Their lives. I like to see who you are this morning. If youve never been here in your life, please put your hand up. Now hold it way up. Now, just look around. Its always the same. 90 of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of George Armstrong custer. Theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. And i promise you this, theres nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. Well, folks, its a simple story. And yet its a complex story. You are on the battlefield right now. And it stretches five miles to the south of us, well beyond the in the hill, way out there, five miles. On june 25, 1876, george in the hill, way out there, five Armstrong Custer with 647 troops will attack a massive camp located about a mile and a half to two miles to the south of us down in the river valley bottom. Theres 8,000 people in that village. 1,500 to 2,00
The pueblo is a tribal nation that exists here in new mexico. Because very distinct we live on our aboriginal property and we have maintained our sovereignty as a tribal nation for centuries, beginning with the first europeans who came in this area, the spanish, they recognized tribe sovereignty all the way through mexico, taking over from spain in this area and then the united and all ofng over the foreign governments have recognized the tribal nations. The region name of the pueblo is which is water drink in place. Us being at the low part of the valley, there is a lot of natural springs and the rivers run through here. Our pueblo is the pojoaque water because of the quality. We have approximately 13,000 acres. The Pojoaque Pueblo is known for its traditional architecture. What is given to us by our ancestors and handed down through generations, these traditional Building Techniques with mud bricks. We have carried that all the way to our most major development, which is a 300 millio
Will attack a massive camp located about a mile and a half to two miles to the south of us down in the river valley bottom. Theres 8,000 people in that village. 1,500 to 2,000 of them are warriors. Custer will have 647 troops. Its the only battlefield in the country, only one of two in the whole world, where white markers indicate where soldiers were killed on the battlefield and buried where they fell. Red markers, like the one at the mouth of deep ravine, just to the left of this gentleman, 17 warrior markers across the battlefield, much more warriors died in the fight. But weve got 17 markers placed there by oral histories and families. Theyre not buried on the battlefield. They are picked up very quickly and later buried in trees and caves and scaffolding. On top of the hill, just below the monument, custer perishes at the age of 36 years old. Buried in an 18inch grave. Disinterred a year later, what was left of him, placed in a box about this big, taken back to west point, where h
More ammo, eagle bone whistles shrieking across the battlefield in the bust and the smoke. Warriors getting closer and closer and closer, desperately trying to destroy the soldier command. Apocalypse at little big horn, custers final battle. How did this happen . Why did it happen . Well, folks, its really a culminating event because it marks nearly 400 years of cultural animosity, cultural friction, cultural disdain between euroamericans and native americans and the fight was always over the same thing particularly that yellow metal that makes the white man go crazy. And when they see all of these resources, they envision farms and towns, ranches, railroads, telegraphs, and barbedwire fences, all of it driven by a near religion called manifest destiny. Manifest destiny, the belief that somehow euroamericans are sanctioned, theyre ordained by god to spread across the continent. Conquer it, subdue it, tame it. From coast to coast. From sea to shining sea. Theres just one problem with th
And the are controvers contrt could be right in your pocket. We begin tonight with a growing divide between the u. S. And israel. A new Magazine Article reports an unidentified u. S. Official directed a crude insult at the israeli Prime Minister, it is a term we choose not to use on the air but there has been a lot of name calling most of it over the expansion of israeli settlements. Nick schifrin reports. Bmentbenjamin netanyahu visid the knesset. Were i not to defend the state of israel were i thought to insist vigorously on our national and security interests they would not be attacking me. And despite all of the attacks i suffer i will continue to defend our country. I will continue to defend the citizens of israel. There is no love lost between the u. S. And israel right now. Last week the defense minister went to washington and secretary of state john kerry and others refused to see him, because he referred to the secretary as messianic. Now, most of the tension right now is over