for example in the battle of little bighorn, we have quite a thatedger notebooks described the battle and what happened after the battle. these are two of my favorite books on native american culture . this book is titled "american indian horse mask." and you can see the very decorative masks that they put on the horses. not only did they paint their decorated them. you can find more traditional horse masks for the native americans. they specifically painted each other's horses. this book, the last thing i am going to show you called bridles of the americas, in this covers indian silver. this is just an example of the of native american silver that was used. and the native americans had quite extensive trade routes between each other. they were thousands of miles inland, so there was an extensive trade route for the native americans, which again, we sort of dismissed because we sort of reduced native americans to warring indians, which unfortunately, was not always the case. but the history of the east tends to be more white, more anger, more protestant in its initial story. the histo

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. 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 -- 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 tend

fight wildfires in idaho, filled sandbags in saratoga and hudson, helped prevent a wildfire in the bighorn mountains from becoming a much larger wildfire. that's just a few of the things the guard did in one year. general luke reiner, the adjutant general of wyoming is here today representing the guard. thank you, general, we are grateful for your service and the service of all guard members. general, please stand so you may be recognized. luke, it's great to have you here and as always you look very sharp in that uniform, sir, so thank you for being here. as we celebrate our guard members we remain grateful for all military members, our veterans and those who serve our veterans. i've asked today for two distinguished veterans to be here with us, lee alley and larry bartelbort. both have indicated they'll be retiring in 2017. lee is a wyoming native and graduate of the university of wyoming in 1967 he went to vietnam as an army lieutenant and served as a reconnaissance platoon leader for infantry battalion his list of military decorations include the distinguished service cross, the go sol

the flag from little bighorn sells for $2.2 million.ncipation proclamation beats that easily -- $3.7 million. >> you could feel the tension building throughout the other two sales. >> the comes harlem globetrotter curly neal to introduce the basketball rules. the bidding races to $3 million. it's a jump ball between david booth and one other phone bidder. >> did you know who it was? >> i didn't at the time, but it turns out it's a good friend of mine -- david rubenstein. >> rubenstein, also a billionaire, once purchased a 13th century copy of the actual magna carta for more than $20 million. >> about $3.2 million, you could feel mr. rubenstein starting to slow down. he had to think about each bid more carefully. >> and then, the final bid. >> on my left, $3,800,000. >> sold to david booth! >> you paid more than the emancipation proclamation. >> yeah, well, that's because there's only one original rules, and the emancipation proclamation, i think, had about a dozen. >> with the auction house commission added in, the price comes to $4.3 m

this session has for of the ted and out of 10 projects and those creek from big horn county and also bighorn county. they are funded separately from government operations with me in sitcoms from the of bonner fees that has accumulated and has the funding available. to have 31,000 acres of the most most precious natural resources that is water that is key to development industry made a priority. in 2016 the executive branch would streamline our rules to put public record request. to have all agencies reduce their role by 30 percent. prayer spending less from fiscal year 2011 and in wyoming will be careful with the budget we can never forget the encounters of dollars and to be sure we must be aware of the inmate population, a disabled and the health care we're providing not providing may think of our family is in the next-generation in sponsoring the symposium is important to talk about suicide in ways to reduce suicide. and we need to look for ways and this is now the annual symposium. and this is a long-term planning effort standing for economically needed diversification opera -- options fo

one of them is a case of artifacts related to the battle of the little bighorn. aside that case, there is firearm, a springfield, acquired from a native named little moon. you can look at that object and contemplate how it changed hands, the travels that it took prior to that and the ways that might help us think differently about history i nthn the west. coincidentally, in the west, there is a small macabre basket. talk, you wills be able to look at those objects differently. maybe the objects will help you reflect on the talk differently. i think -- i was going to say something about trends in , and about how different authors have been rethinking this, but i think it will come up. i will skip that part. it is part of a new wave of history that thinks about native geopolitics differently. other histories, violence is a big part of how we rethink. there is violence in these histories, but trade is the theme of today's talk. thinking about trade is another way that different native nations and outsiders have boun lay claims to territory. i will introduce one of o

we can't have free and fair elections in alabama unless we have more soldiers. 1876, bighorn happens in reconstruction is not yet over. that is one of the things that hurts reconstruction. they need a military presence in the south. part of it is the war is over and soldiers want to go home. they want to go back to their farms, businesses, families and wives. they mustered out in the army becomes disproportionately lacked because a lot of these .ormer slaves they stay in the army but they stay out west. we are all told in gradeschool one of the deals made by hayes in 1876 is the white house demands the withdraw the federal army. but it is symbolic. are 2800f 1876 they soldiers in all of the south. there are more cops in philadelphia announced in the south in 1876. gestureand a symbolic that the federal government is walking away from black soldiers and black southerners. wars in the dakotas that her reconstruction. the soldiers are needed down there to enforce voting rights in alabama, mississippi, and not out in the west. that really hurts reconstruction a lot. mr. williams: thank y