it is gotten people discussing jamestown and history of slavery in ways that i think most of us would agree have not been as widely done in years, if ever. i think art like that in the rotunda, if it's come if the counter interpretation is presented properly could really be a powerful pedagogical tool. but again not an easy question to answer, right? so i think with that unless anybody has any parting words, i'm going to end this discussion and say that i'm really looking forward to hearing next week what you all think about myths and monuments, and also how your conception of what colonial american history is has changed throughout the course of this class. i think that each of you have shown really fantastic ways of wrestling with the complexities of the past. and i think considering how we choose to memorialize and celebrate colonial american history, which elements of the company whose history and why, are things that i hope you don't stop thinking about. so thank you so much and i will see you all next week. >> did you know you can listen to lectures in history on the go? stream

. ♪ ♪ >> i'm jamie, and i welcome you to our first lecture in the jamestown foundation's talking historyre series. tonight's presenter is diana gates who will speak to us about indian women in leadership roles. there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the lecture. ms. gates is a managing senior tribal specialist with the national center on tribal early childhood development where her projects focus on embedded native culture and language into high quality educational opportunities for native youth. she is also the founder of everyday eastern, a nonprofit with the mission of preserving and sharing existing community knowledge and practice, conducting community-engaged research and building partnership with tribal communities along the east coast. in addition to earning a bachelor of arts degree in international and humanitarian affairs from james madison university, ms. gates earned a master's of social work from columbia university and a master's of education from -- [inaudible] university. she currentlilies in richmond -- lives in richmond, virginia, with her husband,

this ceremony took place in 1613, 1614 in jamestown. and jamestown of course we discussed is celebrated as the first permanent english settlement on the north american continent. and so this is something the u.s. capitol is celebrating. even though, as we know it's not the first permanent european settlement. and pocahontas is often touted as being the earliest christianity in the permanent english colonies. this is something that is seen a success story. the idea that europeans are going to come over and convert the indigenous people to christianity is something at the heart of many imperial endeavors english, spanish, french those of the notable ones we've discussed in this course. the idea then that pocahontas should be celebrated for renouncing her cultural heritage, for becoming english in many important ways becoming christianized. it was being celebrated in this painting. so again a form of cultural dispossession i would argue they were rated. and of as we know the real pocahontas versus the stylist went in the capitol rotunda ar

i don't think we were ever mentioned after jamestown in particular. i can't recall ever being mentioned and so when we refer especially to virginia indian people in that one time period, the stories of these women are not stories told in any of our social studies curriculum so even speaking from a couple decades ago i don't know much is changed but i don't want to step on anyone's toes to a virginian person working to fix that. in some young children schools, thanksgiving activities still occurring, still directive from the school, teachers need additional diversity and equity training. they are contributing to educating beyond that and that is part of the work, those who are parents, i know i won't sit by if something untrue or inappropriate comes home with my child but that will be a considerable part of our work going forward. thank you. >> this answers a little bit of your question. i'm with an organization with education assistance. organization with the museum and we are actually working to enhance the history in the public school system so we a

just tell me about why, why we don't hear about jamestown. it's a peculiar thing. origin miss you would think would start at the beginning. the 1st permanent, you know, british settlement is jamestown. 16 o 7, but that's not what we really celebrate in the united states. that's not our origin . the origin meant this thanksgiving. it's pilgrims, it's buckles on black. has. it's this notion that the united states was founded as a haven for, you know, religious, you know, right? you know, the right of practice, religion. that's interesting that we choose that. of course, it's a myth. massachusetts was actually a very sort of fundamentalist religious state. i mean, it was, there was really very little difference between the government and the church. you wouldn't want to live among these people, frankly. i mean, there, they bear a lot in resemblance to, you know, life in pure it in boston in life and re odd weren't completely different, right. we just don't like to think of it that way. but i think the reason we don't talk about jamestown is ther

but i think the reason we don't talk about jamestown is there's a few. well, 1st of all, that's where the slaves come. just the few years after the british colonies got there, but also the motives, it's really hard to like justify those motors if you're even remotely honest about it, which is that a bunch of the graphs did too many. she didn't bring any farmers in bringing in people who do actual work, a form, a corporate venture, right? like venture capitalism. go to virginia, looking for gold and resources and northwest passage, maybe. and to kind of like, you know, challenge the spanish and they make terrible decisions and they, you know, set up a settlement in a malarial swamp and almost all of them die. and one guy eats his wife the 1st winter because they're starving. and the whole thing is a mass and it's sort of a capitalist enterprise and extract extract $31.00. and so i don't think that that co years with our origin. ready met, but in many ways it sets the stage for what is the common american history, maybe more so than boston and plymouth roc

he went missing stickers identifies himself as the owner of an rv campground at lake tonle acc in jamestowncould soon be coming to the more than one million people serving in the military. but as foxes lauren blanchett reports for us tonight, the potential move may face a lot of pushback. it's a tall order mandating 1.3 million active duty troops to roll up their sleeves whether they want to or not, mr sugar. why are you making the move? in fact, she managed. thank you. press that we're leaving. now we're leaving yet. defense secretary lloyd austin is expected to ask president biden to require the entire military be vaccinated right now only fda approved vaccines can be enforced. however a special waiver from the commander in chief would allow a vaccine under emergency use authorization. and like the three in the united states to be non optional, according to the d o d 64% of active duty troops are fully vaccinated, slightly more have had at least one dose. whether mandated or not that we want to encourage our amendment to be vaccinated. not just for covid, but everything else, officials sa

the washington fire burning near sonora and jamestown, wilson walker spoke with some evacuees as they returned home. >> reporter: sonora here is like so many small california city's, it is old, tucked up in the foothills, it is surrounded by wildlands with very few roads in our out of certain areas. >> we have five minutes, we grabbed all of our birds, our cat, our dogs. >> reporter: several fires burning not far from here, lori welsh had a feeling trouble was coming. >> i told him, i said we have to be ready to bug out. something is coming. pretty soon, you can tell people are starting to panic and the traffic got really crowded. it seemed like it was going to be difficult to get out of town. getting out of town in one direction became impossible. while the flames were stopped, yesterday was exactly the kind of scenario people have been working -- worrying about as fire has marched across california. sonora is just one community in risk. >> we have a lot of issues. >> seen what has happened in other cities and small towns and being near the forest, like in the past i felt much safer

now, that's a very murky point because jamestown didn't recognize slavery.ey assimilated these people to the category of indentured servant. within a but years, most of them were set is free. they became full landowners and citizens of this country. so the very basic idea of 1619 as the beginning of slavery in america, that itself is false. but it's that seed that's then grown up into this giant bush of claiming that every significant event of american history was part of this scheme by which black people were oppressed and treated as chattel. there is, of course, a history to american slavery, but she managed to get even the most basic part of it wrong. >> you can watch the rest of this program on our web site, booktv.org. use the search box at the top of the page to look for peter wood, matthew spaulding and the 1619 project. ♪ ♪ >> british writer charles dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best known fictional characters. over 2,000, for that matter, scattered throughout his 14 and a half published novels. american authors, journalists a

when the first settlers came to jamestown, they were hoping to find the same kind of supplies of goldd been found by the spaniards. it was a bitter disappointment to not find gold in what is now virginia. they brought with them jewellers and goldsmiths. but america's first gold rush took place very close to where we are now in georgia in 1829. this was the georgia gold rush in north georgia. >> if you were up to the north of here, the old county courthouse has been converted into a gold mining museum. it's about 100 miles up the road. what happened was the first gold was discovered. then people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. until then, this had been an area really beyond the line of settlement. suddenly, white settlement catches up quickly. here is the governor describing what it was like meeting the georgia miners in 1829. of many thousands of idle prove got people flocked into gentleman from every point of the compass. they were made like the evil one, in other words, the devil, in his

as a liar and most of the so called evidence has come from a researcher now associated with the jamestown foundation in washington called adrian sans if you look at things is all his so called documentation, it's documentation used by amnesty and many others. it's fraudulent. he denies that . obviously we do invite him on the program and people can see our interview with a week counsel bus and on the show on youtube channel, i mean, you mentioned earlier about these bases around china. i mean, obviously track and trace of a cove. it is a problem here in britain. we don't seem to be able to track and trace corona, virus infection, but the, there seems to be a larger number of bases that tracking and tracing all her every moves. just tell me what pain gap is. will pipe pine gap was set up by the c i a in the near l. a. springs. it was set up in the late ninety's sixty's for many years it was denied the stranger and government denied that it was an american base. they described as a shared facility, it wasn't nothing and the kind, it's a completely american run facility with astray and emplo

jamestown residents say they only had five minutes to get out. >> one woman is relieved to see her home is still standing. >> we watched the flames yesterday. and the amazing jobs on the top of the hill. >> meanwhile water levels at the lake is dropping. >> they are dropping to new lows t is stopping water right owners to draw water. they need to keep it at 20,000 since october. it has not been this low since 1977. the low-levels could effect water quality for those downstream. >> a lot of smoke lingering around california for the past couple of days are we going to see any relief, paul? >> slowly. saturday will be another hot and smokey day. the first half of the -- smoky. the first half of the day is not when to go out. it will be better later with the smoke and the temperatures as well. then, the onshore breeze kicks in on monday, knocking them back down to normal and remove the surface level smoke. it does not change the fact that air quaility is not good. the forecast model had a good handle on how the smoke has behaved as it move inside today. now stuck in place. let's wind the cl

people catching a break as the washington fire is still burning near sonora and jamestown. wilson walker spoke with some evacuees as they came home following a scramble to get out of town. we do know homes were lost in the fire that he shares a permit is not ready to say how many. from the evacuees they now have a familiar story of a fire that emerge quickly and left very little time to get out. >> in less than five minutes by the time the sheriff came up g >> lori welsh can see home is still standing. she, her birds and neighbors are all still waiting for the evacuation orders to be dropped. >> we watch the flames yesterday. and the amazing job the firefighters did dropping on top of the hill. >> reporter: on the hill and other premier site. all of this is another heather way. from the town of sonora. >> he saw people coming outside. without a high the hill where my parents. >> reporter: today the town was choked with cars returning to the area. they are still talking about the tragedy that unfolded during the fire. >> we do not have a bypass. when you add the evacuation t

like twigs in kent, exploding electrical transformers in newport and battering in beaching boats in jamestown. president biden declared a state of emergency in new york, connecticut, and rhode island. and while new englanders are used to dealing with some tough weather, the storm has potential for widespread consequences across the region with significant flooding power outages that could affect hundreds of thousands of people. and so we're doing everything we can now to help those states prepare, respond, and recover for a broad swath of the atlantic coast. that process has already begun. the storms spared the worst for a long island, which fear to direct hit, but it still whipped up high winds and high waves. and here is elsewhere. it's the water that's causing concern. storm waters flooded streets from hoboken, new jersey to western rhode island and left tens of thousands without power. still some in its wake say it might have been worse. today. we've got a direct hit basically from hurricane henry or tropical storm and re winds are pretty high this morning. power stayed on almost all the

america was racist from the get-go, slave ships and another one came to jamestown,, passengers who aretive, they been captured in the caribbean and brought over by pirate ships. nicole had a jones says that's beginning of slavery in america. that's a murky point because they didn't recognize slavery. within a few years most of them are set free. they either married in the white population, became land owners and citizens of this country. so the very basic idea of 1619 is the beginning of slavery in america, that itself is false but that hasn't been grown up into this giant bush of claims that every significant event was part of this scheme by rich black people were oppressed, denied the rights and treated as chattel. there is of course a history to american slavery that needs to be told.

containment has increased to 50% about 100 acres of burn, destroying more than a dozen homes in jamestownandatory evacuation orders lifted today at noon for all areas except golden dove lane and silver pine road. the fire is still threatening the historic town of sonora. we've curated all the wildfire information in one place on our website it can be found at ktvu dot com just click on the wildfires tab, we'll all private properties whose owners enrolled in a program to remove debris caused by the 2020 wildfires in monterey and santa cruz counties have been cleared, officials say california's consolidated the brief removal program oversaw the cleaning of 676 private properties in santa cruz county and 69 in monterey county among the charred debris where items like burned me. metal and concrete ash and contaminated soil also removed about 600 employees of the east bay regional park district are back at the bargaining table with management after postponing their strike vote during an emergency park district board meeting thursday more than 250 park workers and supporters urged the district'

was racist from the get-go and in august of 1619 slave ships and another one a month later came to jamestownthe passengers who were captive and had been captured in theca caribbean p nikole hannah-jones sums up the beginning of slavery in america and that's a murky point because they recognize slavery as a symbol to these people the category and within a few years most of them were set free and married to the white population with landowners and citizens ofhe the country the vy base of 1619 is the beginning of slavery in america and growing up into the giant bush and claims that every significant event in american history was part of the scheme by rich black people or oppressed and treated, there is a history foror americn slavery that needs to be told and manages to get the part of it wrong some of the claims are so outrageous that they got people on the far left exercise in nikole hannah-jones in a lead essay saying the american revolution was fought by the columnist against the british and against the threat that the british crown might m abolish slavery. >> peter on that point correct me

it's no coincidence that for the jamestown colony with john smith and the plymouth rock pilgrims withes standish hired soldiers of fortune to be their leaders and adversaries. but once again, i want to emphasize because i think there's been a bit of a dignified occasion and the savages as they would call them. the butcher's bill ran both ways so for every white infant that was scalped or every white militia man that was made to dance for when his fingers were cut off -- every time a soldier -- there was one scene where they capture one of george washington's best friends and burn him alive at the stake. and after filleting him and a witness describes the brain bubbling in his nose until his nose starts whistling like a tea kettle. but once again, for every indian atrocity there was a white atrocity. you had them running down with packs of bloodhounds and then when they were cornered they would release packs of wolfhounds to tear them apart. you had the virginia militia men pennsylvania militia men, falling on villages, killing men, women, and children. including one delaware village w

. >> i'm jamie, and i welcome you to our first lecture in the jamestown foundation's talking history lecture series. tonight's presenter is diana gates who will speak to us about indian women in leadership roles. there will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the lecture. ms. gates is a managing senior tribal specialist with the national center on tribal early childhood development where her projects focus on embedded native culture and language into high quality educational opportunities for native youth. she is also the founder of everyday eastern, a nonprofit with the mission of preserving and sharing existing community knowledge and

to the hopes after the washington fire destroyed 17 buildings, including homes near so nora and jamestown. crews are clearing roads and restoring power. some resident his five minutes to get out. one woman was relieved to see her house was still standing. >> we watched the flames yesterday andings amazing job the firefighters did drop the positive check on the top of the hill. -- fos check on the top of the hill. >>> 6:10 is the time now. still ahead and streaming on cbsn bay are, hundreds of east bay students won't head back to the classroom after all. why the district's response from the shakeup is causing big concerns. >> and a troubling sign at this bay area reservoir. why water saving measures have not been enough. >>> this is a live look outside before we head to break. we'll be right back. grass looks great, zeus! hey could you maybe trim the hydrangea too? sure thing, kevin. do you want me to do the boxwoods as well? no. finding the right person for the job isn't always easy... ...but when you have an insurance question, you can always count on your local geico agent. they can giv