Announcer you are watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming on cspan3. Forow us on twitter information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. Masoncer at George University Professor Joseph genetinpilawa argues during the reconstruction era, native americans frequently worked directly with the u. S. Government but the advance of to the west was an overwhelming force that still cost native americans ttheir land. His classes about an hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Genetinpilawa today, we are going to pick up with u. S. Federal tribal relationships. Although you will notice and i did warn you we are jumping forward slightly. Last class, we were speaking about removal and the establishment of reservations in the 1830s, 1840s. Early 1850s. We are going to jump forward a bit into the civil war and after. One of the things i want to try and do is think about the ways that native history and the development of the west were directly connected to the civil war and rec
Bit into the civil war and after. The things i want to try and do is think about the ways that native history and the development of the west were directly connected to the civil war and reconstruction even though we dont always think of those things as related to one another. I think we kind of separate westward expansion and the civil war from one another but what the people who lived through that, i dont think they would have separated it. Get intoing to try to that mindset today. When we think about the term reconstruction, we usually use it to describe a series of policies and developments in the and 1877. Een 1863 these were policies that were designed to integrate free slaves into a mainstream thelation and readmit states back into the union. Welcome, everyone. [inaudible] free people themselves took an active role in reconstruction. Former slaves took an active role in the reconstruction process but there are Big Questions. This is just at the end of the civil war and their Big
The curse continues in 1940, will that person also die in office, according to the curse . The first person who became a victim of the curse was William Henry harrison, who had been a military hero. Wellliked. He was elected in 1840. Before he was elected, and seven in92, lieutenant harrison 1792, lieutenant harrison served at the battle of Fallen Timbers. He was fighting against the miami native americans. It was about control over ohio. The treaty they have signed was being violated. By oup together a small a Small Coalition to do battle, they have been defeated. One of the shawnee leaders involved in the battle of Fallen Timbers was ironically, tecumseh , and would become the leader of a large band of shawnee. We have to individuals here whose path will cross in an ironic way. ,his is William Henry harrison the battle of Fallen Timbers, which ive just discussed, and chief tecumseh. Tecumseh was a chief of the shawnee. After a band of warriors the revolutionary war, years later, agai
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first
Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a