Their lives. I like to see who you are this morning. If youve never been here in your life, please put your hand up. Now hold it way up. Now, just look around. Its always the same. 90 of the folks come here never been here in their life, and yet, except for these little tykes over here, theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of George Armstrong custer. Theres nobody in this audience who has never heard of sitting bull or crazy horse. And i promise you this, theres nobody here who has never heard of elvis presley. Well, folks, its a simple story. And yet its 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. Theres 8,000 people in that village. 1,500 to 2,00
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, which is a 300 millio
On cspan cities toward. American history tour continues here on cspan. A look near santa fe, new mexico youre the head of the tribal government. One of 19 in new mexico. New mexico, there is eight pueblos north of santa fe. San juan, and today we are in pojoaque. The pueblo is a tribal nation that exists here in new mexico. They are very distinct because 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 States taking over and all of 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 Pueblo because of the water quality. We have approximately
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, custers final battle. How did this happen . Why did it happen . Well, folks, its really a culminating event because it marks nearly 400 years of cultural animosity, cultural friction, cultural disdain between euroamericans 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 barbedwire fences, all of it driven by a near religion called manifest destiny. Manifest destiny, the belief that somehow euroamericans are sanctioned, theyre ordained by god to spread across the continent. Conquer it, subdue it, tame it. From coast to coast. From sea to shining sea. Theres just one problem with th
The governor of new mexico, in 1974, gave a came from spain, in the 1600s, the king of spain gave the pueblo the cane. And recently spain also gave the pueblo another cane to recognize is sovereignty. These canes are held by the governor, the leader of the pueblo, in his house. They are also referred to as canes of authority. Each governor the tribe elects is responsible for holding onto the cane and passing it on to the next governor. Today we had the eagle dance. That eagle dance is important to many tribes across the country. We celebrate it with a unique dance. The eagle is an important part of the ceremony. It is looked at as power and the feathers are in almost every ceremonial outfit we have. So as heart of the ceremony, we have the dances and all of the tribal members come to bless the cane and bless me and bless themselves. All of the people were tribal officials, and the next was a Lieutenant Governor and then the tribal secretary and treasurer. Those are the four elected off