Learnsting to come in and about land usage and who makes those decisions. This is land who that land that has been walled off from the rest of the city. And who makes the decisions that happens there next . One of the things i am interested in is community participation. They are building something and tearing something down. I think it is important to import to understand. Think about what is happening in , happeningommunities right there in their neighborhoods, so they can understand what should happen to their land now. And other watch this American History programs on our website, where all of our video is archived. Www. Cspan. Org history. Next, from the Buffalo Bills center of the west in cody, wyoming, artist arthur amy at talks about his greatgrandfather, Standing Bear. Tte shares photos of the performers. This is about an hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Cop
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,
For a complete Television Schedule booktv. Org. Book two three, 72 hours hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television or serious readers. We kick off this Holiday Weekend with former chief editor of the Oxford English dictionary john simpson on his book the word detective. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. My name is davids shoulders. On behalf of the staff and our owners bizarre its hard to walking into politics and prose to host john simpson for his book the word detective searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English dictionary. I have a few housekeeping notes. If you will take in a cell phones and noisemaking devices and silence those at this time so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions, that would be great. We will also mention that we are, cspan booktv is here today and they will be filming the event. We are doing our own recording as well, and so john will come speak to us for about a half hour and then we will have another half are
Back so i think theres a general consensus now this conflict is generational, its a different kind of conflict its not one where you can say you can walk away fromthis because we want. The enemy, this enemy has decided to keep fighting. You can watch this and other programsonline at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] hello everyone. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Im part of the event staff here and on behalf of the staff and our owners we are honored to welcome you to host john simpson for his book the word detectives. Searching for it all at the meeting of the oxford dictionary and a few housekeeping notes for us to get started. Take out the cell phones and noisemaking devices and silence those at this time so we dont have any unnecessary interruption, that would be great. We will also mention that we are on book tv is here today and they will be filming the event and we are doing our own reporting as well so john is going to come us about a half hour we will have anothe
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