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16 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Group of people stand in a cluster with cars in background. Caption. Living inside and outside of mainstream American society.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 8
27 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American person with face paint wears animal feathered headdress. Caption. But the history of American Indians in this land.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 1
27 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American figure with black covering on face holds up weapon in each hand. Second figure lunges in background. Caption. And one of the greatest warrior chiefs.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 6
28 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man looks at camera and parts lips mid-speech. Backdrop displays black and white illustration of shirtless man falling forward with hair swept up behind him. Caption. One on the eastern seaboard near present-day Boston.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 4
28 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of the midsection of a woman with long, dark hair. Caption. Sarah was also the first American Indian.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 7
28 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Color illustration of a hunter with long, dark hair aiming a spear at two deer by a lake. Caption. Hurled with a unique and powerful tool.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 2
28 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of sprawling red rock formations. Caption. Resting between the Rocky Mountains on the east.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 3
28 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man looks down at camera and parts lips in mid-speech. Backdrop displays painting of a militia bearing an American flag and facing off against Native Americans in battle.
A History Of American Indian Achievement
Season 0 / Ep 5
25 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person walking through low hills of green and brown shrubs and rock strewn in red soil. Caption: through the Texas Panhandle.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 2
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Digital illustration of green topographical map with brown cutouts of the human figure marking various locations. Caption. It honors the indigenous people who lived on the land.
All About the Holidays
Episode 36
1 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Woman in pioneer costume with bonnet rests head on girl snuggled up in her lap. Caption. Anyone with a 10 dollar filing fee can free claim land.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 6
43 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Bright sun shines through cloudy sky over hazy landscape. Caption. Narrator. Land hunger becomes a fever, even for the government.
America the Story of Us
Season 1 / Ep 3
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Forest with many trees. The ground is bumpy with several mounds of green grass between each of the trees. Text reads, “America’s Prehistoric Civilizations: The Mound Builders.”
Ancient History
Episode 5
28 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Exterior walls of an ancient house made of stone with a reddish hue. Parts of the roof and doorway have crumbled. Text reads, “Ancient Pueblo People: The Anasazi.”
Ancient History
Episode 3
27 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
View of two Mayan temples made of stone that are crumbling with age. Text reads, “The Maya.”
Ancient History
Episode 6
41 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of the ancient mud brick buildings and kivas of Mesa Verde under a sandstone cliff. Caption. "Mesa Verde rewrote the history of the west."
Around the World
Episode 29
2 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup of a baler turning over a bale of hay.
26 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
2 Native American people wearing brightly colored traditional Native American clothing with big feathers perform a dance. Caption. "The Lumbee, the Native American tribe indigenous to this region."
Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi
Season 1 / Ep 5
26 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Carolina Snaps: King Hagler--Catawba Indian Chief
Carolina Snaps
Episode 11
1 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: Celebrate Native American Educators: Jason LaFontaine
Celebrate Native American Educators
Episode 1
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrate Native American Educators: Mandy Smoker Broaddus
Celebrate Native American Educators
Episode 2
2 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrate Native American Educators: Patricia Whitefoot
Celebrate Native American Educators
Episode 1
2 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Still image from: Celebrate Native American Educators: Renae Guenther
Celebrate Native American Educators
Episode 3
2 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Young girl seated across a table from a senior man. Caption. Allison, let me tell you a story about my grandfather.
15 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of Native Americans dancing. Some are in native dress. Caption. We're going to be in the dance together.
9 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Senior Native American wearing a feather headdress looks directly at camera. Caption. These were portraits like you might see of Roman emperors.
1 hours 25 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital map titled "Battle of Little Bighorn." A black horse runs west towards Little Bighorn River and the Bighorn Mountains. 3 blue labeled banners for Gibbon, Terry and Custer, and Crook surround the horse, each with an arrow pointing in.
Command Decisions
Episode 8
20 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
2 Native American men and 2 Native American children sit closely together inside a wood structure. Caption. Listening to stories told by the native elders.
Exploring Our Past
Episode 5
23 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Man wears polo and stands in a room. His mouth is open in mid-speech. Caption. It's a great day to learn about history.
Constitution Hall Pass
Episode 4
19 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Still image from: Crash Course U.S. History: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
Crash Course U.S. History
Episode 1
10 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of a person's face. Caption: This is pollution we don't see, smell, taste.
54 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 12
Senior woman stands behind a wood fence and looks out at a lush garden. Caption. Who continue to keep the family going.
40 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: PT/TT
Cartoon. Native American people holding hands, waving at a mountain landscape. Caption. Mother Earth, we thank you for giving us everything we need.
8 minutes
Grade Level: K - 4
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Still image from: History in a Nutshell: French and Indian War (Part 1)
History in a Nutshell
Episode 14
7 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: History in a Nutshell: French and Indian War (Part 2)
History in a Nutshell
Episode 15
7 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: History in a Nutshell: Lewis and Clark Expedition--The Journey West (Part 2)
History in a Nutshell
Episode 3
8 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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Still image from: History in a Nutshell: The Trail of Tears
History in a Nutshell
Episode 1
12 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Frame of a cowboy with back to camera. People in foreground lean on fencing. Caption. Because the cowboy has always been my hero.
18 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Woman stands outside and holds both her hands up by her face with another person’s hand reaching in between them like they are doing a choreographed dance.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 3 / Ep 3
6 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man wearing a traditional native American pow wow vest and skirt next to dancers with multiple hoops.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 2 / Ep 6
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native dancer performs on a stage as an audience of people watch on.
If Cities Could Dance
Season 5 / Ep
7 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Group of teenagers wearing yellow t-shirts shirts exit vans, stepping out onto a field. Caption. Man as narrator. Hi, guys.
1 hours 23 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Illustration of Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman with two braids in her hair and holding a wooden stick in her hand, as she looks out at us. Text reads, “Sacagawea.”
Influential Women
Episode 1
2 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Herd of caribou graze and rest in a snowy, blue-tinted landscape. Caption. Caribou have amazingly warm fur.
Inuit
Episode 1
13 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Inuit woman with long braids smiles and leans forward as she carries child in hide pouch on her back. Caption. It was the same 50 years ago.
Inuit
Episode 2
13 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Inuit man works inside hollowed out snow structure while a second person assists outside. Caption. Other people would place the bricks carefully.
Inuit
Episode 3
14 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
Blurry figure holds a paddle in a long canoe out on the water. Caption. He would also have to learn how to paddle a canoe.
Inuit
Episode 4
14 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 9
4 Native American children walking around a park area. Caption. How am I going to coach these girls?
56 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 11
Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.
America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
Episode 7
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Narrow river wends through lush green landscape. Caption. Male as narrator. On rolling hills that comprise the river valley.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 8
11 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American person on horseback rides off into the distant sunset. Caption. We have a right to speak about it.
29 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala surrounded by trees. Caption. Father Junipero Serra.
The Missions Of California
Episode 5
8 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Closeup of the Mission San Diego de Alcala overlaid with a map of California. Gold crosses mark locations along the coast of the map. Spanish caption. La misión San Diego.
The Missions Of California
Episode 4
8 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Closeup of the bell wall at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. Caption. All who and all who hear the ringing of its bells.
The Missions Of California
Episode 6
7 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Closeup of the bell wall at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. Spanish caption. Ésta la distinguida misión de San Gabriel Arcángel.
The Missions Of California
Episode 10
8 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Closeup of a fountain in front of the arches of the Mission Santa Barbara. Caption. So soundly was this water system engineered that, remarkably.
The Missions Of California
Episode 9
9 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Black and white illustration of the Mission Santa Barbara. Man in a wide brimmed hat rides a horse and other people populate the foreground. Spanish caption. La misión santa Bárbara.
The Missions Of California
Episode 11
9 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 12
Still image from: Mossback's Northwest: Chief Joseph in Seattle
Mossback's Northwest
Season 6 / Ep 6
7 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Rectangular rock formation stands tall in the desert beneath puffy clouds. Text reads, "Native Americans."
6 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Sepia-toned closeup portrait of a senior Native American man wearing a headdress. Caption. They all survived off the herds of buffalo that roamed the land.
Exploring Our Past
Episode 4
12 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Closeup of a shiny brown bird-like mask with a red beak and dark eyes. Caption. They also carved elaborate masks made of wood for ceremonies.
Exploring Our Past
Episode 1
13 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Sepia-toned photo of a multi-level stone structure with stairs, walls, and chimneys. Caption. They could be built to stand up to seven stories high.
Exploring Our Past
Episode 3
12 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Interior of hut with wood poles lashed together in a grid, forming the frame for the walls and ceiling. Caption. A long house was much like an apartment house.
Exploring Our Past
Episode 2
12 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Black and white photo of 4 military soldiers walking through rocky terrain. Caption. And then three other code talkers were wounded.
50 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Inuk man wearing a fur coat walks away from a hunting shelter, hilly terrain covered in snow. Caption. Grandfathers. Are you ready, Nuligak?
24 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Salmon on the floor of a boat. Caption: MY FIRST CATCH, A BEAUTIFUL PINK SALMON.
Ocean Treks With Jeff Corwin
Season 1 / Ep 2
20 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Closeup of light reflecting on water and a tangle of branches at bottom right of frame. Caption. Have just crossed the dominant geographical feature.
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 3
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco
47 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Large barn next to small red buildings shrouded by trees beneath a dusky sky. Caption. Pipestone is a billion and a half-year-old.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 9
11 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white illustration of 3 figures standing around a wooden pole with their arms around one another. Other figures dance in a circle around them. Caption. Chief Powhatan decided he still loved his daughter.
American Tall Tales & Legends
Episode 4
15 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: K - 3
Treetop view of forested area with rolling hills peeking through in background. Caption. Not the uniformity of summer's full foliage.
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 1
11 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Wooden sign with white figure aiming a spear-like arrow. Sign reads, "Russell Cave National Monument." Caption. Male as narrator. The monument's sign marks the entrance.
America's National Monuments: The Historic South
Episode 2
11 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Low-angle closeup of a Native American woman appearing to portray Sacagawea. Her black hair is in low, braided pigtails wrapped with tan leather against a blue sky background. Caption. My heart is full.
Sacagawea
Episode 3
16 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of a man with a stoic expression wearing vibrant yellow, red, orange, and white ceremonial regalia.
6 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American man in a head dress and traditional clothing gesturing with his hands. Come straight, buffalo! Caption: This extraordinary film from 1930 shows "Plains indian sign language," or "Hand talk."
Science Nation
Episode 163
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman in a black blazer stands next to a large computer monitor. She looks past camera as her hands gesture with thumbs and pointer fingers bent parallel to 1 another to form brackets.
Science Nation
Episode 103
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Covered wagon is drawn by horses through a field. Man walking and a man riding a horse follow behind. Caption. And for the 5,000 immigrants traveling the Oregon Trail.
America's National Monuments: Legacy Of The Great Plains
Episode 10
11 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Native American person speaking into camera with an image of snowy mountains as a backdrop. Caption. It took years to develop the self-image you possess.
18 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Painting of 1800s frontiersmen shooting at Native Americans. Caption. He then, successfully, led his warriors.
21 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Cartoon. Profile view of a rabbit named, Wesakechak, looking downward at a shrub and speaking to a bear who holds a small branch with fruit on it. Caption. There's that awful name again.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 1
13 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face with eyes looking towards camera and its mouth slightly open as if speaking. Caption. The wolf clan tells us it's a land far to the north.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 5
12 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face with eyes looking towards camera and mouth slightly open as if speaking. Caption. During the season of the falling leaves.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 4
12 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 4
Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face and neck. Wolf's eyes look slightly to the side and its mouth is gently open in a calm expression. Caption. Much higher.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 3
12 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Wide angle view of a section of a mountain range and slopes covered in snow and ice. Caption. Cub as narrator. What are glaciers?
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 2
12 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Cartoon. Closeup of a freshly cut tree that was growing on a snowy slope. Sound of crashing.
Stories From the Seventh Fire
Episode 6
13 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 6
Book cover shows illustrations of men wearing pants and hats and women wearing long skirts who all appear to be walking around a small fire on the ground. In the background, an orange sky and blue hills bursting with fall-colored trees. Book title appears in English as "We Are Grateful"; then it appears in phonetic Cherokee, "Otsaliheliga," and again in the Cherokee syllabary.
StoryMakers
Episode 4
8 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
English soldiers march through the fog, moving towards a distant blaze. Caption. Mad Anthony's troops indiscriminately destroy.
27 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Woman stands in front of a gold curtain and sings into a microphone. Lyrical caption. Sound of singing. And I just stopped growin'?
Teens 101
Episode 7
21 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Low closeup of an  Eskimo woman with dark straight hair and a headband worn at the forehead. Caption. Body decoration and tattoos were also used by Eskimos.
22 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 12
Black and white photos of a Native American woman and man wearing medals around their necks. Caption. Like currency used to purchase loyalty.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 52
10 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: The Electric Sheep: The Knowledge of Science in Indigenous Languages (Spanish)
The Electric Sheep (Spanish)
Episode 10
29 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
3 wooden sailing ships with large masts and British flags sail on the calm, open sea. Caption. If he hopes to found his own colonies in North America.
Pocahontas and the Survival of Jamestown
Episode 1
28 minutes
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Tide recedes on a quiet beach beneath a rocky cliff and a cloudy sky. Text reads, "The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors."
12 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Black and white illustration of Native Americans and English colonists intermingling. John Smith and Pocahontas are at the center standing next to a religious figure.
30 minutes
Grade Level: 4 - 10
Aerial view of tufted treetops beneath a cloudy sky.
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
Episode 1
1 hours 23 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Shadowy closeup of men wearing face paint and aiming rifles in a forested setting.
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
Episode 3
1 hours 24 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Blurred film still of 3 men in period costumes holding rifles as they walk in a line through tall grass.
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
Episode 2
1 hours 18 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Native American man in a tan cowboy hat, navy suit jacket, and orange shirt looks down towards the camera. Behind him, a brightly colored wall hanging.
59 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two stacks of square-shaped adobe blocks. Caption. Adobe is a sandy clay which can be shaped easily.
15 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
5 Native American people on horseback in a snowy setting. All are holding long wooden medicine sticks at their side.
1 hours 30 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 12
People sit in folding chairs around a table covered with a Native American tablecloth. Some have crossed arms and others are looking down.
2 hours 0 minutes
Grade Level: 12
Closeup of a man with short blonde hair wearing a gray pinstripe suit talking in front of a blurred background. Caption. And relations between the colony and the Indians.
Pocahontas and the Survival of Jamestown
Episode 2
25 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Native American woman dressed in a tan fringe top, colorful scarf and hair piece holds a child in her arms. Caption. Were foods like corn, potatoes, turkey.
17 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
2 Inuk children lay on a sled pulled through the snow by 4 Huskies. 2 children follow behind.
14 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Close up of a young girl looking down and facing a senior person in a headscarf whose back faces camera. Caption. And if he was, all you have to do.
22 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Indigenous woman with braided pigtails wears a traditional red costume with glitter and a cape with long multicolored fringe as she dances.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 1
8 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Side view of an industrial kitchen counter with 4 women wearing white hair nets while they prepare to mix and bake something in silver mixing bowls and springform pans. 1 woman on the left side takes a paper from a woman on the right.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 2
10 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Team of lacrosse players in uniform form a circle on the side of a rainy neighborhood street at dusk. They hold their black and white lacrosse sticks up and together in the center, and some players wear Santa hats.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 3
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Men in military uniform sit amongst civilians in a crowd of people. Caption. Man 2 as narrator. That at Iwo Jima, all those who fought.
20 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Girl looks up proudly as she holds a feather while the wind blows through her hair. Outlines of people holding hands stand on hills in the background. Title reads, "We Are Water Protectors."
7 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
ASL
Still image from: Who Was Sitting Bull?
5 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Illustration of 2 plateaus with 1 white and 1 red horizontal stripe topped with green trees above several adobe-style homes. Caption. And the importance of our culture.
Wild Chronicles
Season 4 / Ep 412
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Color illustration of a group of Native American people on horseback. Caption. The most important change came with the arrival of the horse.
59 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Without a Whisper
27 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Native American woman looking at camera, seated. Caption. To continue to do the things that he's doing for our people.
1 hours 11 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12