Lets start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. Are you gonna run for president . I think i just got an f. applauding t. C. Boyle, welcome. My pleasure. Congratulations on the book. Thank you so much. I publish books all the time, every year, and i go out on the road and every once in a while somebody says, congratulations, and im wondering, for what . Its like going to war when you publish a book. No, its like giving birth, here it is. It was long awaited. No, no, the thing about this book that i thought was especially great was it took me back, truly took me back to the mid and early 90s, you know. This is a novel based on real events. Its based on the experience of biosphere, biosphere 2 in arizona in the early 90s. You have really drawn a picture that is similar to, but, in so many ways, different from the real thing. Well, thank you. When the biosphere 2 experiment first happened in 91 through 93 northeast of tucson, i was fascinated by this. Like most of the public, i clip
Thank you, kevin. We can all thank rick for doing a fantastic meditation on this. A 30,000 foot level of issues we wanted to discuss today. To celebrate 25 years, we need to go back further than 25 years to see how we got to that point 25 years ago. Our first panel was about that. Behind the scenes of the act. The early years. We are so fortunate to have presenters, panelist who can speak to this with an incredible depth of knowledge. I would like to welcome them to come now. The first is Patricia Zell. She serves as the editor of the indian law and order. She retired in march 2005 following 25 years of service on the u. S. Senate committee where committee on Indian Affairs where she served as the democratic staff director and chief counsel for the last 19 years of her senate service. The depth of knowledge possessed on these issues is unparalleled. She worked for the u. S. Commission on civil rights American Psychological association. Ive been fortunate to work with her on the board o
Panel discussion on congress and the creation of that 1989 law. Speakers included one of the funding Founding Trustees and the American Indian committees chief counsel. An hour. Little over rick for all thank doing a fantastic meditation on this. Level of issues we wanted to discuss today. To celebrate 25 years, we need to go back further than 25 years to see how we got to that point 25 years ago. Our first panel was about that. Of the act. Cenes we are so fortunate to have presenters, panelist who can speak to this with an incredible depth of knowledge. I would like to welcome them to come now. [indiscernible] editor of thethe indian law and order. She retired in march 2005 following 25 years of service on the u. S. Senate committee where she served as the democratic staff director and chief counsel for the last 19 years of her senate service. The depth of knowledge possessed on these issues is unparalleled. She worked for the u. S. Commission on civil rights, American Psychological a
Not forgotten americans. They continue to be appropriately remembered by those in this nation that they came to be a part of all those years ago. As an irish person, i would like to extend my gratitude to you all for that. And for the privilege of speaking to you about one of their number today. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the civil war airs every saturday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern time. To learn more, visit www. Cspan. Org history. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the National Museum of the American Indian act. The law established a National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall as part of the Smithsonian Institution and encouraged the smithsonian to return any human remains and funerary objec
At appomattox. There was still kirby smith with the army in texas and his official surrender is not until june 2, 1865. The surrender at appomattox was a multiday process. After leeann grant met, they appoint commissioners to work out the details of how they surrender will take place. That is done by the commissioners on april 10 and the confederate cavalry is set to surrender their sabers and carbines, the artillery, and the bulk of generallys army surrenders on april 12. Over 22,000 men and i will take you to to the road where they surrendered now. We are once again standing on the richburg wichman stage road. The signals were the last artillery shots were fired on the morning of april 9. Also is the home of george pierce, the county clerk. He had a special guest for dinner, general jocelyn kj general jocelyn chamberlain. Over the course of their dinner conversation, chamberlain has the leegrant meeting site all the way up to the Maclean House. His men are out here for several hours