By the strange twist of fate, and maybe this was also a bit of a spiritual night from the spirit of Standing Bear, arthur became a Founding Member of the Plains Indian Museum advisory were when he was a wee bit back in 1976. What hasnt he done . He has spent a lifetime sharing his philosophy, his vision, his cultural knowledge of lakota life. And i did not feel it was appropriate or necessary to edit such wonderful life achievements. Im sure i have missed a few things, too. Please, make yourself comfortable and prepare for an earful. In addition to being recognized a lakota artist, mr. Amiotte is an educator, a historian, and an author. He served on the Indian Advisory Committee for the National Museum of the American Indian in washington, d. C. , the commission for establishing the indian memorial at the little bighorn battle site, the president ial Advisory Counsel for the performing arts at the kennedy center, the board of directors for the native american arts studies association, the u. S. Department of the interior indian arts and crafts board, and the council of regents of the institutes of American Indian arts. As an artist, he has had extensive group and solo exhibitions. He received three honorary doctorates. In 20 in 2002, he was awarded a Bush Foundation or disclosure. In 2010, the bush endearing award. He received a masters of Interdisciplinary Studies in anthropology, religion and arts from the university of montana. In june, we were most pleased to honor arthur with the spirit of the American West award here at the center for his contributions as a founding advisor. He is an author of many publications with contributions to exhibition catalogs, including the Nelson Atkins museum plains indian artists of urban sky. Arthur also contributed to the book memory and vision of plains indian people published in 2007. He recently wrote the introduction for an upcoming publication titled plains indian buffalo cultures, art from the [indiscernible] collection. You will see that in may 2018. His most recent solo exhibition transformation and continuity in lakota culture, the colleges of Arthur Amiotte 1988 to 2014 was featured at the Lakota Museum and Cultural Center as well as the dolls art center in rapid city. I would like to note that arthur will be doing a book signing for this catalog today 2 00 to 2 3 in front of the museum store. Be sure to get a copy of the catalog and have arthur senate. It is a wonderful publication. His art is featured in the centers collections and sought out by private and museum collectors, not just around the nation, but globally. These are official dialogues between multiple worlds that stand the barriers of both time and cultures. Arthur has stuck with us through all of this to provide unparalleled division and wisdom unparalleled vision and wisdom. Also, read inspiring reinstallation of the museum in 2000. He worked tirelessly on the recreation of his greatgrandfathers cabin in the university and renewals section. If you have not visited that, please do. It is a timeless installation brought to life by arthurs life and voice. It is his willingness to spend a lifetime sharing this knowledge that makes him so special. Although it is now 41 years later, his mind is of the sharpest quality, his life is strong and he has a wonderful head of hair. Also, a marvelous sense of humor. He is a friend, and mentor, and i am very happy to welcome Arthur Amiotte. [applause] arthur thank you very much. I want to thank jeremy and all of his death and all the way from the person who runs around in the Storage Units to the very top of the directors office, all of them are to be congratulated on this magnificent occasion for the symposium. Of course, all of you, scholars deserve the greatest accolades. This is your arena, this is your place for the exposition of your life work, your ideas, your mind and your dedication. I pay homage to you today. Of course, it would not be complete if you did not have to want to talk to. I want to thank all the guests and interested citizens and additional scholars who have come to this event. After 40 years of being a board member. I see this as another accompaniment of this magnificent institution. Time does take its toll and i do feel like a very old chicken that crossed the road. Then he asks why did i cross this road . There is an egg metaphor, again. It has to do with what comes first, the chicken or the egg. The subject i want to discuss with you is a very complex one. The essence of his message occurred long before i was born. It passed through the seams of oral tradition, through which it was strained and parts were left out, part were forgotten, parts were diminished and it was not until i reached an age of reason with a modicum of education that i had to go back and rediscover. That is what historians do. I am not a historian. Im a member of a very strange and exotic family. Using it all together again has been something of a task but i daresay this institution and my appointment to it as a board member in 1976 had a profound effect upon me. Once i got here and discovered it, i already knew about my family positive association with the buffalo bill experience. And you discover a place that had archives, objects it brought together and created an indigenous for me to want to pursue this. Kind of like that mormon guy when he saw the valley in utah. This is the place. Something like that happened to me. Something like that happened to me. It was an epiphany that i knew this was going to be the place that i wanted to spend a lot of time and to try to do as much as i could because i had spent the first half of my life acquiring education that would enable me to function institutionally and it also gave me a perspective on the use of scholarly methods and approaches and how to manage the materials that i thought was here because i found out there were some things here that did not exist that i thought i would learn a lot from. But, over the years, there has been an accrual of additional material. And most certainly, at this time, the great contributions that all of you as scholars and curators have made to the field. Particularly this most recent book on lakota performers. I look forward to delving into that because that is essentially what my presentation is centered around this afternoon. And so, coupled with desire and intellect that you have and with which you have brought to further elucidation, the remarkable elements of the buffalo bill story, it has been good. Anyway, this old chicken knows why he crossed that road. [laughter] but, to begin with, the gentleman that you see here in a business suit is my greatgrandfather. His name was Standing Bear and i must say that he is not related in any way to luther Standing Bear, nor henry Standing Bear, nor the Standing Bear from 1991 that was sent abroad along with short bull. That Standing Bear was a. Ounded knee militant. He was sent abroad along with Standing Bear and short bull to show them a Broader Vision of the world and show them how futile their efforts were. Standing bear did a good number of things. They are not to be confused with this Standing Bear. This Standing Bear received his name in a very traditional fashion. He returned from a horse capturing expedition against the crows between 1859 and 1876 as he was growing into a young man. He was badly injured at that time. Somehow, injuries are significant for this man, because he was brought back to life by his uncle who was a bear medicine man. In the tradition of healing, should you recover, you are somewhat inducted into that realm of those practitioners. And so it was during the recovery that in a state of delirium, upon with the rattles and the drums and the doctoring that he had a vision of a giant bear standing up and embracing him and healing him as well, and hence the name, Standing Bear. He did not take a christian name. He was born in 1859 and he lived until 1933. He did not take a christian name until 1932 at the begging of his daughters who thought he should be baptized just in case. [laughter] he was given the christian name stephen so that he could have a proper death certificate. But all through his life and through the travels with the wild west show he was simply known as Standing Bear. On the plate that survived or placemat that survived or was given out during the 1887 campaign in england, there is a list of all the performers and his name appears on there as Standing Bear. So does black elk. Then, of course, they did not have members of other tribes so ux that were with that i am talking about the 7778 show in england. Some of them played the roles of cheyenne and arapahoe on this printout, weittle as sioux elk appearing and then we see another black elk appearing as cheyenne and so forth. It is a nice little document that i got from these archives. At that time, that was one of the few vestiges of who the indians were that had traveled with this expedition. Standing bear was much better behaved than black elk. [laughter] i must tell you that he has remained an obscure figure. He came to light after the publication of black elk speaks. That book was written in the same community that i grew up in and which was the home of black elk and Standing Bear and rocky bear. And redshirt. And they were members of the crazy horse band. They were present when crazy horse surrendered in 1877 at Fort Robinson. Their names appear on the crazy horse ledger book. And the crazy horse band was called the word means to draw down. Because of crazy horses charisma and personality, he was able to pull down members from other bands. Theregrandfather was a were brules and crazy horses band was made of these different tribal members. And so there were slightly different traditions. Anyway, once the reservation was established at pine ridge agency, crazy horses band got moved away. They didnt get along with red cloud. People. E not red cloud they were crazy horse people. They divided into two sub bands. One went to the Madison Community where i grew up. On the Pine Ridge Reservation. It was populated by Standing Bear, black elk, rocky bear, all of those people that you read about if you read about the wild west show. And so it is that Standing Bear eventually by 1931 and 1932, there, heheart was had become the leader of the community. It was established that he tell his great vision in front of the authorities. Because Standing Bear was the chief of the community, that interview where black elk reveals his great vision was done in the presence of Standing Bear to make sure that black elk did not tell any lies. [laughter] and the son, benjamin, as the interpreter. The story of Standing Bear we , we will go back to the chicken before the egg. He fought at the battle of little bighorn at the age of 17. And, once again, traveled with crazy horses band to Fort Robinson and relocated to the Madison Community at the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 1887, as a young man of probably 30 or so, he went with the wild west show to england. Unlike black elk, he did not stay behind. But some of the stories that through were passed through two generations , just one generation, this was the first of the children to be born on the reservation. My mother was one of the first to hear the stories. Eventually, they experienced the life of his austrian wife. I marvel at the fact that i was born in the last half of the first half of the last century. That was 1942. My grandmother was born and she had two sisters, one was born in 1892, one in 1895 and she was born in 1897. She lived until 1985 and raised four generations in her home after her father died in 1933. I am saying this because it is the passage of stories that has ve preserved my knowledge of Standing Bear having traveled with the wild west show. The storytelling tradition. Some of you may have experienced it as you were growing up. The evenings, there were no radios and tvs. After the lamps were turned down low, the household, all in their little beds, it was the goal of role of the grandfather and the grandmother to tell stories. The stories they told arranged all the way from the origin stories, the sacred origin stories of the chew, how the world came to be, how it was created, how the mountains were created and the great trickster. How he could change into other beings and he was perpetually tormenting human beings and he could change himself from one being into another being, he could be part human, part animal. Anyway, after many years, he was a horrible character. As you grew up, if you are being or iny, you know, or sly , they said not to be like that person. In the changing of his character and the changing of what a trickster means to most cultures, you come to the understanding that it represents the growing consciousness of conscience. You suddenly learned that if you behave like a dummy, you are being adverse to the culture. You try to emulate Good Behavior and to be a good person and benjamin black elk nicholas black elks son tells me that he lives in all of us. Our whole task is to get away from him. Dont be like him. However, i see when i was growing up, i asked my grandmother she would be telling stories, because it she , shenesee she was be in would tell stories from grimms fairytales. Her mother was austrian. She grew up on hearing european mythology and in the old bookcase, there was a book of grimm fairytales. They would not allow us to look at it because the illustrations were so gruesome. There was also a book i am sure it was dantes inferno. We were never to look at that book. That was hell. I asked my grandmother if he lived over there in europe as well. She said, oh, he probably did. I think we are all convinced now that he also lives in washington, d. C. [laughter] arthur i just dont know what the chances are of changing it. [laughter] however, be that as it may, the story of Standing Bear is remarkable. However, be that as it may, the story of Standing Bear is remarkable. He went through the entire episode of the travels from he joined in 1889 and attended that expedition and continued there. Recent work by peter has a wreck r talks about the rocky bear and a performer with the wild west show and the painting that last the buffalo in the front window of the sun in paris. He quotes rocky bear as saying that upon his return to the United States, he planned to make all of his children of his tribe look upon the great men dear staff. The indian was the master of all he could survey. Standing bear could have been there. I know we have heard stories about him traveling and going up to the top of the eiffel tower and seeing the world from that perspective. Also, how he and redshirt and others, and then there are stories from those who went after that, those become incorporated parts of stories about europe. There was one story about redshirt and then sometimes they switch it to iron tail. They are standing below the eiffel tower. This is 1889. The people are coming around and they want to take pictures of the indians and that day they say, well, where is redshirt . We want a photograph of redshirt. Rocky bear tells the interpreter is not here right now. He is riding the carousel. [laughter] arthur we will see something about that a little bit later. These wonderful stories were passed down through the oral tradition. But, thanks to all of you, and further exposing all of these other stories that were going on , as a bicultural person, have been able to fill out the picture. However, i want to go through some photographs here to show you. There is louise, the picture was taken in dresden when she was either 16 or 18 years old. She was the daughter of a retired military officer, her uncle was a surgeon and she was his assistant and she spoke german, english, and french and of course had a command of latin because she was a medical assistant to her uncle. She was his nurse. If you know how to read victorian photographs, you know that it was standard if you wished to portray that you were an educated person that you also included the book. You can see her hand on the book. If you are a very socially conscious person at that time and you wanted a photograph of yourself as an educated person, you are pointing to the book that you knew how to read and that you were accomplished in that realm. He was injured, he had been to leon and marseille, barcelona, naples, rome, venice, polonia munich, it was in indiana when he was injured and he had to stay behind. Cody left his ticket and some money for him at the u. S. Consulate or embassy, whatever it was. He lived with them for five months and then he got news that his young wife and baby daughter were murdered at wounded knee on december 29, 1890. In february of 1891, five or six he and his then, nurse got married there. Her family also immigrated along with the two daughters because i believe that she was a young widow and i believe those young girls were hers. They immigrated to the United States, returned to the Pine Ridge Reservation and her parents could not bear living there because it was illegal to drink beer or wine. [laughter] arthur and so, they moved to chicago. They became prosperous and dry in dry goods. He opened a dry goods business. Louise remained on the reservation and they created a hybrid life and initially, their first house looked Something Like this, it was a tiny cabin, this is the weather cabins way the cabins looked in the early days of the reservation. Eventually, through her entrepreneurial spirit, they were able to build a log house with a framed roof and a wooden floor and a wooden ceiling and after grafting their talents to each other, she knew Animal Husbandry and horticulture and Land Management and believe me, she was a force to be contended with. The early days of allotment, indian people were just they put names in hats and pulled them out in terms of the location of the land they were going to be allotted. He was initially given a very poor piece of land, two miles away from the river. Louise, of course, being one of those german entrepreneurial , bossy persons, she took on the government and insisted on seeing the maps and his relatives give her a tour of the reservation and she picked out a prime piece of land with a spring that continued to flow all through the 1930s and continues today. There was a creek that ran through and they had and cattle cattle that ran in the pastures in the winter and summer time. Redshirt and his relatives grazed up on top of me of the the badlands and near the fall, Standing Bear and the community at pine ridge would go up in a wagon train and butcher and store dried meat for the winter and share it with all the people to prepare the cattle during the summer. He became chief of his community and in doing so, distributed his role was to redistribute the food of his community. In terms of the old system of sharing ones bounty. Of course, it would not have been possible had the louise not d louise not been the businesswoman that she was. She also made sure that all the inherited land at the Standing Rock reservation and rosebud reservation and other reservations, he inherited allotments from all of those relatives and she took track of e kept track of that. In the 1950s, when oil was produced, the family was quite prosperous. She managed all of those affairs and here they are, it is louise and Standing Bear on the righthand side, this is my biological grandmother wearing her dress. The young man with the baby is her first husband. Her husband kept dying from disease, so she was married three times and had chosen from children from each. This is a very typical lakota family. There is a grandmother, grandfather, a mother, a father, a baby and either a missionary or an anthropologist. [laughter] because louise spoke german and english and lakota she began learning the language and continued to learn because that was one of the prerequisites. If she was going to be a lakota a lakota household, she had to learn to speak a language, she wanted to, she did. She became something of an interpreter. Her daughters were sometimes criticized when they were youngsters attending the local school or the local convent school. They were criticized by their age mates. Those Standing Bear girls, this ey spoke lakota with a german accent. [laughter] arthur that didnt pass on to their children. Standing bear insisted that the lakota language be spoken in the home. Louise never taught german to anybody. But, she did speak english because that was the language of the school. So it was that the house hold prospered and the daughters grew to maturity. Grandmothers first husband was a full blood. But, coming after that, the daughters all married mixed bloods. That was something of the tradition if you are that class of people, they recognized that they were mixed bloods, they were half breeds. It was appropriate for them to marry other mixed bloods or other half breeds. That is the way it happened and each time, all the time that the daughters each time they married, the parents set them up with a new log house and a new stove and new beds and heads of cattle in other words, they endowed their daughters with a fine dowry of household goods. Each of the daughters had 10 children. That came in light of the 1900 National Census. The official National Census in 1900 revealed that this is all over the United States there were only georgia 50,000 250,000 indian people left. I am of the mind that of course, some of them were not counted. On the other hand, the traditional lakota family was for that. Standing bear and louise had three daughters and one son but that son died in infancy. In light of the dying population, they encouraged their daughters to have children. One of the interviews done of Standing Bear about the battle of the little bighorn, he makes the statement, the reason we fought the way we did at the battle of little bighorn was because we thought if we were wiped out, there would be no more indian people in the country. They got the message was they once they found out about the census and were encouraged to have more children so they would not disappear. There is Standing Bears work, here he is in 1930. In his regalia as a leader of the community. And here are two of his daughters. The one on the far right is my grandmother and the one on the far left is her sister. You have got to believe that those lakota genes must be really powerful. I do not see anything very viennese about these ladies. [laughter] fact, the one on the left that looks like her father, she was a tomboy. She was a cowgirl. She wore a split skirt, kind of like Barbara Stanwyck in a big big valley. She had a whip and she went out and rounded up cattle. When she did marry, each of the daughters had their own buggy and their own horses and their own cattle. And so, she was very independent. But, she was a horrible cook. You always hated to go to emily aunt lilys house because you knew you would be tortured. [laughter] here is my grandmother, who passed away in 1985. It is from her that all of these stories came and the traditions of the household. Even though it was a halfbreed household, it was Standing Bears wish and it became the Family Tradition to carry on all of the traditions. The sacred traditions of the sundance division quest. The naming of children, the burial rituals, the keeping of the spirits, those were all done by my family. Despite the fact that the ways louise was a white woman, she totally embraced it. He never joined a christian denomination. Their children did. But, he did not d. Part of the way that he contributed to the wealth of the household was through his painting. Here are examples of his style of painting and he did scenes of camplo hunts and the moving and sundance and here is the totality of one of his paintings. It was nine feet by three. There are other works of his and for those of you who are not familiar with his work, i want to inform you that the work of thomas, the story of little bighorn published in he extensively covers the work of Standing Bear. Visions of the people, a 1992 publication features another painted mosaic by Standing Bear. This was published in 2004. Then, the sitting bull catalogue by christian feast features the painted one that is in this museum in germany. Then, of course, the illustrations from the book blackhawk speaks. That is from a portfolio that niedhart commission. Louise insisted on being paid 300 and they thought that was outrageous and she said take it or leave it. Somebody else will buy it. He bought it and that is what illustrates that book. There is another portfolio that is housed at the museum. In 1997, i received the lila wallace Arts International fellowship. I was to reside at the clock monet residence for four months and take advantage of paris and i thought this is grandson going home. My fathers people were french mixed bloods, they arrived in the new world in 1637 in montreal and quebec. I am the 13th generation to receive the grant from one of the charleses in montreal. Anyway, i was going home on two fronts, one was to go back and experience something that my greatgrandfather had been through, the stories that i had heard as a child. I packed up all of my collage materials, my historic photos, bits and pieces of brochures and newspaper articles, historic newspaper articles, i packed it all up, i looked at photos of my greatgrandfather and all of these people, you will see them coming up here. I said, ok, guys, we are going to go and replay history. I took them with me to europe and proceeded to produce a series of collages celebrating reminiscences of them in europe. That is Claude Monets residence. That is where i resided, in a place behind it. We went down to the gardens, there were two other artists and residents and believe me, you would never believe the things that we did in monets garden. [laughter] arthur we took our lunch and our wine and our beer and we sat on the japanese bridge and put our feet in the water and drank wine and celebrated those lilies. [laughter] arthur this shows Standing Bear. It says [indiscernible] pictures. When we perform, they take pictures of us over there. His name is monet. Among artists, there is a saying, you are baroque if you dont have monet. [laughter] arthur i adopted the vehicle. The oldfashioned car. They certainly encountered that in the auspices of buffalo bill. There are those wonderful photos of him driving the car with us indians sitting in the back. It became a symbol of the cultural changes that the lakota people had to ride in order to survive. Technology, education, religion, all of those forces that indian people were expected to adopt once they got on the reservation, to change them into nonindian people. And so, the car that shows up in these drawings symbolizes that the trip to europe was one more of those things. Well take them abroad and expose them to what the world is really like and that will be one more burden for them to bear and to adapt to. We are going to make them civilized. This was the first collage i did in the series when i was there in 1970. It says we really like the one with flowers on it. The idea of purchasing fabric embroidered with flowers, spanish floral silk shawls. They adored those, they loved those. They bought them and they brought them back for relatives. Some of those people came to that place on boats from a river in the city. The riverboat for rising there. People embarking from it and coming on and here is a poster of buffalo bill, there is one there. We saw them give their children wine. She is giving her children whine. They thought that was horrendous. On the other hand, considering the status of the water that existed at that time, it was better to give your children wine than let them drink water. This one says, those women had deformed lower bodies. [laughter] arthur they wondered what that was. Of course, when i was growing up, louise would explain that that was a fabrication. It was made of whale bone. The indians always wondered why theirse women want butts to stick out . [laughter] arthur of course, there were those nasty old guys that said they must have consorted with horses. This is a boat in paris and this is from a poster from 1889 so that was going backandforth from england to paris and taking visitors to the paris exposition. The story we know from pine ridge is that he had an english girlfriend and he told her that i will go first and i will come after you next. Of course, he did not come after her. The other version is that he lived with a French Family in paris. When buffalo bill arrived, he rejoined and got his ticket back to the United States. That was in 1889. We know of that story. Just recently, i was talking to his greatgranddaughter. She said, arthur, did you know that when i was born, nicholas came over and he told my dad, he said i want you to name this baby charlotte. Charlotte was the name of my girlfriend when i lived in france. [laughter] arthur so, here, we had this black elk and his white girlfriend. This was the time where they came back to is unable from [indiscernible] he left his girlfriend over there. This says in lakota that a man is buried here. His name means the bones are all apart. [laughter] and then this was painted around that tent that goes around and around. He had to pay to ride it. The people themselves talked about when they were taking photographs and the children of the french people would come up to them and want to touch those indians. Those little children. Those mothers would remind her , dont get close to them. They are dangerous. They might steal you and take you away. Here is a little girl running up to the Indian Ladies and wanting to touch them and feel them. This comes from the oral tradition. Then there is the visiting of cities in the background. This is in the village next to me. It says the backs of their houses were sometimes pitiful. The facades looked nice, but you get into the alleys and you actually returned to medieval architecture. It has not been written about but one of the oral traditions , is that people were taken and checked out of the wild west show. No one haspeople ever traced this down, but the indian people talk about it going with different people to their homes like for overnight or two or three days. They would take them by carriage and then into the teams before 1913. Sometimes they went by automobile. They also went by train. They would take them home for the weekend to the country states. They would invite their friends over, like guess whos coming to dinner. The indian people would sit there and eat. They were talking about that tv show. Downton abbey. There were cases in germany and france were indian people took here people took indian people home for the weekend. They were afraid to sleep on those really high beds. They might fall off and injure themselves. Other times they felt that they were not very clean and a little was in their room, they would pull out loose bricks that were there and put them in a basin and rearrange the furniture and take the bedspread off, cover them and they would make forts. They would have a sweat lodge. I traveled the countryside and just imagine what my ancestors must have been going through. The churches and the bridges and landmarks had not changed that much in a hundred years. I thought i must be experiencing some of the things they experienced. Then i am going to stop here and the title of this one was that no one was there. This is a combination of scenes. One of the things the indian , they wererked about by how much the europeans loved flowers. There were flowers all over. I mentioned that but here they are in the village at midday. From 1 00 until 5 00. Sometimes the whole village would close down and they were still doing this when i was there in 1997. He would go right through the countryside. These villages were all closed up. There was no people around. I was very good at learning the french language. I asked my french tutor if you could bring some books french anthropology. You can learn what these people were going through, what they were about. I had my contemporary french anthropology book and i was reading statistics. It said 95 of all frenchmen have Extramarital Affairs and 75 of all french women do. Ha, i know a when they do. I know when it happens, when everything is closed. [laughter] arthur this is a photo that i took, over the years i made it a mission to go to all of the places where the wild west show s had performed so that i could see it as it is now. I also gathered historic photos and timely things. Here they are. Its as we went into those boats. We brought lots of beads and shawls with flowers on them. We sure like those flowers and shawls. It says the whole town must have flooded. They still live there. [laughter] arthur they said, they sure liked to see us, we went to every place and they looked at us. And then home again. The infatuation with Queen Victoria i will close here. I want to say that a blackout elk with these old guys would sit around and they would talk about Queen Victoria and how she rode out in her carriage and it was so shiny and all the people were shouting jubilee, jubilee. One of the other guys said that she was just glowing. She just looked delicious. You have to understand this was not an expression of cannibalism. The traditional foods of the people of the planes, the bison has very little fat. Elk and deer had very little fat. That is a very precious commodity. It is highly prized. They either break the bones open to get the marrow out when they say i saw Queen Victoria riding her carriage, just glistening, they said she looks like a delicious piece of fat. [laughter] the other collages continue to celebrate life on the reservation. People visiting from other reservations. My grandmother and her two sisters in traditional garments, here they are standing in front of an automobile. They are standing there, his wife, my grandmother, heres another photograph. The scenes of wounded knee, the veterans from little bighorn, he in 1926 for the 50th reunion. It has been a remarkable journey. I dare say that the catalog is for sale in the bookstore. It has the complete story. It is all written out, more so about today. There are more and more images of the collages. Talk about a hybrid life, and you start hybridizing media, historical photos, paintings that you have done previously, paintings that your greatgrandfather did. The photos are flowers that i took in france. It is bringing them altogether. That is what i think the Buffalo Bill Historical Center does. It brings together and hopefully will someday have a really good picture of the widespread influence. And indelible part of the legacy of buffalo bill. Thank you. [applause] arthur i will be down in the bookstore, signing any books that anyone might be interested in. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we have a facebook question from peter. Are there any Historical Resources on the people who died in detroit . The Detroit Free Press did a piece you could be featured during our next life program. Join the conversation on facebook. And on twitter. Cspan, where history unfold staley. , cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Next come on the civil war, author tom mcmillan talks about gettysburg natives who fought for the confederacy. He describes five men who moved south to virginia and the 1850s, joined militias, and later participated in the battle of gettysburg. This 45 minute talk was hosted by the gettysburg heritage center. Tammy good evening, everyone. My name is tammy myers, i am president here at the gettysburg heritage center, and i am thrilled to have you here in this evening. This is our final presentation this evening, and we are fortunate to have tom mcmillan. A little bit about tom he is an author and historian. He is a little different from our previous presenters. He is not a licensed battlefield guide. He has an interesting day job. He is the Vice President of communications for the stanley cup champions pittsburgh penguins. But, his real passion is history, and especially the