The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire - Pekka Hämäläinen
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Trace the rise and fall of the Lakota Empire which, at their height, were the most dominant power in the American West.
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In 1776, a powerful empire was born in North America. The Lakotas had reached the Black Hills, the most sacred place and most coveted buffalo hunting grounds in the western plains. Located in what is now South Dakota, control of the Black Hills, or Paha Sapa, marked the tribe as the dominant power in the American West. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the rise and fall of the Lakota Empire.
Lesson by Pekka Hämäläinen, directed by Mohammad Babakoohi & Yijia Cao.
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I love seeing the animation of the Lakotas on their horses, galloping throughout the video.
weeee
Got hidden by the subtitles for me
How did they get horses
@astronomically anomaly i just wish they would say it
And the sounds!
I hate how persistent the myth is that native peoples were primarily disorganized, sparsely populated,, nomadic, hunting villages before the arrival of Europeans. There were some nomadic civilizations, but the predominant lifestyle throughout the Americas was largely agricultural, with large, settled tracts of land containing tens of thousands of people per city. In South America, the cities were even larger. It wasn't until smallpox, guns, and deliberate genocide fractured these populations that they started adapting to circumstances by becoming more nomadic.
Name 5 of these cities the natives had in what is now the USA.
@@priyanshusharma-grimhog what actions??? No people alive have done anything to the natives...
America is for Europeans and natives.. so other races
@@zejdland indigenous people continue to suffer from repression by modern states
Dont believe in the gunpowder myth, the only advantages were horses and disease, arquebuces sucked, the only advantage was that it destroyed armor, i took 2 minutes to reload, it was heavy and difficult to use
You posting this on a video about a nomadic group?
“In 1776, a powerful empire was born in North America.”
Me: Oh I think I know who this is…oh.
😂😂😂😁😁😁Me too
@Adil Ansari so the British lost a territory and gained a territory
It wasn't really much a empire, nor was it really _powerful_ at this point.
@Qwerty It wasn't fully captured, Kingdom of Kandy was absorbed around 1815 and really lost control by 1817
The Lakota did not start the Ghost Dance, that was Wovoka, a Paiute man who's movement had spread to the Lakota Nation.
Our people used it because we was dying and we were pitiful and it helped us, we didn’t start it we believe it was given to us
I know him from that one song by redbone. Made him seem like an epic cartoon character lol
One of native American About there oppresors says
"They wanted to bury us, but they forget we were seeds."
You deserve a thousand more likes than the paltry one that I can give
I thought that was a Mexican expression. . .
@@Strider91 I think this person is making things up for this comment, not sure why though because a (admittedly prone to error) internet search shows 2 similar quotes belongs to Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenas and Greek poet Dinos Christianopoulos
is been used multiple times in mexico like the Zapatistas and for the 2014 Iguala kidnappings however i didnt find anything linking any Native American too the quote!
But can't grow if there is no seeds do they?
@@itzel6698 and so cultural appropriation strikes agian. . . .
Thank you for the informative video. I really liked how you showed the Lakota people as a complex group while still pointing out the injustices committed against them.
I see... destroying land, driving people into poverty, disenfranchising them, killing opposition leaders, breaking treaties, ignoring signs and pushing for privatization... the USA has stayed quite the same over the years.
My heart goes out to the indigenous people all over the world.
Cry about it 💪🏻🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷💁🏼♂️
You just watched a video about a conquering Amerindian tribe whose "land" was under their control for a shorter time than its been under US control.
The Lakotas literally did much of the same to everyone less powerful than themselves. It's in the video you just watched.
@@GeoffCostanza the great difference is that the lakotas didn't displace the vanquished to settle their land, they built an empire where the conquored paid tribute.... The US displaced everyone to take the land... If they had done much of the same, the US settler state would have forged an empire and kept to make the natives pay tribute - not displacing them
@@GeoffCostanza Your opinion doesn't matter because yadda yadda yadda xyz. Merica bad, little man good
The animation feels like it was made by Lakota Painters
Ted Ed please post more videos about
-Presocratic philosophers
-Aristotle teaching Alexander the Great
-Islamic golden age (discoveries,achievements)
-Al Kindi,Al Farabi
Great suggestion! :)
@@freesk8 like you aristotle? Ottoman empire? Presocratic philosophers? Islamic golden age philosophers?
hey missed a few other things as well. Their defeat by the Metis at the battle of Battle of Grand Coteau in 1851, that they had better weapons at greasy grass, and fled to Canada and were unjustly sent back. That and the cartoon warriors had swords. But all in all pretty good. More videos like this are needed.
Wow, have to say the animation on this was amazing. The movement of the horses around the screen really conveys the vast landscapes, even on my phone's screen. And the shades, shapes, and colors really helped evoke the mood. My hats off to the design team!
Thank you for posting Keep it up I can see many years of postings on such a channel dig a little deeper and go a bit longer and keep sharing these stories
Such a complex and interesting civilisation.
Was Lakota conquest more righteous than any other?
Not really. America's conquest was just a lot more extreme than anything they did in the past or ever would've thought of doing.
@@samuelbedsole5089 nah I'm sure other tribes would have done it if they could have. I mean look at the Mayans the Aztecs and the Cherokee and Apache. If they had the same numbers the organization and the unity as the u.s. things would have gone differently.
People really over look that most tribes saw them selfs as enemies or at the least separate countries (even in most native confederacies they were usually a hierarchy with each one above the other not caring about the ones below them as long as they get their Tribune) while on the other hand the u.s. was unified (for the most part) and saw themselves as equals and belonging to one country this made us very strong in comparison and it's why we succeeded with manifest destiny.
Currently learning this! This is super helpful ty
The strong win, the weaker lose. That's the way in every war. Including the wars the Indians fought against each other.
History is written by the ones who win, so your comment is pretty accurate. Words won't work in the warzone, the stronger wins,and winner takes all. They lost, so they suffered, and in the first place they didn't have much of a chance, dunno why they try to fight. Vietnamese after beating china invasions must send a guy over there to chill them out and promise for tribute and stuff like that so we can live in peace. If you are weaker,better play nice, so you won't lose everything. They all in with a 2 7 instead of folding, they lost. Basically what happened.
I wish there were cameras to document civilizations prior 19th century. But for now Ted-ed animations will do.
As a white man, raised in WA state, with the mentality that the tribes are the only reason we(white people) survived the conditions; the US' history with indigenous peoples makes me really angry.
Sorry you are indoctrinated to have white guilt your education and your parents failed you it's a real shame.
Best animation ever.
I just come to see the animations of empires...so soo so good
I feel like this video skipped over most of the 20th century, and went straight to 2016. What happened between Wounded Knee and the 2016 Standing Rock Protests?
The horses the Lakota are riding on look like Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer.
Who did the animation for this video? I’m OBSESSED with this style
America's not as great as it'd like to believe
true in current sense too.
Same goes for a lot of other countries though?
Natural byproduct of being run by imperfect humans
@@blue3374 not so sure... I mean surely if we have choice like china and Russia or USA, I'd definitely trust USA, but after how NATO turned blind eye on afghanistan, this trust is hard choice... Pakistan is literally bombing the resistance forces, still not a single statement from world in this regards. This is sad.
USA recently took revenge for their martyred soldiers by dropping a bomb on a car, killed 8 children along with some 'terrorists'
, and we still don't know whether those were real terrorists or just some innocent scapegoat framed as terrorists.
Moreover those dreaded terrorists groups is product of USA's cold War 'strategy'...
Superb animations and great subject! 👍👍
I don't know if this statement can be considered correct, but it seems that the US at the time used Scorched earth moving forward to some degree.
Nice video.
Unsurprisingly this Amerocentric video completely ignores the contact made by French- Canadian fur traders who, long before Lewis and Clarke, were all over the American West as well as the fact that the Sioux - Lakota, Dakota and Nakoda were protected refugees on the Canadian prairies until 1881. Some still reside there today!
This video is based on a book written by a Finnish man, it says so in the description😂
Our boys the Lakotas are good at this imperialism thing i see!
I came for the animation!!!
So this is why my gas price through the roof !?!
No. Do you think there is a fuel shortage here? Then why are we exporting 3 million barrels of oil a day?
Thank you
Love the video (and the animation, very vivid), only thing I wanted to check with you as I may be wrong from my previous reading was you mentioned early on in the video the Lakota being one of seven in the Sioux alliance, could you elaborate on that if possible? I was always under the the impression thst the Sioux (French term for these indinigeous peoples) were divided among the Dakota (Santee for example) and the Lakota which was divded into seven groups, Minnecojou, Hunkpapa etc. I just want to check as historical reserach moves on over time! Great research and the time taken over this video must have been great. Ted-ed videos are always informative and well presented :)
@@canskasapaemanon708 Thank you for your reply. Oceti Sakowin then means "Seven Council Fires", was just wanting clarification for this as I do love reading about this history.
@@canskasapaemanon708 Thank you friend, very helpful!
The animation is super cute!
Love this Empire ❤️
Story of Avtar movie in US style.
Just morden Army won this time.
So they took advantage of a new technology to claim new lands and then someone else took advantage of new technology and claimed their lands. But it wasn't even that because they willingly consolidated themselves on reservations that have tremendous amounts of space.
It's Hämäläinen, not Hāmālāinen
Finnish ha?
Perkele.
Damn what a story. Would be perfect for a Netflix show
There's two comic book stories about the Lakota by finnish artist Petri Hiltunen. Would be rather easy to adapt.
She said 1776 and I immediately thought about Hamilton
Chief crazy horse. I love Native American names.
"The Human Brain Is Super Complex And Advanced''
- The Human Brain
Funni
🤣
Check out the Crazy Horse Monument up there!
I think a mention that horses were not native to the Americas might have helped give more context to the rise of the Lakota. The reason the Lakota was able to move, and did take over, the west was their ability to adapt to and even thrive (against all odds) in a nomadic lifestyle with the horse.
Thank you for clarification!
The plains Native's, most notably the Lakota and Cheyenne, took to using Horses so well in warfare, that they are to this day considered the best Light Cavalry the world has ever seen, and yes, that is in comparison to the Mongols.
Hasshodo “considered the best light cavalry the world has ever seen.”
Considered by whom?
I’m not disputing that they made fine light horsemen. I’m merely suggesting that your claim is a bit of an over reach.
@@mirkopolyak3592 By the US Military, opinions of West Point scholars, historians who wrote books on the subject. The assertion was about the Cheyenne, described as "The finest Light Cavalry in the world". Unfortunately I can't back up the claim, I read it in a book about plains Indians that I no longer have, otherwise I would give you specific author - however, google searching, it is apparently repeated multiple times in numerous written works. The claim comes from their seamless integration of guerilla warfare, cavalry warfare, and the use of firearms (before that bows with phenomenal accuracy on the move that rivaled the Mongols).
@@mirkopolyak3592 In digging, the quote might have originated from General George Crook, who was a renowned "Indian Fighter"
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
- Marcus Aurelius
"Mine will be different"
-everyone ever
"Feel, don't think. Use your instincts."
- Qui Gon Jin
“You underestimate my power”
- Sun Tzu, probably
Marcus Aurelius slaps so hard for all time
@Julyan Sr Peterz he was a Roman Emperor and stoical philosopher
The animation is so powerful. The blood soaked steps at the end gave me chills. Thank you for your hard-work Ted-ed!
Yeah, the animator sure emphasized the blood with huge splats when those killed were Lakota, and yet chose to make the blood a tiny little dot when it was whites. Maybe consider his/her possible anti-white biases that informed the writing and animation.
@@thegoodlydragon7452 or maybe consider a lot more Lakota died then white people?
Bugs me how they seem to paint the european americans as morally worse than the native americans. at 1:10 Upon moving west, the Lakotas conquered riverside land which Arikaras claimed, and then requred them to pay taxes to them.
Then at 3:35 the Lakotas considered the gold prospectors as the USA no longer respecting their previous agreements. Is that not similar to the Lakotas not respecting the Arikaras claim to the riverside land?
@@idea-ph1kh You said it, brother. Individual data points within the anti-white narrative may or may not at times be correct, but the narrative itself is entirely fictional, as it's constructed from the few rotten cherries that were cherry-picked from an otherwise robust and beautiful tree. It's all about the spin. If you're as uncritical as the general public, a pound of feathers is lighter than a pound of lead.
@@idea-ph1kh perhaps not morally worse, but certainly not morally better, why doesn't that bother you? Also, the Lakota 'conquered' the Arikara the Lakota didn't genocide them.
As an indigenous person not from America but from Asia, this felt so eerie, the idea that your people could be taken out and your culture being destroyed feels so wrong, I couldn’t understand the sensations I felt watching this, I felt terrified
They're still doing it today by taking Native American children from their families and letting white people adopt them. The most common motivation is probably to destroy tribal sovereignty, so that white businesses can get access to the natural resources under Native American lands. There's a federal law which is supposed to allow federally-recognized tribes to be notified and play a role in potential adoptions of Native American children, but lots of people (including some courts) just ignore it.
Litterally shacking
That’s essentially what Japan did to my country so it’s not that hard for me to visualize lmao 💀
It’s still happening today, in 200 years the notion of Uyghur in northern China will be regarded as mere anti-party propaganda in the country. And natives american languages and populations in the US are shrinking.
@@darkshaver1 Yeah the conditions on the reservations are meant to be shocking, they have the GDP per capita of third world countries. They're stuck in a deadlock because they can't accept the compensation money the US is offering as that would indicate that they're taking that in exchange for giving up their legal claims to the land that they were moved off from.
Interesting Fact: Sitting Bull's vision saw that Crazy Horse would defeat General Custer, but it also warned that if the Indians mutilated the American soldiers' bodies, then they would eventually lose their lands to the United States. Crazy Horse's warriors ignored the warning and cut apart their enemies' bodies anyways, skinning and gutting them and leaving them in a gory mess on the battlefield. Not long after, Sitting Bulls vision came true, and the once proud nations were forced onto reservations.
I have to wonder if history would be all that different if they weren't mutilated though. It's not like there's a case where ANY peaceful native groups were rewarded.
I mean, it might have been possible that would change the outcome. Maybe the mutilated soldiers might have encouraged the angry americans to carry on the war when they would have otherwise made concessions after having lost a decisive battle
@@gigigallaway3325 Well, if you want a vague parallel, you can look at the Anglo-Zulu war and the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift.
The Zulu annihilated the British invasion force at Isandlwana.
However, against orders a detachment of Zulu moved to attack Rorke's Drift, which was a hospital and mission within Zulu-recognized British territory.
The British victory at the Drift aside, the perceived Zulu aggression against an innocent settlement rallied the public against the Zulu.
This is all a little blame the victim and feels apocryphal.
@@bm4114 Not blaming anybody. Just recounting the story.
I truly love how ted-ed provides us with the amounts of information they publish
I would love for you guys to make a Ted Ed short about some of the conquests of Ireland, particularly the Cromwellian Genocide. I feel like the art style and the historical material would make for a fascinating and heartbreaking video.
So tru
They were brutal to their enemies which is why the Shoshone, Crow, Arikara, and Pawnee fought with the Americans in the Sioux War of 1876
It's a little-known fact that, during the 1860s and 1870s, the Cheyenne and the Lakota wouldn't stop incessantly invading the Crow Reservation and burning Crow villages there, while killing those villages' inhabitants. By the time the Great Sioux War rolled around, the Crow had already been constantly petitioning the BIA to do something about it for like six years, so when the Great Sioux War finally rolled around, the Crow were ENTHUSIASTIC in siding with the United States.
And it's also often not mentioned that the Battle of the Little Bighorn occurred on the Crow Reservation.
@@troythompson1768 Pity America backstabbed it's "allies".
@@troythompson1768tell me how were rhe Crow rewarded? Did they get to keep their land or were they also cheated and lied to?
@@troythompson1768The crow also invaded lakota camps and stole horses and took women, overall it was a never ending battle and too this day my tribe ( lakota ) and crow are still bitter towards each other
@@xexux9334 true.
The problems with the indigenous people are the same throughout ALL the american continent. Here in Brazil the disrespect and killing was the same 😔 The tribes are still fighting for their rights!
Lakota empire slaughtered indigenous people.
@@mattharcla atleast the Roman Empire tried respected the non romans somewhat. American just slaughtered everyone that wasn’t white
The problem across all the Natives of the America's is this. . . . . .they stagnated. They had not evolved (as societies) since the iron age. The Lakota were one of the few to grow and adapt. . . . .but even then, it wasn't enough. If your society does not advance, if it stagnates. Then there is only one outcome, you will eventually be conquered by someone who has. It is the natural order. Just look at history, its always what plays out. . . . ALWAYS
@@Strider91 True words.
A really good example for this, in my opinion, is the Zulu Kingdom. They're known for developing new tactics and new weapons (a larger shield and a shorter spear with a longer blade) with which they were capable of conquering a lot of other african territories. When they had to face the advanced europeans tho, they were just obliterated.
This shows that the Zulu conquered because they evolved their warfare with new weapons, training and tactics. But it also shows that the british conquered the territory by using more advanced weapons, training and tactics. To quote Qui-Gon Jinn from Star Wars - "There's always a bigger fish".
@Wpz Rpd
But they also have the right to become a roman. Like Philip the arab or Julia domna (a roman syrian empress).
The animation feels like an indie videogame cutscene well done.
Make it so
“ Murdered sitting bull and crazy horse in order to dismantle their culture” I was just curious and so I just read four different articles on the event. All of them referred to struggle where one of the “Indian Police” were shot before they themselves shot back and killed the great chief. I mean look it up. This video makes it sound like he was out right murdered in his bed by an assassin like character. I am not trying to argue with the theme of injustice, but… this is almost rewriting history. Do the people who make these videos really want to be in the same camp with people who would rewrite history or at least cover some of it up to make a point?
Yes, they do. They have an agenda, and that agenda is more important factual accuracy.
Indain police was in working for the U.S government to kill natives.
This is an interesting entry in the subject which is usually given sentimental treatment. That the Lakotas had an empire shows that they were regular people, acted just like the rest of humanity. This in contrast to the mythic, mystical aurora that has been assigned to Native Americans by counter-culture and that sells merchandise. By the same definition as applied to the Lakota Empire, the United States was and is an empire, and was called the American Empire of 1900. If you do not like the United States being called an empire, you need to change the definition of empire.
wait before Europeans arrived it wasnt just all butterflies and roses?
Apparently white people didn't introduce imperialism to the New World...
No one on earth has ever said that you would know if you had ever been in a history class it's kinds like the whole thing you are taught about mesoamerica is war and expansion of the pueblo or the rabid expansion of the incans
No one ever said it was you revisionist.
We should keep the resistance against those who don't keep their promises, as the Lakota people keep doing to this day.
The continuance of slavery was a promise made by the North to the South repeatedly during the first 60 years of the USA. Should we resist against this broken promise also?
@@julesjames593 Please don't use the horrible crimes against humanity the USA perpetrated to say "the slaveowners were victims of a broken promise which is comparable to a genocide".
How about the people the Lakota conquered when they came and stole their sacred land?
@@oatmeallemons9676 I think the main point of his comment is that broken promises can span a huge spectrum of morally justified or not.
Pekka Hämäläinen!! I love his book "The Comanche Empire!" It was a huge eye opener on the role of indigenous groups during a time of intense imperial competition between Europeans, the US, and Native Americans.
I found the animation distracting. This was presented as a goofy Video game featuring stereotypical, and redundant images. And the horses look like anteaters. Why?? The U.S is finally acknowledging that American Indian themed iconography needs an image upgrade. I was disappointed that T.Ed. approved of this creative effort; and surprised that many viewers thought it was cute. Maybe these images were approved by representative authorities of the Lakota people? I don’t know. I do know that there are many creative, talented American Indian artists and writers. I hope T.Ed. continues to produce similar content, while featuring First Nations talent as much as possible. There are many awesome, talented people available. If a Lakota artist decides every “chief” should wear a “Warbonnet”, and ride an anteater …then fine. But, I would still find it distracting. Serious words/goofy images …mismatch.
Salute to the brave Lakota resisting the colonizers.
"Colonizers" lmao
They were bullies who tried to push around a kid that was bigger than them and it backfired. It's in the video you literally just watched.
Ahh the good old myth of the peaceful noble native who never did anything wrong. They co existed peacefully among their neighbours!!
@@gr6373 They were colonizers bruh
@@hazzmati Native peoples had their wars and the video mentions that. No myths were being promoted.
It's no where near as well documented but as a Scotsman, I know what it's like to lose a culture.
Scots. In English Law. Assessment by commissioners of sewers.
Scottare. To pay scot, tax, or customary dues. Cowell.
That got me to wondering about old phrases we were raised on but never knew their origin: Scots Free.
It has to be someone who was not subjected or required to pay a tax.
What then, is a Scotsman?
"Scotsman definition, a person, especially a man, who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland."
or
"A Scotsman is a man of Scottish origin."
then... goodgodinheavenabove! What is SCOT ish?
What is Scots Irish? A class that pays taxes while the Irish may not have?
I had discovered this connection before I tried to help the Native American Lakota Nation with their treaty disputes where I discovered that they were identifying themselves as Lakota Sioux, however, Sioux is not a Lakota word, it is something that the invading military was given as an answer for who that large tribe was that dominated the western part of the north american continent. The military asked the question of a rival tribe that called the Lakota: Souix that meant: ENEMY. Ever since even the Lakota started to identify themselves as Lakota Souix. Lakota Enemy.
Spellkraft. Word Games. Don't lose your culture, my friend: discover it and resurrect it.
As a catalan, I agree Ali, and wish your people the best.
@@lakotaallies7803 Skatt is a norwegian word that means tax. Because of the Vikings presence in the north, there is a likely connection between the word and the national name.
@@starventure That's a revelation from outside of where I had my attention focused. I'm checking out your playlist now...
Because your people did it to the Irish
Good video. It reminds me of the movie "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee". Next time you could make one about Cahokia or the Anasazi culture.
Modern anthropologists refuse to admit the Anasazi existed, while the Navajo refuse to accept the anthropologic consensus on this. Anasazi is apparently a Navajo word meaning "Ancient Enemy" - there isn't enough archaeologic evidence to know who the Ancestral Puebloans (Anasazi) actually were, and the fighting between the anthropological society and the Navajo nations on this has hampered things
@@Hasshodo why are the Navajo involved? As far as I know the Ancestral Puebloans are thought to be the ancestors of the Hopi and Zuni peoples. The Navajo came later. Plus what do you mean by saying that the anthropologists don't recognize their existence? The ruins and the archeological findings are there. It's like denying the existence of the Roman empire.
@@alessandrodelogu7931 I mean that Anthropologists deny the folklore of the "Anasazi" and refuse to use the term to refer to any general or specific Ancestral Puebloan tribe. The Navajo are involved because most of the folkloric information on the Anasazi comes from them (Anasazi being a Navajo word for Ancient Enemy).
@@Hasshodo what is the folklore of the Anasazi? The Navajo tales should not be dismissed. Most oral cultures preserve history in the form of legends. Their version of the story may be filled with fantastical elements, but there is always some true data behind the myth.
Lesson: Some people will hand over your things without batting an eye
I love this theme is something that nobody usually talk.
This is wrong in many ways.
First of all, the name "Empire" is an European terminology, that can yes, be transferred to the extend of holding some relation of power, but cannot describe what the Lakota tribes were.
Which if fundamental to stablish that they had not cultural, economical or political sovereignty over the territories they raided.
Aside from the fact as well that these tribes were essentially nomadic, and didn't have the complexity of an Empire.
Meaning that there wasn't any Lakota Empire, like it could be said that there was an Aztec Empire, A Mayan Empire or an Inca.
I think the person in charge a Ted Ed should do a more professional research before broadcasting such a falsehood of identitiy.
No norteamerican tribe had the complexity to become an Empire.
uhh the Lakota and Comanche were basically nomadic horse raiders that exacted tribute from other tribes within the territory they were dominant in.. so you can call them an "empire" due to having many tributary "nations"... they were basically doing the same thing the Mongols did except the Mongols had actual cities to conquer.
The Haudenosaunee were pretty much the same way with their territorial conquests during the beaver wars.
Aztecs more or less did something similar with their conquests, they didn't set up any administration of tribes just demanded tribute in the form of maize, slaves, sacrifices, jewelry, etc. as well as obedience from the pre-existing leadership of a city or tribe they conquered.
the Mayans were a collection of city states, not an empire (think jungle ancient Greece)
You forgot to mention that the army specifically William Tecumseh Sherman, promoted and paid the hunting of buffalo to starve the lakota
He also used the same tactic of cutting off food and supplies in Georgia during the Civil War to hinder the confederacy. Militaries have been starving populations since the dawn of war.
@@keatonlear8247 To sjws its ok to do it unless its done to certain people
@@cumaproto9466 2015 called, it wants its unpromted raving about "sjws" back
So when the Lakota took the Arikara's land they gave them a reservation and food and medicine right?
How can you try to explain them as victims after listing a century of ethnic cleansing
Incredible animation, the backgrounds are stunning, everything feels cohesive and thought out. Would've loved to have a link to support the lakota population
It's funny how a empire well cry fowl when another empire do as they do to others
Lakota empire: Don't come near us ok?
US: Ok
Also US: Ya let's go take their resources
Did you notice the orwhelian preemptive strike narrative, the Lakota KNEW the US wouldn't honor the peace treaty so they struck first. Self fulfilling prophecy much?
@@joelanderson5285 plus it’s not like the us government told people to move to California they traveled there on there own
@@mrhouse6886 For which they were paid tribute no? I remember people blaming 9/11 on the US "taking" all the Saudis oil too.
@@joelanderson5285 I can’t tell if your agreeing with me or disagreeing
When the Lakota killed their neighbors and took their land, they were establishing a mighty empire. But when the US skirmished with Lakota over THEIR land (unclear who was firing the first shots) the US was a "horde" of invaders. Gotcha. This is a redwash of history. Both sides were were playing the conquest game.
Redwash, but up to 100 million were subject to genocide, lying politicians and theft. Ok
Should we consider the historical political unit of the Lakota nation an Empire? I don't really think so, not unless out of some sort of attitude of deference (what sort of bias would the typical Finn have anyway?). Sure enough if you internet search "lakota empire" the only hits that come up are articles spotlighting this Pekka guy and his books. They were a primarily nomadic people who did not command legitimate sovereignty over multiple groups of peoples, cultures, or regions. They were undoubtedly the strongest fighting force of indians to engage in warfare with the united states, but to refer to them as an empire, is incredibly misleading. also while the animation is very cool, it perpetuates a myth that american indians fought with primitive bows or spears, while in reality they had adopted firearms as soon as they became familiar with them through trading with european pioneers. At the battle of little bighorn the lakota and cheyenne warriors had mostly muzzleloading rifles but as many as 10% of them had repeating rifles, just as effective as the firearms fielded by custer's troops.
Tbh I was surprised they let them be for so long.
Because war is expensive, and when soldiers start dying, their families, and newsmen, start asking questions.
Until they invented revolvers and repeater rifles, it was actually very difficult to fight against horse mounted archers. A well trained archer could shoot two dozen arrows in the time it took to reload a musket.
@@ilikerice1 you can shoot 24 arrows in 20 seconds?
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it's probably because nothing's out in south dakota and the only reason people went out there was cause they wanted to go to california
Why are people prasing this, my last comment got deleted but, what I got from watching this was the Lakota basically enslaved and declaring war on pacyfist tribes. They dont sound good at all....
Its the history of the lakota. At the same time, why are people praising colonialists? They enslaved, steal, and slaughtered people from their lands. But they are praised as "heroes."
@@hsfox2792 Human history pretty much
The greatest weakness of the indigenous peoples throughout the world is that they are divided into smaller tribes speaking different languages. I'm Filipino. I'm fully convinced that if we are only composed of one ethnicity or tribe, the Spaniards wouldn't be able to conquer our islands. They played the tribes one against another. They used some of our tribes against other tribes, leading to the downfall of one another. Look at other Asian countries with a single cohesive identity such as Korea, Japan and Thailand. They were not colonized by Europeans. Ethnic diversity is both a blessing, and a curse at the same time.
I like how they said they took over the other tribes and had them pay tribute it was more like they massacred them and made them Pay tribute or they would kill them that’s called slavery
@@canskasapaemanon708 not Christians they put them to death and Jews
Love learning about different civilization
This is important to learn. Thank you for this
The Lakota rose as a result of the introduction of the horse by Europeans. The same Europeans sadly destroyed the Lakota empire. That’s called history. This presentation glossed over the many tribes that the Lakota displaced not to mention the Massacre of the Rosebud AKA Custers Last Stand.
Thanks to everyone who funds these and makes it possible to view for free for the public
This here! Making knowledge available to everyone
So when the Lakota took over these hunting grounds and sacred areas they were colonizers. Funny how that was glossed over.
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If you’re about to argue that Native Americans were worse than white settlers, you’re about to catch some heat
@@MaryEllenBrown I'm pretty sure they meant it's the same.
Humans ripping off other humans? why, where have I read that before?
They were driven from their original homelands and moved westward, as the video tells very clearly! Than tehy came in conflict with the tribes that already lived there. The whole problem started with the whites driving the Lakota from their homeground.
The author incorrectly uses the term: Native Americans. A Native American is anyone who is born in America. Like George Washington. Crazy Horse was killed by Little Big Man.
Give me a list of governments that factually never ever broke a promise they made
The American empire of Norton... Probably. He seemed nice.
Ireland
@@kadinwilliams7474 oh, really? Care to list all of them?
@@goldenvulture6818 i name alot adal empire ajuran empire adal empire abbysinna rushidan clipahte mali empire omani empire ming dynasty ummayad clipahte
@@abdullahimohamed3396 Oh, really? Care to list them?
So, I'm not trying to criticize or anything I assure you, I just kind of have a question, what's with all the swords? Like, I was given to understand that swords weren't really a thing, outside of like the Aztec obsidian blades, in Native American nations.
They weren't a thing in americas until Europeans brought them over (same for horses btw!), which was already centuries ago by year 1776 with which this video begins
I suppose that's true, but were they really using European swords would be the real question here? I've never seen them depicted with swords like this before.
You'd think by the 18th and 19th centuries the primary European armaments in use by Native warriors would be rifles.
It is known that Europeans gave misery to whole world...whole different civilizations... different religions...
@ not this time tho
I like how the resistance against DAPL is mention at the end. The Lakota are still here!
Ted talks really give a lot of nice information, great video.
The Lakota made the Americans pay tribute 😳
Tribute is the wrong word. More of a "pay us and we'll let traders go through." Tribute only works when you could actually damage the country paying you.
How ironic is it that America preaches world about Human Rights but itself commits such acts in very horrible and disturbing ways
Thank you very much for creating this. "Lakota America" is one of those great books that educators need to find ways to distill for students, so this video is an awesome resource.
I think this video has a very liberal definition of empire.
With what face do they call US the land of the free??
The one that freed the slaves defeated the Nazis and fights human trafficking
@@bleachguy64 Great counter arguement.
@@bleachguy64 I see you are delusional... Taking away things from people who aren't like you and then returning it to them isn't great...
Not a terrible summary but you certainly washed over the part where the Lakota savagely killed off any competitor tribes to stay the preeminent central/northern plains Indians tribe. They fought savagely to build their empire and when the Americans showed up we did the same.
They don’t kill of the Ojibwe lol
Didnt*
The natives portrayed in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron are Lakota. The native boy in the movie is called Little Creek.
Interesting to see that the nomadic empire was born in the north america just after when the last nomadic empire(Dzungars) in northern eurasia was demolished.
this makes me so sad.
Yeah! I am from Europe and feel a fault. Without the cruels on American continent life in Europe would not be so fine!
America was already a cruel place before European colonisation. And they managed to make it one of the strongest countries on earth.
@Hazzmati it was never as cruel as the colonizers made it. sure there was war and slavery, but there wasnt genocide and chattel slavery, which are much different.
@@тито-к9в what genocide? Native americans are still around and their numbers have recovered you cannot speak of any genocide. And chattel slavery was practiced all over the world and it was the europeans who ABOLISHED and FORBADE it so be grateful for once in your miserable life. And how would you know there wasn't genocide before the europeans arrived? These tribes have been fighting each other for centures you are naive to to believe they have never extuingished other tribes.
How heartbreaking it is to hear about all the atrocities American indigenous peoples have had to endure at the hands of imperial European powers 💔 On the other hand, the courage and resilience these people resist with till today is admirable!
@@nodruj8681 Tell me, were the Lakota trying to go for world domination and mass genocide on other continents?
The whole world not just europe... Well not Africa ofcourse..
I mean, they did the same thing to other indigenous people before Europeans arrived
@@gondar6181 Cope, it's not a matter of scale
One correction is that the Lakota were not, by definition, an empire
They asserted their authority over a wide diaspora of other tribes, how were they not an empire?
@@Freekymoho They only governed over the Lakota, they didn’t really care about other tribes as much, at least not in the way an empire does.
@@oblati lots of empires have had a hands off "pay your tribute and we're cool" approach to governing
I'm Lakota on my father's side, my grandmother even grew up on the Rosebud Reservation, and my 5th great Grandpa, High Bear, was a Lakota Chief. What happened to my ancestors is so heartbreaking...especially because it was done to them by my other ancestors.
Greeting from the heart of Arabia for you, your grandfathers, and you people!
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Does your heart also break for countless other tribes that were enslaved and conquered by the Lakota?
@@lilyflower5895 People seem to forget that they're an empire too.
@@lilyflower5895 the difference is the lakotas didnt kill the land and made it worse
@@tttyuhbbb9823 Lmao Arabs colonized Egypt, North Africa, and other places for hundreds of years. Ya'll aren't any better.