it has to have the only native american america who can -- it has to have the only native american america who can sign something into law. so my suggest to my good friend, the majority leader, is let's have the vote on his proposal. it isn't going to pass. and let's get to talking to the administration again in the hopes that we can come together behind something that can pass both the senate and the house and be signed into law before tuesday. now, you know, i don't blame anybody for being confused about what's been going on in congress this weeks, but i'd like to take a moment to explain what's going on right now. last night the democrats who control the senate proposed a bill that would lead to the largest debt ceiling increase in the history of the united states and which completely ignores the roots of this crisis. this bill has one goal, to get the president through his next election without having to have another national debate about the consequences of his policies. the president wants to make sure this kind of debate doesn't happen again even as he gets democrats in congress to

has to have the only native american america who can -- it has to have the only native american america who can sign something into law. so my suggest to my good friend, the majority leader, is let's have the voten his proposal. it isn't going to ps. and let's get to talking to the administration again in the hopes that we can come together behind something that can pass both the senate and the house and be signed into law before tuesday. now, you know, i don't blame anybody for being confused about what's beenoing on in congress this weeks, but i'd like to take a moment to explain whas going on right now. last night the democrats who control the senate proposed a bill that would lead to the largest debt ceiling increase in the history of the united states and which completely ignores the roots of this crisis. this bill has one goal, to get the president through his next election without having to have another national debate about the consequences of his policies. the president wants to make sure this kind of debate doesn't happen again even as he gets democrats in congress to give him

native americans are not the only people to have gallows humor about the situation. part of it is gallows humor. a part of it -- i could be way off here, but native americans are americans-americans, too. american general, i think, is a humorous country often. i mean, that's what people say -- that's the reputation of americans in other countries. that we're funny. so why wouldn't native americans be funny, too? but some are just hysterical. this one woman in yakima, she's so funny. i tell her a joke she's heard it. and i said have you lived on the reservation your whole life and she will say, not yet. [laughter] >> just a take off on other jokes but in generally, i found that native people laugh at each other, certainly at nonnative people and at some of these assumptions and sometimes they just get absolutely outraged at the rudeness of nonnative people towards them and they make that into a joke. for instance, i interviewed an osage woman, a lawyer, who's very sophisticated. she works in washington, d.c.. she has her own law firm there. she goes home and she calls it oklahoma to the reservation. but she says sometimes people come up to her and they say, you don't look like a real indian. an

america in territory that was. thought hundred eighteen years ago solely by native americans so wall. of european ancestry and you possibly of european ancestry sitting here on the formal land of native americans talking english and why is that not the case that native americans are in europe and speaking as tech or language wide history turned out that way the answer is simple it's guns germs and steel the title my book europeans developed guns and steel and they evolved nasty germs before native americans could do so and guns germs and steel are what enabled europeans to conquer native americans and aboriginal australians and sub-saharan africans them to separate our wonders was it in your book that i that i it's been some years that i read that one. first was marching across south america parts of south and central america to conquer the aztecs of the mayans when he finally showed up in the city of gold that most of the people there were dead from the flu that it had preceded him. that's close to it there were two. cases of what you're getting at one is that during cortez this conq

native americans are not the only ones to have humor about the situation. part of it, i could be off here, but native americans are american americans too. america in general, i think, is a humorous country often. that's what people say is the reputation of americans and other countries that we're funny. why wouldn't native americans be funny too? some are just hysterical. this one woman i interviewed, oh, she's so follow-upny. every time i tell a joke, she's already heard it. she asked, have you lived on the reservation your whole life? she says, well, not yet. [laughter] it's a take off of other jokes, but in general i found that native people laugh at each other, certainly at non-native people, and at some of the assumptions, and zimbs they just -- sometimes they just get outraged at the rudeness of non-native people towards them and make that into a joke. i interviewed an osage woman, a lawyer, who is very sophisticated working in washington dc with her own law firm there, goes home, oklahoma to the reservation, but she said sometimes people come up to her and say you don't look like a real indian, and her mother's non-native, and she said,

thousand years ago that wasn't the case just as two thousand years ago everybody in north america was a native american two thousand years ago everybody in africa south of the equator was either a pygmy or belonging to the course some people and then two thousand eight hundred years ago farmers black thought i was speaking panther languages with crops and livestock and still you weapons move south of the equator and. pygmies encroached on people with all your ears suitable for bad conforming to the point we are today most subject with your allowance of band performance so that's one case of steel not guns but steel and the power went by farming there was a similar example in southeast asia of chinese farmers overrunning southeast asia so yes this happened with people other than europeans the bush years that's my favorite is the most recent collapse societies choose to fail or succeed and you identify why societies collapse or succeed let's start with an example of collapse. let's start with two examples one which will dismiss in the sentence the collapse of the roman empire the western roman empire whi

we now know long before europeans came to america the native americans were war like way more than wer were as europeans. the percentage of males that died in conflicts is way higher. we have artifacts and arrow heads and spears inside skeletons. we know they de-forested most of new england before we came here. they were doing everything that people do, we expand out and we use resources and before we understood the long term consequences, that is what people do. they are like us. they are not noble savages. so that is another great myth. it has political implications. if you believe that you are going to engineer social policy from the top down, we can end crime by taxing more and giving more money to the poor because we know that that poverty leads to criminality. no, we know there is a whole set of causes you have to assume there is some human nature to it. >> john: thank you. i'll tell you about my take on the biggest myth of history. >>> to me the biggest most destructive myth about history what historically made life good for people or bad for people is the idea that if we are t

. >> i tell people if he were born in north, south, or central america, you are a native american. the goal is this that i have. we all own history. if we don't own -- indian history is in your history. if you claim to be a native, which you are by birthright, then the history of the indian world is also your history. >> thank you for that. let's sneak away. we are going to take a break, and will be back with andy galvin. a mission project is something he cannot suspect. when it's time for lunch, a sandwich is a quick and easy choice. and with the right ingredients, it can be good and good for you. so i'm here today to see who can build the ultimate sandwich. all right, when the time is up, our judges will give you their scores. ready. set. go! okay, jason starts out with the multigrain roll. ooh. alyson's stuffing her pita with, yes, spinach! a great source of iron. jason isn't skimping on the protein, adding plenty of smoked turkey. looks like alyson's putting the finishing touches with crispy red bell peppers for a dose of vitamin a. (buzzer blares) time! (bells ding) it looks l

america that we could all meet and another if they was your use of the word we. earlier you were talking about -- the american -- you said we. you included yourself. you include the native people has also part of america. we are all american. so i thought about sacajawea who hooked up with lewis and clark. she didn't run into her brother who saved her life because he was chief of a tribe in idaho. she said there is my brother. she obviously traveled the world from idaho to st. louis and is going back. >> host: can you bring this to a conclusion? >> caller: are you surprised you love the ocean even though you are from a landlocked part of the country? >> guest: we are river people. the mississippi, yes. the trading paths and the juries across the gulf of mexico. we were everywhere in the past. so there wasn't anyone who stayed in one place. we journeyed all the time. >> host: rachel in massachusetts, you are done with linda hogan. >> caller: i am delighted to speak with you. thank you. i wish my partner hadn't fallen asleep. he loves greek mythology and he would have been awed to hear about your medea project. we read your works aloud to each other and really love them.

america's diner is always open. a park on a native american burial ground. the city said this week it will e development righ >>> the city of vallejo will scale back plans to build a park on a native american burial ground. the city said this week it will share developmental rights with two northern california tribes that have been camped out at the site for months blocking construction. the tribes must now sign off on plans for restrooms, trails and other amenities. tribe members tell the chronicle they won't leave until the deal is set. >>> analysts saying foreclosures are slower because of backlogs in processing. for buyers there are plenty of homes still out there on the auction block. anne makovec has the story. >> reporter: among the fast talking auctioneers and investors buying in bulk there are people like beverly. >> today i purchased a home. >> reporter: she saw this foreclosed property in antioch online. it is a fixer upper but instantly -- >> fell in love with the house. >> reporter: she had been living with her son for the past two years. >> eve

native american so we're not. do you. have your own proves america is. coming out well real madrid are also at the pre-season tour and coach josie has been here believes they're closer to permanently signing on loan out to buy all in iraq i gather from as you can measure it right now i was speaking ahead of his team's game against l.a. galaxy on saturday which is something christiane i remember was looking forward to along with galaxy they've been backing up there and. it's a good game for us because we re still and imprecision so will be great it's really exciting because i always like to play and it's simply against good teams to go to far as we feel more motivated so it will be a great survey and i hope of course it's only going. to be facing real madrid star much me since i left you know it's emotional because you you get attached to a club you get attached to the people at the club. and to be facing. a team with the talent that they've got in the team not just with the talented guys that have got here but the young players and of course chose a. tha

america pageant booklet. so evidently there were a whole lot of native americans in oklahoma that were supportive of me.nd women's lib was a really big one, you know, protesting against pageants in general. so it was a very kind of scandalous time to be trying to do that. but i didn't know any better, so -- [laughter] >> how did, you mentioned that you, you know, drew upon your native culture to help you through these times to navigate that. would you care to tell us more about how the traditions in if native culture strengthened you through these times? >> i think having a spirit guide was probably the most ip fliewn cial -- influential part of having that strength. i, we all pray, and i've always been a prayer, but to actually know that there's somebody there watching you is, just it's a very empowering feeling. and i think that really has more than just believing in myself, knowing that there's some spirit or something out there that was kind of keeping an eye on me, that really, that really freed me up to be more. kind of gave me more self-esteem. >> more self-esteem. was there ever an aspect of nat

for native americans, the system has long helped define their tribes, but times have changed. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. another day and yet more extraordinary revelations in the hacking scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire. first came a story that the news of the world reporters tried to buy top-secret information about the royal family from one of its protection officers. in a separate case, another murdoch paper is alleged to have targeted personal liberation of the former prime minister when he was chancellor. >> the head of state, the royal family, her and their security is the duty of the police in the royal protection branch. the integrity of those officers must surely be beyond a doubt, but this morning, i learned that "news of the world"'s e-mail uncover as long ago as 2007 but kept secret contained evidence that the sunday newspaper was paying more protection officers for private information about the royal family. later emerged in public with the guardian" that the phones of prince charles and the duchess of cornwall may have been tapped. in one of the

native americans. i think her personal struggles for fulfillment, you know, and be able to transcend her problems and be recognized in the miss americapageant, you know, it's pretty stirring personal story on her part. i think we've seen on a larger level, the same thing throughout indian country and that is during this modern era of federal indian law grad 19 -- the late 50s right into the present we see the sovereignty movement for indian country at the beginning of the 50s was at the low point for the american indians in american society and our land holdings were about 2% -- less than 2% of our original for land ownership in the united states and her people living and not just poverty at the bottom of a segregated society that was on stamping out our traditions and their tribal religions and their ways of life and terminating the political relationship between the indian nation and the government, just the whole dream of low point, if you will in the native life here in our nation. and then, since that point, excuse me, our nation has really what has historic, social movements i think that stirs the human heart and am not, we've

americans, and you said "we." you included yourself. you include the native peoples as, also, part of america. we are all americans.nd so i thought about sacajawea, and she's hooked up with lewis and clark in, i think, st. louis, and she didn't run into her brother who, by the way saves her life because he was the chief of a tribe out in idaho, okay? and she said, oh, there's my brother. so she, obviously, travels from idaho down to st. louis, and now she's going back -- >> host: hey, chris, can you bring this to a conclusion? >> caller: are you surprised that you love the ocean even though you come from a landlocked part of the country? >> host: thank you, chris. >> guest: well, we're river people. you know, we were the mississippi and, yes, the trading paths and the journeys and across the gulf of mexico. we've all, we were everywhere in the past. so there wasn't anyone that stay inside one place. stayed in the one place. we journeyed all the time. >> host: rachel in amherst, massachusetts. you're on with linda hogan. >> caller: hello again from amherst. i'm so delighted to be able to speak with you, linda. >> gu

native america. tried. oseph's driv that, i think, is the first positive representation of native americans on the federal building>> it was established -- and greeting visitors at the curve is the neptune fountain. >> here you have neptune, the great sea god, surrounded by his court and these sea animals and beasties. ♪ washington is miserable in the summertime and fountains are a great relief. this is sort of like our fountain, if you will, and drawn from many sources. 20t also, maybe it's symbolizing 20 -- symbolizing trenty. >> the neptune fountain is almost one-third the length of the entire building. make your way around, some unusual carved faces. these heads as the keystones of around the principle floor of the whole way of around the building. they were developed by a fellow named otis mason and they represent the races of the world. >> there are a total of 33 technological -- ethnological heads. >> they can be represented that specifically and it would be appropriate to do so, but it would be frowned upon today promptly. >> there are aspects in the architecture reminiscent of european masterpieces. >> th

people all across new mexico and america, with unemployment hitting hispanics, native americans, leavingto wake up, our republican colleagues. listen to the american people and let's make sure we get some job creation packages moving. it's already been 200 days. it's gone long enough. let's make sure we're doing what we can and get people back to work. >> all of our speakers have spoken but i would defer to my colleague -- i'm deferring to my colleagues who weren't on the least who would like to speak. >> first of all, i want to thank chairman lawson for organizing this and recognizing as all democrats do that this is a three-legged stool to answer and respond to your challenges. we need revenues. we need to cut our expenditures and we need to cut jobs and yet we've been here 200 days, yet not one jobs program or jobs idea have gone to the floor of congress. instead of giving incentives and tax breaks to companies to move jobs overseas, we should be giving tax breaks and incentives to companies who bring jobs back or grow jobs here in america. we need to solve and find common ground on t

america. >> when was the first time you actually felt like an american? >> there was a day when i -- when my dream, usually dream in old native ten years, 15 years we wake up in middle of the night and said to yourself, wow, this is different. i'm dreaming actually in english. >> guys know where i'm going to today? i'm running to city hall to register so i can vote. >> today you have the opportunity to vote, but you also have that opportunity to run for office. i don't know about all 50 states, but i know about national office. i believe the only office you can't run for is president of the united states. and i'm not encouraging any of you to run against me for the united states senate, but you can do that. ♪ this land is your land, this land is my land, from california to the new york islands ♪ ♪ from the redwood forest, to the gulfstream waters ♪ ♪ this land was made for you and me ♪ >> in america, they drive for removing barriers and discrimination of deaf individuals. we are given an equal opportunity. >> in russia, it's an embarrassment. i could not show people in public that i was deaf. i had to keep it hidden. i love i

across mexico and all across america, unemployment rates are heading hispanics and native americans. it is time to wake up to our republican colleagues. listen to the american people and make sure we get some job creation back. it has gone long enough. let us make sure with -- we are doing what we can to get people back to work. >> i would like to thank the chairman for organizing this and recognize and, as all democrats do, that this is a three legs to will -- legged stool to respond to our challenges. we need to cut spending, raise revenues, and create jobs. but no jobs bill has gone to the floor. instead of giving incentives and tax breaks to companies to move jobs overseas, we should be giving tax breaks and incentives to companies that bring jobs back or grow jobs here in america. we need to find common ground on this debt crisis situation. it is causing insecurity. it is causing a lack of moving forward with businesses. if you are a business and do not know whether or not they are going to raise the debt ceiling, you would not go out and hire people. you would not grow your bus

america and asia. the latin american immigrants are predominantly christian. the main demographic, the impact is really putting more members into the roman catholic church, unlike the native born, two-one protestant coming into this country, they are now 2-1 catholic. they are overwhelmingly catholic as opposed to protestant. but the rest of the immigrants coming in, a large percentage of them, look at the percentage of muslim-americans, the percentage of hindus, buddhists. the latest wave of migration is producing a much greater diversity, not only christian and jewish, another story we could talk about, the abraham ic inclusion of muslims, it is now what is and hindus and so forth. there is a continuing challenge, and it seems to me is how the government and we as a society respond to diversity and choose to accommodate it that will determine precisely where these religious identities serve to shore up the broader civic identity. >> i think you're contrast of our panel and the first panel is interesting. could it be that immigrants and the new comers, while the white people in kansas or l.a., for example, are going to fragment into different cultures? you're going to ha

beginning to talk about native peoples or african-americans about whose religion, no one is deeply concerned in this time period, just getting to be something that white america's thinking about, and there certainly are people who are rational christians in the 18th century infliewpsed by the enlightenment who look at the bible as they look at all else through the light of reason and may have doubts. on the other hand, they tend to be very quiet about their doubts precisely because you are prohibited from participation in a variety of things. if you are a doubter so thomas jefferson part of the reason he becomes so strongly of church and states is he intends william and mary and has enlightened professors there who all of whom have to subscribe not 39 articles of the anglican religion so there's not a discussion to take place in class about rational religion although reading all the philosophical readings and one knows he becomes part of this world where people are looking again at religion the same they as received institutions of government and saying is this sensible or is this part of a system that tells people you won't understand and this is too hard for

america and asia, about 75%-80% from asia. the latin american immigrants are predominantly christian. the main demographic impact they're having is really putting more members into the roman catholic church, unlike the native born who are two to one, protestant imgrants coming into this country are two to one catholic. they are overwhelming christian like in europe, but overwhelming cat like opposed to protestant, but the rest of the immigrants coming in, a large percent of them, muslim-americans who are foreign born is two-thirds, the percentage of hindus is 80% and buddhas. the latest wave of immigration is a greater wave of diversity pushing us not just to the christian and jewish -- that's another story we could talk about -- even to the abrahamic inclusion of muslims, still within the broad abrahamic tradition, it's now buddhists and hindus and so forth. it's a continuing challenge, and, again, it just seems to me it's how the government and we, as a society, respond to that diversity and choose to accommodate it that will determine precisely whether these, you know, religious identities also serve to shore up the broader civic io dent diversity. >> diversity, just a bumper sticker? >> yeah, i think t

native american experience and the responsibility everyone has to the environment and the human experience. speaking at the national press club, nasa administrator charles bolden vowed to maintain america'srea of human space flight. the final mission for the space shuttle program launches on july 8. the former astronaut said he expects private companies will ferry cargo to the international space station in less than a year followed by human transport in three years. he's joined by mark kelly, husband of arizona representative gabrielle giffords. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future through programming events such as this while also working to foster a free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club at www.press.org and to donate to programs offered free to the public, you can see our web site about that. on behalf of our members worldwide, i'd like to welcome our speaker and those of you in our audience today. our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists so if you hear applause in t

native american children, families, and elders will all benefit as a result of our efforts. however, on virtually every other spect of this bill, particularly on the environment, this appropriations bill is a radical attempt to take america backwards from 40 years of bipartisan progress and protecting human health and our environment. there are nearly four special interest pol sid riders in this bill. it is outrageous these riders protect corporate polluters while attacking clean water, clean air, our public lands, and wildlife conservation. representatives waxman, markey, and rush as rms of the house energy and commerce committee and natural resources committee have sent letters expressing their grave concern about these extreme destructive policy riders that have no business being on an appropriation spending bill. this abuse of the process -- it will imperil america's heritage for future generations. in particular, republicans have chosen to mount an unprecedented assault on the environmental protection agency, an agency created by president richard nixon. clearly republicans have now come full circle and this bill makes house republicans the most polluter friendly congress in nearly two generations. in addition to cu