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Little more to your right

A little bit more.

Perfect.

So uh...

tell us how you're leading by example.

All right, well...

People often talk about conservation within a bubble.

They think it's all about animals

when in reality

it's all about people.

I take students to places like the Congo

to get them out of that bubble.

The people who live there, help us understand their problems.

Problems my students have never faced before.

Whether it's having no electricity

or finding elephants in their backyard

Students see firsthand the challenges

of living with the same animals

they want to protect.

Together we find creative ways

to safeguard their communities and crops.

This collaboration forces students to think bigger

than the world they grew up in.

When you give Aggie's a global mindset,

there's no limit to the good they can do.

My name is Leslie Ruyle

and transforming students

is how I Lead by Example.

For more infomation >> Leading by Example: Dr. Leslie Ruyle, Global Ecologist/Texas A&M University - Duration: 1:14.

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Comanche Motion: The Art of Eric Tippeconnic | Bullock Texas State History Museum - Duration: 4:40.

When I was a child I lived on numerous reservations across the United States.

I would always go to dances and I would always watch, would catch like a glimpse

here and a glimpse there, and as soon as they danced I would go home and I would

draw them.

The vibrant colors and the sudden movements and the

pace and the flow of the materials.

I would try to capture the motion.

What Indigenous people have to do is

they have to operate in two worlds from birth.

They obviously have to operate in their world but then obviously in the

mainstream America as well.

My name is Eric Tippeconnic

I'm a professor of history at California State University Fullerton and I'm also

a professional artist.

The overwhelming majority of the subject matter in my paintings is

predominantly Comanche themed.

I use a lot of red and I like the bright yellow,

and the blooms of those colors figure predominantly into many

of my pieces.

Movement, color, all of these things are metaphor for me for a very

rich, vibrant, living, and breathing culture.

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Horses were extremely important to Comanche people.

We procured them from the Spanish

and then we ended up

breeding them and then we controlled the entire trade through the southern plains

all the way up through the

northern plains.

Comanche children were taught to

ride the horse beginning at age three.

Comanche women were just as proficient

as the men on horseback.

I like to feature parts of traditional Comanche culture

mixed in with contemporary imagery.

You'll see Comanche men with headdresses wearing

suits and ties. And once again the whole idea here is that we're not a

remnant of the past, we're not from some bygone historical era.

We're doctors, we're lawyers, we're professionals.

We're professors as well.

Painting to me is just another form of storytelling.

It's another form of teaching.

Eagle feathers were awarded and given to an individual for accomplishing

something great.

This one, for example,

was given to me when I earned my doctorate in history.

I want people outside to use my work as a way to

step off into a story

about who the Comanche people were,

and who we currently are.

So that was the same as this suit

over here on this modern day Comanche.

That is more Comanche than anything else.

Taking things outside of the culture, making it our own,

while retaining our language and our songs.

The story that a museum can tell, the story

that I can tell in class,

the story that my paintings can tell just by sitting there,

I think they all serve a similar purpose.

And they all start conversations.

People are essentially the same.

They want the same things.

They want a good life for themselves and their children.

I think something like art

is just in a way to attract people

to begin that conversation.