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Diplomacy needs to be well resourced, sustained, and apply the right mix of incentives and pressures
on
leaders and followers.
Institutional design requires a keen focus
on
issues, innovative thinking and flexible and well-funded implementation.
So I've been asked to talk a little bit today about my relationship with the Lakota, and that's a very difficult one for me, because, if you haven't noticed from my skin color, I'm white, and that is a huge barrier
on
a Native reservation.
But
on
Pine Ridge, I will always be what is called "wasichu."
On
this piece of paper is the history the way I learned it from my Lakota friends and family.
1876:
On
July 26th,
on
its way to attack a Lakota village, Custer's 7th Cavalry was crushed at the battle of Little Big Horn.
On
December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
Everything can be measured before Wounded Knee and after, because it was in this moment, with the fingers
on
the triggers of the Hotchkiss guns, that the US government openly declared its position
on
Native rights.
"You want to be an Indian now?" they said, finger
on
the trigger.
Unemployment
on
the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation fluctuates between 85 and 90 percent.
Thirty-nine percent of homes
on
Pine Ridge have no electricity.
At least 60 percent of the homes
on
the reservation are infested with black mold.
The tuberculosis rate
on
Pine Ridge is approximately eight times higher than the US national average.
The infant mortality rate is the highest
on
this continent, and is about three times higher than the US national average.
Because for so long, I've been standing
on
the sidelines, content to be a witness, just taking photographs.
The United States continues
on
a daily basis to violate the terms of the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties with the Lakota.
Children have been trafficked from other conflict zones to come and work
on
the coffee plantations.
Cotton: Uzbekistan is the second biggest exporter of cotton
on
Earth.
It's forced child labor
on
an institutional scale.
So they agreed, "Okay, what we'll do is we agree
on
a common set of standards, code of conduct.
Those supply chains I put up
on
the screen earlier, they're not there.
You need a place where people can come together, sit down without fear of judgment, without recrimination, to actually face the problem, agree
on
the problem and come up with solutions.
We take their supply chain, we take all the factory names, we do a random sample, we send inspectors
on
an unannounced basis to inspect those facilities, and then we publish the results.
It seems too daunting, too dangerous, for any company to take
on.
Some are actually
on
the brink of extinction.
We're discovering in nature that simplicity often lies
on
the other side of complexity.
So for any problem, the more you can zoom out and embrace complexity, the better chance you have of zooming in
on
the simple details that matter most.
My daughter gave me a rather nice anecdote
on
this.
When they're out of education, they do it
on
a computer.
And by the way, she was also very insistent
on
being able to change the color, an important feature for this demonstration.
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