What Actually Happened at the Indigenous Peoples March?

I watched the videos of when three (likely more) cultures collided in a terrible slow motion train wreck so you don’t have to.

This is a sequence of frames showing a kid rolling his water bottle towards the man on the OneWheel. Link to video in point 4 below.

So I watched three of the videos spanning the whole time frame. This whole collision course of cultures was bound to blow up:

1. The Covington Catholic High School Students (CCHS) were further away attending the March for Life, an anti-women’s choice march. See: [The MAGA boys may have harassed women before the now-viral incident — and there’s even video]
2. Black Hebrew Israelites (BHI) are protesting at the Indigenous Peoples March. One of the Indigenous color guard with an eagle staff comes over and sees what they are shouting about, but they are immediately alienated and walk away. BHI continuously demonstrates they have no grasp of Indigenous beliefs. For over 50 minutes, they antagonize the Indigenous people. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=45]
3. CCHS started gathering around and encircling the BHI. BHI is taken aback, because they were only aware of the Indigenous Peoples March and not the March for Life. They speak their objection and disgust to the boys wearing the hats to an Indigenous gathering.
4. CCHS became more emboldened as more of them gathered around. One even intentionally rolled his water bottle towards the guy zooming around on the OneWheel, presumably to cause him to fall over at 1:09:14. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4154] He later goes to pick it up as other students clap for him.
5. CCHS started taunting BHI, with a guy coming down the stairs, throwing his jacket and shirt off and leading the group in jocular posturing (which some Indigenous people have called an appropriation of the Haka traditional chant of the Maori) at 1:09:48. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4188]
6. BHI comments on how they are surrounded and that no one is going to do anything at 1:10:39. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4239]
7. Nathan Phillips (NP) of the Omaha Nation leads a group through to the CCHS students who were surrounding five minority people. The respectful thing would have been for the students to break apart and let the elder pass, but they did not. 1:12:17, you can clearly hear the drumming happening before they are in the frame. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4337]
8. [switching to a different stream — https://youtu.be/JH1L0RBIfu4] NP attempts to make a way through the crowd of students. The students just jump up and down disrespectfully instead of making way (again, you should remember this is a clash of two very different cultures with different expectations of how someone should react to an elder). They also make very disrespectful gestures (tomahawk gestures, anyone think Indigenous people actually appreciate that?).
9. 0:41 [https://youtu.be/JH1L0RBIfu4?t=41], NP is turning and facing different students. The students are moving back and forth a little. He eventually ends in front of Nick Sandmann (NS), who is now infamous. NS doesn’t budge, but all the other students back away from him, clearing the area behind him starting at 0:51. [https://youtu.be/JH1L0RBIfu4?t=51]
10. A minute later, the path is still clear behind NS but he remains standing in front of NP. The space fills up again. [https://youtu.be/JH1L0RBIfu4?t=126]
11. 1:14:43 in the original stream [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4483] it’s clear that the crowd of CCHS are surrounding the small group of Indigenous protesters NP has lead towards the group.
12. NP sings only for a short while before the group starts moving away from NP and the Indigenous group and back to BHI. NP’s group disperses. [https://youtu.be/npX801xLSFY?t=102]
13. BHI continue to taunt CCHS and draw attention towards themselves.
14. [Back to the original stream] 1:17:15, someone from CCHS calls for everyone to back it up from BHI. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4635]
15. 1:17:34, a group of students do a chant to the BHI further demonstrating the lack of understanding and ability to cope between the three cultures at play here. The Native group might have thought it was directed at them, when it was directed at BHI. I don’t know what it was supposed to signal to BHI, because the culture of CCHS is not my culture. [https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34?t=4654]
16. BHI continues to speak their mind according to their understanding, at odds with any of the cultures present besides themselves.
17. NS hires a PR firm in order to push his version of the events. See:
    •[Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students]
    •[Louisville PR firm played a key role in Covington Catholic controversy]
    •[Twitter suspends account that helped ignite controversy over viral encounter]

There seem to be a few problematic aspects about CCHS:

1. One of their students has a history of being a juvenile sex offender: [Jake Walter registered as juvenile sex offender before new rape accusation].
2. CCHS was at what could be viewed as anti woman’s rights march (March for Life is an anti abortion, anti-birth control march). [The Group Behind America’s Biggest Anti-Abortion March Now Says Birth Control Causes Abortions]
3. Is it just black paint these students were wearing? Why were they so verbally abusive of the black students on the opposing team? See [Old video surfaces of Covington Catholic students in black paint].
4. The Catholic Church has had a long history with Indigenous peoples, and this likely figures more into people’s framing of the narrative. See [The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses].

I don’t condone BHI, either:

1. They practice polygamy and are against birth control, they probably should have been part of March for Life, too. See their Wikipedia page [Black Hebrew Israelites].
2. In the [FBI Project Megiddo], they were lumped in as the same category of threat as white nationalists.
3. They are being monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center and they had an article about them featured in 2008, [Racist Black Hebrew Israelites Becoming More Militant].