this is an insult to native american. they suffer in the enlightened person who wants to rid our system of racism and wants to extinguish the notion of supporting this particular view. i finish by saying if i offend thee, pluck it out and this is offensive to all people from the perspective of what it stands for to wit racism and genocide. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i served for my tribe. it's offensive to hear language about the oldest and most historic it's known as ramatash the people of this land pushed out by the enslavement and genocide of our people. that's what this monument represents. we're not afford the protection of our sacred place. we are not allowed to practice our ceremonies and cultures. if we want to talk about the oldest and most historic it's the burial sites that sit under the city blocks of san francisco. to talk about a monument that has been there or a history that is less than 160 years old, we have existed here for thousands of years and it's just a little blip on t

experiences can truly be those experiences that can bring us together and of course because native americans live in several different communities that also includes different political parties as well joseph as we can see not all native candidates are democratic candidates some are republican you are running as a republican candidate for the oklahoma house and wondering what you think of the tweets we just heard about intersectional resistance what is it for you it just does that sum up why you're running or or or what is that impetus for you. well actually what really created the the drive to the moving force i mean to consider running for office was. earlier this year in april we had the two week a work stoppage for the teachers an education here in oklahoma and it dawned on me earlier this year working in with my students in coaching and doing the things that i do in our discussions that there was no visibly native person within our house and for me and people that i work with here and so many county just east of here where i live that to me that's important it's the home of the seminole

and you're in the stream now live on you tube today can native americans change u.s. politics as an unprecedented number of indigenous politicians run for office we ask why. november's mid-term elections could be a pivotal moment in the united states not only could the balance of power in congress shift but the representation of native americans in politics could grow significantly there are more than one hundred indigenous politicians running for state or in ash. so what do they hope to achieve here to discuss this from albuquerque new mexico deb holland a member of the blow of laguna tribe in the democratic nominee for u.s. congress in oklahoma joseph blanchard he's a member of the absentees shawnee native tribe and a republican candidate for the oklahoma state house in kansas sure restatements she's a democratic candidate for u.s. congress she's also a member of the hotel nation and in minnesota state representative peggy flanagan she's part of the white earth nation of ojibwe tribe and is a democratic candidate for lieutenant governor welcome everyone's welcome to

native american trailed. there's a turquoise bracelet here found in mississippi. obviously turquoise doesn't exist in mississippi on its own so this is speaking to the trameds amongst native american tribes. one of everyone's favorites objects in this exhibition are the bear pau moccasins. moccasin shoes made from bear paws with a deer skin sole. made by a louisiana tribe and likely not for native use. they were likely -- likely made for the french markets to be sold in france. they were made and cents to france where they ended up in the crewo cabinet of an aries to accurate and there they stayed for hundreds of years until they came back for this exhibition. this space is looking at the early infrastructure attempts in new orleans. plans drawn up by french engineers to establish the sets leapt in a more permanent fashion. you can show what is now jackson square in the middle and i don't know is -- beyond suspect french quarter. this is where we're now standing in this building. this map is giving you a sense of the buildings that were bill and the lands that was

native americans are still very much invisible. they have a special status that nobody really understands, including our current president. we don't have to see native americans, so we don't. since the pilgrims landed at plymouth rock, the europeans have had a special relationship with the indigenous people. there were considered as savage. however indians could be seen assimilated ,and native americans could earn citizenship. to get the sense of tone from the white house, george washington renovated mount vernon. he renovated the office so it faced west. he believed native americans were destined to be displaced by white settlers. the first policies relegated native americans to special citizens.t not u.s. the founding fathers had a hard time imagining when white facilities would -- white settlers would move all the way to the west coast, and no land would exist to push them off. the end of the civil war actually accelerated decolonization and conquest of the west. the 14th amendment excluded indians not taxed. many indians at thi

native american rights donald trump's agenda.barack obama was president, he tried to protect about 2 million acres out here. called it the bear ears monument. trump came in, said no way. shrunk it by 85%. he wants to make room for more economic development. drilling, mining. this showdown has divided native americans against each other. some are pro trump. some against trump. we got to try to get to the bottom of it. hello there. >> hello, van. nice to meet you. >> very, very good. all right. >> hello. >> get in this van. >> it is warm. >> up, man? get in there out of the that heat, man. so, who here is pro monument? >> i am. >> you are. >> yep. >> who is anti monument? >> i am. i think most native american hearts and the federal government is that promises have been made and promises have been broken. it's almost in my mind, it's like an abuse victim going back to its abusers when we hand more regulations and more land to the federal government, the very people who began the abuse in the first place. >> essential part is thinkin

americans. he explained the chinese are foreigners and the new growth is a native. african-americans are here, they have to be done with. chinese are in a different situation. pass todes after the the 14th amendment, the department of justice to the position that chinese born in the united states were not u.s. citizens. the lower courts were unanimous in holding the opposite view. finally, the department of justice got the issue to the supreme court. the brief for the united states argued for the most persuasive reasons we have refused citizenship to chinese subjects, their offspring who are just as obnoxious, and to whom the same reason for exclusion apply with equal force, we must accept them as citizens. there certainly should be some honor and dignity in american citizenship that would be sacred from the foul and corrupting taint of a debasing alienage. our chinese children to share with the descendents of the american revolution? the qualification of being eligible to the presidency of a nation? confirmed the recognition of dignity and citizenship. if so, this i

now, native americans were left out -- i think i said this before -- they were left out of the treaty of paris which ceded the lands in the u.s. territory after the american revolution. so we have a whole treaty and guess what? the people who lay claim to the land, the native americans, or they were not there. so in a very imperial way they , ceded claim of the lands to the united states. the claims to the lands where native americans lived in sovereignty. they handed them over to the night date, they -- united states. they did not tell native americans. so now the united states has a whole different approach to the land, one that does not allow for the layered claims. and indians cannot, under the territory ordinance, disclose of their lands. they have to go through the federal government. so, the federal government is not going to be the arbiter of the big entity that you have to go through to deal with native americans, but increasingly the entity that will be supervising native americans. so now we get into the power of law to frame these issues and you get a lot of text here. joh

native americans were left out of the treaty of paris, which seeded -- ceded the lands in the u.s. territory after the american revolution. guess what? thepeople who lay claim to land, the native americans, or not there. -- were not there. lands tod claim of the the united states. they a handed them over to the united states. they did not tell native americans. now united states has a whole different approach to the land, one that does not allow for the layed claims. -- layered claims. indians cannot, under the territory ordinance, disclose of their lands. the federal government is not going to be the arbiter. be entity that will supervising native americans. we get into the power of framing this issues, and you got a lot of text. ofnson the macintosh is one the key decisions in 1823. it affirms the principle of indian nationhood. we have followed the constitution following through to the northwest territory ordinance. that principle of nationhood and negotiations with the federal v.ernment, johnson macintosh, northwest territorial ordinance is treating indian nations like other nat

if the united states government can take away property of native americans, it might also use those principles to do the same to actual people, other people that are americans. this is very difficult. i want to stop and talk about this and let that sink in. it is not like you can walk into a court and say we will take property away from these people over here because we do not like them because they are indians, and then you can't do that because the principal is about the seizure of property, not necessarily the status of the people. this principle could then spill over onto other folks. this idea that we talked about last time about a universal understanding of law with principles that apply to everyone, this is the way these political leaders and other leaders are seeing this. -- legal leaders are seeing this. if you buy into that, it makes seizure of lands of particular people a dodging proposition. -- dodgy proposition. something that could be very dangerous. it takes a while to work through this. we start working through this with the legal erasure of land claims in the northwestern terr

and you certainly didn't hear about -- about them from the native americans, you got it from the english perspective and the american one later, but here is the thing about the native americans, that i didn't realize and tremendously clarifying if you don't realize this either, it's grossly oversimplifying but it is actually true that there are two broad classes of native american in america broadly. you have to remember, the native americans came across from euro asia in 20,000bc roughly during ice age to my surprise, there was the land bridge, i never understood how a land bridge worked. you have this big ocean, it's like the parting of the read -- red sea. in the ice age, the ice is denser than water and cause it is water to part literally to part and create a land passage from one continent to the other and euro asia to walked across the open space and it's so hard to visualize, presumably glaciers on either side and filtered down across the united states down to south america, tip of perÚ, up into canada, practically every square mile of that land mass of north america was accounted

we have never had a native american woman in congress. so, yes, native women across the country have never seen themselves in congress. i would be proud, of course, to have an opportunity to bring my background, my culture, the way i was raised by my parents, my dad was a 30-year career marine, my mom was a federal employee for 25 years. parents who served our community selflessly. all of that background comes with me when i get into the halls of congress. i'm not saying that i could represent my tribe or any tribe in this country. but what i can do is speak from that perspective and also bring tribal leaders to the table when there's issues that affect their communities. i think that's very important to help to further the trust responsibility of the united states government toward indian tribes. >> i wonder how seriously you think you are taken as native americans? president trump said several things in the past. he keeps doubling down. for instance, he was just in nevada campaigning against a senate democratic candidate. he said the fol

i'm curious about native american tribes who fought for the confederacy. did they do that because of an accident of where they were, or did they do it calculating that they would somehow arrest the treatment of indians as the slaveholding power moved west, and if that was the calculation, was it a miscalculation? >> i don't know. [laughter] audience member: thank you. large slaveowners, they were divided, and they were also dividing the people put them on the trail of tears. in both cases you have a large investment in slavery by a number of the civilized tribes, , what hasve also the the union done to us in the trail of tears, so there is a lot of that. >> most natives who fight for theconfederacy are from five civilized tribes, and one of the reasons they were called civilized is because they owned slaves. are out of oklahoma. the cherokee nation virtually has its own civil war between the slaveowners who would fight for the confederacy and many charity who joined -- many erokee who joined the u.s. army. if you ever see that totally made up painting of l

not ,xist in mississippi on its own but it came through the tray that was happening with the native americanribes. these are moccasin shoes actually made from bear paw's with a deerskin soul -- from bear paws with a deerskin sole. they were likely not made for native use. they were likely made for the french market. they were made and soon after sent to france where they ended up in the curio of an aristocrat -- curio cabinet oven a mr. clapp -- curio cabinet of an aristocrat, and there they stay for hundreds of years. looking at his plans drawn up by french engineers to establish the settlement in a more permanent fashion. if you look at this map, you can see what is now jackson square in the middle, and if you look beyond, this is the french quarter. this is where we are now standing in this building. this map is giving you a sense that were built and the land that was cleared in about 1725, and you can see different buildings are notated as complete or not complete. one of the interesting things about this plan is that some of it is rooted in reality, but this plan is also showing what th

the extinction of native american or put extinction of native american life in the space so what happened in the sixteenth century is that europeans spread across across the oceans and created the first global circuit of trade and the first kind of you could see it as a global empire. and from there we then moved through the discovery of enormous fossil fuel reserves and the ability to use those which again then spread worldwide as we see in china today and then finally a new reorganization of the world after the second world war to be able to increase that productivity and increase the consumption and that's the problem we have today is that we're producing three hundred million tonnes of plastic each year. and there was seeing plastic in all the oceans and we're seeing in micro fibers in in the drinking water and enough food and you know these things come back to rebalance so we argue in the book is that actually this constant increase in the amount of productivity and the amount of consumption globally can't continue without serious repercussions and in the end some kind of societal co

and those native americans were farmers so those farmers fields that were there across south america grew back and. most of the tree is carbon so they took carbon out of the atmosphere and we can see that impact in ice cores from antarctica and in sediments and natural data archives of around the world so this provides a moment to say this is the beginning of the end to proceed so when species are mixed and we see a new evolutionary destiny of planet earth and is the last globally cool moment before the warmth of the anthropocene before climate change really kicks in in the early adopters of this. perceived connections with years and so there were particular rush yes so people have had an idea that there's been a human epoch that there's a time when humans dominate the earth and that started off with the brute force in the eighteenth century and he had this idea that it was a human eat pork mainly due to the kind of changes that humans are making to life so cutting down forests moving plants and animals around for farming and then actually people were using the term the anthropocene

i do have a drop of native american in me. if most of my ancestors came 1700s, ihe 1600s and never read were they were invited here. through theer here, brown people on this continent. 1840, california, arizona, new mexico, texas, colorado, wyoming, kansas, that was all mexico. at -- if you ask president trump who his favorite president was. i am sure it would be himself. his second choice would be andrew jackson. if you look to what andrew jackson did to the maid -- native americans, he marched to the most worthless , to on this country oklahoma. host: we have to get a response. comment.at was more a i am not sure there is much to respond to. the trail of tears was incredibly tragic. the native americans who died along the trail. host: lawrence, florida. caller: how're you doing? it is an honor to speak to the congressman. , i have so much going through my head right now about reagan and the contra, when we went down there and basically tore up that down there with gunrunning, excuse me, and stuff like that, they had death sq

the legacy of broken treaties colonialism and native american genocide are constant themes and frank wants music born in the rose by indian reservation in rural south dakota out one uses music to call out historical wrongs and uplift indigenous youth many of whom struggle from the impacts of poverty violence suicide and other intergenerational traumas so joining us now is frank here in the studio welcome to the stream frank hello i think it's an honor to be here it's really good to have you here so you know this past week our team and i had. going to your music has been lovely homework to have and we came up with themes that we thought we found most prevalent in your work and that is history heritage and family that to us is what seems to be the driver behind your work for you what is it that drives your music i mean i think you guys kind of hit it on the head i try to improve approach my work from an indigenous standpoint and that's not to say i have all the answers like i grew up and i said the colony in my mind was socialized into you know the western way of looking at the world s

the legacy of broken treaties colonialism and native american genocide are constant themes and frank wants music born in the rose by indian reservation in rural south dakota out one uses music to call out historical wrongs and uplift indigenous youth many of whom struggle from the impacts of poverty violence suicide and other intergenerational traumas so joining us now is frank here in the studio welcome to the stream frank hello monica it's an honor to be here it's really good to have you here so you know this past week our team and i have been going through your music it has been lovely homework to have and we came up with some themes that we thought we found most prevalent in your work and that is history heritage and family that to us is what seems to be the drivers behind your work for you what is it that drives your music. i mean i think you guys kind of hit it on the head i try to improve approach my work from an indigenous standpoint and that's not to say i have all the answers like i grew up and i said the colony in my mind was socialized into you know the western way of loo

the legacy of broken treaties colonialism and native american genocide are constant themes and frank wants music born of the rose by indian reservation in rural south dakota out one uses music to call out historical wrongs and uplift indigenous youth many of whom struggle from the impacts of poverty violence suicide and other intergenerational traumas so joining us now is frank here in the studio welcome to the stream frank hello mike it's an honor to be here it's really good to have you here so you know this past week our team and i have been going through your music it has been lovely homework to have and we came up with some themes that we thought we found most prevalent in your work and that is history heritage and family that to us is what seems to be the drivers behind your work for you what is it that drives your music i mean i think you guys kind of hit it on the head i try to improve approach my work from an indigenous standpoint and that's not to say i have all the answers like i grew up and i said the colony in my mind was socialized into you know the western way of lookin

even in new mexico with deb holland if elected would become the first native american congresswoman elected. this sends a message. we are the party standing up for women, showing what is happening when you empower and support our women. that's why when we talk about the iowa vote women showing they will vote and win. >> harris: i'll step in with the entire nation is in a moment for women. it may be less about party and more about the conversation michael, that you and i both acknowledge needs to happen about women and their rise. you say this was not a total win for democrats. why do you say that? >> not in the slightest. first, i would point out we doubled the number of the women running for congress in the g.o.p. we are the party of women. i want to pint -- point out the blue wave, so-called blue wave is crashing. the president had an important tweet a few hours ago and said the fake news will not report

by the time native americans arrived from the western caravans, about two and half weeks later in late may, resurrection city is not an attractive place to want to live. one of my favorite quotes from the book, "we did not see what we hoped to see." clearly for understandable reasons. was assassinated. we have to get on and wish them the best of luck. most economists -- most chicanos when they get to washington, they go to the hawthorne school. the chance to live there was critical, not only was it warm and dry and a good basis of action, that in this space, much of the campaigns constructive relationship building takes place. especially for chicanos, to the point that many people independently refer to it as a successful multiethnic community at the belt. here is a glimpse of the hawthorne school. the initial rain stopped. multiracial cooperation began to bloom within the conference -- within the hawthorne school. sometimes it started in exchange, such as was witnessed in a common area. man "starts to play a kick ass boogie-woogie on the piano then they were kicking up their heels and

and never show the hopeful side it was just become this all native americans are lazy or alcoholic or drug addicts you know we're all the statistics so i think you know looking looking at the way the media has treated my people looking at historically the way this country and americans have cheated my people for over five hundred years they've been telling as a show shame about who we are and to be native actually. you know frank you mentioned. your older generations. and i'll give our viewers a little bit of a fun fact trivia for this next album that's coming out he actually had to learn the language and used. to help you along with me right so i'm not fluent so i didn't grow up speaking my language because in my family it kind of went away with my great grandparents when they passed on so i feel like if i learn my language and use my my and my path and my art as the vehicle i can maybe hills some of those wounds my great grandma great grandpa i don't i don't know what they took to their grave you know but i know if i can help in any way bring our language back i can i can heal and i

and sends a devastating message to our native american communities and an affront to san francisco values. the board of supervisors adopted a resolution signed by the mayor supporting the remove from the civic senator area and cites extended opposition from the general public to the sensitive nature of native americans and stated in 2017, quote, the streets of san francisco there ought to be symbol don't depress people or remind them of oppression and it bothers native americans and bothers us if it bothers them. these officials have recognized the statue is out of place in our community. not everyone will agree but it's a community decision and the officials express values in speaking nor community. we should not have the statue in the civic center area any more than we should have a statue of robert e. lee. no property rights are implicated and we appreciate your consideration of a rehearing. >> clerk: thank you. we will now hear from the historic preservation commission. >> good evening, president fung, i'm the historic preservation officer with the san francisco planning and the overt

the investigation after a border patrol vehicle appears to hit a native american man. tesheriff's department is reeling after a second deputy ies from gunshot wounds. >> yesterday was a terribly tragic day. >> ninan: good evening. n'm reena ninan. president trump is again lashing out at democrats in congress on immigration. in a tweet today, the president repeated his assertion that democrats are to blame for the ieparation of migrant families at the u.s. border and called on them to work with republicans on new legislation. this comes as hundreds of migrant children are now being housed in a new tent city in a texas border town. weijia jiang has more. >> reporter: we're getting a first look at the so-called tent city in tornillo, texas, created for children being separated from their parents who are trying to cross the border illegally. >> i hate it. i hate the children being taken away. >> reporter: on friday, president trump said it was not his administration's fault. >> the democrats forced that law upon our nation. i hate it. >> reporter: but it was mr. trump's ow

the legacy of broken treaties colonialism and native american genocide or constant themes and frank wants music born in the rose by indian reservation in rural south dakota out one uses music to call out historical wrongs and uplift indigenous youth many of whom struggle from the impacts of poverty violence suicide and other intergenerational traumas so joining us now is frank here in the studio welcome to the stream frank hello michael it's an honor to be here it's really good to have you here so you know this past week our team and i had. going to your music has been lovely homework to have and we came up with themes that we thought we found most prevalent in your work and that is history heritage and family that to us is what seems to be the drivers behind your work for you what is it that drives your music i mean i think you guys kind of hit it on the head i try to encourage pro-choice my work from an indigenous standpoint and that's not to say i have all the answers like i grew up and i said the colony in my mind was socialized into you know the western way of looking at the world so

she has taken three examples, a native american mohawk woman and her daughter, a common-law wife, and a planter wife and a slave, and tried to describe how their lives were impacted by the american revolution and the declaration. the politicalization of women by by their contact with revolutionary ideas and the war itself resulted in this public debate about women's nature and their role in the new republic. an ongoing question will be for us and for american history, what is the definition of citizenship? are women citizens? do you have to own property, pay taxes, be able to vote, have jury duty, military service? what makes you a citizen? is it birthright citizens? what is citizenship? i want to spend some time on slavery, because clearly women in slavery had none of these rights that we are talking about. they had horrific lives. slavery was a moral, legal, political, and economic core conflict of american history and is clearly still struggling to be resolved as we address its legacy in the current time. this is slavery. the slave population in 1790. by 1790, many of the northern

>> when we come back weeshgs getting a first look at a memorial that will honor thousands of native-americans whod in our country's arms forces. and we'll introduce you to a japanese technique that could help you destress and find more balance in your getting a cancer diagnosis is difficult. getting an appointment th a specialist shouldn't be. at cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia, you can see a cancer specialist in as little as 24 hours. you'll meet with a physician who will discuss treatment options, answer your questions and reconext steps for your personalized care plan. learn more about cs cer treatment cent america and schedule your appointment at cancer.com/appointment ♪ ♪ the best way to get together is with a treat you make together. ♪ ♪ >>> we're getting our first look at aha memorial will honor thousands of native-americans that serveded our country's arms forces. the smithsonian unveiled the cdesign todayled warriors circle of the honor. it represents the idea of inusiveness in the circle of life. smithsonian officials say they nsulted with vets across the country

that is the same kind of heresy that was used to support the genocide of native americans.this an, biblical heresy that was used to support slavery and support jim crow. it is the law. and that is why movements broke it. as dr. king said, any law that is against god's law in the law justice, we have a responsibility to challenge the law. america has a long history of laws that do not line up with the mororal demands of f our constitution. amy: we have to wrap up p the shshow. junene 23, what is happening n w go you have 10 seconds >> on the was set of the capital on n the lawn, 10:00 am a massive call to action. the final launch of the 40 days of this campaigngn. we will c continue just bring everybody you know. people will be speaking. we will be talking about what we do going forward. we will not turn around people hurting. amy: reverend dr. william barber, thank you for being with us. breaking news, the trump administration reportedly withdrawing the u.s. from the un's human rights council. or it is reports the decision is imminent. that does it for the broadcast. we wan

she is currently the only native american serving as one of three countyommissioners, even though the navajo are a majority of the total population. c but that couldnge when residents go to the polls for a special election in asvember. lateyear, a federal judge ruled that the county voting districts had been gerrymandered, in violation ofe nstitution, by lumping the navajo into a single voting district. the ruling was a huge victory for the navajo nation. and for wired jones, a plaintiff in the lawsuit. >> there were some tears that were shed at that moment for my family on my side. >> reporter: jones decided to e because, he argued, navajo residing within the county district that includes the reservation had been denied critical services. ehis own sister died beca there was no ambulance available-- like this one in th nort take her to a county hospital. >> and she had a heart attack and they couldn't get there until about an hour later which was too late. >> reporter: the old county commission map placed most of the navajo population in the third district, whicguaranteed that the oth

. >>> it turns out that human remains found under a home in smat oh o are native american according to the coroner who spoke with the daily journal. the home was likely a buryial ground at some point the skelton has been turned over to the native american hurt continual oat society. they found the bones digging a trench on the home of the 900 block of 10th avenue. >>> new developments today in the story of the high school student who had her micron turned off while making a graduation speech because she went off script. now there is a petition to have the principal removed. wayne friedman is live with more. >> good evening cab lul a bell psychiatrics has gone viral after claiming the school closed the mic for fear of criticizing the school's handling of a sexual assault against her. she blames the principal david sister it. now there are 7,000 signatures on the kr 12 website asking for removal of him. let's begin with the woman who asked for the petition. >> victims and need to be believed. >> the fact that lilly sloane and lul a bell have never bet they say is not nearlily important a

a native american man says a driver ran him over and reportedly ran away. here is the video. >> reporter: this video is just 37 seconds long but appears to show a 34 year old getting hit by a border patrol vehicle. the suv then drives away. almost 1 million people have watched the video on social media since it posted. it happened thursday night. this is a 62-mile reservation that straddles u.s. mexico border in southern arizona near tucson. tribal leaders oppose president trump's border wall. it's an area where native americans encounter agents as they look for illegal immigrants and drug traffickers. u.s. border patrol says we do not tolerate misconduct on or off duty and willfully cooperate. the family released a statement through community leaders saying he saw the vehicle approaching near his grandparents' home and that's when he started filming. he says when he stepped into the road the driver accelerated toward him and struck him. tribal leaders say this is one of many incidents where federal agents acted improperly on their land. in 2003 the tribe s

there were no native americans who had input on this statue. it's removal will not mean its destruction. putting it in its proper place and construct means students can see it in a museum where it belongs. so my point to you tonight, i'm trying not to repeat what you heard from others but as a professor and academic and part of the nations of southwest louisiana and someone born and raised in san francisco, i just want to say that this is not -- number one, it's not art, but you can't just leave something on display without historical context. you can't -- how can children walk by that? how can we let young people see these images that remind us of genocide. this is not about like some people on the other side who said this is a memorial. it's not a memorial to native americans because number one they're not dead. we're standing before you today so we ask and i know my time has elapsed but we ask -- and i would say we demand -- we've asked for far too long we be respect and not invisible because we're still here so we demand you do the right th

i am a native american community member. i also work for the native american health center. i'm here also to get a follow up on our p.a.c. presentation back in january 23. most of the -- our priorities have been worked on or are being worked on, but that -- a major one, which is very important to our community is the washington murals and so we just also wanted to find out what's happening with that and how it has moved, if it's moved forward, and what's taking place as far as the board's end of it. it's important for our community. i work every day with our families and youth, american indians, and i know the -- the toll that historical trauma has taken on our families and communities. and with all the work that we're trying to do, the different agencies that serve our community, we need -- we need the school district to also help in that. we know that they -- our students are -- as mentioned earlier, walk-through the hauls of the school, and to see those -- those paintings is -- is shameful. they shouldn't have to see that, any of our students. our school district should n

even native americans. they came from other areas as well. so how do we fabricate that, following the rule of law, and enabling and empowering -- keyword, empowering -- instead of victimizing solutions. remember when you're a parent and you've got kids and they do something wrong, sometimes there's those things called tough that makes you the better person, that makes you understand your role in life and that you have to be part of a solution. you can't just be given everything. so i think this is a case where we have to have some tough love. is there an ability to have daca ento stay but not c in a with citizenship? maybe that's where i'm at. i don't want to give a special denotation for these people, but i also don't want to violate the trust othe american people by saying, listen, i'm not embracing al 's is legal immigration. >> what about the -- is there a possibility of streamlining the immigration process for those who would go back to their countries and apply to become -- is there a way to streamline the process? >> he brought up a pe

he lived in appalachia and mississippi delta and on native american reservations, among farmworkers whoe way to the township of south africa still growing under apartheid. did he ever once give up his plan? or his tribe? no. he said what does that have to do with if we can live together or if we have to knowledge our common enemy is more important in our differences? and he did something unusual for a politician back then you cannot check every word every day he said the same thing everywhere he went. [laughter] he would go into a working class neighborhood and tell them exactly the same thing and say in the poor neighborhood. he would stand in the synagogue to say the same thing that he would say at the knights of columbus meeting. and if we had had the muslim population back then he would have gone to them and said you two can be part of america if you share our values and vision 17 the native americans american indians, 90 tribes for his work with them gave him a tribal name. his braveheart took him to california a 200-mile trip across appalachia to see the shacks where parents strug

i do have a drop of native american in me.most of my ancestors came 1700s, ihe 1600s and never read were they were invited here. through theer here, brown people on this continent. 1840, california, arizona, new mexico, texas, colorado, wyoming, kansas, that was all mexico. at -- if you ask president trump who his favorite president was. i am sure it would be himself. his second choice would be andrew jackson. if you look to what andrew jackson did to the maid -- native americans, he marched to the most worthless , to on this country oklahoma. host: we have to get a response. comment.at was more a i am not sure there is much to respond to. the trail of tears was incredibly tragic. the native americans who died along the trail. host: lawrence, florida. caller: how're you doing? it is an honor to speak to the congressman. , i have so much going through my head right now about reagan and the contra, when we went down there and basically tore up that down there with gunrunning, excuse me, and stuff like that, they had death squads

underestimated those who are left behind are locked out of opportunity are women and immigrants native americans african-americans or other people of color lesbians or bisexuals or transgender people. mentally ill prisoners or people with disabilities and the poor. you began fighting against harassment and deportation of immigrants in 1920. you fought or workers rights in the internment of more than 120,000 japanese-americ instead of the civil rights leaders and activists and protesters through this fit in marches and freedom riot and fighting for racial equality in america. and with sex discrimination fighting for equal rights for women in the workplace and in the marketplace and since the supreme court upheld a woman's right to movie wade fighting on the front line for reproductive rights. [applause] he created a lesbian and gay rights project in the mid- 80s to advance the right and thought tooth and nail to make marriage equality the law of the land. [applause] and now you are on the front lines of the resistance against this administration and you have been america's true freedom fighters.

visiting the memorial shod be a healing experience, that it should be inclive of all nativ veterans, including americane haii yaans. >> construction is set to start next we are. we're told the memorial should be open to the public by late 2020. >>> today president trump award army first lieutenant garland coor the medal. honor. his wife accepted on behalf of her late husband. he served on the front line of r ten campaignsg world war ii. he was wounded seven times. once he snuck out of a hospital to fin his unit. first lieutenant connor also earned four silver stars, one bronze star and tee purple hearts. he died in 1998. >>> amazon just mov in to bethesda road. the new amazing books location opened opened today. this is the company's second bookstore. it's amon's 16th brick and mortar store in the country. mazon says because space is limited in the store, it onlyll se very popular titles. there's a specialti desig for books kindle customers read ee days or less. you can also test drive amazon devices in that store too. >>> last february president trump stood in front of the white house and praised harl

it allows us to expand further west, which allows us to get into conflict with more native american tribes. it also allows the expansion of slavery. new orleans was a major hub for the slave trade and by protecting it from the british, they really increase the amount of slavery that happened in the united states. so, andrew jackson, already known as a military man in the creek wars prior to this battle, but this throws him into such popularity he is able to win the presidency in 1828. andrew jackson the man and andrew jackson the general -- if you had said anything bad about andrew jackson's politics it was inferred you are talking about the man himself, and therefore the country. it's this battle where he gains one of his next -- one of his nicknames. he was already known as old hickory. here is where he gets the nickname of "the hero of new orleans" that sticks with him until he dies. one thing i like people to take away is this idea of how small the chunk of ground is has a lot of long-lasting effects across the nation. the men fighting here were fighting for all different reasons. but

fight is still rin one utah county over current district lines and their effect on the voicef native americans. from the university of southern california's anneninrg rural repoinitiative, tommy brooksbank has the story. >> reporter: san juan county is the largest county in utah, about the size of new jersey. it stretches from the predominantly white, mormon towns of monticello and blanding in the north, to the vast navajo reservation in the south. it is also the poore county in the state. >> on the navajo reservation, the unemployment rate is around 72%. >> reporter: rebecca benally's county district includes theon navajo reserva she is currently the only native american serving as one of three county commissionerseven though the navajo are a majoty of the total population. but that could change when residents go to the polls for a special election in november. late last year, a federal judge ruled that the county voting districts had been gerrymanded, in violation of the constitution, by lumping the navajo into a singleoting district. the ruling was a huge victory for the navajo nation. and

and you're in the stream now live on you tube today can native americans change u.s. politics as an unprecedented number of indigenous politicians run for office we ask why. november's midterm elections could be a pivotal moment in the united states not only could the balance of power in congress shift but the representation of native americans in politics could grow significantly there are more than one hundred indigenous politicians running for state or in ash so what do they hope to achieve here to discuss this from albuquerque new mexico deb holland a member of the blow of laguna tribe in the democratic nominee for u.s. congress in oklahoma joseph blancher.