we focus on the difficulties that native americans have. so is this humor in spite of those difficulties or is it woven into the culture itself? >> i think it's both. i think native americans are not the only people to have gallows humor about the situation. part of it is gallows humor. a part of it -- i could be way off here, but native americans are americans-americans, too. america in general, i think, is a humorous country often. i mean, that's what people say -- that's the reputation of americans in other countries. that we're funny. so why wouldn't native americans be funny, too? but some are just hysterical. this one woman in yakima, she's so funny. i tell her a joke she's heard it. and i said have you lived on the reservation your whole life and she will say, not yet. [laughter] >> just a take off on other jokes but in generally, i found that native people laugh at each other, certainly at nonnative people and at some of these assumptions and sometimes they just get absolutely outraged at the rudeness of nonnative people towards them

justice, as the native american says, is just us, to it the native establishment. for the native american, the white power system. for us in contemporary time, there is no justice. there is no justice in the courts. and that's sad commentary. and it's mainly predicated, from my perspective, on the swollen power and control that the executive class has now administered on the judicial class. the judicial power, discretion, separateness now has been vastly, vastly inroaded. the kind of final comment, and i'll put it into contemporary setting, is when it is said the law is fair, it applies to everyone equally. no one is above or below the law. the rule of frame is the street people cannot sleep under the bridge, but the chief of police and the district attorney cannot sleep under

justice, as the native american says, is just us, to it the native establishment. for the native american, the white power system. for us in contemporary time, there is no justice. there is no justice in the courts. and that's sad commentary. and it's mainly predicated, from my perspective, on the swollen power and control that the executive class has now administered on the judicial class. the judicial power, discretion, separateness now has been vastly, vastly inroaded. the kind of final comment, and

justice, as the native american says, is just us, to it the native establishment. for the native american, the white power system. for us in contemporary time, there is no justice. there is no justice in the courts.

soom of the mission records were kept great on the baptism and birth, but the native americans are definitelyknow that the priests were exhumed and moved to the mt. olive cemetery. >> i want to ask about fund raisers.we are part of the angle -- angel and there is administer information on that -- there is information on that and you are available to check that out and come. >> we will provide that at the end and you can go on there and check it out . >> so it's all schools, right? yeah, we get a great display of children. >>> we have to run, 30 seconds. >> please join us to be the friend of the mission of the foundation; that helps us maintain the living history and dialogue, and we ask you to join us on behalf of the foundation. >>> thank you for being with us on mosaic. remember his -- history involves all of us, stay with it. okay you guys are great. >>

navigating the world between your native culture and the larger american culture. tell us about that. >> and growing up i started off in a very rule area in oklahoma. we lived there and for the times taking place in the '50s and '60s so there was a different mindset with a lot of racism that had to be dealt with by my parents and especially since my father was indian and my mother was not come even they have a lot of racism aimed at them or being the integrated marriage at the time. but the story is about finding strength of than yourself to be able to push through those hardships and make it through the night and in the morning when the sun comes up to give banks sometimes you have to get help. when times get hard for me, whether when i was seven or eight more had to leave home as a junior, you have to go somewhere to get help. the church offered a place to stay and recover from the domestic violence. but before then, i had my own problems of self-esteem and i was the youngest of four girls feeling that everybody was picking on me and doing those main things that

the competition called very prominent attention to the lives of native people, as strangers in the homelands. this alienation of native people in american society has been due in large part to the legal decisions rendered by our american courts, and our next distinguished author, walter echo hawk, is the author of "in the courts of the conqueror." he analyzes 10 cases that embody our exposes the roots of injustice and describes the effects of nefarious legal doctrines upon the legal, political property and cultural rights of indigenous peoples. while the judiciary may have rendered the legal distraction of native american identity and culture okay and many americans eyes, his survey of the legal travesties offers more than a simple history. represents a very compelling case for reform in american jurisprudence. taken together, you might think the themes of these two books are too tragic for consideration. but in the course of the conqueror and "muscogee daughter," offer that the testimony is vanishing americans or someone at the end of the trail. please welcome susan supernaw and walter echo hawk. [applause] >> i'd like to begin with a

somewhere down the line, all of us came here at some point, except the native americans. but yeah, i think like my mom said, just getting our voice out there, really are part of the same society, and i think our society has faced a real moral crisis where we have family values that are opposed to what our policies and laws say, and we are splitting up families. i have friends who were born here and don't speak a word of spanish and could be deported and couldn't communicate with anyone. i think putting these faces out there and showing people that immigrants are a vibrant part of civic life, that that is a really important thing for the cause. thanks. >> thank you for your comments. they are duly noted. commissioners, we are coming to close here. are there commissioners who would like to make any comments? ok. commissioner? >> first of all, i want to thank everyone who is here tonight. i want to thank the centers. but i especially want to take time to thank the people from the immigrant rights movement who are here tonight and who are not here tonight for other reasons. i

partially why but mostly native american. one of the earliest the greatest athletes, one of the most important things about him i think is he is at the dawn of american organized sports. and he sets a model. he sets up the gold standard that still stands today. >> when did he live? >> he was born in 1887 in oklahoma, died in 1953. so first out of the of the 21st century more or less. >> did he play professional sports? >> yes, yes. he played both nonprofessional and also professional. he played for the new york giants were now december cisco judge, last year's world series when it. he played for the canton bulldogs which is why the professional football hall of fame is in canton, ohio. is because of jim thorpe if you walk in the front door of the hall of fame, the only statue that you see in the center of the hall is jim thorpe. >> in his time was he as well known as a michael vick or a brett favre did a? >> more. much, much more because he was this multisport athlete but he did football, baseball, track and field. he won gold medals in

they are dena'ina people-- a branch of the athabaskan native americans. it was his job to teach me to hunt. i was born in kenai right here in 1923-- born and raised here. [narrator] clare swan is chairperson of the tribe. i just looked back at my roots and began to put them together and realized really how much of that was important to me, and i had tried to, like everyone else, change that because in order to fit-- there was a time when it wasn't fashionable to be native. you were lucky if you were blond and you were light enough that you could pass. no one was allowed to speak the dena'ina language. they didn't allow it in schools, and a lot of the women had married non-native men, and the men said, "you're american now, so you can't speak the language." so we became invisible in the community, invisible to each other, and then because we couldn't speak the language-- what happens when you can't speak your own language is that you have to think with someone else's words, and that's a dreadful kind of isolation. [narrator] today the kenai river has become

the data for the hispanic population and asian pacific islands and the native american population are less complete, having been collected in significant amounts only in the last. 30 or 40 years. you will see parallel improvements in mortality rates in all these populations. life expectancy at birth has improved over the course of the 20th century but here again, the lines are parallel and don't cross. in the year 1900, life expectancy was 47 years, of whites and less than 40 years for blacks. compared to today where it is approaching 80 years for white females and almost 70 years for black males. you will see that while all these lines have improved, you don't see much closing of the gap. some slight closing but much more remains to be done. the report from the public health service in 2010 on health care qualities and disparities show that while access and quality are suboptimal especially for minorities and low income groups, quality of care is improving but access to care is not improving. we must do more. many things in pentagon this. one thing we have not talked about very much

. >> >> greg: you look like the son of the native american in king of the hill. wait.at asian? >> he was the son of big john. we grew up -- any beard growing tips? >> one guy said that at the risk of being too crass, he would not self pleasure himself because he believed that holding onto the tester ron helps him get a bigger, fuller beard. start growing a beard. >> and why yours is coming in so badly. >> not like that is going to happen. >> is it a crime to shave somebody's beard against their will? >> no. i think we should do it. well done. >> greg: time for another break. and remember to check out the red eye podcast. to catch them, go to fox news radio and click on red eye. tonight, we talked about all sorts of things, including stuff like -- things that were important to us. louis c.k. show, we talked about. and my dople ganger gutfeld. >> my sister's on. >> when? >> i don't know. she played the perverted reporter on one of the first seasons. >> a lot of card joy, no flour, no sugar. back by popular demand. time for a red eye, where are they now? surely other you

we have a photo essay from south dakota's black hills and more on the history of the native american land claim. plus read ray's blog post about somalis suffering from the famine and the political strife in mogadishu. that's on our global health page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll have a newsmaker interview with republican presidential hopeful and former utah governor jon huntsman. i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access g

even if you think about the native american. the sioux fight the whatever they were. that's the nature of tribes. the other thing about tribes, they are not -- conduct is not governed by a system of laws, but a code of honor. which again is special forces and again is like other tribes that we know. including the mafia. prison gangs are tribes. the willing embrace of adversity is another aspect of tribes. and you could make a case that when the american military trains these young recruits, what they are trying to do is make them into a tribe. make them, you know, make everybody wear the same clothe, have the same haircut, eat the same chow, do the same training, compel them to be together and force the love. they have to eat together and so on and so forth. and there are many other tribal qualities that sort of echo the warrior ethos. but this is what i really would love to hear what you think about this. this is where it kind of gets -- what i'm about to talk about is where it gets in a gray area in is a morally dubious area. two aspects of tribes that are very powe

the first was this attempt by the native american tribes to create their own state to join together. and they had a convention to do this, and at the same time they were doing that -- that would have been, the tribal lands is when edward mccabe and others were urging through advertisements and brochures african-americans to migrate to the newly-opened lands in western oklahoma so that it could become an african-american majority state. to escape the persecution mainly in the south. and theodore roosevelt, the president, told both sides neither one of these is going to happen. i'm going to veto it, so stop. and then there was a third convention which was, basically, well, it included native americans and whites, but blacks were not welcome that created the state of oklahoma which wanted to embed in their constitution white supremacy. and to do that, they had to define a white person, and they did it in a way that indian were white people. [laughter] but other delegates there said teddy roosevelt is never going to sign a law with that in the constitution, so they backed away from that a

the. contaminated lives native americans from the area used for your brain in mining say the u.s. government has exploited their land and left a legacy of illness or disease. international news live from moscow this is us he was me thanks for joining us he has no bones iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad wants his opposition to the u.n. and nato military operation in libya and describes the western ways as a big mistake he also points out that iran will never develop nuclear weapons as they belong to the past the president shared his gaze exclusively with his governor . roosevelt would only do the job thank you so much for taking the time out of your business should you want to be on r.t. international tonight i'll start if i may with the story that made all the news headlines for the past six months that's unfolded in north africa in the middle east that's been dubbed the hour. spring what are your views on the arab spring and we've spoken about it before but i just want to hear your latest thoughts do you think it's a popular uprising for the better to bring democracy or you th