indian led , indian rights association that sought to impact congressional policy and help out indian people on reservations .after it was made up mostly of american indian professional people .the fall of the berlin indian of the bureau of affairs, 52 of them gathered to gather in wisconsin to set the agenda for the future and attempts to shape congressional policy. what was happening at the time for the american indian people was the reservation system was appearing to be a failure to many different interested parties. indian people were poor, undereducated, they have been losing vast quantities of lands, their tribal economies were in bad shape and it was time -- the feeling was that it was a time for a change in indian policy. the specific items on their agenda were to get citizenship for indian people. indian people would become citizens in 1924. in 1914, they were wards of the u.s. government come and not citizens of the united states government. wasother thing they wanted by 1914, there was a good 100 year backlog of complaints that indian people had about failure of the treaty

increasingly tick indicated indian policy to indian country instead of consulting indian country about its relationships with indian country. but the story is not entirely bleak, as assistant secretary washburn averted to. we're actually seeing a return of treaty making, just like in 1871 agreements weren't tre treaties. we don't call the current things that we're doing treaties either. but that's exactly what they're, they're sovereign to sovereign agreements in which the tribes have -- what? agency. and this began and is often overlooked with a proposal that was part of the original indian reorganization act that never got enacted by congress. the reorganization act was much broader in collier's proposal that congress enacted. one of the reasons collier proposed the recognition of tribal governments through the constitutional process is he was proposing to contract with them to have them manage the indian service. collier proposed 638 contracting and the original indian reorganization act. congress never passed the contracting part of collier's proposal. it just passed the recognitio

this indian fort was built specifically to clear indians from the border. here in montana, most people are unaware that there was his active campaign by the u.s. military, supported by the political establishment, to ride in and burn these villages to the ground, all of their possessions. with troops, drive them over the border. or drive them and disperse them so that they were not a cohesive community. these folks would come back and builder villages again. troops would come back and drive them out. it was really great hardship. after the buffalo went away, then what? where do the people have to go? they were able to sustain themselves in her own communities. -- they were not able to sustain themselves in their own communities. there were no resources for them. that means working on the new cattle ranches that were developing at that point, and some did that. many along the highlands of montana, all the way to the north dakota border. many of the small towns and enclave populations of little shell tribe people to this day got work on local ranches or agric

to around 4,000 american indians. lisa grew up surrounded by domestic violence and since has become a leading advocate for native victims of abuse. >> it's happening every day. >> reporter: native women in the u.s. face some of the highest levels of violence of any group. according to the justice department, one in three native women has been raped, and three out of five will experience domestic violence in their lifetimes. lisa says she too is a victim of both rape and sexual assault. she had enough, she says, when a boyfriend slapped her across the face while she cradled her nine month old child. >> and i packed up and left the next day, and i never went back. and i vowed thereafter that no man will ever touch me again. i will not... my babies will not know the life that i had to survive. >> reporter: lisa says that as an adult she seldom went to the police and that much of that has to do with the fact that some of the men who attacked her were non-native, not american indians. so why does that matter? up until rece

they just stopped studying indians. they look at gangs and all kinds of things now, but there's not many that study native americans anymore. i think the history is the appropriate discipline for studying, not study characteristics of peopople and pick them apart, human behavior things, but anthropology was invented to tell the settler, europeans, these pages of catawba. these stone age people is that human beings use to be but now we're all modern people. as i said these are all modern societies, modern societies that were already colonized. this is when i decided to write this book as a way of maybe just laying out in as clear a way as possible, trying to make it available. i had the really good fortune my publisher, beacon press, is an associate of the universal unitarian church. the unitarian church has been in the forefront of condemning the doctrine of discovery of trying to educate their own congregations about, and some of the other churches, but they are committed to putting out a study guide in their own, they

i like so man indian. patriotic. we have fought and died, in the armed forces. >>> grandfather, world war i, and, two great uncles, and, father, and, vietnam, and we fought for this country before it accepted us acid sense. >>> we fought for and believed in this contri, before we were given the right to vote. frankly, in. ways, i think indians believe in this country more than most americans. maybe that's just because we were here first. because we loved this land first. because the blood and bones of our ancestors are deep within this soil. maybe we're patriotic, just because we love fireworks. if you really want to celebrate independent day, you just need to go to an indian reservation. [laughter] >>> in your lifetime, to witness the indians, celebrating, and you tribal members here know what i mean. >>> we really know how to celebrate, independence day. >>> these celebrations are fun, and maybe a little insafe, and insane. [laughter] >>> but they also show, that people believe, that the united states is a great na

lands before the indian lands were purchased. the federal government decided we are not doing that again. federal government can buy indian land. this is the trade intercourse act. the federal government is going to buy it and then it in that we are going to sell them. this is an accident that will not occur. no one will ever remember this decision or doctrine ever again. this is where he screwed up. the thing that i would add to jefferson's list of problems is that when you don't give lawyers and parties the opportunity to make arguments, you're flying blind. if he had asked the lawyers, what if i add discovery doctrine section? they would have had an opportunity to say, don't do that, because guess what will happen? people could have anticipated what actually did happen. those people did not include john marshall, who got blindsided by this. what happened was the state of georgia, where the cherokees dwelled, had been trying to get rid of the cherokees since 1802 when they ceded their claims to alabama and mississippi to the u.

this indian fort was built specifically to clear indians from the border. here in montana, most people are unaware that there was his active campaign by the u.s. military, supported by the political establishment, to ride in and burn these villages to the ground, all of their possessions. with troops, drive them over the border. or drive them and disperse them so that they were not a cohesive community. these folks would come back and builder villages again. troops would come back and drive them out. it was really great hardship. after the buffalo went away, then what? where do the people have to go? they were able to sustain themselves in her own communities. -- they were not able to sustain themselves in their own communities. there were no resources for them. that means working on the new cattle ranches that were developing at that point, and some did that. many along the highlands of montana, all the way to the north dakota border. many of the small towns and enclave populations of little shell tribe people to this day got work on local ranches or agric

it became known as the indian gallery. tourist guides through the city also noted that the office of indian affairs is an important destination because they can see these paintings. it is one of the most interesting paintings in the city. what i find most interesting about the portrait galley is that native delegates became aware of it, more and more native people requested to be added to it. there is a story about, in 1828, at the time they were called winnebago, ho chunk is more accurate, a group was looking for their community and had visited the city before. they desire to have the portraits maine. the federal government did not want to spend money on the portraits at times and this is one of those moments. there is a lengthy correspondence between thomas mckinney and the secretary of war whether or not they could find money to do this because it meant something to them to be added to the order gallery. they offer to sell some of the things they brought with them to raise the money or they would just add those things,

the american indians had populations in the tens of thousands. the american government was under pressure by settlers to take the land one way or another. so jackson was excited when he heard the news of fort mims and saw this as an opportunity to take land from the creek's and negotiated the treaty of fort jackson. that took 21,000,000 acres from the creek nation. 20 years later when he became president, he was able to push through the removal act of 1830 that led to forced removal of indians from the east and the north, the ohio country. the attack itself launched the invasion of the creek nation and the confiscation of all this land, which after the war was opened up for settlement. alabama and southern georgia would not have been settled if not for this war. there was a thing called alabama fever, this land rush in the years following the war. that was the most immediate impact. and of course the removal act, this is sense of betrayal the americans felt at this sneak attack. the way they viewed it, there was a massacre. they felt betrayed bec

some indians actually owned the salmon streams.y manage those streams so that they let the larger salmon go up to spawn. the result is that even today those streams have larger salmon and the streams that were held in common owned by everyone and hence managed by no one. john: not an individual indian, but a plan would on the stream. why today would they still have more salmon? >> that just goes back to what was superior management over a century ago. and at the same time i should know we are mismanaging our salmon stocks by chasing them around the ocean, open ocean and over harvesting salmon and many other species. we could learn from what the native americans did. john: you say you can see the private property difference by driving through some indian land >> it is fascinating to drive through the reservation in the west. recently i drove through the crow indian reservation in south-central montana, and when you come to a fence line and on one side see overgrazing, a few scrawny cattle, maybe a house and if so not a very little b

literally dead indians. dead, flayed indians. that's why it's so repulsive to native people. it's almost nauseating to even talk about. a lot of people don't understand why it is such a negative -- because native americans don't mind being call other names like indian, not an authentic name or anything, but this is a deep racial slur that is a symbol of genocide. so, another thing, more recent, that i came across, cass -- were the cases being used as precedents in the decisions what to do with the lawful combatants, a word that never spitzed in international law that your great george w. bush invented, or his aides. they're usually called p.o.w.s. prisoners of war, but in ordinary to lock them up at guantanamo, where they still are, some of them were brought to trial. the center on constitutional rights made that possible, are still fighting to get these people trials, because they're just held forever, without even coming to trial. some of the cases devised were based on 19th century indian war cases. one was a seminole case and one was a case of the pit river indians in cal

congress of the american indians. i think it is important to take recognition of the anniversary of the conference that took place during the campus of the university of wisconsin-madison, because it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. shortly after this conference, the university began to reach out to the american indian community in wisconsin, sending researchers and personnel and again a research relationship -- it isnk the time time that we looked back on that 100-year history and look forward to the next 100 years. throughout the weekend, c-span3 is featuring madison, wisconsin. learn more about medicine and other stops on c-span's city tours -- learn about madison and other stops on c-span's city tours on c-span3. >> each week, american history tv brings you archival films that help to tell the story of the 20th century. on behalf of the people of the united states, i am pleased to be here and accept the precious gift of the pandas

it was the first secular indian-led american indian society. there were professional people, lawyers, members of the bureau of indian affairs. 52 of them gathered together in wisconsin to set the agenda for the future to shape congressional policy. what was happening at the time for american indian people was the reservation system was appearing to be a failure to many different interested parties. indian people were poor, undereducated, had been losing vast quantities of land, their tribal economies were in bad shape, and the feeling around the country was it was time for a change in indian policy. the specific items on their agenda were, one, to get citizenship for indian people. they would become citizens in 1924. in they were wards of the united 1914, states government, not citizens. by 1914, there was a good 100 year backlog of complaints indian people had about the failure of the treaty relationship, so the one of the the court ofd claims open to them so they could litigate their claims against the united states government. they would ass

this isn't the indians' view. this isn't just as the treaties aren't the indians' treaties. the treaties are between the united states and native nations. and the treaties and this exhibit reflect that. reality. about the treaties. all of the nations had land. no one brought any land with them when they came across the atlantic ocean. no one brought any european land. there was no american land. there was only native land. and that land belonged to the native nations and to the peoples who were the citizens of the native nations. the european nations entered into treaties with the native nations who have been making treaties amongst each other for mellenia. this was a continuation of that for the native peoples, and it was a continuation of treaties that the europeans had, although in europe, mostly the treaties meant an end to the war. here, even though there were in most instances no wars, it meant peace and friendship that you would be allies going forward. you would have this friendship as a continuum. and the treaties really represent that relationship. they're the evid

after the civil war, the united states had had it with the indians. they did not bother with treaties. the confederacy of indians, that alliance of original peoples, were never dealt with. it was left ignored.

and with the indian culture, the indian football. >> reporter: clubs are enjoying support from domestic and foreign companies. this man is a co-owner of a new club. he also has an investment firm. he has invested roughly $6.5 million in the team, believing merchandise sales and other organizations will be profitable. he wants to fill stadium seats with fans. he worked with other sponsors to install large screens at one venue and advertise with posters on the streets. >> it is going to become a business venture. we as a club have started this deal with the idea of generating the passion for football, generating the fever for football and trying to bring football into a global arena from india. >> reporter: the inaugural season opened with great fanfare. but the high cost of repairing stadiums and acquiring players has led to some challenges. fans are complaining that ticket prices are too high. soccer fans are used to buying a ticket for as little as 15 cents. the cheapest tickets to a recent opening match in the eastern city of calcutta costs around $4. >> translator: i can't afford a p

, the national congress of american indians, which still operates today. i think it isn't working to take recognition of the 100th anniversary of the fourth annual of the society of american indians that took place here on the campus of the university of wisconsin madison. it seems that this conference at the time started a relationship between the university and the tribes of wisconsin. conference,r this the university began to reach out to the american indian ofmunities in the state wisconsin, sending researchers and other personnel. we get the beginnings of a research relationship. i think it is time that we look back on that history and look forward to the next 100 years of the relationship. american history tv is featuring wisconsin's madison.ital, the city was named for james madison, and many streets surrounding the capital square are named after other signers of the constitution. posted by our charter cable partners, c-span staff recently visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about madison all weekend here on american history

indian gaming development is a different form of metropolitan relation to indian resources. this is pushing outside of the bouquet little bit but i am wondering if you might be book a compare -- the little bit but i am wondering if you might deal to compare those strategies in a way to what is happening in our region today. >> that is a great question. i think that in some ways the and energy arel a first stage in a testing of what does sovereignty allow us, allow tribes to do? that comesthe things out of those debates is, well, tribes, because of the way the american political economy works, cap nationalize. -- can't nationalize. they can't nationalize these industries within the american legal structure. what they can do is taxed them. tax them. a series of tribal taxes are placed on the companies. it ends new the beginning of the imagination of what does it mean to kind of have indian owned development? no longer going off. and the search for joint ventures. my understanding of the casinos is that they are mostly joint ventures between tribes and gaining companies. and --

they're trying to lure more indians into the stands during matches. and they're also aiming to help the country's national team qualify for the world cup. nhk's reporter explains. >> reporter: i'm at the venue of the inaugural match of indian super league where a large number of supporters have gathered, and they will get a chance to see many international players. a former member of italy's national squad. former brazilian soccer hero. the air to the excitement to the opening game of the indian super league. >> it was wonderful. we had a great time. >> for the youngsters, the new generation, today is all about soccer. >> reporter: cricket is loved across india. but soccer is trailing behind. but soccer started to catch on among young indians when european league matches were first aired on tv. riding the wave of popularity, the new indian super league is aiming to secure india's first ticket to the world cup finals. it has eight clubs competing for the national championship during a short two-month season. the league has lured star players from abroa

a lot of indians just go back to the reservation. one thing you have to understand is in 1887, all the reservations are established and they are being lived on. however, the indians could leave the reservations and hunt buffalo in what's called the unseeded territory. it's often forgotten but it's the most important part of the story because that's where buffalo are. on the reservation, most buffaloes are gone and they are being given annuities. all the resistance kind of fizzles out. they do remain on the reservation, more or less, and they are enslaved to this reservation way of life of eating flour, drinking coffee, eating bacon and all the other things that come with it. being sedentary. no more raids on enemy tribes. handing your guns in. handing your horses in. and this reservation way of life that is a horrible way of life because they are so used to being so free. so the result of this battle is exactly that. custer lost, but the indians won, but overall, they lost the war. and there's a saying, two great nations met on a pla

a lot of indians just go back to the reservation. one thing you have to understand is in 1887, all the reservations are establishe but the ones in this village will disperse over the coming weeks and months and the army will pursue later in the fall and nothing much will happen. the largest battle after this is the battle in south dakota. crazy horse surrenders. sitting bull goes into canada. a lot of indians just go back to the reservation. one thing you have to understand is in 1887, all the reservations are established and they are being lived on. however, the indians could leave the reservations and hunt buffalo in what's called the unseeded territory. it's often forgotten but it's the most important part of the story because that's where buffalo are. on the reservation, most buffaloes are gone and they are being given annuities. all the resistance kind of fizzles out. they do remain on the reservation, more or less, and they are enslaved to this reservation way of life of eating flour, drinking coffee, eating bacon and all the o

juan gets into some trouble. >> he was trying to get food from the indians and the indians kill him and one of his friends. >> where? >> at -- >> yes. at this place. which is another place we will visit this weekend. at its highest point, this maze sa is 350 feet tall. basically there are two that different sections and they are connected by a thin ridge, right? one is trying to catch up in the west and he stops for supplies. initially they gave him would and other things. he said, i really need food. and so he makes this demand. it will take us a few more days to grind it. he goes about five miles away. he camp's. then he comes back. when he comes back to get the cornmeal, he is apartment -- he has a party of 19. 14 of them will go up on to the mesa and split up. they will split up, split up into three different groups, and we will go from house to house and collect all of the food and be able to leave. the problem is one of the soldiers takes a turkey, and one of the inhabitants was not willing to give away. and as a result, the soldier gets set upon and they get bum rushed. of all of

for the pueblo indians, they are as old as time. they have known about them since their creation stories. modern-day archaeologists date these images from 1200 to 1650. in the 1970's, archaeologists came out to the west mesa and begin to inventory these images. interest in these group. eventually, they became a national monument. to the pueblo people, they believed that the petroglyphs choose when and to whom to reveal themselves. sometimes it is the shadow. sometimes it is just the attitude and sensitivity with which we look at these petroglyphs images. sometimes telling people not to touch the petroglyphs is not enough. we know that nobody should touch the petroglyphs. we do give people an opportunity to touch an artificial boulder that we created for such purposes. they get the touching out of the way. we want people to understand that these are sacred images. they continued to be important to the pueblo people. over time, a patina will form. that is what is meant to happen. until then, we asked people not to touch the petroglyph

in the 1950s came the indian adoption project. native children were taken by social workers and missionaries and placed in white homes. by the time icwa was passed more than 25 percent of native children had been removed from their families. today, what native americans call "historical trauma" still casts a long shadow. we're in kyle, a town on the reservation, and people are walking today against suicide - an all too common occurrence in a place with little industry and where more than 80% of the people are unemployed. the walk is led by the sweetgrass suicide prevention group. >> we're seven times more likely to want to harm ourselves because we feel there's no hope. tiny de cory is the coordinator of the group. she says that struggles with alcohol and drug addiction are common here. >> we've had six suicides from january to a few days ago. six. but we have saved a lot of people's lives, a lot of youth. >> i stopped many suicides just by talking to them. i even went and cut down a person last summer. i caught him just in time.

protector of the indians. morlete is.t someone is treating on the missionary realm, and he brings him back in irons. what is one of the ordinances about discoveries? >> they are radical of protective of the indians? >> they are. crownolutely the spanish is absolutely concerned with the well-being of it new inhabitants. they do not want their other subjects taking advantage of them. what else? how is their enforcement? there is some, but it is spotty at best. >> they do not like the guy who is doing it. >> absolutely. that is a fact. they will call you back in the middle of your expedition and they will try you for whatever you did that they do not like. what else do you think that is odd about the way this is enforced? >> [indiscernible] >> exactly, it is all political, right? they bring their enemies back with the vice realty down in spain. casesnfortunately in many -- all right, now onto the main event, right? when does he kicked off his mexico?dition into >> 1597. >> 1598. inactually got appointed 1595, and

kinds of folks taking shelter from an impending indian attack including indians that were allied with americans and militia from the mississippi territory and lots of slaves. 30 a faction of the creeks were quite upset and they attacked the fort and there was a long battle and at the end some 250 people inside the fort were killed. there is more to the story. like most american indians had to find the way to deal with the expanding american in settlements. in this area, the creeks were successful as the cherokee to assimilate to american life style. quite a few wealthy indians owned slaves with a big plantation and raise domestic livestock and largely gave their way of life to the american norms of agriculture. the large part of the nation did not see the advantage they wanted to maintain their traditional life. there was a rift in 1813, a civil war broke out and what happened here is a continuation

there are almost 300,000 indians living in australia. let's speak to andrew thomas in sydney, and joins us there. he has had a warm welcome in sydney. he's a bit like an indian rock star. how many are listening to him? >> that's right. 16,000, capacity crowd, the stadium behind me, used for sports event and pop concerts. katy perry, ricky martin. tonight narendra modi has taken over the arena, a capacity crowd, 16,000. the tickets were free, but they went quickly. there was a bit of overspill. some were watching the talk on the big screens. i'm about to say, but a family joined me. you came down, you were not able to get in, but you came down. >> yes, it was hard we didn't get a chance to get in, we very much happy and excited to see narendra modi here. so many people, excitement >>> indians have well the biggest immigrant to australia, overtaking the chinese. you arrived yourselves from india. how important is it to see a prime minister from your home country here in australia. >> australia - like we feel like a home country here in aus

indian government to return to traditional indian culture.erman is again under scrutiny. germany's ambassador to india has been negotiating. he says germans need highly educated people in part for the offices in india. >> the solution is to do both. i think everyone here understands that on the one hand, india wants to maintain traditions. but on the other hand, it wants to spur the economy. so i think it is completely legitimate if young people say, "it helps me professionally. it helps my education if i study a language such as german. >> she hopes she can study in germany one day. so she is continuing with her language studies, and she hopes india's courts and politicians will make the right decision. >> that wraps up this edition of the "journal." please had to our website, www.dw.de. >> you are watching dw live from berlin. please stay with us. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >>> this week on "moyers & company" -- >> people need to st

like most american indians had to find the way to deal with the expanding american in settlements. in this area, the creeks were successful as the cherokee to assimilate to american life style. quite a few wealthy indians owned slaves with a big plantation and raise domestic livestock and largely gave their way of life to the american norms of agriculture. the large part of the nation did not see the advantage. they wanted to maintain their traditional life. there was a rift in 1813, a civil war broke out and what happened here is a continuation of the civil war but it brought the americans into the of war against the anti-american faction. there was a religious component. the shawnee prophet and tecumseh were proselytizing for a religious way of life and to he -- tecumseh came here and converted a lot of creeks to their religion. so there was a political angle as well. most of those leaders the were in the pay of the american government. so they were profiting, while others were suffering. by the early 1800s, there is a lot of reasons why individuals chose one side or the other. i

guest: once again, there was never a marshall plan for indian country.ndiandrive across country, you do not see the infrastructure in place like you would see in some of your local cities. you do not see walmart. you cannot not see the banks, the fast food, the big grocery chains. it is very sad. unfortunately, there was never any economic driver. some of the tribes have done great work across the nation with economic development, and gaming has been the tool over the last 20 years. a $28t from zero to about billion industry across the nation. it will take a couple of generations to turn around the historic drama that has occurred in indian country, and that can betray's back to the government's policy of kill the indians, save the man, when they policies in the late 1800s. the historical trauma that has occurred there, the education system -- my grandfather had to go to a boarding school. the trauma that he experienced there was really sad. the physical abuse, the mental abuse, the sexual abuse. kids being actually dying -- kids actually dying in the bo

a lot of indians just go back to the reservation. one thing you have to understand is in 1887, all the reservations are established and they are being lived on. however, the indians could leave the reservations and hunt buffalo in what's called the unseeded territory. it's often forgotten but it's the most important part of the story because that's where buffalo are. on the reservation, most buffaloes are gone and they are being given annuities. all the resistance kind of fizzles out. they do remain on the reservation, more or less, and they are enslaved to this reservation way of life of eating flour, drinking coffee, eating bacon and all the other things that come with it. being sedentary. no more raids on enemy tribes. handing your guns in. handing your horses in. and this reservation way of life that is a horrible way of life because they are so used to being so free. so the result of this battle is exactly that. custer lost, but the indians won, but overall, they lost the war. and there's a saying, two great nations met on a pla

the global indian international school tokyo was founded in 2006. in the beginning, it was solely for indian children whose parents work in the i.t. industry in japan. the size of the school was less than 50 students. but it's attracted more and more japanese children. they are now a surprisingly 40% of the total 350. mrs. rajan is the principal. she gave us her vision of her school. >> we are creating global role models that they are capable of doing everything. it's possible. everything is possible. only thing involvement is needed. >> reporter: so why are the japanese parents opting out of local education? shoujin's mother says her son was always good at math, and felt that it was the best possible school. his father used to work in the i.t. industry. he recalls his bitter past in having to give up his chance of working abroad because of his poor english skills. >> translator: i believe that japanese who want to go abroad have to speak english, as the international language. the future of the japanese economy is uncertain nowadays. so we need to

he comes from the indian nation. he said they had already settled their dispute under indian law.said, oshkosh, you are a free man. you committed no crime against the united states. inve the door is the word latin for "law." this is kind of unique to wisconsin that we have everything to do with legislature in the same building . we are now in the assembly. this is part of the legislature. we have two rooms, the senate and the assembly. 5,700,000 people live in wisconsin. we divided our state into 99 districts by population. we have 99 representatives, all elected to two years, all elected at the same time. once you are all in the room, the elected political leader has the big chair in the front. that leader is called the speaker, and the speaker takes care of all the political issues. they decide when they are going to meet, what they're going to talk about, who the chairman of the committees will be. the mere are in front of you is calling wisconsin's past, present, and future. was smart enough to show us a photocopy of this before he shifted to us. we got our copy instead, good

the whole of indian cricket is expressing their sadness. a lot of the children behind me, their parents have been concerned about this. one young child said, my mom said to me don't go and play cricket anymore. other people have been talking about is the prengtive ge iprot good enough. people think if this can happen to an international batsman, what would happen so their children when they're playing on these very uneven surfaces that you can see behind me. >> we can see lots of children in india play all over the place without any protective gear at all. has that debate about helmet design been going on there, as we've seen in australia and here, and what are people feeling? should there be a review? >> reporter: i think there is a huge debate that's taking place here. remember, it was ten years ago that an indian fielder was killed on a cricket pitch when he was fielding and a cricket ball hit him. one young batsman i spoke to just a short while ago as he was walking to the crease said it is something that needs to be looked at. because

guest: once again, there was never a marshall plan for indian country. indiandrive across country, you do not see the infrastructure in place like you would see in some of your local cities. you do not see walmart. you cannot not see the banks, the fast food, the big grocery chains. it is very sad. unfortunately, there was never any economic driver. some of the tribes have done great work across the nation with economic development, and gaming has been the tool over the last 20 years. a $28t from zero to about billion industry across the nation. it will take a couple of generations to turn around the historic drama that has occurred in indian country, and that can betray's back to the government's policy of kill the indians, save the man, when they policies in the late 1800s. the historical trauma that has occurred there, the education system -- my grandfather had to go to a boarding school. the trauma that he experienced there was really sad. the physical abuse, the mental abuse, the sexual abuse. kids being actually dying -- kids actually dying in the

next month the cola set indians of florida. a look at the spanish mission to convert native americans to christianity. after that, ancient rock drawings of pueblo people. and another tells about the little shell tribe of chippewa indians of montana and their struggle to become a federally recognized tribe. >> c-span's american history to her continues. the colusat to heritage trail. about the colusa indians who lived along southwest florida's coast for 1500 years. >> we're here at the site of tampa. we are standing 150 miles south of modern day tampa. there is a well known map that shows the native place name. this was one of the largest of the colusa towns. it was one large big community including one in a sterile day and the other at big mound key. the coastal -- colusa were controlling many other towns but there was a mapmaker in the early 1700s and the name tempe got shifted to where it is presently located. we are also here at highland on the shore of an estuary. it is placed wherever freshwater and saltwater mix. this is

since we moved out west we started collecting primarily american indian pottery, a lot of this is akamaottery, from new mexico, and that we have interspersed also with some of the books. this section of books, primarily early republic books, revolution, forward, through probably about 1850. most of these books cover that era, which is the era we cover more with our writing today. so, a lot of these book wes use very frequently, as well as some books in the library. we look for accuracy in books as well as the reputation of the authors. though we do buy lot of book biz new scholars because there are lot of new things coming out all the time, different interpretations of people. most of these books on these shelves are not that recent, although there are a few. there are few here by more recent scholars. plus we collect published papers of a lot of the people we work on, people like andrew jackson, henry clay, george washington, a lot of their person papers are published so we buy their works as well. this biography of of tecumseh i found to be fascinating because it looks as tecumseh --

the school shooting brought that home and the story of the tragic indians. and i went and said, i am sick of that story, that way of telling the story. he said, so am i. let's do a book. i was grateful to him and his vision and tried to write something that got beyond tragedy. i had to do that in nonfiction. very personally felt by me. i have family and friends from that reservation. i wanted it to be more than simply examples. >>host: what is your heritage? >>guest: i grew i grew up on a reservation. my father is jewish. he would fly to austria largely on his own and made it to the states. the rest of his family except for a few cousins and aunt and uncle were murdered in austria by the regime. >>host: how did your parents meet? >>guest: my father is man of many lives who did many things in many places before he finally moved off the reservation and taught high school on the reservation. he told me just recently,, he had been around for 45, 50 years. it was only when he moved that he felt like he finally had a home. rejected everywhere he went. he said that