people living on both sides of the border, so you will find the shawnee fighting against the shawnee and this war as allies of the british and of the united states respectively it a the same will play out for the shawnee so this is a north american civil war might argue one in which americans are fighting americans because those americans are settled with an upper canada are under pressure to serve as a militia against the american invaders so the very first casualty of the war is an upper canadian militiaman shot by an american sniper. the upper canadian militiaman was a canadian by birth. succumbing to -- when american forces go into canada and their opponents will include upper canadian militia it's americans against americans overwhelmingly because the americans who had settled in upper canada were at least 60% and perhaps two-thirds of upper canada's population by 1812. it's also a symbol war of irish people against irish people so it is a civil war within the british empire over whether the british empire extends river its subjects go in the world. and then finally is a civil w

, the british kept them and used them as depots for arms for supplying the native americans, the shawneeset, the northwest tripes to foment as much trouble and bloodshed as they could on the borders. so that was a challenge to the north, and if we look -- this is a john rocks map, general map of north america in washington's collection, and here's a detail from it showing you the old southwest along the mississippi, here what was called the yazoo strip between the chat hue chi and the ya river which -- yazoo river which feeds it to the mississippi. and this area was where the spanish were fomenting similar trouble by arming the cherokees, the chickasaws, the choctaws and pitting them against the georgia, settlers from georgia who were trying to move west and coming into conflict. and so washington had a real fire to deal with down here too. and what he managed to do in this case was to stay out of war. he invited 30 of the creek chiefs to come to new york and wined and dined them and, you know, gave them a good treaty. and part of his genius was to be able to balance all these forces and,

it's oklahoma city, edmonton on the area around it and seminole county and shawnee area.t was called pottawattamie county. >> what we are doing prior to being elected congress? 's >> director of a christian youth camp. >> now, if you take governor ballard? >> i did. i'm one of the 35 but it never run for political office before. there wasn't a tea party supporting oklahoma. there is a passion about ideas, but not individual candidates. >> what made you decide to run and congress? >> this is a long journey and for both of us to be able to type filtering through as well be started in the fourth 2008, really struggling through whether we need to get involved in this process greatly felt compelled to build a jump in the process and say we've got to be part of it. it's no different than a lot of people i met for the first time in their life they believe in the issues, but they've never been engaged in issues like they are now. i'm one of those that have always been very passionate about issues and ideas, but never engaged like this until now. >> tell us about your experience i

it's oklahoma city, edmonton on the area around it and seminole county and shawnee area.t was called pottawattamie county. >> what we are doing prior to being elected congress? 's >> director of a christian youth camp. >> now, if you take governor ballard? >> i did. i'm one of the 35 but it never run for political office before. there wasn't a tea party supporting oklahom there is a passion about ideas, but not individual candidates. >> what made you decide to run and congress? >> this is a long journey and for both of us to be able to type filting through as well be started in the fourth 2008, really struggling through whether we need to get involved in this process greatly felt compelled to build a jump in the process and say we've got to be part of it. it's no different than a lot of people i met for the first time in their life they believe in the issues, but they've never been engaged in issues like they are now. i'm e of those that have always been very passionate about issues and ideas, but never engaged like this until now. >> tell us about your experience inside