Previously on Outside In.

Did you watch your mom get arrested?

Yes, I did.

I held her purse.

The gathering at Standing Rock caught the world's attention.

Those became like national conversations rather than just indigenous conversations.

And the attention of the fossil fuel industry.

These are the same forces that called us.

We American Indians, religiously driven indigenous jihadists.

In the years since, a wave of legislation has swept across the country.

I don't think they did damage to property, but obviously they're.

I'm pretty sure they did a whole lot of damage for property in North Dakota.

Criminalizing acts of protest, especially near pipelines.

There is no state that forgot to make it illegal to destroy people's property.

So the legislation is really just upping the ante on peaceful protest activity.

That is the main thing they're trying to restrict.

From a Saturday afternoon in early December, Naomi Dix arrived at the Sunrise Theater

for rehearsal.

Soundshed, lighting cues, making sure that we were putting on, you know, a perfect production

for this community because they had never seen a show like a drag show like this before.

This show was in a rural part of North Carolina, in a town called Southern Pines.

Naomi is a drag artist.

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