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I was afraid the reservation was gonna swallow me up. Growing up there was so much poverty and alcohol rate. For example three of classmates who were like brothers to me have since died in alcohol related accidents.

Tribal Chairman

 (female narrator)  Everywhere you turn,   people try to tell you  what to do.  for yourself?  that empowers people  own roads in life.  of Roadtrippers crossed  insight into their lives.  of interesting people  found their way. I'm going to check  the oil. I can't believe  we still month left. is like a week in real life. and adventures and people wait to see weeks have in store. When I was  trying interview I was like, Now I'm realizing so I'm just going in, really great comes out of it, also destabilizing and challenges me to think where I'm going. Hello. speak with Heather? Speaking.  Roadtrip Nation . passed McFrasier Highway. Okay, so you're close. you get here. Alright.   Thank you so much. Heather is a  prop stylist, story creator and country magazines. Cool. Marigolds, tiger lilies, peonies, apples. Llamas! Heather. Great meeting you,  Heather. Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa.  This is the whole vegetable garden over here. that how you found me? Well, yeah.  I'm an assistant... in Fort Lauderdale that does infomercials. the food stylist, would watch the prop stylist, "I wanna do that!" and shopping for things. Do you want  some help? Sure, I'll give  you the glasses. Okay. Where were you at our age?   Like 22, 23 years old? florist in Vancouver, I wanted to do either. but I didn't get the job the florist's. all the floral work and I started tinkering better stuff than she did. all of their stuff, they laid me off. own business and happy events. sad like a funeral. and parties. did it for about ten years. So I sort of stumbled into that. we wanted land, and be Martha Stewart [laughter] everything for weddings, everything is full of bugs table, so we didn't do that. Where did you go when you decided flower arranging anymore? invited-- Victoria magazine when I was doing flowers. entrepreneurial and inspiring. and invited them 'cause I thought wedding business.  So I was like, from New York?" like a maniac and making it look perfect, little sets and things. came...she was so nice. "You should be a stylist." "Well, what is that?" "Well, it's what you did. scenes around your yard. all this little staging." hired for that." [laughter] 'Cause I had no idea. and I just got in touch magazines to start. it, I didn't know it was a job, and making pies like that. you're going to go, Your life just keeps different directions. still have some blueberry pie? [laughter] So, you invited  people your house for tea and pie? That's how it  all started. You invite somebody what's going to happen.  scares you most. Happy travels! Thanks so much. I think I'm so  fearful of things a really easy life. insanely easy. but a bit debilitating need to be strong. the phone before the trip, a lot about his life. I'll just be like... different from mine. worry about much. reminded of how much I can creates confidence in myself. Houston's "I Have Nothing " ] Did you ever see, um...  Waiting to Exhale ? live in a culture explore it in a way that understanding of who they are. includes Yellowstone. of the country before. My thoughts are  just so expansive. forever on either side of us. just reflect on the time how it was changing me. for that space you're just driving. going forward. want to get out of this what I ask myself of the window. the driver's seat, to our next destination, What is it that you want? after this?" but I keep going forward.  Oh my gosh. What? We're surrounded  by cows. I knew I heard  cows earlier. Did you feel them? Life was so  unpredictable. morning to a new scene. my window Grand Teton Valley. This has been  the most ever been to. Grant Jake Golliher Cross Ranch. your message. We were hoping  to get a horse whisperer Grand Teton Valley, getting voicemails. started our trip. we are... Right here. It was really funny... here after breakfast a cap came in. What's your story? He came into  our RV asking what we were all about. "I'm a horse whisperer" "Are you Grant? to a horse whisperer yesterday." It must be God. I'm going to have  some breakfast come over any time... to the main highway. and go about two miles, big red barn? Yeah. That's me. Oh, wow. That's  Diamond Cross Ranch. Buffalo! I help you? When you were 22, 23, what were you doing? Colorado on a farm. where I wanted to stay. influenced by my peers down the road knew were wrong, I didn't have good boundaries to be rejected. tough childhood. mentally ill... terrible depressions. times with a butcher knife with four little kids-- problems, so I had problems. parents have problems those problems. the cycle. to do that for us. say, "I'm gonna, you know, gonna stop with my generation." the railroad for a year, bought a couple of mules, went cross-country by myself to Wyoming, 19 years old. just this kid. an adult, just a kid. ran off by myself. was running from myself. my own problems. Colorado, was in store for you? was in store for me. have a good map. and a pack full of food. toughest winter. and I was really lonely. terrible. of the journey. When you found  those hardships, you going forward? people? dream of the adventure. my own dad in what I was doing. I was crazy. ways he was right. have died out there. a great guy in many ways, a job that he really hated. shift in a power plant, hearing because of it. work a job they don't like retire when they're old they like. flip-flop that. make a living doing, which was this. punching cows... around in the country. training horses. When was that moment your relationship was so special, relate that with other people? reaffirm your gift is. at photography. writing or art" or whatever. hear that. flattering you, into your life, you know? with horses, he can get along." with horses. way of getting along with them. me feel good about myself. through that, help other people they are. What have you learned with horses? things. have things personally. personal growth stuff, forward in life. You know, they'll show you not so great. you think you are. threatening to quit. while, and I was frustrated. I was treating the animals. like everybody else does it, success. me that just wasn't right. were abusive. how else to put it. of abuse. abusive...didn't mean to. done some things to horses ashamed of. because we're frustrated. brings abuse. abused horses was when didn't understand what to do. digging holes in the ground. dig a hole in the ground. So our answer was to hobble him. Which is okay, you know? really dig. and went to lunch, laying on the ground dead. horse, and how I felt-- that to the horse horse that he couldn't dig, safe place to learn it. emotions under control prove that-- show that horse. people to do to their lives, you know? see me work with a horse, see themselves. need to work on personally. God to show me a better way, give it up. the guy I was working for Ray Hunt was doing. could do with horses missing it and I wanted that. Okay, well we're going to kind of get to see whispering thing's about. horses around a little bit. really began. unbroke horses. [laughing] Watch your camera. It's so easy because you're afraid. fear will say, settle for this, there but I'm afraid." always being challenged. in that round pin, believe me. I'm screaming on the inside. See all the trouble? He's afraid of me. Life is all about fear. thing I've gained. I've gained, about this lately, a lot. even though you're afraid-- When you step out there, there to hold you up, And I mean even when you don't know the answer feel this pressure around you overwhelming. and it'll come. The right words will come, with a horse. I'm trying to  convince the horse going to hurt him. to smell me... first touch. right there, see? I really was like you. I wanted to do. man, and that moved me I found out was-- training horses. of training horses, training the horses me to be a better person. gone from adventure, horses, and training horses, So now it's really And see... from when I ran away. from myself. my own problems. your own problems. It's round. and 'round and 'round, from yourself. follow your dreams, up. Trust God." Thank you so much. You're welcome. I think I have to to me for, like, a little bit. It's amazing to  just hear people say, what I love to do fell into my lap." work really hard afterwards what was going to happen. scary to me because I wonder, tough, can you hack it?" When Grant talked  about fear, cured of fear. face his fear out on his horse. Part of me says, like, you also have to have faith." some cowboy poetry? Oh, cowboy poetry? Yeah, yeah, you bet. called The Man in the Glass . unknown author.  in your struggle for self,  king for a day.  look at yourself,  has to say.  or mother or wife,  you must pass.  counts most in your life  back in the glass.  Horner and chisel a plum,  a heck of guy.  says you're only a bum,  straight in the eye.  never mind all the rest,  down to the end.  your most difficult task  glass is your friend.  down our pathway of years  back as we pass,  be heartache and tears  man in the glass." in the glass.  Roadtrip Nation extends beyond  the program you just watched.  empowers others  Roadtrip Experiences.  into that Movement. Breaking Back. actually, in June. My whole college career  did not go as planned. college I was like, major in English and French, Oh, get a girlfriend, A steady one." I was hoping talking  to people go for what I want. to Brooklyn named Vienna Tang. student science for Music. When I graduated I  had this plan doing a music career. that was going to happen. that asked me to believe in it. close my eyes where it was going. We've been on the road for 19 days. I've heard, just, different advice about and should you not. Times of stress are  necessary for growth, need that time of recovery. It would be great to  be in your position just wide open. freedom in that. take a very conventional job. A real job that is a  successful job their passion and their love. I'd rather sacrifice fancy toasters when I want.  To watch more interviews   from the road  keeps us driving,  Online you can learn more  and how to  into your classroom. 

<p>The team drives into Canada to meet Heather Cameron, prop stylist and story producer, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to discover how she created her own path in life, combining nature, home, beauty, and photography. From there, they travel to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they have a chance encounter with cowboy and horse trainer, Grant Golliher of the Diamond Cross Ranch, who challenges them to face their fears and discover more about themselves.</p>

Vancouver, Canada - Jackson Hole

What are you most proud about with your time as the chairman? as, there's three different things that I can't pinpoint it to one specific thing. I'm proud of is diversification. gaming went away tomorrow, gaming's illegal. other options to do and the way we've been growing. try to build Tender Loving Homes prettier. you know. I wanted to provide people with a home, wasn't a government house. house that people can be proud of and 

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How's it been back here, and working with the local community, but then also work with the state and also nationally? the American government and are important to you and your tribe? chairman, who was here a long time, like to be with some of these guys on gets us in trouble in this country is we're afraid of meeting new people. here on its own little island, and do anything to get them mad or whatnot. when I first came on, with State Legislators on a daily basis. the ones that represent our district. said, to break down those barriers, and we don't have to be afraid them, learn from one another, and when I went to college. at the Native American center. I hung out with everybody. to kind of go ahead and, everything. to be comfortable with people. my people are uncomfortable. the reservation system, that's all they know is the reservation. see what's out there in the world. driving the United States. 

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(Roadtripper #1) First of all, when did you realize that you difference in your community? concerns that you had? When I realized I wanted to go to college was home really. I loved my home but the reservation much poverty and alcohol, who, for example who were like brothers alcohol related accidents. right before high school, definitely afraid of that. family, single mother, and five other sisters pushing me to go to college. one in my college to, to college and graduate. education was my key help my people and a better life for us. mom she named me Chief think there's something, was always there, for me to go. political science 'cause to help my people to that next step. here for 20-something years, legislative assistant. track of legislative bills effecting the tribe. mentioned me. chairman came to me go to D.C. and um, the tribe and so I went and Congress of American Indians, they uh, advocate for issues on the hill. What was it in D.C. such a large organization all tribes in the U.S.? What I learned was that the real work the battleground. there's a lot of Native people haven't really grew up don't get me wrong, know what they're doing take up issues what's happening here. street is really worried about logo is offensive to him. going to put food on the table. alcohol. he kick meth? council. they elected me Chairman. What kind of things did you learn about yourself when you whether it was to go to or to work in D.C. about yourself I think the thing that I learned about myself you're-you worry, you know. about what's the future hold. any experience. and they gave me the job if I would have applied director elsewhere, the qualifications. I think are-- look beyond the qualifications, something to offer, council saw that. learned about myself. you really believe in it, 

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In the U.S., Native Americans lost so much, and they lost so much culture. being afraid of leaving, that identity? throw them up and put theory into pain. into one culture, American culture. I see, we saw the last, we also lose a part of ourselves. elders that speak our language. the good of this country, I guess, stuff to ponder. a society, and say, oh, we're separate. that being in this country does. what we're trying to do is immersion. record our elders, get them on CD, and young, but if we're not teaching our you gotta speak at all times. you're gonna lose it. going to college than ever before, and so become better human beings. like I said, it's tough. 

Societal Pressures

Losing A Culture

So being young and being the chairman, I mean there are so as with any community. you approach your community and director for the tribe, I just did things. I was the head of all the programs and and do some office buildings and the guy that got things done, say this is what I want to do. to move in that direction. 

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I was afraid of this, of my home, really. that the reservation For example, three who were like brothers to me, alcohol-related accidents. for National Congress which is a non-profit. for Native American I think sometimes as a, you worry about, What does the future hold?" and the guy gave me the job if I would have applied elsewhere, I wouldn't meet And that's one thing home, they always look They look at the person. 

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