Time. She started her own business as a wall street banker, she advocated for free love, which means sex outside of marriage. Eastern,at 6 30 p. M. An author discusses her book democracy and truth a short history. No one one person, institution, no one sector, king, priest, National Research body, one cast would get to call the shots. Explore our nations passed on American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. The cspan cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. With support from our cable partners, this weekend we traveled to rapid city, south dakota, featuring lifesize statues of each of our nations past president s. For the next hour, we will experience the history of this city of 75,000. For a moment, we will take you into the Black Hills National Forest with a trip to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. And in about 20 minutes, it is on to bear butte, one of the most Sacred Places in the world for native americans. Later, we will visit the Journey Museum to
Lets consider some major events. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising, what we call the dakota war, occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers and faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down suspected culprits tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals but in the end, 38 were hung in what remains americas largest max mass execution. It was during the lincoln presidency that the navajo, or dine, as they call themselves, walkmade to endure a long hundreds of miles from their homeland to a new reservation in eastern new mexico. To convince the navajo, american soldiers burned crops, destroyed livestock, and sacked their homes. They suffered from a lack of food, diseases, and raids. It was during the lincoln presidency that one of the most atrocious episodes in u. S. Indian affairs occurred, and that was the massacre at cheyenne and eastern colora
Announcer our visit to rapid city south dakota continue said we as we take you into the black hills to hear about the warrior, crazy horse. [chanting] i in the black hills, believe, at one time or another, there is a piece of the rest of the world here somewhere. Its kind of a mysterious place. Theres a lot of identity here. [change it continues] this place [chanting continues] this place feels mystical, worthwhile, and important. [applause] [squeaky door hinge] all right. This ride is one that many of our guests can see the bottom of the mountain to get the idea of how big the mountain is. Announcer the carving was started in the late 1940s. Today, the work is carried on by daughters. We have been able to get the foundation and little pieces at a time and purchase it, but 1000 acres altogether. And monique. Mounting covering has been going on since june 3, 1948. That was the first blast. Dad and mother were here and five of the survivors of little bighorn, and those people describe wh
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac from the 30s who went around taking pictures of poor people. His papers are at the archives and now, the thing that upset me about that and i was at smu at the time, but the third two options, keep robert e. Lee, go to russell lee or the third option was to name the school after the first africanamerican woman teacher, africanamerican teacher, period, who actually was still alive, shes 84, and taught all three of my daughters in second grade. And i thought that was the obvious choice, right . But they wanted to cling to lee. They wanted the name. They couldnt give up the name for this living africanamerican woman who had spent 35 or 40 years teaching at that school and retired. And ill just say very quickly, the same thing happened with stone well Jackson School this year in dallas, just up the street from smu. They did the same thing. They had these community meetings. They yelled and screamed at each other.
Announcer we continue our look at rapid city with a visit to bear butte, a place considered sacred by numerous native americans in the region. [flute music] i am donovan sprague. My lakota name comes from the crazy horse family of the lakota, for my tribal affiliation from Cheyenne River sioux reservation, which is about 100 miles east of where i stand right now at the sacred bear butte. A very spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many American Indian Tribes and nationalities visit. People come here and they will give tobacco offerings and prayers, and so they will leave those very often with tobacco and cloth for maybe a loved one or something they are praying for, but it does show all of the prayers that are left here and that are well received in this very area that we are at, i have actually given some lakota names to some people here. Some of these places, when i just look over, i can kind of almost imagine us, you know, having our little ceremony and getting toget