katherine: you are a wonderful interviewer, and i thank you for your kindness. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] raising the best the 1968 olympics, does that relate to what we are seeing with the football players and the national anthem? >> we have a long history of racism. >> you could be featured during our next live program. join the conversation on facebook. @c-spanhistory. >> all weekend long, american history tv is joining>> we havef our cable partners to showcase the history of fayetteville, arkansas. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue with a look at the history of fayetteville. >> you are at the museum of native american history in bentonville, arkansas.

the mission of the museum is to teach history, and that's what we are. we are a history museum. what we use our pieces -- are pieces of native american art to tell our story, to tell the story that spans 16,000 to 18,000 years. we are set up chronologically. we start with the oldest time period, the paleo time period, and then go through different galleries, the archaic time period, the woodland time period, the mississippian time period, into the historic time period. the historic time period is separated from prehistoric because that is first contact with europeans and how the europeans changed native american life. when the word "indian" is mentioned, we can't help it. we all do it, but we

automatically think -- have this guy sitting on a spotted pony with a big headdress and a staff on the plains of nebraska, and that's what tv and movies have done to us. and so, what we do here is we the hundreds of different tribes and about their cultures and about how they lived, what they ate, how they dressed, so that you start seeing the diversification that happens in our country. well, a lot of changes occurred, and that's the difference, as we go from paleo times, where many groups were hunting the giant beasts, the mammoth and the

mastodon, and then the changes that occurred as we go into the archaic time period, where giant beasts are no longer available for hunting and early man learns how to hunt smaller and faster game. as we go into the woodland time period, it's about agriculture, and how agriculture changed all the lives. it spread very rapidly across the country. maize, corn, which came up from mexico, it's a wild grain, changed the lives of many native americans. and one of the things corn did, all of the different crops that they started growing was it started giving groups that were successful a bit of free time.

and so, we start seeing more artistic things being made by successful groups of people. people that no longer had to worry about the amount of food they had that day or the next day, that are starting to be able to think in longer terms of time, which allows them the time to be creative. we see it especially in arkansas, in mississippian times. some of the most fantastic pottery in the country was made. the arkansas river valleys had wonderful clay. we had mussels in the rivers, which is very important. they were ground up to make tempering. tempering is what allows a pot

to be put into a fire and not crack. so, the mussels were ground up, mixed with the clay, and that way when it was fired, you are -- have rocksolid pots. so arkansas had all the ingredients. i think everyone's favorites artifacts that they see is a medicine chest. and it's a medicine chest that we acquired about four years ago -- ago. it originally belonged to moses, a medicine man for buffalo bill cody, who was from the la crosse, wisconsin area, where he met buffalo bill, and for two years, he traveled with the group, taking care of the indians. we have no knowledge as to why he left this medicine chest, but it was left in a barn, it was

found just a few years ago and all of the original things that he used, medicines were in the chest, and we have it on display now. and it is just phenomenal to see all the different types of things that he used for medicines. we know moses, he and his wife were both winnebago indians, but we also know from the chest that he was very well educated. the labels on the individual vials and jars are all in english. they are all in old cursive. all of the ingredients you see are all the original ingredients. none of the jars have ever been opened. so, we know that he had been

educated somewhere. but also within the trunk are things like fans and buffalo tails and rattles and so we feel like he understood that in taking care of the indians of the buffalo bill troupe, that there were many different aspects that he had relate to -- that he had to relate to the indians and do what is not traditional to us in the way of medical care. the osage are a group of indians that, for us, their main villages were about 60 miles north of here from joplin, missouri, to springfield. one of the favorite things that we have on display in our museum is an osage wedding dress. this is a tradition that goes

all the way back to 1803, when thomas jefferson was president of the united states. upon an occasion, the men from the osage tribe had an occasion to go to washington and as one of the gifts that they were given was a military coat, a red military coat. and that became a prized possession, one of the nicest things in the tribe. and the girls started getting married in it. and the original tradition allowed the firstborn girl to wear red, and then other girls could wear different colors. it was very popular, especially at the turn-of-the-century. another very popular thing at our museum was basically a

calendar. it's how plains tribes could keep track of their history. it was done by different emblems that mean different things and for each year, there was something selected that was one of the most important things that happened to that tribe. and so most of these scan 100 to 150 years, but it gives us a history of what happened during that period to the tribe. we hope that when visitors leave here, that they have learned something about the ancient history of people on north and south america. most people come to the indian museum looking for historic pieces, the headdresses and the

war clubs and the bows and arrows, and what we try to do here is, while we have a wonderful historic area, we try to teach 16,000 or 18,000 years of history so that when you leave here, you have a real knowledge, a groundwork for how men and women lived here for all of these centuries. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to fayetteville, arkansas, to learn about its rich history. learn more at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american >> next on the presidency, a

look at what motivated richard nixon and lynn and brezhnev during the period known as detente. the miller center can be and scholars looking at the complicated history between u.s. and russian leaders over the last entry. the discussions included discussions of franklin d. roosevelt, jfk, george h.w. bush, and bill clinton as well as their russian counterparts. this is about an hour. quiet's this is our second half of this panel. we will go to a little bit past glad lastg i just met evening over dinner. after dinner, we had a fascinating, decision about khrushchev and kennedy. but it was different ones, mrs. jacqueline kennedy and mrs.