navajo: try going to country. i have done a lot of talks and navajo country. we southerners are famous for our hospitality. it is so embracing and wonderful. i had a great time everywhere i went and navajo country. i give a talk in shiprock, this woman set up and asked me questions. she said i bought your book and i may read it but i may just use it for target practice. she said it with a smile. she is a wonderful lady. i don't know what happened but that is the point, this guy is viewed like we southerners you -- if you sherman -- view sherman. destroyed every water source, cow, cap, cornfield, every and letape -- sheep, this district of campaign against the people that is still in their psyches. this morning in one of the sessions, the novel molly gloss was speaking at she was talking about how in the american west there was this vacuum, we did not have king arthur or the baleful -- or the beowulf. the question to you is, was kit carson such a dynamic individual that the myth just grew out of him or was there this vacuum and this demand for a myth in kit car

and try going to navajo country. i have done a lot of talks and -- in navajo country. we southerners are famous for our hospitality. but the navajo are even more so. it is just so embracing and wonderful. i had a great time everywhere i went in navajo country. i give a talk in shiprock, this woman stood up and asked me questions. she said i bought your book and i may read it but i may just use it for target practice. [laughter] prof. sides: she said it with a smile. she was a wonderful lady. i don't know what happened but that is the point, this guy is viewed almost like we southerners view sherman. who led a scorched-earth campaign against their people, destroyed every water source, every cow, every sheep, and lead thisse, unnecessary, destructive campaign against the people that is still burned into their psyches. >> this morning in one of the sessions, the novelist molly how inas speaking about the american west there was this vacuum, we did not have king arthur or the beowulf. my question to you is, was kit carson such a dynamic individual that the myth just grew o

if you go to those tribes and talk about the navajo, they will talk about how the navajo are ancient enemies. that they were amazing attackers and stole our women and children. this was a untenable situation that was going on for a long long time. unless the navajo are arguing that we should go back to that time where we steal each other's women and children and cattle and sheep and women this sort of world of where life is nasty, and a short, i think you have to honestly reckon with what was happening in the 1860s and this war that was proposed, not by kit carson but by a guy named james henry carlton. on orders that were signed by and approved by abraham lincoln. that is when you begin to realize that kit carson is an important but actually only kind of an executive role in this thing. this was a war that was ordered from the very highest levels of the u.s. government. it becomes a much more complicated story. it does not make it better or worse. in fact, it's a big problem that people have with my book. if you write about them you automatically celebrate them. that would mean you

the navajo which comprise the largest tribe and the largest reservation in the entire u.s. and we delve into various aspects of those tribal cultures and history. what was fun about this exhibit was working with members of all 10 tribal communities to tell the stories that they wanted told in their voice with their perspectives. so, they were involved in the selection of the objects, selection of the photographs, they outlined and told the inries they wanted told, most cases, they wrote the so,bit text themselves, and it was truly a collaborative effort with representatives of all 10 tribes in the colorado plateau. since the exhibit has been open, the response from that community, the tribal communities of northern arizona has been absolutely tremendous. the perspective we use in the exhibit is one that has been developing in the american museum world for some time over the last 20, 30 years, and it hits home to a lot of people who like myself worked in these museums that there was a colonial attitude toward describing people in the third person rather than asking them to t

carson's complex relationship with the navajo indians. organizesinstitute this. this contains language that some viewers may find offensive. >> it is great to be here. i joke around and say when i started the podcast, i thought i would hit the big-time if i people to listen, my mom and my wife. the idea thath

yutes, navajos and pueblo people interact with these resources on a daily basis. medicine people use artifacts for medicine ceremonies. other people use them for other types of ceremonies. viewueblo people ancestral sites as the footprints of those ancestors, where those sites are not abandoned. they continue to be inhabited by the spirit of their ancestors and that connection to their ancestors is a vital part of their traditional spiritual life and religion. so, does it ever get address legally? it finally sort of does. i would say the 1978 american indian religious freedom act has a role. and then the biggest one of all is the 1990 native american graves protection and repatriation act. another one that not many people realize that i think 92 also profound is the 19 amendment to the 1996 national historic preservation act. this amendment recognized not just archaeological sites but traditional cultural properties. a traditional cultural property is a place on the landscape that meanings byued with native people through their historic use of that landscape. this

professor sides on packs this dispute and explores carson's complex relationship with the navajo indians. institution organized this event. it contains some language that viewers might find offensive. hampton: i joked around and said when i started the podcast, i said i could hit the get two if i could people to listen, my mom and my wife. the fact that the folks at the hampton institute were listening is a dream come true. everyone here is familiar with hampton sides. for the purpose of tonight, we will be talking about blood and thunder, one of his most well-known books. but that is a small percentage of what he has written.

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navajo blankets and furs and sorts of things like that from mexico city. it was a important road for about 40 years ago in history of our country. there were stations along the way and not many though, it was a rough way to go and the wagon trains were huge and well armed because they had to be. >> we have time for one more question. >> in the late 1900s and the very early part of the to thousands -- 2000, there was literature which attracted people to the west. the railroads interest, and affect on the images such as the one behind you and bringing people out, is there evidence in this early period of the 1800s and 1840 of sustained romanticism which would drive people from the east to the west in that great open country. >> we saw some of those last night in some of the paintings and that mr. coke has and i am excited to see those because it is a dazzling array of stuff from miller i have not seen by the 1860s where you have people like thomas moran and kaplan painting in the west. they would go with some of the expeditions and you have a artis. fremont

including presumably what he said in front of some of the most courageous people who ever lived, navajoe talkers. >> we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahontas. >> so today senator warren called his bluff and the president first said, who cares, asking us to ignore all the times that he, himself, cared asking us to ignore that he is the one who called her names over and over. he turned the gaslight up to 11 with his answer of this. >> mr. president, you said -- >> who cares. >> $1 million -- >> you better read it again. >> so he said he didn't say it. keeping him honest, that must mean that on july 5th of this year he never said this. >> i'm going to get one of those little kits and in the middle of the debate when she proclaims that she's of indian heritage i will say, i will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity paid for by trump if you take the test and it shows you're an indian. >> so he says he didn't say it. he did. and later today inspecting hurricane damage in georgia he was no long der denying that he had s

artistic production and this, in conjunction with the cultures that he experienced growing up on navajoache and pueblo reservations, shaped momaday's writings. in "house made of dawn" he describes a traditional world that persists despite success of efforts to destroy its foundations and i quote. their invaders were a long time in conquering them and now, after four centuries of christianity, they still pray to the old deities of earth and sky. they have skooassumed the names gestures of their enemies that have helped on to their own secret souls, and in this, there is resistance and an overcoming long outwaiting. in an interview with the santa fe reporter he describes the hes essence of all tribal life as having quote, blood that existed on this continent for 30,000 years. [ applause [ applause ] within this span of time, american literature arose in momaday's assertion to the "new york times" quote, not with the purists of new england but with an anonymous man or woman in sizing an image on a canyon wall in utah 2,000 years ago. within the historical scope of american literature, moma