you can't say the native americans were wrong for saying missouri. you can't say the french were wrong for pronouncing it in their language, just different ways of pronouncing the same word. that is where we have the problem with the word different. different isn't a synonym of the word wrong. we have to be careful how we use it and our children. it answers the question, why do you write that? i write to tell the story. one that has fallen through the cracks, one marginalized by main stream history. either misrepresented or represented to the way in which it is a stereo typical, write to take those stereotypes, reshape them and give them back to you dressed in a new dress. i mean when i say different is not a synonym for wrong, it means that we should celebrate those things. everyone in this room is different in some way. but you should not feel bad about that. your uniqueness, as my grandson who loves to make up words, that is your wonderment. [laughter]. it answers that question that we get asked most often is why do you write? you can say pat is wr

mohicans to avatar he brings depth and authenticity to the characters he plays, changing the way audiences see native americans. legendary actor wes studi. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. wes studi, you are an amazing actor, the star of... well, let's just say avatar, dances with wolves, last of the mohicans, geronimo. what an honor to have you on our program. i have to tell you, i want to go to a movie that came out several years ago-- geronimo, an american legend. because you were... you carried that movie. i'm sure many of our viewers saw that. the moment that i want to talk about for a second is the moment when you first appear onscreen in that movie. and when you are looking at the american soldiers, and you have this look. the camera just kind of zeroes in on your face, and you have this look of distrust, disdain, and interest, and you captured that so well. and i just said it has to be because in your own life as a native american, growing up in oklahoma, these emotions are not... they're not far from your own life, right? >> and they're not foreign, either. yes, it's true. yeah. that's one of t

interests of the native americans, and that'sp to another state, because we're jumping very quickly. mitt romney spent today in virginia, and on saturday, the president is going to be campaigning there. there's a new public policy poll in virginia which says obama leads romney 51-43. it's purple state, duf what does romney need to do. >> those polls are going to be all over the place. it's may, so there will be a lot of back and forth. that state is in play and it will be dependent in large part on the economy. >> i agree. >> agree. >> newt gingrich we have to do a little bit on newt. he dropped out today. are you bored already with him. >> last week he made the announcement that within a week he was going to drop out. >> yes. take a listen to some of his most memorable moments. >> we will have the first permanent base on the moon. i pledge to you my life, my fortune and my sacred honor, so every american can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gasoline. >> are you calling mitt romney a liar? >> yes. >> you are calling mitt romney a l

last month, boston's conservative tabloid, the "boston herald," published this headline, "harvard flow." school once touted liz's native american routes as proof of faculty diversity. the accusation here was that elizabeth warren was somehow wrongly considered to be native american? she was maybe wrongly listed as having native american heritage in law school directoies and someone, maybe her, maybe the school, somehow wrongly benefited from that wrongful impression, that wrongful, spurious thing that she supposedly did. the "boston herald" described it as "elizabeth warren's avowed native american heritage, which the candidate rarely if ever discusses on the campaign trail, was once touted by embattled harvard law school, officials who cited her claim as proof their faculty's lineage." so the accusation that she's faking being native american. senator brown's campaign manager demanded that elizabeth warren apologize for letting harvard describe her of being as native american ancestry. scott brown's manager said it was a hypocritical sham and an insult to all americans who have suffered real discrimination and mistreatment. a

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. so we can ask them that question. [laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think

american military service in the u.s. which dates back to the american revolution. the speakers include native american veterans of world war ii, korea, and iraq. this two-hour long event took place at the national museum of the american indian in washington, d.c. >> welcome to the museum of the american indian. we really are lucky to have these distinguished people here on the program. they are all very close friends of mine but joe medicine crow is a veteran of world war ii and he adopted me as his brother many years ago. he is now 98 years old. so you really are lucky to have him here and we are lucky to have him here. so i'm going to go through a quick overview of the story of indians in the u.s. military. as jason said, you know, the indians have been in uniform fighting for us, sometimes against us, but from every war we had from the revolution on indians were on our side, certain groups, sometimes even fought each other for the u.s. government. >> can we get some lights down for the power point. >> so this picture here, i think really represents what it's all about. you hear, this is th

sacred land like the black hills of south dakota, includes mount rushmore should be returned to the native americang that the human rights counsel i points dictators of unrest of all sorts and allows things but they want to us return rushmore to the native americans. what do you think? >> greg: taking any advice onous tis from the u.n. is like taking health tip tips froa corpse. they once owned manhattan island, too. so i think there is a compromise here, for which we give the u.n. back to the iroquois or any native american. let them take over the u.n. because nobody can do a worse job than the u.n. now. he's crazy. >> andrea: i like that. move it to indian reservation. >> dana: congress can't agree on anything. no member would meet with him. what do you think of that bipartisanship? >> eric: this is ridiculous. i read the story, where am i going with this. why is this that the u.n. suggesting we -- how about the u.n. figure out international problems? >> bob: the united states supreme court rule. and it's not just the tribal land. this is spiritual sand. >> dana: sacred land. >> bob: sacred land.

missouri is the native american pronunciation. in their language it is the people of the big boats. one word means all of that. missouri. frenchman who came up the mississippi river. they said that would be a great place to have a trading post. they set up a tng

but before i left oklahoma back in april 1950, and my folks back there are some of the native americans in the audience and my big brother over here, joe medicine crow and his boy there, i think i saw one of my other relatives here. clayton ogao. did i see him. one of my younger brothers there from the crow tribe. and the folks asked -- or jimmy enku. jimmy enku is one of the songmaker among the kiowas many years ago. and the folks had asked him, they said, well, my boy is getting ready to go overseas to korea. he's home on leave. and they had made a song. so i want to sing that song. because later on the 45th division, that song was given to all members of the 45th division. also akuto. that's thunderbird in my language. and so that song, i'll try to sing it. i might lose it, but we'll try to sing it for you. we call this the 45th thunderbird song. and every time i go back home, carnegie, oklahoma, they see me and they sing that song. and so when you're among our people, when they sing your song you have to get up and dance. and because jimmy enku made this song. my folks had a big hon

to american life and being accepted into american society, and the idea is that this will create a new kind of american. one that is a blend, a fusing of the native and the immigrant. all these different groups and cultures come in and they create something new. but it's a single group that is fused together. there's a single new american identity. that's the model of the melting pot literally. fusing together, an analogy to the way you make steel, something stronger. and more powerful than any of its constituent metals. kallen doesn't like that. it doesn't make sense. his experience in the west end of boston, in observing american life, his experience is something a little bit different. his is an experience in which you have your ethnic identity and your american identity side by side, but there isn't this fusing. you don't become just like the italians down the road or god forbid the yankees in the suburb. you are still a member of a particular group, but you're also an american. he develops this idea which he will continue to elaborate on in the next 20 years or so of this idea of the united states as a culturally plural society. you see this

the foresight to say this is worth investing in and this is worth telling. that's what these films depict. oklahoma african-american experience is truly unique. we came as the slaves of the native americans. you had five civilized tribes that all owned african-american slaves. we also participated in all six land runs and then we came as citizens. so those three migration patterns are how african-americans settle oklahoma. those that were involved in slavery and their children received 40 acres of land, so that is something that is still historically, it's unique for oklahoma, it's unique for the united states, that these former slaves did receive something other than just freedom. land ownership was if you own the land that you worked, you were able to truly make a better way for your family. a lot of the blacktown that make oklahoma unique was settled in. what would occur relatives would pool their resources together and then say, okay, we've got a community now. we've got a church, we've got a school. now let's incorporate and form a black town and all black towns like it. again, uniqueness of oklahoma, the all black town experience, but land ownership, keep in mind, same ti

that person to try to find out if there is any family there around or see if any of the bodies buried are native americanscounty only needs to remove about 100 caskets for this portion of the construction to -- project to restart up. but for that to happen, they must go to court to get permission. that could take several months. again, trying to move about 100 of those caskets. the other ones will remain. bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> still no suspects in the homicide investigation in castro valley in a pollup to the story we reported early yesterday. sheriff's department investigators gathering bags of evidence from the home on omega avenue. a body was found in that home monday night by deputies who were conducting a probation search. the victim has not yet been identified but we know that a woman and her adult son who live inside the house and neighbor says the son was holding a party sunday might while the mother was out of town. the neighbor also says that a fight took place wrought side of that home during the early morning hours. >>> 6:34. new report this morning female farm workers are too fe

thank you. >> that call was on the impact of the native american culture. you touched on that a little bit about some of the art facts, but more broadly, what was the impact of the settlement there? >> also in the population was minimized. they were given reservation, ultimately. immediately, the first contact, there was evidence of friendship and evidence of violence. it's hard to make just one generalization about the impact on the two cultures. my view was that the indians were although they far outnumbered the columnists, they still saw iron coming in. they saw guns. they saw boats, sailing boats, that that technology would be useful to them. so, i think they let jamestown survive. they could have wiped it out, but they let it survive because of the fact that this could -- technologically enhance their own world, you know, the empire really and help them against their enemies. >> here's deerfield, massachusetts. todd, your question or comment? >> caller: yes. first off, thank you for taking my call. dr. kelso, this is a question for you. martins 100 site

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

because a great, great great, great grandma sarah, she gets to check the box she is native american. a laugh eight but the reality is the current chief of the cherokee nation bill john baker is 3% cherokee which us 1/32. megyn: but he's living a native lifestyle. >> she clearly grew up in home which has strong ties to the native american community which is different than massachusetts where you are seeing a lot of political commentators finding it easy to make teepee jokes. you see scott brown questioning her about her qualifycation because he understands he has to appeal to white male working class votessers who feel marginalized because of affirmative action. but for women who do not like being called on their qualifications. it's like someone saying to you did you get an advantage to become an anchor? i think that will backfire on scott brown. megyn: i checked a lot of boxes to get into albany law school. when they said are you white? i said yes. when they said are you a woman? i said yes and they let me in. larry sabato said this is a problem for her. it derailed her effort to de

meeting at 5:00 this afternoon, but the author of the bill, congressman sandy adams has in fact added something that would cover immigrants and native american s, but they call it a manager's amendment to the bill, reworking the language, so covers immigrants, covers native americans now, but still does not include the lgbt community, is that a compromise that you think the cdemocrats could look at? >> my understanding is that what it does with immigrant women is still create new barriers to help them and encourage them and work with law enforcement. my understanding that the law enforcement community is still opposed because they want to encourage cooperation so that immigrant women who may not have the status to be legal in this country, will voluntarily come and report the violence and then be eligible for the kind of visa that allows them to legally stay in the united states and even on their own without relying on their abusers status as a citizen to become citizens themselves. without that, and still having the fear of deportation, why are they going to go to law enforcement? i'm glad that they seem to have addressed something with nat

. >> that caller was on the impact of the indian culture, the native american culture, you touched on that a little bit on the artifacts you found there. but more broadly what was the impact of the english settlement there? >> well, ultimately the population was minimized of the virginia indians. it's hard to generalization about the impact of the two cultures on each other immediately. my view is that the indians were -- although they far outnumbered the colonists to begin with, they still saw iron coming in, they saw guns, they saw sailing boats that the technology would be useful to them. i think they let jamestown survive. they could have wiped it out but let it the survive because of the fact that this could technologically enhance their own world. you know, the empire really and help them against their enemies. >> here's deerfield, mass, todd your question or comment. >> yes, first of all, thank you for taking my call, dr. kelso. this is a question for you. the martins hundreds site what was discovered by iver knoll hume, how much overlap is there between your project and the pr

the struggling lacrosse team. >> it's a team made of native american kids, right? kickapoo. that was fascinating to learn about, the native-american culture and why they play this great game of lacrosse. >> and you and your wife are expecting your first baby this summer. >> that's right. >> how are you holding up? >> nervous. excited. getting information from everyone in, you know, as you know, trying to to find out how ever much they know. and that's the just the beginning because when they're actually there it's a whole new deal. >> did you find out if it's a boy or girl? >> no. but i'm pretty sure it's going to be a boy or a girl. >> is there one you are hoping for more than the other? >> i think it would be nice to have an older brother for a younger sister, so i'm hoping kind of it's a boy. >> ok. thank you so much. and be sure to check out crooked arrows in limited release. nationwide june 1. >> right. >> and now to joel. >> thank you, giuliana. seriously, thank you. i'm learning a lot about gypsies on "my big fat american gypsy wedding," and did you know thei

the native american provisions, sandy adams touted the fact they have rights in federal court.hose tribal lands. still, it does not provide them the tribal councils with the ability to make those arrests of non-tribal people, many of whom are the majority on tribal lands, and so there's a veritable sanctuary for sexual assault on tribal lands. same thing with visas. law enforcement cannot do what they have been doing and that is providing these visas when the woman is cooperating with them. instead, it creates additional hurdles and provides a lot more power for the abuser. >> congresswoman gwen moore. thanks for your time. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll be back after this. sn] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ] >> the first woman put in charge of training the drill instructors is fighting a legal battle to get her job back. tefr reis a king spent 6 months on suspension. ron mot

the dead american struggle with the settlers. >> we decided to do the shadow box. we did that because we wanted to show how the nativeamericans were boxed in and we want to do something powerful. >> the students competed and were chosen to represent maryland in the global competition next week in knoxville. >> this is a day come true. >> the best part is you can see these new ideas. >> it will give their presentation and compete in instant challenges they have to solve. they are charged on teamwork and creativity. the students learn valuable skills. >> i have to overcome my fears and become more confident. i stayed because it is fun and everyone is friendly. you learn a lot of good things. >> after the competition that will break down their sad and work on a new challenge for next year. >> a warm and humid afternoon producing some scattered thunderstorms around the mid atlantic. you can see from lightning strikes, north of charlottesville. around virginia beach. a couple of lightning strikes in central pennsylvania. those have seen some storms pop up. the clouds are breaking and some sound coming out. that warm thing

president of the green party who ran third in the race for president, the representatives of the native american tribes that are now constitutionally protected there. advocates for poor people, advocates for the environment and all sitting around tables talking to each other like they are intelligent beings. in other words, to go back to what you said, you know, i don't have a vote in congress. my opinion on the details is not as important as the process. and our politics favors conflict and the only thing that is working anywhere in the world are created networks of cooperation. that's why san diego has the highest number of nobel prize winning scientists in america because they are the center of the human genome. you got defense, nasa, disney world, global entertainment and the video game division of global entertainment arts and the universal theme park they are all supporting this. so, if you work, look at in america around the world, getting all of the stakeholders together with the goal of making an agreement, doesn't ask anybody to change their mind, doesn't ask anybody to ignore their in

the great lakes. essentially a spent most of my life being taught that story. one where native americans essentially vanished somewhere around the time of the war of 1812. in college and graduate school being confronted with an alternative story to that and leading native people who still live in the states was a stark reminder to me that there was something wrong with the story. the more i investigated it, almost hilarious irony of individuals, one story in the 1840's of an individual in indiana who stood up before a crowd and gave the speech called the decline of miami. essentially what he was arguing was that it was really sad that the miami had to leave. what was interesting to me, documentation that to mean in members were standing there in the crowd listening to this guy lament the fact that there were no longer there. it was that irony i kept finding over and over again that maybe one to investigate. >> oklahoma city is known for the 1995 attack by timothy mcveigh. book tv visits the city to share the local literary culture of the area. >> hi. my name is joe and paul berry, acting

we have a number of parks that deal with native american history, and we have a number of parks that the main focus is not native american history but there are amazing stories. so, for example, p. ridge battlefield, the civil war battlefield, it was established as a civil war battlefield, and, you know, for years and years and years we've told the story of the battle that took place there. >> that is in what state, p. ridge? >> that is in northwest arkansas, sort of in the corner between oklahoma, arkansas and missouri, and for years and years we've told the story of the battle that took place there. it was a union victory. it was critical for trying to keep missouri in the union, and a typical park service fashion we did a lot of telling who shot who where, when, how, so forth, but there are a lot of other interesting stories there as well. there were about 26,000 combatants, about 16,000 on the confederate side. about 10,000 on the union side, and the union won the battle which was unusual at that time. usually when they were outnumbered they didn't win, but, anyway, that's the milita

the united nations investigator plans to recommend the government returns the black hills to the native americans. human rights official says the move would be a big step towards reconciliation. the government offered to sell the land back to the tribe in 1980 but they refused and insisted the land be given to them. >> coming up, the lighting of the olympic torch >> he is like my son >> a beloved showed august:, how was the thief able to sneak,,,,, >> a two year-old girl ends up on a no-fly list. agents stop the family in fort lauderdale. the parents say no one could explain how the little girl ended up on the no-fly list. 30 minutes later they were told they could read board the plane but they say there were no apologies and absolutely no explanation. >> there is a canine history where a man says someone stole one of his two dogs. the 175 lb dog is believed to have been taken tuesday in scotts valley. he is a show dog worth $27,000. the owner believes that someone was casing him and stole the dog while you made a trip to the store >> he didn't have a caller on said they had to bring their own to