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the pueblo is a tribal nation that exists here in new mexico. because very distinct we live on our aboriginal property and we have maintained our sovereignty as a tribal nation for centuries, beginning with the first europeans who came in this area, the spanish, they recognized tribe sovereignty all the way through mexico, taking over from spain in this area and then the united and all ofng over the foreign governments have recognized the tribal nations. the region name of the pueblo is which is water drink in place. us being at the low part of the valley, there is a lot of natural springs and the rivers run through here. our pueblo is the pojoaque water because of the quality. we have approximately 13,000 acres. the pojoaque pueblo is known for its traditional architecture. what is given to us by our ancestors and handed down through generations, these traditional building techniques with mud bricks. we have carried that all the way to our most major development, ....
their lives. i like to see who you are this morning. if you ve never been here in your life, please put your hand up. now hold it way up. now, just look around. it s always the same. 90% of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, there s nobody in this audience who has never heard of george armstrong custer. there s nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. and i promise you this, there s nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. well, folks, it s a simple story. and yet it s a complex story. you are on the battlefield right now. and it stretches five miles to the south of us, well beyond the in the hill, way out there, five miles. on june 25, 1876, george in the hill, way out there, five armstrong custer with 647 troops will attack a massive camp located about a mile and a half to two miles to the south of us down in the river valley bottom. there s 8,000 people in th ....
will attack a massive camp located about a mile and a half to two miles to the south of us down in the river valley bottom. there s 8,000 people in that village. 1,500 to 2,000 of them are warriors. custer will have 647 troops. it s the only battlefield in the country, only one of two in the whole world, where white markers indicate where soldiers were killed on the battlefield and buried where they fell. red markers, like the one at the mouth of deep ravine, just to the left of this gentleman, 17 warrior markers across the battlefield, much more warriors died in the fight. but we ve got 17 markers placed there by oral histories and families. they re not buried on the battlefield. they are picked up very quickly and later buried in trees and caves and scaffolding. on top of the hill, just below the monument, custer perishes at the age of 36 years old. buried in an 18-inch grave. disinterred a year later, what was left of him, placed in a box about this big, taken back t ....
more ammo, eagle bone whistles shrieking across the battlefield in the bust and the smoke. warriors getting closer and closer and closer, desperately trying to destroy the soldier command. apocalypse at little big horn, custer s final battle. how did this happen? why did it happen? well, folks, it s really a culminating event because it marks nearly 400 years of cultural animosity, cultural friction, cultural disdain between euro-americans and native americans and the fight was always over the same thing particularly that yellow metal that makes the white man go crazy. and when they see all of these resources, they envision farms and towns, ranches, railroads, telegraphs, and barbed-wire fences, all of it driven by a near religion called manifest destiny. manifest destiny, the belief that somehow euro-americans are sanctioned, they re ordained by god to spread across the continent. conquer it, subdue it, tame it. from coast to coast. from sea to shining sea. there s j ....
america s youngest aspiring scientists. our work was gone. six days until the midterm election. a race where mud-slinging has replaced issues. this is al jazeera america, live from new york city, i m tony harris. today new help in the fight against isil, kurdish forces are getting a boost, as they try to hold on to the syrian border town of kobane. dozens of peshmerga fighters and heavy wednesday across the border of turkey. kobane s soldiers are also getting a surge from syrian soldiers. we have more from the turkey-syrian border. reporter: for turks it s an unprecedented sight, armed kurdish fighters being escorted through turkey by turkey convoys. these are peshmerga fighters who are on the way to syria. the turkish government are allowing 150 fighters to going through its territory under u.s. pressure to do for to fight isil. turkey does not see iraqi kurds as a threat, so it s letting them through. as the convoy made it s way, the coalition launched more ai ....