Me is the dam that sits just to the north of pierre. 1962 by the army corps of engineers, 160 years after lewis and clark made they where made their way to this area up the missouri review. Come with us to the Historical Center to learn more about their journey. Although the lewis and Clark Expedition is a key to u. S. History, the idea of the expedition was to encourage American Travel up the missouri river, and more american trade with the American Indians. What the story is in south there is some interesting tales. First of all, when you come into south dakota you have Sergeant Floyd had just died where the current city of sioux city is. But where they got to what was now they elected patrick gass. Ave, york, was allowed to vote in that election, highly unusual situation. They got to the top of spirit mountain, they saw their first bison. There was acres and acres of bison on this flatland. These areter member, men coming from the eastern United States, who were used to trees and forests, and hills and rocks. So this open plane was like, a farmers delight as well as a a hunterst delight, with all these buffalo. And as they come up the hill, the youngest member of the expedition, at age 17, got lost. But the most important thing in south dakota was the encounter with the teton lakota. Y historians believe it could have been the end of the expedition because it was a confrontation. It was a great misunderstanding between the nonindians, lewis and clark, and the people here at the confluence of the bad river and missouri river. Lewis and clark walking into a very difficult political situation, amongst the American Indians here. Lewis and clark assumed these were just simple people, simple lives, and there were going to tell them what need to be told, we can move on alike would be happy. Well, these were very sophisticated people, too. They were having a rivalry for leadership, between buffalo medicine, Black Buffalo, and the partisan erie they were competing on who was going to represent the tribe to these explorers, coming up the missouri river. To control thed trade up and down the missouri river. It was in the lakotas best free trade not allow up and down the missouri river. They got paid more in goods from that traders and trappers then the indians of the river. Clark, theyewis and said no, we want to trade with you. We want more trade. And it wasnt in in the best interests of the lakota, to do that. And so there was this , and that kind of confrontation, they just didnt understand. Lewis and clark did was, they let their interpreter behind, with the lakota people. So here we are, louis preparing to give what they done to his indian speech, and they did not have a proper translator. So the speeches were not effective. They lay out all these wonderful gifts, and they give more gifts to Black Buffalo because they see him as the head chief. Well that did not do anything with buffalo medicine, or the partisan, and they were angry because they were just as important as Black Buffalo and wanted more goods. Go so well. So lewis and clark said, lets take him out to the boat. That will impress him. So they load them up on the boat in the garage to the river and everything. And when they are coming back, the partisans men grab a hold of the boat and symbolically say, you cannot leave. You cannot leave until you give us more things, more goods. And clark, immediately got mad. He ordered guns raised. Raised. Well, along the shores, you have to imagine, both sides of the river are filled with these American Indians, men, women, and children, watching what is going on. And weapons get drawn on that side. Well, the good thing is that, at this moment in time. The leadership of Black Buffalo really shows. He steps forward, tells them to rope, andthe the warriors do. Away, andnsion goes the moment of potential confrontation disappears. When president Thomas Jefferson sent lewis and clarke out on their expedition, they knew theyre going to encounter American Indians and they wanted to provide a friendly appearance with the American Indians, because it was going to be a key to the development of this country to work with the American Indians living here. When they came up the missouri had peaceis and clark medals with them, we refer to them as jefferson peace medals. Of thomasimage jefferson, and on the back it has two hands clasped in friendship. Tose metals were given out the leaders they identified as the leaders of the American Indians, along the route. Very important, in terms of the gifting the game. These were given to the people they saw as the leadership of the tribes, and the key people they had to influence. About thistalking man, Thomas Jefferson, whose images on this metal and who and who is the leader of this country. The different side of the lewis and Clark Expedition i think, was important. And i think it was something they took great pains, to be good at doing. The military part, it was a military expedition. They were in military uniforms whenever they met with tribal leaders. That was pretty clear. They showed their guns. They showed their mighty guns. They loved discovering new things, but the diplomatic part of their own nation was the most from the standpoint that they were letting people know there was a new owner, cold, this land, and it happened to be the United States of america. Not only to the American Indians living here, but also the trappers and traders living among the American Indians, and encouraging trade. In central south dakota, fort pierre south dakota, it is the heart of the lewis and clarke story. It is so important, about their connections with American Indians, and how that went, and how it could have gone. Theyre pushing of diplomacy, the pushing of trade, the economy, they are pushing military strength. And the scientific exploration. Corps, of discovery, what theyre all about. This weekend we are featuring the history of pierre south dakota, together with our cable workers. Learn more about peer south cspan. Org American Cities cspan. Org cities to her. It became clear that my impression of breitbart and has as having an outsized influence on the 2016 election was an understatement. In the extreme. Breitbart was the driving force on the right side of the political spectrum. A,unday night, on q and will helton talks about his feature story, down the breitbart hole. Peoplentinue to hear talk about breitbart as this shoutycal, machine. Sunday night, edit 00 eastern, on cspans q and a. 2011, an architect and preservationist has been compiling information about former slave dwellings in the United States. We travel with her to the former Brandon Plantation in southern virginia, to learn about the saving slave houses project. Heres a preview. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. And this is part of an independent project that im doing, that is called saving which is as, database of all the known slave houses in the United States. Depository central central repository of information about slave houses in the United States. I have partnered with trimble, the company they makes the survey equipment i use, to do the highest level of documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. It is important to do this because documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the by documenting them, that is one way of preserving them. These buildings, and the people that lived and worked in these buildings, are very important part of our history. I think it is important to tell their story, truthfully. And one way of doing that is through the architecture. And the architecture is part of the material culture that survives today, that you can visit and experience. And it is kind of a vehicle to tell their story. And so that is how i am using the architecture. The work is also important because, when i started doing this research i found that there is information about these structures, and these people. But it is kind of everywhere, and there is little bits of it everywhere, so i have taken a lot of time, years to compile it. And i want others to benefit from it and have access to it, so they can then move forward and produce Meaningful Research studies, from it. Watched the entire program about saving slave houses on onerican artifacts, sunday American History tv, here on cspan3. The cspan buses traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. We recently stopped in richmond virginia, asking oaks, what is the most important issue in their state . About thencerned department of environmental quality, not limiting the expansion of Natural Gas Pipelines through our state. These are going to threaten our water, our land and our people. Infrastructure of the past as we move forward to renewable energy, a waste of time and money. West virginia and North Carolina have already come out against it and virginia should, too. My name is jonathan and i and a millennial motor here in the state of virginia. I am focused on what happens to hr 1447 in congress, the fair. Ousing act read it sai im concerned that if and theespie were elected, fair housing act, prohibiting discrimination with regard to assing and employment areas well, im really passionate about this and im wondering from any of the candidates, gillespie, what their position is on hr 1447. Voices from the states, on cspan. Smith talksron b about confederate general stonewall