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Announcer you are watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming on cspan3. Forow us on twitter information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. Masoncer at George UniversityProfessor Joseph genetinpilawa argues during the reconstruction era, native americans frequently worked directly with the u. S. Government but the advance of to the west was an overwhelming force that still cost native americans ttheir land. His classes about an hour and 15 minutes. Mr. Genetinpilawa today, we are going to pick up with u. S. Federal tribal relationships. Although you will notice and i did warn you we are jumping forward slightly. Last class, we were speaking about removal and the establishment of reservations in the 1830s, 1840s. Early 1850s. We are going to jump forward a bit into the civil war ....
Bit into the civil war and after. The things i want to try and do is think about the ways that native history and the development of the west were directly connected to the civil war and reconstruction even though we dont always think of those things as related to one another. I think we kind of separate westward expansion and the civil war from one another but what the people who lived through that, i dont think they would have separated it. Get intoing to try to that mindset today. When we think about the term reconstruction, we usually use it to describe a series of policies and developments in the and 1877. Een 1863 these were policies that were designed to integrate free slaves into a mainstream thelation and readmit states back into the union. Welcome, everyone. [inaudible] free people themselves took an active role in reconstruction. Former slaves took an active role in the reconstruction process but there are Big Questions. ....
And good morning, america. Lets get right to that breaking news. Take a look at the devastation this morning. There it is right there in philadelphia. The train was headed from washington to new york. Busiest line in america just around 9 30 last night, five miles out of philadelphia. All seven cars including the engine came off the track, three of the cars, you see one right there toppled on their side, one nearly upside down on its roof. 243 were on board including 5 crew members. About 200 have been taken to the hospital. Hundreds of Emergency Responders on the scene right now. Firefighters, Police Officers and federal investigators including the fbi. Amtrak service between new york and philadelphia is shut down this morning. We have full team coverage. World news tonight anchor david muir starts us off from the scene. David. Reporter robin and george, good morning. ....