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 the bridge. see how fair it is? it's equal. isn't it? [applause] >> actually, we'll have the d.a. here and the chief of police. here and the chief of police. so we can ask them that

this has happened more poignantly within the native american and african american communities in termsme phenomena. well, i think trauma happens in every community. we want to make that clear. now, with regard to the native american community, you've got the common issue of historic trauma, the similar phenomenon in the african american community. and that gives us intergenerational phenomena

the spanish, french and british. french diplomats called the american populace warlike. the information got out somehow without fancy technology. shortly after the same framework, native americans and mexicans supplied by the north and the american south. lazy do nothing society in a way of progress. it was not no. opposition to slavery that triggered the civil war although it came to play an important role as the unifying theme. i'm not excusing slavery and it might well be argued that without the war slavery would have continued for several decades more also some historians disagree with that assessment. the more fundamental conflict was a clash of cultures. the slow easy way of the south as opposed to the rest of the economic expansion of the north. both sides regarded the other as the devil incarnate. the result was loss of 625,000 live. and massive disruption of the south economize by sherman's march to the sea. those scars still exist. the war is not really over as you know. the germans were next. that is an opposition that seems justified and the, quote, godless communists. conversion of russians from allies to enemy occurred almost overnight. it isn't difficul

( cheers and applause ) the san francisco area was once populated by the native american tribe the ohlone, who believed humans were descended from the trickster god coyote, who played a big trick on them in the 18th century when the spanish killed them and took their land. ( laughter ). no! i can't. >> come on! >> stephen: go away! ( laughter ) 40 days of this! ( applause ) in 1906, the eighth was struck by an earthquake which leveled san francisco and markedly the last time anyone could afford to live there without six roommates. ( laughter ). in 1967, 100,000 hippies gathered in the hate ash brie neighborhood for the summer of love, quickly followed by the autumn of antibiotics. ( applause ) and who has the sourdoughs to represent california's aight? none other than house democratic leader nancy pelosi. ( cheers and applause ) who famously once said this... well, thank you for doing this. >> my pleasure. >> stephen: considering our history, this is very big of you. >> i'm sorry-- i'm still not coming on your show. >> stephen: when we return, she's coming on my show ( cheers and applause

if you're watching us on whdh 7 news in boston, massachusetts, in nearby say 'em explore the native american art and culture from 200 b.c. to the present. that is your "early today" event of the today. >>> here is an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. >>> last night in new york, jay-z added to his list of impressive career achievements. he performed on the famed stage of carnegie hall. the second hip-hop happen to perform there. >>> the associated press reports chris brown will perform at this year's grammys. the same event where his career almost ended three years ago when he assaulted then girlfriend rihanna. "e" reports demi moore has joined brook mueller in rehab at a utah clinic. add randy travis to the mug shot gallery. a little bit of a grin there. he apologized for his public intox arrest on sunday after, quote, celebrating the super bowl. >>> gisele bundchen in hot water for standing by her man new england quarterback tom brady. leaving the stadium on sunday night, she loudly complained to a friend about dropped passes saying, my husband can't throw the ball an

during the native american riots, he said, okay, even though i was in charge of this policy, i'm not going to do it. the final thing with maryland -- maryland is a very strange state. is it south? is it north? is it east? is it west? it has a lot of people who are very difficult to discern what they are even in terms of are you a democrat or a republican? so agnew fit because he wasn't south and wasn't north. i do disagree with you. i don't think agnew actually was there. i also disagree with the thing about strom thurmond. i don't think agnew was part of a southern vstrategy. i believe he was part of a suburban strategy. nixon figured out by '68 voters in the suburbs and states like pennsylvania were the ones making the difference and that's why agnew was on the ticket. >> you had your hand up in the purple right there. and then we'll continue. >> okay. the election, there's a story that has gone afoot that the election that i heard, i don't know if it's mythology or fact, that on election day 1960, did richard nixon, in fact, take

and as with past celebrity deaths, the media observed her passing in the tradition of the native americans by using every part of the tragedy. (laughter) for instance, did you know with very little skill you can turn a song catalog into hours of terrible segways. >> for a time, she was pop's greatest love of all. >> plus whitney houston's greatest love. inside her rocky relationship with bobby brown. >> and fans who, despite her sad unraveling, will always love her. >> we won't have to be remembering her sound track from "the bodyguard," if only she'd guarded her own body better. (audience reacts) >> hey (bleep) hole! someone died! can we cool it with the word play? when cronkite announced the death of j.f.k., it wasn't with a clever "ask not who got shot in dallas today." (laughter) as for cnn's resident hearse chaser nancy grace, she managed to turn the tragic accident into murder mystery dinner theater. >> we're going to find out what was in her system and i'd like to find out who, if anyone, put it in her system or gave it to her. now, i'd like to know who was around her, who if anyone

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

secondly, the native american community is also part of this discussion, though rarely mentioned. and i say it again in an oklahoma context because my family on my father's side were enslaved by chick a saw people and we get to oklahoma through the trail of tears and the family name was bernie until my father's grandfather ran away to fight in the union forces and changed his name to franklin and freed himself. so that's another part of the discussion in addition to hispanic names mentioned earlier. >> right, right. >> and at the association for the study of african-american life and histories annual meeting this year, the finalry was on african-american women and the civil war. research is ongoing and i think we should all look to the upcoming book looking at the massacre and exploitation of african-american women during this conflict. this is something we rarely hea. thank you. >> there's great research being done on contraband camps and the whole emancipation process and a lot of those scholars are beginning to show us that possibly one of every four fugitive slaves who escaped

it's made by the native americans, and it catches your dreams and keeps them safe forever. i had a dream about weasels eating me last night, and i don't want that one again. well, no, it wouldn't keep a dream like that. it only keeps the nice ones. how does it know which ones are the good dreams and which ones are the bad dreams? that's a very, very good question. it knows which are the good dreams because it can see you smiling in your sleep. what if you're smiling, but it's a bad dream? um... uh.... and it catches that one and you have it again? it's more magical than that. how does it-- say thank you, karen. thank you. so, nice to see you. yeah. right. well, i'll go and make you a bed up. oh, i'm not staying. no, of course you're not staying. dad has been ringing every day for a week to try and find out when you're coming, and you know how anxious he gets now with his-- and you're just gonna drop in and say, "hello! goodbye!" and then run away again as per usual. it's just not-- i'm staying with dad. pardon? i'm gonna stay with dad. i've left the states for good to stay

first-come it marked the start of the longest and most brutal war between americans and a single native tribes also because it involved the woman who was to be the most famous as a captive. it took place precisely at the point* where the westward booming american empire that the parker's did not realize that enormous american empire moving west. meeting the 250,000 square bio comanche empire. nobody could see this at the time but it was right there. that is where the parker's build the house. how they had any idea that is what they we're doing i am sure they never would have done it. why was that empire there? the reason it was there is a result of 150 years of sustained combat with one goal of the south plains. why? those the master the horse like no other tried because that is where the buffalo were. over 150 years the comanche's essentially use their unbelievable mastery of the course to challenge as they went south nearly exterminated the apaches eventually gaining what they wanted which was the south plains which is where the buffalo were. that is where the parker's plucked that li

she is the first native american woman canonized. the first native american canonized. l happen now, as cardinal moto is asking the holy father to give permission. the saints through their holyness are in hevan. so the announcement of miracles is really a testament that they are in heaven interest seeding for -- interceding for us. and that's the miracle that we can pray and ask for their intercession. so the process for determining that these people are indepeed eligible or worthy of being named saints is that by the way they lived, by their example, by their faithful service, by their teaching or in their death, if they are martyrs -- this group does not contain martyrs, i don't believe, so if this died for the faith, this goes over everything they ever wrote, testimony from people that knew them is all contributing to this process. it is not just the miracle, but it is everything else that went in their lives. >> a great amount of consideration that is involved. it takes years. >> yes. >> there is still mother mary lane. >> and there has been one miracle attested to h

the american bald eagle. we get them out of the conservancy in colorado. they harvest the eagles when they die and everything for nativerican rituals. you have to apply for it. this is an american wheel prayer symbol. it's carved out of the elk bone. i wasn't for sure whether the feather would cancel out this, you know, the medallion, or this. >> obviously if you're going to wear a religious article, one at a time. i don't have a problem with that being in the cell. the feather and you taking that as well. i think we'll be fine with that. because you're not going to wear the feather. >> no, no. >> i don't see that that would be an issue. >> you have so little in prison and everything. the spiritual becomes vastly important. >> i would say during my early years, they done the right thing by locking me up. i was too messed up. i really was. and i hope that when i do die, that people can look back and say well, the person that he did become in his later years would bear no resemblance to the person he was when he was 18, 19, 20. i wish i could get out. i totally understand why no one would ever even ask, even float the id

then not until the federal government decided the land of the native americans a and i am 1/3 native can and but i am also you probably couldn't negotiated treaty and assign my own reparations check. [laughter] iaconelli has been created in the united states i am delighted buy it. i am what i am and i am not apologizing but the bottom line is there isn't anybody from ayn rand or i am the individual parts of the biggest takers are my friends in the financial sector. we need to pipe up loud and strong. the cuts are unacceptable. we don't need to ride the bullet train my kids are still dodging bullets and let jerry brown know we're not doing this. if you cannot create the basic safety for all children to learn and thrive, no matter what station airborne, that is the minimum. i am just talking about a safe enough for kids to walk to school not encounter a gain in the bathroom and learn without posttraumatic stress and for them to walk home without getting shot. i don't think that is a lot to ask. i see capitalism create more wealth for poor people not talk about going to communism but kee

a third native american and a third african and a third anglo celtic. as a set in thek, and an afro and do celts. and so i could probably negotiate and native american treaty by myself and i could sign consignment of reparations check. okay, this is what i said. i could only have been created in the united states and frankly i'm delighted by it. i'm very sorry it had to happen out of misery and tragedy. it is what it is in a yam what i yam. the bottom line is there isn't anybody who made it because of some eyeing rant i am the individual. the biggest takers right now are my elite friends in the financial dirt. and so, we need to pipe up loud and strong. these cuts are unacceptable. we do not need to be building a bullet train when the kids in jordan downs are still dodging bullets. and we need to let jerry brown know we are not doing this. we have to set priorities. if you cannot put a floor and create a basic safety for all children to learn and thrive, no matter what station they are born into, that's the minimum. i am not talking about the safety in bel air. i am ju

but the native american population here in our country has a problem even greater than that. chad smith, the former principal chief of the cherokee nation is in washington this week, working to change that. he joins us now to explain how. and good morning and welcome from oklahoma. >> oco. good morning. >> a little bit of your oklahoma weather here, huh? >> yeah, beautiful weather. >> great to have you here. a recent census showed between 50 and 85% of native americans are unemployed, many living below the poverty level. what accounts for these alarming statistics? >> well, generally, if you look where tribes are, they're in poverty areas anyhow. rural areas, lack of resources, lack of urban markets. so we see that as a contributor. and then we see a poverty cycle. we see generational poverty. and we've tried many, many ways to try to break that, and i think we're on the edge of an innovative project to do that. >> well, you say most of the native children, specifically cherokee children, are raised by their grandparents. why is that? where are the parents? >> we did a study.