the poet longfellow became a follower and a sympathizer and said in his poem, hiawatha, he said i see the virtual representation of the character in his poem. there were these famous people who got on board. the end result was an act by senator who created this bill but what it did was, it was intended to provide citizenship for native americans. they were given 160 acres, and if they proved their -- they would eventually be able to become citizens. what happened was these lands held by the tribe were broken up into 160 acre parcels, and of course there were some parcels that weren't claimed, so white settlers came in and took those or they would buy the 160 acres from native americans for a reduced price and the reservations were gutted because of the act. while the intention might have been good, the result was horrific. it was disastrous. another further irony of this whole attempt to gain equal rights for native americans. it was misused and abused and resulted in perpetuation of their inferior status as opposed to what it was intended to do. people look at this and say this is in

and in fact, in his famous poem "hiawatha," he said, i see many -- minnehaha./ she was the virtual representation. so the end result, again, or ironically, one of the end results was that it was well intentioned, he was a senator who created this bill, but what it did was it was intended to provide citizenship for native americans. each native american would be given 160 acres. if they proved they worked it, they would he come citizens. what happened is that these lands were held by the tribe were then broken into 160 acre parcels. there were some parcels that were not claimed and white settlers came in and took those, or they would buy the 160 acres from the native americans from a very reduced price, and the reservations were gutted because of the act. while the intention might have been good, the result was horrific, it was disastrous. just another further irony of this attempt to gain equal rights for native americans was misused and abused and resulted in perpetuation of their inferior status as opposed to what it was intended to do. people go back and look and say that this was incredible t

she hated the old james monroe centerpiece of 1818 with the mirrors on it, so she bought a hiawatha silver centerpiece, which is about this big, and it shows the gitchegoomee with the -- with all the cattailed and the weeds, and the canoe in the middle of it and hiawatha lounging on a bearskin rug. and that was the new centerpiece for the white house she bought at the fair. it was on exhibit. and it's still in the silver closet at the white house. susan: so, nick stuffit asks on twitter, did julia grant have any hired assistants who helped her at the white house? how were first ladies staffed at this point in the process? william: (202) 748-8000 there was no social secretary then. usually, the ladies got together and filled out the blanks for invitations. and they all used blanks. it was the, you know, the president and mrs. grant in the honor of blank, blank. and their friends would come over for a tea party and they would fill out the blanks, usually. she had mary muller as the housekeeper. she -- isn't that the one who traveled to europe with her? they were very close. she called her a

and in fact in his famous poem "hiawatha, so the end result, again or ironically, one of the end results that it was well intentioned, he was a senator who created this bill, but what it did was it was intended to provide censorship for native americans. each native american would be given 160 acres. they would eventually -- citizenship for native americans. it's native american would be given 160 acres. they would eventually begin and citizenship. there were some parcels that were not claimed and white settlers came in and took those, or they would buy the 160 acres from the native americans from a very reduced price, and the reservations were gutted because of the act. while the intention might have been good, the result was horrific, it was disastrous. just another further irony of this attempt to gain equal rights for native americans was misused and abused and resulted in perpetuation of their inferior status as opposed to what it was intended to do. people go back and look and say that this was incredible to do that the court went and said that a native american was a person. we lo

it's a chilly 29 degrees as shawn daivari heads to the airport on the hiawatha train line. >> light rail in minneapolis is as nice and clean as you can get. >> but on this day, nice and clean gets down and dirty when a car full of commuters has to contend with an unruly passenger. >> when i first got on the train, he was just kind of, like, randomly yelling out, cussing a lot and stuff. i sat up in my seat, put on my headphones, pulled out my tablet like i always do. there were a lot of kids and older people on the train and stuff which didn't bother me that much. i just thought it wasn't very polite. >> the security video is silent and low quality, but it appears from the man's body language he's getting more agitated by the second. >> he was just kind of moving up and down the trains not necessarily talking to one person, but just kind of being loud and obnoxious to anyone who was in earshot. i sat back, kicked up my heels. i have 20 minutes to ignore this man then things started escalating. >> when a train rolls into the next station, a request from a boarding passenger sends the agit