indians. in the early days they often were scouts but the war of 1812, they became, you know, enlisted soldiers at the battle of new orleans with andrew jackson we always hear all about that, we don't realize there were 1,000 choctaws fighting with him and their leader was a full general in the united states army. and as luck would have it he died on christmas eve, 1824, in washington, d.c. and andrew jackson led the funeral to the congressional cemetery just a couple of miles from here, and sad to say most people don't even know it exists. and yet there are about 30 american indian leaders buried there. they are not buried in the -- these were for the congressmen who died on duty in washington and five presidents were interred there for a while. those represented a congressman, one said these things are so ugly that it added a new dimension of terror to the thought of death to be buried under one of them. but most of the congressmen b y buried there went home but sad to say a lot of their chi

not owned or settled by indian, other indian tribe. so congress decides we are going to open this under the homestead act, let people claim the land. well, how do you do it? it is a small parcel of land. lot of people wanting the land. so if you take the political philosophy of the time, laissez faire government, government needs to step back into the shadows, keep your hands off daily life, let the free enterprise system work. secondly, a social philosophy, darwinism, evolution, survival of the fittest, the theory that the fastest and the smartest will survive. the dumbest and slowest won't. let's open it by land run, keep the government out of it, let people run for it. the first to get to 160 acres of rural land or a town lot in one of the town claims it, defends it, stays on it five years, gets it for free. congress sets a date for the first land run, april 22nd, 1889, high noon. on that day, 50,000 people line on the borders of the territory. at high noon, cannons go off, flags go down, variety of means, 50,000 people rush for fre

her battalion was 80% indian. in a combat zone she organized this pow-wow and they had to make their own gear and they got friends at home to send stuff in. chuck saw a flyer and said well, i have four-day leave coming. instead i'll go to that pow-wow. he said there he was in this truck heading to this pow-wow and the truck came under attack. he is dodging bullets, doing this all to go to a pow-wow, i must be nuts. the fellows made the gear, the drum is out there. they took an oil drum, got the 45th insignias carved in it. they used a canvas from a cot. and she said we weren't supposed to take any equipment and wreck it. we had to use material that was destroyed. she said that canvas on that cot was destroyed after we cut the hole to make the drum cover. here they are. i have a recording, i don't know if they are up there. good. he'll turn it on. if you want to hear what that drum sounded like. we even have audio from that pow-wow. can you put up the sound a little bit. so that's that canvas covered drum. [ chanti

indian could be picky. the women had apparently have very definite ideas about what would make a good corn crop. so do modern scientists. funny thing, and do they correlate? well, i checked with a scientist. i actually did want to talk to the soil scientist, but i went into soil map county by county, had done it for delaware, coastal plain of maryland, virginia, and north carolina, just out of curiosity, and i didn't just do it on general soil types which my colleague randy turner did in his dissertation and found it correlates. i found sometimes very specific soils, number 298, this is not in color, but 298 down by the word perten bay, is one particular kind of soil, the best that's available locally, and that's where palatan lived. i promised i wouldn't mention individuals. you can actually pin it down by specific soil type. in this case, i think i remember it is state sandy loams, farther up, it is fantastic and the state soil now. this is what the indian women found. we know where they were doing their

non-indian settlers, so it was, in a sense, wide open. it was already occupied by numerous indians, but that barely entered into the thinking of the federal government, and in georgia, gold was discovered in the late 1820s and pressure really jacked up to remove cherokee and other indians, georgia, alabama, and mississippi, and various tribes underwent trails of tears, the most famous usually in art and film is the "cherokee trail of tears" in the late 1830s here into northeastern oklahoma, but many, many tribes have ended up in oklahoma, and after the american civil war, out on the plains, other tribes were persuaded to come to western oklahoma for reservations, so you get a great diverse collection of native peoples here in oklahoma. removal varied depending upon the wealth of the tribal members, depending upon the time of year, depending upon who came first, who came last. as an experience, who was in control of the removal, it has many layers of complexity, but certainly, there was terrible suffering for those who came walking through

i would summarize indian removal by trying to place it in a larger perspective, and that is by non-indians who want equality in the united states, wrapping themselves in the flag, and

and so you made the film the only good indian, you executive produced, you starred in it. it's a little bit about your personal story in the sense that it's about a boy who ends up in a... one of the schools to acculturate native americans. >> they were basically boarding schools wherein children were many times forcefully extracted from their home environments and plunked into schools, boarding schools, that... let's just say it was a really bad situion for a lot of the early kids. by the time i went to one of these schools, and this was in the '60s, when things were beginning to, you know, kind of turn around, and... i didn't suffer the many things that happened to kids in... >> hinojosa: it was not a terrible experience for you. >> for me it was not a physically or... terrible situation. >> hinojosa: this movie, though, it was not a major blockbuster. it did well at sundance film festival. but in essence, then, they can say, "well, you see? your story just isn't out there pulling those millions of audience members." >> right. it's not big enough, and there's not enough

have the indian descendants been involved? do you get feedback, participation, from the indian people there in the community? thank you so much. >> well, i can speak to the second question first. and that, yeah, there's much interaction with our project and the current united tribes. in fact, today there are some members of this tribe on the site demonstrating and some in the original draft of the virginia indians. so, they are as interested in what we are finding here and we find a lot of artifacts that were traditionally inside the fort. so, we know that it wasn't one of those cases where the indians were on one side of the palisade and the settlers were on the inside. there was interaction going on, no question about that. and the first question, again -- >> he was talking about a period of drought. he talked about drought. >> oh, drought. you want to take that? >> well, yes, he's referring to the scientific evidence, boring of cypress trees that has shown that there was drought for 10 years, 1606 to 1612. the worst drought

this is the indians coming to indian territory. wilson actually calls it the indian immigration, which to me made it sound like they wanted to come here, and i never have understood that. kind of in the upper right-hand corner, you'll see a depiction of the trail of tears. the reason there's a steam boat in the middle of that painting in the background. actually some of the chalk tau were wealthy enough they were able to come up the arkansas river by boat. the artwork i think is what draws people, what draws me to the building, what sets the building apart. and just the stories that go with the artwork. you know, across the way, we have will rogers. will was an actor, a cowboy, a humorist, goodwill ambassador to the world. people need to know will rogers is from oklahoma. around to the left there, we have sequoia, a cherokee that developed the cherokee alphabet or sill a berry. just a wonderful story. he was not literate in another language, and came up with what ling wiss say probably the best way to write down the cherokee langua

finding neither support nor recognition in america, catlin took his family, several indians, and his collection to europe. ( wind howling ) despite the great success of the indian exhibits, the european tour brought catlin great misfortune. burdened with debts and ill health, he sold his collection for pennies. resilient, bold, and determined, catlin returned to the life he most cherished: painting the indians of the americas. "i take an incredible pleasure in roaming through nature's trackless wild, and selecting my models where i am free and unshackled by the killing restraints of society." ( native man chanting ) ( piano music ) narrator: although she lived most of her adult life in france, mary cassatt was steadfastly american. she painted the world she knew best, a world of quiet elegance and feminine tradition. she painted her subjects boldly and truthfully with remarkable discipline and intelligence. in the 1870s, mary cassatt discovered the work of edgar degas. she later wrote, "it changed my life. i saw art then as i wanted to see it." she painted her subjec honestly, as the

that the indian was a good and true man.any of the men of the army said we have come out to fight the indians and, by god, we intend to. mr. lincoln got between the indian and the outraged men saying, men, this must not be. he must not be shot and killed by us. there's more than one witness to this event. so i think it's easy to see that lincoln's -- one of the first things lincoln knew long before he was commander in chief was that he must protect noncombatants from indiscriminate slaughter. and this respect for moral restraint remained one important aspect of lincoln's career as commander in chief. we too often forget that one of lincoln's main goals as president was to restrain atrocity. as the president said himself in august 1863 while defending the emancipation proclamation, quote, armies the world over destroy enemy's property when they cannot use it and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. civilized belligerence do all in their power to help themselves or hurt the enemy except a few things barbarous or c

the bill estimates that approximately 90% of wells on public lands and indian lands are stimulated by hydraulic fracturing techniques. it has raised public concerns about the potential impact on water availability and quality particularly with respect to the chemical composition of fracking fluids and the methods used. it recognizes that some but not all space have recently taken action to address hydraulic fracturing in their own regulations. one of the blm's key goals in updating its regulations in hydraulic fracturing is to compliment the state efforts by providing a consistent standard across all public and indian lands. the agency has a long history of working cooperatively with state regulators to koord mate state and federal activities. the proposed role making is not intended to duplicate various state or federal requirements. it's to encourage profirnsy in the collection of data and the reporting of information. the development includes tribal consultation. this policy emphasizes trust, respect and shared responsibility by providing trial governments an expanded role to perfo

it's based on a plains indian tepee pattern. the family had had these tents in their possession since recovering at that point in time. one of them's a wall tent, and then this is the sibley tent. remarkably, it is now known there are only two sebly tents in the american civil war in existence in the world. one in each hemisphere of mother earth. this one is in our hemisphere and in possession of the american people now. this tent in recent negotiations with the smithsonian institute will be traveling to washington for potential display at the national african-american museum in the civil war exhibit of the african-american experience in the civil war. so that we're excited about that. the conservation and the exhibition of tents is very difficult. they're quite large. this is a huge tent. and they've got all kinds of issues on their display because they're heavy, they're cumbersome. we're talking about old canvas and we're talking about old threads. stress points are weak, and they're going to be strained more with the exhibiti

indians are playing their part in the country's economy. with ever growing numbers of indians living to kuwait, the bond between the countries is likely to remain strong for the foreseeable future. >> politicians in ukraine are demanding an investigation. members were debating a bill that would get the russian language equal status to ukrainian in some parts of the country. it could hardly come at a worse time. >> parliamentary procedure this certainly is not. it is not clear what, but something appears to happen behind the chairman's seat. it is chaotic. dozens of grappling with one another. a debate whether or not to give the russian language equal status was going to be divisive and controversial. ever since the breakup of the soviet union, the country has been split between the russians and european orientated west. they appear to be in the thick of things. when needed hospital treatment after being struck over the head. they fear will divide the country. the latest episode will bring yet more bad publicity as it prepares to co-host the

african-americans, white students, american indian students. i had the largest following a students because they said it's time. it's time that the white institution open up and become multiracial multi-cultural institution. i was privileged and honored by the students to be a voice for them at a time when there were trying to find their own voices. i taught from 1967 to a 2006 full time. when i retired because i still teach fallen spring, an undergraduate course so i am doing what i always do for considerably less money. it was never about the money. it was about the students and the opportunity to a use another perspective, cue, and commitment to that place, one nation individual with liberty and justice for all. we wanted it here and no and we were able to protest and do whatever we had to do to make it happen here. slowly but surely it started happening. >> this weekend book tv takes a look at the literary culture of obama's city. now joe foote, the dean of the gaylord college of journalism and mass communication an oklahoma university give

to the indians' integration into american life. so the government's campaign, i don't know if it's a consolation, was pro religion for the government. the idea was that to americanize, assimilate, christianize the indians was all the same thing. so they are different. there are big campaigns to assimilate a body of people totally. and now we're talking about something that's happening 50 years into the institutionalization of american law and culture of a kind of religious pluralism. and we live in an era of much different ideas about religious freedom. and about the scope of the term religion. so its uncharacteristic, unusual, anomalous, maybe not unprecedented for this kind of thing to happen now. have a nationwide impact of uncertain proportions among hundreds of religious institutions. but here, let me point more or less quickly to two things that are happening with our understanding of the religious liberty. not to say these are instigated by kathleen sebelius or cooked up in the west wing just a year or so ago but the mandate

he's kind of like the grandfather of all indian art. hunguwa and altoint had a nephew that they invited him to depict some of the history of the older members of the tribe. and so because he had artistic talent, he came and he put drawings on this. and his name was steven mopope. now, steven mopope, he was 16 at the time. when he grows up, he goes to the university of oklahoma, takes art classes there, and becomes one of the kiowa five, which is very famous in american indian art. they have paintings in washington, d.c. at the n.a.m.i. here the cowboy hall of fame. the list of institutions where they have paintings would be hard to read out. this tepee pretty much everyone thought that it was destroyed in a house fire in 1924 or 1925, and it has as far as the world knew, never -- it ceased to exist. so it was really kind of a surprise when i found this tepee about two years ago in our collections. a friend of mine who's kiowa asked if we had any new artifacts that had come into the museum he hadn't seen. and i say, well, i come across w

well, after 1889, other parts of the indian territory were taken away from indian tribes and put into the public domain. they call it the allotment process. so the federal government would negotiate with the sacken fox and the potawatomi. others picked off. biggest of the land run, cherokee in northern oklahoma just on the kansas border was opened by land run. 100,000 people made that run. 1901, the last of the real big ones. the old kiowa and comanche lands in the southwestern part of the state all opened and won by lottery. they realized land runs weren't working. let everyone put their name on a sheet of people into a hopper, pull it out. the fifth homestead goes to -- john smith, and they all celebrate and then they get their land. with the five civilized tribes, there are so many members of the tribes generally the land is divided equally. the indian people get their individual lands. by 1906, that process is completed. and in 1907 oklahoma becomes a state. this is a land of contrast, diversity and for a historian, like me, i've been studying oklahoma history 32 years, 18 books.

yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and travelers. legendary, seemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. the canyon was said to be a "fearful chasm," the river a "frightful torrent," the sulfur springs wre "diabolical," the place where "hell bubbled up." while the eruption of old faithful was said to be "the most magnificent sight ever witnessed." in 1870, a group of private citizens from montana led by henry washburn, had ventured into yellowstone to see if these stories were true. an account of their experiences appeared in scribner's monthly thllowing ng. the editors ha hired younmoran to turn field sketches made by amateur artists in the party into publishable illustrations. this commission introduced moran to a landscape he had not yet seen, and changed the course of his career. his interest piqued, moran arranged to join an upcoming expedition to yellowstone led by ferdinand hayden, a geologist who had lobbied congress for funding. moran borrowed $500 from the publisher of ribner's, using his painting "children of the m

indian ambassador to iraq live on our pleasure to have you with us today other u.s. and other western nations have been ramping up pressure on iran's nuclear program for a long time now as we all know just how important is it for washington to bring india into all of. well. i think that has been one of the main issues which was discussed during hillary clinton's visit here but if you'll notice that india is perhaps the third largest importer of iranian oil after the european union china and then india india imports about eleven percent already be indian side has indicated that there will be a drop as far as indian imports of iranian oil are concerned this year perhaps in the year two thousand and twelve thirteen the drop is likely to be as much as about thirty two percent on the other hand india has also indicated that iran must. accept all its obligations which it has agreed to under the n.p.t. but nonetheless it's important to remember that india cannot simply do away with the relationship with iran for two very important reasons one if the international community

well, after 1889 other parts of the indian territory were taken away from indian tribes and put in to the public domain. they call it the allotment process. so the for the government would

already be indian side has indicated that there will be a drop as far as indian imports of iranian oil are concerned this year perhaps in the year two thousand and twelve thirteen the drop is likely to be as much as about thirty two percent on the other hand india has also indicated that iran must. accept all its obligations which it has agreed to under the n.p.t. but nonetheless it's important to remember that india cannot simply do away with the relationship with iran for two very important reasons one if the international community wishes that india should play a role in afghanistan to dia to stabilize afghanistan then the only means of communication with afghanistan is through iran because pakistan will not let any indian goods or in the indian services pass through pakistan to afghanistan so if the relationship with iran is. put on the back burner then how does india play a role as far as the van alstyne is concerned and then secondly please do remember that there are almost six million indian people of indian origin living in the gulf region our trade with the gulf region is abou

they want the indians to put pressure on pakistan. two years from now, when the last american troops leave -- that is something else the sides are expected to discuss. >> thank you for the update. the polls have closed in syria, where multi-party parliamentary elections have been held amid continuing violence. a new constitution enables the formation of groups to stand against president bashar al- assad's ruling party. we have rare access in this report from damascus. >> today's elections are meant to be proof syria is changing. the ruling party says it is ready to share power. this is one of the young new faces. but most of the new are connected to the old. they would not be allowed to run if they were not. but he says the door is open to everyone, without exception. he is not the only one who thinks no one can win without popular support. syrians turning up here believe their vote matters. people are expressing their views. that optimistic. the elections are going great. but believe in change was short- lived for some. one candidate

all of a sudden, my indian education teacher from my indian days at school from title four started reading the things from my high school years and then he started reading my military records and what i had done. some of the war deeds. i turned to my tribal chairman and said this is not a blessing ceremony, is it? he said no. we haven't had a war chief in over 70 years in our tribe. he said we are giving you this title. you earned it. i was kind of shocked because i started thinking about all of the warriors before me like my uncle and great uncle and all of the deeds they had done. i was very humbled by this honor bestowed upon me. that was december of 2007. i'm still learning what i need to do as a war chief. i turned to joe medicine crow and looked and learned from him. since i retired from the military, i'm still active in the native community. always have been since i have been growing up. i do the color guard and work with an organization called ieva. in southern california and he has a lot of good stories. he was a korean war veteran. just recently, we had the distinct honor to brin

she was raised on an indian reservation and is a pioneer for american indian women in the u.s. air force. she served stateside tours during the gulf war in support of troops overseas, watching her husband deploy and caring for her children and family while serving. she herself was mobilized for deployment but was called back. she retired from the air force after 20 years and after a stint at the bureau of indian affairs joined the center for women veterans and serves as the american indian veterans liaison for both centers. >> good afternoon. i'm a member, as you know, american indian, my tribe is seneca nation of indians up in new york state. i joined the military in 1980. when i first joined, a lot of people say, what might be a long time for a lot of people. when i joined the service, they did not have female uniforms. i had to wear male uniforms. they would always laugh at me because when i would go through an inspection line, my top pockets would be tucked in my pants. they would say how does that happen. i would go, well, the shirt was too long. they just had to try to ge

move it to indian reservation. >> dana: congress can't agree on anything.t with him. what do you think of that bipartisanship? >> eric: this is ridiculous. i read the story, where am i going with this. why is this that the u.n. suggesting we -- how about the u.n. figure out international problems? >> bob: the united states supreme court rule. and it's not just the tribal land. this is spiritual sand. >> dana: sacred land. >> bob: sacred land. they absolutely should get it back. we had a treaty, as usual, the white man broke the treaty and threw the indians -- >> andrea: the supreme court ruled to compensate them for the land and indians wouldn't take the money. >> bob: they want the land back. it's their secret land. you could still have mount rushmore and people can visit. >> dana: i credit obama administration trying to bring this lawsuit to settlement. noaa similar thing going on with palestine. >> bob: that is changing the subject. >> it's not. >> bob: what we did to the african-american and the american indians. we slaughtered them in hundreds of thous

and then we had indian marbles.ow dart game which the blow darts were actually donated by cherokee nation. and we had tomahawk throws. now with the tomahawk we actually made those tomahawks there in iraq. we found a box of mallets. of course, they were broken. we couldn't use anything that was serviceable. so they were unserviceable. so we cut them and used part of the stick to make the stick ball stick.

. >> when i write a book about indian history, if i catch it from both the indians and the nonindians, i figure i am probably being accurate. >> yes, ma'am. >> what is your feeling about the current controversy or whether or not native americans arrived 20,000 years ago and if you think they did or whenever you think they came, how long did they live in these coastal areas? can you answer that? >> you are asking a cultural anthropologist who is not anarchy olgist. i have no problem with people arriving in north america during any int glasal or any interstayedal. i committed myself on national public radio a few years ago on a show with jim action tell from william and mary. they said, where was the first thanksgiving in massachusetts or virginia? i said, neither one. it was in alaska 30,000 years ago. people is gonna walk where people sees food. the bearing straight then being grass land, albeit cold grass land with plenty of critters on it. people were going could come across it any chance they got. they would have arrived over here in north america. where they went after that, that'

i would summarize indian removal by trying to place it in a larger perspective, and that is by non-indians who want equality in the united states, wrapping themselves in the flag, and native peoples were here first, and survival, the fact that they have survived as separate cultures uniquely on the planet as american indians is, to me, the most noteworthy. they have not melded into the mainstream. by and large, tribes are still operating. some are in better shape than others, some are larger, some are smaller. some have suffered more, some have suffered slightly less, but they are still here, and if i wanted to change one thing, i would like the mainstream of america to realize that american indians, as tribes and tribal people, are still here, still a vibrant part of the economy, a part of the culture, a part of the arts, literature, music, this is, after all, oklahoma is, after all, an american indian state at its start, and american indians have not disappeared or vanished into the mainstream with dinosaurs, as some people are prone to ask me sometimes. >>> find out where skrchlt span's

indian-americans complained. they said, yes, you got us, we hate indians.y never meant to stereo type and we hope people can enjoy this in the spirit which was intended which is an unfunny ad. but later it was removed from pop chips page. the ceo apologized, quote, to anyone we offended. what does rock and roll horse think about all of this? >> actually the horse is now playing with maroon 5. it is an actual improvement over their crappy guitarist. you know what i mean. yes, i said it. baker, the ad was dumb. it wasn't funny. although were you giggling. >> first of all, i don't giggle. >> i know, but here is the thing. let me ask you a question rather than you interrupt me and take me off my train of thought. can't something be perceived as racist if the person himself was not thinking in a racist way. he thought he he he was doing an impression, but it is looked as racist. >> it is the perception that counts at the end of the day. i was laughing at this because i was thinking about how stupid that pitch meeting must have been where these idiots agreed to s

so it's just one vast indian reservations and other indian reservations are abolished, there's this one little island, in 1889, there are no more tribes to bring into the territory. but yet there's one parcel right in the middle of the indian territory that's unassigned so it gets it's name is unassigned lands. today it goes from roughly from still water on the north to norman, oklahoma in the south, from shawnee on the east, to elreno on the west. it's about six counties of oklahoma. not owned or settled by any other ittian tribe. so congress decides, we are going to open this under the homestead act and let people claim the land. how do you do it? a small parcel of land, a lot of people wanting the land, so if you take the political philosophy at the time, the government needs to step back into the shadows, keep their hands off of daily life, threat the free enterprise system work. and a second philosophy, the survival of the fittest, the theory that the fastest and the smartest will survive. the first to get to 160 acres of rural land claims it, defends it, stays on it for five years

i'm a member, as you know, american indian, my tribe is seneca indians in new york state. i joined the military in 1980. when i first joined, a lot of people say, what might be a long time for a lot of people. when i joined the service, they did not have female uniforms. i had to wear male uniforms. they would always laugh at me because when i would go through an inspection line, my top pockets would be tucked in my pants. they would say how does that happen. i would go, well, the shirt was too long. they just had to try to get around that. when i was stationed in florida during the gulf war, of course, during the time when i was in the military, i was known as sergeant campbell, juanita campbell. my first husband was also active duty, she was stationed at duke field. i don't know if you're aware, but eglin air force base is a big mobility base. he was stationed at duke field and also a big mobility area. and when the gulf war started, he was -- everybody that works on eglin, we have to be ready for mobility. we're all part of mobility. we have to make sure our bags are pa

it reminds me a lot of 4 indian states like west bengal which is over the border. similarly ill-gotten. >> a follow-up question? >> i made my first trip to burma in 2001 and my second in 2004. i see my friends on the first trip only basically twice in all these years and i communicated with them during the last 11 years by internet. i get e-mails from them and they send me photographs of their kids. there have been times especially when there has been under arrest in burma that i won't hear from them and they say there were problems with the internet connection. they are very good as i gather other people are at maneuvering around official internet service providers. i have regular contact with them. in terms of the power the two trips i made there were periods of time where power did go out for a number of hours. most people had generators in their homes or at their place of business so that this was an ongoing problem. but again they were very resourceful. they prepared for it. >> question in the front? wait so the recording can get you. right here in the blue sh

with indian companies winning more work in the u.s. using locals also makes good business sense one of the biggest reasons indian companies are expanding their workforce is in the united states is they're making a lot of money there and focus is generating sixty five percent of its revenue in north america and indeed outsourcing companies as a whole are generating fifty percent of their revenue there or thirty billion dollars indian i.t. firms are increasing their global operations at a record pace coming from one of the fastest growing economies in the world but the domestic boom. has driven wages higher in india further making recruitment in the west more attractive to some companies while washington has repeatedly spoken out against offshoring of american jobs it looks like the east might just be bailing it out from its jobless crisis preassure either our team bangalore india. still had on r t police officers are supposed to serve and protect but what happens when they get caught on the other side of the law in a country where the l

in 2011, more than 1 million visitors came here, most of them indian. it remains to be seen whether and how much more tourism and commerce can repair 65 years of suspicion and upheaval. for "religion & ethics newsweekly," this is fred de sam lazaro. >>> we have a story today from bob faw about african-american spirituals from the days of slavery. spirituals conveyed hope for survival and freedom in this life, and triumph in the life to come. they are still sung and taught, still passing on their good news. ♪ lazarus rise up the lord is calling you oh, come forth, larazus the lord is calling you ♪ >> reporter: the voices of the morehouse college glee club blend perfectly. the timing, the intonation -- masterful. ♪ jesus is calling you no need to be afraid ♪ >> reporter: but listen to the lyrics, and you'll find there is more here than just music. ♪ when you hear me shouting i am building me a home ♪ >> reporter: spirituals like this one, performed at a washington, d.c. library. ♪ and my soul got to have lord, somewhere to stay ♪ >> reporter: or spiritual

the tribe is one of the nation's largest oil and gas, natural gas producing indian tribes. the proposal would steerly impact the development of tribal minerals in the county, yet despite this fact, they failed to comply with its legal obligation and duchlt toy consult with impacted indian tribes. the proposed rule will kill tribal jobs in oil and gas industry. the limits failed to work with the tribe regarding the proposed rule. in summary, local governments, many mineral producing states and affected indian tribes are all very concerned with this very ill-advised, unneeded and redundant rule and i would be happy to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you. i would like to enter into the record the consent a letter from national conference of american indians outlining some of the things you just said there. >> mr. chairman? >> yes, sir. >> without objecting, i would ask for similar courtesy. i ask that at this time an response to mr. kranser's testimony this morning from our colleague mr. waxman. be entered into the record. i also ask that a similar response rebutting mr.