Philip j deloria departed and settled into his role as professor of history, the first one who is a native american at harvard, it only took a few centuries, just think the next four centuries will do. So we never want to accuse harvard or the university of michigan theft, there is an indisputable fact that the upsurge in good fortune was hours before he was there, is he received his bachelors in music ocean in 1982, wanting to preserve and understand humanity from many different angles see that top band at a high school, having observed who do you think to satisfaction it he just returned for an animated communication, though is back and you can remember what you call that before i became an accurate that comes out different every time i try to see it, so are one of their most gracious act of kindness he took my western American History course which i believe is called, the not so early american frontier as part of his journalism program, in that course the first assignment require st
So today theres like 5. 2 million native people, the United States, and about 2 they represent about percent of the 332 Million People in the states. And even though theres 326 reservoirs in 2015, long range areas in the usa, two thirds of the indian population actually live in towns in urban large cities. And when you look at the number of recognized tribes, t basis theres 183 countries in the world. So lets go back in history. A bit, because when you look at the history, it was really kind. My native people defending their homelands, defending people in which United States government engaged with native people in over thousand battles and wars and skirmishes fought against each other. And in the end, beginning in 1778, there a signing of 374 treaties that ratified it. And in addition to that, for 94, 94 agreements. So when we look at the best friend of native people in the white, then we to look at the federal indian policy that each president and sometimes president s continued. The
moments ago, democrats on capitol hill just pulled a political stunt. was it to save, a, joe biden, hunter biden, hunter biden crashed the house oversight committee hearing. and they were considering contempt of congress charges against hunter biden. so he didn t want to show up for a subpoena but he wanted this circus. he wanted the cameras. make no mistake about it. democrats knew it was coming. secret service was in place over an hour ahead of all of the stunt that went on in that hearing room. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. it was a crazy move. hunter biden walking in unannounced to an oversight committee hearing about him. the committee had just begun considering legislation to hold hunter in contempt of congress for defying a congressional subpoena. a taste of how wild it got. my first question is who bribed hunter biden to be here today? that s my first question. second question, you are the epitome of white privilege coming into the oversig
smoke over northern gaza right now just one day after israel and hamas had agreed to extend their cease-fire. israel says the terror group broke the deal. shocking. we re now waiting to here how it will affect the planned release of ten additional hostages today. heartbreaking. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the israel defense force spokesperson announced that hamas has transferred a 10-month-old little baby who now we understand has turned 11 months old. remember, it has been 53 days, along with his 4-year-old big brother and their mom to a different palestinian terror group in gaza. that official says the intention is to use the baby as a human shield when the cease-fire completely ends. hamas has released only one american so far in its hostage releasing and national security counsel spokesman said this yesterday. he has made it clear to qatar and prime minister netanyahu how strong life we want to see the american hostages get released. it s im
Live from the mississippi book festival a panel from the heritage of mississippi series discussed the bicentennial. I was good morning everyone thank you for coming to the panel. Im with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Welcome to the heritage mississippi series panel. The director of the department of archives and history and a longtime member of the historicahistorical society twoe groups responsible for the book series will moderate the panel. Help me welcome katie. [applause] thank you very much for making this panel possible. [applause] i want to thank you all for joining us here in the mississippi stat state capital. We are proud of this building and it was recently designated to a historical landmark that was very appropriate. [applause] im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. It will cover 17 volumes of 17 of them have already been published in the there are scholars working their f