we even had treaties with e native american tribes. i think 389 treaties we had with the indian tribes, and the federal government broke every one of them. now, that's pretty good. mr. chairman, i -- i did introduce a bill. it's hr-3103 to establish a commission statutorily by the will and mandate of the congress in how to make this system better than what it is. we've had tribes that had to go through 15 years, spend $300,000 and some in the millio millions. i don't understand and still could not be recognized simply because the system simply is not workable and functional. so i cannot express my own sense of frustration, mr. chairman, and sincerely with your leadership and mr. lujan that our subcommittee will seriously look at possibility. let's mandate this by the congress, because here's the problem that we have here. when -- congress ultimately does have the authority under the constitution to recognize the indian tribe simply by introducing a bill, but here's the problem, when the will is introduced to give recognition to a tribe

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the whole native american things. well, i mean, you know, some americans were cheating the native americans out of their land. william henry harrison, the territorial governor of indiana, like cheated the indians out of land for like a penny an acre, flimflammed them out so you can totally see why the native americans were pretty angry and the british were, like, hey we'll back you up so you can say hey, we brought that on ourselves. two real perspectives about the war of 1812. both make really good sense. you can understand why there was this soul-searching going into the war, and it wasn't like we just suddenly did it. we agonized over it for over ten years. so when you go to the ft. mchenry website, cast your vote. can you see those perspectives and then you can vote. you can print out a certificate saying i voted for or against the war of 1812. we keep a running tally of that, and we're going to read it out loud on monday, and i'll tell you this. right now the war -- the vote is trending away from the war, so it's

the subcommittee on indian and alaska native affairs is meeting to hear testimony on the standards and procedures on whether and how indian tribes should be newly recognized by the federal government. opening statements for the chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee so we can hear from the witnesses more quickly. i ask unanimous consent if submitted by the clerk by the close of business today. hearing no objection, so ordered. i ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from virginia, mr. whitman from california, mr. thompson and florida mr. miller be allowed to join us and participate in the hearing. without objection, so ordered. in today's hearing we will hear the perspective of several groups seeking recognition as indian tribes under federal law. we'll also hear from the county supervisor in california with concerns over federal recognition process. the purpose of the hearing is not to determine the fate of any recognized petition but to gather facts that may inform the committee as to what a reasonable recognition policy for the 21st century should be. tribal recognition

i don't understand the native thing because there are palm trees lining market street which aren't nativee trees on mount davidson, they hold moisture, which addresses the water conservation issue, it enriches the ground, provides wind protection. there hasn't been any research done demonstrating that any of those trees are dangerous or that there's any benefit to getting rid of them other than returning it to its native state. we're against it, all the people on robin hood drive. that's it. >> any other members wishing to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues? supervisor elsbernd:? >> i would like to say a few things. i think it's important to respond to some of the things we've heard in public comment. no pun intended but to the folks who are frankly threatening this bond over less than 2% of the total bond, i think you are losing sight of the forest through the trees. i absolutely hear the disagreement, i hear the frustration. i hear the anger and disappointment about natural areas. natural areas has not been approved. there is an e.i.r. coming. there is

, native hawaiians, native americans, underserved communities in washington, d.c.. clinic opened my eyes to what i wanted to do, and as jackie mentioned, i was also ms. indian world at the same time during the last year of law school, and so i got a chance to travel every weekend to a different community, and i learned about tribes i had never even heard ever previously, and i learned about what some of their youth were going through and what i might be able to do to help them. i was coming upon the end of my last year of law school, coming upon the end of my reign as ms. indian world. i really found myself with not a job lined up, but a real idea of what i wanted to do. i remember being at the rose bud's pow wow, and various tribal leaders coming up, and there was an honors song and special, and speaking on my behalf saying this young lady is going back to washington, d.c., and she'll be representing all of us, she'll be taking on our burdens. she'll be carrying our challenges with us, and she needs our help and prayers. he said this in lakota, which i don't unt fl

even though they migrated here a long time ago there has been little contact with the native dutch the immigrants have carefully upheld the traditions and customs of the faraway homeland putting little effort into learning the local language. humidifier good morning. welcome to all in the mideast like i come from turkey all over it and i am a target. but i live in holland and i feel very good here when i leave this place for a long time and i really miss it and i want to come back to amsterdam to boston loma for. a completely different way of life can be found any a few trum stops away from the. loma amsterdam could compete with new york for the title of modern babylon more than two hundred ethnic groups lived here. the whole of post-war holland has been working hard to build the image of europe's most tolerant country to legalize soft drugs and prostitution as well as same sex marriages freedom of opinion and liberty are the call values of the modern netherlands. as it. helps. status will be. that i will be no. drugs consumption there will be no fear. on the streets so the youth will

it is about interpretation of indian life by native americans themselves. i highly recommend this book for a collection in colleges and in public libraries because it is different and presents a different voice. 9 next favorite book -- these are slightly out of order. remembering the music for getting words, travels with mom in the land of dementia. the author strips away the romantic veneer of mother/daughter loved to the bear tooth and tough reality of caring for a patient who is slowly losing her mind. when we meet the author of this compelling memoir she has seen her mother in rehab for alcoholism and divorce from her father and marriage to an abusive stepfather only to discover a little by little day by day that her mother is developing alzheimer's disease. it seems we can never learn everything about this disease of the mind. much of what we know, only be speculated buy medicine and psychology and observed in bewilderment and 4 by family survivors. those who have watched a parent or friend decline will quickly recognize the account of her once musical

determined what native grasses are, to a city that has the bottom 2% of the native canopies is a waste of taxpayer money. the more i started investigating nap, the more i found out how little transparency they have. i have never received anything regarding nap spring herbicides in the areas behind my house, taking down trees, closing down trails. i am very concerned. i have voted for every part bond there is. this is going to make me have to rethink that, if we cannot come to some kind of compromise regarding nap money. thank you very much. chairperson farrell: next speaker. i would like to call a few more cards. kathy beshear, carolyn johnson, fran martini, and others. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is linda schaefer. i serve on the committee of fashion elite -- affectionately referred to as prozac. i have been party to a lot of presentations made by staff members on the various elements of the 2008 bond. i was very impressed with all of the planning that went into those presentations. they were always very thorough. they answered all of our questions very patiently. in conne

one of his installations was a model of his native city of kabul made out of cardboard boxes. over the years he has lived in holland it never occurred to him to move closer to his countryman. if you live in your small world then you're not culture of the society yes politicians say that we live in one country that europe is one and that nobody is discriminated but then you discover that it's often quite the opposite if you look at such neighborhoods you'll see that the turks and the moroccans huddled together . why do they want to live closer to each other. good day good day i. think it is two minutes to three radiographs was only a few of the three point eight and one hundred five point two f.m. . hello to everyone listening to us and to the southeast amsterdam. radio show is the voice of the deals with the issues news of the neighborhood. runs it was run by surinamese migrants by trying to keep their finger not just on the pulse of their own people but on every small immigrant community. so this. is a multicultural radio station and it is out here for all ethnicities it is n

there was only a native american region and later a county and another state. we began in 1778. >> she spoke at the clare boothe luce conference last week. her remarks are about 45 minutes. >> hello everyone i am a student at azusa pacific university and clare boothe luce intern. our guest is on fox news and other cable networks. she's a popular campus speaker and a defender for conservative principles. kate obenshain made headlines when she was the first woman to chair the virginia gop from 2003 to 2006. as chairman, she led the charge against tax increases in the expanding role of government and state and national levels. she also served as the chief of staff for senator george allen and she served as chief education and health policy adviser while he was governor. now back in 2009i listened to kate talk about conservative -- talk about women and the conservative movement, and i remember coming so inspired that i knew that one day i wanted to host her at my college campus, wherever that would end up being. when it came time this year to bring a speaker, i rem

americans who are the often, kind of unspoken element in the war, battles with native americans were a crucial part of the war and the balance of power shifted pretty decisively in the direction of the united states at the expense, particularly of the creek in georgia and alabama and the shawnee, and the native american tribes. >> this represented the largest displacement of native peoples to the u.s. >> that's absolutely right. in georgia and alabama, creeks ceded 22 million acres to andrew jackson in the midst of the war, and the shawnee confederacy was shattered as a result of fighting in the great lakes region and perhaps most importantly of all, as a result of the war the british ceased to function as effective allies of native american nations. the british went to the treaty table promising that they were going to insist on the creation of an indian buffer zone between the ohio river and the great lakes that would have been a state for indians and they abandoned that pledge at the treaty table and they never, ever again asked for something like that. so following the war, you h

others see the native americans designed by the devil.en is the old testament of the israelites with the description of the doings plan to tribe the pigeons believe you could not convert the monsters but destroy them. that is in the first chapter. there is a long chapter but then he starts to get the specific types of monsters. aliens, dead bodies and those kinds of things. students stood enjoy this as a reference book. this book has a nice short chapter on the presentation of aliens. that is my presentation. [applause] >> engage resistance in din culture when we through the alien resistance and native americans have not had access to their own story in their own voices. instead hollywood and the media interpreted their lives to them and to the rest of us. and it moves away from the common images for those for the diverse groups. this is about text of the prologue. the way to think about and and native american voices. with art and literature and film the title and gauge resistance and is a motive resistance. those that assimilated their

but not every cram school can create a similar teaching environment and it is expensive to hire native speakers. this company has developed a system to teach basic english at low cost. this cram school started the english language program five years ago which has proved to be a big success. the school encourages children to learn english all on their own using cds and textbooks without the help of native instructors. students go over several pages of the textbooks, especially prepared by the school. then korean instructors only check their progress. park joined a class two years ago. she takes lessons five times a week for one hour a day. >> the house burned down. >> reporter: she is a fifth grader, but she is studying a textbook for junior high school students. >> i want to be a journalist in the future and i want to interview people. >> translator: parents in south korea welcome our low-cost teaching method because it is as effective as classes taught by native speakers. >> reporter: on this day, the company's officials met with people from a japanese business partner. this south kor

however it was not natives that settled down and bellmore immigrants from africa and former colonies began moving into the southeast of the capital. in a thing the in one thousand nine hundred eighty three part. crowded in eighty five but in one thousand nine hundred thirty five became independent which led to even greater overcrowding of residential houses. troublesome groups often come to be because it is easier to find housing here than in the rest of amsterdam. in bellmore it's possible to encounter over one hundred fifty different ethnicities the situation is the same in both. many immigrants have lived here for ten years but they have still not learned the language the majority are not so interested in adopting the way of life. we're from them so the way of living is suing them it's a whole different way of living in holland where familia like when you come to my house for me. with a wife and a child when you come as a friend i still have one. because with we're a big happy family in holland those people when you come in to hold the old if the meatballs you know when you come t

. >> among the inmates at spring creek, 156 are native americans. >> we have a lot of native prisonerspeople. >> we're both eskimos. only a very, very few people in here knows i can fight. i prefer to keep that it way. on a real low level. because i just want to get over and done with my time. and get back out. >> the natives here is like the buffer of the whites and the blacks. and the blacks that was raised in alaska, being rubbed off by the natives, the meek and modest natives, the quiet natives. >> tolerance within the prison population extends to other groups as well. >> a high percentage of child molesters and sex offenders. in most states those people have to be segregated or they're basically attacked by people that can't stand them. we're forced to accept them. because we do -- if we don't, you can get in a fist fight. in alaska, you can go in the hole for a year. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> you want to check this out? >> yes. >> the open atmosphere at spring creek helps inmates like sam green williams survive their time in prison. >> yeah, i'm a homosexual. and you k

why did we write the native american out of the story? >> so first of all, our experience in the united states was already learning from the experience in south america, where indigenous populations, taino indians in various parts of the caribbean islands and in south america were first resistant to the encroachments of europeans, eventually fought against them, and showed such valor in their fighting against european encroachment that there was no sense of incorporation or assimilation. so their fighting spirit created a kind of contradiction of nobility, which was what eventually gave birth to the notion of the noble savage. that these were a people who were willing to die to protect their way of life. it was disease that wiped them out at the end of the day. that's what got the better of the indigenous populations. so in that regard, the pure devastation that attended to the original settlement of europeans in the americas eventually gave birth to population loss that was akin to genocide by today's standards, but it was done by way of

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so a group of native tribes and commercial fishermen decided to look elsewhere for support. two years ago, they reached beyond the state to the federal government and petitioned the environmental protection agency to intervene. under the clean water act, the epa can investigate and determine whether mine discharge will affect fish spawning and breeding areas. for more than a year, the epa gathered information about the watershed. then, in may 2012, their draft assessment was published. it came down hard on the pebble project, detailing the many risks involved, including a major loss of fish habitat, the high probability of a damaging pipeline break, the catastrophic consequences of tailings dam failures, and the never-ending threat of acid mine drainage. the findings are significant in that the epa can unilaterally stop the mine. >> it's outrageous that somebody would stop a project before a project proponent even had a chance to make the plans public. i don't think that's the kind of reputation our country wants to start to get if we want to start to have any kind of invest

oyster bed population started to disappear and among with it native species and here we are 100 years later and something is finally being done about it. 300-pound mounds of oyster shell delicately descending. the idea here to create four large reef beds providing the habitat needed to restore tens of millions of the small native olympia oysters. >> they provide three dimensional structure, a home if you will for species like dungenous crab, harring, salmon, steel head, marine mammals. >> reporter: the life giving reefs are functionally extinct across the state. but after 10 years of planning, $1.3 million in funding the reef beds in the bay will slowly be coming back to life. >> i think that oysters and other native species do things that are important that are beneficial to humans even if we aren't aware of them. >> reporter: olympia oysters not to be eaten by the consumer but still enjoyed by those who love the san francisco bay. mike mibach. >>> another piece of the japanese tsunami disaster has apparently made its way to northern california. brandon hurley told the sentinel he fo

native plants attract more of the native birds, wildlife so it all fits together. they are attracted more to the native plants as opposed to the asian invasive plants. in this case, the monarch caterpillar is attracted to this. it's the only plant that they will eat. it's important that we plant this and create a habitat for them. >> you are the complete package with the shirt and everything. >> there is the monarch. >> i have to get one of those. >> i have to talk to this young lady. >> tell me your name. >> are you going to do something special? >> yes. >> i will be laying the wreath on the tomorrow of the unknowns. >> really? how did you get that. >> i entered an essay contest and i won the essay contest by telling them how arlington national cemetery was important to me and why i should be chosen to lay the wreath. >> why is it important to you? >> it's important that everybody that is buried here, they fought and died for their lives and they should be remembered. >> and, so, why should you be the one that gets to lay the wreath. >> i have a lot of relatives t

oyster bed population started to disappear and among with it native species and here we are 100 years later and something is finally being done about it. 300-pound mounds of oyster shell delicately descending. the idea here to create four large reef beds providing the habitat needed to restore tens of millions of the small native olympia oysters. >> they provide three dimensional structure, a home if you will for species like dungenous crab, harring, salmon, steel head, marine mammals. >> reporter: the life giving reefs are functionally extinct across the state. but after 10 years of planning, $1.3 million in funding the reef beds in the bay will slowly be coming back to life. >> i think that oysters and other native species do things that are important that are beneficial to humans even if we aren't aware of them. >> reporter: olympia oysters not to be eaten by the consumer but still enjoyed by those who love the san francisco bay. mike mibach. >>> another piece of the japanese tsunami disaster has apparently made its way to northern california. brandon hurley told the sentinel he fo