>> among indian americans or by other americans? indian americans treating one another equally when they come to the country. in other words, do the caste distinctions in india, are they pervasive when these groups come to the u.s.? >> this is the survey which we have done in september. we have a whole set of questions on this which we are looking at. if you begin with the networking, networking actually occurs a lot along region lines and somewhat on religious lines. so someone's native language is around life. there are these cultural things between punjabis and bengalis that are organized around festivals, around cuisine, around language, around regional cinema and so on and so forth. there is that part. then there are professional networking groups that are more indian american or even embedded in larger south asian american groups and sometimes among asian americans. you have lawyer associations, you have ones on financing, and so on and so forth. caste is actually in terms of groups organizing, we see very little evidence of t

and so the natives found on san salvador and later on the north american continent were reasonably called indianshad the land been immediately recognized as new, and named america, these natives would, surely have been called americans and all of us who, moved in after them would logically have been obliged to recognize their prior claim to our name. the first treaty between the united states as an organized government and an indian tribe was made with the delaware indians, september 17, 1778. in the 93 years which followed, up until march 3, 1871, numerous similar treaties were signed. many of them negotiated by the sturdiest characters in american history for the consideration of american congresses. members of which had personal knowledge of the dangers and problems involved. there are now on the statute books 370 indian treaties and 2,000 laws relating to indian affairs. the nation's current indian policy partly expressed in the indian reorganization act of june 18 1934. it has three chief objectives: economic rehabilitation of the indians, principally on land organization of indian tribes, f

if there ever was any justification for the term the vanishing race in relation to the american indian, not only is it not true now, but nothing in the formulated policy of the office of indian affairs is a threat against the indians development in the future to a position of dignity and prominence in world affairs. you can watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series reel america saturday at 10pm and sunday at 4pm eastern here here on american history tv. you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past american history tv on c-span 3 created by america's cable television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. the c-span cities tour travels the country exploring the american story since 2011. we've been to more than 200 communities across the nation like many americans our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next a look at one of our city's tour visits. here the black hills of south dakota are very sa

so eight to 9,000 native american residents here, but we're within 90 miles. of the pine ridge indian reservation which by all accounts is one of the poorest places to live in the nation. where the life expectancy is very low where the infant mortality rates very high or the addiction rates very high. and where the where the unemployments very high as well. so there's it's a check. it's a very challenged. part of the country the county i come from on the reservation. cheyenne river zebok county is today the poorest county in america. last alphabetically z. it has the highest unemployment rate lowest per capita income and if you look at all the other five reservations of the lakota and western south dakota. they're going to be at the bottom 20 in the united states. well conflict is a good way to describe the relationship between the early. non-native settlers and the current native american inhabitants of this area. there was conflict then and there's conflict today, but it's not as much direct conflict as it is. influenced by historical trauma so there was development here. that was n

wilkins was the mcknight presidential professor and american indian studies at the university of minnesota where he also held appointments in law political science and american studies. thank you for joining us today, dr. wilkins and i say we jump right in so if you don't mind just tell us a little more about yourself your research and your work. appreciate that. thank you. i'm very happy to would you be joining you today? as you noted i belong to the lumbee nation of north carolina. i'm a citizen of that nation where the largest native nation east of the mississippi a population means that we're about the fifth largest tribe in the country. um, i was a military brat and spent much of my life traveling at reservations, but they were native reservations. they were military reservations, but when i got into college, i began to read the works of vinder laurie jr. who was the most powerful intellectual thinker of the time and if not the century and wound up studying under him for my master's degree and he was the one that convinced me that we needed more indigenous people studying the politica

at the sacred bear butte, a very spiritual place where, not only lakota, but people of many american indiannationalities visited. ♪ about the time of around 1800, we will say up to the 1870's as a time period, when lakota and cheyenne dominated this area. they moved constantly in search of the buffalo and game, which supplied them with food, shelter, and everything that the people know was provided by the creator. a very significant spiritual, you know, area. again, if you look at the bigger picture, you see bear butte surrounded by prairie, but the black hills are about 80 miles long. it is totally surrounded by prairie itself, so it just rises up out of the prairie, a very unique area. very beautiful. very sacred. ♪ >> taking you back a few years to the fort laramie treaty that was signed in 1868, all of what we know as western south dakota in the black hills was treaty land for native american community members. then a few years later in 1874, the custer expedition cuts through the black hills on official orders of seeking a passageway for immigrants into the montana area. in their way t

american. and under the interior department, there will be the bureau of indian affairs. sadly, is no secret that the way our government from day one, from before we became country has treated the native american people has been nothing less than table. i've been in reservations. in this country with a life it suspected see is less in third world countries . can you tell us some of your ideas as to how we can improve life for native american people. and the functioning of the bureau of indian affairs . haaland: thank you senator. first of all, i want to acknowledge the career staff, the career employers at interior and across a government who have worked extremely hard for the decades. my mother was one of those. i mentioned earlier, the murdered indigenous women, that is a tragic issue in so any places including my home state of new mexico . this pandemic is a mentioned it any times has highlighted the disparities. for the communities of colors in native communities are among those . i've read article after article on the navajo nation, people might have running water but

cultural district and other american indian stakeholders to elevate american indian traditional ecologicalknowledge, concerns and expertise. we urge all boards and commissions in the city and county of san francisco to begin each meeting with the above land acknowledgement approved by the association of the ohlone. please welcome. >> thank you all for taking that time to put that toeing. hello i am sharaya saw zoo executive director to the american indian cultural district. it an honor to be here today for my relatives for doing this important resolution to honor the relatives. my relative also wants people to know no matter where the ohlone people reside they are proud to be connected and they carry responsibility to continue the traditional ways of caring for the land. we see this as the first step to building meaningful relationship where the ohlone, and we would like to thank the commission on the environment for establishing the relationship to engage in consultation, a point of contact to meet with the american indian cultural keepers, to include the knowledge moving forward afternoo

, american indian population in latin american countries as well. so those populations in south america and central america. so of those 1%, you're right, came from the u.s., and the rest are from mostly the south american, central american sites. >> okay, thank you. >> two more questions and then we're going to go into our break. and when the discussion starts, we'll have a free-for-all. we'll be asking questions both of you, fda group, and also the sponsor. so that's the only way we can attempt to stay on schedule. so so next, dr. rubin. >> hi, thanks. that was a terrific presentation. just a quick question about the testing. the pcr test isn't that complicated. is it so important to have centrally-confirmed testing? how often were there discrepancies between -- [inaudible] and the central adjudication? >> thank you for that question. so, yes, it was -- the protocol was set up that way, that all the tests should be shipped to university washington for central confirmation. when looking at the tests that had already undergone that central confirmat

happening with the vaccine my organization has done to this point the only national survey of american indians alaska native and we found that 75 percent of them were willing to get vaccinated and that is much higher than the national average when we asked folks why they were so willing it had to do with the number one thing was they were doing it for their family for their tribe and for their community whereas when you look at the majority white population when you ask that same question they're doing it for themselves for them as an individual but that's not who we are as native people enough of public health is the united states should come to native communities when thinking about how to roll out these public health efforts we already knew we've we've been doing it and so and we've seen this vaccination uptake we're seeing communities in alaska where there are already almost 100 percent vaccinated in villages where they're flying them in these vaccines by little planes and taking them by snowmachine and dog sleds to these villages the baby milk community in michigan is 50 percent vaccinate

thank you so much for this opportunity to share with you the experiences of the indian country, american indian and in the midst of this pandemic that's devastating our communities nationwide. i am abigail, chief research officer of the health ward and in that role, i direct the urban indian health institute one of 12 travel centers across the country support american indian alaskan communities in the midst of the pandemic. i'm also american interesting and enrolled citizen of the nation of oklahoma and like many tribal people, i have experienced devastating losses not only in my family, my tribe and my network of friends, those of us working to end this in indian country are not only doing it every day but we are experiencing the same losses like many americans are in our everyday lives. at the seattle health court, also in ihs provider in the city of seattle, the seattle is of the center of the pandemic in february. many cases of covid. it became overwhelmed by folks who were concerned about what was happening and we had doctors selling fabric max washing scrubs at home trying to get ppe mate

this perhaps is the reason scarcely one in a thousand knows the true story of the american indian into his government.

so similarly we look at death rates. 2.5 times higher amorn american indian or alaskan persons and 3 3.2 higher among latinos and more with regard to black people. they don't tell the full picture. so at first glass is might look like minority groups do not have a higher risk, following the increase in patients -- but just a couple of caveats to that conclusion. the higher rate of among black latino and alaska native persons are due to higher rates of chronic disease. but also reflecting access toesting in many communities of color. so among these particular groups testing does happen more quickly at the point of symptomatic illness requiring hospitalization which is a function to testing in the first place. so in these groups we're not calculating many people who have asymptomatic infection. and as see, into the next slide, is the denominator reflects different factors and different population and those differences are built upon pre-existing inequities. so these insights from our data are critical for our ability to target our response and without the data we are at a different adv

he feels that this will create a wholesale destruction of american indian culture. in 1832, he will actually suggests that the entire western third of the country be set aside as one giant national park where the indians and the bison that sustain them can just be left to their own devices. it's just, like we will not deal with that, we will just set it aside. but it doesn't get traction at the moment, and catlin will get thrown out of the white house for protesting the indian removal act, so he's also shooting himself in the foot when it comes time to wanting to have a voice in american politics. what he does instead is he paints over 500 portraits of american indians. he pulls together artifacts and he creates an indian gallery. and so the portraits that you see here are part of that indian gallery, but they play an important role in this exhibition because these are iowa indians who sailed to europe, brought there by one of people are names lieutenants, specifically to dance for catlin as part of his indian gallery performances. so these portraits are made in lond

as young indian american women the friends grew up with media which often doesn't feature people thatl resonate with not just fellow indian-americans but all teens so far they've tackled common teen issues from body image. >> when i was 10, i was certainly not dressing up, finding my own, telling people what my style is. >> politics. >> i feel so proud seeing someone that looks like me being the vice president of the united states, you know >> reporter: in just a couple of months, they've surpassed 500 streams with listeners from several countries around the world. they already have a list of dream guests that they finsping. >> we'll be like how far can we go with this podcast and so a lot of our ideas are definitely far-fetched. >> reporter: turns out those ideas might not be far-fetched at all mindy kaling from "the office" has agreed to appear as a guest. delivering smart honest daisy n and representing voices while they do it. >> we love hearing those voices and they're getting louder and louter with mindy kaling. >> podcasts, that's why i love them they're for every interest for

similarly, when we look at death rates, 2.5 times higher among american indian or alaska native persons, 2.3 among latinos and 2.1 higher among black people. with regard to cases, it's a bit of a different story. graphs like these don't tell the full picture. it may look like racial minority groups do not have a potentially higher risk, following the cases among white americans in football. but a couple caveats to that. the higher rates of hospitalization among black, latino and american independent indian are due to higher rates of chronic disease. in these groups, we are not calculating many people who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic infection. when we advance to the next slide, the denominator reflects different factors in different populations. those differences are built upon pre-existing inequities. the insights are critical to target and triage our response. without the data, we are at a disadvantage in terms of equity planning. what we don't know about covid-19 inequity -- there's too much that is in this unknown category. the numbers you see are current as of this past w

he feels that this will create the wholesale destruction of american-indian culture. in 1832 he will actually suggest that the entire western third of the country be set aside as one giant national park where the indians and the bison that sustain them can just be left to their own devices. it's just like we will just not deal with that, we will just set it aside. that doesn't get traction at the moment. and, in fact, catlin will get thrown out of the white house for protesting the indian removal act. so he's also shooting himself in the foot when it comes time to wanting to have a voice in american politics. what he does instead is he paints over 500 portraits of american indians. he pulls together artifacts, and he creates an indian gallery. and so the portraits that you see here are part of that indian gallery. but they play an important role in this exhibition because these are iowa indians who sailed to europe, brought there by one of the lieutenants specifically to dance for catlin as part of his indian gallery performances. so these portraits are made in london

american. and under the interior department, there will be the bureau of indian affairs. sadly, it is no secret that the way our government from day one, from before week became a country has treated them native american people less nothing less than shameful. i have been on reservations in this country where the life expectancy is less then third world countries. can you tell us some of your ideas as to how we can improve life through dave american people and improve the functioning of the bureau of indian affairs? >> thank you senator, and first of all, i want to are not acknowledge the career employees and interior and across around government who have worked extremely hard over the decades. my mother was one of those. i mentioned earlier, missing indigenous woman, which is a trick very tragic issue. and so many places, including my home state of new mexico. this pandemic, as i've mentioned many times, has highlighted the disparities for communities of color in native communities are among those. i've read article after article on the navajo nation, people might have ru

the higher rates of hospitalizations among blacks, latino and american indians are due to higher rate of chronic disease. but also reflecting from lack of access to testing in communities of color. among these particular groups testing does happen more frequently. [indiscernible] we are not capturing many people who are mildly symptomatic or non-symptomatic. the denominators are different in different factors. [indiscernible] taken together these insights are critical for our ability to triage our response. without the data we are at an -- at a disadvantage. what we don't know about covid-19 inequity, there's still far too much in the unknown category. this is the current state of the data being reported across the country. returning to cases, we see 49% of cases have no race or ethnicity reported. that means we don't know the race or ethnicity for about half of cases in the country. that 49% of cases may vary demographic than the other 51%, but it is likely it reflects inequities in the data collected based on resources and how much equity is prioritized. hospitalization data has nea

american indian and alaska native, black people 2.9 times more likely. we look at death rates, 2.5 higher among indian, two point three times higher among latino s. with cases, it is a bit of a different story. at first glance, it may look like minorities do not have an increased risk, especially with cases we have seen with white americans since the fall, and the higher rates of hospitalization among black, latino, and american indian also reflects access to testing in communities of color. testing at point of symptomatic illness which is not as protective. since we are not capturing many people who have asymptomatic or mild issues, the denominators are different in different populations. so taken together, these insights to our data are critical. without the data, we are at a disadvantage in terms of equity. so what we do not know about covid-19 in our data, there is still far too much in the unknown category. so the numbers you see here, this is the current state of the data with the state and local health departments. so returning to cases, we see th

fences in one hour and 15 minutes david wilkins discusses 18th and 19th century us policy toward american indians and explains their impact on them today. in two hours on reel america three films that show the uso at work founded on february 4 1941 the uso united services organizations is 80 years old this year. today we're going to look at august wilson's fences. we're going to begin with a very brief discussion about who and what august wilson was his goal as a playwright. i'm gonna repeat some stuff that you have heard before from our in-class presentation from semhall, but there's going to be some stuff that i'm going to talk about in a little bit more depth than we talked about last class on thursday. you guys are going to look at t-bone and weasel. i really hope you all read that and prepared to do that. i'm gonna give you your very quick pop quiz the pop quiz for fences should be easy as we will be done discussing it, but we're gonna take it so that you guys can get a grade for it and you will have the pop quiz for

grant on the other hand seems to want to do what's right for the american indian, and so he talks about doing this and doing that, were it isn't the same thing for sheridan. he just wants to kill people off. and what they do, the army really cleans out the native americans. sock >> are very tragic and stained episode in our history, needless to say reprehensible. sheridan of course suffered a terrible tragedy during the war, the loss of two of his sons. particularly the older son willie. does he mention this in his memoirs or any where the you recall? >> i don't remember him saying anything specifically except that he was crushed, absolutely crushed, and he talks about the letters home, and he says i'm never get over, this and he never does. willie is one of these young men who wants to be a soldier, he wants to be like his father, so his father reacts well to this young man. he is a member of i think the 13th infantry, so he marches with the soldiers and he does all these other things. what happens is that he gets a fever of some sort. he goes to see general nick first in, they lose th

or he is an indian, that is a one that supposedly, are you an american? what are you?e thought he was a black man. and, the result was that, the man who was the friend of grants said -- i'm an american general. and said it's good to know that we have at least one real american with us -- >> critical relationship as the word develops needless to say is that between grant and lincoln there have been books written lincoln finds general and so forth was a relationship between lincoln and dragon also sherman >> that takes us back almost to what we were talking about earlier. grant and sherman are not similar, but they are similar. and one of the main things, i think is that, sherman had senator john sherman as his brother. consequently, john sherman is a very important figure. he is a leader in the republican party. lincoln and sherman, actually met through general -- through senator. sherman. it was at that time our friend, sherman did not like lincoln. i thought, lincoln was not paying enough attention -- that was a big problem with the people who were fighting throughout

a recent survey by the urban indian health institute found 75% of american indians and alaska nativeso get e vaccine. encouraging as that acceptance is, the challenge, as in so many other communities, will continue to be gettinenough vaccine, and getting it across the vast, varied landscape of indian country. meantime, antony stately was relieved to len that, by the end of their short meeting, his cousin was considering taking a shot, but roxanne flammond insisted she was going to wait a few more weeks. for the "pbs newshour," i'm fred de sam lazaro in minneapolis. judy: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under-told stories project at the university of st. thomas in minnesota. ♪ judy: a video posted by a female marine about sexual assault in the military rocketed across the internet, and into pentagon press briefing room today. secretary of defense lloyd austin promised to take additional steps tstop such violence. but, as nick schifrin reports, sexual assault in the military continues to rise, and individual families continue to be ripped apart. nick schifrin: when asia graha

around 20% identified race as other or unknown with pacific islander, american indian and alaskan native making up less than 1%. >> the distribution of vaccins are about right for white and asian populations, but lower for latino and black populations. >> reporter: physician dr. maldonado stressed we need more information. a majority of this data is reflective of the state's health care workforce and long-term care communities. eligible under phase 1a along with individuals 65 and older. >> there are underlying racial ethnic disparities in the workforces. >> reporter: public health deputy director argues it's tough to draw immediate conclusions until vaccinations move to the general public. >> that's when it becomes apparent whether we're doing a good job or a bad job of reaching nonwhites. >> reporter: until that happens latinos like ramon who make up more than half of california's covid cases are worried about reoccuring disparities. >> everyone should get a vaccine. >> reporter: on march 15th health care workers can vaccinate anyone aged 16 to 64 deemed most at-risk with underlying he

montana pediatrician lori byron founded the mission after displaced families on the american-indian reservationmoving out of your home, sometimes for farmers or ranchers losing their farm or livestock, all of those things that affect us as a society affect our children. >> reporter: byron said we need to fight for change so our children can have a better tomorrow. nancy chen, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," part two into the cbs news investigation into the trading app robinhood as former workers detail complaints about customer service >>> plus only on "cbs this morning" walgreens and uber announce a new partnership in the fight against the coronavirus. >>> and supermodel ashley graham talks about motherhood and changing the fashion industry, as we reveal her new cover for "the wall street journal" magazine. that's the cbs "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. tching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. >>> live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 .

that's why we have a asian -- that's why we have asian-americans, mexican-americans, german-americans, indian americans -- it's because the most ambitious people have wanted to be part of that. i don't know when immigrants became the enemy, but if we don't fix this, we are going to undo one of the greatest strengths of the united states. because the only thing that keeps us from the sclerotic demographics of europe and japan is immigration. i'm a major proponent of comprehensive immigration reform that first and foremost -- new [applause] that first and foremost recognizes we have people living in the shadows and we have to deal with that. we are not a country that actually wants people to be afraid to go and take their sick child to a hospital. that is not the kind of country we are. i worry that the states, because the federal government has not acted, are starting a patchwork of immigration policies when really what we need is a federal policy that is true to ourselves, true to our laws, but also true to the absolute fact that the united states of america is well served by the great melang

he had natural history items, animal life in north america, fossilized bones, american indian artifacts that would have been displayed here that had been sent to him during his presidency by lewis and clark, diplomatic gifts they exchanged to the pacific -- exchanged on their trip to the pacific and back, works from voltaire, the philosopher. he had a bust of hamilton, is our genesis, and the hall -- hamilton, his arch nemesis, and the hall -- in the hall opposite of us of himself. when visitor once told me that perhaps it was a political hunting trophy, because of course jefferson eventually won in the political battle against hamilton by becoming president. the dining room is one of the brighter spaces in monticello because of the chrome yellow paint on the walls. it would have been located on the north side of the house, the coldest and darkest side. that is where practice -- breakfast would be served each morning and dinner at about 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. jefferson is famous for his political uses of food. when he was president, he would, multiple times a week, invite politi

between mid december and mid january 60% were white. 11 1/2% were hispanic. 6% asian. 5% black. 2% american indianf the others multiracial. but multiple jurisdictions aren't reporting a breakdown by race. meantime, san francisco's first community vaccination hub opened today. and abc 7 news reporter luz pena was there and questioned officials about their plan to vaccinate the mission district, where the majority of the city's cases have been reported. luz. >> reporter: dion, it's a monumental day for this community. latinos are the demographic with the highest number of covid-19 mission district is san ncis m francisco's covid-19 hot spot. today the city's first vaccination hub opened. giving this community hope. >> it has arrived and it is such still facing a 14% positivity rate. >> reporter: but getting to this point wasn't easy. it actually started across the street. where for months ucsf and the latino task force tested thousands of people at this 24th and mission test site. making that effort the reason why today so many trust the vaccine. >> about 86% of people said they were likely to or ve

i'm also american indian. i'm an enrolled citizen in the poni nation of oklahoma and like many, i have experienced devastating losses, not only in my family, my tribe, and my network of friends, those working to end this in indian country are not only doing this every single day but experiencing devastating losses in our everyday lives. at the seattle indian help board in the city of seattle, seattle was the epicenter of the pandemic in february. we had some of the first confirmed cases of covid-19. our clinic became overrun by folks concerned about what was happening and we had doctors who were selling fabric masks. the executive leaders were washing scrubs at home, trying to get the ppe and materials needed for our staff. we put out a call because we didn't have enough ppe to our state, county, and federal partners. before we got our ppe, instead what we got was a bag -- box of body backs. it arrived when we were expecting masks, gowns, the things we needed to provide the essential care to our american india

from oklahoma and being a member of a tribe, i met with the ncai, the national committee for american indians the other day and, you know, they all talked about how the casinos are closed, the revenue is down. they have to supplement what they get from the indian health service from their local revenues and they're broke. that's why we have 20 billion in direct aid to them. i want you to understand that when we talk about this aid to the towns, it's because they've had to recreate their health departments and spend a lot of money to crush the virus just as an example. i know you said, well, the economy won't improve unless we open everything up. well you can't open things up unless you crush the virus. when i go home on the weekends or even restaurants here in washington, in new jersey there's still -- 25% capacity in a restaurant or a retail store. but there's nobody there. so it doesn't matter if you open everything up because people aren't going to go because they're afraid of the virus. you have to crush the virus first in order to open things up. that's what we're doing with this america

embassy sending an alert to american indian marsay and to basically take precaution so obviously this is something that we expect they will address in the coming days i should just put into context it's a very very snowy icy wintry day in washington when that happened most. everything in the government shut down not sure full the previous tomorrow but with these paper statements sending the message that this needs to stop and stop right now or there will be repercussions right every profession in what form a force question patty and also the other question is you know what about on time to change do you do you get a sense how do you think that she'll get the same sympathy as before given her defense of the military and the crackdown on the rohingya in rakhine state. no if she was seen as quite the hero remember when barack obama was president he highlighted her plight and her rise to power and since then when the massacre the reading of muslims and the refugee crisis that followed she did lose favor within with western leaders but at the same time they're going to be looking to preser

no, the american indians. how about the trail of tears? am not indian either, i am not american indian. if we are going to be paying reparations, let's begin at the beginning, please. host: congress actually set up a commission for native americans, since the caller brought it up. i'm going to read to you a couple of paragraphs from history.com talks about the indian claims petition. in 1946, congress created the indian claims commission, body designed to hear grievances and compensate tribes. the commission's extensive research ended up awarding about 1.3 alien dollars to 176 tribes and bands. the money was largely given to groups, which then distributed the money among their members. for some tribes whose members didn't live on a reservation, historians like collider and jake page, the money was distributed per capita. for those who did, the money was often earmarked for tribal projects. however, the funds only averaged out to about $1000 per person of native american ancestry, and most was put into accounts held by the united states gove

local colleges, universiies and public schools or helping the library launch their first ever american indian initiative, kim on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, thank you for your service and we would be honored if you close out your tenure with one last reading as poet laureate. >> thank you mayor breed. there we are. i do have a poem. it's called san francisco has a new poet laureate. pick any bench, stoop, any fourth star in this city or over it. sit quietly, you'll hear the water of time. keys rattling, heart and innovation, war and colonization that only grows on the south side of that mountain right there. you'll hear the poetry of place, popsicle sticks scratching on the curb, jump rope songs, chess moves and love curses. every night in some back room, the future and past in autopsied words, gorilla words shouted at unsuspecting somewhere in north beach. the skyline mutters poems that have been and poems to come. if you stand at the cafe's door too long, you will hear what they choose to call in this moment a poem. old wives tales along valencia, you can hear the purrin