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Eliza in "Freedom of Speech", talks about the lives of Native Americans, through the words of Jack Heart.

Thank You, to all of Eliza's fans, I'm glad to announce that Eliza has reached her $15,000 for her accent and dialect documentary "Woman of 1,000 Voices". But the Indiegogo campaign still has a few hours, it ends at about September 20, 4 AM UTC {Universal Time, Coordinated}. And this may be your last time to buy some of her exclusive "Perks". Her original goal for the Campaign was $35,000 before she 'Relaunched" it with the new goal. Hopefully she gets even closer, or perhaps even reach, her original.

This is a series of screenshots from the second video section of Eliza Jane Schneider's "Freedom of Speech" one-woman play. This time she talks about returning to the location of her former daycare school, which she attended while when she was a little girl. The daycare is now gone, but she meets a Native American man selling craft items on the ground. Her one-woman play features 25 characters, which were real people that she meet and recorded their stories, in the play she takes on the role of that person and tells their story. The character this time is named Jack Heart, and this is his story. The video is 3 minutes and 06 seconds in length, and was uploaded to her YouTube channel on August 22, 29017.

Freedom of Speech: Jack Heart - MN, Who are you? * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD3XnzYs1Qo

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The video begins with Native American chanting, and then Eliza talks about how she returned to the {Chippewa, Ojibwe tribe} Indian Reservation, {in Minnesota}. She explains that she was looking for the location of her old daycare, and found that where it was now a Bingo Palace. She says while there she meets Jack Heart, a Native American selling jewelry from on top of a USA flag which is on the ground, using it like a beach blanket. Eliza then asks him why he is selling things off of the flag.

At 0:27 Eliza's voice becomes deeper, and she begins acting as Jack Heart, telling her that the items he sells are what his people are. And that they tell a story. He then mentions that people tell him he is reviving a tradition, and he says he wants it to be like it was. And he wishes he could give things away, and he gives Eliza a beaded necklace. He tells her to keep it for free.

Eliza, as Jack, then at 1:04 talks about how the system that is built on money will eventually collapse. He says that he will not take a job, and isn't interested in the money, even though he sells things. He does it to promote his art, and his people {his tribe and other Native Americans}.

Next at 1:30 Eliza as Jack, tells that the other goal is to have people understand the oppression that the people like him had to suffer through. He then mentions how the young children were put into boarding school, and not allowed to speak, their own language, and they weren't taught about their own history. He says "Its still effecting my mom, you see it every day in her eyes when she speaks that English language." Jack/Eliza then mentions how there are things that can be said, only in ones own language.

Then at 2:12 Eliza/Jack talks about how things have gotten better, and that with the art, and truth about the suffering of these people being seen, and heard. It is compared to the time when the White Buffalo has arrived, a religious/sacred animal. She/He then says "Art might be the only thing that brings the whole world together now, we got to hope so.

At 2:24 Eliza/Jack then describes the significance of the metaphorical white buffalo, and that it takes courage to tell things the way they actually are, and ask important questions such as "where is your traditions? Who are you? {Then} you got to say something. You got to tell them the way it really is, you know?"

Remember this is only the one of 25 characters that she performs as in her one-woman play. The show was also available on DVD through Eliza's Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for $25, that is about $1 for each of the characters she played. The campaign raised money to produce the documentary film "Woman of 1,000 Voices", about Eliza's journey to collect the voices, accents, dialects, and stories of people throughout the world. Unlike her time on Beakman's World as Liza, this time besides just the comedy/humor, there are also dramatic speeches, moments of drama and insightful laughter, along with the messages that she felt were important for her everyone to hear. In a way, it is social activism through story telling, at its best.