[background sounds] cabell. [background sounds] the subcommittee his meeting today to receive testimony on engaging the communities respective of School Security. Good morning and thank you everyone. The subcommittee is meeting to discuss Community Perspectives on School Safety and how the federal government can better support local stakeholders in making our children safer. On the think the witnesses work to participating in todays hearing. First we have, ms. Lauren hogg, and mr. Max schaffner, testimonies are once the American Public needs to hear and once that members of congress should take to heart as we go about our work. A special thank you to both for sharing your experience with us. Jen would also to acknowledge congressman deutsche, who does not set on this committee but he represents florida has been a champion for measures to improve School Safety. I asked the consent to allow to question the witnesses at todays hearing. That went out objection, it is so ordered. Im both of
Officially closed, the reservation system was officially in full swing. It was a time of great change but the beginning of what we think of as modern america, the end of what we think of as native American Life. Those things were more complicated than we think. Host why do you view it that way . Guest 1890 was the last Armed Conflict between native folk and the American Government, the massacre of wounded knee in south dakota, 150300 lakota men, women and children were massacred by the cavalry. That moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 29, 1890, what happened . Guest it was the tail end of the murder of sitting bull, things were unsettled and people were looking for shelter and there was a band of native people, they left where they were on horseback, and intercepted by the cavalry who rounded them up and tried to starve them. It is unclear what happened next. The cavalry started shooting, opened fire with hotchkiss guns and murdered 5
Officially in full swing. It was a time of great change but it was sort of the beginning of what we think of as modern america. And the end of what we think of as native american bought those thing were untrue. Why do you 1890 to by that dividing line. 1890 was the year of arguably the last conflict, Armed Conflict between native folks and the American Government. At the massacre another wind knee in south dakota where between 150 and 300 lakota men, women and children, principally women and children were massacred by the reconstitutioned cavalry, and that moment, that moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 28, 1890, what happened . Guest there was this is on the tail end of the murder of sitting bull. Things were unsettled around the on the agency and people were looking for shelter, and there was a band of native people who were going to find shelter with another band ask they left where they were and they were on foot and horseback, h
Women and children, principally women and children were massacred by the reconstitutioned cavalry, and that moment, that moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 28, 1890, what happened . Guest there was this is on the tail end of the murder of sitting bull. Things were unsettled around the on the agency and people were looking for shelter, and there was a band of native people who were going to find shelter with another band ask they left where they were and they were on foot and horseback, heading to the agency, and they were intercepted by the cavalry, who rounded them up and tried to disarm them, and unclear what happened next but the cavalry started shooting, opened fire with guns, and murdered about 150 people. The government was really nervous about what they were convince weed be an indian uprising because of the ghost dance and other things going on in the plains, but really they just murdered a bunch of people trying to find shel
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c