is that native people. in their early 20th century are in such a desperate strait straight that they are grasping for any means as to protect what little had left and you know you know the thrust of my talk was to have confront what a narrow of options there were the conception that native people could simultaneously be citizens and sovereign nations did not exist in hardly any white people's minds. it almost certainly existed native peoples minds. but it wasn't even part of the discussion. the state of reservations by and large was so abysmal that some native people said the only other possibility. here is to get with the mainstream to try to integrate and hope hope hope against historical patterns is that doing everything people ask will lead to some measure of justice and dignity in the public square square. that was and that was an experience that very few of them were able to realize not because of their own shortcomings, because but because of the white supremacy of the majority american population. y

that there are no native people left in their states. and so that's another reason why there aren't a lot of records that suggest that people are native government records were trying to ignore that there were native people in the south. finally what we know about the confederate enlistment process is that it's very localized. people go to their county officer, their town enlistment officer, they make a they keep track in. north carolina, right? a lumbee who can vaguely passes, wants to join the confederacy, can maybe go to their local and maybe just go one county over where nobody knows them and join up there in, south carolina and the lumbee nation does cross the state border in south carolina. the lumbee are seen as native people in general are seen as white enough because they're very clearly not black, that there for confederate enlistment without any question. so again, finding people in the historical can be tough unless, you know who you're looking for, which is why you know, broadly speaking, civil war historians even really tho

native native nations than other more familiar crown abuses. i do think of it as a hatred because as we'll see shortly, the language is pretty strong and it informed the. which has as many of us may know, 27 grievances located within. it lodged against the english crown for a series of what you just called more familiar abuses. but the declaration really builds almost like a crescendo with its most serious grievance against the king of england. a grievance 27 that jefferson. initially drafted but then was subsequently co all authored by other countries in the continental congress members to kind of bring home what they considered to be the most serious grievance that the crown had initiated against the colonial so their communities because the king of england quote has endeavored bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions and. so these terms merciless indian savages, is as well as in habitants of our frontiers, are both in

what sort of impact did that have on native communities. how did natives respond. they were kind of like dealing with their own thing at the same time as the american correct for the land. mm hmm, yep. so they having to kind of deal with their own internal issues. i got really excited because it was a really exciting moment. missouri ax hang mark coming. go for it did the creation of the pan alliance? yes. very good. yes. the creation of that that kind of southern confederacy. that moment. that moment of diplomatic effort, that. yes, it was a beautiful thing. it was a beautiful. good. all right. what about civilization? mack? some fully embraced it, i guess, due to survival and some structure like their native traditions that they couldn't let go of it. yeah, good. so we had to kind of opposite ends the spectrum that we talked about of those that embraced it wholeheartedly. really got behind it. and did you know, have tremendous amount of success. and then that shirked it altogether and said thanks, but no thanks. and the majority of people fall in between those tw

the native vote?u? i know that there's there's a lot of sideboards here and they're very, very very smart people thinking about these things. but it just occurred to me that, you know, having you here and being a preeminent scholar in indian law, you know, i is sort of uncharted territory and do think that there are a lot of opportunities for indian country to benefit from ai, but there are also a lot of risks. so i wonder if you have any thoughts in that way. well, i'm not a technology expert. that's for. but there is this emerging issue of of. data sovereignty tribes using their sovereignty to control all of these data issues and one of those that's current currently pending that we're involved in deals with the effort by state of montana to do away with tik tok and of course, as we've talked about earlier, you know, state law does not apply on the indian reservation. so so state can ban tik tok on the reservations and of course that gets into all these technology issues where how do you control wit

people without native allies. right? so what you normally have our colonial indian versus indian wars, right. and that's certainly the case here. the english had some powerful indian allies. they do, including wampanoags, who had adopted christianity and the mohicans and the pequod among and the mohawks, among among others. but by and large, most native people in southern new england rise up in in this war against english expansion. this alludes to the that you were asking earlier. do these people see themselves do native people see themselves as indians? well, when the colonial period starts, no, they don't have any word to suggest such an idea. and europeans don't see themselves as white either. not at all. but by 1675, when king philip's war starts, they most certainly do. as a matter of fact, they have adopted the english word indian to describe their common identity and what you have in the run up to this war are native leaders meeting on a regular basis, native leaders who normally do not get along with othe

again, i've really just dedicated my my career to advance american indian and alaska native and native both a practicing lawyer and now as a public servant. so it's really my honor be here today to moderate this panel and really have a conversation with john echohawk. let me introduce him it might take a while because while my introduction took about 30 seconds, his might take a little bit longer than mine. john and go back quite a ways, actually one of the first internships i did as a law student was with the native american rights here in washington, d.c. and that was when i first crossed paths with with john. so it's been some time and it was it's just been wonderful. and the following as my career and really seeing him as someone who to look up to and he's done so many incredible things throughout the course of his career. but let me just start out with acknowledging that mr. eaglehawk is johnny and he's the executive of tamer rights fund. it's the oldest and largest nonprofit legal organization defending native rights. he was the first graduate of the university new mexico special

children, native families and native communities across the country and nation to nation commitment to tribes. thank you for this opportunity to address the health, welfare and safety of native people throughout the united states. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, chairman simpson and members of the committee. i'm currently serving as doj's acting director of the office of tribal justice. thank you all for the invitation to speak here today, and honor to see chairman cold here today. i want to access the department's gratitude for the ongoing work of this community and addressing issues like public safety, health care which was mentioned earlier. there are so many others that are our solemn response ability to uphold federal trust and treaty obligations to tribal nations. my team in particular, not an issue that can resolve one agency or one department so we are especially grateful for our partnerships with tribal nations, members of congress, federal colleagues who are here with me at the table, state and local governments and advocates that appeared on panel one today. i worked wit

children, native families in native communities across the country and also reflects our nation to nation commitment to tribes thank you for this opportunity to address the health, welfare and safety of her native people throughout the united states. quick's thank you. >> good afternoon chairman simpson, ranking member and members of the committee. i am currently serving d.o.j. acting director of the office of tribal justice. as an honor to see chairman cole here today. went to express the department's gratitude for the ongoing work in this community to address issues like public safety, indian health care at which i know was mentioned earlier there are so many others that are at the core of our solemn responsibility to uphold a federal trust and treaty obligations of tribal nations. we are appreciative of that. mm it and particulars on issue that can be resolved one agency or one department we are especially grateful for our partnerships and includes partnerships of tribal nations, members of congress federal colleagues who are here with me at the table state and local government as well

but the victim is native. so before that case states couldn't prosecute crimes of either the perpetrator or victim was native. and now they got like a piece of that back. and if you're like, that sounds really complicated i'm like, welcome to criminal jurisdiction on tribal lands. it's endlessly complicated. and then the supreme made it more complicated. and so their thinking was that this would help victims because now if you're a native victim of crime on, a reservation, the state can prosecute the perpetrator, the tribe can prosecute the perpetrator and the feds can prosecute the perpetrator. so like your case is really going to get parts executed and what actually happens that everyone just kind of passes the buck? and so there's been a lot of studies and i don't know that we have castro where it specific data but there were already states that shared that had kind of overlapping criminal jurisdiction of an older law called play to 80 again very complicated. but that that that those have seen where states

native american health and indian ed program.h and -- that come in through programs and now working at our organizations. michael is our program cord narrator and are does a lot of set and up bring our comi%munit in because he knows everybody and has family in the community. i'm grateful for michael and i want to give gratitude to him as well. [applause] >> i said earlier, there has been a lot going on as we got through n an election here. and there has been some feelings of just i'm trying not to be bad because i feel like as native people we have been so resilient throh many challenges we had throughout our community. our people survived boarding schools, genocide and we and it is through this mupa through the support of our city and county partners and our native organizations like it is native american health center. leaders center stand if you are here in the room. i love to amrud those leaders doing the work for our clients. i see michelle ma. she is a leader our elder. >> and aroaral be here later. we have i see michellean

america, the apache edition, the true captain native america. painted him as a marvel superhero and kids love it. >> reporter: gabriel patton sr., a proud apache, making his art and making a statement. >> you can find gabriel's work on display this sunday along with other talented native artists from the bay area. the native craft fair is scheduled between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the intertribal friendship house in oakland, perfect for some early holiday shopping. >>> still ahead at 5:00, celebrating a remarkable athlete, we'll introduce you to the blind high school football player hitting the field for the last time tonight. >>> plus in sports a change-up in the front office at third and king, the giants introduced their newest general manager today. >>> and the name jones-drew is already a legacy at de la salle, but the newest generation is writing the next chapter for a family of football greatness. >>> on this friday night, we go on the road with the yellow lab named stella for a story about unleashing the joys of sam liccardo gets thing

as we go to as we go, the native peoples, we're the oswego natives. we're a part of the onondaga, which, of course, is part of the haudenosaunee, the iroquois, and i suppose they were probably the first ones that made a tea out of it. there's also something called oswego bitters. does anybody know about that, which is greens that apparently the oswego indians use them. not sure what kinds of they were wild greens of some kind and they use them as sort of a supplement in the early spring. there's nothing else to eat. i mean, people would dig the roots of dandelions, they would consume them. and i think it's something similar with as we go to the point you make is that the native peoples had a great wealth of knowledge, a great wealth of knowledge. and when opened our eyes and listened with our ears, we could learn a great deal from them. oswego, too. yes, man another thing to drink. we saw that the sumac, the lemonade rye type bar. i've tried that i've made it before and it's it's pretty weak you know, pretty weak of what we have. it's, you know. okay.

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of policy excluding native women from political leadership positions.and after the american revolution's policy was set in stone with something called the american civilizations act which would not allow women to be heads of household or to participate in or be leaders of government which as you recall of the beginning, that was a critical elements of what makes a matriarchy which is what our societies work. socially through policy and systematic disassembling of matriarchy and women's access to political leadership. during the time of contact through the mid- 19 hundreds, we see that sort of dwindling a indian women leadership, political ownership access but again i definitely want to stress that communal leadership has continued to exist throughout this time. so information that we have about traditional art, skills, life ways and are still in existence today is due in large part to the work of women and is so like they mentioned, drawing a parallel to pretty contact early contact matriarchy, a lot of the ways of women still today #tribal culture thro

native american women and girls missing and murdered. more than 300 reservations make up what is still known as indian country in america. and in this country, the statistics are staggering. according to the department of justice findings, number four out of 5 native american women have experienced violence in their lifetimes and a 2021 cdc study found homicide rates for native american women were more than three times of those of non-hispanic white women. >> this is 2021. we are demanding our rights. >> alyssa symone sanders- townsend and many others believe that too often that cases are neglected by law enforcement and say, action is long overdue. the numbers, the victims, have sparked a movement called mmiw. >> it is called missing and murdered indigenous women, and it is a cry for help. help. >> grable wants the world to hear that cry. she's an activist and writer on the reservation in native wyoming. >> the statistics that hang over my head is that i am the most stocked, raped, sexually assaulted, and murdered out of every ethnicity

as you can see, i'm an older native native american woman who knows of the turbulence in a relationship as i myself had domestic violence survivor. during the time that i endured the relationship, i wondered why and how are tribal people came to this dark time with fractured relationships with no accountability. and i believe that the diseases like drug and alcohol abuse play big part in the overall problem but also the poverty on the reservation has well. my interbeing agonizes over the lack of work given to native women in the senseless acts, the leap to their harm. in the past, people in power have not cared about native women. but their family and their tribes do in one instance that touches my heart, philosophy young woman who was strangled by her partner. and also counseled the perpetrator before hand. i just happen to be a friend, to his father. and i came to the funeral of both the young woman it after the crime, and the perpetrators dad who died shortly thereafter. and this was an awful time unrest and sadness the tour our community apart. and continue women continue to be the

in reality if you are white you are not native american. what is your message from what you have learned over the course of your research? >> the biggest thing, i came away from this book actually feeling somewhat optimistic. that is the wrong word, hopeful is the word that i want to use. i think it is because of this paradigm shift in how the public lands are being managed where the tribes are being brought in and also banging on the door and assisting baby brought in in order to run these iconic landscapes like yosemite and sequoia and mount rainier and bears ears. as that paradigm unfolds and gets more and more the accepted way that we do things, i think that be token fall really good future around what is going to happen with native america and also hour widening of the notion of what makes america. native people in this country were not citizens until 1924. it has been 100 years, only 100 years even though they have been here for several thousand. there is a deep and a mean irony in that one. that is starting to change. there are more

america's of native america. i understand that, robert. you want gold medal from the commonwealth club in for your last book. so congratulations. so cashed of eden the untold story of john muir, indigenous peoples and the american wilderness takes a new look at the net nature mystic lauded as the father of the national parks. muir's wild ethos came at a cost. the disposition of the tribes home runs the national parks once were a social and environmental. this nation still lives with. so please join me in giving a warm welcome to robert mcnally. thank you. i say that just it's this thing of writing books is extraordinarily reclusive. you feel like a cistercian monk most of the time and in the actual writing. and so it was absolutely wondrous. after a book is out to come and all these bright, shining faces, at least the lights came up and you disappeared into the into the media gloom. but thank you for being here. i really appreciate it. thank you so congratulations. i think it's a fantastic book. extremely easy to read. and it's it's a page

the natives knew how to make maple syrup. we had honey as a medicine and flavoring and the interesting thing about honeybees is that as the migration proceeded and the white man moved further and further west over the course of 150 years, the native people knew when the white people were coming because the honeybees would travel west first. when they saw the honeybees they knew they had a few month s and they would be followed by the sit settlers. pine trees were used for tar and rosin. we are going to talk more about it in repellent. moss, everybody here i am sure has moss. most are very softball and green. even though you have moss and dirt, they cleaned it up and applied it to wounds. diapers. it is absorbent. it is abundant. these are the type of things we need to have as medicine. i want to talk about it briefly. there were many medical challenges and one of the thing our first president, george washington did is to use innoculation against smallpox. back in the day it could wipe out an entire village. it would leave peo

in fact, 17 native american majority counties went red this election.his this number blew me away 65% of native americans voted for trump. joining me now with this thoughts is myron former vice president of the navajo nation. myron so great to have you on today. i have native american family and i can just attest anecdotally voted democrat and voted really from their reservation so it's fascinating to me. why don't you lay out what you think was different in this election why did native americans vote red? >> i think it was a long time coming, good morning rachel thank you for having me. and happy veteran's day to all of our veterans out there we appreciate -- i think it was a long time coming ever since 2016 there's been a movement to, you know, get more native american voters out there. to study the issues be educated and to vote accordingly. so this was a culmination about certainly we're not done. so long ways to go we're not going to just let it all weigh one and done and let it go we have to work like the democrats do until the next election cycle

but the victim is native. so before that case states couldn't prosecute crimes of either the perpetrator or victim was native. and now they got like a piece of that back. and if you're like, that sounds really complicated i'm like, welcome to criminal jurisdiction on tribal lands. it's endlessly complicated. and then the supreme made it more complicated. and so their thinking was that this would help victims because now if you're a native victim of crime on, a reservation, the state can prosecute the perpetrator, the tribe can prosecute the perpetrator and the feds can prosecute the perpetrator. so like your case is really going to get parts executed and what actually happens that everyone just kind of passes the buck? and so there's been a lot of studies and i don't know that we have castro where it specific data but there were already states that shared that had kind of overlapping criminal jurisdiction of an older law called play to 80 again very complicated. but that that that those have seen where states

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plants from remnant native plant populations.rship of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage■x plants in some cases, some of the development work thatoccurr destent in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 sp

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the native people were the -- the oswego natives were part of the iroquois, and i suppose they were probably the first ones that made a t out of it. there is also something called oswego bidders, anybody know about that? which is greens that apparently the oswego indians used. they were wild greens of some kind, and they used them as sort of a supplement. in the early spring, there was nothing else to eat. man, people would dig up the roots of dandelions, they would consume them, and i think it is something similar to oswego tea. the point you make is that the native people had a great wealth of knowledge, and when we opened our eyes and listened with our ears, we could learn a great deal from them. oswego i.t. yes, ma'am? >> the lemonade, i have tried that, i have made it before. >> and? >> it is pretty weak compared to what we have, but it is okay. >> and you are talking about the staghorn sumac with the bright red? >> there is another very similar that is poisonous, but the usual one around here is [ inaudible ]. >> is very important for the migrating birds to have it on your property, if