we're going to see the pottawatomie nation. >> what is the role they play here in your community? justin: they employ 2200 people, so they are huge. also there is the cultural aspect, which is also a major factor in the community. of course shawnee has a large percentage -- the population of a native american background, which could be pottawatomie or other nations as well. so they are just an interval part of the community. they are involved in major initiatives. they bring a lot of culture and activity and impacts to the community. >> we are passing through their land right now. we can see their tribal headquarters. their cultural heritage center, which is a museum. justin: it is, and that just reopened. it unfortunately suffered a flood several years ago. from a city water pipe. that has been completely remodeled. i highly recommend visiting there if you have not had a chance. >> they also own a lot of businesses in the area such as casinos, and we passed a grocery store. justin: they do. they have two large casinos a , golf course, the grocery store. the grocery store is a ver

the pottawatomie nation along with three other tribes. >> should we go to their land? let's do that. now we are crossing the canadian river. we are going to the pottawatomie nation. >> what is the role they play here in your community? >> they employ over 2200 people. from an economic space, they are huge. there is obviously the cultural aspect which is a major factor into the community. percentage ofrge population, native american background, which could be a pottawatomie or other nations as well. they are an integral part of the community. they are involved in major initiatives. they bring a lot of culture and activity. >> we passing through their land right now. we see their tribal headquarters to our left. their cultural heritage center, which is a museum. >> that was just reopened. that was unfortunately -- that unfortunately suffered a flood a few years ago. completelyen remodeled. just a beautiful facility. i highly recommend visiting there. inthey also owned businesses the area, such as casinos, we passed a grocery store. >> they do. they have two large casinos

we are at the citizen pottawatomie nation eagle aviary. eightare currently only aviaries in the united states. for us to have this is humbling. in 2012. we are funded by our tribe and we started with eight eagles and we now have 14. the reason it is so important for tribe to have this is to save the lives of these eagles. there is no place for them to go to of quality of life to spend out their days and they would have to be put down. we want to be able to do this and do a outreach to give our community and get young people involved and have a relationship with the eagle. we can help handout feathers to our tribal members. you see eagles feathers used in rick alea a lot. -- used in regalia. to have gooding come upon the community. when they use eagle feathers, they fly so high they see the face of god heard -- god. you have to have a tribal id card from rape federally recognized tribe -- from a federally recognized tribe that has eagle feathers. because of the threat to the bald eagle and the bald eagle act was put into place to protect th

are at the pottawatomie nation here in shawnee oklahoma. this has been an incredible outreach to our community to have this. eightare currently aviators in the holy united states. for us to have this one is haveing and we are glad to it. we open in 2012 and are fully funded by our tribe. we start with eight eagles and now have 14 eagles. it was so important for our tribe, our nation to have his aviary, to say the eagles lives, for one. if there is not a place for them to go to have a quality life in captivity, they will have to be put down. for us to step up and save the lives were super important. thing, if the government were to do in outreach to get the young people involved and be having the relationship of the living eagles again. the third thing we can do is hand out these to our tribal members. whenagle feathers used native americans are dancing, and they are dancing for special reasons. kind of like prayer in motion. the need to do it to have good things come upon their community. eagles fly so high they say they can see the face of

we are at the citizen pottawatomie nation eagle aviary. eightare currently only aviaries in the united states.

we are leaving pottawatomie nation and heading back towards the downtown. what is next for the city of shawnee? >> shawnee is continuing to grow. we are focused on quality of life initiatives, quality-of-life, on improving the neighborhoods are residents within. -- residents live in. i see that continuing in that regard. witht people not familiar this part of the country to know there is a lot of opportunities here. a lot of opportunities for younger people. opportunities you might i get elsewhere because of our cost of living, the inviting nature of our citizenry. i just encourage people to get out and visit shawnee and other communities like shawnee around the country. >> thank you so much for showing us around your city. >> thank you so much for being here. >> our staff traveled to shawnee, oklahoma, to learn about its rich history. learn more about shawnee and other stops on the tour at c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. > lectures in history johns , hopkins university professor ronald wal

people, so we explored the whole territory and eventually entered into an agreement with the pottawatomie nation that had recently been moved into the territory and establishment sacred heart abbey, academy, and mission. that was a home base for us, and we ended up actually establishing some 45 catholic church communities around what is now oklahoma, and we also established interestingly enough three schools for african children who were the children of persons who had been slaves of indian tribes, so the original sacred heart, which was begun in 1876, had a monastery, a school for boys of all ages from elementary through college, a school for girls similarly, a convent where sisters of mercy lived to teach the girls. it was a whole working farm, like a small village, and all of it earned one night in 1901. people, miraculously there was no loss of life or injuries in the whole complex. it burned for about 30 minutes. people always don't always remember that we rebuilt sacred heart, a second school, monastery convent, but we moved from their two to shawnee after rebuilding sacred heart. i am pro

. >> another big party or population and economy is the pottawatomie nation. >> absolutely. that along with three other tribes. >> should we go out to their land. >> let's do that. >> now were crossing the canadian river and were going to the pottawatomie nation. >> what is the role they play in your community? >> they employ over 2200 people. there's also the cultural aspect which is also a major factor in the community. shawnee has a large percentage of population that has native american background which can be pottawatomie or other nations as well. what an integral part of the community. they are involved in major initiatives, they bring a lot of culture and activity and enterprise to community. >> we are passing through their land so we see their tribal headquarters, their cultural heritage center which is a museum. >> it originally suffered a flood several years ago and that has been completely remodeled. it's a beautiful facility. i highly recommend visiting. >> they also own a lot of businesses in the area such as casinos and grocery store. >> they have two large cas

on american history tv, a v visit to the citizen pottawatomie nation cultural n center, and hear about the people, and the forced removal of the native land into indian territory. >> this is the particular section of the museum, we highlight one particular removal which is what we refer to as the trail of death. it happened the same years of the cherokee trail of tears and we left our homelands within a few days of each other. this is a particularly heartbreaking and gut-wrenching removal. our ancestors who were moved on this particular removal were ones who had refused to negotiate with the federal government. so, agents, called a treaty council and asked the people to meet at monomonies village in what is today, twin lakes, indiana. and so our people had to walk from there to a new reservation in kansas. >> make sure that you join us four c-span's cities tours. and also on sunday at c-span3 as we work with the cable affiliates as we explore america. >>> "the atlantic" hosted a series of discussions about our incarnation and criminal justice system. criminal experts and former inmates

eastern on american history tv, a visit to the citizen' pottawatomie nation cultural heritage center.year as the trail of tears. we left our homeland within a few days of each other. this is a particularly heart-wrenching and gutwrenching removal. were ones who had refused to negotiate with the federal government. treatycalled in a council into an lakes -- in what is today to an lakes, indiana. our ancestors had to walk 650 miles from our learned dutch northern -- land in northern indiana to kansas. >> watch this at saturday at noon :00 -- at noon eastern on saturday. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. >> the traders --

on american history tv, a v visit to the citizen pottawatomie nation cultural n center, and hear about the people, and the forced removal of the native land into indian territory. >> this is the particular section of the museum, we highlight one particular removal which is what we refer to as the trail of death. it happened the same years of the cherokee trail of tears and we left our homelands within a few days of each other. this is a particularly heartbreaking and gut-wrenching removal. our ancestors who were moved on this particular removal were ones who had refused to negotiate with the federal government. so, agents, called a treaty council and asked the people to meet at monomonies village in what is today,

on american history tv, a visit to the citizens pottawatomie nation's cultural heritage center.about the history of its people including the forced removal from native lands into indian territory. >> this particular section of the museum, we highlight one particular removal which is what we refer to as the trail of death. it happened the same year as the cherokee trail of tears and we left our homelands within a few days of each other. this is a particularly heartbreaking and gutwrenching removal. our ancestors who were in this removal could not negotiate with the federal government. agence called a treaty council and asked people to meet at menominee village and twin lakes, indiana. our ancestors had to walk 660 miles from our homeland in northern indiana to a new reservation in kansas. watch c-span cities tour of shawnee, oklahoma saturday at noon eastern on c-span2 at booktv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv, working with their cable affiliates as we explore america. "> "washington journal continues. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] host:

. >> a visit to the citizen pottawatomie nation cultural heritage center. hear about the history of its people including the forced removal from native to native land into indian territory. >> this particular section we really highlight what we refer to as the trail of death. it actually happened the same year as the cherokee trail of tears where we left our home and within a few days of each other. this is a particularly heartbreaking and got wrenching removal, our ancestors were ones who had refused to negotiate with the federal government. agents called the treaty council and asked people to meet at nominee village in twin lakes indiana and our ancestors had to walk hundred miles to a reservation in kansas. >> watch cspan cities to her saturday noon eastern on cspan to put tv. sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on cspan three. saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv real america, the 50th anniversary of the current commission report. it is documented in the cbs news special report remedy for ryan. >> in downtown atlanta, there is a

on sunday at 2:00 eastern, a visit to the pottawatomie nation's cultural heritage center.removal from native land into indian territory. >> in this particular section, we really have -- highlight the trail of death. it happened the same year as the cherokee trail of tears and we left our homeland with a few days of each other. this was particularly heartbreaking and gutwrenching. were ones who refused to negotiate with the federal government. agents called in a treaty council and asked to meet at a village in indiana. our ancestors had to walk 660 miles from our homeland in northern indiana to a reservation in kansas. >> watch the tour of shawnee, oklahoma. on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. at the white house, president trump met with a bipartisan group aw