This Is The Story Of Alaska Natives' Fight For Their Land [Our Fight To Survive, Pt. 1] | AJ+
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2017
- Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation - this is their story.
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When the United States bought Alaska from the Russians in 1867, Alaska's indigenous people had already been living there for thousands of years. Alaska Natives have had to fight to keep their land, from the point of contact to present day.
Resources: “Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People” by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
“Village Journey: The Report of the Alaska Native Review Commission” by Thomas R. Berger
Music tracks courtesy of APM and Audio Networks.
Footage and images courtesy of Getty, AP, AFP and Reuters.
Archival courtesy of Library of Congress, Prelinger, Alaska Film Archives - University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Alaska State Library.
Alaska State Library photo credit: P33-05 Alaska State Library Alaska Native Organizations Photo Collection.
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It's really sad to see people destroying nature for a short gain
@geheimschriver lol? Do you realize that the white invaders were only a handful of nations?? Is like only a few percents of white population.
...I am a Hungarian myself and yes...unfortunately it is hard to watch the westernization taking over the world, but the wisdom of indigenous people of north america really demand our respect.
not "people" but #europeans, do not lump the rest of the world into their insane greed!
@@lukaspersson4051 where do those white usa people come from? Where are their ancestors from? Europe! Those europeans expanded to America and caused this attacking native people.
@@lukaspersson4051 they are if we’re talking about origin. If you wanna say black people are from Africa, then white people are european. They should be named European American then if you wanna give pushing the american thing. The only real americans are the natives. And don’t even call them indian because thats an insult to them as well as REAL INDIANS.
@@fergoka before whites showed up in Alaska famine, tribal warfare, slavery, and cannibalism was common, and cannibalism was a taboo.
More indigenous videos please!!!
Cesar Alvarado 500 Nations
My tribe too..... I was adopted off the reservation, my grandfather was forced to go to boarding school...
There are no reservations in Alaska.
I am very sorry. That was wrong.
There is one reservation. Annette Islands Reserve in Southeast Alaska.
This is sad. I know what the woman means, Irish people went through something similar when the British came and claimed our country as their own and forced us to speak their language and we weren't aloud to speak Irish.
Eventually we got most of our land back but not all of it, they even burnt down innocent people's homes when we tried to get it back.
Except Native Alaskans were not forced to not speak there language they are encouraged!!! Don’t buy into this video i live among them in Arctic Circle
@James F
I have a Christian Conservative/Libertarian world view not agenda
@James F
I’m not excusing anything! I know the history as I said I live in the NWAB in Alaska among the majority Inuit population! Natives are not all alike! Basically the only time when the natives were treated poorly is when Russia owned the Alaska territory yes in 1918 a lot of white settlers children and native children were forced by their community and the gov into boarding schools when the Spanish Flu Pandemic swept through in the late 1910s a lot of culture was lost but not because of violence because children were forced to go to school 🏫 during a very dangerous pandemic you got to remember that 100 YRs ago medicine was not nearly as advanced as today!
@James F
You apparently have a far leftist world view
@James F
It’s not a game conservative means your trying to conserve something usually older ideas progressives want to change things drastically and classical liberals well they hold basic principles like conservatives but still are progressive on a lot of issues! It’s not a game it’s just groups and I don’t necessarily fall into a “group” fully. I follow my faith not a party
They've been doing this to natives for years.
J smith I think your off by a few million years
and it needs to end, right??!!
@@N30N_907 you must be #european to think such things...
@@SeareanMoon no doubt. I said it as in they deserve justice a long time ago
Because of colonization I don't know what tribe, language, customs, dance or anything else that is a part of who I am. I am not even sure how much Maya or Aztec I have. Fight for your heritage!!!
yes it is just terrible how they forest you to live in homes with bathrooms and electrostatic, heat, tvs and cars and Internets and movies those mean devils how dare they make our lives so 21 first century we wanted to stay in huts and eat when we could catch it and if we wanted to somewhere we hate using that thing called cars
@@sandramartinez585 i think he means that his cultural heritage is becoming more and more erazed from history here in sweden they melt down viking artifacts and push for islamisation and if you question it in anyway it is you and only you that its something wrong with even my muslim friends think sweden should remain sweden and not become swedistan.
Jose Martinez I know! It’s terrible! Due to the horrible treatment of my white ancestors, I don’t know where I come from. But I’ll take your advice and keep fighting to restore the white ancestry that was taken from me. The white community thanks you for your continued support.
@@Smigor108 why cant sweden go back to Samiland
@@peachgrubonalog4921 we call it lappland
Thanks AJ+ fot educating us about native people
Thank you for covering topics very few Americans know about. Alaska's history is as big as its land...wide and vast. Uncovering its complexity and revealing dark secrets and misconceptions with beautiful culture and almost lost traditions is wonderful!
Please keep sharing. im from New Zealand. we have been treated the same way.
Yep, the British and Europeans did it everywhere. It’s estimated that 175 million indigenous owners died in the Americas between 1492 and 1900.
Such an insightful video. I hope it trends so others can see and understand another indigenous issue.
I wish I can move up there I am indigenous from Ontario Canada, I am so sick of it down here, one day I what to come and visit the indigenous people from their.
Is it possible to get Spanish subtitles? Would you consider opening it for community cooperation to translate it?
Kia Ora cousins from new zealand aotearoa maori 👋🏾 don't give up the fight 💯🙏🏾
This time, captain America will not provide arms for independence 😉
Thank you for the video! 😢 it's heart breaking as a person born in Alaska. I love this state and its indigenous people
I am native Alaskan and the gov is not doing anything nm to help us there trying to destroy our way of life
Charlie, but they did destroy the way of life almost entirely. How do you think you ended up with a german last name
The Government is destroying more than native Alaskans way of life
I love Alaska! lived there for two years in my teenage years. The most beautiful place in the world.
Stolen indigenous land via genocide. No doubt it was beautiful. It truly was the “home of the brave and the land of the free” BEFORE the Anglo/European invasion and genocides. In those pre colonial times, the people WERE free, and they were proven BRAVE over and over again, trying to fight forces who had vastly superior weaponry.
Respect from ARIZONA I see you ALASKANS
Alaskans are Americans. Unlike This old video now they are so loyal to their country and flag
Great Video! Thank You
Very informative but so sad to watch.
That narrator was fantastic!
you are aboslutely right money is a short term but the land will always be here for us to provide for us..
Alaska is beautiful!
First, we need to use the right words: genocide! Please look up the definition of genocide if you are in doubt!
Second, We need to explain the "ansca" was under "duress" and needs to be renegotiated now that we understand better the western war criminal system...
Third: Russia never owned us so could never sell us (if it is legal I will sell you all of Europe for a measly $1,000,000! :p )
I love seeing strong Alaskan Natives who are proud to be #indigenous!
Attu, Alaska tribe here! #represent :p
I completely agree. Because of that deal Alaska Natives are facing genocide even in the 21st century! They have no land and no free college and post-graduate education, that's outrageous! In the USSR and Russia it would have never happened.
I travel to different regions of Russia, and everywhere I see that best school students of all ethnical groups study at the uni free of charge, and even in the most remote villages indigenous people have their own farms, good schools, premises for traditional wrestling, etc. Yes, we're not rich, but we cope somehow, we help each other. And everybody studies their native language as one of school subjects and speaks it at home.
Bravo.
Happened to Montagnards indigenous Central highland of Vietnam too we become minority in our own homeland Vietnamese treated us worser than your people.
Not the same 😅.
My dad and uncle are native Alaskans that work for an oil firm
you cant make this shit up 💀💀💀
I like it
Love your coverage. Thank you. Please reconsider use of sustained low frequency tones in your soundtrack. Please just let people talk so we can listen. Those low tones are manipulative and have a negative effect. Please stop.
Glad they didn't use the trap drum fad.
💩🙊so familiar🤣stand up people, love from Hawaii.....👍✊✊✊✊✊#A'OLE TMT
That pipeline looks DISGUSTING
Q Redwing I agree. Let’s both stop driving our cars in protest! And stop using anything that’s plastic since that comes from oil too. I love our plan!
I'm native American and Mexican
Tony Correa I doubt that there really aren't any Mexico natives left and the few that are left mainly in the south and live in poverty. You're probably just a white liberal. Most Mexicans can't write in English like you let alone Mexico natives that don't have any internet or electricity.
Spencer Allen and what are you?
@@dyamigerhold8009 what are you?
none none Mixed. My Mom is Kashmiri and English, Dad is German and Cherokee
none none why you got a problem?
segun harari entraron hace 16000 años por el estrecho de Bering , en cambio the OTHERS" con 500 mil años en la nieve mas o menos en 1500 , go to sing to gardel ..., ya estaban avivados .....
Wow Qutar thanks for trying to influence the United States
Read "Village Journey" by Thomas Berger based on the Commission's results- he was chosen by Natives to visit village folks off the road system- After the Fact -of Congress establishing corporations and the law of ANCSA. The quotes from early 1980s are stunning. What a forced change people had to endure.
I’m proud to be Russian indigenous mix! We are cousins🥺🤎
anna you should not be proud of the former because Gulag, etc.. and right about now Belarus is about to be invaided
@@PHlophe you are silly
Hawaii ans Alaska, America wheres the title?
Global warming has caused oil drilling in Alaska to decrease. We do not want or need any more oil money. We need oxygen. To hell with oil.
I'm not indigenous to anything but the earth. I hunt I gather I grow and I build by myself I need no one's permission to live and ask no one's permission. No one can own land but merely possess it while they are alive.
This is a well-deserved lawsuit that Alaska Native communities could slam onto the Federal Government. Oil has provided everything for Alaska but threatens the ecosystem heavily. Climate change hits Alaska at double the rate of the lower 48, and people there rely on an ecosystem developed over millions of years. Are you an Alaska native? Find a lawyer and sue the Federal Government in a class action. You heard the lady, they taught you English after you 'agreed' to the organization-region split. Illegal, especially if the contract was written in English. This is upsetting. Thankfully Bristol Bay never went through.... Alaska, you got this.
She has melanine and lives in cold one of the strongest species on eaarth
The tribes are more asian looking since they came from asia thousands of years ago the reporter is not from Alaska shes either a southern tribe or just has white ancestors and lives in LA im gonna go with the second since no tribes look like her.
Yeshua with you love you people of the Most High
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Qujanaq!! ( kalaallisut Greenlandic for thank you)!! This would happen to Greenland too ( and is already happening in one form or another at the hands of many governments and people) This is why Greenland says “ wer open for business, but not for sale!!” This quite is by a Greenlandic ( forgerien? Prime minister, I think he is retired? * I put. ? Because I’m not shur if I’m saying those statements with the ? Marks right) please correct me if I’m wrong!! Much appreciated!!
Who are the people featured in these videos?
My Grandmother went to Eklutna school. She never taught her kids her native language. She was taught it was wrong. Our Alaska native group was litigated against most of my life, with a judge finally saying our BIA status should be revoked because 4 natives and 4 whites isn’t majority and you have to have native majority to qualify. 2 of those whites were our legally bound family members. Father and husband, to native group members. Why did ANCSA punish biracial families, especially after the boarding school treatment? The people who started the litigation weren’t there in 1970 which ANCSA said you had to be on. Now we are not federally recognized, but all of our natives groups around us recognize us.
I truly think you should look up Tyonek and how they won the right to royalties. This was before Alaska Native Claims. Tyonek also Funded and a Tyonek Member drew up the draft for the first Alaska Federation of Natives. Tyonek means Little Chief.
Did the aztects and alaskan natives originally from siberia?
Originally we're all from Africa) But yes, when I watch a documentary about Cree people, I see nearly everything in their traditions to be very close to traditions of indigenous Siberians.
No
I’m part of a lost tribe of Alaska
Feel sad for them...same thing hppnd vs us...
I searched this because I played Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
where you play as Nuna the girl and the Fox
well done, honey
Who is here for school academia?
That explains the beading.
And yes - you are survivors. To survive that weather. I would just freeze to death.
With Simon eggs seems like yoy build a artificial stream to a pond or hatchery for saving the species and helping with food not taking the wild out of it but using it to help kinda like the artificial reefs helping the reefs and such
Christians, Why did you Spread your religion to these native Alaskans when it's a perfectly ok to let them live they where.
Because it was the 1800s.
London Brotherson a lot other religions spread to tribes to, so I don’t get what of question is that?
London Brotherson Because the Catholic Church has an agenda, and pushes their indoctrination on to less advanced and intelligent people, so that they can establish a foothold in many different locations.
Same thing we did the the American Indian
Eastern shoshone of the wind river reservation in Wyoming
This is an a memorial lost cause. So sorry. Still here
Time to get to modern times
I am 87% Aleut
My corporation is for drilling on ANWR. It is wrong that an Alaska native corporation is for drilling there.
They are lucky to have what they have
It's the same story for all my tribal people out there, alway's fine print in these so called treadies that the U.S. government passes every time they have to deal with a problem of our's
Yeah wish you guys would of saved this little village called Nuiqsut on the North Slope the most impacted village in the world 5 miles the closest oil rig and like 6-7 rigs close by.
Lands and sovereigntiessss
I'm second generation 'white-ized' Alaska Indigenous. I have been feeling it in my blood to return to the land and abandon the 'white.'
Alaska must become an independent country...free from the USA!
I wish the lower 48 is full of wack jobs
A Lonely Penguin no
A Lonely Penguin Why? I’m not moving, and I doubt my white friends would either. Oh wait, are you dreaming about some nate uprising against whitey!? 😂
There’s one way to go extinct. You don’t want to secede from the US anyway. The cost of monarch vodka would go up. Didn’t think of that did you? 🤗
the girl at 0.05 is hideous
Aleuts generally do not look as pure blooded as other Arctic Natives
Go to any village in AK and you will find mixed people. It doesn't stop them from being Native Alaskans.
We don’t care about blood quantage. You guys don’t do that to black people, Asians or any other race but us. Systematic racism at its finest.
where are u che guvera...rescue them
akhil raj LOL
Dumass
it's a bit radical but the only solution is to give all Canada and America back to natives who where the first guardian's of the land
And watch it have some of the highest crime rates in the world.
who gets what land,,the natives in alaska like lower 48 tribes stole land from other tribes..eskimos vs indians
Yes and all Turks should go back to Mongolia and all Arabs should go back to the Arabian peninsula.
Deu 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Deu 28:33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
"But not everybody has benefitted from that wealth." Interesting...how many of them are still living without electricity?
Oil is needed to make electricity. Fuel is very expensive up there. A source of revenue is needed like a mine or oil field.
I wondered would have happened if Russia had kept Alaska for themselves. Tensions during the Cold War may have escalated if Russia had a foothold in the continent. I'm not sure how the native Alaskans would have fare through.
Probably would have got their own republic or autonomous region after the Russian revolution
OMG, we couldn't sell that land! With us Alaska Natives could have free college, free healthcare, their languages and hunting lands, but now they suffer because of OUR stupidity and greediness. What a shame was to take that meager 7 million dollars...
That land that russians stole from the natives in first place lol you couldn't sell that land cause that land isn't yours or the Americans in the first place.
@@rudgullit1989Certainly. We shouldn't have sold it. Stlealing the land and being sent there as a prisoner, or hide from religious oppression are different things. Permafrost and harsh climate protect many lands from stealing even better than laws.
In Russia Native Peolpes of Siberia, Ural, the Extreme North, Caucasus, regions along River Volga, the Far East still live on their lands and do their traditional lifestyle - reindeer/sheep/camel herding, hunting, fishing, farming. Many of those who don't, have degrees and work in the city (or at farms as vets, engineers or agronomists), and all ethnic groups have free tuition at the uni if they study well at school. It may seem surprising for foreigners, but the absolute majority of native children study their language at school. There are news programmes, TV shows, newspapers, films and modern songs in many of indigenous languages. Neither the Russian Empire, nor Soviet Russia, nor the Russian Federation forbade cultures and languages.
The US and Canada failed to even organize regular language classes in Native American languages at school.
People of 'marys igloo alaska' lost portions of our lands to a church that would discipline our grandparents for speaking there own language while they where in school we hear stories of there disciplines today and that miners claim is b.s. People of marys igloo, ak where here before that church and miner but yet force us to move out our own area due to saying you either put ur kids in school or go jail all kinds made us move away from the mother lands of 'marys igloo,ak' at pilgrims hotsprings belongs to people of marys igloo
Hello Alaska I an in surch for a 2500_ 3000 year old story person who came in the sky. Every heart beat counts so expedite your body
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Tebughna Natives from Tyonek and other villages flight off Russians and made a treaty. Leaving the west side of the Cook Inlet free of Russians.
All turtle mountains bands of chippewa are dying off not by drinking either s.o.s. chieftain of the sky. Fargo. Nd
why do these people constantly complain? it's exhausting
what diseases?
Read Guns Germs and Steel very entertaining and interesting
Thought we multicultural
So how are these people indegenous to Alaska and America at the same time? 🤔 These are no doubt the same grouos of people.
Thought everyone in Alaska got a check? Oil money check
They don’t. You have to work in the industry.
The videos show how Alaska native people have been discriminated against rights to their land.
America is not given up alaska give it up already 🤣🤣🤣
This lady who spoke is very smart we need to take care of this land she should run for government do to what Mao has done to Chinese land owner this is almost same
Free Alaska for the Eskimo and the American natives.
If it's a part of Russia, all non-natives will go at once )))) We'll even ask them to stay, but they'll go )))) And Russians won't come, because tickets are too expensive, and because a territory isn't attractive for us if it's Russian ))))
The sale of Alaska was fictitious. Russia only occupied a small fraction of the territories.
I didn't serve in Iraq but I feel like I did
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Indigenous of the continent.. come from Asia ..? Are the Asian descendants
Talk about the Islamic slave trade going on right now. Those videos were nuts.
They won't since it would make islam look like a religion of war,hate,racism,discrimination,sexism,etc this channel is SJW or PC.
Or mistreatment of non Arab househelps in Saudi Arabia
Because of PFD, literally everyone has benefited from oil wealth. If you are from a North slope corporation, you are set for life. The boarding schools were horrific. Many children we're sexually abused by missionaries and passed that down through their families. This is why there is a high sexual assault rate among Alaska natives. Now, each village has a school paid for by the state.
Silas Bishop I highly doubt the boarding schools are the reason for all the sexual assaults. The vast majority are raging alcoholics, the villages have an incredibly high fetal alcohol rate, and based off what I see in Anchorage and Fairbanks, they have very little respect for themselves and any other form of life.
@@facina3390 While I agree with you, some of it is learned behavior. The rest is pure self destruction.
@@facina3390 Many Native Americans suffer from intergenerational trauma passed down through families. If you have no respect or knowledge of what Native Americans have endured throughout the years, shut up please. Your ignorance is an unnecessary thing to exhibit.
@@facina3390 You'd be alcoholic too if your people went through what Natives have :\ Poverty, lack of education, systematic ways of generations losing their identities and much more would send you into an everlasting depression
Actually, you came from the mountains in Mongolia and you are technically Asians.
Oil really? I thought Alaska benefited the most from its fishing industry.
What fishing industry? Maybe 20 years ago
@@ktknhaida5220 you really are stupid
CAVE BEAST UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS.
Now the mf have a TV show talking about they are the last alaskans
Darrell Austin Too bad the nates are to drunk and stupid to even tie their own shoes. Otherwise, maybe they could have invented a camera to film their own show. The nates have turned a corner though. I hear the Barrow space program is really taking off! 😂
@@facina3390 to bad there really not from Alaska as I said white all the do is culture jack
Colonization and assimilation can definitely be tragic... not just because of whites, but from other races as well. I don't think it's fair to just blame whites (especially ones living today) for racism that goes on today (and in the past). I believe the reason why Europeans have perhaps been the most successful among races in creating colonies and invading other indigenous people's lands was because of three major factors: their abundant natural resources, the location of their homeland, and even their climate. If people of a different region where the ones with the better advantages, then I have no doubt that they would also take advantage of their success. At first, the most successful were ones that inhabited the Middle East, Northeastern Africa, and Eastern Asia because the first known civilizations were established in these regions. I bet you anything that there were many instances of invasions and oppression from their parts, such as Egyptians forcing Israelites into slavery, or Huns invading Eastern Europe (the homeland of Slavic peoples), or Akkadians conquering the Sumerians and native people of Anatolia. Now don't get me wrong, I believe the European arrival in Alaska (as well as North America, or rather the Americas, as a whole) in many ways can be seen as immoral and oppression against the natives, but there are also benefits in their arrival (such as more effective tools, medicine, and in some cases helped them create their own writing system (using syllabics) for even better forms of communication. People should understand that this all took place in the past, and this type of colonization and racism has been very much diminished today. Prejudice against white people today (who were never personally involved with the actions that took place from the past) is going to solve nothing, if anything, it will only continue hostilities towards each other. This of course also goes for some white people, as they can also show signs of prejudice against other races...which obviously tends to be more popular (or hated), mostly thanks to mass media. Prejudice against ANY race is wrong and should be stopped, but in a more realistic approach, that will never happen. Why? Because we are all humans. We tend to be more similar than different from each other, specifically our mindsets. There will always be good and bad among the human race, and that's how it's always been for us.
Sky Truth Bearmore had a very well written, truthful, and intelligent post. You shouldn’t have tried to respond. You’re not in the same league.
Yes, forced colonization, forced assimilation and genocide carried out in the name of civilization is a tragic thing. We Native Americans don't blame anyone living now for what happened in the past but it's hard to overlook the prejudice and racism when it still occurs today and if you are the one happening to be experiencing it. I think we Natives, being human, tend to treat people as we are treated.The arrival of the invaders to our homeland brought us many things, including disease and a dying Mother Earth, but we had been living here for thousands of years so we pretty much had our groove on with our way of life. We had our own ways of communication, by the way, the Cherokees had a written language and by 1828 there were 2 newspapers in the language and literacy was close to 90%, much higher than the white American literacy rate.The Mayans also had written language along with the Aztec and Zapotec. Many modern medicines are based on the plants and herbs that were used by Natives for thousands of years. In fact more than 200 botanicals, derived originally from Native Americans, have been or are still in use by pharmaceuticals. Native Americans alone domesticated and actually genetically modified several of the most important foods crops in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. In 1987 the US Senate acknowledged that the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois Nations served as a model for the US constitution. Native American accomplishments, contributions and discoveries are largely overlooked as we are a marginalized people.
@@facina3390 Lack of respect is the first sign of ignorance. Take heed and act accordingly.
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They are native of the Americas not just Alaska
If you really want to regain your culture stop using snow machines, four wheelers, motor boats and AR 15s. Oh no! You want to pick and choose what you want. Blaming others is a great way to sound like an defenseless victim. Give me a break!
Michael Altemus-----ummm.....hhhmmm.......so, i think THEY think it would be better to hunt wild animals...then go to the grocery store????.......
Michael Altemus Amen! I deal with these drunk bastards everyday at work. This is the last culture that deserves any sort of respect.
Putin would have been more respectful. Shameful #Nato #putin #savemydistantrelatives