government issues towards native americans. things like "soldier blue" which was a reenactment of 1880 indian issues but at the same time was a parallel to vietnam. all these weird connections between native americans and vietnam drew my attention. i started to dig in and got interested in the issue of red power and the american indian movement, which is a complex subject. a lot of big ideas, conflicting narratives. it was kind of an interesting topic. something that has been covered but a lot of people skim the top and there is a lot there. it -- a lot there. it seemed like a fruitful area of study for me. show less text >> we appreciate you sharing your expertise. professor eberle joining us from san antonio, teaches at oklahoma state. thank you for being with us. announcer: follow us on twitter cspanhistory for more information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. >> you can watch archival films each week on our series real america saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at :00 p.m. eastern on american hist

he claims native heritage. he wants to be involved in it native issues because for him, that is the progressive. that is the liberal politics of san francisco at that point. he gets involved and starts to move to jonestown. thelees the issue -- leave country after the issues with the irs. he starts to use these ideas of native heritage and persecution amongst native americans as a way to build a persecution complex for the church. native americans were persecuted, jim jones, the people's temple are persecuted as well. unfortunate to an conclusion in guyana with the massacre of 900 americans. he lays out the idea that we have reached the end of the line. there is no hope for us. native americans were in his view white doubt. a obviously were not but he makes the idea that there is no hope for us or for the native americans. interesting at this understudied era and the connections they make. of theses that some new religions in the 1970's raise and how they worked with native americans. steve: yet it is relativel

the wall of forgotten natives has had help from one group in particular since day one natives against terrible and american indian movement. are supported not. now it's your first trip jump on us right away. so we're just supporting number one what we can one day is going down started when our money was twenty fifteen was having a lot of orders and gas so all being in this field of you know our cd and our production were going to a lot of me and instead of being into i want to do action with action make those started we started talking struggle with god. so that we in toronto and with and a and then our way and to the stately c.e.o. native american community clinic had this to say about the heroin epidemic and why it's hitting indigenous populations particularly hard the heroin epidemic of course caught everybody in the entire nation by surprise but the conditions for this situation her were really out were fired by the heroin epidemic because you have a group of individuals and a community that r.d. significantly franchised and oppressed and excluded from almost practically every opp

that is racial nativism. economic nativism, the easiest one to understand. this is about competition for jobs. interestingly, when the chinese first came to the u.s., you are talking 1849. -- in small numbers following the gold rush in california. talking early 1850. they were not controversial. they were kind of exotic. people who migrated to california liked the fact that they took jobs and laundries and kitchens that they particularly did not want to do because they had come to look for gold. but then, when chinese migration picked up in the 1850's, and it became more voluminous and they were coming to work on the railroads and mines, they represented economic competition, especially for the irish in california, and there was real pushback. it involved jobs, pure and simple. this political cartoon is interesting because it is sympathetic to the chinese. here is, as he would have been called in the 19th century, and --a chinaman sitting outside the gates of liberty. yet he is an orderly person. he is clean, he is well groomed. he is industrious. he is the

this is an example of the anti-radical strain of nativism. racial nativism. this is something we have already talked about the semester. the early 20 century was a time of scientific racism. many people who were influenced by darwinian thought. assumed a hierarchy of races. racial groups, at the groups had evolved. certain characteristics. to of which was a proclivity commit sex crimes. this illustration appeared in life magazine in the 1930's. it takes people of different from europe. it sorts people based on their proclivity for sex crimes. be skirtmore likely to chasers as opposed to pure nordic types, who were ultra self-controlled. disciplined. they are not going to do anything nasty. of racial ord ethnic stereotyping. which, let me go back to this for a second. in terms of the nordics, this is true. it is hard to believe this actually happened but it is true. when the titanic sank in april, 1912, among the many immigrants who drown were 78 finish immigrants coming to the u.s.. they bought one of those steerage tickets. they went down with the ship. sun

because in many ways this imagery is the intersection between natives and non-native, but it's an intersection that is not actually a throughway. so, the americas exhibit ends with a very clear presentation of the fact that non-native americans and native americans share a deeply entangled history. this history is the history of the united states. it has shaped national consciousness as well as popular culture. so, we will look at a few of the images now. but what i would like to show you first, is one that really fascinated me as soon as i learned about it. and this is a sketch for the great seal of the united states. now, the continental congress employed a committee or got together a committee of americans with impeccable revolutionary war credentials to come up with a design for the great seal of the united states. the committee presented a proposal and the continental congress did not like it, they got together a second committee. the second committee turned to a man named francis hopkinson. now francis hopkinson was a signer of the declaration of independence and he came up with the sket

with native american -- native american specifically, it is actualized in the textbook. this is a lie and page after page i started reading about settlers and the starting of colonies. the question i have, how can we support the work you are doing to support more information and more instruction so it is also not just about poker top -- pocahontas but additionally, what do we do about the textbooks that are currently in our schools, because my daughters are now uncomfortable talking about history in their class, and it is reminding me of how i felt in school as a black person reading about slavery being happy and a fun thing. thank you very much, and i look forward to continuing this work with the district. [applause] >> good evening, commissioners. i work for the native american health centre and i am also a consultant for the indian aid program. i am here to reiterate our top priority and to speak to the importance of accurate curriculum. i appreciate that the connection has been made with the california indian museum, cultural centre in santa rosa. i appreciate that t

here this is actually someone who is saying like nativism, this is an e radical nativism. do you guys get the distinction of the kind of pressure that is generated from economic nativism and these more basic racial and radical categories? all of this came together in the. after world war i. there were these different strands which were more prominent at one time or another. it really comes together and i am referring to this as the nativists time. obviously, a major target of nativism was the german american unity. there were a number of shocking examples and this was simply because teaching of german was outlawed in many american schools. the teaching of the language never really recovered which was strange because in the early 20th century german was the language of science and medicine. it was a very important language, but many places did not teach german. many people who were named schmidt immediately changed their name to smith. doc sends -- this is how crazy this kind of nativism became. prohibition got a boost during world war i because of its link to german brewer

and native women are 10 times more likely to be murdered than non-native americans, four times more likelyo be raped. those statistics have sparked community outrage, but very little law enforcement action. at least that's what the families of victims tell us. here's "matter of fact's" leone lakhani with some of their stories. leone: the black hills pow wow in rapid city, south dakota, a time to celebrate the culture and tradition of the lakota people. also a time to bring awareness to a silent, but deadly epidemic. >> i've been having a lot of friends that have gone missing and never found. leone: for decades, indigenous women and girls have been disappearing, including larissa lone hill. lisa: that was one of the recent ones before she went missing. leone: more than two years have passed since lisa lone hill last saw her daughter. lisa: so mad. i'm just writing down my feelings can you image your own daughter being missing? try to imagine how painful that is. i pray for strength to go on, but it's so hard without my girl. leone: it's impossible to know how many native women have -- women

up in a native american village. even when they're recaptured by white, they desperately try to get back to the indian village. so we have -- in later days we have a lot of testimony about what happens. there's something obviously very attractive to people about the native american way of life. >> guest: that speaks -- that answers a follow-up question i had in mind. and that is at least in some cases, when an escaped marooned person of any sort, after they had been taken in, seems like some would have some urge to at least go back and visit in some way, maybe in disguise or whatever. it seems amazing that none would make the reverse trip, and perhaps not reidentify themselveses but nevertheless -- >> joseph: it depends on which sense of the world -- if we're thinking about the original sense of maroon where you're escaping from a tiranical situation that's threatening your life. of course the last thing you want to do is have anyone know where you went. you definitely don't want to go back. if you're shipwrecked and

way, they were kind of collecting or taking native american resources. resources from in terms of water and land for agriculture and so on. so the mormon church kind of has this full mission, with the all the estrich of this twofold mission which is to settle the region, to grow what they call the mormon corridor, their population in the region, to bringate and adopt and/or it americans into that church, but also to dispossess the motherland, they would necessarily put it in those terms certainly in the 1840's. there's a little more sensitivity about that today. >> it sounds like they had very different views of the land and its purposes. prof. bsumek: absolutely. there is actually some similarity and overlap for both the native americans and mormons for the book consider the region to me there zion. utah is known as the mormon zion and for native americans, it is their spiritual homeland as well, the place where they feel they along in their religion is rooted in that region. spiritualitygy and is rooted in the mountains. the land on the water supply. i

course, these people are sometimes assimilating into native american tribes and being helped by nativeamericans. you are exactly right. >> i wanted to mention i met abel from various caribbean islands who called themselves descendents of marooned. >> haiti, jamaica, absolutely. the biggest is in surinam. absolutely. what i think is what anthropologists recognize as distinctive about these ancestral communities people whose ancestors were marooned as they retain us as their identity with the people who identify freedom more than anybody. they are very existence is defined by the word freedom because their ancestors had the courage to escape slavery and it took courage. not only because you went to the wilderness and had to deal with the snakes and predators and the difficulties of living in the wilderness but you got caught and brought back and would probably be killed and in horrible waste because they want to make an example of you. amazing amount of courage to do that. >> this will display a good deal of ignorance on the soul. here but what is known about the relationship between the

native hawaiians however do not native same status as laskans or native americans where there is a relationship with the u.s. government. hawaiians have tried for that. push for federal recognition but it is yet to happen. a move to rrently obtain some sort of recognition. that could happen they can be given a more elevated status. might be given their own ability to tax themselves and raise revenue. hawaiian l you the community is divided. i don't want to get into but there right now are some who want hawaii to leave the united states. who native hawaiians believe hawaii never was part of the united states and there are happy to eel they are be american. native hawaiians are also represented among the homeless population. t is the worse here than anywhere in the united states. per umbers are smaller but capita compared to l.a. san francisco, new york, seat it and so tunate lianai on that in coast, hawaiians set up their own camp. the harbor med because it is at the boat harbor elected their own mayor and she runs the camp. their view is if you are not to help us out we are going to create our

communities, to native women, to native children. she's worked as a state attorney general. she's worked in the senate. she's worked in other elected offices on this. she didn't give up. she is back in the senate working to make sure until the very end that we get savannah's act passed, which is going to protect missing and indigenous women. and we've already passed it through the senate indian affairs committee and she's intent on making sure it gets passed this session. i'm going to work with her on that. she's worked on vawa reauthorization. but the core thing that heidi knows, the core principles in our relation with native communities, she has always broadcasted back here, tribal sovereignty, tribal consultation, strong government-to-government relations. and she has always tried, she has always tried to make sure senators who don't have native communities understand the situation that we're facing. so i see my colleague from alaska is -- wants to speak also, i believe. i would just ask at this point, i have additional speaking

this nativity scene for example comes from but in africa. the very middle east these are all wonderful but i like the alaskan exhibit best of the few. that are present that are from the birth of jesus christ represents the family. we can all relate to this aspect of the christian faith. who gets one of its least most important religious traditions. many market stalls and retro also offers small nativities scenes. some pretty unconventional options are available chino this is shaped like a swan and is made from a pumpkin it was hollowed out and worked on for two years and it contains figurines made from cloth and it's part of what i thought that you thought call. for the locals the negativity scene is an important aspect of christmas. but the highlight each christmas remains the actual play of course. it's performed between december twenty fourth and january sixth. and gets visitors from all over the world into the christmas spirit. a major challenge before christmas is to buy all the presents in time don't forget anybody and fulfill as many

i i'm a native san franciscan as well. on monday, i was driving along the lower river outside of waterford and crossed over the roberts ferry bridge which you can see here. i have a photo. is it possible -- >> that is the view from the bridge. i was extremely fortunate to seat to watch what salmon spawning in the river right below the bridge. yea. this photo is -- the water was unusually murky. i don't know what is causing the water quality issue there, but you can see two salmon their spawning. they are on the red. as i watch them spawn, i marvelled at how lucky i was to have survived the gauntlet of the river. these fish are enduring extremely poor low water flows, delta pumping, and poor water management. they join the few other survivors of the gauntlet to spawn in their home river. unfortunately, in today's world, which is experiencing unprecedented animal extinction, the river salmon are not an exception. your lack of support for an increase in flows for the rivers as outlined in the state water control plan will dir

native americans were powerful.he understood native americans better than any of the other founders. when president, and this is something a lot of people don't know, and i don't know how they can -- people right about the presidency of washington don't even talk about it. washington made a native american question is major domestic policy issue in the first term of his presidency. he wanted to negotiate a treaty with the native americans with certain tribes that would create a series of homelands east of the mississippi that would avoid indian removal. he thought indian removal was a violation of the values on which the revolution were based. his old artillery commander, henry knox, was prompting him on this. if you don't do it right, and avoid indian removal, it will be a stain on your legacy and the people at the free library will not come to hear a lecture about you. [laughing] and so they created this treaty with a guy who was a chief was an amazing character. there's a scene where these native american chief c

. —— exposed to bright light. worst for protecting species from extinction. of endangered native animalsl griffith. the country's native animals vulnerable to extinction. vulnerable to extinction. finding one in the wild is not easy. one in the wild is not easy. numbers, the only thing that is clear is that they have fallen. this treaty. there he is. —— tree. and then on top of that, over time, you got new diseases. you got new diseases. domestic animals, we have got habitat loss, that is the key thing. habitat loss, that is the key thing. being lost to people through habitat and growth. and growth. to were once common sight across the interior. interior. cats and foxes across australia led to their extinction in some states. to their extinction in some states. —— bilbies. last two centuries, 10% of native animals have been wiped out. animals have been wiped out. under threat, and extinction can come very quickly. come very quickly. river turtles were killed by disease within just two months. river turtles were killed by disease withinjust two months. withinjust two months. australia's t

many market stalls and retro also offers small nativities seems. some pretty unconventional options are available she knew this is shaped like a swan and is made from a pumpkin it was hollowed out and worked on for two years it contains figurines made from cloth and it's part of what i thought corn that you saw called. for the locals the negativity scene is an important aspect of christmas. but the highlight each christmas remains the actual play of course. it's performed between december twenty fourth and january sixth. and gets visitors from all over the world into the christmas spirit. a major challenge before christmas is to buy all the presents in time don't forget anybody and fulfill as many full wishes as possible and then of course you have to gift wrap the presents too and that is the way our d.i.y. expert comes in. gives are just as much a part of christmas as the autumn ends on the tree and should be nice to read. and see the if you know a few folding techniques. all you need is wrapping paper and various colors. some ribbons. and he's a

i've advocated for native american communities and my bill stand up for native american children which i did with lisa from the very beginning with senator murkowski, the first bill i introduced and it was symbolic for me because we have to do better. i found great partnership with her not on just this but other issues. inshe cares. when you find people who care the way you care you can do amazing things. my legislation to create an amber alert with our colleague john mccain in indian country became law. we're on our way to passing savannah's act which is going to recognize for the first time the challenge and the tragedy of missing and murdered indigenous women. all of this so, so important. bipartisan legislation to help crack down on human trafficking online. we shut down back page. we shut down people who were in fact selling children for sex. that is a noble act and the challenge continues. congress passed my bill to give first responders more training and resources to keep our communities strong and safe. i led a successful effort again with my colleague from alaska, lisa murkows

i've advocated for native american communities and my bills stand up for native american children which i did with lisa, from the beginning with senator murkowski. the first bill i introduced, it was symbolic for me because we have to do better and i found great partnership with lisa not just on this, but on other issues, but i know her heart and i know that she cares, and when you find people who care the way you care, you can do amazing things. my legislation to create an amber alert with our colleague john mccain, and san -- savannah's law the missing and murdered indigenous women. and crack down on human trafficking on-line. we shut down people who were, in fact, selling children for sex. you think about that. that's a noble act that we took. and the challenge continues. congress passed my bill to give first responders more training and resources to keep our communities strong and safe. i led a successful effort, again with my colleague from alaska, lisa murkowski, a ban on exporter oil and with renewables that we did with my other colleagues on this side of the aisle when we looked

uncivilized, savages, native americans are portrayed shirtless and half naked. he painted scalps on american indians but none on american indians and colonial soldiers. scalping was committed by europeans long before they landed in the land. indians are sampled or symbolized a savages well washington attempts to annihilate indigenous -- indigenous people is denied and forgotten. a depicts american -- native americans as slaves and killers to attack while whites stand with arms up in surrender. it omits our true historic identity. can you put your minds together with me on this? it all needs to be replaced. accept may be the rainbow and sunshine above one doorway. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i am a parent of a 2-year-old who is taking a nap right now. i just want to say and urge, when i came here, the teenager to the school building character used to be childcare in the back room. let's bring the child care back for all the parents who are coming. i know the september chair is interested in working with you all. let's give them free childcare. i would like to

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it's a native american. he's from spirit lake nation, and he is a pipe maker, which is a very ceremonial and honorable position within their culture. he's also a korean war vet, and he was one of the first people on the peninsula. he was captured -- injured, captured and literally saved lives during what was called the tiger death march . he ended up serving the entire korean war in a korean concentration camp. when he got out, no one knew who he was. there was no documentation of the fact that he was in the prison of war camp. notifies documentation that he'd been injured. -- there was no documentation that he had he'd been injured. senator dorgan was able to get him his p.o.w. award. but he also didn't get his purple heart. that bothered him because he had served and he had done incredible things in that service. so we were able to find, scouring the earth, and found him in texas, mr. president, somebody who would sign an affidavit who said, yes, he had been injured. and when we presented that purple heart

it is a native american. he is from spirit lake nation. e is a pipe maker. .n honorable volkswagen -- vocation. korean war. the he was in a prison camp. when he got out. no one knew who he was. there was no documentation o of the fact that he was in the prison of war camp. no documentation that he had been injured. senator dorgan was able to get him his p.o.w. medal. he also didn't get his purple heart. that bothered him because he had served and he had done incredible things. somebody le to find who would sign an affidavit and said yes, he had been injured. when he presented that purple heart to that veteran, 86 years old rg he got out of his wheelchair and saluted the flag and hugged his medal. you all have the power to do that. you all have the power to make just one little difference. do that and it is a great thing. even though it is not big legislation. so knowing that we are doing the work of the people and knowing that so many north dakotaans have met with me and told me about incredible challenges that they have, incredible obstac

the disposition of native americans. but even that wealth, even accessibility to the country in the cotton kingdom resulted in the civil war. the worst war in american history. the end result of this is something that the country is still coming to terms with. what we hope is in this exhibition to show there is an argument to say that indian removal was the most significant event between the american revolution and the civil war. so when american indians arrived in indian territory it's a different landscape, a different environment, different situation. i think people from the 1830's would be really surprised if they understood in the 21st-century come of the same indian nations would reconstitute themselves and exist in pretty good shape and the united states. that they still have a sovereign status. i was just in oklahoma and you see television commercials in channels on the chickasaw nation, the cherokee nation, the choctaw nation. these are nations that have actual genuine power today. and have recovered in a way th

. >>> bethlehem, the church of the nativity.his is the traditional site of jesus' birth. >> the church of the nativity is important because it's at this site that christians believe jesus was born and that god became flesh. this is the place where god broke into the world to change history. not only is this one of the holiest sites in christianity. it's one of the holiest sites of all religions in the world. underneath this altar here is a cave, a grotto. and it's in this grotto that christians believe jesus was born. and the place is commemorated by a 14-point silver star. tens of millions of pilgrims come to the church of the nativity every year to venerate the birth of jesus. >> according to the gospel of luke, joseph and the pregnant mary traveled to bethlehem from their home in nazareth. >> they have to travel to bethlehem because, according to luke, there was a census that required people to go to their ancestral homes. joseph was apparently from bethlehem so he had to return there. >> the importance of jesus being born in

elvis presley did a movie in which he played a native american character. but other people are actually in movies playing a native american characters, including a president such as franklin delano roosevelt. richard nixon, the famous union leader jimmy hoffa, share, and their reasons why people were headdress in this particular way. what we are interested in showing as how again people you would never particularly think in this context with and wearing a headdress. indians on the wallpaper of american life and through most of the country's history, it would seem like something that just made sense. so, when we talk about these representations surrounding americans throughout their lives, one of the most important ways is through movies and television. so we have a section in this exhibition which shows really almost 100 years of these images going all the way from john ford's 1939 movies stagecoach, probably up to unbreakable jimmy smith and other contemporary television comedies. and everything in between. and it's a little bit like the celebrities who en