you might have an indian brine. you might know an indian cop, indian judge, indian lawyer. this is who we are. and that's who we want to be, okay? receiving enough nods to satisfy him, he picked up a beat drum and stopped. and did the beat remind him of and a child raised his hand, a heartbeat. one place you hear drums is at a powwow. he asked those who is a powwow. he told everyone they had really good guesses and answered the question himself. it's a celebration where some of us indians, we sing and we dance. we also make new friends and renew old friendships. a powwow is made up of four circles. the very first circle you'll see at a powwow is a drum. it represents a heartbeat. the heartbeat of the powwow, the heartbeat of mother earth. also the heartbeat of other children which is all of us inside this room and outside of this room. without this heartbeat, there will be no powwow. >> so there, we are, right away. there's an individual who lives in this very city, who if you saw on the street, it may not occur to you that you're seeing a native american, but when you scra

you might have met an indian teacher in your school or an indian principal, indian cop, indian lawyer. this is who we are and who we want to be, okay? receiving enough nods to satisfy himself, ansil picked up his hand drums and stopped. what does the beat remind them off? the child replied, a heart beat. he praised him. you hear drums at a pow wow. everyone had good guesses as to what a pow wow was. it's a celebration where we sing and dance, make friendships. it's made up of four circles. the first circle is the drum representing the heart beat. the heart beat of mother earth and her chirp, all of us in this room and outside this room. without this heart beat, there will be no powwow. >> there we are right away, an individual who lives in this very city who if you saw on the street it may not occur to you you're seeing a native american, but when you scratch the surface and talk to the individualings you learn about his own culture, so we're not in the world of either/or. this book is not about either/or. with regard to ansil, let me ask you something else. my understanding is one of

also, creating a buddhist park with hundreds of buddhist sta statues on sacred montana indian land and guess what? the indians don't mind. >> and the jewish holiday of shavuot, celebrating the harvest and the torah, and proclaiming -- >> that you shld be really, really, really happy. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development, and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designed and customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company and the corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. secretary of defense robert gates told the associated press this week that if the top military officer recommends an end to the don't ask, don't tell policy relating to homosexuals he will okay the new rules before he retires the end of june. gates also said he sees no barrier to that happening. since congress repealed don't ask, don't t

the people who live here are asian indian decent.uvaly is like christmas. the question has become should schools close for this holiday? >> it is a new years for people from india and it's a huge event, a hugient. >> reporter: it is a five-day celebration with the return of a beloved god with his triumph over evil. in india it's a national holiday. in the u.s. there's been talk this on the internet about asking bay area school districts with large indian school populations like sunnyvale to make ate school holiday like they do in new jersey, temple administrator ra concern kapoor says if they gain direction the temple will back it. >> maybe we can support them and we would like to support them because we here are not getting the full bang. >> we haven't really received any formal request to begin to study this, to begin to have some community conversations, to talk with our teachers union. >> reporter: fremont unified school superintendent jim morris says it hasn't come up in consideration since it hasn't been requested by the commun

cleveland indians are in town. the giants and indians, one of the most iconic games in baseball.we flash back to black and white footage to the 1954 world series. mays making the incredible over the shoulder catch. it's considered one of the greatest catches of all time. mays and the giants swept the series to win the world series. it's the last time the giants won the world series. should be a good one tonight as we flash back. game one here on nbc bay area. the telecast begins at 8:00. a lot of kids in the ballpark. a lot of very small kids putting on the giant's uniform. >> he's so cute. >> reporter: see you at 7:00. isn't he cute? >> adorable. super cute. jeff ranieri, what kind of weather will that baby be expecting tonight? >> sun for the first part of the game then the fog coming out here for the next several hours. of course, as was mentioned, the san francisco giants on nbc tonight. then raj mathai in the field. 59 degrees. it feels warmer like mid-60s. the wind at 14. as the fog pushes in by 8:00 and 9:00. tonight, the winds ramp up to the low 20s. once again, don't mis

in the singular, american indian culture. i wanted to play it for you to give you an example of what might be considered traditional style because after this i'd lake to bring up two guests and play two arrangements that were created especially for this festival that bring in both the irish american and the urban indian. so this is a cedar flute song for you. (playing flute) so now that you have a little bit of powwow and a little bit of cedar flute in your ears, i would like to invite two guests up to perform for you, two arrangements which i made especially for today. first, rita lindall, rita and i are both in the same cohort as the music program at uc berkley and we've been saying for 4 years, we need to play music. so we finally made it happen. so, rita lindall, and then masuro koga. mas and i have been playing together for a very long time, so much so that we wore the same shirt without having to talk to each other about it. mas is in high demand both as a teacher and as a session side man, having played with everybody

it's a story from the [inaudible] and so the indian epiics actually the indian epiics for very common in cambodia and bali and thailand and there is a different aesthetic. all southeast asia and asia there are a lot of similarities. >> he is a male entity. he is not -- are you referring to the story? >> it's interesting you should say that. a unique indian concept is one of half male, half female. and that is -- unlike some dances the solo dancer portrays all of the parts in the story. you can portray a feminine aspect and then masculine aspect with the bow and arrow. the male has to portray feminine and the female has to portray masculine. there is a very fierce dance and a soft sort of dance and every dancer has to learn all those aspects. it's very, you know, my teacher i call him a guru in this art form you have to study very, very hard. you have to learn about all the cultural aspects. he says it's liberating because he enjoys and has to learn to bring up the feminine aspect. he's a strong character it's a challenge for him and he likes it. the stories are metaphor cal. i don't l

also a very strong team from the indian industrial. it has been anutstanding day and thanks to both of you we get so much on the table. the support we have received from the indian embassy and the u.s. treasury has been exemplary in making this conference a success. thank you so very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. host: caller: [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the senators will consider the nomination of marine corps lieutenant general john allen to replace general david petraeus as commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan. that is on c-span 3 at 9:30 eastern. in a few moments, today's headlines and your calls, live on "washington journal." at 10:00, john kerry tears a hearing of the foreign relations committee looking into whether or not the war powers act applies to military action in libya. we will return to live coverage of the foreign relations committee at 2:30 eastern when members consider a resolution authorizing the limited use of u.s. fo

of people, they're called the untouchablest, in essence, they are the lowest of the lowest in the indian culture, your visit to india had an impact on your life as it relates to this particular group of people, tell us about it. >> as a lawyer, i'm looking for places where the gospel and human rights converge and the dallas and india, there's more than 165 million of them, most of them live in poverty, only 2 or 3 percent of doughiest know how to read and right. they now have equality, the leader told us it takes two generations to get out of oppression or slavery, the first generation changes the laws but the second generation changes the mind set. when you go to these schools for dal l*et and you see these children and their big smiles and bright eyes, you think, what ki do to help them have opportunity in life, to recognize there is freedom in christ, that people care about them and they are worthy of christ dying for them >> as you know, there is something called the cast system in india that has held many of indians in bondage as a result of this system. there is numerous organizati

s ongoing covert war against the indian people i don't happen thing that that supporters like yourself argue what is the most compelling piece that i have a chance at that well well we know from the from the church hearings in one thousand nine hundred sixty s. or senate hearings that the cointelpro operation by the f.b.i. targeted political activists they targeted them for assassination surveillance they tried to create divisions within groups in the case of the american indian movement that was rampant that's all part of the record and we can see from the evidence from the trials that the the the the prosecution in the f.b.i. asserted that these agents had been executed a chart range that wasn't true they said that the that they that the vehicle belonged to one of the peltier that was untrue all of the evidence turned out in subsequent hearings to be untrue but nonetheless leonard peltier is politically isolated because the f.b.i. is a powerful lobby in the united states affecting unfairly the outcome of this court case you mentioned clinton possibly being as considered that he would

live from moscow coming up a real life slumdog millionaire the story of an indian man broke out of the centuries old tradition of accounts to some to prove anyone can determine their own also. off i go as a three man crew heads to the international space station we live the exhilaration and excitement of the final moments before they settle. in countries around the world are calling for stress tests for all the tonic reactors to avoid a fukushima style crisis at a meeting on nuclear safety in paris germany and switzerland are planning to shut down their atomic plants altogether but the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities and as laura emmet explains there's a lot that could go wrong. the lake district famous for its quick villages and spectacular views it's a hillwalkers paradise but one can't help wondering if people would be quite as happy to holiday here if they knew what was right next door here right on the edge of the picturesque lake district sellafield nuclear plant in probably it's home to the world's biggest plutonium stockpile a waste product of civilian nuclear fue

on the kind ridge reservation in south dakota now that incident led to the conviction of american indian movement activist leonard peltier he is thirty six years later in prison he's been there for more than three decades to the f.b.i. peltier is the murderer of two of their agents but to many peltier supporters ranging from foreign parliaments to the dalai lama to the late mother teresa he is a political prisoner had an unfair trial and deserves clemency now earlier i spoke with one of called here supporters brian becker he's national coordinator of the answer coalition and he has organized protests on peltier's behalf i asked him first you know peltier is in his sixty's he served more than three decades in prison he's had a stroke he has diabetes he's partially blind on humanitarian grounds as so many of his rips supporters call for what is wrong with clemency here's what he said. there's nothing wrong with clemency leonard peltier should not be in prison he should have never been in prison he's the victim of an f.b.i. witch hunt the frame of the individual who has been held culpable f

>> jimmy: my aunt chippy at the san manuel indian casino. anniversary with a $10,000 a day giveaway, july 1st through 25th. and on july 7th, adam corolla brings his show to san manuel so join them for that. my aunt chippy is playing blackjack on behalf of our studio audience right now. how are you holding up, aunt chippy? you all right? [ applause ] >> i'm barely holding up, jimmy. i need some help over here. some energy. >> jimmy: we're down 10 grand. >> i got the people in back of me. >> jimmy: all right. we want to win three hands in a row. let's do it. our first card -- is a king. and the house gets -- our next card is a 3. oh, boy. all right. and let's see what the casino gets. the casino gets a jack. the casino has a jack -- >> she's got 12. come on. >> jimmy: oh, we got to hit that. give us an 8. give us an 8! 14, give us a 7! >> 14. >> jimmy: should we waste another $10,000? all right, let's do it. [ cheers and applause ] >> do i go to jail for killing them? >> jimmy: aunt chippy, put up the money. let's do this. [ cheers and applaus

also a very strong team from the indian industrial. it has been an outstanding day and thanks to both of you we get so much on the table. the support we have received from the indian embassy and the u.s. treasury has been exemplary in making this conference a success. th [applause] >> and we go live now to capitol hill as the u.s. senate convenes today. up first on the agenda of domination for justice department positions. at the attorney general, assistant attorney general for the office of legal affairs, and assistant attorney general for national security with votes at about noon eastern today. a break for party caucus meeting. they will returned at about 2:15 eastern. and naturalize senate coverage here on c-span2. -- now to live senate coverage here on c-span2. will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. gracious god, whose glory has been revealed through the generations, renew within our senators a true understanding of your purpose for this nation and world. illuminate their minds with the light of your wisdom so

in for thousands of years indian doll with were brought out only for work or casting worthy for todaythey are making their way to the top despite the prejudice of society or met one entrepreneur who shared his story. it's who wants to be a millionaire indian style and today in india more people than ever feel like they too have a shot at making it big. meet of you know is just he's the owner of everest on pipes a cement pipe making company worth three hundred fifty million rupees or eight million dollars so what makes him different than any other rich indian well he's exulted the lowest caste in the ancient hindu caste system also known as untouchables for centuries these people were restricted to work such as meanings for words and picking up dead animals from the streets my father my mother the. support of the oldest the motive that we have from this frost and how we have. supposed that. so jumped up made it his mission to get an education he worked on his business during the night and went to college during the day while just the claims that he didn't feel any sort of discriminatio

the indian prime minister said action against guru was unfortunate but unavoidable. we're in the midst of the tennis summer. we have some good news for women's tennis. >> yes, it was in july last year after she won wimbledon. serena williams went to germany. she was in a restaurant there and stepped on some glass and cut her foot very badly. she had two operations on that and had to be in a cast for two month after the second surgery. she had the pulmonary embolism. she has been practicing. it was thought that she would return to world team tennis. she is desperate to get the trophy again. she has had it five times. she is a 13 grand slam tennis champion. women's tennis needs williams sisters because they are a huge draw. there are greatest tennis player of the moment. >> i'll accept that at the moment. >> people of a certain age. he is definitely the source rer of the moment. there he is. rafael nadal. he adds that six times to his name. before rafa came to london, he will be trying to do what the great borg did five times in succession. go from the clay courts of p

unaccounted wealth is a factor many indian businesses contend with. this real estate investor says a much bigger part of his transactions are outside of the authorities. taxes will be paid only on property rates set by the government which he says could be five times lower than the actual market prices. the rest of the money exchanges hands unofficially and both buyers and sellers seal the deals on mutual understanding, he says. an indian government committee is looking at ways to deal with illegal wealth and india signed pacts with at least 44 countries to track tax evasion and money laundering by indian residents living overseas, but the guru and his supporters remain unfazed, vowing their strike also continue. >>> america was stunned last month by the widespread tornado damage and heavy loss of life in joplin, missouri that brings us to today's big number, $7 billion. that's how high the losses could run in the southern and midwestern states hit by that deadly burst of tornadoes. the massive twister that hit joplin, itself, killed a record 138 peop

this happens early yesterday morning on indian head highway in oxon hill. an suv rear ended a mazda, which then crashed into a tree. no charges have been filed esp. >>>-- files yet. >>> a plea deal agreement regarding john edwards broke down over jail time ud was indicted on charges he used campaign funds to cover up an affair. >>> 7 is on your side with in the fight against two deadly forms of cancer. the first breakthrough could help melanoma patients live longer. the second can cut the risk of breast cancer in half for women most at risk. >> researchers concluded a stunning success. melanoma is often an impossible disease to treat. >> this is revolutionary. >> scientists revealed a new drug which targets genetics all mutation which affects about half of those with melanoma. this person is one of those patients whose melanoma had spread to his organs. he tried the experimental drug. >> if it continues to work the way it is working, it is fantastic. >> it was so effective at keeping patients alive, for those on key maturity were offered this drug instead.

and i visited the settlement that he founded outside of his area on the indian coast. wrote a litt piece for the times. my next assignment happened to be india. so funny way, i made the trip he made, come strik to india and it happened toss the centennial year of his birth. so i did a piece for "new york times" magazine, also ma years ago, about the state of gandhi in india. in that sense, it w my mind. then when i was thinking about things i could write about after i left the paper, it popped in to my mind as a way of gting back into these two countries, my two favorite assignments as a correspondent. but beyond that, i then had to sit myself down at the public brary and read for some months before i found a theme and an angle that made sense to me and then when i found it, i thought, this is new, nobody has ever hooked at gandhi this way. >> what was the theme? >> it's a common thing to say south africa shaped them, that ter 21 years there gandhi was pretty much the gawndy the world would come to know. but how it happens, the actual steps had never been clearly delin

also a very strong team from the indian industrial.n outstanding day and thanks to both of you we get so much on the table. the support we have received from the indian embassy and the u.s. treasury has been exemplary in making this conference a success. thank you so very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the house recently debated and voted on two measures related to u.s. military involvement in libya. both will continue debate in the house and senate at c-span congressional chronicle. find video of every house and senate session, daily schedules, committee hearings, and information on your elected officials access c-span.org /congress. >> in a few moments, the supreme court oral argument in the case akaka california law banning sales of violent video games to minors. in an hour, represented michele bachmann announces that she is a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. then we will we are the forum o

among all the radicals people who come with conditions the un something else done something that indian nation because they are saying to the libyan people you do not know what is good for you we don't know who to choose for you so if you are really interested in peace what you do is you come and see the future of libya should be decided by libyans the russian peace mediators the rival coincides with an intensification of nato has a minute. activity here in libya we are actually not allowed to leave the hotel where we're staying now in the center of tripoli but from here we can see and hear that nato has intensified its strikes on colonel gadhafi is military arsenal here in the states he just days ago the alliance expanded its air war against because the operation and for the first time started to use an attack helicopters a mission for the research foreign secretary has declared optimist in the rebels in benghazi himself that they had no operation against gadhafi here in libya could last beyond christmas rush is very concerned about this fact saying that nature is actions illegal to re

also a very strong team from the indian industrial.tanding day and thanks to both of you we get so much on the table. the support we have received from the indian embassy and the u.s. treasury has been exemplary in making this conference a success. thank you so very much. [applause] >> thank you so much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the house recently debated and voted on two measures related to u.s. military involvement in libya. both will continue debate in the house and senate at c-span congressional chronicle. find video of every house and senate session, daily schedules, committee hearings, and information on your elected officials access c- span.org/congress. >> in a few moments, monday's pentagon briefing. in a little more than an hour, the supreme court oral argument in the case banning violent video game sales to minors. the court ruled it violates the first amendment and is unconstitutional. a panel of lawyers refused the major decisions th

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the mets won it, 9-8. >>> something really bugged me about the rangers/indians game.t was all about the bugs. rangers swatted the indians, 7-4. >>> finally, classic scene to show you at the ladies turkish open. look what happened, see that guy in the golf cart? punch it. nearly hit three people and wham, right into a tree. fortunately, he was okay. give him the breathalyzer because there's no way he could do that sober. that's your early look at sports on "early today." have a great weekend. i'm fred roggin. >>> another huge pile of earnings is expected this weekend at the box office. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, let's admit it, we would fought last a minute against these kids. we're going to bring you the winning word in the national spelling bee. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. let me take you through your sunny from vegas to phoenix today. the next storm system will linger in that area. portland 84 and sunny. seattle 75 and sunny. into sunday increase the clouds a little bit. hope you can enjoy it. if you

the indian american community, the south asian community, pakistanis, afghans, indians, vietnamese, really participated in this process. and yet their community, one of the fastest-growing indian communities in the country, is not the largest, was split in half down in the south. they're very upset about that. this is just one of the places where these are not final lines. these are draft lines. and there's going to be a whole group of meetings still. people can still weigh in on this process. people think that can be changed. >> the changing demographics of california, we know there's a large increase of latino voters and residents in california. but is it still a state of identity politics? does it make a difference if all the indians are kept together in the fremont area or the latinos in san jose or the chinese in san francisco? >> yeah, the idea isn't to sort of create special districts but not to split up a voice and a vote. and this has been done in the past to, say lashes tino communities. split three or four days and they don't get the representation -- >> i'm wondering is it abou

tonight a real life slumdog millionaire the story of an indian man who broke out of the centuries old tradition of a caste system to prove that if you're determined enough for anyone to sort out their own destiny that story's ahead also this too. and off they go as a three man crew heads the international space station we relive the exhilaration and excitement of the final moments before they sent off. there's been an international demand for all atomic reactors to face stress tests at a meeting on nuclear safety in paris that's in the wake of japan's near miss with disaster which is already persuaded germany and switzerland to shut down all of their nuclear plants but the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities meantime and as artie's the remedy explains next there's a lot that could go wrong. the lake district famous for its quaint to villages and spectacular views it's a hillwalkers paradise but one can't help wondering if people would be quite as happy to holiday here if they knew what was right next door. right on the edge of the picturesque lake district sellafield nuclear

they are rounding up green tree indians to send them to that very place right here, green town indians to send them to urbana. so they can't really, you know, sign them of for the cause. they march in about two miles away, inter them, burn their village, one girl 12 years old, i think she is, happens to be visiting from another tribe. her father comes to take her away. they shoot the father. they behead him, they scalp him. soldiers are drinking whiskey out of the scalp. it's beyond description in terms of horror. they were avenge of the avenge of the avenge cycle. so word comes indians on the warpath. meanwhile, the american -- the garrison of soldiers in mount vernon has sent the troops. there's not enough protection. they have the meeting and -- i'll see if i can find it in a minute. they have the meeting and say somebody has to go worn the people in mount vernon. you know, there's the clear eyed man that steps forward and says i'll do it. he runs presumably through the night and stopping at all of the taverns along the way. can you wait one? just see if i can find this real quickly