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Understanding 9/11tv American Frontier Book Collection CSPAN February 12, 2017 9:50pm-10:01pm EST
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to fresno, california. you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. when i was a kid, the public library can find you to the children's room in the basement of the library and is the only fiction books they had were books on the american west and since i have always been a nonfiction person i read everything that i could there on the american west. primarily on native americans. over the years -- the 50's when i was growing up was a time when you had all the movies at the theater. most of them were cowboy movies and cowboy programs were on tv so when i was a kid you were saturated with the american west. i just fell in love with it. traveling began through the west and i fell in
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love with it. understandame to there was much more to the west than just cowboy and indian fight. just the artistry of the land historye culture, the and a really deep history. a history that involved so many different groups that it was a quite different west than what i have learned from hollywood all these years. i learned there were not only native americans and anglo-americans, i learned there were asian-americans and african-americans, hispanic americans, all contributing to a culture and the west was in fact far more diverse in many ways than the lands, some of the places east of the mississippi river. some books i purchased on african-americans in the west
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and then i'm going to talk about the his banning west and finally talked about some of the books on native american culture and --we forget that african-americans were in the west. they were brought to the west as slaves first in texas and to the indian territories. the five civilized tribes, when they left southeast and moved to oklahoma, he took a their slaves with them. african-americans have always been in the west. they did not show up suddenly. after the civil war, more african-americans left the south to form communities in the west. they are in fact referred to as exodusters. lookrecently i bought it -- body book from the university of oklahoma press that was focused on the town of
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nicodemus. this was one of the many all-white communities that were formed as they tried to find a new life for freedom and a place in the american west. movieswatch the cowboy or cowboy programs, almost 100% of the cowboys are anglos. cowboys over 30% of the in the west were either african-american, hispanic american and even native american. fresno,out here east of ,ast of the community of clovis they hired many native americans to run their sheep and cattle. this was something that you do not see in the cowboy movies.
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cowboys andlack this book, cowboys of the old that period and when you see many of these cowboys just like their white counterparts did. they were not only cowboys, they were marshals and lawman. rese are biographies of bass eeves he was a famous marshall in the indian territory under the famous george parker at four .smith,rkansas -- at ft arkansas. this is a picture of bass reeves.
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not worry about sparing himself in catching outlaws. because many an outlaw those brought to justice at judge parker's infamous court. when we talk about native americans, even though i purchased-- i hadn't materials on the indian war per se, i thought it was in order to buy books on native american culture, especially material culture. , you can see the various part of the native peoples. this is ledger art. this is basically been sketching and notebooks or on pieces of paper they would find. they were describing because they did not have a written language. they were describing battle scene.
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there would be set symbols for what was actually going on. even before the reservation period, if a native americans were to find a notebook or something in which they could write on, they would do ledger art. for much of native american history, we have this art either accounts or these notebooks. for the battle of little bighorn, we have a few ledger books is that describes the battle and what happened after the bad. these are two of my favorite books. this book is entitled "american and he cane mask" see the very decorative mask that they put on their horses.
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not only do they paint their horses but they have these horse masks. here is an example of a much more modern horse mask but here in this book you can find more --ditional or smashed traditional horse ,a mask. they painted their horse in a specific way given their medicine. this book called "bridles of the americas" and this covers indian silver. this is just an example of the various types of native american silver that was used. quite americans had sense of trade routes between each other. you would find items that were made on the washington coast thousand miles inland on montana
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-- in montana or on the great plains. there was an extensive trading route for the native americans that we sort of dismissed because we reduce native indians --o worrying warring indians, which was not always the case. the history of the east tends to be more white, more anglo in its initial story. the history of the west is more reflective because the beginning it is more multicultural in all of its dimensions. that is an important thing for americans to realize in that everybody, hispanic, african americans, native americans, asian americans, they have all contributed to the history and development of the west and to shape the west. >> this weekend, we are
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featuring the history of fresno, california, with our cable partners. learn more about fresno and other stops at c-span.org/cit iestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. c-span was created as a public service and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> the national law enforcement museum is currently under instruction and set to open 2018 and washington, d.c. artifacts, the museum are stored at a facility in forestville, maryland. we visited with rebecca looney and sarah
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