:34.500 --> 02:36.433 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% Dulé: Right. 02:36.433 --> 02:37.866 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Abuela M'api: There's a lot of addiction and problems. 02:37.866 --> 02:40.000 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so we feel like when we push out this, 02:40.000 --> 02:41.666 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% it actually, like, changes. 02:41.666 --> 02:43.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Dulé: So you're using your, like, the dance 02:43.766 --> 02:46.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% to really send out good energy. Abuela M'api: Mm-hmm. 02:46.600 --> 02:48.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Dulé: In the first few minutes of us here meeting, 02:48.933 --> 02:50.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I can tell there's so much history. 02:50.766 --> 02:52.300 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Abuela M'api: Uh-huh. 02:52.300 --> 02:53.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Dulé: How did you tap into all the history? 02:53.633 --> 02:55.566 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Abuela M'api: Ah, yeah. 02:55.566 --> 02:58.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% That's a whole story in itself. Dulé: See? Ha ha!