shortly before the dawn of saturday morning, john fitzgerald kennedy comes home to the white house. he had been the president for a period of two years and 10 months. >> this year c-span is touring cities across the country, exploring american history. next, a look at our recent visit to syracuse, new york.

you are watching american history tv, all we can, every weekend, on c-span 3. chief tadodaho sidney hill: what an exciting thing going on. to me would start of the game we are playing here that has a whole history in itself it is been part of our history and part of our entertainment. that was played on the other side, and brought to us for our enjoyment and to help our people. >> we call this the women's shuffle dance. and the women are very important. we honor this with our men.

♪ chief sidney hill: with all the things that happened, with the loss of land, and the forced removal of our and the diseases and the wars, we have been diminished as a people. our culture and our languages and our ways have been attacked, not only physically, but through policies. for us to be hosting other countries today is quite an accomplishment, to say the least. my position is one of traditional leadership and as you know, women choose the leaders. women are the clan mothers and they give out names and how we

follow the mothers. that is your nation and your clan. they have a big responsibility to bring up the children and in that way, we give that duty to the women to choose the leaders because they are the ones who know how these young men grew up and what kind of qualities they have. we leave it up to them to choose the leader of their clan. the origin of our history and how it all came about, we were warring against each other and it wasn't safe for people to receive the message from the creator. a certain man was chosen to bring that message to us saying this was not how he intended our people to be acting against each

other. so we brought this message of peace to our people. as he was writing the word and as it developed and they brought all the nations together, the mohawks, geographically coming from the east and to the west, the mohawks and the seneca, one of the first agreements was they would not fight each other anymore. this union would develop a message of peace and they would not fight each other. the symbolic meaning of planting that treaty of peace and we will

have this tree of peace and it will be the great fine. -- pine. on top of that pine tree will be the eagle. if there are any dangers coming, the eagle will scream and warn us. down to the trees and down to the roots, there will be the four roots that anyone can follow. that was established and then he said but now, as the five nations come together, we must bury our weapons. we must uproot this tree and put our weapons of war against each other and throw them into this whole and this swift underground current will take those weapons and we will plant the tree. and we will not war against each other. that was one of the initial acceptance of the nations coming

together, that they would not fight each other. when they set up the government part of it, he said since they are sitting here, they are part of the elder brothers and the elder brothers would be the mohawk and the seneca. if you look at the language, onieda language is an offshoot of the mohawks. and they were an offshoot of those nations and they call them younger brothers, but they will have an equal voice. you have the onondaga sitting here and over here would be the

mohawk and the seneca. and here are the younger brothers, the oneida and cayuga. now you have this structure -- we had a lot of influence in how the u.s. government was formed and if you look at it, the onondaga, the fire keepers, would suggest the agenda and over here would be the mohawks. they would debate back and forth and went through all the issues. they went back and forth and then would say now we will send it over to the fire keepers. it all started when we decided

to file our land rights action. that is a whole other issue in itself. we made these trees and we are -- we made these treaties and we are told we are going to protect your lands. but the states did not seem to recognize that and we lost our land. ♪ chief sidney hill: we are still here, we still have a language, we have a culture and our ways and we are still a people and still a nation. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015]

[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] city tourt where the is going next online at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american weekend, every weekend, on c-span 3. mrs. clinton: this is hillary clinton. i want to thank you for letting me speak about an issue that is critical in our fight to restore the nation's economy -- solving the health care crisis. there is no prescription, role model, or cookbook for being first lady. the future is created every day. the future is not something out there waiting to happen to us. the future is something that we make. well, i have said, and i believe, there is a good possibility that some time in the next 20 years we will have a woman president. >> hillary clinton experienced

many firsts in her role as first lady. she and her husband bill clinton have been political partners since high school. as she considers a second bid for the white house, her story is still being written. hillary clinton, the sunday originalc-span's series, "first ladies -- influence and image," examining the public and private lives of the women that fill the role of first lady and the presidency. alfred scott mclaren details is nearly 30 year naval career in which he took place in submarine operations. following his services, he remained an active submariner and became the president of the explorers club and is currently at the -- president of the

american polar society. he discusses his entire career including his deployment in a nuclear submarine during the cuban missile crisis. and several pioneering expeditions under the arctic sea ice. the u.s. naval memorial hosted this event and it is about an hour and a half. >> today we are pleased to have alfred scott mclaren to discuss his book silent and unseen: on patrol in three cold war attack submarines. the captain is a graduate of the u.s. naval academy class of 1955. and a veteran of more than 20 cold war missions and three arctic next editions. -- arctic expeditions. he was awarded to legion