i first must thank the french house association for native americans -- the friendship house for native americans. [applause] and for the laughter that you guys give me. i would like to thank the youth and their families. thank you a lot. as the youth workeres, this is the hot -- workers, this is

office of neighborhood services, and the native american aids project. r hosts probably do not realize the impact that this event has on the native american community. but it is something we look forward to every year. these four honorees -- i have had the pleasure, the privilege of working with them on a professional level. i do not know if i have an unprofessional level, but as well as in any powwow irina, so it gives me great pride and pleasure as well toemcee -- to emcee this event. how many native americans in the san francisco bay area? let's see -- one, two -- [laughter] over 60,000. how many in oakland? 29,000. it is just really need for the san francisco bay area, northern california, california -- it is really neat to recognize native american heritage month with these four that we on this day. again, i know them well. and i can call them my friends, even though one of them is lakota. at this time, i would like to turn the microphone over to john of kqed. >> thanks, carol -- banks, ea -- thanks, earl. i'm president of kqed media. i'm glad you ar

i would like to thank our host for this month, native american aids project, the mayor's office, the san francisco native american health center, and kqed public broadcasting. how about a big round of applause for our host? thank you. at this time, when indian people -- when we gather, we throw on our regalia, our outfits. we do not call them costumes. if you are from oklahoma, we call them in being close -- clothes. it is good to see all these dancers and singers as well, their families. when we gather like this, we start out with prayer, so please stand if you are able. creator, grandfather, we give thanks this day for the many blessings for this beautiful day, this opportunity to honor our own here in san francisco city hall. we give thanks to native and non-native alike, those that are here today. when this ends, we hope that they travel safe, that they continue this relationship, creator. we remember the words spoken here by the leaders of our native american community. creator, blessings upon them. our seniors, are dancers, everyone in attendance. remember those that have passed

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 i'll put it into contemporary setting,i

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

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

the early chroniclers are describing tobacco particularly as emblematic of the idolatry of the native americans. and this creates kind of a problem for europeans several decades down the line, are more like a sentry down the line, when tobacco starts being used in europe and they became curious about its origins. they have this kind of print record of describing tobacco as kind of the ultimate idolatry and kind of barbarian behavior. and so they are faced with reconciling their own new habits with the way that they described it earlier on. >> well, when did tobacco catch on in europe? >> there's actually a significant time lag. part of the research that i did for this project, which would have been done before with the kind of systematically look in trade records and see when you start seeing them in a systematic way. so we have evidence that there's kind of erratic and idiosyncratic imports of both of the goods throughout the 16th century, throughout the 1500s. in a come as you would expect that some europeans start to get habituated to it and the americans, they need their stash when they go

the most. native americans will pay the least. will get a 25 cent . the republicans are doing this to protest a bill that would allow public universities in california to consider race in student admissions. they say they meant to get people upset. many on campus kiss agree with their tactics. the sake sale scheduled to get started at -- at 10:00 this morning. >>> new information this morning on the death of a patient at an oakland hospital during a nursing lock out. the oakland tribune reports 66-year-old cancer patient judith ming died after replacement nurse accidentally gave her a nutritional supplement by i.v. instead of through a feeding tube. the nurse is one of 500 hired to replace the striking nurses at alta bates hospital. they say it wouldn't have happened if the nurses were locked out until today. >> to hear this horrific event that occurred to this wonderful person is beyond me. and it all could have been prevented. >> alta baits calls ming's death a -- al bates calls ming's death a medical error. >>> san mateo police have shot two dogs k

what notah's trying to do for the native american community, what he's trying to do for all the kidsetes, as he'll explain, it's totally preventative. that's one of the things we don't realize is obesity and type ii diabetes can all be preventative. what he's trying to do for a lot of young kids that don't understand, they don't have the knowledge for what life is and what he's doing is, as i sid, there's no one out there doing this. and being a friend, knowing him since we were kids, to see what's doing, i'm so proud. >> notah, why are you taking the lead in this? what was the inspiration for you? >> well, just visiting a lot of the native american communities in my philanthropy and community outreach week over the last few years demonstrated to me there was a lack of programming and a lack of well researched evidence-based programming. that's what we're after. we have partners, like johns hopkins university that helps us design our research, implement our study, process our data and we are really taking a focused and targeted approach on this epidemic to push back and actually prev

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

somewhere down the line, all of us came here at some point, except the native americans. ut 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 th

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but the most preferred one is, they in fact bring that to north america and, in fact, a native americans there a preference for that as well. so it supplants for the most part been end of, today what is the eastern seaboard. it is grown what is most of today and that could spread from the caribbean out beyond. >> and we've been talking with marcy norton who is a history professor here at george washington university and the author of this book, "sacred gifts, profane pleasures: a history of tobacco and chocolate in the atlantic world." thank you, professor. >> thank you. >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. >> professor benjamin hopkins, what is the east india company? >> the british east india company was a semi-commercial company founded in the year 1600 by royal charter, by queen elizabeth, which gave it the exclusive right to trade with the indies. the english merchants. over time it transform into a kind of parasail juggernaut and behemoth that is extremely complex and difficult to understand. but the key thing about the east india company

the most. native americans will pay the least. women will get a 25 cent discount. the republicans say they are doing this to protest a bill that would allow public universities in california to consider race in student admissions. they say they meant to get people upset. they wanted to draw attention to this in such a way. but many on campus do not agree with their tactics. the bake sale is scheduled to start at 10:00 this morning. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. >>> the paying sale has people talking on our -- the bake sale has people talking on our facebook page. >> i think there could be a better way if get their point across. seems ridiculous. >> keep in mind liberals have no sense of humor until it is politically correct or decked against conservatives. you can -- or directed against conservatives. >>> expect fireworks tonight at the sausalito city council meeting. one member promises to comment on a battery charge leveled against him by a fellow councilmember. the charge now being investigated by the marin county d.a.. terry, what happened? >> reporter: we should

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

that said, the price list they have created charges white students the most, $2 a pastry and native americans the least, 25 cents a pastry with students of other ethnicities paying prices within the range. and the sale will be held across from a phone bank that is being held in support of sb-185. this race-based bake sale is not new to the berkeley campus. it's a tactic that was used when people were in support of proposition 209 and it's something that people are going to plan a counter protest today as a surprise that's planned. of course students aren't telling us what they plan to do. we had heard word people might be passing out what they are calling consciousness cupcakes and those would be free cupcakes given out to everyone regardless of people's agenda or race. back to you. >> well, it wouldn't be cal unless they had options. >> sugar high for all. >> thank you. >>> two women on the city council say they are sick of it, sick of being mistreated by the men on the council. >> a last straw for one of the women when a councilman slapped her hand in front of everyone. steph has a copy of

caucasian students will be charged the most, while native american students will pay the least. women will get a 25 percent discount. according to the group the event is to denounce a bill, f b-1 85, which would -- show how affirmative action policies can be discriminatory. many students say this is in poor taste. . >> it was done in a distasteful manny. >> i don't think it's appropriate to make light of an action like affirmative action. >> reporter: he said they never expected the back lash they received. >> threats made to the organizers of the event, burning down the table, throwing the baked goods at us. >> reporter: kron 4 news. >>> in sports michael vic may not be out for next week's game against the 49ers afterall and with tony romo be able to do it again? gary is next, he has the highlights. i couldn't afford my health insurance anymore so i just started wearing this helmet instead... which, you know, it's... to me it makes sense. i mean, it can get awkward sure, when you're meeting new people but i just explain to them that i wear it because i dropped my insurance plan

the native-american people were cannibals and they ate people. you could see the manifestation of that in the churches where people turned against people and kind of cannibalized other people's ministries. there has been a lot of prayer over that in houston, texas. they've done a lot of intercession over that and broke the curses on the land. and we just had a prayer meeting a week ago. the governor of texas, really as an individual, instigated this. 35,000 people showed up to pray and it was only a prayer meeting called within three months. a three-month period of time. what happened? the land is starting to rejoice, you see, because of that prayer. >> the land of texas starting to rejoice because of rick perry's stadium prayer event in houston. with all due respect, since rick perry's stadium prayer event in houston, texas has been quite literally on fire. nearly four weeks after the prayer meeting, governor rick perry reupped his wildfire disaster proclamation for the ninth time for every county in texas. hundreds of home were lost just in sept

one of the commonalities as an educator and as a counselor is, i was, 10 years ago. i was working with native american students, i am from the midwest and i moved out here 6 years ago. prior to that, however, i was, the counseling department for a native american therapeutic school. we had 260 students grades 4 through 8. 75 percent were on special education ie p's. 90 percent were already enrolled in the juvenile system and in the drug and alcohol programs. later on, i would show up and be a counselor at the betty ford center with attorneys and other professionals. the one commonality that the children at therapeutic school and the professionals at the betty ford center had in common was no clue about feelings and how to be aware of their feelings and how to address them. what mr. dierck has done is one of the things that we as educators, it's the one thing we have missed. it's the absolutely one thing we missed to teach our children to recognize and be aware of their own feelings and work with children with similar feelings. we can teach them all the math. we don't have clue one to teach them how to

whites will pay the most, while native americans pay the least and women get a discount. college republicans say the bill is meant to draw attention to an w bill that would allow california public universities to consider an applicant's race, gender and ethnicity in the admission's process. >>> time to get a check on weather. meteorologist christina lorton tell us about t are you give to give us flying to diagnosecy cyst for the weather? >> start out nice and mild, the getting the best of it right odgo today, monday, looking . good. look a this live shot. you can see for miles, s ate of san francisco. ye, just breath taking, get a g couple of fog-free days in the city. if you live in the city you wait for days like this going to get a couple tuesday to wednesday, 62 degrees right now in oakland, 63, san francisco. on your way to about 71 with all that sunshine coming into the city. san jose, really nice day for you, 79 degrees. you can actually give the ac a break for today but going to want to turn it back on as we head through tuesday and wednesday, temperatures really

but that said, the price list that they are creating charges white students the most, $2 a pastry and native americans the least only 25 cents. and then students of different ethnicities are charged various amounts inside that price range. that sale is being held at a very strategic location right across from a phone bank that's being held today in support of sb-185. this concept of a race-based bake sale is not new to the cal campus. a similar type of event was held when people were rallying for prop 209 and we have heard that there actually be a protest to count counter that sale today. they are expected to protest this afternoon. some sort of a surprise we are not sure what they will do when they arrive, and we have also heard some students may be handing out cupcakes to everyone for free kind of as a gesture that, you know, everyone is equal regardless of race or ethnicity so we'll have to wait and see what they have planned later on today at sproul plaza. back to you. >> they are making their point and getting attention. thank you, kristy. >>> it is 6:33 now. nurses at alta bates summit medical c