Julian Brave Noisecat

And so, you know, after not living together for 22 years, I mean, he left when I was about six years old, suddenly we were living across the hallway from each other and he'd spend his days out in the carving shed, you know, in the garage and I'd be working on my book and working on sugar cane and then at night we'd hang out.

And we got to know each other a lot better.

I'd turn on my recorder and he'd tell me stories from his life that I'd never heard before.

He learned a little bit more about mine.

And we really did become like best friends.

And so I think that that relationship that was really rebuilt because I did make the choice to move back in with him to create some opportunity for reconciliation also made it possible for us to have real and hard conversations like the one that you see in the film.

Hey-ya-ho, hey-ya-hey-yo-ho, hey-ya-ho, hey-ya-hey-yo-ho-ya, hey-ya-ha, hey-ya-hey-ya-ho-ya, hey-ya-ho, hey-ya-ho.

Canada is all Indian land.

Canada is all Indian land.

Oh, Canada is all Indian land.