Hi, my name is bill mercer, and i am the associate director of Curatorial Affairs at the panhandle Plains Historical museum. 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. Im standing here next to a beautiful piece of sculpture by the noted artist alan houser, who was apache. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendent of a band removed to oklahoma after his band was captured and 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 thats truly the story. Thats the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and the panhandle especially. What once horses became available to them in the 1600s, particularly the comanches their people, they were able to obtain horses from the traders in santa fe. They were able to utilize the environment much more. I could cover much longer distances. The
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
Exploring the american story. Book tv, American History tv, we travel to amarillo texas. Well experience in the city of about 200,000 starting with an the largest canyon. And then we will learn about kansas citys developments on amarillo. And then step in a specially made rail card used to move Nuclear Material around the United States. Later a trip to the panhandle plains. We start at the canyon state park. The experience today is a lot like it has been. Even today it is quite a sharking experience. The fact that i get to come see this every day sometimes i have to take in. The canyon has been forming for about a million years or so. It runs from here over to silverton. You can make a good case that it is at least 80 miles in length itself. It is the second largest canyon in the United States. Its not a single canyon. There are many that branch off to the sides. Were standing in an area now where we can see three canyons from where were at right now. Its much bigger than people realiz
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