Assistant director of Curatorial Affairs and curative arts, and i would like to share with you a little bit of our native american collection and the history of native americans and the culture of native americans here in texas. Its very appropriate that we sort of begin with the contemporary. Im standing here right next to a magnificent piece of sculpture by noted artist alan hauser, who was apache. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendent of geronimo s band, who was removed to oklahoma after the after geronimo and his band were captured. Terrificbecame a artist. As you can see here, one of the main foci of this particular piece is a native american on horseback. That is truly the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and in the panhandle especially. Once horses became available to 1600s, particularly the comanches and some of the apache people they were able to obtain horses from the traders in santa fe stealing some of them as well. They were able to then utili
Americans here. It is very appropriate that we sort of begin with the contemporary. Im standing here right next to a magnificent piece of sculpture mighty noted artist, alan houser, who was a patchy. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendant of drama was banned we moved to oklahoma after toronto and his band were captured. He later became a terrific artist geronamo as you can see this particular piece is a negative native american on horseback. That is truly the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and in the panhandle, especially. Once forces became available to them, in the 16 hundreds, particularly the command cheese and some of the apache people, they were able to obtain horses from traders and santa fe, stealing some of them as well. They were able to then utilize the environment in a much more efficient manner because they could cover longer distances. The bye isnt hunting culture really became the strong suit, the highlight of the area, and it became a cult
Today, or that to share a little bit about i would like to share about the history of native americans and the culture of native americans in texas. Its very appropriate to begin with the contemporary. I am standing next to a magnificent piece of sculpture by the noted artist alan houser, who was apache. And he was born in oklahoma. He was a descendent of removeds band who was to oklahoma after geronimo and his band was captured. He later became a terrific artist. As you can see, one of the main foci of this particular piece is a native american on horseback. And that is truly the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and in the panhandle especially. When horses became available to them in the 1600s, particularly the comanches and some of the apache people, they were able to tradersorses from the in santa fe. Stealing some of them as well. They were able to utilize the environment much more efficiently because they could cover much longer distances. The bison hunting
It runs from here to silverton. Case that the canyon is at least 80 miles in length. The river is probably more like 120 miles. It is the second largest canyon in the United States after the grand. It is not a single canyon. There are many canyons that branch off to the sides. We are standing in an area or we can see three canyons from where we are at right now. It is a much bigger system than people realize even with a brief visit to the state park. I grew up here in amarillo. As a young kid, i remember coming out in elementary school. And after that, as soon as i got my drivers license, i was driving out here every time i could, ringing friends. We would explore some of the caves. We explored some of the caves right down there. I can tell you it is much bigger than what you think it is from looking at it. When you get into the canyon with your hiking stick and boots, you better make sure you have a lot of water because it is much farther than you think. There are all kinds of treasur
is only beginning. sandra: for those of us who have lived through hurricanes we know how scary they can be. chief meteorologist is with us tracking the storm and the latest tally on some of the winds that are being reported across that state. what are we seeing, rick? so far, john, i m glad we had the video that popped up from 2017 up in jacksonville, because jacksonville is going to get storm surge again from this storm, which is pretty hard to imagine. this is a look at the winds recorded so far, verified naples, 112 miles an hour, still with kinds of the worst of the wind offshore, it has not made its way there just yet. so we have a long road ahead. all right, every hour now we are getting an update here, so this is the 2:00 p.m. update. no changes in the last three hours, pressure still at 937 millibars, moving north/northeast at nine miles an hour. we are looking at that every hour. often times when you have a storm making landfall it starts to weaken a bit, interac