No he isn't, he lies and is bias against the British The 7-year war arose out of the attempt of the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the rich province of Silesia, which had been wrested from them by Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia The British didn't start it. He is just plain wrong
I'm an Ojibwe man living in Minnesota. I thought you did a wonderful job. I have family on both sides of my parents who are native and have unfortunately suffered a large number of the issues you mentioned above. For instance, my grandfather was punched by grown men for speaking in his first language until he spoke with a stutter in English. He was at the beginning of the air force and out of the service, he became a medicine man. That didn't stop the cops from breaking his back because my grandfather wanted to witness the police brutality beating on his drunken brother. Or my grandmother on my mom's side who was removed at birth and was raised in a polish-catholic house with an abusive adopted mother. There are more sad details about both their lives because of this subject but that's a whole lot more writing. Indian tacos were a nice touch that's what I had for my 18th birthday for dinner. You should have mentioned the movie Smoke Signals. It's one of the few native movies for natives by natives.
The ICWA is going to be reviewed by the supreme court this month as far as I know, which makes me fear for what will happen considering the current supreme court
my heart breaks for your grandpa! it sounds like he endured the residential school era of our genocide. I spend a great deal of time being thankful i didn't experience that form of genocide, and also an equal amount of time wishing i was born earlier so i could have a connection to my people. once the whites realized that it was impossible to remove our culture by forcing us into these barbaric schools[or just forcing us to be white in regular schools], they took to completely removing us from our families and placing us in white homes, and if we pass the paperbag test, we have no idea of our heritage. thus the whites job of eliminating our ability to be native has finally been realized. too bad for them it was too late and they got caught and had to stop. too bad for me that i got raped and tortured in foster care as a small child because of my heritage.
The same happened to my Grandmother too, she was taken off her reservation as a child and put through the Christian boarding schools and foster system where she most likely suffered severe abuse. She was an alcoholic most of my Mom’s early life, even though she quit drinking her weakened liver couldn’t handle the stress from being in a wreck and later seeing her husband in critical condition from another wreck. She was very loving and kind, she held the family together and her death hit the family hard, after learning the news my grandfather died soon after. Knowing what happened to her and countless other thousands enrages me. I don’t care what people call it, the US actively practiced genocide and continues to do so against Native Americans, there is no justification. I don’t believe it when people ask me why I have zero pride in this rotten country, it literally robbed, raped, and murdered half of my family just 2 generations ago.
I hope you all enjoy this feature-length film. Be on the lookout for the several follow ups! Small corrections: 6:59 Pocahontas had many names. Among her own people, she was primarily known as Matoaka. 1:32:23 While Truman did begin the policy of termination, he did not sign PL280, that was Eisenhower. 1:37:04 I accidentally colored in Sri Lanka as part of India.
4:30 you say that none of these terms are disrespectful, some of them are, in fact. In our entire continent. Unless you are one of these guys that use the N word because you have "some black friends", then, it's even worse.
My mother was 100% Cherokee. She died of alcoholism at the age of 39. This is so sad. I got sent home from school in 7th grade because the teacher referred to the trail of tears as a relocation. I informed the class of the truth. It was a forced death march through the freezing cold. Some people had no shoes or coats. They also had very little to eat. This is painful but history must be told truthfully unless it will inevitably be repeated.
It’s still happening. American imperialism knows no limits. Americans will have to be the ones to end It. The revolution has never stopped 🫶🏻 I hope everyone is forming mutual aid networks and organizing in their communities.
so sorry that happened to your mother. my father had been battling against addictions his entire life, most of the trauma caused by residential school. he's also a survivor of the 60s scoop.
i hate to be pedantic, but indian removal and imperialism are separate phenomena. It was less of an economic exploitation of foreign lands and more of a calculated genocide.
if anything you would describe it as american colonialism rather than american imperialism. American imperialism is more modern, a result of the post-war world order. Its more about economic domination of other nations rather than military dominance and annexation of other lands. Imperialism takes the form of american companies setting up mines and factories in “the third world” and american colonialism was american expansion on the continent through military and political coercion. Colonialism is more official, while imperialism happens without any official act or law.
Imagine making a two and a half hour documentary for literally hundreds of thousands to half a million people to view in less than a week. That's part of why I love your channel, you put it out there and no one does it like you.
Ah, now that I've watched more of the video, I see that the Point of View is entirely from the Modern American. No consideration is given to the Point of View of the annihilated American human beings, 90% of them being infected because of the white genocidal invaders and us, their inheriting descendants. Wow, so good that we don't have to look closely at the Othered alien people, eh?
@@jeffk464 😀First, using cats is generally considered cheating already since 1990ties lolcat epidemic Second, 🤔let's change the metrics from views to view time. View time 2½ h * views = a lot of minutes. This vs my cat tipping over my beer onto my keyboard and me using horrible language when i get annoyed is 40s * views = a lot of minutes too, but maybe less than the long non-cat related video(?)
I recall going on a mission trip to a reservation back in youth group when I was still pretending to be christian. There was a native American man giving a presentation to a large number of visiting kids and I remember him saying in reference to a local mountain "There's gold in that mountain. Don't tell the US government.". I'm realizing now that that was probably a grim joke that he knew none of us would get.
What's crazy to me is before the invention of electronics, gold was practically worthless in of itself and only treasured because it was treasured. Thousands of people (millions if we're talking across the globe) suffered because they happened to be between powerful people and shiny rocks.
@@phoebexxlouise Thus proves to me that many white people were the real savages and barbarians that they had the nerves to call any other people of colour.
I am an enrolled Cherokee and a history professor.. It's great to hear someone discuss U.S. and Indian history in such a contextual, nuanced way. It is a pleasure to tune in to your podcast. You have a new member!
I'm not even American so all of this is literally foreign to me, but it was fascinating. I genuinely didn't know the surviving Indian nations were actual *nations*, or even that they did still exist as legal entities beyond what I assumed were more akin to local councils for specific regions of the US. Massive thanks for putting this all together!
To be honest, I’m an American, who was sheltered for a very long time, and I didn’t even know this was the case. It’s things like this that have completely changed and altered my view on the country I was born in. This isn’t my land. This land belongs to the people who were here first. No one can change my mind about that
KB has been dropping hints on his Patreon and Twitter on his progress on this video for months now. So happy to finally attend his first RUclips Documentary premiere; KB is following in Folding Idea’s footsteps! 😊
this is such a incredibly well done video as a indigenous living in saskatchewan your conclusion was on fuckin point it really does feel hopeless sometimes thank you for this video
I love my old history teacher because despite being an ex marine and teaching in Florida, he told us that stuff we did was messed up, he told us how it was messed up, and he wouldn’t sugar coat anything or try to make America seem like the good guys.
I think that an important part of growing up is acknowledge that your country/ancestors did something messed up at some point, try to be aware of the consequences of it in the present and stay vigilant for the future for similar messed up things be done again by yours or other's country
One of my favorite history teachers was American Indian, and that made all the difference! He was constantly being harassed by the community for teaching "lies" to the children but that made me want even more to learn everything he could throw at us. I still have the copy of Black Elk Speaks that he gave to me in 1986. He said that one of the most important lessons about that book was when it was written, 1932. At the time I was in that class, he said "This was only a little over 50 years ago. A man who had been at Wounded Knee. It is not ancient history."
Ojibwe here. I deeply appreciate you doing the deep dive that public school curriculum refuses to even scratch the surface of. I’m a descendant of a residential school survivor, and telling the truth about our stories of colonization across Turtle Island reminds people that we aren’t just past tense ancient peoples. We’re still here. We’re still living the effects of what colonization has done to us. Videos like these prove what Victor says in Smoke Signals, “The cowboys don’t always win.”
@@Galimah One of my favorites! It’s a gorgeous story about grief, growing up on the rez, and childhood trauma. It weaves a story in the only way natives know how - laughter.
@@whenisdinner2137 I’m glad you’re curious! So, some indigenous nations refer to it as Turtle Island because many of us share an origin story of the world existing on top of a turtle’s back - North America essentially being the turtle’s shell and the rest of the world being the turtle’s body. While it’s not technically an island, you have to consider the limitations of geographical understanding at the time this origin story was crafted. It’s kind of like thinking about the biblical “Great Flood” in the Noah story claiming it covered the world. It didn’t cover the whole world - just the “world” within the parameters of what those people knew.
What a bunch of horse shit. Native Americans were a stone age people. When the Europeans arrived they got wasted. That's life. My ancestors came to the US long after that was over. They were wasted by the Ottomans and Muslims. I don't cry about it. If the Spanish hadn't come your people wouldn't even have had horses, just dogs. You'd live to about 50 years old then die.
I remember reading the memoir of an Apache veteran who served as a tank commander in WW2. He was given his position because everyone assumed that he would be the best at navigating the company through the countryside. And he was the best, but only because he paid attention during the navigation classes and always kept a map on him.
So many parts of the segment on boarding schools sounds identical to what happened to the Sami here in Norway. It's painful how many times this has happened, and even more painful how successful it was
And it will happen again, you dont have to go far back in to the past to see examples like this. The most recent are Ruanda, Bosnia, Syria, Myanmar and so on... it is human nature just because it happens in "steps" over a long time doesnt change that fact.
When I was in high school I went on a service project to the Navajo reservation in Arizona, and it was a really eye opening experience. It felt like going to a third world county. No running water in the house, electricity from a gas generator, outhouses, the nearest hospital or grocery store was hours away, and this was in 2019. Not long after in my US history class when we briefly talked about native Americans my teacher made it sound like we had given them all this land and money and that life was good for them. When I argued against that with actual first hand experiences of the way they have been forced to live, his response was “well that’s not in the textbook”.
@@cielonehellofaservicedog4648 they can’t know everything an out everything. Teachers are mostly skilled in conveying information, and at the primary and secondary level teaching (and managing) kids is hard enough. They have very little license to go beyond the textbook anyway. Generally not until college that you run into teachers that are actually experts in the subject. Unfortunately many of them are anything but experts in teaching.
Bruh you saw it with your own eyes and the best that mf could say was "that's not in the textbook" . Well duh white people who wrote the book ain't finna tell the whole TRUTH 🤣 I would have had fun in that class. I've gotten ISS in history class for many reasons.
tbf before the evil colonizers came they had no running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no hospitals, no grocery stores so it's not like it's like they had all this stuff then colonizers came and took it all away.
@@Kelly_C yeah I have but the style of content is different, not to mention contrapoints is far more controversial. Contrapoints spends a lot more time on editing, makeup, lighting, and aesthetics while knowing better puts quite a bit more into research. They are both very high quality but I would say knowing better does it a bit better just because his is more content than optics based.
The University of Northern Colorado Native Intermural Basketball team had the best response ever in 2002. They wore white uniforms and white shoes and changed their name to the Fightin' Whities. The merch sales went to a native scholarship fund.
As a Navajo, I thank you for shining the light on the United States' true history when it comes to the topic of Native Americans. But I also like to point out that the fight to defend ourselves isn't over not even by a long shot. Especially concerning the fact that the Supreme Court is currently undergoing preparations to hear the Brackeen v. Haaland case, that is challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act and it's a huge deal for us, especially concerning the fact that it's not just deciding the fate of Native American children for generations to come. But it's also challenging Tribal Sovereignty and if the Supreme Court declares ICWA to be unconstitutional combined with the political climate we're in right now we're afraid that it will set off a domino effect that will result in the total annihilation of Tribal Sovereignty. And thanks to the six republican aligned justices making up the majority in the Supreme Court there's a chance it may happen and if it does then dark days shall be upon on all Native Americans.
Also the western states right now are specifically working on how to screw the Navajo nation out of it's access to Colorado river water. Since it's running low and changing how water is used by corporate farming conglomerates is spooky Communism.
I’m curious, how does citizenship work for natives who are born and live on reservations? Growing up, I had a few friends who were Cahuilla, but because of how land apportionment works between the state of California and the band of Cahuilla Indians and how the tribes use their land, most tribal members are born and live exclusively on California soil, so they’re seen as citizens by default. Is it different for tribes that are stuck on the rez?
the term is autochton for all tribes like yours, peace! to all autochtons and metis across the planet, each country has autochton people, not many were imnvaded by colons like in north america
@@Praisethesunson I'm also aware of that, in fact just recently the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases concerning that exact same issue Department of the interior v. Navajo Nation and Arizona v. Navajo Nation both are connected to one another. And this is also a big issue because thirty percent of the residents don't have running water. And sheep herding makes up a large portion of the Navajo Nation's economy, they're dependent on that. And plus the sheep has an important role in Navajo culture they're sacred to us, like how the buffalo is sacred to the tribes of the plains or how sacred the horse is to the Commanche. The Navajo Nation has been demanding equal access to running water for decades but everytime when we demand equal access to water our voices are ignored and now this issue to going up straight to the Supreme Court all because some angry corporate farmers can't handle us having access to water and that's bs at least they have running water while the Navajo doesn't. We need water to live but they say no because they want to use that water, to water up some fancy grass that takes up too much of it so they can feed it to their cattle. And if the Supreme Court rules on their side that means goodbye water and hello major drought for the Navajo Nation.
@@tshred666 As far as I can tell it's the state that surrounds the reservation. However, the reservation despite being in one or more counties functions as its own county and micro-state to the US. (For instance, Red Lake Reservation has recreational cannabis while the state of Minnesota does not. In addition, many reservations elect their own sheriff but many need to contract an outside agency.)
I had the same thought! A high school history teacher could probably just show this video in class & it would cover the topic better than any outdated textbook could.
Education institutions only buy books from capitalists that republish their material version every year. The ultimate definition of ripoff and poor quality.
I am an indigenous Arawak native. I took the time to watch your video completely, and I was amazed of the amount of information you were able to discern and to dispel some of the lies in the myths about native people. Most non-natives are not interested in the fax order history and see us as invisible people, or someone who is still complaining about the past. They fail to understand the history that we had to endure. When do Europeans came to the west. How they were successful in genocide majority of our indigenous tribes, and the remaining tribes try to assimilate or to denigrate what was left. They robbed us of our history and culture. I know this personally because of the history that I was taught, and how my own culture was left out of that education. I want to tell you thank you for bringing this history and documentary tonight and I hope many more people are able to see it and take the time to understand what had to endure I know that things have not changed. I do appreciate your research and understanding of indigenous people and I hope sometimes you could have a documentary on other tribes outside of the continental United States, such as tribes from the Caribbean and West Indian islands.
I managed to sit through your entire video. Thank you ever so much. I'm an ethnic minority historian from London. I recently came back from a road trip from Iowa to Lake Superior. My friend told me about the Indian reservation and casions. I didn't know what he meant, but through this video. I understand now. It is a full new world of history knowledge for me. It is not only interesting. It is so respectful and considerate of minority history which get forgotten and twisted. On the behalf of all minority historians and researchers all over the world. Thank you for being so respectful and standing on the side of the suppressed. I also admire your knowledge and representation skills. Your students will be blessed and be more sound in critical thinking and historical enquiry skills 🙏 I salute to you.
One of the worst mascot situations is in Jackson, Missouri. I lived there for 4 years and the city is named after Andrew Jackson and is located 6 miles from the Trail of Tears state park. There's a big watertower near the highway that says "Welcome to Jackson" with a picture of Andrew Jackson... and right below that it says "Home of the Indians." Yep, a town named after Andrew Jackson, one of the main people responsible for Indian relocation and an area that the Trail of Tears went right though, decided to name their high school team the Indians.
There’s a hockey team in Gothenburg, Sweden (in the Highest league) called Frölunda Indians, but I think the reconsidered and either will or have changed their name. Yepp, the stopped using that name in Sep 2021.
@@OutdoorLonghair right right. School shootings are so commonplace now that we just go through the motions when we hear of a new one, BUT my town is named after a president that did terrible things 200 years ago. 🙄 Wake up people. Stop letting the parts of our countries history that are terrible divide us even further. Believe it or not many citizens of the US have looked back on our history and privately dealt with it. Of course when you do something quietly and sensibly you don’t get to look like an activist online -which is more important than anything else in our culture currently.
I'm a Canadian so plenty was very US specific, but still fascinating. There was tons of that going on in Canada too, as you had called out sometimes. Great work!
I feel like ever since your Mormonism video, and then again with your neoslavery video, you've raised the bar for yourself and have tried your hardest to make only the best videos. It's paying off, love to see an upload from you!
"Take the child and destroy the Indian within him to save the man" As a Sami this is so scarily relatable. My grandparents all went through this exact process. Indigenous peoples really all face the same struggle, though indigenous north americans certainly had it worse than we did.
And again we also have special rights to the land that doesn't extend to Norwegians which also pisses them off just like in Minnesota (not sure about Sweden and Finland, definitely not the case in Russia though). Sometimes this is just like looking in a mirror.
The parallels between what happened to the Sami in Scandinavia and what we did to the American Indians here are surreal, and then you have people who make embarrassing takes about how it couldn't possibly be anything that bad because the Sami are superficially white.
@@jakobinobles3263 they are north Scandinavia, mostly within Sweden, most culturally similar to Fins. They have been slowly and often brutally suppressed. The same story across much of Europe, in different flavours- Karelians, Basques, Celts, Tartars and many more over history. The strategies are different, altogether not as brutal as America's, but still as suppressive.
@@Vuosta Special rights to the land seems to be a shared point between ethnic discourse in many countries, Americans will say Indian casinos are a great benefit and Chinese Internet have many similar complains about supposedly beneficial minority land rights.
thank you for covering topics like these, KB i'm chickasaw / chikasha. too many see us as in the past, as historical figures. my grandpa went through brutal whitewashing in board schools, my mom participated in AIM / civ. rights. i'm 19. it's simply not as distant as it seems. - masali
Thank you for another educational video. i knew a small part of what you talked about but you filled in the missing pieces and helped me get a better overall understanding of the history and the problem. Good work!
I watch this channel because every time you challenge my preconceived notions and make me really think. This one hit especially close for me. I grew up at the tail-end of the baby- boomer generation and considered myself culturally enlightened because I thought I had rejected my parent's stereotypes. When I was in the military in the 80s, I was stationed at a small outpost completely enclosed by a reservation in Washington State. Dating opportunities were few, and I fell in love with and married an Indian girl (despite several entreaties not to by older, wiser friends.) Almost immediately, I received orders to a base in the L. A. area, and the move and adjustment were difficult for both of us, but especially for her. She was incredibly homesick and lost in the big city, and I couldn't help her because I was busy in my new job. She also disturbed me when she told me of portents in the natural environment that were meaningless to me, but held significant import to her. She would hide in our apartment all day until I came home from work, and then want me to take her out for entertainment or just shopping. I was a city kid, and couldn't understand why she was unable to adjust. There were so many things about her life I didn't understand. I sent her home more than once to visit, but things would be the same when she returned. Things deteriorated to the place where it was impacting my performance at work, and I finally asked for and received a release from my contract. She wanted us to return to the reservation and live, but I knew it would be hard for me to find work and support a family there. I broke her heart when I left her and divorced later. It has always been my deepest regret that I couldn't make it work between us. My military career was destroyed, and her life was never the same. I personally witnessed all of the things you said about kids and families on the rez. It's a horrible life for most, but it's all they know, and they cling to it desperately. The stat you gave for life expectancy on Pine Ridge made me cry. You told me more in two hours about how the reservation system came to be than I had learned in a lifetime. Thank you for deepening my understanding. By the way, the image you used for the Hotchkiss gun was the 37mm rotary cannon, sold to governments in Europe, but not the US. The US cavalry used a 42mm single barrel, light enough to be hauled by mules, but still a potent weapon.
this is a really nice comment. thanks for sharing :). also, i love the juxtaposition of a heartfelt story with a correction on the type of gun at the end.
The human impact is astounding. Being unable to adjust is a hallmark of oppression. It seems you regret not knowing more and being there emotionally for your ex wife.
Damn. That was an Intense video my friend. I'm 37 years old. Born in 1985. Raised in a fairly good school system. I learned more in the last 2 hours than I did my entire 12 years of school. My head hurts now.
Indians are fake, there weren't any. An arrow tipped with a flint arrowhead shot from a primitive handmade bow would bounce off of a buffalo, and how did they hunt the buffalo before the white man brought horses to America, did they chase down the buffalo on foot? Lol, get real.
I recognize Atun Shei as the accent for the British soldier writing about the small pox blankets. I love that you two collaborate. You're both 2 of my favorite history RUclipsrs.
It's amazing seeing an educator that I highly respect take the time to talk about this. This Navajo guy salutes you and pours one out for the minefield you have just put yourself into.
I live in Tacoma, Washington, pretty close to one of the larger reservations in my area, the Puyallup Reservation. I just got to the part of the video where you talked about the Dawes Act, and that immediately made me think of the Puyallup because they lost control of almost all of their reservation as a result of the Dawes Act, and land being taken by the State and neighboring cities. In the 1930s the Puyallup only controlled 33 acres of land out of their 18,000 acre reservation. They’ve regained control of more of their reservation today through negotiations and lawsuits, but the damage was for the most part already done. Almost all of the Puyallup Reservation has been developed, and now it’s covered in farms, warehouses, white/non-native neighborhoods, a giant oil refinery, and it’s home to one of the largest ports on the west coast. There are hardly any natural areas or any preserved land left. Almost 43,000 people live in the Puyallup Reservation, yet less than 3,000 are actually members of the Puyallup tribe.
If you think that's wrong and would like things to change, please consider joining a group like Socialist Alternative or PSL. We are weak alone, and supporting liberals will only make things worse. Our only shot at a better world will come through communist revolution.
@@justinwatson1510 LMAO communism is a curse that has killed, and continues to kill more people than any other regime in history, including religion, which says a lot. Get educated before you continue to embarrass yourself publicly with your "communist revolution".
@Jimbo Johnson According to that logic we should abandon capitalism too because hey, 5 million people died during the great famine of 1876. Also, Soviet communism, stalinisme and socialism aren't the same thing. Don't be silly.
51:33 That Ute removal act wrecked my bands future, forcing us to join Washakie, which was fine but I’ve always been told that we had to leave so many behind that didn’t want to be further away from our homelands (which where they were displaced already was traditionally shared with Ute but wasn’t where we spent most of our time. It was what could be considered a buffer zone between our similar but different peoples.)
I'm a quarter Klamath, so technically able to be a member if I wanted to. But the mentality of getting off the reservation, and termination really struck a chord with me. My grandfather was adopted out to a white family. He had no knowledge of where he came from. And died after Vietnam, so I didn't even get to meet him. But I'm glad you were able to give some history to me of my ancestors. In a weird way, I found solace through this video.
@@Jason-hg1pc well, my family knew my grandfather was native American, but we never knew which tribe he was from, we all only learned of this, recently. And so, I barely know anything about native American culture or history. I didn't even know what a pow wow was until this video. So I guess I'll have to do more research
Klamaths are good peoples. Good buddies there and enjoyed hunting on "federal" lands before the tribe got it back. Just go there see wtf is up if you ever get a chance. *Edit Wow... Just tried googling one of my buddies I haven't seen in a while and he passed away from cancer. Life is short see what you can while you have a chance.
@@Jason-hg1pc and thank you man, like you said, I'm trying to regrow some roots. Even if it's not my full history, just like in this video, I want to preserve it, and not have it erased. I'll check the book out man. Thank you.
As a European who has never been taught the standard American History myth formally, I am terrified by the fact that I had basically believed it. Before discovering your channel I had pretty much believed all the same lies and half truths that are taught. Thank you for helping me to, well, Know Better one video at a time!
@@lizardlegend42 He has been going around telling people to say Autochthon American instead of Native because he’s hoping it makes it seem cool and progressive. Just virtue signaling, nothing else.
Mi'kmaw; tleyawi kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki Wela'lin/thank you for this video. You highlighted many wonderful points and were extremely respectful in your delivery. I hope this message reaches the youth, because I didn't feel as though my culture, and in turn myself, was well-represented In school. I was taught as a history lesson, when my home life was contradictory to those lessons. Keep up the amazing content. Nmultis, nitap.
It's amazing that you are still speaking your language! I hope your languages and other Indigenous languages will survive and thrive! They're each very beatiful and unique!
Note from a South Dakotan Brule is not pronounced the fancy french way it would be pronounced Brool like pool. Also you marked the Black Hills to far north.
"The Sicangu Lakota are known as Sičhą́ǧu Oyáte in Lakȟóta, which translates to "Burnt Thighs Nation". Learning the meaning of their name, the French called them the Brûlé, also Brulé, meaning "burnt". Sooo it *is* pronounced "the fancy French way."
@@thedoomofred5174 "Successive generations who have come to this area were/are ignorant of french pronunciation, or too chauvenistic to attempt it, and therefore have persisted in pronouncing it incorrectly. So, the wrong pronunciation is actually the right pronunciation" is an upside-down take.
@@funstuff2006, being of no linguistic or historical expert my guess is as follows. French ask them their name, the provide it and the French call them Brulé. Americans ask them who they are and they give them there white man name but likely mispronounce it providing Brool, and or the Americans had a hard time pronouncing it correctly and pronounced it that way. Then finally since neither spoke French primary the perpetual pronunciation of it as Brool stuck.
Growing up in eastern Arizona literally yards from the White Mtn Apache reservation, hopeless is an understatement. I moved away to go to college at 18 and now I’m 50. Very little has changed there, and not just my version of progress. Healthcare and basic needs are far from where it should be. Sadly I think it’s still going to me many more generations before anything will change. Thanks for this video! Excellent work.
Indians only way to win in the great game is to just stay on the board. If Indian can stay around long enough. The American empire will eventually collapse. At which point the natives of the Americas will have their chance to reestablish legitimate sovereignty and control over their collective destiny.
I spent my childhood on the reservation, or at least partially on it (I was born in Show Low and spent half my time in Pinetop-Lakeside, but my dad worked for the tribe as the ski patrol director for Sunrise, so I spent my other half there), and... yeah. I can confirm this. The conditions are dire, and as mentioned in this video, there's very little under the current status quo that can be done about it, since they don't own most of their own land, and what land they do own is subject to aggressively intrusive oversight from the federal government. Related, the Apache friends I made as a kid continued the "brain drain" trend of going to college and never returning, and I can't really blame them. There's nothing there for them. They feel a little guilty about it, but they have families these days, and they can't justify subjecting their kids to the conditions they had to endure while growing up.
Subbed cuz by the looks of it you got sum interesting stuff on yer channel I wanna check out at a later date. Would check it out now if I could but I'm about to hop off the phone for the rest of the day.
As a fellow history teacher, I’m proud to say I’ve long since abandoned the Standard American History Myth(tm) and give the students a more truthful record of our history. This video actually comes out just a few days after I taught about many of the events mentioned here!
> I’ve long since abandoned the Standard American History Myth(tm) and give the students a more truthful record of our history And replaced it with the myth of the innocent Indians that loved each other and the earth, and were victums....sure. Skipping over the Aztec imperial domination of Central America, Inca overloardship of the Andes, wars between N. American tribes, and their participation in black slavery. Not to mention Indian clear-cutting of forest in the NE, and their burning of trees in the west to stampede animals so they could hunt them more efficiently. How "proud" you must be.
@@emmaarmo379 Call it whatever term you learned from Reddit all you want, but it isnt a lie, Emma. I can even toss in their participation in the owning of black slaves. But I guess that is just more "strawmanning".
@Xander Cruz the strawman is you assuming in your reply that Matt is teaching an extremely sanitized version of history without any evidence to back up that assumption. what in his post, or in this video led you to believe that he is teaching these things to his student? you jumped down his throat with nothing to go off of save your own biases. i never claimed you were lying, i mean you are misrepresenting matt’s position. perhaps in the future, you should look up terms you don’t know or understand like ‘strawman’ instead of replying immediately? 😂
Thanks for talking about Pontiac. My grandma was born a Pontiac. I remember going to the fort where the game and attack happened on a field trip for school.
Native diaspora here. Glad to finally give this a watch now that Thanksgiving is over. With everyone’s anticipation and build up for it all month, I think I would’ve had a bad time watching this beforehand-trying to balance my own bitter feelings on the holiday versus everyone else’s excitement for a day off work with family and good food. But I’m glad you’re covering this topic, as it’s often overlooked, and just shrugged off as “eh, ye olde people and their different values, what can ya do?” Good that that’s being challenged now. Algorithm bless you, all that jazz
You forgot all the slaves that the Natives brought with them on the Trail of Tears. They loved slavery as much as the Confederacy did but KB and liberal teachers today won't teach you about it.
Challenged? What more do you Natives want? You have land you can make your own laws on and collect money tax free, you are the most privileged class in the country. You cover up just how many tribes there are, you say "our people" but you were never united in the 1800s, you fought and killed each other before the settlers set foot in America. Stop playing the victim. Learn to heal yourselves by example of the Jews who had it MUCH worse than your people
I find myself deeply moved after watching your video. I am a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe but I never lived there. Raised by a suburban white family, none of this was taught to me. It took me 30 years of research just to learn who I was. What you are doing is POWERFUL. Thanks
I visited the Denver History Center and saw an exhibit about the Sand Creek Massacre. Another terrible thing is that one of the soldiers who refused to fire on the Indians, Silas Soule, was later murdered for testifying against Chivington about how killing was definitely a massacre and not justified. So horrifying but it was sobering to see survivors and their descendants’ tributes to him-proves that doing the right thing has lasting consequences.
I've always found it interesting as a Midwesterner how often we love to name our towns and rivers after the tribes that once lived there. I live in Indiana, "Land of Indians" and we don't have a single reservation in the entire state.....
I have to admit, I used to think the controversy of using Indian names for sports teams and such was overblown. I'm from Peoria, (named after the tribe) Illinois (named after the Illini indians), and the mascot for U of I is or was Chief Illiniwik (not sure if it still is). Anyway, having been given the the full story in one sitting, it seems incredibly disrespectful to systematically destroy a people and then name things after them as if it's all in good fun. Even if it's meant as a tribute (I doubt it), it's still pretty terrible. I had some awareness of the massacres and systemic displacement from public school, but the full impact gets diluted and portrayed as a necessarily evil.
@@somethingelse4424 As a Native American, I understand your sentiment. But to be honest its almost poetic. A hateful band of Europeans did every evil thing they could think of to get rid of anything that wasn't them. Having nuggets of the history in names, while could be seen as disrespectful, leaves the scar of the history they desperately want to erase. So yeah it's a weird flex of "they used to live here" but to me it's how we stay alive. To learn is to face the truth. And I can't make them tell the truth. But I know the truth. And id rather die knowing what happened than not knowing a single piece of my culture. (Hopi specifically) And I can only pray in respect and honor for any native that died trying to preserve what may seem little to "society" but is invaluable knowledge on what our true purpose as people are supposed to do. And the denial of climate change is just the perpetuated problem of now. I appreciate your thoughts on the subject and wish you good fortune
Man, what a deep dive into the topic. This deserves more, much more for the work, but thank you! Gonna have to watch this a few times to get all the info.
Culture of Hopelessness is an acurate description for the situation in canada. My reserve is actually Called Fort Hope (Eabametoong in Ojibway, meaning roughly, where the current reverses flow because the water changes from flowing from north to south, and goes south to north towards Hudson bay) and is commonly refered to by locals as Fort No Hope. ( i say locals because i grew up off reserve)
Even growing up right next to the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes in CT I still feel like I knew nothing about their history. Thanks for making such an in depth and informative video!
I don't normally visibly react to youtube videos, but the truth in this case was so disheartening and presented so well that multiple times I said "oh no" involuntary or felt myself make a disgusted face. Half the times you hadn't even said it yet, but based on the set up or historical patterns I knew what was coming and was prepared for the worst, which was exactly what you said next every time. Thank you so much for making us aware of this dire situation and it's systemic and historical causes, while dispelling stereotypes and myths that are so easy to never question. You are truly an amazing educator
Hearing histories like this make you wonder if people like Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Joaquin Murrieta or Quanah Parker can really be called villains. Killers? Yes no doubt, but can you really blame them? After all that was done to them and their people?
Absolutely fantastic idea to create the 4 minutes long video to draw people in; I saw that in my recommendations before the notification even told me it was uploaded. The suggestion to watch this in the outro of that video then led me here exactly as intended, and now I'm watching this too. Solid production quality as always as well; man your quality has improved over the last year or so! I've been watching since about 2018/2019 and your growth has been well deserved and fun to watch man! Thank you again for all the content you create. As an American immigrant your videos have been the foundation of my learning about the country I moved to.
1:31:22 i went to U of I! many businesses around campus do not allow people to wear clothing with The Chief on it in their stores. i will never understand why people choose so adamantly to stick with it, given the amount of time we spent without “him” as our mascot.
i've watched this twice already and i'm watching it again because this deserves to be remembered. old wounds cannot be mended if they were denied and downplayed before just forgotten entirely.
precisely why so many Natives are struggling today. our lands and people were stolen for profit & ease to commit selfish evils. soon forgotten bc our lives never mattered to them, and left to deal w the consequences alone & w/o any explanation. learning about Native American history is the first step towards understanding, action towards rebuilding healthy connections n support between US/CANADA and our sovereign nations would be next (ie visiting rezs). but we can only hope ppl/gov wont dehumanize us even more
I am not an American Indian and I can’t claim to speak for them, but I will point out that as an ecologist there has been significant research into the land management practices of tribes, and in many cases those practices better curate species diversity and community resilience. For example, seasonal undergrowth burning in the southeast US maintained long leaf pine savannas for thousands of years.
One sentence that stood out to me in "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" is (paraphrasing) "the forests on the eastern seaboard were undoubtedly more wild in the 1850s than in the 1650s". Also, I'm glad that forest burning is recognized as having the potential to be beneficial. It was viewed as inherently bad land management for centuries, as I'm sure you're aware, especially by American settlers in the early decades.
Yes, brush Bruning and clearing is VITAL in Southern California where I come from 😮 Many native plants actually don't drop seeds without the presence of smoke. Controlled Burns and brush clearing prevents forest fires a lot
You know.. for some reason I've classified broadleaf plants and needle-leaf plants as separate groups not because of a phylogenetic branching (conifers are ancient), but rather because something in me didn't consider needles to be leaves (more like pre-leaves). Your mention of Longleaf Pine knocked that out of my head.
Thanks KB for not only discussing how Natives were treated throughout American history but also bringing up the issues we face today. I'm of Native descent, Zuni, grew up on the rez, and I find it interesting to look back at my time in high school learning about the history of the USA. I can recall being fed the Standard American History Myth and in a way being taught that if it weren't for the colonists, or for Manifest Destiny, our country wouldn't be what it is today, and isn't that something we (ie little Natives) should be grateful for? And for a good while I believed in that myth all the while many families on the rez were, and still are, struggling to make ends meet, to be fed, or keep a roof over their head. Hell, there are several families/generations that live under a single household since there is hardly any available housing. Many individuals who manage to leave the rez end up returning because we as a people weren't given the adequate tools, resources, or support to thrive on the outside, and when they do return they return with a decline in mental health. Mental health and addiction are major issues back home as too many of my people are conditioned to not talk about our struggles but how could they fix their situation when there is virtually no job market and no end in sight? This leads a lot of people unambitious, uncaring, and unwilling to even try to do anything because they know there is no way to get out of the unending cycle. There are, however, those who do leave for higher education and return of their own accord to help the tribe, if they can manage to secure a local job, but of course they are few and far in between. I tried and failed at university but I managed to get a job in the city which kept me off the rez for the past decade and currently have no wish to go back as I see there is nothing there for me. Sad, I know and I've struggled to make peace with this decision for years as I no longer feel connected to my culture. But don't be sad for me because as a tribe, Zunis have a strong connection to tradition and our language/culture is taught in school, from elementary to high school. When it comes down to it, the American government made this struggle of poverty, depression, and addiction our reality... I guess we should be grateful for that damned Manifest Destiny, right? Otherwise, how else can we enjoy the comforts of the modern day? In any case, thanks again KB for discussing this topic, it's much appreciated. Side note: when discussing which terms to use, it's a generational thing. Older generations (ex Boomers) prefer American Indian or simply Indian. Gen X and Millennials tend to use Native American more often, I personally use the term Native, and Gen Z seems to favor First Nations. However, when it comes to any official documents, like medical records, it will be American Indian.
It's not a "myth," only so far as your understanding of history. Every civilization on this planet is guilty of these things, these are things that inevitably happen when a people expand into new territory so that they may become a civilization. There is no free real-estate. Most, if not absolutely all European, Middle-Eastern, African and Asian civilizations were guilty of doing far worse to their own people in their thousands of years of history, let alone do it to some foreign "barbarian" faction that was, ostensibly, in their way. The real "myths" you're being taught is the myth of colonialism being some kind of "great evil." Before colonialism, there was only conquest through total war, utter destruction and complete decimation. You don't hear about it because the people it happened to no longer exist, except in the historical records of their conquerors. My people were enslaved by the Byzantines, then Ottomans for one thousand years, then the Austro-Hungarians for another 200, then the Soviets until the 90s. The word "slave" is the name of my people's ethnicity, derived from "slav." "Servus" remains a common greeting in my language, which is the old Roman word for "servant," which is the word they used before that. And no one, not a single soul in my admittedly poor second-world country, attributes any of their current plights to these ancient historical tales that happened lifetimes ago, nor is there any kind of animosity felt towards current-day Turkish, Hungarian or Russian people. Not by mandate, punished by force, but because it is plainly foolish. I'm not saying these things are not instrumental in the fate of a people, nor that they do not matter, nor that they are not cruel and important to know and learn lessons from. I'm saying that there is not and there will never be a "tomorrow" if you continue to view the world in this way. None of the issues you talk about are endemic to your ethnicity, there are more poor and destitute English-descended white Christian Americans in your country than there are native Americans in total. You have been taught to play a fantastical statistics game in order to be consolidated into a political faction to be used as a collective pawn on a chessboard by a ruthless manipulator, for power. A power that will never be yours, and that should, by no right, be anyone's. It is an anti-human commodification of grievance and victimhood that can only lead to self-destruction. With this framing, there can never be forgiveness or grace or unity, there can never be peace, only until the atrocity is repeated once again, except this time by the hand of the "righteous" unto the "guilty," and so again history is repeated, and the cycle continues. I would highly encourage separating yourself from this kind of thinking, for the sake of having a tomorrow and being able to plant a tree underneath whose shade you will not rest.
@@panameadeplm Well your whole comment seems to be a bit undermining to not just what I'm telling from experience but to what KB is also talking about. You're talking as if the atrocities that Native Americans experienced, and are experiencing, were centuries ago and because of that we should "stop playing the victim". It was just a little over 20 years ago that the last boarding school, which forcibly took Native children from their families, had finally closed. 20 years is not 200 years. So I disagree with you, the situations that Natives find themselves in today are very much attributed to and can be traced exactly to how the American government treated us through this country's history.
@@panameadeplm I know what I wrote sounds quite nihilist but when I talk to my friends and family from back home, that is the type of thinking that I encounter and I have been witness to it while I grew up there as well. You're right in saying that this type thinking only continues the cycle, but I don't think it's victimhood to claim the truth of the matter. Natives are in a shit situation because we were dealt a shit hand by the American government. And I kindly ask you to not compare tragedies. Yes, different groups of humans throughout all of history have been through terrible situations but don't undermine one group over the other by saying that there are more poor white Americans than poor Native Americans because that's just simple statistics.
@@rl0001 Life is about choices. You can choose to play the victim until you die, or you can choose to do better for yourself. It's entirely up to you to decide which you prefer.
@@nobodyspecial4702 "You can choose to play the victim" as if you lot ever leave people alone. Republicans just a few years ago were trying to plough through their land with no regard. Go f yourself with that bullshit.
I'm a Mohave Indian and I have visited the reservation. It's honestly rather sad the way certain homes look. Many of the homes have shattered or broken windows, broken cars, and some even have holes in the sides. Directly across the Colorado River (which is right next to their homes) there are river homes used by retirees and rich people during summer. The genuine contrast of what couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet was genuinely chilling.
I personally found the DNA test line funny. Being from the south everyone talked about being part Cherokee in some sort of fraction and Indian princess. My family even talked about a specific great-grandmother on one side and a great-grandfather on the other. 23&me determined that it was all a lie. Looking back it almost feels like a generations old lie to provide some family justification and offset some white guilt.
It might be true, for it to show up, one of your great grand parents has to be full blood. Also, there data base to compare that full blood ancestor has to be related to the 740 individuals that they have on file. Half of that is as South American Indigenous.
I think for many people, claiming some amount of Native ancestry is also a way to claim their place in America as having a family whose been here long enough to mix with tribes. I tend to find it was talked about in hushed tones, as if partly shameful, and partly pride.
Not sure if it's good or bad that I can recognise Atun-sheis voice nearly instantly no matter what voice he is doing... Awesome too see two of my favourite creators working together, and it's a no brainer to have people who do so much in the American history genre work together.
I was ecstatic when I started heading Atun Shei’s voice narrating the historical quotes (and it started a minute after I thought “Man, it’d be nice to include Atun Shei into this Mega KB Documentary if he’s talking about Jamestown and Plymouth”) 😂
Damn, that was amazing, what an epic journey you took us on. Really well done presentation 👏 👏 👏 Truly amazing these peoples have been able to survive let alone try to thrive thru all that. Thankfully, not all their customs & languages were lost. ❤
Yes. Article II: Section E of "The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide", which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 after the events of WWII, states, "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." By our metric today this act alone, all other acts notwithstanding, constitutes the United States committing real, literal genocide upon native peoples. That isn't even acknowledging the much more egregious violations they've committed. But hey, if it happened before they made it illegal is it really genocide? /s
@@faberofwillandmight shouldnt that morbidly make you happy? it proves that ethno states arent functional. Yes native reservations are ethno states and should be dissolved.
By the 19th Century, 2/3rds of the so called "Civilized Tribes" had intermarried with Europeans and become Christian Americans, they had been neighbors for 300 years. Its why half of Southerners claim to have Cherokee blood. Indian Removal was those natives that refused to assimilate into the new American nation, the horror, so most left willingly to go West, gaining vast tracks of land and a chance to preserve their way of life.
@@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf Coping much? You haven't watched the video, or you didn't pay attention. You probably clicked on the video just to leave defensive comments because you don't like the topic. The video literally explains, in painstaking historical detail, how natives were forcibly and violently removed, and how the American government screwed them over and refused to uphold their promises every. step. of. the way. Having to assimilate and lose your culture is, indeed, horrific. Imagine having to tell your children not to speak their mother tongue, in case they get punished in school or beaten by bullies. Bettter yet, imagine having your children taken from you and sent to a boarding school with the explicit purpose of "re-educating" them into "proper protestant Americans". The video provides government documents, letters by officials, and statistics covering this forced indoctrination. You have no choice over history, so anyone who blames you for the sins of your country or your fathers is a moron and a douchebag. However, you do have the choice over your own actions. Choosing to ignore parts of history that show that country or those generations in a bad light is, well, less than honest. It takes some bravery and some heart to admit those things. It was hard for me to admit the sins of my country and my ancestors as well. However, it was well worth it in the end, and it opened my horizons a lot. There is no shame in knowing history, and no such thing as collective responsibility.
As a half native that grew up in oklahoma it's weird that more people aren't taught this. I went to public schools like everybody else and this was for the most part taught to us. It's like how I know a shit ton about the dust bowl but couldn't tell you jack shit about the gold rush except that the 49ers have their name tied to it. It really shows you just how large America is that we can kind of have different histories taught to us
I'm a half native that grew up in WA state and AK, and Native culture is more prevalent and also more cohesive maintaining the individual cultures. I thought the rest of the US was as respectful and populated, until high school American history class led to further library research. It's also when I learned that domestic violence wasn't normal, and that my memories of Alaskan village life were that much more precious because they balanced the dark stuff. Just when I got all that realized, I moved from Seattle/Tacoma urban sprawl to small town Bellingham and became a true minority, one who had reason to hate the police, the gov't, and their jock children trying to intimidate me in high school. Except for the heavy metal/punk crowd, with whom I fit in with, just when they all dropped out and I graduated alone.
I wrote all that as background so I can say that I left WA for IAIA in Santa Fe NM and history class focused on Oklahoma history early on, and that history made me feel normal, and made the NW established mixed population scenario look good, even tolerant. That's what kept me in school.
It's all going with their plan, they had to teach yall that because yall are closer to where they're located I guess, I'm in SC and they surely don't let you think that they tried to exterminate all Natives. It makes me ashame to be American, and not only this, alot of things .I love my country and the land itself and the people fighting and dying for it, but I DO NOT agree with what the government does.
@@brandonpennington1983 if they wanted to exterminate the natives they could have .. how wer Haitians able to do it .. they wer just a bunch of slaves . U telling me the could figure it out but ol whitey couldn't
This is fantastic! As a Native woman myself (Cherokee), you've taught me more about my ancestors battles then the public school system ever did, or would attempt to. I can see the time and effort this took and greatly appreciate it! This is also the first video I've seen from your channel. Subscribed and looking forward to more content from you!
@@olgagaming5544 Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video. He literally talked about this and how only a small minority are actually getting "rich" off of casino profits and many just make enough to to pay for public works and tribal government. Secondly, you act as if there were no poor European Americans while the US was actively waging it's genocide of the natives, lmao. Victorian era America is probably the period of American history I would prefer to live in the least. 16 hour days 7 days a week for a pittance of a wage, where they could literally legal threaten your life if you want to quit. Dying at work was a common occurrence. Today if you chose to work 16 hour days 7 days a week, even at minimum wage you would be far far far better off than someone then.
Holy crap this was amazing. It definitely makes me want to learn more about the whole topic I've basically been lied to about my entire life. Thank you for making this. I can't imagine how much work this took. And I can't wait for all the follow up videos you hinted at/teased. Love your work man. Keep kicking ass. 💜
There really is a crushing irony that a country with the founding mythology of "helpful natives saved our pilgrim settlers from starving" literally forced the natives to settle out west and refused to help them when they began to starve
If that's a bit like saying because my parents stayed together.I can't get a divorce. The real events represented a fundamental profound and complex culture clash. We're in two very different peoples initially found a way to live and work together but then those differences emerged over time. Did you know, that fences played a critical role is in how. Settlers bought land from Indians And the indians willingly sold land to those settlers. But once the deal wasthose se sutlers having a different concept of landownership put up fences to keep their livestock in and as a boundary To mark for tresspassing. The natives on the other hand who sold that land had a different concept of landownership. If they understood that the land now belonged to someone else But they also believed that implicit in that ownership was the understanding that the natives were still free to come and go across that land. As a result, natives would simply tear down the fence. which was seen as an offense by the settlers. Once the natives were on this land, Trust passing according to the understanding of landownership the settlers had they would then visit the homeowner in a sign of hospitality. But here the natives viewed hospitality as everyone sharing everything together. As a result natives would frequently simply walk in to someone's home and sit down expecting to be fed. This was perfectly normal for the natives but it was seen as a threat by the settler. And indeed would be seen as a threat by Is any Europeans at the time. Thus, we see the first signs of string and small-scale violence that would come to symbolize native. While in many cases what was done to natives did rise to the level of genocide it is also an over simplification to define the entire scope of that history as good indian vs bad American. Let's not forget that in the West.The Apache and the Comanchi were bitter enemies who actively sought each other's extinction. And both tribes in turn siught alliances with, and sought to manipulate first the Spaniards then later the Americans.
@Dave Firewalker what's wrong with you? I have a native American parent. Way to show your racism, I can't help how I look, funny how Elders have never shamed me for looking whiter
This was an excellent video. I grew up relatively poor in the PNW; raised in western Washington, spent about a decade in north Idaho as an adult. For most of my life, I've had native friends, coworkers, and associates. I've been to reservations and known people from them. The local native culture was part of the curriculum in elementary school in the Seattle area: seeing dances, making art, field trips to places like the Duwamish longhouse. MANY of the towns/cities/counties have native names (Seattle, Tacoma, Puyallup, Spokane, Yakima, etc.). I moved to Ohio for graduate school in 2019, and I can't recall seeing a single native person in the three years I've lived here. There are no reservations here after the indian population was either removed or classified as non-native by the government in an effort to declare the state free of them. I grew up with the abstract idea of what happened to the natives, but seeing the actual impacts of indian removal in such a concrete way was a harrowing and deeply depressing culture shock. Where I grew up, natives are part of the culture. Where I live now, they are only part of the history.
Being a Navajo off the reservation and raised in the city, I don't know my culture or my traditional language. it's very isolating, I don't have a culture or a people who I feel like I belonged to or have the support of a community. It's like existing in a void where I can't relate with anyone or share inside jokes. it's a very lonely, lost, depressing feeling. Imagine always being treated like you're something different by your own people and by others in the city. Words like "He's Native" or "he's a city Kid" always felt like it puts me outside of the circle. I'm here but always just on the outside looking in.
My mom always reminds me that that feeling is part of the culture, after what they did to us all it's something we all feel to varying degrees in every community and have felt for generations now. The kids who were born during or shortly after the forced migrations surely also felt like they were raised isolated from their roots, but it's the perseverance to continue to acknowledge those roots even when it means embracing pain because its a part of us that we should focus on, the never-ending resilience that no matter what there will always be and have always been descendants that still claim their truth of who they are. It's not what we do that makes us native, we just are. Removing my grandma from her village as a child and putting her in a boarding school, never letting her speak her langue or learn her cultural practices never once made her less native, she was born Athabaskan and died Athabaskan. Ancestral identity isn't something others can ever fully take away from you
@@ninjaofpurple am schitsu’umsh (Coeur D’Alene), and I too feel the same way as katbob described. Thank you for writing this reply. It was really insightful and helpful, and I appreciate it a lot.
@@ninjaofpurple thank you for your wonderful words here. We need to find our ancestral roots in order to know who we are. Granted, we're born in America, which makes us American citizens, but that's not our ancestral roots. My paternal grandmother was half German and half Cherokee. My paternal grandfather had some Sioux. Doing family tree and researching the family history is helping me know my ancestral roots and history. Before my grandma passed away, she explained to me why she wasn't very proud/happy about her heritage because of what they did to the Cherokee tribe. My grandfather on the other hand, being Sioux, was always proud of his heritage. He always told my mother that she should take us kids to the reservation to marry a squaw to build up the indian blood again. It's our heritage and ancestral roots that we are looking for. Our family history is more important than the history we learned from school.
I really appreciate the “warts and all” approach you take to this. Like the bit about Cherokee holding a grudge about their old slaves. Washes away the noble savage myth very well.
@@Master...deBater This isn't a video about intertribal relations or pre-colonial history. Why would it include some generic "they were violent too" as some kind of point? It's pretty well known that war and violence have occurred on basically every continent except Antarctica.
@@kylegonewild You're right...this video is nothing more than a litany of non-contextualized, sophomoric "white man bad" grievance laden arguments that nobody with any depth of historical knowledge could ever take seriously. As such...there is no place for any argument or debate of the historical realities that were causal to the events surrounding American Indian/US relations. The reality of course...is that those relations were built upon a complex series of events that began well before European contact. What this PROPAGANDIST leaves out is the fact that many more Indian people were allied with the US than were ever at war with the US. Those people allied themselves with the US government against their common enemies because of the history of intertribal warfare endemic to the continent. None of which will ever be covered by this pseudo-historian clown!
@@Master...deBater but damn. I'd say the Europeans that conquistadored their way across the Americas sure as f were butchering their neighbors and having wars against the other tribes in their regions too, before they came across the ocean. and your point is?
As a Mexican-American who loves history I feel like prehispánic mexico is very much everywhere and common knowledge while U.S native remain "unknown" to most common people which is a shame . Our duty is to inform ourselves and discover our past.
Thank you for this video! The depths of history you've covered here are so necessary for people to understand! My great grandma was in a boarding school. Her mother died in an asylum... Catholicism was FORCED upon my family for generations. I am no longer a believer in religion. My mom's maiden name translates to "savage." Oh - and we had ancestors at Fort Michillimackinac - thank you for mentioning that ! Excellent work! Thank you again ! 👏 Miigwich ❤️
This is the most important channel on the internet. My appreciation for how you decide to use your voice/platform cannot be expressed sufficiently. Thank you for teaching me.
You've earned one more Patreon supporter. This may not be the history we want, but it's the version we need to hear. Schools across the country need to be showing your videos and the rest of us need to work together to spread this more accurate version of history
My best friend from college married an Indian woman who had grown up on a reservation. Speaking with her was a real eye opening experience for me as she told me about her first hand experience with a lot of the issues you mention in you video. She also introduced me to fry bread and more specifically Indian Tacos which are amazing. That you for bringing up there origin story. I now know better.
Australian here…I’m glad you mentioned the “assimilation” effort….we call the dependent's the Stolen Generation. I’m finding your channel fascinating given story of Indian removal & its similarity with Australian history. Currently there is a start of a more warts and all discussion around our colonial history…which is not really taught outside our own myths.
the discussion in Australia is fraught with lies, propaganda and mythology on both sides of the discussion. Many bad evil things happen in Australia to Australian First Nations; Indigenous people. To discuss the issues is really hard as my choice of term ‘First Nations; Indigenous, Aboriginal will mean people will assume my stance on the way I refer to Ist Australian people. We were settled by the British and they took the view that regardless of people here that it was vacant land and they now owned it. George 3 and then his successors were the ultimate landlords. Our current debates are focused on Australia Day; the founding day celebrations. Which is currently 26/1/ each year the day that the first fleet took up residence in Sydney Harbour. Aboriginal people find this as a celebration of an invasion: Many Australians of Anglo history see it as our day of foundation. There is no treaty with Aboriginal people in Australia and there is debate on whether the constitution should grant a voice to them . Other similar countries have treaties NZ has, USA and Canada have many vans do other nations. This debate is currently getting louder as current govt wishes to move on the issue. The gap between Aboriginal Australians and the remaining people is huge. From poverty, crime and illness this gap is larger than any other group in society/. These are the big issues. There others but these are the main problems and source of conflict.
I live in Montana near the flathead reservation and this video recontextualized much of my experiences growing up. Seeing the HUD housing my grandmother lives in really hit it home. I had no idea that something as simple as her house is tied so closely to a bleak history of genocide and oppression. It just kinda makes me sad :(
Studying history out of interest and contrasting it with modern society's mostly upgraded tolerance for each other's cultures should give you some relief, there's plenty to be proud of regarding the current status.
Such an amazing story - my goodness, thank you for the incredible work you put into researching and presenting your videos. I'm Irish and of course learned about how our native culture (language, games etc) was almost lost in the late 1800s - it is astonishing that this was happening at the same time "across the pond" - incredibly moving and powerful. Thank you again!!!
I'm actually pretty sure that the Cherokee at least were very sympathetic to what the Irish were going through and tried to send aid during the potato famine.
You're the HS history teacher we all should have had. Thank you for educating us on this is much needed content. This must have taken some time to put together, thanks for going the extra mile.
Actual HS teachers would love to have the liberty to go beyond the nine dots of their approved curriculum. Learning history from the government (or a government approved institution) is always going to be what the government wants to hear, or is at least willing to let you hear. Typically in the US that means half-truths and careful omissions rather than outright lies, but some of it is outright lies. Teachers don’t have the power to change that.
@@Justanotherconsumer I agree. A sad state of affairs really. Unfortunately I think this point is being cooped for the argument in favor of school privatization. Which isn’t the right answer at all. At this point can’t give it back to state control either without some states suffering majorly.
I am an African British, I grew up in the 90s consuming USA media and its crazy to think how 200 years later the idea of manifest destiny, 'cowboys and indians' still got distilled and fed to me. The UK and USA like to say the past is the past on these matters and we should get over it but these messages and images still reverberate to us, regardless of the living people effected. Thank you for your video and work to lift the lid and educate us.
I'm Anglo-Scottish and it's crazy to me in hindsight that the history of British colonialism I was taught at school was a sort of triumphalist tale of us bringing 'civilisation' to 'backwards' nations, as if we were doing these other nations a massive favour. Completely ignoring the fact that India had had a long standing advanced society that we basically pillaged, that African nations like Benin and Zululand also had advanced cultures, and completely ignoring the massacres of Australian aborigines or deliberately exploitative treaties with the Maoris who, in some cases, couldn't even read the documents they were compelled to sign. And that's just a small sample of examples. If history were taught in a more balanced way then perhaps we would have a greater tolerance, interest in and understanding of other people's cultures and less dangerous and self-defeating nationalism and xenophobia.
"We're still here.. We are not going anywhere." ~ Native Americans 😔 Native Americans population in their motherland, Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while European population in their motherland, Continent of Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! A shockingly sad truth. It's noteworthy to know the fact that the vast majority of Native Americans population (steep) decline in general occurred not in 15th, 16th & 17th century, when Europeans first arrived and populated mainly along the Eastern shore; but rather in the 18th & 19th century when more and more European Colonizers, so-called settlers took over their beloved motherland coast to coast. A well-known story told was that the indigenous Native people of the American continent, who had no prior contact with White Europeans, were wiped out by diseases brought up by European newcomers when they first came over and occupied the land. Here's the analysis. How come other Indigenous African slaves that were brought over from remote West Africa, the deepest part of Africa, who also had no prior contact with White Europeans, were not wiped out by diseases? The other story told was 'Cowboys and Indians'. The story goes like that native Indians were slaughtered by Cowboys. But what really happened to indigenous Native Americans, so-called Indians, and the real life story was further from the truth. In reality, they were slaughtered not only by cowboys, but most by settlers, civilian militias, military, and all are backed by the general populace, the country and the government, as a whole, since every group had nothing to lose but more to gain. The plain truth, of course, is that the indigenous native Americans were all slaughtered in order to get their land. In the case of Native Americans.., centuries long systematic effort to keep them weak with a relatively small, marginalized & disenfranchised population, so that they would never be able to reclaim their vast bountiful motherland, ever again... In other words, all it takes is to create an artificial environment where Native people of the Colonized land remain poor, weak, powerless and their population at the bare minimum.
RUclips overall has lowered my attention span to about 10min, but you have such a way with keeping viewer attention that I don’t bat an eye to a video longer than a movie, even if im not already passionate on the subject matter. Keep up the wonderful work!
I visited an outdoor “settlement” type museum a few years ago. One of the guides mentioned Andrew Jackson, and mentioned that history has not looked kindly upon him. An old man standing next to me spoke up and said, “Yeah, but the Indians had to be moved out. There was no other option.” I was shocked. To hear that your neighbor said the same thing was wild to me.
@@AntiTMGyet, it never has and never will have to be the case. Such is commonly the way of empires, but we've always had the capacity to be better. Realistically, it's far easier in the modern day than it was in the past, it's understandable why we have and continue to fail, but it doesn't mean we should stop trying to be better
I love what you're doing...this video is very impressive by the knowledge you share of TRUTH. Sadly, as times change into modern ways, so does the mistreatment of "Native American" or as I am..Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. We are still slowly losing our way of life. Rights are being updated, ripped away and changed now that elders; who had a hand in keeping our rights intact, passes away, or as they say..."knowledge passes with". It is very important to our survival and existence to keep that knowledge sacred and continue to pass down to our youth. Many European Americans still want to dictate if we exist or not. Simply because they refuse to acknowledge the destruction to many tribes their ancestors have done. Completely disregarding their own heritage (identity). "I didn't do that" is the argument. But they ARE the result of the damage and behavior of today, as we inherit the pain and resentment that our ancestors endured. I no longer Identify as American, I am Tlingit and will do everything humanly possible, to protect and keep our way of life on HAA ANI (our land). The fight is far from over. Gunalcheesh (thank you)
This isn't at all the point of the video but I feel like it deserves a shout-out because it's not an easy thing to do. As a phonetics enthusiast I was very impressed by your quote reader's (atun-shei's?) historically-accurate accents. What an attention to detail!!
I live in minneapolis and I always enjoyed learning about different native cultures, especially the Ojibwe and Dakota and learning to respect the sacred sites that are still in the city. Sometimes I look around and stop and just feel this unbearable sorrow and horror at just.. the absense of almost any native culture or markings. There are things out there, I have several native friends, I occasionally see native locals, but the overall culture just sees it all as an afterthought. When I bring up the Bdote, the confluence of the MN and Mississippi rivers at the top of Pike Island, being both the origin center of the Dakota, like their cultural garden of Eden, as well as being a place of genocidal concentration camps people are shocked. Then shrug it off. I think for an instance people feel may sorrow, but it’s too much and they don’t know what to do with it. So they turn their heads and move on But I feel a kinship because I was a Puerto Rican kid with no other Puerto Ricans around me, and while the Caribbean has a slightly different colonial history (to use some outdated terms, way more mestizos, mulattos, trigueños in a creole culture), I always gravitated toward the indigenous people and stories of NA. Especially because, well, my Taino ancestors were the first to meet Europeans and Columbus, they live on in me, some of their culture remains in my own, mixed with Spanish and west African. That complicated relationship with my cultures colonial past is ever present. I’m just a relative several hundred steps removed in some ways When people come to PR, I want nothing more to share my culture and teach them the way we do things, why would I not learn the important things of the original people of the city I currently live in?
@@AZ-kr6ff WoW What are you talking about? The Dakota are people who were native to other parts of the so-called 'united states' and they were forced off their homelands and sent off to inhospitable concentration camps that prevented access to their traditional food sources. Many, many died on that forced migration- hence the name "Trail of Tears". This whole process created an involuntary, unwanted dependancy on the colonizers. Native people were caretakers of the land & nature. Look at what 'western civilization" has done to our home- Mother Earth.... the home & habitat to sooo many lifeforms... the water, the soil, the air & to one another. Western "civilization" doesn"t know how to share & care. The western mindset / mentality is based upon FEAR. Insecurity. So it justifies stealing... GRASPING ....GREEDING with no consideration of the impact & consequences. WESTERN 'CIVILIZATION' IS A PSYCHO-PATHOLOGICAL PURSUIT OF PROFIT & POWER REGARDLESS of the impact on LIFE.
@@MenacingWithVideos he is referencing historical accounts of native language. If I had to guess, I bet he looked up some dead guys long ago published research on much of native language, culture, philosophy, history, commerce and agriculture. It's all there .. for him to access.
As a Coloradan, it was weird, yet somewhat gratifying having you mention Zebulon Pike and Stephen long. They have two extremely prominent mountains (Longs and Pike's peak) named after them here.
Strangely he never used Evans' name, despite referring to "the governor of Colorado" quite a few times. Good thing they took that bastards name off the mountain.
@@singincowboy They did? I live nearby and everyone still calls it "Mt. Evans". Wikipedia even still calls it that. There's a commission, but nothing has been decided yet. I would personally call it "Mt. Niwot" after Chief Niwot of the Left Hand Arapahoe, who died at the Sand Creek Massacre. EDIT: I just remembered Niwot ridge, which might make this name complicated.
@@singincowboy I'm a little disappointed KB didn't bring up the NATIVE bumper sticker considering it's a depiction of the mountains and from my years of observation driving around here is exclusively used by white people. It's also the most passive agressive thing I can imagine.
@@elvastan Apparently all I saw was that the commission has settled on a name to propose I think Mount Blue Sky is a much better name than Mount Genocidal Jagweed
As a descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, this video hit straight to my heart. It's disgusting that humans beings are treated as mere "obstacles in the way" to justify genocide, colonialism, and land theft. This cannot continue to become the way to educate future generations, and as much as it's still a problem, I'm seeing (small) steps towards teaching American history differently. I wish it would happen faster. Thank you again, for such a great, in-depth look into the injustice towards natives.
@@peterobinson3678 I did. It was very thorough for a 20 minute video. Because Armenian history in general is very little spoken about, I really appreciated his honesty and bravery. He's definitely not scared of the Turkish lobby.
appears to have not mentioned the Genocide by the so called ''Native Indians'' that were in fact rather invading first colonials wiping out the Melanesian people.. this is a history that is also often hidden and should be properly recorded..
Keep teaching. You're better than anyone I ever had in school.
No he isn't, he lies and is bias against the British
The 7-year war arose out of the attempt of the Austrian Habsburgs to win back the rich province of Silesia, which had been wrested from them by Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia
The British didn't start it.
He is just plain wrong
I'm an Ojibwe man living in Minnesota. I thought you did a wonderful job. I have family on both sides of my parents who are native and have unfortunately suffered a large number of the issues you mentioned above.
For instance, my grandfather was punched by grown men for speaking in his first language until he spoke with a stutter in English. He was at the beginning of the air force and out of the service, he became a medicine man. That didn't stop the cops from breaking his back because my grandfather wanted to witness the police brutality beating on his drunken brother.
Or my grandmother on my mom's side who was removed at birth and was raised in a polish-catholic house with an abusive adopted mother.
There are more sad details about both their lives because of this subject but that's a whole lot more writing.
Indian tacos were a nice touch that's what I had for my 18th birthday for dinner. You should have mentioned the movie Smoke Signals. It's one of the few native movies for natives by natives.
Thank you for sharing your story and the movie recommendation.
He did include the film, it's in the description as part of his listed sources.
The ICWA is going to be reviewed by the supreme court this month as far as I know, which makes me fear for what will happen considering the current supreme court
my heart breaks for your grandpa! it sounds like he endured the residential school era of our genocide.
I spend a great deal of time being thankful i didn't experience that form of genocide, and also an equal amount of time wishing i was born earlier so i could have a connection to my people. once the whites realized that it was impossible to remove our culture by forcing us into these barbaric schools[or just forcing us to be white in regular schools], they took to completely removing us from our families and placing us in white homes, and if we pass the paperbag test, we have no idea of our heritage. thus the whites job of eliminating our ability to be native has finally been realized. too bad for them it was too late and they got caught and had to stop.
too bad for me that i got raped and tortured in foster care as a small child because of my heritage.
The same happened to my Grandmother too, she was taken off her reservation as a child and put through the Christian boarding schools and foster system where she most likely suffered severe abuse.
She was an alcoholic most of my Mom’s early life, even though she quit drinking her weakened liver couldn’t handle the stress from being in a wreck and later seeing her husband in critical condition from another wreck. She was very loving and kind, she held the family together and her death hit the family hard, after learning the news my grandfather died soon after.
Knowing what happened to her and countless other thousands enrages me.
I don’t care what people call it, the US actively practiced genocide and continues to do so against Native Americans, there is no justification. I don’t believe it when people ask me why I have zero pride in this rotten country, it literally robbed, raped, and murdered half of my family just 2 generations ago.
I hope you all enjoy this feature-length film. Be on the lookout for the several follow ups! Small corrections:
6:59 Pocahontas had many names. Among her own people, she was primarily known as Matoaka.
1:32:23 While Truman did begin the policy of termination, he did not sign PL280, that was Eisenhower.
1:37:04 I accidentally colored in Sri Lanka as part of India.
Thank you for gritting this one out. I am excited to sit and watch this one tonight.
in a 2 1/2 hr film and there's only 2 small mistakes i would say u did a pretty damn good job man
Always great to see a new video from you!
just call them American and use European American for them
4:30 you say that none of these terms are disrespectful, some of them are, in fact. In our entire continent.
Unless you are one of these guys that use the N word because you have "some black friends", then, it's even worse.
My mother was 100% Cherokee. She died of alcoholism at the age of 39. This is so sad. I got sent home from school in 7th grade because the teacher referred to the trail of tears as a relocation. I informed the class of the truth. It was a forced death march through the freezing cold. Some people had no shoes or coats. They also had very little to eat. This is painful but history must be told truthfully unless it will inevitably be repeated.
It’s still happening. American imperialism knows no limits. Americans will have to be the ones to end It. The revolution has never stopped 🫶🏻 I hope everyone is forming mutual aid networks and organizing in their communities.
The trail of tears as a relocation... jesus christ. Thats horrendous
so sorry that happened to your mother. my father had been battling against addictions his entire life, most of the trauma caused by residential school. he's also a survivor of the 60s scoop.
i hate to be pedantic, but indian removal and imperialism are separate phenomena. It was less of an economic exploitation of foreign lands and more of a calculated genocide.
if anything you would describe it as american colonialism rather than american imperialism. American imperialism is more modern, a result of the post-war world order. Its more about economic domination of other nations rather than military dominance and annexation of other lands. Imperialism takes the form of american companies setting up mines and factories in “the third world” and american colonialism was american expansion on the continent through military and political coercion. Colonialism is more official, while imperialism happens without any official act or law.
Imagine making a two and a half hour documentary for literally hundreds of thousands to half a million people to view in less than a week. That's part of why I love your channel, you put it out there and no one does it like you.
And somebody posts a funny cat video and gets 10 million views.
Ah, now that I've watched more of the video, I see that the Point of View is entirely from the Modern American. No consideration is given to the Point of View of the annihilated American human beings, 90% of them being infected because of the white genocidal invaders and us, their inheriting descendants. Wow, so good that we don't have to look closely at the Othered alien people, eh?
@@jeffk464 Because cat videos are shorter and more relatable than yet another list of massacres in the parts of the holy books most people skip.
@@jeffk464 😀First, using cats is generally considered cheating already since 1990ties lolcat epidemic
Second, 🤔let's change the metrics from views to view time. View time 2½ h * views = a lot of minutes. This vs my cat tipping over my beer onto my keyboard and me using horrible language when i get annoyed is 40s * views = a lot of minutes too, but maybe less than the long non-cat related video(?)
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Well done and bravo! We need to tell their stories. We have failed to accurately tell their stories for so long.
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I recall going on a mission trip to a reservation back in youth group when I was still pretending to be christian. There was a native American man giving a presentation to a large number of visiting kids and I remember him saying in reference to a local mountain "There's gold in that mountain. Don't tell the US government.". I'm realizing now that that was probably a grim joke that he knew none of us would get.
What's crazy to me is before the invention of electronics, gold was practically worthless in of itself and only treasured because it was treasured. Thousands of people (millions if we're talking across the globe) suffered because they happened to be between powerful people and shiny rocks.
I feel like there's a lot more to this story!
@@phoebexxlouise in what way?
@@phoebexxlouise Thus proves to me that many white people were the real savages and barbarians that they had the nerves to call any other people of colour.
It is time they get the havest they sowed.
I am an enrolled Cherokee and a history professor.. It's great to hear someone discuss U.S. and Indian history in such a contextual, nuanced way. It is a pleasure to tune in to your podcast. You have a new member!
Two hour Knowing Better video. What a day
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And I'm all here for the 2 hour+ video
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I'm not even American so all of this is literally foreign to me, but it was fascinating. I genuinely didn't know the surviving Indian nations were actual *nations*, or even that they did still exist as legal entities beyond what I assumed were more akin to local councils for specific regions of the US. Massive thanks for putting this all together!
Key word is “surviving”
Obviously most of them weren’t fortunate enough/allowed to reach this ambivalent degree of sovereignty
To be honest, I’m an American, who was sheltered for a very long time, and I didn’t even know this was the case. It’s things like this that have completely changed and altered my view on the country I was born in. This isn’t my land. This land belongs to the people who were here first. No one can change my mind about that
@@manifesttruth7645 Then leave.
@@spyrofrost9158 no u
Most Americans aren’t aware of this stuff either, so it is just as foreign to them.
You have no idea the joy I feel seeing a 2 hour knowing better on a historical topic
Ik! Like I gasp with excitement
i know i know i love knowing better
KB has been dropping hints on his Patreon and Twitter on his progress on this video for months now. So happy to finally attend his first RUclips Documentary premiere; KB is following in Folding Idea’s footsteps! 😊
Fr! Saving this one for work tomorrow, can't wait 😀
Same!!!
this is such a incredibly well done video as a indigenous living in saskatchewan your conclusion was on fuckin point it really does feel hopeless sometimes thank you for this video
I love my old history teacher because despite being an ex marine and teaching in Florida, he told us that stuff we did was messed up, he told us how it was messed up, and he wouldn’t sugar coat anything or try to make America seem like the good guys.
I think that an important part of growing up is acknowledge that your country/ancestors did something messed up at some point, try to be aware of the consequences of it in the present and stay vigilant for the future for similar messed up things be done again by yours or other's country
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@@JDoe-gf5oz Yeah?
@@harxist sure?
One of my favorite history teachers was American Indian, and that made all the difference! He was constantly being harassed by the community for teaching "lies" to the children but that made me want even more to learn everything he could throw at us. I still have the copy of Black Elk Speaks that he gave to me in 1986. He said that one of the most important lessons about that book was when it was written, 1932. At the time I was in that class, he said "This was only a little over 50 years ago. A man who had been at Wounded Knee. It is not ancient history."
Ojibwe here.
I deeply appreciate you doing the deep dive that public school curriculum refuses to even scratch the surface of.
I’m a descendant of a residential school survivor, and telling the truth about our stories of colonization across Turtle Island reminds people that we aren’t just past tense ancient peoples. We’re still here. We’re still living the effects of what colonization has done to us.
Videos like these prove what Victor says in Smoke Signals, “The cowboys don’t always win.”
Is Smoke Signals a good movie?
@@Galimah One of my favorites! It’s a gorgeous story about grief, growing up on the rez, and childhood trauma. It weaves a story in the only way natives know how - laughter.
I've always wondered why people call what is now known as North America, Turtle Island because it isn't an island.
@@whenisdinner2137 I’m glad you’re curious! So, some indigenous nations refer to it as Turtle Island because many of us share an origin story of the world existing on top of a turtle’s back - North America essentially being the turtle’s shell and the rest of the world being the turtle’s body. While it’s not technically an island, you have to consider the limitations of geographical understanding at the time this origin story was crafted.
It’s kind of like thinking about the biblical “Great Flood” in the Noah story claiming it covered the world. It didn’t cover the whole world - just the “world” within the parameters of what those people knew.
What a bunch of horse shit. Native Americans were a stone age people. When the Europeans arrived they got wasted. That's life. My ancestors came to the US long after that was over. They were wasted by the Ottomans and Muslims. I don't cry about it. If the Spanish hadn't come your people wouldn't even have had horses, just dogs. You'd live to about 50 years old then die.
I remember reading the memoir of an Apache veteran who served as a tank commander in WW2. He was given his position because everyone assumed that he would be the best at navigating the company through the countryside. And he was the best, but only because he paid attention during the navigation classes and always kept a map on him.
Do you know what the name of the apache veteran was?
@@benyaatzie823 Yeah, I would read that.
I as well would like to know his name or the name of the memoir
This memoir was called "Running Horse - Memories of Apache Indian tank commander during WW2"
@@olgagaming5544 thank you for sharing and doing your part to spread his story :)
So many parts of the segment on boarding schools sounds identical to what happened to the Sami here in Norway. It's painful how many times this has happened, and even more painful how successful it was
I saw a video from that dang dad about this very situation.
How successful it is. It’s happening all over the world still to this day. We just don’t talk about Voldemort
You should watch the Rabbit Proof Fence it happened to the Australian first Nations as well
And it will happen again, you dont have to go far back in to the past to see examples like this. The most recent are Ruanda, Bosnia, Syria, Myanmar and so on... it is human nature just because it happens in "steps" over a long time doesnt change that fact.
When I was in high school I went on a service project to the Navajo reservation in Arizona, and it was a really eye opening experience. It felt like going to a third world county. No running water in the house, electricity from a gas generator, outhouses, the nearest hospital or grocery store was hours away, and this was in 2019. Not long after in my US history class when we briefly talked about native Americans my teacher made it sound like we had given them all this land and money and that life was good for them. When I argued against that with actual first hand experiences of the way they have been forced to live, his response was “well that’s not in the textbook”.
it tells you how little reading your "teacher" did before actually teaching the subject...
@@cielonehellofaservicedog4648 they can’t know everything an out everything.
Teachers are mostly skilled in conveying information, and at the primary and secondary level teaching (and managing) kids is hard enough.
They have very little license to go beyond the textbook anyway.
Generally not until college that you run into teachers that are actually experts in the subject. Unfortunately many of them are anything but experts in teaching.
Bruh you saw it with your own eyes and the best that mf could say was "that's not in the textbook" . Well duh white people who wrote the book ain't finna tell the whole TRUTH 🤣 I would have had fun in that class. I've gotten ISS in history class for many reasons.
tbf before the evil colonizers came they had no running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no hospitals, no grocery stores so it's not like it's like they had all this stuff then colonizers came and took it all away.
@@adamprice3466 they didn't need or ask for that.
This channel is the definition of quality over quantity.
I mean no disrespect to KB but like have you seen contrapoints
@@Kelly_C Could you point us to any of them?
@@charlie7mason ruclips.net/user/ContraPoints
@@Kelly_C yeah I have but the style of content is different, not to mention contrapoints is far more controversial. Contrapoints spends a lot more time on editing, makeup, lighting, and aesthetics while knowing better puts quite a bit more into research. They are both very high quality but I would say knowing better does it a bit better just because his is more content than optics based.
considering the length of these videos, i’d say quantity applies too
Can always count on Atun Shei to dictate historical documents in their proper accents in random RUclips videos
Its what he do...
KNEW it was him lol
Checkmate Lincolnites
Who else’s videos is he in?
@@Danglecaraco KB's "Neoslavery", for one.
The University of Northern Colorado Native Intermural Basketball team had the best response ever in 2002. They wore white uniforms and white shoes and changed their name to the Fightin' Whities. The merch sales went to a native scholarship fund.
As a Navajo, I thank you for shining the light on the United States' true history when it comes to the topic of Native Americans. But I also like to point out that the fight to defend ourselves isn't over not even by a long shot. Especially concerning the fact that the Supreme Court is currently undergoing preparations to hear the Brackeen v. Haaland case, that is challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act and it's a huge deal for us, especially concerning the fact that it's not just deciding the fate of Native American children for generations to come. But it's also challenging Tribal Sovereignty and if the Supreme Court declares ICWA to be unconstitutional combined with the political climate we're in right now we're afraid that it will set off a domino effect that will result in the total annihilation of Tribal Sovereignty. And thanks to the six republican aligned justices making up the majority in the Supreme Court there's a chance it may happen and if it does then dark days shall be upon on all Native Americans.
Also the western states right now are specifically working on how to screw the Navajo nation out of it's access to Colorado river water. Since it's running low and changing how water is used by corporate farming conglomerates is spooky Communism.
I’m curious, how does citizenship work for natives who are born and live on reservations? Growing up, I had a few friends who were Cahuilla, but because of how land apportionment works between the state of California and the band of Cahuilla Indians and how the tribes use their land, most tribal members are born and live exclusively on California soil, so they’re seen as citizens by default. Is it different for tribes that are stuck on the rez?
the term is autochton for all tribes like yours, peace!
to all autochtons and metis across the planet, each country has autochton people, not many were imnvaded by colons like in north america
@@Praisethesunson I'm also aware of that, in fact just recently the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases concerning that exact same issue Department of the interior v. Navajo Nation and Arizona v. Navajo Nation both are connected to one another. And this is also a big issue because thirty percent of the residents don't have running water. And sheep herding makes up a large portion of the Navajo Nation's economy, they're dependent on that. And plus the sheep has an important role in Navajo culture they're sacred to us, like how the buffalo is sacred to the tribes of the plains or how sacred the horse is to the Commanche. The Navajo Nation has been demanding equal access to running water for decades but everytime when we demand equal access to water our voices are ignored and now this issue to going up straight to the Supreme Court all because some angry corporate farmers can't handle us having access to water and that's bs at least they have running water while the Navajo doesn't. We need water to live but they say no because they want to use that water, to water up some fancy grass that takes up too much of it so they can feed it to their cattle. And if the Supreme Court rules on their side that means goodbye water and hello major drought for the Navajo Nation.
@@tshred666 As far as I can tell it's the state that surrounds the reservation.
However, the reservation despite being in one or more counties functions as its own county and micro-state to the US.
(For instance, Red Lake Reservation has recreational cannabis while the state of Minnesota does not. In addition, many reservations elect their own sheriff but many need to contract an outside agency.)
Every Knowing Better video is like a condensed college course. It’s so high quality you could sell these videos to education institutions
OR if education institutions were smart
They’d pay for they’re use….but that might be a bit too forward for them.
thats a lovely thought and KB is quite sharp, but trust me he does not replace an in depth 300 level course in 2 hours
I had the same thought! A high school history teacher could probably just show this video in class & it would cover the topic better than any outdated textbook could.
I would hope it is adapted into the curriculum of at least some schools. Be assigned as voluntary reading in relevant college and university classes.
Education institutions only buy books from capitalists that republish their material version every year. The ultimate definition of ripoff and poor quality.
I am an indigenous Arawak native. I took the time to watch your video completely, and I was amazed of the amount of information you were able to discern and to dispel some of the lies in the myths about native people. Most non-natives are not interested in the fax order history and see us as invisible people, or someone who is still complaining about the past. They fail to understand the history that we had to endure. When do Europeans came to the west. How they were successful in genocide majority of our indigenous tribes, and the remaining tribes try to assimilate or to denigrate what was left. They robbed us of our history and culture. I know this personally because of the history that I was taught, and how my own culture was left out of that education. I want to tell you thank you for bringing this history and documentary tonight and I hope many more people are able to see it and take the time to understand what had to endure I know that things have not changed. I do appreciate your research and understanding of indigenous people and I hope sometimes you could have a documentary on other tribes outside of the continental United States, such as tribes from the Caribbean and West Indian islands.
The arawak are extinct
@@imwatchingy0utube388 A quick google search says otherwise
@@imwatchingy0utube388
Some groups of Arawak survived. So no, there are most definitely Arawak descendants that are still alive today.
They're a disgusting race for that delusional government and culture.
No accountability for the atrocities these people committed only justification and lies.
I managed to sit through your entire video. Thank you ever so much. I'm an ethnic minority historian from London. I recently came back from a road trip from Iowa to Lake Superior. My friend told me about the Indian reservation and casions. I didn't know what he meant, but through this video. I understand now. It is a full new world of history knowledge for me. It is not only interesting. It is so respectful and considerate of minority history which get forgotten and twisted. On the behalf of all minority historians and researchers all over the world. Thank you for being so respectful and standing on the side of the suppressed. I also admire your knowledge and representation skills. Your students will be blessed and be more sound in critical thinking and historical enquiry skills 🙏 I salute to you.
One of the worst mascot situations is in Jackson, Missouri. I lived there for 4 years and the city is named after Andrew Jackson and is located 6 miles from the Trail of Tears state park. There's a big watertower near the highway that says "Welcome to Jackson" with a picture of Andrew Jackson... and right below that it says "Home of the Indians." Yep, a town named after Andrew Jackson, one of the main people responsible for Indian relocation and an area that the Trail of Tears went right though, decided to name their high school team the Indians.
I really hope that some day we can get through the plethora of location names that need to be changed.
There's also a school in Tecumseh Oklahoma named the savages
Sickening
There’s a hockey team in Gothenburg, Sweden (in the Highest league) called Frölunda Indians, but I think the reconsidered and either will or have changed their name. Yepp, the stopped using that name in Sep 2021.
@@OutdoorLonghair right right. School shootings are so commonplace now that we just go through the motions when we hear of a new one, BUT my town is named after a president that did terrible things 200 years ago. 🙄
Wake up people. Stop letting the parts of our countries history that are terrible divide us even further.
Believe it or not many citizens of the US have looked back on our history and privately dealt with it. Of course when you do something quietly and sensibly you don’t get to look like an activist online -which is more important than anything else in our culture currently.
I'm a Canadian so plenty was very US specific, but still fascinating. There was tons of that going on in Canada too, as you had called out sometimes. Great work!
I feel like ever since your Mormonism video, and then again with your neoslavery video, you've raised the bar for yourself and have tried your hardest to make only the best videos. It's paying off, love to see an upload from you!
I've seen this style pre-trump/early trump. Vocal style. Also i'm sure he got the quantum word from someone else.
Your research ability is superb. Thank you.
"Take the child and destroy the Indian within him to save the man" As a Sami this is so scarily relatable. My grandparents all went through this exact process. Indigenous peoples really all face the same struggle, though indigenous north americans certainly had it worse than we did.
And again we also have special rights to the land that doesn't extend to Norwegians which also pisses them off just like in Minnesota (not sure about Sweden and Finland, definitely not the case in Russia though). Sometimes this is just like looking in a mirror.
The parallels between what happened to the Sami in Scandinavia and what we did to the American Indians here are surreal, and then you have people who make embarrassing takes about how it couldn't possibly be anything that bad because the Sami are superficially white.
@@jakobinobles3263 they are north Scandinavia, mostly within Sweden, most culturally similar to Fins. They have been slowly and often brutally suppressed. The same story across much of Europe, in different flavours- Karelians, Basques, Celts, Tartars and many more over history. The strategies are different, altogether not as brutal as America's, but still as suppressive.
@@Vuosta Could you expand on Sami conditions in Russia?
@@Vuosta Special rights to the land seems to be a shared point between ethnic discourse in many countries, Americans will say Indian casinos are a great benefit and Chinese Internet have many similar complains about supposedly beneficial minority land rights.
Been watching for over 4 years and you’ve only been getting better and better! Keep it up!
thank you for covering topics like these, KB
i'm chickasaw / chikasha. too many see us as in the past, as historical figures. my grandpa went through brutal whitewashing in board schools, my mom participated in AIM / civ. rights. i'm 19. it's simply not as distant as it seems.
- masali
There are Indigenous people in the present and there are Indigenous people in the future!
(Justice for Leonard Peltier)
Natives are still standing. Respect to your strength.
A fellow Chickasaha, chokma!
@@DarthDracvlaahhh nukfi! holito 😄
Thank you for another educational video. i knew a small part of what you talked about but you filled in the missing pieces and helped me get a better overall understanding of the history and the problem. Good work!
This was so informative. Thank you for putting this together.
I watch this channel because every time you challenge my preconceived notions and make me really think. This one hit especially close for me. I grew up at the tail-end of the baby- boomer generation and considered myself culturally enlightened because I thought I had rejected my parent's stereotypes. When I was in the military in the 80s, I was stationed at a small outpost completely enclosed by a reservation in Washington State. Dating opportunities were few, and I fell in love with and married an Indian girl (despite several entreaties not to by older, wiser friends.)
Almost immediately, I received orders to a base in the L. A. area, and the move and adjustment were difficult for both of us, but especially for her. She was incredibly homesick and lost in the big city, and I couldn't help her because I was busy in my new job. She also disturbed me when she told me of portents in the natural environment that were meaningless to me, but held significant import to her.
She would hide in our apartment all day until I came home from work, and then want me to take her out for entertainment or just shopping. I was a city kid, and couldn't understand why she was unable to adjust. There were so many things about her life I didn't understand. I sent her home more than once to visit, but things would be the same when she returned. Things deteriorated to the place where it was impacting my performance at work, and I finally asked for and received a release from my contract. She wanted us to return to the reservation and live, but I knew it would be hard for me to find work and support a family there.
I broke her heart when I left her and divorced later. It has always been my deepest regret that I couldn't make it work between us. My military career was destroyed, and her life was never the same.
I personally witnessed all of the things you said about kids and families on the rez. It's a horrible life for most, but it's all they know, and they cling to it desperately. The stat you gave for life expectancy on Pine Ridge made me cry. You told me more in two hours about how the reservation system came to be than I had learned in a lifetime. Thank you for deepening my understanding.
By the way, the image you used for the Hotchkiss gun was the 37mm rotary cannon, sold to governments in Europe, but not the US. The US cavalry used a 42mm single barrel, light enough to be hauled by mules, but still a potent weapon.
Ok boomer
@@jendelreavis358 ...
this is a really nice comment. thanks for sharing :). also, i love the juxtaposition of a heartfelt story with a correction on the type of gun at the end.
The human impact is astounding. Being unable to adjust is a hallmark of oppression. It seems you regret not knowing more and being there emotionally for your ex wife.
@@jendelreavis358 why would you say this?
Damn. That was an Intense video my friend. I'm 37 years old. Born in 1985. Raised in a fairly good school system. I learned more in the last 2 hours than I did my entire 12 years of school. My head hurts now.
Please lay down and drink lots of water. You may experience dizziness for the next 48-72 hours.
@@KnowingBetter In all seriousness, thank you.
Indians are fake, there weren't any. An arrow tipped with a flint arrowhead shot from a primitive handmade bow would bounce off of a buffalo, and how did they hunt the buffalo before the white man brought horses to America, did they chase down the buffalo on foot? Lol, get real.
As someone who was born in 1984, I second this. Though my heart hurts more than my head.
By design, of course. Conservatives are all about facts until they're inconvenient
I recognize Atun Shei as the accent for the British soldier writing about the small pox blankets. I love that you two collaborate. You're both 2 of my favorite history RUclipsrs.
yep, his latest vid is up next. Today is a good day to youtube.
Thanks!
It's amazing seeing an educator that I highly respect take the time to talk about this. This Navajo guy salutes you and pours one out for the minefield you have just put yourself into.
Ay least you got a Sense of humor with that user name
It’s a popular opinion he has not put himself in danger.
I live in Tacoma, Washington, pretty close to one of the larger reservations in my area, the Puyallup Reservation. I just got to the part of the video where you talked about the Dawes Act, and that immediately made me think of the Puyallup because they lost control of almost all of their reservation as a result of the Dawes Act, and land being taken by the State and neighboring cities. In the 1930s the Puyallup only controlled 33 acres of land out of their 18,000 acre reservation. They’ve regained control of more of their reservation today through negotiations and lawsuits, but the damage was for the most part already done. Almost all of the Puyallup Reservation has been developed, and now it’s covered in farms, warehouses, white/non-native neighborhoods, a giant oil refinery, and it’s home to one of the largest ports on the west coast. There are hardly any natural areas or any preserved land left. Almost 43,000 people live in the Puyallup Reservation, yet less than 3,000 are actually members of the Puyallup tribe.
Ah I made a mistake, the population of the Puyallup Reservation is actually about 53,000
If you think that's wrong and would like things to change, please consider joining a group like Socialist Alternative or PSL. We are weak alone, and supporting liberals will only make things worse. Our only shot at a better world will come through communist revolution.
@@justinwatson1510 LMAO communism is a curse that has killed, and continues to kill more people than any other regime in history, including religion, which says a lot. Get educated before you continue to embarrass yourself publicly with your "communist revolution".
Similar situation with the Yakama Nation :(
@Jimbo Johnson According to that logic we should abandon capitalism too because hey, 5 million people died during the great famine of 1876.
Also, Soviet communism, stalinisme and socialism aren't the same thing. Don't be silly.
Incredible job. I wasn't part of the watch-in-one-sitting club but eventually got through it all. Wanted to watch carefully and not miss anything!
51:33 That Ute removal act wrecked my bands future, forcing us to join Washakie, which was fine but I’ve always been told that we had to leave so many behind that didn’t want to be further away from our homelands (which where they were displaced already was traditionally shared with Ute but wasn’t where we spent most of our time. It was what could be considered a buffer zone between our similar but different peoples.)
I'm a quarter Klamath, so technically able to be a member if I wanted to. But the mentality of getting off the reservation, and termination really struck a chord with me. My grandfather was adopted out to a white family. He had no knowledge of where he came from. And died after Vietnam, so I didn't even get to meet him. But I'm glad you were able to give some history to me of my ancestors. In a weird way, I found solace through this video.
@@Jason-hg1pc well, my family knew my grandfather was native American, but we never knew which tribe he was from, we all only learned of this, recently. And so, I barely know anything about native American culture or history. I didn't even know what a pow wow was until this video. So I guess I'll have to do more research
Klamaths are good peoples. Good buddies there and enjoyed hunting on "federal" lands before the tribe got it back. Just go there see wtf is up if you ever get a chance.
*Edit Wow... Just tried googling one of my buddies I haven't seen in a while and he passed away from cancer. Life is short see what you can while you have a chance.
@Dave Firewalker yeah a quarter. Sorry my mom got the 1/2, should've been born before her ig.
@@Jason-hg1pc and thank you man, like you said, I'm trying to regrow some roots. Even if it's not my full history, just like in this video, I want to preserve it, and not have it erased. I'll check the book out man. Thank you.
Oh hey, I live in northern CA so Klamath is quite a common name to me
As a European who has never been taught the standard American History myth formally, I am terrified by the fact that I had basically believed it. Before discovering your channel I had pretty much believed all the same lies and half truths that are taught. Thank you for helping me to, well, Know Better one video at a time!
autochton is the correcty word, i'm sad that knowing better doesnt know the correct term... and he's an educated person on the subject! imagine!
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd I'm sorry what is this in regards to? I don't see how this follows from the comment you replied to?
@@lizardlegend42 ignore them, they've been going around to every comment babbling incoherence.
@@lizardlegend42 He has been going around telling people to say Autochthon American instead of Native because he’s hoping it makes it seem cool and progressive. Just virtue signaling, nothing else.
@@TheJasonmanguy autochton American sounds like indigenous transformers tribes
Mi'kmaw; tleyawi kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki
Wela'lin/thank you for this video. You highlighted many wonderful points and were extremely respectful in your delivery. I hope this message reaches the youth, because I didn't feel as though my culture, and in turn myself, was well-represented In school. I was taught as a history lesson, when my home life was contradictory to those lessons.
Keep up the amazing content.
Nmultis, nitap.
It's amazing that you are still speaking your language! I hope your languages and other Indigenous languages will survive and thrive! They're each very beatiful and unique!
'siwestuwok! Kisi-tehp liwihtasu Wolastokuk elakutimok - It was thorough, and even taught me a few things. You know.
@@chorvat6656 this made me so ecstatic to read. Wela'lin nitap
@@chimpofthecosmicdawn3863Kiluwaw aqanu !
Note from a South Dakotan
Brule is not pronounced the fancy french way it would be pronounced Brool like pool.
Also you marked the Black Hills to far north.
"The Sicangu Lakota are known as Sičhą́ǧu Oyáte in Lakȟóta, which translates to "Burnt Thighs Nation". Learning the meaning of their name, the French called them the Brûlé, also Brulé, meaning "burnt".
Sooo it *is* pronounced "the fancy French way."
@@funstuff2006, just because a word is derived from a base form does not mean that’s how it’s colloquially pronounced.
@@thedoomofred5174 "Successive generations who have come to this area were/are ignorant of french pronunciation, or too chauvenistic to attempt it, and therefore have persisted in pronouncing it incorrectly. So, the wrong pronunciation is actually the right pronunciation" is an upside-down take.
@@funstuff2006, being of no linguistic or historical expert my guess is as follows. French ask them their name, the provide it and the French call them Brulé. Americans ask them who they are and they give them there white man name but likely mispronounce it providing Brool, and or the Americans had a hard time pronouncing it correctly and pronounced it that way. Then finally since neither spoke French primary the perpetual pronunciation of it as Brool stuck.
@@thedoomofred5174 the fact that it stuck doesn't make it the "right" pronunciation, nor does it make the correct pronunciation "fancy."
Growing up in eastern Arizona literally yards from the White Mtn Apache reservation, hopeless is an understatement. I moved away to go to college at 18 and now I’m 50. Very little has changed there, and not just my version of progress. Healthcare and basic needs are far from where it should be. Sadly I think it’s still going to me many more generations before anything will change. Thanks for this video! Excellent work.
Indians only way to win in the great game is to just stay on the board. If Indian can stay around long enough. The American empire will eventually collapse. At which point the natives of the Americas will have their chance to reestablish legitimate sovereignty and control over their collective destiny.
I spent my childhood on the reservation, or at least partially on it (I was born in Show Low and spent half my time in Pinetop-Lakeside, but my dad worked for the tribe as the ski patrol director for Sunrise, so I spent my other half there), and... yeah. I can confirm this. The conditions are dire, and as mentioned in this video, there's very little under the current status quo that can be done about it, since they don't own most of their own land, and what land they do own is subject to aggressively intrusive oversight from the federal government. Related, the Apache friends I made as a kid continued the "brain drain" trend of going to college and never returning, and I can't really blame them. There's nothing there for them. They feel a little guilty about it, but they have families these days, and they can't justify subjecting their kids to the conditions they had to endure while growing up.
Perfect to listen to on tonight’s long drive.
Hey Cody!
Hell yeah, man.
Subbed cuz by the looks of it you got sum interesting stuff on yer channel I wanna check out at a later date. Would check it out now if I could but I'm about to hop off the phone for the rest of the day.
Wow, can't believe I watch the same channel as Cody's Lab
Good to know I'm in good company on this channel haha
As a fellow history teacher, I’m proud to say I’ve long since abandoned the Standard American History Myth(tm) and give the students a more truthful record of our history.
This video actually comes out just a few days after I taught about many of the events mentioned here!
> I’ve long since abandoned the Standard American History Myth(tm) and give the students a more truthful record of our history
And replaced it with the myth of the innocent Indians that loved each other and the earth, and were victums....sure. Skipping over the Aztec imperial domination of Central America, Inca overloardship of the Andes, wars between N. American tribes, and their participation in black slavery. Not to mention Indian clear-cutting of forest in the NE, and their burning of trees in the west to stampede animals so they could hunt them more efficiently.
How "proud" you must be.
@Xander Cruz that’s a nice strawman! but please, stick to your containment boards on 4chan
@@emmaarmo379 Call it whatever term you learned from Reddit all you want, but it isnt a lie, Emma.
I can even toss in their participation in the owning of black slaves. But I guess that is just more "strawmanning".
@Xander Cruz the strawman is you assuming in your reply that Matt is teaching an extremely sanitized version of history without any evidence to back up that assumption. what in his post, or in this video led you to believe that he is teaching these things to his student? you jumped down his throat with nothing to go off of save your own biases.
i never claimed you were lying, i mean you are misrepresenting matt’s position. perhaps in the future, you should look up terms you don’t know or understand like ‘strawman’ instead of replying immediately? 😂
@@xandercruz900 lmao strawman fallacy
Thanks for talking about Pontiac. My grandma was born a Pontiac. I remember going to the fort where the game and attack happened on a field trip for school.
Native diaspora here. Glad to finally give this a watch now that Thanksgiving is over. With everyone’s anticipation and build up for it all month, I think I would’ve had a bad time watching this beforehand-trying to balance my own bitter feelings on the holiday versus everyone else’s excitement for a day off work with family and good food. But I’m glad you’re covering this topic, as it’s often overlooked, and just shrugged off as “eh, ye olde people and their different values, what can ya do?” Good that that’s being challenged now.
Algorithm bless you, all that jazz
I have first nations friends who. refer to Thanksgiving as "There goes the neighborhood day".
You forgot all the slaves that the Natives brought with them on the Trail of Tears. They loved slavery as much as the Confederacy did but KB and liberal teachers today won't teach you about it.
Resentment is the real enemy.
Challenged? What more do you Natives want? You have land you can make your own laws on and collect money tax free, you are the most privileged class in the country. You cover up just how many tribes there are, you say "our people" but you were never united in the 1800s, you fought and killed each other before the settlers set foot in America. Stop playing the victim. Learn to heal yourselves by example of the Jews who had it MUCH worse than your people
Poo hoo poor little Tonto
I find myself deeply moved after watching your video. I am a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe but I never lived there. Raised by a suburban white family, none of this was taught to me. It took me 30 years of research just to learn who I was. What you are doing is POWERFUL. Thanks
Good luck, Chief. Go teach those suburban whites a lesson!
paiute here , peace 2 rosebud
How long did you live with your nation?
Stop lyin
You're a black man stop telling lies!
Bro... the passion for history pours out in your videos.. from one vet to another.. Happy veterans day and don't let the inconvenient truth be buried.
I visited the Denver History Center and saw an exhibit about the Sand Creek Massacre. Another terrible thing is that one of the soldiers who refused to fire on the Indians, Silas Soule, was later murdered for testifying against Chivington about how killing was definitely a massacre and not justified. So horrifying but it was sobering to see survivors and their descendants’ tributes to him-proves that doing the right thing has lasting consequences.
I've always found it interesting as a Midwesterner how often we love to name our towns and rivers after the tribes that once lived there. I live in Indiana, "Land of Indians" and we don't have a single reservation in the entire state.....
I have to admit, I used to think the controversy of using Indian names for sports teams and such was overblown. I'm from Peoria, (named after the tribe) Illinois (named after the Illini indians), and the mascot for U of I is or was Chief Illiniwik (not sure if it still is). Anyway, having been given the the full story in one sitting, it seems incredibly disrespectful to systematically destroy a people and then name things after them as if it's all in good fun. Even if it's meant as a tribute (I doubt it), it's still pretty terrible. I had some awareness of the massacres and systemic displacement from public school, but the full impact gets diluted and portrayed as a necessarily evil.
@@somethingelse4424 As a Native American, I understand your sentiment. But to be honest its almost poetic. A hateful band of Europeans did every evil thing they could think of to get rid of anything that wasn't them. Having nuggets of the history in names, while could be seen as disrespectful, leaves the scar of the history they desperately want to erase. So yeah it's a weird flex of "they used to live here" but to me it's how we stay alive. To learn is to face the truth. And I can't make them tell the truth. But I know the truth. And id rather die knowing what happened than not knowing a single piece of my culture. (Hopi specifically) And I can only pray in respect and honor for any native that died trying to preserve what may seem little to "society" but is invaluable knowledge on what our true purpose as people are supposed to do. And the denial of climate change is just the perpetuated problem of now. I appreciate your thoughts on the subject and wish you good fortune
Man, what a deep dive into the topic. This deserves more, much more for the work, but thank you! Gonna have to watch this a few times to get all the info.
Culture of Hopelessness is an acurate description for the situation in canada. My reserve is actually Called Fort Hope (Eabametoong in Ojibway, meaning roughly, where the current reverses flow because the water changes from flowing from north to south, and goes south to north towards Hudson bay) and is commonly refered to by locals as Fort No Hope. ( i say locals because i grew up off reserve)
Even growing up right next to the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes in CT I still feel like I knew nothing about their history. Thanks for making such an in depth and informative video!
You did an internship at the Pequot museum. It's really cool to visit!
I don't normally visibly react to youtube videos, but the truth in this case was so disheartening and presented so well that multiple times I said "oh no" involuntary or felt myself make a disgusted face. Half the times you hadn't even said it yet, but based on the set up or historical patterns I knew what was coming and was prepared for the worst, which was exactly what you said next every time. Thank you so much for making us aware of this dire situation and it's systemic and historical causes, while dispelling stereotypes and myths that are so easy to never question. You are truly an amazing educator
I groaned, hand and forehead head shaked many times, along with “oh no’s” it’s just so incredibly tragic
Hearing histories like this make you wonder if people like Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Joaquin Murrieta or Quanah Parker can really be called villains. Killers? Yes no doubt, but can you really blame them? After all that was done to them and their people?
Absolutely fantastic idea to create the 4 minutes long video to draw people in; I saw that in my recommendations before the notification even told me it was uploaded. The suggestion to watch this in the outro of that video then led me here exactly as intended, and now I'm watching this too. Solid production quality as always as well; man your quality has improved over the last year or so!
I've been watching since about 2018/2019 and your growth has been well deserved and fun to watch man! Thank you again for all the content you create. As an American immigrant your videos have been the foundation of my learning about the country I moved to.
So the 4 minute video was the trailer and this is the actual movie.
1:31:22 i went to U of I! many businesses around campus do not allow people to wear clothing with The Chief on it in their stores. i will never understand why people choose so adamantly to stick with it, given the amount of time we spent without “him” as our mascot.
i've watched this twice already and i'm watching it again because this deserves to be remembered. old wounds cannot be mended if they were denied and downplayed before just forgotten entirely.
CHEERS!
Don't neglect the decedents. Now labeled immigrants in their own indigenous lands.
precisely why so many Natives are struggling today. our lands and people were stolen for profit & ease to commit selfish evils. soon forgotten bc our lives never mattered to them, and left to deal w the consequences alone & w/o any explanation. learning about Native American history is the first step towards understanding, action towards rebuilding healthy connections n support between US/CANADA and our sovereign nations would be next (ie visiting rezs). but we can only hope ppl/gov wont dehumanize us even more
@@MariaReyes-wg5zx Natives aren’t indigenous to America, they migrated across the Bering Strait.
I am not an American Indian and I can’t claim to speak for them, but I will point out that as an ecologist there has been significant research into the land management practices of tribes, and in many cases those practices better curate species diversity and community resilience. For example, seasonal undergrowth burning in the southeast US maintained long leaf pine savannas for thousands of years.
One sentence that stood out to me in "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" is (paraphrasing) "the forests on the eastern seaboard were undoubtedly more wild in the 1850s than in the 1650s".
Also, I'm glad that forest burning is recognized as having the potential to be beneficial. It was viewed as inherently bad land management for centuries, as I'm sure you're aware, especially by American settlers in the early decades.
Yes, brush Bruning and clearing is VITAL in Southern California where I come from 😮
Many native plants actually don't drop seeds without the presence of smoke.
Controlled Burns and brush clearing prevents forest fires a lot
You know.. for some reason I've classified broadleaf plants and needle-leaf plants as separate groups not because of a phylogenetic branching (conifers are ancient), but rather because something in me didn't consider needles to be leaves (more like pre-leaves). Your mention of Longleaf Pine knocked that out of my head.
that's what we do for the blueberry fields in Maine.
The Indigenous Tribes knew what they were doing with the land, because they loved it, and it supporter them!
Thanks KB for not only discussing how Natives were treated throughout American history but also bringing up the issues we face today.
I'm of Native descent, Zuni, grew up on the rez, and I find it interesting to look back at my time in high school learning about the history of the USA. I can recall being fed the Standard American History Myth and in a way being taught that if it weren't for the colonists, or for Manifest Destiny, our country wouldn't be what it is today, and isn't that something we (ie little Natives) should be grateful for?
And for a good while I believed in that myth all the while many families on the rez were, and still are, struggling to make ends meet, to be fed, or keep a roof over their head. Hell, there are several families/generations that live under a single household since there is hardly any available housing. Many individuals who manage to leave the rez end up returning because we as a people weren't given the adequate tools, resources, or support to thrive on the outside, and when they do return they return with a decline in mental health. Mental health and addiction are major issues back home as too many of my people are conditioned to not talk about our struggles but how could they fix their situation when there is virtually no job market and no end in sight? This leads a lot of people unambitious, uncaring, and unwilling to even try to do anything because they know there is no way to get out of the unending cycle.
There are, however, those who do leave for higher education and return of their own accord to help the tribe, if they can manage to secure a local job, but of course they are few and far in between. I tried and failed at university but I managed to get a job in the city which kept me off the rez for the past decade and currently have no wish to go back as I see there is nothing there for me. Sad, I know and I've struggled to make peace with this decision for years as I no longer feel connected to my culture. But don't be sad for me because as a tribe, Zunis have a strong connection to tradition and our language/culture is taught in school, from elementary to high school.
When it comes down to it, the American government made this struggle of poverty, depression, and addiction our reality... I guess we should be grateful for that damned Manifest Destiny, right? Otherwise, how else can we enjoy the comforts of the modern day?
In any case, thanks again KB for discussing this topic, it's much appreciated.
Side note: when discussing which terms to use, it's a generational thing. Older generations (ex Boomers) prefer American Indian or simply Indian. Gen X and Millennials tend to use Native American more often, I personally use the term Native, and Gen Z seems to favor First Nations. However, when it comes to any official documents, like medical records, it will be American Indian.
It's not a "myth," only so far as your understanding of history. Every civilization on this planet is guilty of these things, these are things that inevitably happen when a people expand into new territory so that they may become a civilization. There is no free real-estate. Most, if not absolutely all European, Middle-Eastern, African and Asian civilizations were guilty of doing far worse to their own people in their thousands of years of history, let alone do it to some foreign "barbarian" faction that was, ostensibly, in their way.
The real "myths" you're being taught is the myth of colonialism being some kind of "great evil." Before colonialism, there was only conquest through total war, utter destruction and complete decimation. You don't hear about it because the people it happened to no longer exist, except in the historical records of their conquerors.
My people were enslaved by the Byzantines, then Ottomans for one thousand years, then the Austro-Hungarians for another 200, then the Soviets until the 90s. The word "slave" is the name of my people's ethnicity, derived from "slav." "Servus" remains a common greeting in my language, which is the old Roman word for "servant," which is the word they used before that. And no one, not a single soul in my admittedly poor second-world country, attributes any of their current plights to these ancient historical tales that happened lifetimes ago, nor is there any kind of animosity felt towards current-day Turkish, Hungarian or Russian people. Not by mandate, punished by force, but because it is plainly foolish. I'm not saying these things are not instrumental in the fate of a people, nor that they do not matter, nor that they are not cruel and important to know and learn lessons from. I'm saying that there is not and there will never be a "tomorrow" if you continue to view the world in this way.
None of the issues you talk about are endemic to your ethnicity, there are more poor and destitute English-descended white Christian Americans in your country than there are native Americans in total. You have been taught to play a fantastical statistics game in order to be consolidated into a political faction to be used as a collective pawn on a chessboard by a ruthless manipulator, for power. A power that will never be yours, and that should, by no right, be anyone's. It is an anti-human commodification of grievance and victimhood that can only lead to self-destruction. With this framing, there can never be forgiveness or grace or unity, there can never be peace, only until the atrocity is repeated once again, except this time by the hand of the "righteous" unto the "guilty," and so again history is repeated, and the cycle continues. I would highly encourage separating yourself from this kind of thinking, for the sake of having a tomorrow and being able to plant a tree underneath whose shade you will not rest.
@@panameadeplm Well your whole comment seems to be a bit undermining to not just what I'm telling from experience but to what KB is also talking about. You're talking as if the atrocities that Native Americans experienced, and are experiencing, were centuries ago and because of that we should "stop playing the victim". It was just a little over 20 years ago that the last boarding school, which forcibly took Native children from their families, had finally closed. 20 years is not 200 years. So I disagree with you, the situations that Natives find themselves in today are very much attributed to and can be traced exactly to how the American government treated us through this country's history.
@@panameadeplm I know what I wrote sounds quite nihilist but when I talk to my friends and family from back home, that is the type of thinking that I encounter and I have been witness to it while I grew up there as well. You're right in saying that this type thinking only continues the cycle, but I don't think it's victimhood to claim the truth of the matter. Natives are in a shit situation because we were dealt a shit hand by the American government. And I kindly ask you to not compare tragedies. Yes, different groups of humans throughout all of history have been through terrible situations but don't undermine one group over the other by saying that there are more poor white Americans than poor Native Americans because that's just simple statistics.
@@rl0001 Life is about choices. You can choose to play the victim until you die, or you can choose to do better for yourself. It's entirely up to you to decide which you prefer.
@@nobodyspecial4702 "You can choose to play the victim" as if you lot ever leave people alone. Republicans just a few years ago were trying to plough through their land with no regard. Go f yourself with that bullshit.
I'm a Mohave Indian and I have visited the reservation. It's honestly rather sad the way certain homes look. Many of the homes have shattered or broken windows, broken cars, and some even have holes in the sides. Directly across the Colorado River (which is right next to their homes) there are river homes used by retirees and rich people during summer. The genuine contrast of what couldn't have been more than a few hundred feet was genuinely chilling.
Your people wete not part of it. NAVAJO PEOPLE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
I personally found the DNA test line funny. Being from the south everyone talked about being part Cherokee in some sort of fraction and Indian princess. My family even talked about a specific great-grandmother on one side and a great-grandfather on the other. 23&me determined that it was all a lie. Looking back it almost feels like a generations old lie to provide some family justification and offset some white guilt.
I can't be a colonist if I have some of the blood of the people my nation did(and continues to) displace
It might be true, for it to show up, one of your great grand parents has to be full blood. Also, there data base to compare that full blood ancestor has to be related to the 740 individuals that they have on file. Half of that is as South American Indigenous.
I think for many people, claiming some amount of Native ancestry is also a way to claim their place in America as having a family whose been here long enough to mix with tribes. I tend to find it was talked about in hushed tones, as if partly shameful, and partly pride.
White guilt is a myth.
I had some of the same rumors in my family. My 23&Me proved that I am quite white, but I do have a bit of Neanderthal! Lol
“It’s MY sleepover, I get to pick the movie!”
For real, I already know this is gonna be incredible. Fantastic work KB
Legend.
Not sure if it's good or bad that I can recognise Atun-sheis voice nearly instantly no matter what voice he is doing... Awesome too see two of my favourite creators working together, and it's a no brainer to have people who do so much in the American history genre work together.
It's a good thing. It proofs that you lile good content.
I was ecstatic when I started heading Atun Shei’s voice narrating the historical quotes (and it started a minute after I thought “Man, it’d be nice to include Atun Shei into this Mega KB Documentary if he’s talking about Jamestown and Plymouth”) 😂
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The only disappointing part was not using Sheridan’s “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” maxim, would have checked off so many boxes 😂
Damn, that was amazing, what an epic journey you took us on. Really well done presentation 👏 👏 👏
Truly amazing these peoples have been able to survive let alone try to thrive thru all that.
Thankfully, not all their customs & languages were lost. ❤
“25% of Indian children were adopted out of their birth families.”
“Adopted out” is a funny euphemism there used to describe literal kidnapping
Not always. My mom was adopted out because her mom was an alcoholic with several kids and later met a bad end. Her life is infinitely better for it.
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Many Native American tribes are still some of the poorest, regressive, and crime ridden places in the US. There are bound to be many adoptions.
Yes.
Article II: Section E of "The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide", which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 after the events of WWII, states, "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
By our metric today this act alone, all other acts notwithstanding, constitutes the United States committing real, literal genocide upon native peoples. That isn't even acknowledging the much more egregious violations they've committed.
But hey, if it happened before they made it illegal is it really genocide? /s
@@faberofwillandmight shouldnt that morbidly make you happy? it proves that ethno states arent functional. Yes native reservations are ethno states and should be dissolved.
"No I didn't steal this car, I forcefully purchased it for a value I deemed sufficient"
And once it came to honoring their part of the so-called deal...
"I'm altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
IKR! I mean basically the same thing!!!!!
By the 19th Century, 2/3rds of the so called "Civilized Tribes" had intermarried with Europeans and become Christian Americans, they had been neighbors for 300 years. Its why half of Southerners claim to have Cherokee blood. Indian Removal was those natives that refused to assimilate into the new American nation, the horror, so most left willingly to go West, gaining vast tracks of land and a chance to preserve their way of life.
@@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf Coping much? You haven't watched the video, or you didn't pay attention. You probably clicked on the video just to leave defensive comments because you don't like the topic. The video literally explains, in painstaking historical detail, how natives were forcibly and violently removed, and how the American government screwed them over and refused to uphold their promises every. step. of. the way.
Having to assimilate and lose your culture is, indeed, horrific. Imagine having to tell your children not to speak their mother tongue, in case they get punished in school or beaten by bullies. Bettter yet, imagine having your children taken from you and sent to a boarding school with the explicit purpose of "re-educating" them into "proper protestant Americans". The video provides government documents, letters by officials, and statistics covering this forced indoctrination.
You have no choice over history, so anyone who blames you for the sins of your country or your fathers is a moron and a douchebag. However, you do have the choice over your own actions. Choosing to ignore parts of history that show that country or those generations in a bad light is, well, less than honest. It takes some bravery and some heart to admit those things. It was hard for me to admit the sins of my country and my ancestors as well. However, it was well worth it in the end, and it opened my horizons a lot. There is no shame in knowing history, and no such thing as collective responsibility.
@@candisgoins6306only difference is a clean conscience
As a half native that grew up in oklahoma it's weird that more people aren't taught this. I went to public schools like everybody else and this was for the most part taught to us. It's like how I know a shit ton about the dust bowl but couldn't tell you jack shit about the gold rush except that the 49ers have their name tied to it. It really shows you just how large America is that we can kind of have different histories taught to us
I'm a half native that grew up in WA state and AK, and Native culture is more prevalent and also more cohesive maintaining the individual cultures. I thought the rest of the US was as respectful and populated, until high school American history class led to further library research. It's also when I learned that domestic violence wasn't normal, and that my memories of Alaskan village life were that much more precious because they balanced the dark stuff. Just when I got all that realized, I moved from Seattle/Tacoma urban sprawl to small town Bellingham and became a true minority, one who had reason to hate the police, the gov't, and their jock children trying to intimidate me in high school. Except for the heavy metal/punk crowd, with whom I fit in with, just when they all dropped out and I graduated alone.
I wrote all that as background so I can say that I left WA for IAIA in Santa Fe NM and history class focused on Oklahoma history early on, and that history made me feel normal, and made the NW established mixed population scenario look good, even tolerant. That's what kept me in school.
I from Oklahoma too I was taught all about the horrible things that happened to the Indian Tribes
It's all going with their plan, they had to teach yall that because yall are closer to where they're located I guess, I'm in SC and they surely don't let you think that they tried to exterminate all Natives. It makes me ashame to be American, and not only this, alot of things .I love my country and the land itself and the people fighting and dying for it, but I DO NOT agree with what the government does.
@@brandonpennington1983 if they wanted to exterminate the natives they could have .. how wer Haitians able to do it .. they wer just a bunch of slaves . U telling me the could figure it out but ol whitey couldn't
Great, informative video! Thank you for this! Subscribed.
This is fantastic! As a Native woman myself (Cherokee), you've taught me more about my ancestors battles then the public school system ever did, or would attempt to. I can see the time and effort this took and greatly appreciate it! This is also the first video I've seen from your channel. Subscribed and looking forward to more content from you!
Now the karma reversed and many americans are poor while natives are rich gambling magnates and millionaires
The public indoctrination agenda...
@@olgagaming5544 money ain't shit when there will be nothing to purpose,GERONIMO. german Romanov...
@@olgagaming5544 Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video. He literally talked about this and how only a small minority are actually getting "rich" off of casino profits and many just make enough to to pay for public works and tribal government.
Secondly, you act as if there were no poor European Americans while the US was actively waging it's genocide of the natives, lmao. Victorian era America is probably the period of American history I would prefer to live in the least. 16 hour days 7 days a week for a pittance of a wage, where they could literally legal threaten your life if you want to quit. Dying at work was a common occurrence. Today if you chose to work 16 hour days 7 days a week, even at minimum wage you would be far far far better off than someone then.
Holy crap this was amazing. It definitely makes me want to learn more about the whole topic I've basically been lied to about my entire life. Thank you for making this. I can't imagine how much work this took. And I can't wait for all the follow up videos you hinted at/teased. Love your work man. Keep kicking ass. 💜
autochton is the correcty word, i'm sad that knowing better doesnt know the correct term... and he's an educated person on the subject! imagine!
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There really is a crushing irony that a country with the founding mythology of "helpful natives saved our pilgrim settlers from starving" literally forced the natives to settle out west and refused to help them when they began to starve
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Good point.
Yeah the US also does that to its own people
If that's a bit like saying because my parents stayed together.I can't get a divorce. The real events represented a fundamental profound and complex culture clash. We're in two very different peoples initially found a way to live and work together but then those differences emerged over time.
Did you know, that fences played a critical role is in how. Settlers bought land from Indians And the indians willingly sold land to those settlers. But once the deal wasthose se sutlers having a different concept of landownership put up fences to keep their livestock in and as a boundary To mark for tresspassing. The natives on the other hand who sold that land had a different concept of landownership. If they understood that the land now belonged to someone else But they also believed that implicit in that ownership was the understanding that the natives were still free to come and go across that land. As a result, natives would simply tear down the fence. which was seen as an offense by the settlers.
Once the natives were on this land, Trust passing according to the understanding of landownership the settlers had they would then visit the homeowner in a sign of hospitality. But here the natives viewed hospitality as everyone sharing everything together. As a result natives would frequently simply walk in to someone's home and sit down expecting to be fed. This was perfectly normal for the natives but it was seen as a threat by the settler. And indeed would be seen as a threat by Is any Europeans at the time.
Thus, we see the first signs of string and small-scale violence that would come to symbolize native.
While in many cases what was done to natives did rise to the level of genocide it is also an over simplification to define the entire scope of that history as good indian vs bad American.
Let's not forget that in the West.The Apache and the Comanchi were bitter enemies who actively sought each other's extinction. And both tribes in turn siught alliances with, and sought to manipulate first the Spaniards then later the Americans.
Sounds about white
You did such a good job man. To be remembered for absolutely anything at all is what keeps a spirit alive.
I’m Choctaw just learning about my heritage thanks to white erasure. It’s been a very emotional experience and I’m grateful for this video
White and black is as much of a race as olive and yellow. White people did not cause you to forget your culture, old European settlers did.
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@@faberofwillandmight those europeans were white people tho lmao
Same, I'm woodland cree and finding my family/our history has been so hard. The amount of damage that have been done to our people is horrific
@Dave Firewalker what's wrong with you? I have a native American parent. Way to show your racism, I can't help how I look, funny how Elders have never shamed me for looking whiter
This was an excellent video.
I grew up relatively poor in the PNW; raised in western Washington, spent about a decade in north Idaho as an adult.
For most of my life, I've had native friends, coworkers, and associates. I've been to reservations and known people from them. The local native culture was part of the curriculum in elementary school in the Seattle area: seeing dances, making art, field trips to places like the Duwamish longhouse. MANY of the towns/cities/counties have native names (Seattle, Tacoma, Puyallup, Spokane, Yakima, etc.).
I moved to Ohio for graduate school in 2019, and I can't recall seeing a single native person in the three years I've lived here. There are no reservations here after the indian population was either removed or classified as non-native by the government in an effort to declare the state free of them.
I grew up with the abstract idea of what happened to the natives, but seeing the actual impacts of indian removal in such a concrete way was a harrowing and deeply depressing culture shock.
Where I grew up, natives are part of the culture. Where I live now, they are only part of the history.
Being a Navajo off the reservation and raised in the city, I don't know my culture or my traditional language. it's very isolating, I don't have a culture or a people who I feel like I belonged to or have the support of a community. It's like existing in a void where I can't relate with anyone or share inside jokes. it's a very lonely, lost, depressing feeling. Imagine always being treated like you're something different by your own people and by others in the city. Words like "He's Native" or "he's a city Kid" always felt like it puts me outside of the circle. I'm here but always just on the outside looking in.
That’s really tough. I hope you find a place of belonging
My mom always reminds me that that feeling is part of the culture, after what they did to us all it's something we all feel to varying degrees in every community and have felt for generations now.
The kids who were born during or shortly after the forced migrations surely also felt like they were raised isolated from their roots, but it's the perseverance to continue to acknowledge those roots even when it means embracing pain because its a part of us that we should focus on, the never-ending resilience that no matter what there will always be and have always been descendants that still claim their truth of who they are.
It's not what we do that makes us native, we just are.
Removing my grandma from her village as a child and putting her in a boarding school, never letting her speak her langue or learn her cultural practices never once made her less native, she was born Athabaskan and died Athabaskan. Ancestral identity isn't something others can ever fully take away from you
@@ninjaofpurple am schitsu’umsh (Coeur D’Alene), and I too feel the same way as katbob described. Thank you for writing this reply. It was really insightful and helpful, and I appreciate it a lot.
@@ninjaofpurple thank you for your wonderful words here. We need to find our ancestral roots in order to know who we are. Granted, we're born in America, which makes us American citizens, but that's not our ancestral roots.
My paternal grandmother was half German and half Cherokee. My paternal grandfather had some Sioux. Doing family tree and researching the family history is helping me know my ancestral roots and history. Before my grandma passed away, she explained to me why she wasn't very proud/happy about her heritage because of what they did to the Cherokee tribe. My grandfather on the other hand, being Sioux, was always proud of his heritage. He always told my mother that she should take us kids to the reservation to marry a squaw to build up the indian blood again.
It's our heritage and ancestral roots that we are looking for. Our family history is more important than the history we learned from school.
Well at least your not black bro 😂
Very very outstanding video young man. Wonderful job. Thanks a million. Keep up the great work. SC Navy veteran. 1965. 🇺🇸👩🏻🚒🙂
I really appreciate the “warts and all” approach you take to this. Like the bit about Cherokee holding a grudge about their old slaves. Washes away the noble savage myth very well.
I didn't see any "warts" about the endemic intertribal warfare and butchery tribes inflicted upon each other prior to European contact!!!
@@Master...deBater This isn't a video about intertribal relations or pre-colonial history. Why would it include some generic "they were violent too" as some kind of point? It's pretty well known that war and violence have occurred on basically every continent except Antarctica.
@@kylegonewild You're right...this video is nothing more than a litany of non-contextualized, sophomoric "white man bad" grievance laden arguments that nobody with any depth of historical knowledge could ever take seriously. As such...there is no place for any argument or debate of the historical realities that were causal to the events surrounding American Indian/US relations. The reality of course...is that those relations were built upon a complex series of events that began well before European contact. What this PROPAGANDIST leaves out is the fact that many more Indian people were allied with the US than were ever at war with the US. Those people allied themselves with the US government against their common enemies because of the history of intertribal warfare endemic to the continent. None of which will ever be covered by this pseudo-historian clown!
@@Master...deBater but damn. I'd say the Europeans that conquistadored their way across the Americas sure as f were butchering their neighbors and having wars against the other tribes in their regions too, before they came across the ocean. and your point is?
@@stacyfiske7903 Reread the thread...my point is very clear!
As a Mexican-American who loves history I feel like prehispánic mexico is very much everywhere and common knowledge while U.S native remain "unknown" to most common people which is a shame . Our duty is to inform ourselves and discover our past.
I love you Ibra
@@eddiew2325 i love you too
Yeah and he doesnt do the Indians justice either. Only reduces them to "white man bad white man guilty" and thats it.
The past is often so twisted and propagated it doesn't matter to teach it since it's not the truth
Mexicans will never be able to equal the Red Man. The Cherokee Indians are the best fighters ever.
Thank you for this video! The depths of history you've covered here are so necessary for people to understand! My great grandma was in a boarding school. Her mother died in an asylum... Catholicism was FORCED upon my family for generations. I am no longer a believer in religion. My mom's maiden name translates to "savage." Oh - and we had ancestors at Fort Michillimackinac - thank you for mentioning that ! Excellent work! Thank you again ! 👏 Miigwich ❤️
This is the most important channel on the internet. My appreciation for how you decide to use your voice/platform cannot be expressed sufficiently. Thank you for teaching me.
You've earned one more Patreon supporter. This may not be the history we want, but it's the version we need to hear. Schools across the country need to be showing your videos and the rest of us need to work together to spread this more accurate version of history
My best friend from college married an Indian woman who had grown up on a reservation. Speaking with her was a real eye opening experience for me as she told me about her first hand experience with a lot of the issues you mention in you video. She also introduced me to fry bread and more specifically Indian Tacos which are amazing. That you for bringing up there origin story. I now know better.
Australian here…I’m glad you mentioned the “assimilation” effort….we call the dependent's the Stolen Generation. I’m finding your channel fascinating given story of Indian removal & its similarity with Australian history. Currently there is a start of a more warts and all discussion around our colonial history…which is not really taught outside our own myths.
What kind of founding myths do you have in Australia ?
@@lhistorienchipoteur9968 heaps!!
the discussion in Australia is fraught with lies, propaganda and mythology on both sides of the discussion. Many bad evil things happen in Australia to Australian First Nations; Indigenous people. To discuss the issues is really hard as my choice of term ‘First Nations; Indigenous, Aboriginal will mean people will assume my stance on the way I refer to Ist Australian people. We were settled by the British and they took the view that regardless of people here that it was vacant land and they now owned it. George 3 and then his successors were the ultimate landlords. Our current debates are focused on Australia Day; the founding day celebrations. Which is currently 26/1/ each year the day that the first fleet took up residence in Sydney Harbour. Aboriginal people find this as a celebration of an invasion: Many Australians of Anglo history see it as our day of foundation. There is no treaty with Aboriginal people in Australia and there is debate on whether the constitution should grant a voice to them . Other similar countries have treaties NZ has, USA and Canada have many vans do other nations. This debate is currently getting louder as current govt wishes to move on the issue. The gap between Aboriginal Australians and the remaining people is huge. From poverty, crime and illness this gap is larger than any other group in society/.
These are the big issues. There others but these are the main problems and source of conflict.
@@mikhailv67tv Australia sound worse than the US. The exact opposite would be New Zealand I guess.
@@lhistorienchipoteur9968 anywhere WASPs go the native people suffer its called progress apparently
Very nice and informative... A sequel is expected!
I live in Montana near the flathead reservation and this video recontextualized much of my experiences growing up. Seeing the HUD housing my grandmother lives in really hit it home. I had no idea that something as simple as her house is tied so closely to a bleak history of genocide and oppression. It just kinda makes me sad :(
Studying history out of interest and contrasting it with modern society's mostly upgraded tolerance for each other's cultures should give you some relief, there's plenty to be proud of regarding the current status.
Such an amazing story - my goodness, thank you for the incredible work you put into researching and presenting your videos. I'm Irish and of course learned about how our native culture (language, games etc) was almost lost in the late 1800s - it is astonishing that this was happening at the same time "across the pond" - incredibly moving and powerful. Thank you again!!!
How did you comment 2 hours before the video was published?
Yes, and the irish settlers literally did that too others
@@SamTheMan0425 its was unlisted and sent to patreons first, then made public
I'm actually pretty sure that the Cherokee at least were very sympathetic to what the Irish were going through and tried to send aid during the potato famine.
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You're the HS history teacher we all should have had. Thank you for educating us on this is much needed content. This must have taken some time to put together, thanks for going the extra mile.
Actual HS teachers would love to have the liberty to go beyond the nine dots of their approved curriculum.
Learning history from the government (or a government approved institution) is always going to be what the government wants to hear, or is at least willing to let you hear.
Typically in the US that means half-truths and careful omissions rather than outright lies, but some of it is outright lies.
Teachers don’t have the power to change that.
@@Justanotherconsumer I agree. A sad state of affairs really. Unfortunately I think this point is being cooped for the argument in favor of school privatization. Which isn’t the right answer at all. At this point can’t give it back to state control either without some states suffering majorly.
0:56 / 2:26:38 There Is A Cow On The Roof!
Don't you keep a cow on your roof at all times?
I am an African British, I grew up in the 90s consuming USA media and its crazy to think how 200 years later the idea of manifest destiny, 'cowboys and indians' still got distilled and fed to me. The UK and USA like to say the past is the past on these matters and we should get over it but these messages and images still reverberate to us, regardless of the living people effected. Thank you for your video and work to lift the lid and educate us.
I'm Anglo-Scottish and it's crazy to me in hindsight that the history of British colonialism I was taught at school was a sort of triumphalist tale of us bringing 'civilisation' to 'backwards' nations, as if we were doing these other nations a massive favour. Completely ignoring the fact that India had had a long standing advanced society that we basically pillaged, that African nations like Benin and Zululand also had advanced cultures, and completely ignoring the massacres of Australian aborigines or deliberately exploitative treaties with the Maoris who, in some cases, couldn't even read the documents they were compelled to sign. And that's just a small sample of examples. If history were taught in a more balanced way then perhaps we would have a greater tolerance, interest in and understanding of other people's cultures and less dangerous and self-defeating nationalism and xenophobia.
"We're still here.. We are not going anywhere." ~ Native Americans 😔
Native Americans population in their motherland, Continent of America before the European Colonizers arrived, was around 15 millions, while European population in their motherland, Continent of Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native American population is 15 million, while the European population, in the Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'TWO BILLIONS'! A shockingly sad truth.
It's noteworthy to know the fact that the vast majority of Native Americans population (steep) decline in general occurred not in 15th, 16th & 17th century, when Europeans first arrived and populated mainly along the Eastern shore; but rather in the 18th & 19th century when more and more European Colonizers, so-called settlers took over their beloved motherland coast to coast.
A well-known story told was that the indigenous Native people of the American continent, who had no prior contact with White Europeans, were wiped out by diseases brought up by European newcomers when they first came over and occupied the land.
Here's the analysis. How come other Indigenous African slaves that were brought over from remote West Africa, the deepest part of Africa, who also had no prior contact with White Europeans, were not wiped out by diseases?
The other story told was 'Cowboys and Indians'. The story goes like that native Indians were slaughtered by Cowboys. But what really happened to indigenous Native Americans, so-called Indians, and the real life story was further from the truth.
In reality, they were slaughtered not only by cowboys, but most by settlers, civilian militias, military, and all are backed by the general populace, the country and the government, as a whole, since every group had nothing to lose but more to gain.
The plain truth, of course, is that the indigenous native Americans were all slaughtered in order to get their land.
In the case of Native Americans.., centuries long systematic effort to keep them weak with a relatively small, marginalized & disenfranchised population, so that they would never be able to reclaim their vast bountiful motherland, ever again... In other words, all it takes is to create an artificial environment where Native people of the Colonized land remain poor, weak, powerless and their population at the bare minimum.
@@knowledgeispower8625 Nicely put 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
You should get over it, you enjoy the fruits of Western colonization yet you want to exclusively cast all blame onto others
@@adamprice3466 Exhibit A: Please reflect and try again. 🙏🏾
RUclips overall has lowered my attention span to about 10min, but you have such a way with keeping viewer attention that I don’t bat an eye to a video longer than a movie, even if im not already passionate on the subject matter. Keep up the wonderful work!
I visited an outdoor “settlement” type museum a few years ago. One of the guides mentioned Andrew Jackson, and mentioned that history has not looked kindly upon him. An old man standing next to me spoke up and said, “Yeah, but the Indians had to be moved out. There was no other option.”
I was shocked.
To hear that your neighbor said the same thing was wild to me.
That shows how effective that generations indoctrination really was
It's not indoctrination, that white man was just acting like a white man
This is human history one group moves in conflict ensues one gets defeated so many examples of this
@@AntiTMGyet, it never has and never will have to be the case. Such is commonly the way of empires, but we've always had the capacity to be better. Realistically, it's far easier in the modern day than it was in the past, it's understandable why we have and continue to fail, but it doesn't mean we should stop trying to be better
I love what you're doing...this video is very impressive by the knowledge you share of TRUTH. Sadly, as times change into modern ways, so does the mistreatment of "Native American" or as I am..Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. We are still slowly losing our way of life. Rights are being updated, ripped away and changed now that elders; who had a hand in keeping our rights intact, passes away, or as they say..."knowledge passes with". It is very important to our survival and existence to keep that knowledge sacred and continue to pass down to our youth. Many European Americans still want to dictate if we exist or not. Simply because they refuse to acknowledge the destruction to many tribes their ancestors have done. Completely disregarding their own heritage (identity). "I didn't do that" is the argument. But they ARE the result of the damage and behavior of today, as we inherit the pain and resentment that our ancestors endured. I no longer Identify as American, I am Tlingit and will do everything humanly possible, to protect and keep our way of life on HAA ANI (our land). The fight is far from over. Gunalcheesh (thank you)
This isn't at all the point of the video but I feel like it deserves a shout-out because it's not an easy thing to do. As a phonetics enthusiast I was very impressed by your quote reader's (atun-shei's?) historically-accurate accents. What an attention to detail!!
Totally agree.
Atun-shei is another great creator, and he does a very good work at recreating historical American accents.
I live in minneapolis and I always enjoyed learning about different native cultures, especially the Ojibwe and Dakota and learning to respect the sacred sites that are still in the city. Sometimes I look around and stop and just feel this unbearable sorrow and horror at just.. the absense of almost any native culture or markings. There are things out there, I have several native friends, I occasionally see native locals, but the overall culture just sees it all as an afterthought. When I bring up the Bdote, the confluence of the MN and Mississippi rivers at the top of Pike Island, being both the origin center of the Dakota, like their cultural garden of Eden, as well as being a place of genocidal concentration camps people are shocked. Then shrug it off. I think for an instance people feel may sorrow, but it’s too much and they don’t know what to do with it. So they turn their heads and move on
But I feel a kinship because I was a Puerto Rican kid with no other Puerto Ricans around me, and while the Caribbean has a slightly different colonial history (to use some outdated terms, way more mestizos, mulattos, trigueños in a creole culture), I always gravitated toward the indigenous people and stories of NA. Especially because, well, my Taino ancestors were the first to meet Europeans and Columbus, they live on in me, some of their culture remains in my own, mixed with Spanish and west African. That complicated relationship with my cultures colonial past is ever present. I’m just a relative several hundred steps removed in some ways
When people come to PR, I want nothing more to share my culture and teach them the way we do things, why would I not learn the important things of the original people of the city I currently live in?
The original people were long gone before the ojib and Dakot "stole" the land
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What are you talking about? The Dakota are people who were native to other parts of the so-called 'united states' and they were forced off their homelands and sent off to inhospitable concentration camps that prevented access to their traditional food sources. Many, many died on that forced migration- hence the name "Trail of Tears".
This whole process created an involuntary, unwanted dependancy on the colonizers.
Native people were caretakers of the land & nature.
Look at what 'western civilization" has done to our home- Mother Earth.... the home & habitat to sooo many lifeforms... the water, the soil, the air & to one another.
Western "civilization" doesn"t know how to share & care. The western mindset / mentality is based upon FEAR. Insecurity. So it justifies stealing... GRASPING ....GREEDING with no consideration of the impact & consequences.
WESTERN 'CIVILIZATION' IS A PSYCHO-PATHOLOGICAL PURSUIT OF PROFIT & POWER REGARDLESS of the impact on LIFE.
You're telling the Disney version.
What did you think of the way he pronounced Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux? Something seemed off about it.
@@MenacingWithVideos he is referencing historical accounts of native language. If I had to guess, I bet he looked up some dead guys long ago published research on much of native language, culture, philosophy, history, commerce and agriculture. It's all there .. for him to access.
As a Coloradan, it was weird, yet somewhat gratifying having you mention Zebulon Pike and Stephen long. They have two extremely prominent mountains (Longs and Pike's peak) named after them here.
Strangely he never used Evans' name, despite referring to "the governor of Colorado" quite a few times. Good thing they took that bastards name off the mountain.
@@singincowboy They did? I live nearby and everyone still calls it "Mt. Evans". Wikipedia even still calls it that. There's a commission, but nothing has been decided yet. I would personally call it "Mt. Niwot" after Chief Niwot of the Left Hand Arapahoe, who died at the Sand Creek Massacre.
EDIT: I just remembered Niwot ridge, which might make this name complicated.
@@singincowboy I'm a little disappointed KB didn't bring up the NATIVE bumper sticker considering it's a depiction of the mountains and from my years of observation driving around here is exclusively used by white people. It's also the most passive agressive thing I can imagine.
@@elvastan Apparently all I saw was that the commission has settled on a name to propose I think Mount Blue Sky is a much better name than Mount Genocidal Jagweed
This has to be the greatest documentary I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. Thank you very much for educating me properly.
As a descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, this video hit straight to my heart. It's disgusting that humans beings are treated as mere "obstacles in the way" to justify genocide, colonialism, and land theft. This cannot continue to become the way to educate future generations, and as much as it's still a problem, I'm seeing (small) steps towards teaching American history differently. I wish it would happen faster. Thank you again, for such a great, in-depth look into the injustice towards natives.
Have you seen the excellent 'Denying your History' video he did on that? Curious about your take. ..
@@peterobinson3678 I did. It was very thorough for a 20 minute video. Because Armenian history in general is very little spoken about, I really appreciated his honesty and bravery. He's definitely not scared of the Turkish lobby.
@@JRNarian how did you feel about Armenians surrender in 2020? 😂😂
Just like how the African slaves were treated like nothing more than objects.
appears to have not mentioned the Genocide by the so called ''Native Indians'' that were in fact rather invading first colonials wiping out the Melanesian people.. this is a history that is also often hidden and should be properly recorded..