part in an indian language.the first issue content excellence in english and cherokee from the just completed cherokee constitution, the lord's prayer and editorial by boudinot. recognize that most whites to get all indians including cherokee as little more than savages, boudinot focus on indians capacity for progress, and justification for hopeful future. there was abundant evidence that indians with the proper advantages are as capable as improvement in mind as any other people. his optimism even as he declared it from the pages of the phoenix would soon become suspect. in fact, what put more pathetic was the great other white neighbors. when a cherokee boy discovered gold on cherokee land in the summer of 1828, excuse me come 1829, land hundred georgians invaded indian country in droves. charity bitterly complained about this intrusion onto their homeland but it can quickly obvious that the invading whites aided and abetted by a president, andrew jackson who had just been elected the year before, the presiden

she is leading efforts in the indian indian health center at hhs to get indian people and indian programsolved in how we can expand the services to all native americans and i want to thank her for that support and that help. [applause] that is a great topic for us to discuss, something we need to continue. thank you for that question. i know i didn't answer it but a good question. >> maryjane with the national education association office of minority community outreach. i want to commend ncai for bridging this divide in bringing this form into indian country specifically in the classrooms educating our children. are we going to have any kind of a poll on how many of our native youth across the country and our public schools have access and opportunities to participate and as a follow-up may be a challenge for you to engage our native youth in a twitter feed or twitter hall or something because i really want to know what our native youth feedback from this phenomenal event is. >> thank you and yes we did. i will tell you we have three youth who want to know, barbie, i think this is her nam

cherokee phoenix was the first newspaper ever published by a core indian in an indian language. the first issue of february of 1828 is an excerpt in english and cherokee constitution that lowers prayer and editorial. recognizing including cherokee a little more than savages, the capacity for progress and justification for a hopeful future. there was abundant evidence that indians with a proper advantages are incapable of that and more than any other people. even as he declared in the pages of the phoenix became suspect. what was more prophetic when a cherokee discovered gold and cherokee land in the summer of 1828, georgia invaded indian country in droves and cherokees complained about the intrusion on their homeland but it became quickly obvious that they were aided and abetted by a president who was elected the year before. they properly belong to their white neighbors. these were removed out west. and it is not just externally from the federal government but also from within. a full blown flute had emerged, and cherokee question. lack of support for the federal government and

liz hunt, the ceo of the indian center of santa clara. [applause] i want to thank you all for joining us here in santa risk -- san francisco. in the tradition of our city, in honor and recognition of our indian heritage month, i would like to present -- and i am proud to present, in partnership with kqed, the public broadcasting station, friendship house, and indian health center's santa clara valley, san francisco native american health center, to celebrate four outstanding heroes that we will be recognizing tonight, their work in the bay area, and with the authority i have as the mayor of city and county of san francisco, with the participation of our wonderful and beautiful dancers and spiritual drummers, declaring this to be officially the american indian heritage month in san francisco. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> local heroes. do what last year's or this year's? [applause] [applause] dancers, stand by. how about a big round of applause for mayor edwin lee? [applause] mayor lee, i would have voted for you, but i live in o

the state of indian nations should be defined by what we commit to right now to make the state of indian nations even stronger in the years to come. we all know that tribes have faced difficult history. we are rising from harsh economic conditions to contribute to a more prosperous tomorrow. tribes have been doing more with less for generations. i am here today to outline a path to overcome our shared challenges. i will lay out specific economic changes and improvements for our tribal nations. some of these changes require legislative action. many others can come from direct action by the administration. ultimately, it will be the actions of many people that contains their nations and community. native people are the first americans, tribal nations are the first governments of this country. it is one of the three sovereigns' recognized in the united states constitution. our america is a place where each citizen contributes to a prosperous future. to achieve that vision, we need leaders who understand that indian country matters, especially in a presidential election year. we are all awar

for us it is all - indian -- i for indian. [applause] we are independent voters and we will continue to vote for the candidate who is strong with our issues and cares about pleiades. that's why today i am calling on all presidential candidates to make sure indian country is of the table during the campaign and throughout europe administration. these specific actions should form the foundation of your native policy platform. first we call on the president to spend a special message to congress on the importance of the nation to nation relationship. in 1970 president nixon set a historic message to congress on the tribal self-determination. that message lost the self-determination era the very framework that allowed tribes to prove our capacity as governor. all presidents should do the same. second, we call on the president to fully implement a united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people. we specifically called for the review of all existing federal law to ensure the year in alignment with the declaration. ther

indian tacos. be ready. i am looking for mark. is the mayor close by? once again, all of you native americans, go ahead and raise your hand. you have all been drafted. [laughter] i have not seen this many native americans in one place since we were out at ifh, picking up our settlement checks. you did not get yours? [laughter] president obama said they are in the mail. all right. we're going to go right into this next introduction of our dancers. are our dancers ready? get ready for our dancers. just one minute. let's go over to our napsters. how about an intertribal? make them dance. you are listening to one of our intertribals. depending on which the tribe, which area of the indian country you are from, a lot of these songs, we were not able to sing these songs publicly. we were not able to dance. when that happens, when we cannot speak our language, sing our song or dance our style of dance, we lose a little bit of ourselves, our indian identity. a lot of these dances and songs were ceremonial, prior to powwows. they are religious in content. the wor

>> indian point is right here. >> o'brien: right on the fault. when they were designing indian point, this was unknown. >> this was unknown. the original design for indian point one barely mentions earthquakes except to say that this region is quiet compared to alaska and california and japan, which is true. >> o'brien: if they were designing the plant today, says sykes, the nrc would certainly take into account the newly discovered seismic data. let's start with the earthquake and paint the series of sequences that worry you that could lead to a loss of water and lead to that release of radioactive material. >> right. so one would be if the reactors themselves are damaged by an earthquake that is large enough to crack critical components of that system. >> o'brien: that would be a pretty big quake, wouldn't it? >> well, it could be a magnitude six. if you have an earthquake that is very close to indian point, it doesn't take as large an earthquake to cause damage, and particularly if it's shallow. >> o'brien: and yet you still live here. >> i st

of the indian nations event. and cai is the largest, the old list organization in washington to date, representing the tribal governments across the country. i like to welcome our distinguished guest to washington d.c. we have many folks listening to us across country. to this tonic hosts data -- the state has indian nations address. to watch the event to gather among the events across the country, we are pleased that mr. starr's history class in santa fe, new mexico is joining a. we at the university of oklahoma college in the senate for native american youth in washington to the. the mashpee wampanoag tribal office in the monotony tribe of wisconsin, leaders of tomorrow and today's event header watching. there are many other more watching events across the country. and we are glad and happy they are all joining us. we have an incredible turnout today and would like to acknowledge that the gas in the audience. a month especially guess we have today, we have our board members of ncai. chairman ron allen, presiden

and of many distinct indian peoples. and their land, their present, their future, all of those were at stake. every bit if not more so than for the european empires contesting for power abroad and the french and british colora coloradonyists. so really to understand the war we look at the imperial perspective, the conflict between france and britain for overseas mastery and mastery in north america, the involvement of colonials of britain and france in north america and also native perspectives very importantly of the many indian peoples who are drawn into the conflict. now, geography is very important for understanding the conflict in north america and really you have four principal zones in north america that we're going to focus on today. one is the area where the war began. the ohio country. and we talked a little about this last time, how the war began in the ohio country in 1754. when the colony of virginia challenged the french building a fort in the ohio country. the war also involved acadia or what is also calle

today our subject is the seven years war or the french and indian war. as the two names tell us, this war at least a duel meaning, a multifacetted meaning because it was a conflict fought in various areas of the globe. it was a conflict that began in 1754 in north america. through that beginning of the war in north america, france and britain came to be at war with each other and formally in europe, france and britain went to war against each other in 1756. by that time, as you'll see, their colonies in north america and their forces in north america were already joined in conflict. to understand the french and indian wars it's traditionally called american u.s. history and also the seven years war. one has to put it in the a very broad perspective of north american history and even european history, of course. looking beyond europe and france and britain in various corners of the globe. the war would be fought in north america where it began. it was joined in europe on large scale and involved nations such as russia, austria, prussia, as well as france

he finds some indians, persuades the indians to take care of these five survivors, makes himself someshoes and walks 1500 miles to quebec in the middle of winter. quite a guy. [laughter] he then, he then makes his peace with british. and by the way, when the americans invade, he offers his services to the americans. the americans don't trust him. he then goes back to the british. he's with gerald burgoyne when he invades, he quickly gets a sense -- this is just before saratoga -- this is not going to turn out so well, so he just dematerializes before saratoga, and he ends up with a beautiful young wife 35 years younger than he is and as the second richest man in canada dying of old age. [laughter] you know? what a guy. [laughter] and other figures too. i mean, people like the governor of canada during the french and indian war, and i really, i try to rehabilitate his reputation which has been, actually, denounced by the french. so i really do my best to try to be -- i tell my students i think one of the great streej virtues is empathy. and i try to make this book as empathetic as i po

what would be your suggestions to all of indian country on how we can mobilize the indian vote for the and 24? >> well, i'm going to ask jackie to talk about the get out the everybody in a vote, because we do have a concentrated effort to get out the native vote this coming year. it is important that we mobilize our young people, not just the first-time voters, but that's an important segment, but all of our native citizens in all of our communities to get out, get registered and vote. when we look at how many were not even registered four years ago during the presidential election, almost a million people were not registered to vote. that's a significant piece of leverage to use in these native elections. so it's important that we not only talk about getting out the native vote, but we concentrate our efforts on how to do that. i know jackie's worked extremely hard, and her staff and our sister agencies have worked hard to do that, so i'm go to ask her to address what we're doing specifically in particularly these large indian population areas. >> great. we have a plan. go to nativevo

she was full blooded miami indian. she was married to a cruel and abusive man who happened to be my grandfather. and at 13-years-old to escape her family's poverty, she married this man. her husband would never allow her to sit at the same table as her kids. kerry cash or further her education. when she eventually divorced him, she was ahead of her time, she worked at an orphanage to take care of those that had even less than she imagined. helps me remember and honor her sacrifices. [applause] be the way -- be the change you wish to see in the world. we do not have to look very far to what should be different or better. i realize i am preaching to the choir, because most of you live this every day with your volunteer service. i encourage you to continue to do that and encourage others to join you. number one, and this is the most important thing, but this has been rolling around my head for most of my life, and it is if you have enough, you have enough to share. i am really grateful that my work continues to surround m

and this man who was a catholic said to the western indians, my brothers, we domesticated indians, this is translated from french, from a journal, we thank you for having to come to help us to defend our lands against the english who wish to exploit them. our cause is good, and the master of life favors it. we admire the fine deed you have just accomplished on the lake, lake george. the french called it lac st. sacrament, the lake, the holy sacrament. it is stained red with the blood of englishmen, and the english who ventured on that lake with their whale boats, mostly men from the province of nujs were decimated by the natives in their canoes who took many prisoners, 150, killed many men and scalped others. bouganville talked -- and you get the sense that the alliance that is of different elements, french and the native. it doesn't mean they are always going to be looking at the world the same way, hardly, in fact. not at all. look at what bouganville writes about the natives particularly coming from the western region or what the french called the upper country. the cruelties and the

a few indian spices does not make it indian food. we are in the and and they are middle eastern. -- we are indian and they are middle eastern. there are very many soup and salad places. there is a plaque -- there is a practical reason for this. lack of much needed diversity. it is difficult to find a small enough space to rent with a full cooking hood where you can sell a niche product like ours. we have looked at many spaces so we know this to be true. if the california and 61 beale are ideal blocks for a food truck. the restaurants in the radius are a whole block away, on the other side of a huge building. the same is true for 61 beale st. it is a great plot for a truck. a massive sidewalk, limited food options, and zero culturally diverse food available. this whole process is ultimately about san francisco. by upholding these permits, and you will enable us to bring affordable indian food to consumers in the financial district, create jobs, and increase tax revenue for the city. the permit is consistent with what the legislation i

the whole purpose of this was to give indians money and in california it becomes -- all the indians have money. which is not taken as a successor. >> i am curious what you think about 1421, the chinese over seven years before columbus. >> this is about, should explain little bit. there is an amazing not spanish but chinese explorer, a muslim you neck with seven huge armadas. one may be the largest ever. 300 some ships from southeast china and across the indian ocean and to throw china's weight around and scare the pants off of everybody he visited with an enormous flotilla and they went all the way to the southern part of africa and this book which is buys is retired submarine captain says that the fleet put up and went to the united states and to the caribbean and europe and basically around the world and as a a big part they landed in the american -- before columbus. the great bulk -- never encountered a historian who believes this. it is a distinctly minority viewpoint. i read very much -- very much enjoyed the book but i have a weakness for nautical stuff. it is like poop deck and it

my great aunt was a famous indian folklore artist and story teller. she not only told stories of our people, chickasaws, but she picked up anecdotes and tried to draw a moral out of them that an indian would draw out of them. i remember one. i will not be able to quote it verbatim. it is based on a real incident. a southern cheyenne war chief in the 1860s dealing with the american government. in trying to comprehend and encapsulate in words the enormity of the challenge and the change that he was seeing in the course of his lifetime. in the course of those treaty negotiations, he addressed the representative of the united states government and he was an american, but not american citizen, obviously. he said once this was all the land of the red man, but then came the white man and the black man and the yellow man. and i thought about this. and i thought about nature. and nature, aren't there white horses and black horses and red horses and horses of many colors? i thought about birds. there are white birds and black birds and brown birds. all one bird

a lot of indians to travel to the uk to study. the most important thing from their point of view, trying to assure everyone, in general, the safety of students from india or any other country is very secure in the u.k. in india, it has been followed closely. there has not been the kind of reaction we sell a couple years ago when there were attacks targeting indians in australia, which led to a massive decline in indians traveling to study there. that has not happened of yet. >> there is not a suggestion that britain is somehow much worse on the safety of foreign students than anywhere else. >> no, i do not think so. of course, this is an isolated case as of now. this is not the first time indians have been targeted abroad. at about the same time of this attack on christmas day, another indian was shot dead in canada. it is not something they're not used to hearing. of course, when there tends to be more than one killing and it seems quite clear that the motives or racial or targeted killing -- it is then that you get the kind of r

the indian stock market fell about 25% just last year.it lost about a quarter of its value in one year alone. it isn't the best time for people to be rushing to the indian stock market. you know, that's exactly why india has decided to open up its market to foreign investors right now. because india desperately needs the money right now. if you look at the situation just two years ago, we had so much foreign money coming into the indian market, at that time, of course, foreigners could only invest in stock market by institutional directors. you couldn't invest directly. last year, that fell to, get this, 380 million. that is a staggering fall. we've seen the other -- the impact it's had on the economy, the stock market has been falling. inflation remains high. it's in a free fall. this is why the indian government has taken the decision to invest in the stock market for the first time now. >> malika, india has been trying to modernize and open up key parts of industry, not just the stock exchange but the retail market to foreign investors

you're thinking-- "indians" is what you mean. you're thinking of the wrong kind of indians. there are indians, like ravi and kuj, who come from india, and then there are indians you're thinking of... wah wah wah wah! indians, who live in america. mum, what can i do? ben got to crack eggs. jesus. aah. ben and eggs...why? well... mum! you can count the plates in the dining room. angela only eats free-range organic chicken, doesn't she? ( inaudible response ) i'm glad you invited her, though. yeah, yeah, i know. i have been a bit hard on her. i mean, it's not an easy thing to come and look after dad. i spoke to him this morning-- daddy. hmm? you've put the forks the wrong way around. have i? what on the table? you put them like that, and they're supposed to go like that. and what will happen if it do do it wrong? will the planet earth disappear into a black hole? actually some scientists think that might happen. if the particle accelerator in switzerland recreates the big bang, then it forms a huge black hole, and the whole solar system could be sucked into it. well, that'll pl

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french and indian war occur or the seven years war in north america. the british, of course, will call this the french and indian war. the name as we'll see in today's lecture can be a little misleading because not all indian peoples by any means sided with the french. indian peoples shifted in loyalty. some were more neutral at the beginning of the conflict. others joined the french. others had a wait and see attitude. some would change sides during the war. so native peoples belonged to particular groups. we have to think of them as iroquois and even within the iroquois of the various nations within that native confederacy. let's say the mohawks as compared to the senecas, and, of course, you have to do the same with the other native groups, shawnees, delawares, potawatomies, miamis, many, many others, and we'll talk about some of those today. so the name french and indian war can be used to indicate the seven years war north america, but it's very important to remember that it doesn't really mean that all the natives by any means are simply on the f

it is the indians who are the actors and the indians are manipulating him and using him as much as hes using them and one of the interesting things about contemporary history about native americans is -- makes it clear they were in some very important ways actors and not simply victims. in a similar way as we think about different adventures this country has been on in the last ten years it is really important to remember we may think we are moving the chess pieces around the chessboard. actually we are really powerful piece often being moved around there chessboard. so i think there is a similarity there. the second thing. one of the underlying themes of the book, the book has the first two fifth to half about the contest with french canada. from the schenectady massacre through the seven years war. one of the points i make is the french -- this question of why is french canada -- 80,000 people -- able to hang on against these english colonies which have over a million? their number reasons for that. one of them is the french were so much better at dealing with it. so much better und

but was -- what was my indian have? which have given me in "1491" is this idea that what the european discovered here was, in fact, that there was something here, that there were aqueducts. that they were damn's. that there was a civilization if. >> mini. >> and does not as always portrayed it to be a virgin land filled with people were merely passive. >> and acted like nowhere else in the world. because after all the america has been occupied for 15,000 years. implications of these people later for thousands and thousands of years and didn't do anything. boring. it doesn't fit. people are interesting but these are really -- and, of course, the answer you think about this, they can't possibly be the case, these people just sat there and were like tourists. look at the trees. look at the beach. that's all people do. and so they built stuff. >> where did the idea? i can think of a number of writers who speak of america, the united states, virgin land for example. where did that idea come, that the europeans came upon plac

. >>> in indian -- were forced to be removed. >>> in indian -- in indiana the youngest mayor was born and raised in fratchingford and says a goal is to encourage the young people to return as adults possibly starting new businesses. he also hopes to be revitalize the neighborhood and boost the

very good. >> how about an indian one?former prime minister, atal bihari vajpayee -- >> would you say that again? >> atal bihari vajpayee was a phenomenal orator in hindi. pertaining to marriage, he was fond of squash as well, probably still is. >> we're talking about the ball game played in a small court. we just need to make these distinctions. he said something which doesn't quite translate as easily. he was asked why did he end up as a bachelor, he became a prime minister, he was a bachelor. he said why would i go buy a cow when i can get milk in the market. it translates better in hindu. >> it does sound a little selfish and crude. i'll give you something and something i like particularly like george who was the prime minister during the first world war in england who said general, can you use this in any speech. it works fabulous. you can have it all for yourself. it is dangerous to leap a chasm in two bounds. i like what one of the great actors in the theater howard said and he was lucky because he enjoyed his work.

subsequently the british indian army. most of the troops that fight in the first, second, and third afghan war our indian troops. that carries a different dynamic to it. secondly, upon their initial arrival what the british did in their previous incursions' into afghanistan is largely what the americans didn't, which is basically buying off those who might make their entry more and more difficult. however, what happens over time is that british troops became overextended. their occupation increasingly became a source of tension with local political leaders, and those political leaders were able to mobilize a kind of the xenophobic pinkston amongst the populace of afghanistan and drive them out so that the first afghan war most famously the defeat of the british garrison were forced to retreat in the winter of 1841 and 1842 and a supposedly slaughtered. a famous picture having been the only survivor. of course he was not. -- the methodology of empire maintains that he was. what is forgotten is the fact that the british ret

>> indian point is right here. >> right on the fault. >> when we were designing indian point this was unknown. >> this was unknown. the original design for indian point barely mentions earthquakes except to say that this region is quiet compared to alaska and california and japan. which is true. >> reporter: if they were designing the plant today, says sykes, the n.r.c.would certainly take into account the newly discovered seismic data. >> let's start with the earthquake and paint the series of sequences that worry you that could lead to a loss of water and lead to that release of radioactive material. >> one would be if the reactors themselves are damaged by an earthquake that is large enough to crack critical components of that system. >> reporter: that would be a pretty big quake, wouldn't it? >> it could be a magnitude 6. if you have an earthquake that is very close to indian point that doesn't take as large an earthquake to cause damage. >> reporter: yet you still live here. >> i still live here. i live 17 miles from indian point. >> reporter: how much concern does that give you?

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