philadelphia and mississippi. was not very supportive of the civil rights movement, had to find out what happened to these three civil rights workers. ultimately, when that was found out, that sense of anger again stimulated more people to come from the north, white and black, to be part of this. in some ways, what freedom summer does, what the murder of the civil rights workers does, is give this country another havele moment where they got to effect change because this is seen as something that shouldn't happen in a free and fair america. >> is easy to say that mississippi have the greatest risk. there is also a possibly -- african-american registration is extremely low and mississippi. >> in mississippi, you would have counties that were overwhelmingly african-american that would have only 5% of the voters registered. where was this real sense, real fear in white mississippi to control the black vote. of thelity that many people who organized the freedom summers realize is that if you could even register that v

to keep registering, but also again puts national attention on philadelphia and mississippi. the fbi, which often was not very supportive of the civil rights movement had to find out what happens to these civil rights workers, and ultimately when that was found out, that sense of anger again stimulated more people to come from the north, white and black, and be part of this, so in some ways, what freedom summer does, what the murder of these civil rights workers does is that it gives this country another visible moment where they have got to affect change because this is seen as something that should not happen in a free and fair america. >> you say that mississippi had the greatest risk. there is also possibly a reward there because african-american voter registration is extremely low in mississippi. >> in mississippi, you would have counties that were overwhelmingly african-american that would have only 5% of the voters registered, so there was a real sense, a real fear and -- in white mississippi to control the black vote, and the reality that sncc realized is that if you

in mississippi, the real story almost gens after that. it is after the laws have been passed, after you have the voting's right act, after the civil rights act that bans segregation, now what? what does that mean? how will the loss play out in local communities? in every county in mississippi, you have the question -- ok. african-americans have the right to vote. who will be elected? there was a bit of rearguard action that try to limit black voting rights. there was an effort to redraw the state legislative districts to limit black power. there is a lot that takes place that people do not realize. how these changes eventually came to transform the state. it takes place after 1964 and 1965. freedom summer in 1964 is essential in helping to understand the passage of the voting rights act. it was a really important catalyst across mississippi in the south. i think would've the important things about these anniversaries is that it brings a lot of attention and people who come down and they see that mississippi has changed a lot. certainly th

protesting the all-white delegation from mississippi. executive director of the mississippi humanities council describes efforts throughout the summer of 1964 to expand voting rights for blacks. >> did you hear me? >> with freedom summer, the idea was they needed to attract national attention to what was happening in mississippi. civil rights activists worry that with their action, there was a lot of violence directed against them. there were murders and beatings that were not attracting national attention. the idea is if you can bring in outsiders, northerners, whites, that can attract more national attention, then they could show to the country and the rest of the world what needed to change. they brought down civil rights activists to come help in this process and the deed they attracted a great deal of national attention and quite tragically, with the murder of the michael schwerner, andrew goodman and james chaney. if focused national attention on what was happening. we are in the cofo building. from 1963-1965 this was the head of t

i love mississippi.hen when you look at it like this, had medgar left mississippi, what about all the other people? everybody wouldn't leave mississippi. why should you? as he put it you have the same rights as anybody born here. so why should you run away to some unknown city or state to get a decent education also make a living for your family, o get a decent job and support and have a nice home? why should you do that? and so medgar evers decided to stay here in mississippi. and thank god he did. >> tonight's look at the people and places and the struggle for civil rights is part of our c-span's city's tour. it's where we highlight the literal life and history of each city we visit. to see more go to our website c-span.org and click on series and then click on c-span cities our. >> c-span's american history tour next friday focuses on native americans. we start off with the battle of the little big horn also known as custer's last stand. so a tour of new mexico, pueblo,. pictographs in montana and a n

it's always good to be in the mississippi delta, especially this changed mississippi delta. perhaps i should say somewhat changed mississippi delta. this is an appropriate place to speak about this book, because i have vivid memories of hiding from police along this particular street, the county courthouse is over there, and i have even more vivid memories of posses and city police here, and i have memories in -- this is really what much of the book is about -- the very, almost exceptionally strong, people of greenwood who history doesn't include -- i tell the story of some of them in the book, and i won't do it here. i will just announce some names. the green family here in greenwood, mississippi, almost a legendary family for their strength. the magees, laura magee, ran the sheriff off the farm outside of greenwood with her winchester. there were exceptionally strong people, and much of the southern movement is lodged in these strong people who protected us, and in fact, taught us. very much. i'll get back to that thought. i'm often asked, well, charlie, why did you do thi

-- mississippi delta.l of a sudden, not all of a sudden but she emerges not just as has this powerful voice but influential voice. i think that causes discomfort with people like that. that's why you had all this violence in mississippi in part and there were a lot of people like that. medgar evers and they are from all strata but particularly the bottom strata of society. so that's a fight we didn't make in the 1960s, this fight is really a fight about education and what kind of education. we solved in some ways the voting rights problem and we solved in some respects the access to public accommodations problem. freedom schools notwithstanding we really never took on and certainly never solved this question of education history and learning including reading, writing and arithmetic. we just didn't take it on so it's out there for your generation to deal with. because the one lesson that emerges from the southern movement and the mrs. amy movement in particular its things change when people began to make i

this never happened before in jackson, mississippi. these two veterans developing a one-street subdivision and they were constructing homes on what they call professional blacks. you had your lawyers, doctors, your teachers, business owners, living on this one street subdivision. then they were going to put this subdivision in between two white subdivisions. it was a trial thing and this is where he game. he selected this particular lot because it was a house on the left and there was one on the right and he knew what was happening and what could happen. he knew what things were happening to the family, the threats being made. those kinds of things. he came in changing his house plans. he did not want a front door. this is the only house in the area that does not have a front door. he asked that because he wanted his main entrance to be through the carport. he was going to teach his family when they come through the driveway and they would exit the car on the passenger side so they can use the wall as protection. the first year of the

i love mississippi. when you look at it like this, mississippi,ft others could not leave it.hy should he? said i have the same rights as anyone else was born here. why should he run away to some unknown city or state to get a decent education or to make a living for your family, to get a decent job and be able to support your family, to have a nice home? why should you have to do that? evers decided to stay right here in mississippi, and thank god he did. >> find out where c-span's local content vehicles are going next, /local at c-span.org content. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span three. >> president theodore roosevelt dedicated the striking likeness of civil war general george b mcclellan and. a generation has passed since of death of the engineer who was better at organizing armies than leading them to victory. tris a fair assumption that harbored no such feelings of hero worship for mcclelland. twice relieved of overall command by lincoln, the charismatic figure dubbed the young napoleon ran against lincoln in 1864 presidential race.

mississippi did not have an naacp secretary. his job was to come in and organize 82 counties in the state of the city, getting people registered to vote, taking complaints, and just checking out what was going on. he was selected by the after henaacp officer tried to get into the university of mississippi. when they denied him admission, this is when the national naacp asked him to become secretary. to do that, he had to comment jackson. maybe at first, they didn't take medgar seriously. it was only after he came in to jackson and really begin get things flowing, so to speak, and then got involved with the student movement, the freedom riders and all of that. --hink that is when medgar people begin to see, this man is shaking things up. he will not give up. blacks couldn't speak. you couldn't speak. i haven't heard medgar evers' voice. i heard it only when i went away to college. he was not on television. he was not on radio. i think this is when people begin to see -- they were not going to turn people around. i call at the gra

down the mississippi. rouge, v vixberg, memphis, a thousand miles down the leavlevy. 38 feet at baton rouge, river isaac, river rising, herum, river rising, a thousand miles to go. a thousand miles of levy to hold. coast guard patrol needed at paducka. 200 boats wanted at hickman. 200 boats wanted at hickman. levy patrol, men to blitheville. 2,000 men wanted at carou. 2,000 men wanted at carou. 100,000 men to fight the old river. we sent every branch of the service down the river to help the sleepless engineers fight a battle on a 2,000 mile front. the army and navy, the coast guard and marine corp, the ccc and wpa, the red cross and the health service fought night and day to hold the old river off the valley. ♪ ♪ food and water needed at louisville. 500 dead, 5,000 ill. food and water needed at cincinnati. food and medicine needed at laurenville. 55,000 homeless in evansville. last time we held the levy but the mississippi backed into tennessee and arkansas and illinois and missouri. she spread her arms o

i have all mississippi wired, all this mississippi housewives. like, i will say, hey, go get this document for me, and somebody will drive four and a half hours and get it for me. people are so angry at what happened here. what happened is a whole number of democrats crossed over and voted. i know you're probably going to say, oh, this is politics, politics is an ugly business, you know, this is terrible, but, you know, how likely is widespread voter fraud? well, there are ab awful lot of -- an awful lot of people who have come out with allegations that are substantive, who have a lot of documentation supporting these statements, who -- there's a lot more that will come out. through the vote is suing -- we've seen a lot of what was going on, essentially, in county after county is that all the little counties are controlled by the barbour machine, and in each one of these counties they were just east ignoring the laws in some cases, so they were allowing people who had voted as a democrat to vote in a republican runoff which you're not supposed to

from when cleveland mississippi began organizing or macomb mississippi when the first bench of people entered to get voter registration. far earlier than naacp or any of the others. >> the most common thread that is important to understand in what i portray in the book. we use guns obviously used in slavery and in the post civil war effort to the paleface brotherhood of bunch of organizations seeking tulu dismember the fledgling attempts at creating democracy in the south of follow civil war. black veterans of world war i and a world war ii have a very large presence in this book because after world war i and especially after world war ii with the fight for freedom in this house. this is the guy who pulled sncc in to mississippi and the pharmacists that became the president of the naacp. it is all over the south and i argue in the back -- in the book change the climate of the south. there is a whole story i don't tell in this book about the slaughter of black veterans. the story that i tell in this book are the black veterans who survived and willing to be in the coal or 21 years old

he's the former governor of mississippi.as ned rollins another political consultant put it on charlie rose this week haley barbour owns mississippi and he used the own statement. this offends me as a human being and an american that one man can own the state. that seems wrong so i decided to do as i decided to see what was going on mississippi. i like to bus corruption and if you are the most corrupt state in the union like the journalist who likes to bust corruption should go to the most corrupt state. i got this invitation by the tea party expressed to go and talk about my book on coolidge. i had never met chris mcdaniel before. someone identified me as an mcdaniel supporter. i'm not a big fan of his. i'm not against them but i'm not for him either. i'm not registered to vote because frankly i live in california. it seems like a lot of work. maybe that will change but i'm not registered to vote. what really interests me is busting busting corruption so i go to mississippi and i start seeing all these flyers everywhere hear

that is the mississippi. and this the border. what i like about this illustration is you get a sense of how remote paris is from the mississippi and far more remote in the 18th century than today. it suggests the diplomats were working with ignorance and knew nothing about the terrain or the people that lived there. george iii confused the mississippi river with the gangis. and he was right, there were indians on the banks of both rivers. this new international border dividing the country had all kinds of problems. the british thought making a clear line down the middle of this enormous river that the border would in the words of one minister for stall all disputes. so we are not going to be able to see this. i have a massive paragraph. you have seen close-ups of the mississippi river and how serpentine it is today. it was more like this in the 18th century. this is after the army core of engineers tried to straighten. it was a complete mess. and mark twain observed the river plays havoc with boundary lines and jurisdiction. it i

in 1968 alabama and mississippi voted for segregationist george wallace.governor of alabama and four-time presidential candidate who became a symbol of resistance to the civil rights movement. well known for famously blocking a door at the university of alabama in 1963 to prevent black students from enrolling. since 1972 when richard nixon carried 78% of the vote in mississippi and 72% in alabama, both states have voted solidly republican. that was, of course, the nikds southern strategy. the exception was in 1976 when jimmy carter swept the south. in 2012, president obama won just 38% of the vote in alabama and 44% in mississippi. alabama didn't elect republican senator by popular vote until 1980. now the state hasn't elected a democrat since 1992, when voters picked richard shelby. he switched to gop two years later. this year jeff sessions is running unopposed after alabama democrats failed to field a candidate against him. the only state where a major party did not run a nominee. wow. republicans have held both senate seats in mississippi since the ret

that is the mississippi. this is the border. what i like about this illustration is that you really get a sense of just how remote paris is from the mississippi, and it was far more remote in the 18th century than it is today. it suggests to us, which is, in fact, the case, that these diplomats were working in ignorance. they knew next to nothing about the terrain. or about the people who lived there. they had never been there before. george iii famously confused the mississippi river with the ganges, and as i write to point out he was right about one thing. they are indians on the banks of both rivers of. they had all kinds of problems. the british thought by making such a clear line right down the middle of this enormous river that the border would forestall all disputes. so we're not going to able to even see the. i have a massive photograph your defaults in close-ups of the mississippi river and just how serpentine it is today. i had a massive photograph showing that, which you won't see because of the animation. but he was

>> the mississippi river can be very dangerous. it does appear caulk lm at the river's edge but the current is strong. >> he knows well the powerful river that runs through the midwestern city. >> one side lacrosse and the other side is minnesota. >> we're surrounded by the bluff on the east side over there. a lot of people like to go through that. >> alex studies exercise science at the university of wisconsin lacrosse. >> we have a marsh that has about a mile and a half to two miles of trails that people run and bike. >> the mississippi river, the black river and the lacrosse river all come together in downtown lacrosse. as result, our city was once a booming logging community and later, several breweries moved into the area. >> founded by german culture. >> the students here continued the rowdy german tradition. >> campus around here is lively too. we always have a lot of things going on like basketball tournaments, volleyball, sports out on the football field happen too. the university has a bad reputation for drinking. >> in 1

greenville, mississippi, club. greenwood, mississippi, club. there is it newton, mississippi, clubs. brookhaven, mississippi, clubs. those were options. there are churches in new york where almost everybody is from south carolina. >> what decided on the three you would focus on? >> i decided on the three in 1996. >> i have your bio. i will read a couple things. tell me when i'm wrong. levens years with "the new york times," 1984-1995. you're ad boston university teaching? >> yes. >> live in atlanta. >> i live in both cities. >> commuting back and forth. >> yes. >> taught at emory for two years. princeton two years. graduated from howard here in washington dez. taught at harvard some, lectured at northwestern. why did you leave journalism? >> i don't consider myself to have left journalism. >> why did you leave newspaper reporting? >> i wanted to write this book. i wanted to, i wanted to explore the reasons why these people left. what was the legacy of what they did. i really wanted to understand who they were, why think did what they did and ca

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c-span: so how long did she live in mississippi and -- >> guest: she left mississippi when she was in her mid-20s. she left the family -- the family left because there have been a meeting of the cousin. a cousin of theirs. her husband was beaten nearly to death over the fact that he did not commit. c-span: this is the story? >> guest: yes. c-span: can you tell the whole story? >> guest: one particular night before her husband returned from errands there was pounding at the door of her cabin and she had two young ones and she had a sister-in-law of living with her so she was surprised to be getting this kind of noise upfront. there were positive men at her door and they were looking for a cousin of hers, her cousin of her husband's name jolie. she said jolie wasn't there and they had come into the house and then gone through the back way to get away from the posse. so she didn't know anything about them. later on when the husband got back home she told him what had occurred and he went out to find out what had occurred but it was too late. jolie had been captured and he was beaten with

mississippi did it.had some foundation money, so possibly interstate and did colin occurring all over the state because scott want that to be done in his state. california do the same state. california do the same thing where we did 10 culinary trends all of the state, just concentrated to train trainers so they could go out and train. that states can use that money with us very easily and get us to put our experienced trainers on the ground to help them make sure that the standards are being met. there's all different topics that we offer from hands on to online, from culinary to financial management to use those funds. >> thank you, madam chair. >> thank you very much. and thank you to all of you. this is really an important snapshot i think of how program is working across the country, the challenges that we face do we want to work with all of you to continue moving forward, build on best practices, be able to support and tackle the things that we still needed tackle richard at all schools are success

people like bob moses in mississippi, stokely visits jackson.62 he is in greenwood mississippi, 62, 63, 64, by the time of freedom summer, stokely is the second congressional district director heading activists who are organizing in the mississippi delta. when we think about stokely and the heroic period of the civil rights movement what was he doing? he was an organizer, living and working among poor black people in the mississippi delta and when we think about the black folks in the mississippi delta in the postwar period these are african-americans who oftentimes didn't have birth certificates, would never have certificates of death, many never had left the surrounding confine of the plantations that they were gone and with the student nonviolent coordinating committee was not serving as leaders but provide help for local leadership. fannie lou hamer, we celebrate this past week the 52 anniversary of her speech. .. >> carmichael is going to be one of the biggest cheerleaders and supports of fanny lieu hammer. he talked about fanny in an inter

the regular primary elections to the runoff elections there was a 17% increase in turnout across mississippi. so 17 percent more people voted in the runoff than the original primary. however, if you look at majority democratic counties the increase in turnout was 40%. so it is very clear that democrats came in and voted. there is actually an easy solution to prevent that from happening in runoff elections. georgia had this kind of provision. the state law issued. and as simple. you pass a state law that says only individuals who voted in the primary can vote in the primary runoff. and that would have prevented this huge influx of individuals coming into do it. normally it is not really a problem because you have contested primaries on both sides. get the chance to make the decision in the party is a lot. >> did you have a question? >> kevin from pennsylvania. the clashes between eric holder and congress are pretty public. can you comment a little bit of the effectiveness? possibly more effective oversight with the plight? >> you know, we have a great constitutional system. but part of the pr

from west of the mississippi risker. the second great strategic objective they achieved was to move the northern frontier of the confederacy from up in kentucky somewhere essentially the ohio river which cuts off most of tennessee from the rest of the confederacy. while the war in virginia was a stalemate, the union armies were moving from victory to victory to success. the area that was known in the jargon of the day. by 1864, the union armies appeared ready to take the next several steps to snuffing out the life of the confederacy and to ensure this happened, president lincoln had taken ulysses s. grant, the man who had opened the mississippi river, who had gained control or secured control of most of tennessee and moved him to command all union armies. grant planned in 1864 five great military operations to wipe out what was left of the confederacy. one of these would be along the gulf coast, from new orleans moving east against mobile. which was the last significant confederate port on the gulf of mexico. absolutely

mississippi did it.they have some foundation money from bower foundation and we concentrated in their state and did culinary training because scott wanted that in their state. california the same thing, 10 culinary trainings to train trainers to go out and train. those states can use the money with us, very easily and get us to put experienced trainers on the ground to help them make sure that those standards are being met and there is all different topics that we offer from hand-on to online, from culinary to financial management to use those monies. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. >> thank you very much. thank you to all of you. this is really an important snapshot i think of how a program is working across the country. the challenges that we face. we want to work with all of you, to continue moving forward. build on best practices. be able to support and tackle things that we still need to tackle to make sure that all schools are successful because, the bottom line we're talking about something pretty

stick to it mississippi. remember that. what was involved was the impoundment of funds on some three dozen projects to force mississippi to comply with certain justice department decrees and court decrease. it's impoundment. it's impoundment whatever way you look at it. when it's impoundment in a different area then it's a different horse. now many of those here have talked about the youth of america and although identify gone i'm still the youngest member of this committee. i'm concerned what impact watergate would have on the young people of america. but i think maybe in the final analysis they see this more clearly than we do and i really think that young people i've talked to and i talked to a lot of them have dedicated themselves to making this system better by working within the system. and no matter what we finally do in congress, the presidency will be treated more carefully by future presidents.

the mississippi is not the problem. >> his right about one thing, it's not just mississippi. but he is forgetting the blues highway runs both ways. >>you can catch both of mark's reports on our website, *wgn t- v dot-com.* and check this out... a very interesting morning commute in west virginia. motorists got an eyeful when they spotted a woman in a purple nightgown walking a naked man on a leash. he was on all fours, with his ankles bound, and a leather hood on his head. police later found them at an apartment building... where the 53-year-old woman and her 56- year-old boyfriend admitted... their consensual sex game had gotten a little out of hand. no charges have been filed, but the district attorney is considering an indecent exposure citation. who are we to judge? whatever works for people. >> i hope he had some sunscreen on. or starting off with our morning temperatures in the low to mid 60's. 64 at o'hare. it's 68 at the way. 61 done in joliet. it is called a halt their this morning. a light breeze here and there. not enough of a priest to prevent the patchy fog. visi

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from west of the mississippi risker.he second great strategic objective they achieved was to move the northern frontier of the confederacy from up in kentucky somewhere essentially the ohio river which cuts off most of tennessee from the rest of the confederacy. while the war in virginia was a stalemate, the union armies were moving from victory to victory to success. the area that was known in the jargon of the day. by 1864, the union armies appeared ready to take the next several steps to snuffing out the life of the confederacy and to ensure this happened, president lincoln had taken ulysses s. grant, the man who had opened the mississippi river, who had gained control or secured control of most of tennessee and moved him to command all union armies. grant planned in 1864 five great military operations to wipe out what was left of the confederacy. one of these would be along the gulf coast, from new orleans moving east against mobile. which was the last significant confederate port on the gulf of mexico. absolutely cr

from west of the mississippi risker. the second great strategic objective they achieved was to move the northern frontier of the confederacy from up in kentucky somewhere essentially the ohio river which cuts off most of tennessee from the rest of the confederacy. while the war in virginia was a stalemate, the union armies were moving from victory to victory to success. the area that was known in the jargon of the day. by 1864, the union armies appeared ready to take the next several steps to snuffing out the life of the confederacy and to ensure this happened, president lincoln had taken ulysses s. grant, the man who had opened the mississippi river, who had gained control or secured control of most of tennessee and moved him to command all union armies. grant planned in 1864 five great military operations to wipe out what was left of the confederacy. one of these would be along the gulf coast, from new orleans moving east against mobile. which was the last significant confederate port on the gulf of mexico. absolutely

alabama and mississippi were pretty important states. stripping those states of their defenders would have opened up the rich agricultural region. they would have opened up important industrial cities like selma, alabama, columbus, georgia, would not have been a smart move. and it's highly debatable too, whether men could have created enough damage to in the long term for sherman to retreat. he went to some lengths to try to protect it and we can talk about the ways later if you're interested. on july 17th, 1864, jefferson davis makes the extremely controversial decision. it was controversial in the summer of 1864, it's still controversial today of relieving joe johnson of command. and replacing him with john bell hood. an officer probably all of you know who had gained a reputation in 1862 and 1863 as one of lee's best brigade and division commanders. he personally sacrificed a lot, you know the nature of his wounds, the loss of a leg the partial use of an arm here in gettysburg. the message that relieved joe johnson. as you have failed

i can tell you that it's clear that what happened in mississippi was democrats deciding the runoff election how do we know that? because we know that because from the regular primary election to the runoff election there was a 17% increase in turnout across mississippi. to 17% more people voted in the runoff than the original primary. however, if you look at majority democratic counties, the increase in turnout was 40. so it's very close that democrats came in and voted. there's actually an easy solution to prevent that from happening and runoff elections. georgia has this kind of provision. but it's a state law issue and it's simple. you pass a state law that says only individuals who voted in the primary can vote in the primary runoff. and that would've prevented this huge influx of individuals coming in to do. normally it's not really a problem because you contested primaries on both sides. the republicans don't want to go vote in the democratic primary and the democrats don't want to go vote in the republican primary and give up her decision. >> kevin, did you have a question? >> the cl

he had no authority, johnson, that is, over the states of alabama and mississippi. he couldn't order troops from those states to join his army fighting in georgia. sherman also had the strong support of his military and civilian superiors. sherman and grant had a very close relationship, and the lincoln administration was also very supportive of sherman's campaigns. lastly, sherman had an army that on average during the campaign was about 40% larger than that of the army of tennessee. the start of the campaign, sherman's three armies numbered around 110,000 men. sherman commanded what i believe today would be called an army group but that term didn't exist in the 1860s. he commanded three separate armies. the largest of the three separate armies was the army of the cumberland which numbered close to 73,000 men at the start of the campaign, commanded by general george h. thomas, a professional soldier, and if you look again at the performance on the battlefield, thomas actually had a far more impressive record than william t. sherman. thomas, in fact, had won the fir

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they will come down to the great lakes, down the mississippi into the lower mississippi valley. you also have the dutch along the hudson river. the dutch in the 17th century have one of the greatest commercial empires of any nation and they will establish a mercantile venture along the that penetrates deep into the interior of modern new york. and the english -- we have already talked about new england. they're going to rapidly colonize and establish multiple colonies in what becomes new england. now, europeans are going to bring three crucial elements to these exchanges. they're going to bring disease. they are going to bring markets. global markets. and they are going to bring guns. and the iroquois are especially going to use these. their connections with the dutch and later the english, they are going to especially use these as part of a very culturally-specific type of warfare called the mourning war. and these are basically raids for captives. they are going to attack their neighbors near and far in order to weaken their enemies and strengthen their own numbers. the iroquo