Nonnative americans. Stretching about 110 miles long and 70 miles wide, the black hills of south dakota rise up from the plains, just to the west of rapid city. The black hills are very important to the native American Community members. They are referred to as the heart. And thein pine trees elevations that we have that surround that area thinking of where rapid city is at, we are positioned at the gateway to the black hills, where it is kind of how we have always build ourselves, billed back to the earliest founders of rapid city. I am doniphan donovan sprague, i come from the lakota ise family and my tribal affiliation, from ,cion river sioux reservation , a veryacred bear butte spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visited. Aroundhe time period of 1800, we will say up to the wins as a time period, our henota and cheyenne are w lakota and cheyenne dominated this area. They moved with the buffalo and game, which supplied th
Announcer 1 next, in American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits lansing, michigan, where we learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight is now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visit at cspan. Org citiestour. He was a pioneer. State not until the legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. They had a slightly more sensible approach. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had seven months to build a veryal city and that was a interesting and exciting and unique story of the beginning. Established the about 1836, about a year before it became a state. The designated detroit as the capital but they were told that detroit could be easily attacked and they should move the capital inland but couldnt decide where. Constitutionhe that the first session of the legislature of 1848 should be held in the new capi
Indigenous peoples lived here and go to the end of the 20th century. We are standing in our exhibit the first peoples. It talks about the Indigenous People who lived in michigan for thousands of years before the arrival of europeans. It is one we just recently renovated. The first is this mural that is painted. Of thes the story anishinaabe people through four seasons. Is of the things it tells the advanced society they had before europeans arrived. It was just a little different than the western civilization. They chose to live off of the land and not try to control the land. They engaged, spends a lot of their time really working in harmony with the lands to meet all their basic needs. In this mural, things to point out is the structures. There are a lot of concessions that native americans all lived in teepees. In michigan, they lived in structures called wigwanms. We have an illustration of one here. And we have a mock one here. They would use saplings of birch or maple to make thi
Through our galleries. Our museum is set up so it is literally a walk through time. You come to the museum. It is at the end of the ice age. We talk about the first Indigenous Peoples who lived here in michigan and go to the end of the 20th century. We are standing in our exhibit that we call the first peoples. It talks about the Indigenous People who lived in michigan for thousands of years before the arrival of europeans. It is one we just recently renovated. The focal point of this exhibition first is this gigantic mural we have here that is painted. It shows the story of the anishinaabe people through four seasons. The big picture that we want to convey in this is what an advanced civilization the anishinaabe had before european arrival. They had very sophisticated social structures but it was just a little different than the western civilization. They chose to live off of the land and not try to control the land. They engaged spent a lot of their time really working in harmony wit
Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Now on American History tv, a look at the ways american women contributed to the war effort during world war ii. We hear about the expectations for women on the home front to write letters to soldiers, plant Victory Gardens and work in factories and what options were available to women for military service. This is 90 minutes. Fpz well, good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today, were going to talk about american women and world war ii. And this is obviously a huge topic, we can spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. So were going to try to break it down into three different spaces and were going to look at a lot of images to kind of fit in with the other things weve talked about. So we are going to talk about american women in three ways. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. So were going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and again were going to look at