Road Trip to Sturgis: Why is No One Is Talking About This?
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2023
- My 1500 mile road trip to Sturgis follows the Medicine Wheel Ride, a group of Native biker girls who ride to raise awareness for the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. The Black Hills around Sturgis have some of the largest population of Natives in the USA, as well as some of their most sacred sites.
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First road trip to Sturgis the year before
• Solo Road Trip to Stur...
Crossing USA Alone: 2,907 miles in 7 days
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Riding a Forgotten, Old Police Harley 1000 miles home
• Solo Road Trip: 1000 m...
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Beautifully done Doodle. As a Indigenous Native American living in Oklahoma. This is an issue nationwide. Once in a great while you will see a banner or billboard of someone missing. It is definitely not talked about enough. Thank you so much for doing this.
It's also a huge issue in Canada.
Yes, so very beautifully edited and experienced.
I wish this video would get 10 million views instead of 100,000. It’s a heartbreaking and heartening glimpse…
Probably the most important (certainly the most impactful to me,) video you have made. I salute you Doodle for bringing this to light in such a sensitive way. it's a powerful message that needs to be heard and widely disseminated. Thank you.
Donated.
I am a Native American of the Chickahominy Tribe of Virginia. I had never heard of this organization before your video.
Thank you for bringing their efforts to light. You have come a long way with you videography.
my mom is in this group and my mom was so happy to have her there!
These were not empty lands when the English settlers arrived. The western states are full of astonishing vistas; it's good to acknowledge native cultures and histories while passing through.
God Save the King 🏴
Your authenticity is your power. Thank you for bringing attention to this important and sad situation.
You did yourself proud as a content creator here. As a biker and Lady. Well done.
Thank you for sharing this and all the ladies for their honesty and insight.
You would not be human if you didn't cry. I did from here in the UK. I am often ashamed of the history of England as I was born there with an English dad (I never knew) but Scottish mum and her culture was strong. My family are highlanders. That is my families culture, that is another area of English history sadly. I guess I'm in the middle and moved to Wales where I've made my home.
The continued horrors indigenous people are experiencing and disparities in policing and investigation is a crime in itself.
Thank you for sharing this. You are truly better than any motovlogger I've watched on you tube for this alone.
Take and love to you all.
Wise up! God Save the King 🏴
In my opinion, your greatest ride, video and experience yet. I live in SD and have always been interested in the Native American's culture. I have many good friends that are Natives. I call them Indians, and they don't mind. We laugh at the same things and enjoy life in the same ways. The Native tragedy is part of all of us and we should spend our lives trying to help. I asked if you had been to Wounded Knee, I go there and my soul is changed each time. That massacre is probably what sums up the white man's treatment of the Native American from that time and before in the saddest of ways.
I've had many native American friends throughout my life, and they have been the most welcoming people I've ever known. Taking time to teach me about their heritage and culture. One friend who was Lakota even taught me some of their language. I think I need to look some of them up and see how they are doing. Thanks for sharing the video.
Hello Doodle, I have been a viewer of bikes and beards. I have been following you since... I am Apache Indian from AZ. But live in CA. now. This was an amazing video, Thank you for helping others understand part of American Culture.
I enjoyed this video very much. Definitely one of your best yet Doodle. I shed some tears with this one and can tell just from watching this video that this trip genuinely touched your heart as well. Keep up the good work.
What an awesome documentary to be proud of. This video could easily be shown in the discovery or history channel and should be shared to bring awareness of the plight of the Indigenous peoples.
I drove OTR for about 10yrs. , while staying with one of my sisters, she asked how many miles I had driven?
This reply just popped in my mind:
"It's not the mile marker you've reached but the roads you've traveled"
Thank you Doodle for sharing some of your wonderful "roads"🙏
My Great grandmothers, mother was Arapaho! Unfortunately I have been unbale to find out much info about her!
I just donated to Medicine Wheel Ride🙏
Absolutely amazing and beautifully told story that is so important. I also felt like the history of our native peoples' story ended in the 1900s. I had tears when they gifted you the vest and referred to you as a sister. It really shows the type of impact you have on others and how you can connect. Safe travels!
I am Navaho and this is the best most heart felt video you have made.Thank you.stay safe out there.❤
Hoka Hey Doodle, Pilomiya
Miss Doodle,
I've always known there was something about you that set you out from the crowd. I have told you of my Suicide tattoo but I'll share it again;
On my right wrist above my thumb it begins with a Teal colored semicolon. Teal represents PTSD Awareness and for a writer the semicolon mean there's more to come. ;IGY6 with a red 22 behind it. I Got Your 6/back, my 6 is not red as I do not know anyone that has committed suicide. Of the 75 suicides in America each day 22 are Service Members or Veterans.
Raising my children within the Native Community in and around Helena, MT we did our part to maintain skills. My children and I every spring hosted canoe safety and paddling classes for the Native Youths. Over the years I have prayed those kids continue to get out on the water in a good way.
Thank You Miss Doodle for all you do. Being a positive person is easy when you get out of self!
With Love and Respect, you are in my prayers
Hoka Hey
That was awesome Doodle! 😍 What endless and beautiful honors were bestowed you during that amazing trip! I'm thrilled for you! TYSVM for sharing it all w/us. 🥰
~What was done - and what is still being done - to our indigenous peoples is both appalling and inexcusable. I think of how the native people were called "savages" by those invaders who came to this land, then systematically took it over. 💔We know who the REAL "savages" are - both then, and now. 🤬
That is the best ride to Sturgis video i have seen, it had purpose and a sad story line that needs to be told.
This is so important to keep alive. We have almost the same shamful history of wrong doings here. Thank you for dragging this back into the light ❤❤
Fab video which really shines a light on what is going on. What a fantastic experience it must have been for you and how wonderful it was to see how they embraced you. I won't lie, I cried several times but when they gave you the vest... Floods of tears. Not sure why. Perhaps it's just how generous they are even after all they've been through. Truly inspiring. Thank you ❤
Me too 😅
Thanks for reminding us of the plight of our nation. Natives of America deserve attention for what they have endured from the discovery of the Americas, North to South.
Thanks for sharing this ride. Much of this is so grossly underreported and deserves to be part of our national conversation.
Edit: made it to the end. Your family has grown so much larger. Keep them with you wherever you go.
Doodle, thank you so much for this video- it’s definitely your best ever! The pain and suffering that indigenous people have suffered over the past several hundred years is very real and affects many generations. It will take a long time to heal the hurt, but I’m so glad you have used your voice to help spread the truth. Thank you!
One of your best vids ever, by far. I was not aware of all that you shared. Thanks for sharing their stories and raising awareness.
It’s important to offer a voice to those who have been silenced. It’s time we listen.
Excellent video. Moving. Emotional.
Thank you for using your platform for good!
Deeply meaningful and fearsomely beautiful tribute to the human heart. It’s been 40 years since I was in the wind river and Sturges area on a bike. Much has changed and much is the same.
Thank you Doodle for opening a new and deeper level of motorcycle journalism.
Beautifully, and admirably done Carolyn. Kudos.
Thanks for sharing this Doodle, breaks my heart to see the pain, suffering and oppression this lands native people suffer.
This video is a beautiful tribute to a vast group of forgotten (and much worse) people. Thank you so much for creating such important content.
Tears came out on this one!!!
Doodle, by far my favorite of all your videos, and they're all great.
This story needs to be told, and you've done it well !
The history of that place is crazy. both times I have been I learned even more about it, and its people. this was a great video doodle, probably my favorite you have put out.
Thanks Beau 🥹
This was undoubtedly your best video so far.
Just wanted to say thank you for this one. My Grandfather was one of the children forced into boarding schools like this when he was young. He was a great man and really turned his life around when he met my Grandmother but he told us about the tough life he had as a child. Plenty of folks out there need to be exposed to these things so we can all heal.
wow what a powerful video. The honor they bestowed on you is a really big deal. They will view you as a true sister forever. Thank you for what you do.
This by far one of my favorite videos across all of UA-cam. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing these stories and for bringing awareness. From the UK with Love
You presented this beautifully and can no longer say you're not a great film maker. The mark of a great film maker is being able to successfully convay the narrative and emotion of what you're capturing, and you smashed it!
Loved this! Please continue to advocate! Hope to meet you in person some day. 😊
Wow, i just learned so much in that video. Definitely didn't learn any of this in school. Thanks for shining a light on this. Fantastic video!
Me either!
Thank you for sharing this experience
Indigenous people deserve more recognition from all
Wonderful video Doodle, thanks for sharing this emotional and inspiring plight. God bless you always, ride safe😊
I cried, laughed, and Im sadden by the way people can treat people. I did not know how bad it was for our native Americans - Thank you for sharing this, very well done. I look forward to being a part of your next adventure. THX
Doodle
Thank you for this wonderful and touching video. You did a fantastic job bringing their cause to light. BRAVO LADY!
Ride SAFE and BE safe Lady!
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Love this, thank you for sharing.
This was so educational, would like to know more
Great work Doodle !! I’m proud of you and Excited to see how far your channel goes 🎉🎉
Great episode. You are so fortunate to ride with this group. There is a big message in here that needs to be observed.
I just discovered your channel, and have seen only this and two other of your videos, but I have to say that in addition to your being an extremely knowledgable and skilled biker, you are also a talented film maker (contrary to what you said in the vid). Your subject matter, cinematography, and editing bring so much more than just an ordinary biker channel. This was a very touching and important piece. Looking forward to enjoying many more of your videos. Keep up the great work !
Very beautifully edited and experienced.
I wish this video would get 10 million views instead of 100,000. It’s a heartbreaking and heartening glimpse…
Gripping with emotion and realism .. thank you for sharing this story with all of us…🙏🏽
Thank you for highlighting and sharing their story. Beautifully done
Hey Doodle I have been enjoying your channel for a few months and enjoy what you do. Fun rides to fun places with a little drama to keep us in our seats and you do a greaaaaaaaat job. I am amazed by this video, you have really stepped up your storytelling!!! Thank you to all the riders in your video, and to you for taking on a story that needs to be heard by our younger generation, like you I was only taught the government side of the story in school.
THANK YOU
Doodle thank you for telling this story and doing so in a powerful and beautiful way, and thank you for sharing yourself with us on your journeys! What you do is meaningful and I feel blessed by it. Take care, be safe, thank you, and God bless!
Thank you for making this video and bringing awareness. 🙏
This was a great video! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful, touching and sad story. Thank you for filming this.
Another excellent video Doodle!!!! You may not know it but you live very close to a area where there was a small village of Cherokee along the Chattahoochee river and I know where there are trees with markings and other things that were left behind before the Trail of Tears. Be safe and Blessed!!!!
You have empathy and true humane beauty oozing from every pore. The indigenous story here in Aotearoa is similar and just as heartbreaking. Love your videos but this one, just this one, bought me to tears. You are a wonderful story teller. I have only ever subscribed on digital media to one other channel but this story and the way you have shown it is subscription worthy,, for sure. You've moved me. Ride safe, stay well.
Excellent video documentary. Very moving and informative. I've been watching your stuff on and off for a few years but just decided to subscribe. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for bringing the awareness…eyes sweating!!! Very powerful stuff.
Great job Doddle, thank you for your compassionate presentation of this information and introducing the great people involved.
I am balling my eyes out. Thank you for sharing this, Carolyn.
Very well done, Doodle. Thank you for sharing this. Phenomenal job
Thank You Doodle For Opening My Eyes Very Well Done.
Doodle thanks for a perspective I could not otherwise seen. To the indigenous people. Great ride for a great cause. No people should have to experience the pain you are experiencing. God bless you all !!!
Thank you for using your channel to shine light on this very important topic. It is unfortunate the atrocities humans beings have done to other human beings in this country and all over the world. This is why it is very important to acknowledge, pay respect and try not to repeat it. I was moved by the ladies and how they use their MC for a good cause. It is a MC Id definitely would love to join, if they think Im worth it 😊😊💕💕💕
Well done!!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thinking about getting my first bike this year and really enjoying your videos. As someone who’d be riding solo mostly it’s refreshing to have the insight and see these viewpoints.
Thank you. I cannot express how much it means for someone to share the stories of so many who never have a voice
The most moving video on the channel. Thanks for sharing this.
One of your best. Very educational, very informative, very touching. Thank you for making it.
The most beautiful and emotional video I've seen from any influencer in an extremely long time. Thank you Doodle.
Thank you for this wonderful and informative video! I've been learning so much lately about how indigenous people have been treated in recent years. On a trip to San Francisco last spring, I went to Alcatraz and learned for the first time how the government had tried to eliminate all the reservations and assimilate the native people, which would have destroyed their culture and erased their history. None of this was taught in high school or even my basic college history courses.
You have covered this very well. One of your best videos.
Thank you for posting this Doodle. I had no idea, and have been sensitive to the plight of indigenous cultures for decades. Really well done video as well... Your storytelling is really developing!
Thank you so much for this video and for putting a spotlight on this issue.
Best UA-cam video I’ve seen in a long time. Awesome job Doodle.
I’ve been looking forward to this video and knew you’d do a good job with it… but holy cow I wasn’t expecting it to be this good! Sooo many tears. Thank you for covering this topic so beautifully and for donating your hard work so generously.
You did a great job telling the stories of Natives with tribute grace and style. I've seen many other videos on Sturgis but NEVER anything like you've cover. So much insightful...thank you what an eye opener
Longtime subscriber. This is my favourite video that you have produced. A job well done.
I love and respect everything you do Doodle. You are a amazing woman. Stay safe and thank you for sharing part of your life.
Exceptional video, Doodle! Eye-opening, informational, and moving.❤
Hoping one day we here in America have a native American that loves God his son and this land as President!
Thank you Doodle, for raising awareness, I had no idea.
Thank you for this Important Video. My wife is Cherokee/Irish, we live on her families farm which is on the Actual Trail of Tears in Union County, Illinois. near thr bottom of the state. I many Native American friends from various Tribes,thought the Northern parts of the Mid West along the Shores of Lake Superior westward to the Dakotas,to the South Western United Staes, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Medicine Wheel is doing and AMAZING JOB. Continued Prayers for their success and Healing.
Your best video yet, this really needs more exposure! I plan to share this with my circle of friends and family. Excellent work.
Congratulations on your channel and in particular, making this video. All of your videos are amazing but this is your best yet. This is such an important topic and issue. Your coverage helps to bring it forward. It has been ignored for far too long.
Most Harley related videos are painfully ignorant, full of misinformation and hate inducing nonsense....to the point where I've considered walking away from the brand completely. Thank you for making one with consciousness about a grossly under reported crisis in the communities of these lovely people indigenous who have had such a difficult and tragic story in their native land.
AMAZING! Keep up the good work, Doodle!
Keep shining light on these deep societal issues, so informative and deeply emotional work! Well done, so inspiring!
I’ve been watching your channel for several years, I think I came in when you invited to the Triumph product test in AZ with Her Two Wheels. Of all the videos you’ve done, this one hit me, hard. Thank you so much.
This was my favorite episode that you have done.❤ Please do more like this if you can. I love love loved it! Get yourself a Heritage!👍🏻
From Australia - A country where it's first nations people also face so many challenges, resentment and discrimination I say thank you.
Great vid. Thanks everybody for sharing 🙏 💕
Thank you doodle for the great video on a subject so close to my heart. traveling through this beautiful country in a big truck delivering goods to cities in the west.... i passed many reservations out in the middle of nowhere.....
Our native people need our help and respect...... thank you again for this video..... your skills as a film maker are getting better and better.....
Thank you for this! Likely the best video you've made, and that's saying a lot.
Doodle, I've been away for a while, my bad. Having said that, I have a perspective of your channel that is completely changed after seeing this video. First, I saw your introduction video, where you worried about 'doing justice' to these fine people. You CAN most certainly put those worries away. This is such an extraordinary video. It's so clear you put your heart and soul into it. And I don't say that lightly. Meaning, I know you were understandably shocked by what you learned about the history of our Native People, and the horrors that they still endure. Yet you did what you had to do, to put this together. It is such a mature piece of film making. You should take great pride in this work. The vest and skirt were so beautifully earned.
Donated.
Thank you so much
Wow! That was an excellent. Really enjoyed this Doodle.
Great video! It really has a good mix of documentary info and personal conversations.
Well done video. Righteous topic and very interesting. It made me happy to see you dunk in the stream. Those little moments are the memories that make up that little "dash" which is the line between your birth and death dates on our headstones. LIVE GIRL...every day.