he was beloved by the indians. not only because of his personal charisma but because of his obvious genuine concern for them. his opposite number, at least as i see in my book, was thomas forsyth. forsyth was also a man of ambiguous nationality, which he used to allow his traveling in indian territory during difficult times. he had been born in detroit when it still subject to king george, and many of the american traitors regard him as an englishman, and so for that matter did the indians. but forsyth had no love for the english at all. he eventually was appointed to the american indian agent at peoria. so i think that as your it as having an indian agent, but peoria at the time was deep in indian country. and forsyth operator to a certain extent as the eyes and ears of the united states in indian country, in his correspondence which survives in a number of places in the chicago history museum and the wisconsin historical society, and notable collection in missouri history museum. he is one of our best sources for

recognition of indians tribes by the federal government. that will be followed by a hearing on proposals to reform the uk welfare system. then a look at the effectiveness of foreign aid. a little bit later, remarks from tea party activist c.l. bryant. >> this past week with congress on break, we have been featuring some of american history tv's weekend programs in prime time here on c-span 3. tonight, we look at african-americans' resistance to slavery starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the life and escape of former slave robert smalls, who served south carolina in the u.s. house of representatives. at 10:00 p.m. eastern, vanderbilt professor richard blackette details how fugitive slaves planned and executed escapes to canada, mexico and the caribbean. american history tv in prime time tonight here on c-span 3. on c-span 2 we have been featuri featuring book tv's programs in prime time. tonight, anna quindlen "in depth." >> this is c-span 3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend, 48 hours of people an

in 1935 to be married as indians. they faced jail time had they done it in virginia. >> i read that in your testimony. i appreciate you telling us that as well. supervisor dillon, if a tribe is not terminated, should they be allowed to pursue administrative relief? >> i believe that is what the law already states. >> i appreciate that. mr. gabaldon, is it your assertion that you feel that your tribe was never terminated? >> no. we believe we were terminated in 1959, but it was by a non-wappo indian. >> i appreciate that very much. thank you very much, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> mr. denham. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me first start by saying it is very disappointing to see that secretary salazar and the bureau of indian affairs has not engaged this committee on this important issue. this is -- i mean, this is and always has been an act of congress under the constitution, but without the administration working with congress, it makes it tremendously difficult to create an even playing field and certainly to mov

the only good indian was a dead indian is my understanding of our history. and then the next phase of our history dealing with the indians is let's assimilate the indians and make them all like fellow americans, assimilation i think was our policy then. then another phase of the change of our historical relationship with the native americans and that is terminate the indian tribes. so in a period of 150 years, this is what we've had to do in dealing with native american communities. so now the latest phase is to recognize the indians and indians, and i can't think of a -- of a tribe that has had to endure this gruesome and awful experience over 100 years now. the largest indian tribe east of the mississippi river, recognized by the state of north carolina, 50,000 lumbee indians are not federally recognized by the government because of bigotry, racism and all the problems that these people have had to endure, and by the way, they are still there in north carolina, over 50,000 lumbee indians are not recognized because the recognition process, in my humble opin

indian world.und myself with not a job lined up, but a real idea of what i wanted to do. i remember being at the rose bud's pow wow, and various tribal leaders coming up, and there was an honors song and special, and speaking on my behalf saying this young lady is going back to washington, d.c., and she'll be representing all of us, she'll be taking on our burdens. she'll be carrying our challenges with us, and she needs our help and prayers. he said this in lakota, which i don't unt fluently, and so my mom translated what was being said. my grandmother came up and got on the microphone, and she was speaking in lakota saying and inviting four elder women to come up to the arbor where we were, and while she was doing that, she was wiping their faces and handing them off stuff, and my mom, what is grandmother doing now? these four ladies carry your burdens for you. these four ladies are wiping their tears away for you, the tears you face and they carry that for you as you figure out what you're going

so, now you understand when the director of the indian health service and not everybody likes the indian health service but today i want to tell you what you're doing to improve it and telling and it to be the director of the indian health service i have to tell you a funny story. i was in tucson being a professor teaching and all that and i got a phone call the administration president was asking me to be the director of the indian health service. i thought i don't know. if i were to move from tucson to washington, d.c. my mama have to go along with me because i will take care of her so i went into the living room where my mother was sitting and i said they just called. they want me to be part of the obama administration in the indian health service would do you think and she looked up at me with a look like this and said well why would you want to do that? [laughter] like a great. i have to convince her but she finally agreed to go along so i've been the director for about three years and fewer to ask me when i was sitting in your place if there would be the director of the indian heal

so now the latest phase is to recognize the indians as indians. and i can't think of a tribe that is had to endure this gruesome and awful experience, over 100 years now, the lumbee indians, the largest indian tribe east of the mississippi, recognized by the state of north carolina, 50,000 lumbee indians are not recognized, federally recognized by the government because of bigotry, racism, and all the problems that these people have had to endure. and by the way, they are still there in north carolina, over 50,000 lumbee indians are still not recognized, because the recognition process, in my humble opinion, mr. chairman, is broken. i think we all understand historically the current system of recognizing, process of recognizing native american tribes was never done by any statutory enactment of the congress. it was done administratively by the bureaucrats. with all due respect, i've got nothing against the bureaucracy. this was done since 1978, 34 years now, and i remember distinctly years ago, mr. chairman, the very person who wrote the regulatio

>> shah: try explaining that to an indian. ( laughter ) it's impossible to tell an indian consumer that tomorrow, because there is such a strong belief, and this belief has been backed by its own performance. >> chauhan: you're dealing with tradition. you're dealing with culture. you're dealing with history. and you have to also understand that, unlike diamonds and platinum, which are much more expensive than gold, gold is s nsidered sacred here. >> pitts: the bavikatte wedding was a hindu ceremony, the religion for 80% of indians. the bride and groom had gold on them and all around them, a powerful symbol of purity and eternity that hindus elevate to the status of a goddess. they call her lakshmi. every fall, there's a religious holiday, one day when hindus worship lakshmi by shopping for gold. >> chauhan: that day, if you buy gold, it's considered to bring you prosperity, good luck, health, wealth, everything. if you buy gold a day before, you get nothing. you buy gold a day after, you get nothing. >> pitts: so you don't just buy it, you buy it on a particular... >> chauhan: day. >> p

the law's designed to protect the interest of indian children and to keep indian children with indian family members. congress took action after 1976 study showed about 30% of indian children were being removed from their homes. and of those, about 90% of them non-indian families. the attorney general for the cherokee nation told us the law is working. >> one of the original authors of the indian child welfare act said his intent with this law is not to take adoptive children away from loving homes. how would you like to respond to that? >> it's not anyone's ever intent to rip a child away from a loving home. but we want to make sure those loving homes have the opportunity to be indian homes first. and you look at the welfare of the child anif, you know, at all possible we want that child to be raised in a traditional indian family. >> reporter: that logic is lost on veronica's adoptive parents. >> this law's been used unjustly. detriment -- >> indian child welfare act is just destroying families like ours. >> reporter: this past new year's eve after two years with the little girl the

and non-indians in the area.ge my colleagues to support h.r. 2467 and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm very pleased to yield five minutes to the author of this legislation, the gentleman from california, mr. mckeon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. mr. mckeon: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of my legislation, h.r. 2467, the bridgeport indian colony land trust help and economic development act of 2011. i want to thank chairman hastings and ranking member markey as well as subcommittee chairman young and ranking member lujan for giving my legislation a fair hearing and moving the bill through the committee. mr. speaker, the bridgeport indian colony is a federally recognized indian tribe with a reservation located near the bridgeport -- near the town of bridgeport in california. the tribe's reservation i

they loved -- the indians loved him. they called him red hair because he was really -- he was really their friend. he listened to them. he helped them all that he possibly could. and he never really campaigned for the office of governor again, although he ran. his name was entered, he did not win and he returned again to his position as the head of the indian affairs, which he kept on until he died. and he is now buried in the bell fountain cemetery in st. louis. and we were an integral part, the missouri river and the rest of the state of missouri, was an integral part of that expedition. the entire expedition was about 7,000 miles and it took them 2 1/2 years to do it. unbelievable what they went through. the more you read about it, it's awesome, absolutely awesome. >>> all weekend, american history tv is featuring jefr jefferson city, missouri. our local content vehicles traveled there to learn about its rich city. learn more about jefr ferson ci at c-span.org/local content. next month we'll feature louisville, kentuc

the law is designed to protect the interests of indian children and to keep indian children with indianok action after a 1976 study showed that about 30% of indian children were being removed from their homes, and of those, about 90% of them were being placed with non-indian families. the attorney general for the cherokee nation told us the law is working. one of the original authors of the indian child welfare act said that his intent with this law is not to take adoptive children away from loving homes. how would you like to respond to that? >> it's not anyone's ever intent to rip a child away from a loving home, but we want to make sure those loving homes have the opportunity to be indian homes first. and you look at the welfare of the child. and if at all possible, we want that child to be raised in a traditional indian family. >> reporter: that logic is lost on veronica's adoptive parents. >> this law has been used unjustly. >> with the indian child, the indian child welfare act is just destroying families like ours. >> following the court's ruling, veronica's adoptive parents rele

but indianed ya. this morning in india i was watching in debate on television and it was about the fact depression in india question mark. because it was slipping from 8 to 9%. expectations is a key. the breakout country is able to exceed expectations. it has come expect that. the 5% appeared to be high but with a country with a per-capita-income of 1500 it will feel like a minidepression. china's economy has been a remarkable success and the economy now is just maturing because it has grown like very quickly. 120 million chinese move to urban areas over the past decade. china has reached 50 percent and that's typical which things begin to slow down. the number to move from urban areas in cometting decade is a fraction of what happened over the previous decade. things slow down because of those factor. what people sphergt the fact that it economies tend to slow down naturally and yet, when you ask even people in my community the question like will china have a hard landing? how do they define that? 7%

you're born there, from indian parents, and they looked at your name and what did they do? >> they often asked if there was anything else they could call us, and my... one of the ways that my family, my parents, thought of coming back against this was when these telemarketers called and asked us, you know, to spell our name. someone gave us the idea of spelling each letter using a disease, so we'd say, "g for gastroenteritis," "i for intestinal disorder," and people stopped calling. so that's one of the advantages of a very... of a very difficult name. >> hinojosa: well, it's interesting, because your name is one way to enter into this conversation only because, you know, it is an interesting name. but in fact, right now in the united states of america, your name, anand giridharadas, is kind of normal almost, right? >> the president's name is barack hussein obama, so, uh, anything goes now with names. >> hinojosa: you finished school here in the united states, and your whole life, you have been going to visit india as that place where your parents came from, and then you ba

the title of this is indian joe morris, modern militant indian or alcatraz proved a point and painted in 1972 on board 48 by 108 inches and courtesy of the department of the interior national park service. this particular view of the u.s. was created by john smith. it is untitled but is a memory map done in 2,000 on paper. thirty-six-34 courtesy of the artist. in the book there are several versions of this same painting. one in particular that struck me as being very interesting is this same image is all brown. is called the browning of america. in this one, edgar is the painter, walk to oklahoma and trail of tears 1836 evoking the cherokee trail of tears and with so many the cherokee nation died as they were displaced into oklahoma and it is part of the sine proje in atlanta, georgia and these are 18 x 12 inches. and a great deal of time talking about indian art, called the national museum of the american indian and the observation that it takes as its mission the task of completely rewriting of the territorial text taking the touchy issues of skin color head on. and notions that wer

people talk about having nightmares of indians. and, actually, a little known fact is that there was a major indian attack while the trials were going on. >> what year did the trials happen? >> 1692, 16793. it went on for about 15 months total. we talk about the witchcraft trials mostly through the vehicle of the special court that was established to try the witches, the accused witches. and that special court sat in june through september of 1692. but even when that special court was dissolved, there were still hundreds of people the jail. and they had to be tried or dealt with in some way. the trials actually continue in 19 e 1693 in regular courts. everybody was akwited by three people. and those people who were acquitted then -- or not acquitted, are pardoned later by the governor. >> they were set up by the governor. he had a power to set up a special kourlt and he did. and he named a bunch of prominent men. none of them had legal training. the only person who was a trained lawyer in the whole sequence was the first prosecutor

people talk about having nightmares of indians. and actually a little-known fact is that there was a major indian attack within 20 miles of salem while the trials were going on. >> what year did the trials happen? >> 1692/1693. it went on for about 15 months total. we talk about the salem witchcraft trials mostly through the vehicle of the special court that was established to try the witches, accused witches, and that special court sat in june through september of 1692. but even when that special court was dissolved in october, there were still hundreds of people in jail, and they had to be tried or dealt with in some way. so the trials actually continue into 1693 in regular courts. everybody is acquitted but three people, and those people who are acquitted then are -- are not acquitted are pardoned later by the governor. so the crucial set off the trials is during 1692. >> would those special courts have been set up by the colonial government of massachusetts? >> set up by the governor, yes. he had the power to set up a special c

buffer zone between the ohio river and the great lakes that would have been a state for indians and they abandoned that pledge at the treaty table and they never, ever again asked for something like that. so following the war, you have the opening of western territories to the u.s. and you have the rapid integration of those territories right after the war. >> hi. i have a question about the hartford convention, and i know that there was a lot of federalists out there and there was a lot of smuggling going on across the border to canada and when the hartford convention people came to washington, do you think it was a matter of bad timing because of the battle of new orleans or did they ever really have a chance to secede from the union over the war of 1812? thank you. >> briefly, i think the idea of cessation has been somewhat overblown historically. it probably was debated at hartford, but it was never really the truly sort of serious goal of the federalists. federalists wanted to see an end to the war, and what you have to realize is that washington, d.c., was burnt to the ground

he was looking for the indians. he was looking for plants, animals, birds, fish, whatever, and he carried that over with him on to the expedition. on the other hand, clark was a people person. he related well to the men and they to him, so really between the two of them, they had the mental horses to keep this expedition under control and on the way. they knew what to expect for much of their trip. once they got as far as st. louis, once they got past st. louis and st. charles, things changed because there were no places that they could look forward to for a warm meal around the fireplace and bed to he couldn't handle it. it's also a book recently written about three years ago, and tom danisi thinks that he had malaria. now, there's five types of malaria, which i never knew, but he was subject to two of them, one in the brain and one in his abdomen and he was in excruciating pain whenever they would kick up, particularly the ones in the abdomen, and he was using opium and alcohol to temper his feelings, and he was -

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

he visited indian villages in the michigan territory waged on steam boats and shortly after he disembarked and he was a tacitous form of transportation and he traveled by stage coach. he went to columbia, south carolina, and he unfortunately, did not make it to charleston. tocqueville was an aristocrat who suffered during the revolution. you can trace him back to the invasion of william, and some of his ancestors were part of that arm pep his great-grandfather, now a distinguished philosopher and lawyer who was defense council in king louis xvi, after the three days before he was scheduled to be guillotined as well and when he left the prison at age 22 his hair turned completely white. this was a family that was traumatized by this great event in history, the french revolution. as a child, tocqueville was born in 1805, met the restored king louis xviii after the downfall of napoleon and while his family thrived under the new king fi philip philippe, the inspector of bloodshed and the threat of another revolution was always in their thoughts and he came from a background which considered th

with the indians.hey called him red hair because he was really their friend. he listened to them, he helped them all that he possibly could and he never really campaigned for the office of

on the fact that black and indians were not considered citizens in this democratic republic. he foresaw the possibility of the rupture of the civil war. it's one of his many uncanny predictions. he looks ahead, this young man writing in his 20s and 30s, looks ahead and sees much of the future history that has happened. he sees the possibility of the rupture of civil war, and the tragic fate of many native americans, even as he saluted the way democracy bound citizens together through local government. and perhaps he may even be seen as having pointed to the successes of the civil rights movement when he writes "to combat the e vils that equality can produce there is own one efficacious remedy. it is political freedom." but the habits of the heart, another tocqueville phrase, fostered by involvement in local government, also did something else. and here we encounter the second reason americans avoided the isolationism of the individual or what tocqueville calls individualism. and incidentally, i gather that that was his use of the term "individualism" is one of the first times

but first their target is the indian market. the chaudharis are proud owners of one of the one thousand-odd climate-friendly units sold so far. the installers have been specially trained by godrej, to make sure not an iota of flammable propane can escape. finally the long-awaited moment arrives. and shashikant chaudhari thinks it's just cool. >> and that was our special program on the rio + 20 sustainability conference. you can find plenty more information at our website www.dw.de/rio20. for now from me and the entire team here in berlin -- thanks for watching and bye bye! captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

and, of course, on urban indians.ndians because they're not used to -- they depend on backups like generators and motors but they too ran out after some hours of service. so that was the impact that was felt on urban indians and when we talk about the rail transport, railroad officials tell me that more than 300 trains were held up when the grids collapsed. this means tens of thousands were stranded for hours because of the outage. >> is there any concern now, because i see you're in the dark, is there any concern about safety, about people taking advantage of this as an opportunity to either -- to commit crimes or to attack fellow citizens when you don't have the same kind of infrastructure, don't even have lights to actually see what is happening. >> reporter: that may not be the issue at this point in time as far as law and order. i think the indian state is well in order. the blackouts are not going to cause any kind of law and order problems. it doesn't look like they will cause any kind of law and order problem.

they can improve with their lives of the indians. >> thanks for that. nhk world in emerging countries in asia. tomorrow we will focus on myanmar. >> people in japan's northeast are focused on overcoming challenges of the 2011 disaster. but it won't be easy. they have to rebuild homes, businesses, entire communities. well show you their struggles and successes on "the road ahead" every wednesday at 1:00 p.m. japan time, here on "newsline." >>> for an update on the weather forecast, here is mai shoji. mai? >> yes, we have tropical storm systems. one is the severe tropical storm that could become a typhoon any time soon. and in the next 24 hours it could become a strong typhoon as it approaches typhoon. excuse me, a strong typhoon. and it will be packing up winds, earth 162 kph gusts. as much as 11 meters high and the coastal size of taiwan so that could create a dangerous conditions and i would advise to you stay way from water and the coastal areas. and sometimes to the rogue waves. it could be even double of that. and the movement is stationary. so it'l

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electricity according to indian census data. gasp powered generators are widespread in a country where smaller-scale blackouts are common. even so, two major outages in 48 hours underscore the problem. india's growing demand for power has outstripped its power system. >> one grid failure and the entire country is at a standstill. this is a system failure. a systemic failure. >> woodruff: and the problem is likely to persist. the indian government recently scaled back plans to spend one trillion dollars to rebuild infrastructure over the next five years. for more we turn to steven cohen. he's lived in dehli and is the author of many books on india and south asian and arvind subramanian of the peterson institute where he's an expert on indian growth, trade and development. gentlemen, we thank you both for being here. arvind subramanian, let me start with you. india is accustomed to smaller blackouts but this is of a different magnitude. >> this was an entirely different magnitude. 700 million people but in some ways the real trage

they clobbered the indians in cleveland. and my microphone just on me. jim thome had a good night last night, leading off with a home run, his 610th home run. oh, there's my microphone. it fell on the inside pocket of my front coat. anyhow how, jim thome in cleveland where he played for 5 years. ryan flaherty had a home run to help propel the os, who won 10- 2. after the game here's rhine flaherty. >> trying to be as consistent as i can, just get in there and help this team win. that's all i can do. and that's what i was trying to do. >> the orioles egoweekend a series continues in cleveland tonight on masn. see them live at 7:00 in about 34 minutes. >>> the washington nationals' nl east division lead has slunk, thanks to bryce harper bruising his ankle on a bunt attempt. adam larosche robbing ben shiefs, but the braves win this one. >>> three rounds done and one to to go at british open. the leader has the hit from the green to the bunker. he bogeyed and dropped to 8 under. tiger woods very much alive and in the hunt. great shot from ad am scott. -- ada

runners on third and the indians pull off the squeeze. aaron cunningham pulls off the bunt.hat's the difference. indians cage the tigers, 3-2. >>> to chicago where the twins' josh williams hit not one but two home runs against the white sox. unfortunately he was the only minnesota play their did anything. sox win big, 11-4. >>> to london where team usa played their final exhibition game before the olympics. got off to another slow start against spain. carmelo anthony sparks it. finishing with 27 points. the americans pull away in the third quarter off the turnover. lebron james flies in for the dunk. the dream team wins, 100-78. their first game of the olympics is sunday versus france. he's what they'll be playing for. the medals of the 2012 olympic games were unveiled yesterday. there will be 212 awarded each with the emblem of the london games. the olympics starts this friday with the opening ceremony on nbc. that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >>> well, the latest rumors on "american idol" judges. >>> and kate gosselin ready for love and a new tv

it's 4-3, indians. >> and ramon santiago, you got to make that grab.nstead he can't and chu scores and indians win, 5-3, your final. >>> in the national league, matt holliday facing the dodger, how about a three-run thursday as in a three-run win. matt holliday. solo shot there. 17th of the season. cards up 7-4, trying to button up the save instead buzzes jerry hurston jr. 93-mile-an-hour dirty fastball. cards win 7-4. >>> nascar sprint cup series returns to espn on sunday with the brickyard 400. championship contenders, jimmie johnson, dale earnhardt jr. and tony stewart are all looking to continue their momentum and make a statement at indianapolis. see who gets to kiss the bricks. the brickyard 400 presented by golden corral. coverage begins sunday at noon on espn. >> boog itty, book itty, right? >> coming up. katherine jackson's whereabouts. >> and mirrorball mania. "dancing with the stars" bringing back all-time favorites. stop all the cutesy stuff. and start talking about what you really want from your toilet paper. it's time to talk about clean.