And european peoples. We will talk about some of the customs and protocols that governed that style of diplomacy and the objectives of both native american peoples and colonial peoples brought to those meetings. Ive got an image here that is actually a painting from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that went on on the frontier of new york in the Mohawk Valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson, not a lot of contemporary American Students of history know much about him, but he was a very interesting figure in the 18th century. He was an irish immigrant who came to america settled on the , mohawk front of upstate new york in 1740, and became very friendly with mohawk indians, who were his neighbors. Ultimately, gained a great deal of influence among them and was ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as the agent to the iroquois nation. S. This painter in the early 20th century wanted to depict one of these treaties that
Government, the arrival of the first enslaved africans, the experiences of women, and the enslavement of native americans. Northern Virginia Community college and the office of Historic Alexandria cohosted this event. Welcome. In case you are wondering about cameras, cspan is covering this tonight for us. It will be broadcast may be a week from now. Year, we hold a lecture series in memory of a colleague who passed away a few years ago. Joseph winthrop, a dedicated and compassionate professor and social activist. And thees over there, woman who was married to him for many years is sitting here marilyn, glad to have you with us. Panell complete this tomorrow at the alexandria campus, because we are all professors at the alexandria northern Virginia Community college. Alexandra is a treat for history. And it is a treat to have these professors in a setting like the lyceum. We can rub shoulders with the ghost of the past. Yearhts topic is the 1619, a turning point not only for jamestown b
Bodies wont start until theyve been examined to determine what caused the death of the 31. 00 men and 8 women the whole process is forensic the Recovery Process was forensic and the fact actually we have to gain so much information as we go through to make sure that we dont miss anything all of that takes time and it will continue unfortunately to take time initially local police said the victims were all chinese nationals now its thought at least some were from vietnam the u. K. Based Community Group b. At home says its received photos of nearly 20 people reported missing from vietnam since the lorry was discovered east of london early on wednesday. This priest in vietnam says hes liaising with family members of suspected victims. Get them in now and now. When i learned the news of the people who died on their way to the u. K. In search of a new life not only the district again 10 but perhaps the whole country is in sorrow this is a tragedy for the whole country has to bear. British p
They changed. They decided to use the strategy that was used by the koran yet they are colonial masters and there was a reason for that why because their nation building projects the forcing of people to now identify themselves as it says zambia. Now have essentially managed or centrally controlled so in order to do that the new governments found it necessary to send a single message as the only voice that had their good intentions and everybody else was destroying what this government was trying to build our leaders say the media is an opposition. You know and. They dont understand the role of the media because theyre all the generation. Of our leaders were hiding behind this idea of nation building and cohesion we contacted multiple governments that still have colonial era laws in place to ask why decades after independence those laws are still on the books none of them got back to us its not just the legacy of colonialism that lingers on in africa but the legal residue of apartheid
Syria strategy despite the fact that it didnt turn out exactly like i said it would its not a withdrawal its a repositioning of troops hes saying that this is working that he acknowledged the help of the kurdish fighters in this case the kurdish intelligence albeit he put that very low in the sort of thanking category preferring to instead thank nations like russia that we know interfered in the 2016 u. S. Election as well as thanking turkey and iraq as well theres no question the president s probably going to get some criticism for the order of that. List or rather today sions the other thing that i think in all of this which was notable that domestically certainly hes going to get some criticism of is that even say just what he said it multiple times he said that he did not alert members of congress who typically often have oversight in these situations maybe not in a specific raid or operation but certainly on matters of war in syria policy he complained he continually pointed the f