so, i am black american as well as native american indian. secondly, i think that i would have a lot to offer because i am very diverse. i come from a non-profit, i come from the city and i come from a business owner. therefore, i am well rounded. i and a stand everyone's position and i can decide for everyone's needs and come to a common ground. >> what are some concerns that you feel that the attainment commission is not addressing? >> well, it seems that from what i have been hearing is the club's and neighbors working together, how can we do that as far as technology is making the owners use technology. i think that needs to be addressed but i think that we would have to sit down and develop a plan to look at all of the issues that i have done in the past. i would like to analyze what is the best for everyone and it could vary depending on the person. >> some priorities that you hope to accomplish as a commissioner. >> the thing i would like to accomplish is that one is that i would like to learn what are all of the issues. once i see wha

. >>> the same wildfire threatens sacred lands of native american indian tribes. firefighters are work to go keep the flames back from their cabins, pueblos and watersheds. >> it is 6:32. we want to get a check on your forecast. >> a rainy, rainy sunday morning. thunderboomers during the overnight woke some guests up early. if not, their pets certainly did pacing the halls. everything is pushing off to the east right now. d.c. is starting to dry out. i don't think we're done for the day, everybody. good morning, annapolis. shadyside, moderate rain. as we take a look at colonial beach and loveville, yeah, you've got showers and storms too. the weather today will have a lull. temperatures in the 70s this morning. then we're going to sneak an early high, around 90 or 91 with more afternoon showers and thunderstorms. i will have the rest of your weather forecast through the holiday weekend when i say you guys in a few minutes. >>> back in our headlines now, the secret service calling a plane that fly into a restricted airspace in maryland an accident. it veered near t

. >>> the same wildfire threatens sacred lands of native american indian tribes. firefighters are working to keep the flames from from their cabins, pueblos and watersheds. 8:33, 75 degrees. >> a little bit of a rubbing us going on in the atmosphere. things are calming down. but don't be fooled because we will probably see more showers and thunderstorms as we head into the afternoon on this sunday. great to have you with us. 74 with a lull in the action. it's a little sticky outside from the higher humidity. 71 in sterling, clinton. annapolis, 72. it is 73 down culpepper way. a live look at digital doppler. we are drying up for just a little while. we'll work on the 86 by noon. isolated storm by then. better chances later in the afternoon. 90 at 3:00, 86 at 6:00. i'll put together the rest of your weather forecast. details coming up in just a few minutes. join me then. i'll see you in a bit. >>> dominique strauss-kahn is once again a freeman and spent the day out with his wife. on friday a judge dismissed his bail after new revelations about his accuser's credibil

i met him in november, which is native american awareness monthi and so averse to it as written in the month.month. [laughter] >> and he calls himself a rented indian>> who was it who referred to the definition of a native american family? >> oh, it's an old joke -- it's an old native joke, how many people are there in a typical native american family. the answer is, five, a father, a mother, two children and an anthropologist. [laughter] >> so there's a lot of humor, a lot of it is unexpected but when you stand back and you ask, why am i surprised there's so much humor, the reason why someone who's not part of that culture might ask is, you don't think of it on the outside as a culture that has much to laugh about. we focus on the difficulties that native americans have. so is this humor in spite of those difficulties or is it woven into the culture itself? >> i think it's both. i think 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. america in general, i think, is a humorous country often. i

indian. i didn't hear the word native american until i heard that in high school. >> he said, andy, don't do that. i said, what are you talking about? i didn't understand the words. indian is a term my grandmother used. she self identified as an indian. the reason i prefer indian -- where were you born question asked in a was born in darby, pennsylvania. >> 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!

i met him in november, which is native american awareness month, and he refers to it as rent an i i indian month. [laughter] >> who referred to the definition as a native american family? >> how many people are in a type call native american family? the answer is five. a father, mother, two children, and an an -- anthropologist. >> there's a lot of humor, lot unexpected, but when you stand back and say why am i surprised there's so much humor, the reason why someone not part of that culture might ask is you don't think of it on the outside as a culture that has much to laugh about. we focus on the difficulties that native americans have, so is this humor no spice of difficulties or woven into the culture itself? >> i think it's both. 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 jus

i heard a book by an indian that is india indian and not native american and saying you're not sick, you're thirsty. >> we do recommend eight or nine glasses of water a day. >> really for helping process your food, detoxifying, not for hydration. >> i think water's very important. >> yeah, well, we do talk about that. >> i think a liter before 10:00 in the morning. >> there's a whole chapter on that. >> early detection of cancer's quite fascinating, this book has fascinating -- i'm not trying to sell the book i just find here with the current interests that i've discovered in some programming that i was doing that antioxidant advances, free radical defenses, enzymes and antiobjection i dances, mark grossman, to what extent did you contribute to this book? i know that you're a coauthor but what is your particular content area? >> well, terry grossman here, and ray and i established a relationship a number of years ago and i became ray's personal physician and in the course of our conversations with one another, we created a compendium information that we decideded to codify into a boo

indian lands. what is the viewpoint from the native american standpoint about tecumseh compared to the favorable view.in this book? >> guest: we think -- i think he is amazing. he was wonderful. he was a profit. his brother was a profit. there -- they traveled together. he wanted to do something that would have been an impossibility. that would have resulted in mass genocide. of the people in the southeast. but his ideas were really very good. when he came to talk to us, he gave a long speech about why he would not -- he was wrong on his reasons. but he was right not to join together. but tecumseh said this truth that i am not a fake or a phony, when i get back to detroit the earth will shake and buildings will fall. when he got to detroit there was the new madrid earthquakes where the building did shake and the mississippi river changed course for a while and new lakes were formed. it was a major earthquake in that part of the country. so really, i wonder what it would be like if he was a round today. >> host: tecumseh is an angle sized name of that chief, is it not? >> guest: i don't know. >> host: yo

native" and "indian." what's the current thinking on the use of "indian" as a term to describe native americans?> i don't think any of us care too much. indigenous, tribal, you know, i just intersperse them wherever. [laughter] >> host: are, are tribes important? >> guest: what do you mean? >> host: is the allegiance to a tribe very important more so than, perhaps -- does that question make sense? >> guest: well, yes. it's like whether you're italian or german. >> host: right. and is it, is it more important or about at that same level? >> guest: more important than being italian and german? >> host: no, no. more important to native americans, their tribal connection. as opposed to, you know, white americans being from scotland or norway or -- >> guest: well, i think so, yes. i mean, it's a country. we belong to the, we belong to a nation. and so, um, and it's one that's still there functioning. you know, we haven't left it. and we can't leave it. i mean, it's who we are. >> host: this e-mail from ricardo from texas, how hard was it to get published for the first time?

and " unheard. >> host: you use of the terms native and indian so what is the current thinking on the use of the indian as a term to describe native americans>> guest: i don't think we care too much indigenous, tribal, i interspersed down wherever.rs [laughter] >> host: are tribes important? >> guest: what do you mean? >> host: is the allegiance important more so than, does that question make sense? >> guest: yes. whether you are i italian or german? >> host: right. is the more important or at that same level? >> guest: more important in. >> host:s, is it more important to have their tribal connection as opposed to white america and spain from scott landor norway? >> guest: i think so. is a country we belonged to a nation.now, and it is still there functioning. we have not left. we cannot. it is who we are. >> host: we have been email from texas, how hardt ti was it to be published for the first time? >> guest: i think i was the very fortunate the first time because i sent to some polemist to the green fieldd review and he also is a great writer and editor per crowhop he said you have any more and i said yes. he made them into a book. that

the mixing of non indian blood evidence in many faces, native americans intermarry more than any of the population in the country. this man has brought his son. his father has irish and danish blood. this all spells doom for their tribes. >> our tribe is almost gone. there are not many of us left in this world. my grandchildren, they will not be able to be enrolled unless i marry someone who is also of the tribe. >> there is another reason why all this matters for communities where poverty has been a problem. the more members there are, the larger the pot of federal money for health care and education. they cannot afford to shrink. this reservation has one advantage lurking deep underground. with membership of the drive comes access to the tribes resources and for people living around here, that now includes oil. north dakota is in the grips of a furious will boom. -- oil boom. money and jobs have lured members back to the reservation. that still leaves the question of identity. if you can try and sometimes fail to uphold tradition, but at what point does the tribal blood in your veins

according to the indian health service, native americans in these homes are at extremely high risk for gastrointestinal disease and respiratory disease at rates similar to thirled world countries. additionally the indian health service has noted that many of these homes without services are very remote, have limited access to health care which increases the importance of improving environmental conditions in these homes. the least we can do is to provide the same level of funding that was provided this current year to the indian sanitation facilities program, which is an integral component of the indian health services disease prevention activities. i urge support of the amendment and reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman may not reserve. mr. moran: mr. chairman, again, the chairman suggested that there were no special interests. well, this disproves that. there are special interests, oil and gas companies already getting subsidies from the american taxpayer of about $4 billion a year. they get increases in this bill. we're simply asking them to pay a little more tow

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natives are never mentioned or if there is an article about american indian people, it will be in the past tense as if we no longer exist. and i think that is why the black presence is stronger. it is a historical process. >> host: what is the difference between a sovereign nation, chickasaw nation and the reservations system? >> guest: all of the tribes are sovereign nations. we have a lot month where some have reservations. the allotments were created to break up tribal nations. it didn't work. but families were separated. according to land. land allotments were given. they were assigned in different areas. there were checkerboards. they call it a checkerboard plan which was to give people land here and someone else when and over here to break a political power and tribalism. >> host: next call from paul in kentucky. >> caller: thank you. it is a pleasure to speak with you, linda. >> guest: how is kentucky doing with that water? >> caller: we are fighting the good fight here against the strip mining and mountaintop removal of coal fields. but it is not going real well. my question h

thank you on the c-span of course like to think the county library and the american indian resource center program about nativepeople to the tulsa area. i think to also thank everyone for coming. i hope you have a safe travel home. [applause] >> this is a sad day i have to say and kennedy flies. this is the red room. thursday showed us is that was the first room she completed at the restoration, but this is the day of her husband's funeral. she insisted that she meet those who are coming from afar, those who are diplomats, the diplomatic corps from abroad. and so, she said with her brother-in-law, senator edward kennedy to her right in insisted on gritting everyone who came to pay their respects to her has been. i mean more glittery note, can we remember her for her entertaining. in the short amount of time that she was in the white house was only a little over 1000 days, she and her has been through 16 state dinners in the first term, full four years of the w. bush turned, they had i believed to. now mind you, 9/11 happened during that time. there were security issues, but the bushes -- the second bush is fro

native american, 9% east asian, and 4% african. but you relate most to being latino. >> you know, it's an interesting -- i mean, if you look at my face, i look a little indian. i'm a little sanjay gupta but then i'm a little bit mexican as well. so i'm not -- i'm not native american enough to get a casino but i do blackout when i drink occasionally. so i would say that of all of those things, i'm happy to be all of those things. i'm happy to have a little bit of african-american in me. i love the asian part in me. and then i like that nativeness because i come -- i think my father was -- i didn't know my father but i believe that he was from an area of mexico has been inhabited by indians. >> are you seen by the la latinos, are you seen by one of them, are you seen as their guy on television now? >> i would believe and have to say yes. the most difficult part for me and to get people to understand is before i came along, there wasn't somebody who had a successful show on tv that portrayed a mexican-american family successfully. they had tried but not one that ever went 120 episodes. it's interesting because you know, i can be very edgy and i can be very acr

indian nations? guest: well we have a great relationship with native americans in managing lands that are immediatelyacent, for example, the navaho and other indian nations are present. they are developing their own heritage programs for the public. they are a very diverse resources in the area. it's a growing area of opportunity for tribes to promote the public use and experiences on the reservations. so we are working cooperatively. like the bad lands in redwoods and other tribes to promote their areas. host: we have about 18 minutes left in this edition of the "washington journal". we are going to new berlin, new york, john on our independent line. caller: yeah, it's john. i was concerned about the franchises you spoke about in the national parks. my concern is how does a franchisee get selected? if it's a billion dollar operation and the parks department gets $200 million. that leaves $800 million to franchisees. under any circumstances my concern is how are they chosen? what pressure is put on the franchisees and the difficulty in the strength of the franchisee. if you have yourself, any opinion

indian nations? guest: well we have a great relationship with native americans in managing lands that are immediately adjacent, for example, the navaho and other indian nations are present. they are developing their own heritage programs for the public. they are a very diverse resources in the area. it's a growing area of opportunity for tribes to promote the plic use and experiences on the reservations. so we are working cooperatively. like the bad lands in redwoods and other tribes to promote their areas. host: we have about 18 minutes left in this edition of the "washington journal". we are going to new berlin, new york, john on our independent line. caller: yeah, it's john. i was concerned about the franchises you spoke about in the national parks. my concern is how does a franchisee get selected? if it's a billion dollar operation and the parks department gets $200 million. that leaves $800 million to franchisees. under any circumstances my coern is how are they chosen? what pressure is put on the franchisees and the difficulty in the strength of the franchisee. if you have yourself, any opinion

course, like to thank the tulsa city county library and the american indian resource center for bringing another very good program about the native people to the tulsa area. i would like to thank for everyone coming. hope you have a safe travel home. i hope. [applause] >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/book 6 tv. >> this is a sad day i have to say in mrs. kennedy's life. this is the red whom. i showed this that was the first room she completed in her restoration. this was the day of her husband's funeral. she insisted she meet those coming from afar. those who were diplomats, diplomatic corps. she stood with her brother-in-law, edward end did i on her right and insisted greeting everyone who come to pay her respects for her husband. we remember her for her state entertaining. in the short amount of time she was in the white house. it was only a little over 1,000 days, she and her husband threw 16 state dinners. in the first term, full four years of the bush term, they held i believe it was two. mind you 9/11 happened during that time. there were security issues but the bushes, the second bushes, f

city council meets tonight with local american indian tribes trying to settle a controversial park protest. the city wants to build a park at the glen cove native american burial site. for three months these protesters have occupied the site of the project trying to block the construction. now tonight's meeting will be behind closed doors at city hall. the times herald reports city recreation officials will meet thursday to discuss whether to move forward or scale down that project. >>> today the highly anticipated memoir by jaycee dugard goes on sale. now written in her own words a stolen life chronicles the 18 years dugard spent in the backyard antioch compound of phillip garrido. in her first television interview dugard says the book is her way of dealing with the nightmare she endured. >> why not look at it? stare it down until it can't scare you anymore. >> but not everyone is ready to hear her story. paddy and mike have been looking for their daughter since she vanished 22 years ago. they say dugard's story gives them hope that their daughter might be alive, but they don't want to know what dugard went through in case she's in a similar s

city council meets tonight with local american indian tribes trying to settle a controversial park protest. the city wants to build a park at the glen cove native american burial site. now for three months protesters have occupied the site of the proposed project to block the construction. tonight's meeting will be behind closed doors at city hall. the times herald reports that city recreation officials will meet again on thursday to discuss whether to move forward or scale down the project. >>> time now 6:18. well, alcohol poisoning is the probable cause of death for the 14-year-old sonoma county girl who passed away during a weekend sleepover. she hosted three of her friends at her home near santa rosa saturday night. officials say she drank some vodka and did not wake up the next morning. friends of the 14-year-old say this is the last thing they'd expect from her. she would have started high school this fall. the sonoma county sheriff's department is investigating her death. >>> all right. time now 6:19. want to go back over to sal who's checking in on traffic this morning. sal. >>> all right. pam and dave, we are looking at the traffic tha

course, like to thank the tulsa city county library and the american indian resource center for bringing another very good program about native people to the tulsa area. like to also thank everyone for coming, i hope you have a safe travel home. [applause] >> and as the kincaid. >> our you? >> i'm good. i would like to introduce you. retired about this. >> sponsored by became international. these are the student officers. they are here. >> our you? nice to see you. that's great. tell me where you're from. >> okay. from where? >> okay. i was born in newark, new jersey. >> the state of ohio. 70 miles from columbus. >> was the name of the town? >> one of my kids, i just actually came back from toledo of the long ago. the piece about the union there. teacher evaluation. >> i go to school in new jersey. >> whereabouts? >> read on the shore. >> so, while. >> so do you know the you're going to be to just? >> yes. >> why? >> well, i want to the a teacher. >> well, you are smart. you will be a will to make a lot more money doing something else. know that. >> its other but the money. >> well, talk a little bit about how i think schools

institute of american indian and alaska native culture, $7 million. smithsonian institution salaries and expenses $626 million to remain available until september 30, 2013. charnlte for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? >> i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 14 printed in the congressional record offered by mr. broun of georgia. brown mr. broun: my amendment would revert the funding back to 2008 levels. this is asking the smithsonian to tighten their belts. mr. chairman, this country is broke. we have spent all the money in our bank and then some. we have to prioritize where we can afford to spend money where we simply cannot afford to. asking the smithsonian to scale back their spending to levels of 2008 is more than reasonable. i urge my colleagues to support my amendment and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. moran: i rise to claim time in opposition to this

indian nations? guest: well we have a great relationship with native americans in managing lands that are immediatelydjacent, for example, the navaho and other indian nations are present. they are developing their own heritage programs for the public. they are a very diverse resources in the area. it's a growing area of opportunity for tribes to promote the public use and experiences on the reservations. so we are working cooperatively. like the bad lands in redwoods and other tribes to promote their areas. host: we have about 18 minutes left in this edition of the "washington journal". we are going to new berlin, new york, john on our independent line. caller: yeah, it's john. i was concerned about the franchises you spoke about in the national parks. my concern is how does a franchisee get selected? if it's a billion dollar operation and the parks department gets $200 million. that leaves $800 million to franchisees. under any circumstances my concern is how are they chosen? what pressure is put on the franchisees and the difficulty in the strength of the franchisee. if you have yourself, any opini

vallejo city council meets tonight with local american indian tribes -- indian trains trying to settle a protest. the city wants to build a park at glencoe nativecan burial site. for three months they've occupied the site trying to block the construction. the meeting is tonight he behind closed doors. city recreation officials will meet on thursday to discuss whether to move forward or scale down the project. >>> alcohol poisoning is likely the cause of death for the 14- year-old girl who died during a sleepover. she hosted three homes at her friend near santa rosa saturday night. she drank some vodka and did not wake up until the next morning -- and didn't wake up, rather, the next morning. public officials are calling on parents to talk with kids about underaged drinking. >> the more -- the more parents talk about this to their kids and the dangers, the less likely teens are use to -- teens are to use alcohol. >>> oakland residents are also getting help. rezs living with broken doors, roaches -- residents living with broken doors, roaches, they say is neglecting. >> if i make mistake, i apologize. i try my best. i'm a human being. >> now, oak

indian. a little sanjay gupta but then a little mexican as well. i'll not native-american enough to get a casino but do i black out when i drink occasionally. >> good evening. if washington can't get its act together and soon, this country runs a risk of unprecedented national default. it would lead to rising interest rates and the rising karla. you might not get a car loan and your 401(k) could take a hit. what is your government doing about it? the white house presecretary jay carney joins me now. i can imagine the white house is pretty busy right now. how are you seeing the next few days playing out? it seems to neutral observers that we were watching a high stake game of brinksmanship last night. somebody has to blink, don't they? >> wshlg look, piers, the reason the president spoke to the nation last night. he fell it was very important that the american people understand what is happening here in washington. a lot of times the debates we here sound like food fights. and people go about their business and just assume that in the end, washington will do the right thing

indian health services because we have the obligation to meet these services. this is one of the most prevalent disease in the united states and 300% more likely in native americans than it is in the normal population. that is unacceptable and we have to do something and meet the contract obligations. there is a saying that's been said around the country, if you live in indian country, you need to get sick before june because the contract support costs run out about that time. one thing we have made a concerted effort, support the contract support costs for native americans. we are at 93 or 94%. the contract support in the b.i.a. that does the police work and those types of things are fully funded. we are going to continue to work to meet those obligations that i think we as americans have and i appreciate the amendment offered by the gentleman from arizona and i truly appreciate his support for our indian brothers and sisters and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. moran: i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. mor

native american nickname. the ncaa threatened to punish north dakota if it doesn't drop the fighting sioux nickname and mascot saying they are offensive to american indiansaw requiring the school to keep the name and logo. basically a way of telling the ncaa to stay out of it. the league says it is not backing down from its policy. >> no word of changing the names of north dakota, south dakota, illinois, iowa, the fighting sioux and the reputation. >>> a week from tomorrow the federal government could run out of cash to pay its bills. the republicans and democrats standing firm unwilling to abandon their position when it comes to raising the debt ceiling. >> our question of the day, who do you think is to blame for the debt gridlock. facebook sean says we have to blame ourselves because we elected these people who now do nothing. but in reality i believe it's the stubbornness of the republican party and its lack of willingness to work on anything constructive with this administration. i like the fact that sean is willing to say that we, who do not like compromise that is not in our interest, have some responsibility in this. >> interesting. supporters of

native american authors susan supernaw and walter echo-hawk talk about their books. this is just under an hour. >> well, good morning. it's my honor and privilege this morning to introduce our distinguished authors. the american indian resource center has done a fantastic job bringing this panel to us today. i know that everyone here is very excited to hear what they have to say. i'd like to start with a question deriving from the, our first distinguished guest's book, and that's how american is miss america? for susan supernaw, the author of muscogee daughter, my so jump to the miss america pageant, this wasn't part of trivial pursuit. growing up in a home deeply affected by poverty, alcoholism and violence, supernaw sought refuge in the indian church. she was awarded an internship with carl albert, and she won a national merit scholarship to college, and she was crowned miss oklahoma in 1971. now, i have a spoiler alert here, for those of you who haven't finished reading the book, she didn't win the title of miss america that year. but her performance in the competition called very prominent attention to the lives of native people living the paradox of being marginalized by history and politics as strangers in the

basically included native americans and whites but blacks were not welcome and in the constitution white supremacy and to do that they had to find a white person and they did it in a way that indians or white people but other delegates said roosevelt, teddy roosevelt is never going to sign a law with the constitution. so they backed away from that and simply core yet of oklahoma and the first act as the oklahoma legislature was to segregate the cars of oklahoma. >> you discuss your relationship with thomas benton and john fremont in california and also may be brigham young in utah and the mormons? >> ho i think it was his son-in-law, fremont, so benton was a backer of fremont was a general in the united states army and the mexican war ended a loose cannon and he probably wouldn't in history books at all because there were efforts to court martial him. i don't precede him deutsch in this book they don't affect the boundary. you asked about someone else? >> brigham young. >> brigham young was a mormon leader. he led the largest contingent from the illinois to utah in 184748. he envisioned a creation of the state which was headed in created it would have felt pretty much everything t

babies born on indian reservations, some of them would have lost their rights, their tribal rights on those reservations if they had become automatic american citizens. so some of the native americans said no, they didn't want that conferred upon them. our founding fathers, excuse me, it wasn't the founding fathers but the drafters of the 14th amendment then wrote language in to preclude automatic citizenship to any homosapien that was born within the intertore of the united states, they also had to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof. and this congress went through a great deal of debate in the house and the senate on what that actually meant in the clause subject to the jurisdiction thereof. it was not contemplated that the children of diplomats would become automatic american citizens, it was not contemplated that certain native americans born in certain reservations would be subject to the jurisdiction thereof and become american citizens but it was contemplated that the children born to freed slaves would be american citizens. it's a guarantee, that's the guarantee and it was written with a significant amount of wisdom they could not have anticipated that america

native american brothers and sisters across this country. it's a deep concern that i share also and i look forward to working with him to make sure this does what's intended to provide what's necessary for our indian population so that they have the advantages that all of us have. i thank the gentleman for offering the amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from washington -- does the gentleman from washington wish to continue to reserve his point of order? mr. dicks: i withdraw my point of order. i would like to ask a question. the chair: the gentleman withdraws and is recognized for five minutes. mr. dicks: in your amendment it says funds made available and all that follows through that period but, and insert a charter school as that term is defined in section 1141 of the education amendments of 1978. could you tell us what that definition is, please? mr. gosar: we were looking that up, my colleague from washington. we don't have that on the laptop at this point. mr. dicks: so you have no idea what this amendment means? mr. gosar: it allows the option for choice of charter schools as defined as charter schools. mr. dicks: how dune that? mr. gosar: they were grandfathered