Indians

I've recently become more and more interested by Native American history, which made it a nice coincidence that I came across this TED Talk by Aaron Huey.

Part of my newfound fascination with Indians is because of where I now live. San Marcos, Texas is possibly the longest-continually inhabited place in all of North America, people have lived here for roughly 12,000 years (that's about 10,000 years longer than people have lived in Paris). Yet practically nobody is aware of this, and we know almost nothing about the natives of this area. After living in Europe for 7 years, where history is everywhere, I've come back to the United States to realize that this land has plenty of history, we just don't know anything about it.

This podcast gives a great timeline of the 19th century U.S. conquest of the Indians, provides some shocking statistics about reservation life, and shows some powerful photographs.

Watch it now, or download it on itunes. The itunes release date was 11/10/10.