besides the cherokee you know there were the choctaw, chickasaw, some in all and the creek.the cherokees lived in the valleys of what are now tennessee, carolinas and georgia. travelers who came to this section of the world in the mid-1700's found the cherokees to be unusually attractive and amiable people. they were taller than the white settlers and they spoke in a language that sounded to the european ear like singing. the cherokee wives raveled in hard work. they tended to the communal farmland. they did all of the chores around. their husbands hunted during the season and then with their wife's encouragement wrested the rest of the year, so you can imagine that this early french trader found this very attractive. and they oftentimes took these soft-spoken women as wives. they also learned that they could strike a very hard organ with the cherokees by plying them with liquor. when the english traders replaced the french, they brought rahm with them. the cherokees had developed an ethical code that held that anything was forgiven that you did when you were drunk, except m

i didn't -- i had lunch with a chickasaw film maker the other day, and he was talking about his comanche friends. they were -- they don't like necessarily my portrait of the brutality although i could have gone much farther in what i did. but they, i think on the other hand they believe that the portrait of the overall portrait was fair. it's, i mean, my view of how to do this was really not to take any political agenda at all, not to say the white men were less cruel than the indians. i'm just a reporter, and i gather my reporting, and the reporting showed there were unbelievable white atrocities and also what we consider to be unbelievable indian atrocities, and that's just the way the frontier was with. but i haven't, to tell you the truth, a little bit, i was expecting much more, and i think i would have heard by now. anyway, yes? >> cynthia parker is probably the most famous indian captive, especially in texas, but she certainly wasn't the only one. was she different from all the others? >> um, i'm trying to think of that famous one in mary -- what was her name? anyway, she was very

the chickasaw try what authority is one example. doing great work. managing and contributing greatly to our own economy. but it's without access to the grid, it's very difficult for us to compete, particularly with larger corporations. so i'm going to ask jackie to maybe say something on our policy. >> thank you. yes, in addition to access to the grid and to build the capacity and indian countries, also an important component. we have been working for the last several years with many folks across the country and put together what was the proposed bill that senator dorgan was living in the senate indian committee affairs. of course, that bill to introduce but did receive a market. within a bill we had a variety of options, those that do with tax incentives and economic tools, capacity building, actual energy resources and alternative energy resources. be glad to share there. and, of course, and, of course, were looking of course were looking for to sharing it with congress this session and try to get some of those pieces enacted. >> hi. jefferson, i m