i come with you -- to you with great feelings of the navajo. it is really an honor for me to be here, specifically, very pleased to speak on behalf of my sister. i have worked with her for many years. i just want to say that the issue that faces our community is huge. the challenge could be something like david and goliath. the issues that aurora had to deal with, the friendship house association of american indians, all the other programs that serve native people are huge. so are some of the challenges that we are faced with. we have the lowest life expectancy. 500% higher for tuberculosis. american indians have the highest rate of diabetes and other americans 195% higher. native americans have the highest rates of alcoholism. suicide is one of the highest health disparities that impact our community. access to treatment and care is the lowest for native americans in san francisco alone. they are clearly underserved populations, the city and county of public health. one of the key issues to really underscore is why we're here. we're healthy, b

do want to tell the person there for you are not navajo even though the language is gone? that is not the happiest news. there is a calculation made in 100 years there will not be 6,000 languages but 600. also said of language dies every two weeks. one language that i feature is a marvelous thing called ket and the grammar is so complex professional linguists did not figure out the verbs until 15 years ago. bill looks like there is no sense. it is more like a rule of some and you can barely believe people speak it. 3,000 people speak it. but there was an article i read it is not 500. that is difficult to reverse. unfortunately that is true. >> if you are a tourist and one to use language to break through cultural barriers barriers, it is so hard to learn a language how can you get at it? >> it is. even if you can speak it badly then you have made a major accomplishment. i am sure there's a certain reason the it in terms of learning a foreign language were there is nobody in your home who speaks it, i know of only one way that really works and i mentioned this. take the wor

but then if you look at a real language like, say, navajo, there's no such thing as a regular verb. you start to learn it, you think, well, there must be a pattern, so you learn one verb. there's the pattern. then you learn another verb, and it's nothing like that one. and you figure, okay, there must be two conjugation classes. and the third verb is nothing like the other two, and you figure, well, there are three. and a couple days later you've got 17 verbs, and you figure how many conjugation dallass are there -- classes are there? it's just a completely irregular verbal system. babies learn this and because they can, that's what the language is like. so if you look around the world, what you see is that there are countless languages, 6,000 is the typical count, and that some of them are rather streamlined and rather user-friendly. they tend to be spoken by a lot of people, and, therefore, i'm speaking one of them. but most of them are hideously, marvelously, fascinatingly complex. and it's a lot of what linguists actually do for a living. and they're full of irregularity, even t

this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain h

everyone speaking navajo. there are very specific steps he took to help a man who was very emotionally troubled and at the same time, people were saying, hey, at the same time, can you hand me a coke over there. and it was just part of life. and it was -- it was terrific. and i asked the young man who was being cured whether or not he felt any different, and he did. and he said he felt more grounded. he really enjoyed the ceremony. and one other thing about that ceremony, i found that -- i didn't know this about him until i read the patient's myspace page or facebook page and found out that he's homosexual. he said he likes hanging out with friends and dating men. and this was such a nonconcern to navajo people. and mostly in my experience, virtually every tribe, homosexuality is not a big deal. and what does happen is that sometimes the people are honored. i know a woman who said she has a lesbian friend and when the lesbian friend goes back to her home, new mothers wants her to hold the baby for good luck. t

you when english doesn't make sense and that people confuse lie/lay fewer/less than then look at navajo there is no such thing as a regular verb. you think there's a pattern they figure there's a pattern then you learn a pattern is nothing like that then you think there may be too conjugation class's and the third verb is nothing like the other two then maybe there are three per buy a couple-- later you 17 verbs they don't do anything and you think how may conjugation class is are there? pretty soon you have learned hundreds and they are not alike but a completely irregular verbal system. they learned this because they can. if you look around the world there are countless languages come a 6,000 is the typical pounds, and some of them are rather streamlined and user-friendly to be spoken to a lot of people and most of them they are hit this stage hideously complex. and those that actually are every bit as complex and in addition of the book is finally about to that is easy to miss. it is what you say, not what you write. it is not the scribbled flintstones style approximation and how we

europe's opposition to the south stream pipeline has left analysts scratching their heads given that the navajo project is significantly more risky but energy analyst julia legal leaves that diversification is the theme of the day. well nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not in dispute. what europe is trying to do to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be tried unfairly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become agreed on north african gas or indeed on nazi gas while he's seeking to do is to point a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through a variety of routes and nobody is disputing good among mandarin tree russian will resound will continue to be the most important. we've got plenty more on the south stream pipeline and all the biggest deals called out in such a coming up in our business bulletin that's coming up in a few minutes. of a russian map spacecraft has landed in class x.i.i. bringing three members

to some navajo relocation is not just a word it's an obscenity. remember bob as grivted writer, jawrnlist and great friend. he was 75 years old. good guy. >>> texas is doing away with last meal request for condemned inmates facing execution. state senator white meier told the prison director to end a ridiculous and inappropriate practice or would he pass law to do it. head of prison complied today. starting after elaborate request from lawrence brewer. he was put to death last night for his role in the dragging death of james bird junior. for his last meal brewer requested 2 chicken fried steaks. triple cheeseburger. pound of barbecue and pint of ice cream. brewer got his request and then never ate any of it. >> the santa clara valley transportation authority moving forward with plans to expand its service according to the silicon valley business jawrnl. they are calling for bid on 128 million dollar bus project along santa clara street andal am rock avenue this year or next year rather. it's the first of 3 projects expected to increase ridership

if you think about the names that the american indian tribes have for themselves, like the navajo call themselves the danae, which means the people. a lot of tribes have the same sort of name for themselves as this they are the human names and everyone who is not in the tribe, you never think about people at israel, they are the chosen people. and so, a tribe -- this is a quality of tribes to exist for itself alone and to see anyone outside the tribe is not a full human being. and when this gets aligned with the religion that's a fundamental and basically fanatical or at least an extreme part of the religion, you infidel or you're a nonbeliever or you are not -- you are not a full human being. and when that competence, when that idea happens, then all sorts of actions can be taken better not because human beings. the warrior ethos, the classic western warrior ethers embraces entries with respect in hopes that the enemy -- the warrior once -- where he first wants nothing greater than the great enemy. the better the enemy come the more honorable to better because one measures themselves

the hopi, navajo, other indian nations out there -- after they had been interest much in our history, for them to put the flags out really impressed me. from williams, arizona, we were going to take a train to the south rim of the grand canyon. there were people in our car from new jersey and long island. there is a reputation for being abrupt and rude, so on and so forth. we are all in their grief. -- all sharing our grief. a man came in and started playing guitar, the old woodie guthrie standard, "this land is your land." we all broke down. the long islanders from new jersey did not seem so irritating anymore. we are american at our core, whatever else about us, there is something deep within us -- there is something special about being american. it is the only country that has been formally based on principle. they say it is "unjust," not un- french, un-german -- thety say it is "un-american." at the core, i am an american. host: thank you for sharing your thoughts and reflection spirit we have been showing you the scene -- and reflections. we have been showing you the scenes. this

willing to do for others and dedicating his life in protecting the security of the people of the navajo nation where he was raised and lived his life. mr. gosar: they have the experience and courage to serve and protect our communities as well as put their lives in danger for the safety of others. my prayers and thoughts are with sergeant curley's family and the broader law enforcement community for such an outstanding individual. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this summer i heard one message over and over as i visited my district. we need to create a jobs program to get our people back to work. i was sent to washington to set aside the partisan bickering. yet we wasted a tremendous amount of time this summer fighting over debt ceiling and issues that had not