@@ThomasSowellTV Most certainly is. Many utilities have been and still are in places; monopolies. Featured, Microeconomics The Four Types of Market Structure Updated Jul 31, 2023 1) PERFECT COMPETITION 2) MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION 3) OLIGOPOLY 4) MONOPOLY A monopoly is defined by the following characteristics: 1)The monopolist is profit-maximizing 2)It can set the price (i.e., it is the price-maker) 3)There are high barriers to entry and exit 4)Only one firm dominates the entire industry.
@@crforfreedom7407 supply and demand are limits in all things from chemical reactions to the way species interact with the world We can tweak those limits by planning
My grandfather was Pawnee. The Sioux murdered his parents, uncle and sisters. He survived 16 days in the prairie of the Nebraska territory, then rescued ( adopted) by my great grandparents who were American and English. He was the First Town Constable of Cornelius Oregon, William Merrill.
@@BaslightBatekeepBoyboss He or she was just saying his or her grandfather's race. Never mentioned his or her own race. And who is "them?" Seems like the Sioux would have denied this person his or her life. So maybe the white people were the heroes in this case. Quit trying to light fires and stir people up.
Yup. Given enough time the Native nations and tribes of North America would have developed into early technological societies like the Europeans and Chinese. The wars and progress would have looked similar.
@@CharlesYuditskyThe Mayans were already very far ahead even in the middle ages, pretty much equally advanced in most areas with many countries in Europe.
In school we were taught it was all peace love and harmony before the white man came. I was the class of 2011 cant imagine how bad public education is now.
The natives were killing one another and taking one another's land and resources for centuries before Europeans arrived. No human society is blameless.
Might makes right, weapons through stone modification, domination of resources and territory -> Breed: We are still hairless apes playing the same game we always have
Centuries old rivals & grudges. That's why the other tribes helped Cortes overthrow the Aztec's. He couldn't have done it without their help. Like it or not, it's true and It was an often repeated story in the new world.
As a Native American, before I even watch this, Im gonna say, “Its not a surprise to us.” The US would NOT be what it is today if we still had sole control of this country. We do not and never have worked well together. We may be “Native American” but that umbrella term does not mean we are united by any means.
In the current political atmosphere, indigenous academics and political leaders are trying to create a united front. I applaud them for their efforts. But sometimes their interpretation of historical events has to be taken with a grain of salt.
@gq...not all tribes were nomadic...in fact, a great many were reasonably settled, growing beans, or fishing, or whatever...the continental USA 500 years ago was incredibly rich in wildlife and plantlife...likely no one here has ever seen the mast of a single American chestnut tree, and it is hard to imagine a herd of buffalo taking 3 days to pass by, being in the millions of head...
If you study white european history, just because EUropeans were white didn't mean they didn't spill blood... Germany and Russia hated each other; Italy fought within their 23 regions and were not united until the late 1800s... white people are not united because of their skin color... hell we had a civil war lol
When I was a child, I remember asking my mother why Indians (now called Native Americans) fought each other. Her answer was, "For the same reasons Europeans fight each other."
They are still called Indians at every Indian Casino. It’s always in huge bright AF lettering too AND on BILLBOARDS for miles before the location, all over the country. They went Woke, fell for the Poke…but forgot this change the signage…for the sake of CASH CASH CASH I’m guessing.
Interesting. When I was in Europe, stationed there in the US Air Force, I was surprised at how much animosity different Europeans still have towards each other. I realized that the stereotype that Americans are hated is wrong. Europeans only dislike Americans when there are no other European groups around. Get a group of different European ethnicities together and they all hate each other more than they dislike Americans. I was decorated in the war in the former Yugoslavia; those people still hate each other for things that happened 600 years ago! and we complain that people still hold grudges from the Civil war 160 years ago. The formation of a nation built on ideas rather than ethnic rivalry was a conscious effort by men who belonged to esoteric societies and cannot be easily recreated if it is torn down. I hope we do not destroy what they built just because they were not perfect. If their experiment fails, it will be a thousand years or more before it is tried again.
@@jaycampbell6402you have the dutch to thank that america exists today, the Netherlands has a very big stake in the Discovery and political history of the United States. Hec the British banned the dutch from trading with the usa when they wanted freedom from the uk but the dutch merchants still traded guns and ammo plus more to the American colonists. Also the American constitution is based on the dutch one, many American presidents were of dutch descent and not to mention Thomas Jefferson visited the Netherlands for a loan !
As a Native American, I can assure you that my ancestors were not peaceful prairie hippies, at one with nature, and living in tranquility, peace and harmony with other tribes. My ancestors were Warriors who lived for killing, raping, torturing, pillaging, and enslaving our enemies, other tribes who believed in doing the same thing to us. Our enemies were anyone and everyone not of our immediate tribe. Men women,and their children. From new born babies to the very old. Killing and stealing were the only ways to gain honor, status, and wealth. Torturing our captives to death was a good time, and family entertainment. But all of that is in the past, and America would not be the great nation that it is today if we stayed there. Nothing was ever stolen from us. We were conquered by a stronger, more powerful people, just as my ancestors had conquered those before them. Spoils go to the conquer. I am proud to be an American.
I'm a grown woman, but I'll tell you that what I greatly resent is how absolutely dishonest the public education system is with their "framing" of history. It's the narrative and framing that's been pushed in schools for many decades, the "European ancestors...automatically bad" framing. Its very dishonest, damaging, and we're seeing the repercussions of manifesting in America today. Young people feel shame or dislike automatically for simply being born here, and if they do have European or white ancestors, somehow it's at least implied you should feel shame; shame for something you took no part in, and shame that people you might or might not have been long-distance related to, might've done some bad things over a century ago. If this aspect of history has been distorted, imagine what all other history the education systems (public schools and colleges, and private ones as well) has purposely been deceptive about? And is it just the educational institutions, or are the historians also guilty of deceptive framing and misleading? History needs to be taught honestly, and from a neutral standpoint, no matter how uncomfortable for us that it might be; that's how we learn from our ancestors mistakes. Someone(s) does not want US knowing our actual history.
Families fight amongst themselves, often to the point of violence. Why people believe that there was ever a group of peace loving people where violence was absent is beyond my understanding. This belief that there was or can be a Utopia leads to incredible violence on a global level.
@@johnschuh8616 Maybe what it teaches is... "Peace is a choice".... Granted, the people with the most power over the masses... Seem to make every choice, the worst possible. 🥴🤔
Same anarcho-terrorist behaviour was involved on both sides at the earliest of contacts... It's notable that some tribes immediately joined with Romans and let them get on with it... Enjoying peace and life is not an unreasonable desire, especially in a world of differing but recognisable pagan beliefs that played little part in colonisation by stronger or better technological peoples...
@Lloyd.Browne Stop your ignorance is showing. Savages are savages and that is the point. But of course, since you are a scholar, at least in your own mind, you know so much more. Stick with Howard Zinn he is right up your alley.
@ Thomas Sewell’s skill in manipulating narratives highlights how the truth can be obscured to serve hidden agendas. By framing his discussions to distract from critical realities, he enables oppressors to justify their actions as ethical, even when evidence suggests otherwise. This tactic reflects a broader strategy of maintaining control by distorting public perception. It’s imperative to critically analyze such figures and their motives, rather than accept their narratives at face value. Genuine intellectual integrity requires thorough examination and a commitment to uncovering the truth-qualities Thomas Sewell appears to disregard in favor of serving his own or others’ interests. I do hope you have learnt something from this comment.
@@Lloyd.BrowneIn that case you are intellectually unarmed. You only reveal your lack of knowledge and/or very liberal indoctrination by such a comment.
Thomas Sowell is the type of intellectual / Scholar America needs. Driven by FACTS, LOGIC and Causality. Not Emotions, victimhood and bogus philosophy’s.
Yes but that doesn't help to divide and promote politicians and their agendas...people also tend to believe what they want and just find some way to confirm what they think. It might work to teach children actual history again unbiased but I fear we can't go home again if you know what I mean
You only say what you are saying because he hasn’t spoken the truth about you or challenged your belief system. The moment he speaks something that doesn’t fit into your narrow minded narrative ,you will throw him under the bus. You people are the biggest hypocrites who have ever breathed oxygen. I hate these things who call themselves “Human!”
@@ThomasSowellTV The problem with what you've posted is that you're using unethical principles from the past that have been banned for a long time. "Proscription" (in the below quote) means "banned." Quoting from the "Right of conquest" Wikipedia page: The right of conquest is a right of ownership to land after immediate possession via force of arms. It was recognized as a principle of international law that gradually deteriorated in significance until its proscription in the aftermath of World War II following the concept of crimes against peace introduced in the Nuremberg Principles. The interdiction of territorial conquests was confirmed and broadened by the UN Charter, which provides in article 2, paragraph 4, that "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations." Although civil wars continued, wars between established states have been rare since 1945. Nations that have resorted to the use of force since the Charter came into effect have typically invoked self-defense or the right of collective defense.[1]
and 99% of the deaths by disease were incidental. Most natives died without ever having seen or heard of a white person. Also, the europeans came back from the new world with syphilis, for which they had no defense. The natives were mostly asymptomatic.
@@zombieapocalypse3837 It led to the birth of our great nation. They were the longest running military adversaries that the United States has ever had, now we're all Americans. If that's not worth honoring, I don't know what is.
I had a "friend" years ago that mentioned that he was mostly Amerindian. I thought I that we had something in common, so I said that I had Amerindian on both sides of my family. He asked what tribes. I said that on my father's side was Osage and didn't even get to tell him the other tribe because he said loudly that the Osage were bad people. Evidently, he still held a ancient grudge. No wonder the Europeans could take the whole continent so quickly.
Exactly, it’s all the in-fighting. People say colonialism is why certain groups of people or places are not as strong as the western world. Not true, it’s because of all the tribalism! They cannot evolve or advance when they are just focusing on knocking each other down rather than uniting and building. There is still tribal warfare in a lot of places today.
My grandmother's tribe is Arkansas Cherokee (Tsalagi) & the Osage slaughtered most of the band when they were "relocated" to the eastern lands of Osage territory. Indeed, they have bad blood with the Kiowa & Comanche as well.
This is odd, I am part Chippewa and part Chreokee and I have never met another Indian, or part Indian, that still held those views. Granted, I have met some Apache that just outright hated everyone except other Apaches. Here in the US we are all mutts these days with the common issue of a big governement trying to subjugate us all.
I'm Cherokee Nation. I'm not actually Cherokee but the Cherokee adopted my ancestors from other tribes where war had taken place. Indigenous Americans are as human as anyone else. A desire for survival and to have power over your circumstances is something we can all relate to.
Schools, politicians, and the "news" media in Canada totally ignore Canada's pre-Columbian slavery, slavery that was rampant in most, but not all, regions of Canada.
The tribes were still killing other tribes into the 1900’s but it’s all the settlers faults. Also in Canada they make a big deal about missing indigenous women, take a guess who is to blame for the majority….you got it, indigenous men.
I have been saying this for years. We need to stop pretending that the United States was the only country that had slaves. That’s not saying we don’t recognize that fact it’s just to say we need to stop acting like slavery was an American invention Native Americans and and South American natives like the maya and Incas had slaves long before a single European foot hit the shores of north, south and Central America. The Chinese had slaves, the Vikings had slaves, the Egyptians had slaves, the Persians had slaves, the African tribes had slaves, the Greeks had slaves and the mongols had slaves. Now if you break that down that’s every single continent except Antarctica that had slavery but we are the only ones who seem to constantly bring it up like we were an exception and not a rule
Very interesting. Too bad American history is not taught in public schools were Satanic Marxist and Woke ideas are the preferred means to dumb down the ignorant massess into democrat controlled plantations as was and continues to be the methodology of the American oligarchy, and war pigs...
All races, all nations, all civilisations had slaves. The British, the Americans, both Christian Nations were the ones that stopped it. Paying for a higher Moral Cause with blood and treasure. If reparations are due, should they be paid to those who ended slavery.
And most importantly the majority of these slaves were not black in spite of what some victimhood addicts would insist. Slavery throughout most of the world was not a race thing, just a "my people conquered your people (which could be anything from nations warring down to family feuds) so now you serve us".
Dr. Sowell is a treasure that much of America has not learned to value and appreciate. Thank you, Dr. Sowell, for all your videos and your knowledge in educating the masses.
That’s always bothered me. In a small town I grew up in they named the local arena after a dedicated caretaker who worked there his whole life. Why not do that before he passes?
Bruh this doesn't surprise is the lack of education people realize not all native Americans were these same tribes have same beliefs. They all have history before the Europeans came in. It's also a joke when people also think the colonizers were some heros as well when reality they all left Europe bc it was shit. The audacityXD
So the original settlers were OUT NUMBERED 100 to 1 ... if the Indians are SUCH BUTCHERS WHY didn't they kill the settlers??? They out numbered them 100 to 1 - and the assertion is that the indians are war like - so why didn't they slaughter the settlers, given they out numbered them 100 to 1??? Mmm.
@ridgemonthigh8h4a The evidence continues to point out the fact that we live in Clown 🤡 World.I'm 68 and old enough to have lived in a time when things were more "normal".And this makes our present situation all the more painful.
The system just makes sure its a black man that tells you this so you don't hear it from a white nationalist that will ultimately lead you down the path of natural law.
Uncle Thomas is very good at distracting and covering up America's Satanic history. He's perfect for those of you trying to protect your fragile ego from the truth.
True story from Michigan on Indian Disunity. Eastern Michigan University's "native mascot" was the Hurons. Central Michigan University's is the Chippewas. Various protestors picked both universities to drop the mascot names. The Chippewas (Ojibwa, actually) asked the Huron Tribe to do it first. So, EMU dropped the Hurons and became the Eagles. The Chippewas approached CMU, got a license for the Tribe's name to be used by the University, and CMU is still known as the Chippewas ( *fire up, chips!* ). The Chippewas now smirk at the Hurons and enjoy the name and licensing rights.
Chippewa and Ojibwa are the same tribe but European attempts at spelling the same name. A tongue twister, as well as a mind bender! On the Great Plains they are called the Saulteaux. Pronounced So Toe. I knew a young Saulteaux woman here in Calgary who was a waitress at Boston Pizza and was she ever beautiful! Ouch!!!
The Native Americans were constantly fighting amongst themselves. There are literally hundreds of books on this, tens of thousands of individual accounts, historical documents and observer writings. There was no Native unity.
The native Americans are too often portrayed as tree hugging nature lovers with great sagely wisdom. The alliance among the tribes that defeated Custer broke up afterward, driven by old tribal feuds They were brutal in their dealings with other tribes, and were not above genociding other competing tribes. In the movie, "Dancing with Wolves, the Pawnees are shown as the bad guys raiding the Lakotas, when historically it was the other way around. The Lakotas/Sioux picked on the smaller Pawnee tribe, and committed the notorious Massacre Canyon in 1873, consisting mostly of women and children, mutilating many of their bodies. If Europeans had never set foot in America, they would still be torturing, raping, enslaving, and killing each other today.
" If Europeans had never set foot in America, they would still be torturing, raping, enslaving, and killing each other today." You only have to go onto a reservation to see what it's like without Western governance methods. We have the same problem here in Australia. We have aboriginal 'communities' ie land given to the natives so they can live their own lives how they choose. They are all terrible conditions with much, much higher rates of violence, rape, and incest. But it's somehow this is still Whitey's fault...
Yup. That's the cold hard truth. Truth hurts. Natives act like the ancestors were kind and loving to one other. But that wasn't the case at all. The ancestors fought one another.
@jonnyneace8928 oh. Why are you saying we? Are you over 300 years old? Did you see the wars? Did you see how brutal the ancestors were to each other? I ain't lying. The ancestors always fought each other. There was even in fighting. All over land and game.
Who taught you that? I was taught about the in-fighting of native long ago. It's a human flaw and tragedy for us to kill for control and power. It doesn't matter if it were the Chinese, Africans, Arabs, European, or in this case, the American natives. We can't seem to get along without murdering each other.
Thomas Sowell is great! He gets the untold truth out to the masses -- as long as we also help in the spreading of this info also. Kudos to Thomas Sowell!!!
Always blows my mind that everyone crying about the native Americans in the colonial days thinks that they were all just living in a peaceful utopian commune with no struggles and perfect harmony between each other until white settlers showed up. If you actually read any of the actual journals or historical writings from some of the first settlers here, you would see why they called them savages. Not only through the actions that they committed on the settlers, but the actions that they committed amongst each other. They weren't all just sitting around campfires smoking and worshiping mother earth and singing with all the forest animals as they want you to believe.
Having known the truth as a kid in the 90s, my eyes were further opened to the cult-like hive mind of leftists when I witnessed them go into mental gymnastics and have near-meltdowns anytime I pointed out the truth about the oh-so-sacred natives. It’s like they were determined to hate themselves and their own people.
Colonialism. Imagine a snapshot in time. Most today reference the slaves in America. Most today reference the Natives in North America. Most never reference how Brazil brought in 10 times more slaves then the Americans, and killed them after 6-7 years for non-service instead of re-purposing them. I don’t hear anyone blaming the Portuguese for this at all. And again, they were 10 times worse than the Americans. So now reference a new snapshot in time 100 BC. Before Christ. The Roman Empire spread through the Europe continent, Africa, and Middle East. They made all their way up to Britannia, Gal, Germania, almost as far as present-day Norway. All of these had different names then, all of them given names by Romans. They moved in, Killed nomadic barbarians. Put others in reserves. Almost all of which believed in multi-god religions, including the Romans. The Romans brought in roads, Aqua ducts for water, fences so you did not have to chase your animal food. Methods to get rid of waste, don’t poop in the water you drink. They brought horses for battle, advanced weapons, advanced smelting, mass commerce systems, orderly government. But still even took slaves, sold them, used women as chattel, and killed any dissidents. By Mid 400 A.D. these occupied people adopted many Roman ways, religion, and all of the things brought to them by Romans. Even their life expectancy increased by about 20 years. They then figured out they could take back their land, the Romans had a weak emperor. The Goths pushed them back, and over time the Roman empire fell. No where do I ever see the blame put on the Romans or Italians for doing what they did. But they single handedly changed the world. They raised its bar in all aspects. Government, Commerce, waste handling, Food supply chains, almost everything. They too were overrun buy others, like the Muslims, the Khans. But all have learned from it and developed. Not blaming anyone before, and be god damn real here, for far worse atrocities than most things that happened in America. Sure there was some deaths, some hardships. But the Romans where far more vicious and ruthless. Don’t see the entirety of Europe blaming the romans for their ancestor’s pain and suffering, or making the Italians pay reparations. If anything the Muslims were equally ruthless when they spread over lower Europe in 680- 1100 AD. The point of all of this is that we always reference history that supports the blame of a narrative. We take all that we learn from imperialism free of charge, but if occupied you must pay pay pay no matter what you learned. All of this history is an evolution of our civility. This is how we bumbled our way to enlightened thought and development.
Nah fam, u see, that is Ypipo writing, and as we all know Ypipo be the devil and lie with their pen and their tongue all day long so we can disregard the writing
@@gordonlewis9377 The way things are going, you’ll soon have “white schools” again. Segregation has been brought back by the left. Some progress that is.
My dad is a native american, the first of his tribe to become a medical doctor. He worked for the IHS, Indian Health Service, for the majority of my childhood. One school I was going to had a new teacher cone in who was extremely liberal. She tried teaching us that the natives were peaceful, and had no disease before the Europeans came. She said that natives only counted coup instead of killing for warfare. All the kids laughed at her. Eventually the tribal council got wind of what she was trying to teach us. Apparently they were outraged that she was taking away their proud history. She kinda stopped talking about native hostory after that
@Okami1313 - That’s so bizarre to me. Every culture on earth has engaged in behavior that is bad to even outright evil. There’s not an ethnicity on earth that has not been enslaved *and* also owned slaves themselves at some point. There’s not an ethnicity on earth that hasn’t committed genocide *and* that hasn’t been the victim of genocide. My paternal Great Grandmother’s parents (my Great-Greats, of course) were full-blooded Native American Indians of either Cherokee or Chickasaw - we’re not exactly sure as we don’t really have records around to investigate, sadly) and it’s because of them that I have an appreciation for Native American Indian culture and artwork (I even have a tobacco pipe made for me by hand by a full-blood Cherokee pipe carver named Michael but I’ve never smoked it. I own hundreds of briar pipes but I just can’t bring myself to smoke that one even though he wanted me to smoke it! I really should just fill it with some fine pipe tobacco and smoke it - that’s what he wanted) but I know that the people who crossed over the land bridge that was once between Asia and what we now call Alaska and became the First Nations peoples of Canada, Native American Indians of the USA, and those who pressed even further south and filled Central and South America were not peaceful and loving people - they were as savage as every other ethnicity on our planet have been. Why bother denying that when we all know it’s nonsense? War, rape, slaughtering children, taking slaves, all of it - all of our ancestors did all of these things no matter what part of the world they settled in.
@EatTheMarxists pack that bowl! If I gave you an apple pie, then you would eat it, right? Apple pies are meant to be eaten and pipes are meant to be smoked. You may think both of them look nice sitting by the window but that's really not it's main purpose, but it's a pipe so you can really have your cake and eat it to. Make that bowl official!
@@ronthunderwoodstudios1367 And neither one of you get to speak for all Native Americans any more than I get to speak for all Europeans. Maybe that was true for Choctaw. Doesn't mean it was true for all of the hundreds and hundreds of Indigenous tribal groups with varying systems of governance, trade, and conflict that preceded European contact.
@@shanegiofu213 Lol, yet the native tribes could be exceedingly brutal with one another, and we have a history of large empirical native peoples slaughtering their enemies and failing as an empire. Not to mention all the tribes that faded into nothingness, being wiped out and/or assimilated into another tribe. No one claimed to speak for everyone, but history speaks for itself, all people seek power, and many at any cost. Native Americans were no different, and the Europeans brought enormous power, but even if they didn't, evidence proves that control was passed just as much, if not more, between tribal groups in the Americas than the rest of the world.
@@shanegiofu213My paternal grandmother and her parents, etc, were Cherokee. They told oral history of tribes fighting other sides. They said it was brutal. They chose not to live on a reservation. Reservations breed poverty.
The history of Chief Pontiac and the Iroquois is great reading. Pontiac "sold" the white settlers land he had taken from other tribes, and then later got the tribes together and went to war against the British settlers after they had driven out the French during the French and Indian War. His war against the British eventually set up the western boundary of the colonies as the peak of the applachian mountains, however that did not last.
Fascinating history. Those pre-revolutionary war centuries are practically ignored in school; the Mayflower landed, and then some dudes threw some tea into some water, and then there was a star-spangled banner yet waving over the land of the brave and stuff. Don’t worry about that 200 year gap in between. We barely even mention the French and Indian wars, despite their importance in triggering the revolution. Who was it that mistook Pontiac for Cadillac?
🟪🟧Spineless coward Thomas Sowell, never traveled to the deep racist South, to fight against brutal Southern hate and racism, alongside: MLK, Jewish Rabbis, Rev. Jessie Jackson & thousands of college students.
Very interesting. Too bad American history is not taught in public schools were Satanic Marxist and Woke ideas are the preferred means to dumb down the ignorant massess into democrat controlled plantations as was and continues to be the methodology of the American oligarchy, and war pigs...
@@SuperZippyzippy Yet, the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi aren't "close". Many of us whites kind of group those together After traveling the world, my husband and I were in agreement that the Thai people were the kindest, most polite people in the world. Yet, when I was sharing this view with another woman at a nail salon once, the Vietnamese nail tech who was working on my nails Very quickly informed me that, as someone who had spent over 18 months in a Thai immigration camp, that hospitality Wasn't extended to other Asians. She was very bitter about what she related was exceptionally cruel behavior. Apparently all the other Vietnamese were in total agreement because the chatter between them went from daily banter to obviously angry stories and personal experiences.
Its not just similar its identical. Including the less developed and hopelessly inferior cultures clashing with an utterly superior one. I make no bones about it: my ancestors were utterly humbled by Roman supremacy. We didnt whine about it though. We didnt demand reparations. We simply exceeded them.
It's the same everywhere, in every culture in all history. Even the Chimpanzees are doing it... The idea that whitey bad, browny good is a concoction of Hollywood and it zombie masses who pay money to buy into the BS.
@@fredfreddy2338 If you mean the Roman supremacy or British and certain other European powers surpassing them to build the modern world its basic history. The Romans engaged in brutal slaughter and slavery surpassed only by their genius at the time. Go look at historical depictions of Rome and compare them to what my ancestors called "cities" at that time. Go look at their roads. Their aqueducts. Their bathhouses, their villas and the colesseum.
In other words, Indians behaved toward each other the way other humans did in Europe, Africa and Asia. Tribalism is hardwired into humans. If aliens from another planet invaded the USA, would the Russians and Chinese come to the rescue of the USA? If they invaded Israel, would any other middle eastern countries come to the aid of Israel?
Exactly. That was has of course been the way Europeans have behaved towards each other most of our history too. My own people, the Finns, were colonized by the Swedish and then remained a part of Sweden for hundreds of years, and the main reason may have been that the Finns didn't manage to unify into any bigger group, like a real larger kingdom, before the Vikings had gotten that idea and had become that actual big kingdom. So while during the Viking era Finnish tribes still managed to keep kicking the marauding Vikings out once they started to come as a unified force - and kept coming and kept coming once their rulers had decided that that was something that needed to be done - while Finns were still separate tribes, or very small "kingdoms", fighting among themselves as much as against the invaders, Finns could no longer stop them, but they just kept coming until most of what is now Finland was under their power. Because back then there really were no "Finns" yet. Against something like aliens - maybe, if we got the idea strongly enough that the invaders are something "other", and those invaders managed to piss off enough humans from different groups that it would become the human tribe against that other tribe. But if they knew enough of humans, from previous study or something, that they valued the truth in "divide and conquer" when dealing with us no chance in hell we'd manage to combine our powers against them. At least not in time.
@@pohjanakka4992 You want to see a sudden, idiotic version of tribalism, go to a Boston Red Sox game, sit in the bleachers at Fenway Park wearing a Yankees shirt!
When the British started to take over India, they made damn sure they had allies. Similarly, one of the first things the British did in North America was ally with the Iroquois. That alliance proved critical on a number of occasions. So, to answer the question if aliens invaded the USA or Israel, a lot would depend on the their strength and motives. I mean why take on the whole world if you don't have to? The aliens would probably ally themselves with the Russians or the Chinese first, before trying to conquer the entire world.
I think it was Reagan that made a comment that it would take an alien invasion for people on Earth to get together. Although whether they would actually do so is debatable as well- see Harry Turtledoves Alternate history sci-fiction story.
I was thirty years old when I was exposed to Thomas Sowell… (high school, university, grad school all seemed to ignore him…) It’s so sad, as his writings have single handedly help shape my thought process
They were competing with one another’s tribes long long long before settlers and firearms ever came into the picture. They competed and conquered one another over whatever resources the land provided. The same was true of the African , European, Asian, and Celtic peoples of every age of humanity. The implication that the Indian tribes only oppressed one another once “ white” people immigrated to the continent is ridiculous.
@@notundermywatch3163 Consider the French and English. Or the English, Scots and Welsh... Or the Texans, Oklahomans and Missourians... People are humans
And biology influences history. Native Americans had no immunity to diseases from other continents, & were decimated by plagues in both North & South America. Europeans could not handle African diseases, so fighting the local populations was much harder. The way things unfolded the African population stayed far more numerous than immigrants & colonizers, so Africans are the leaders throughout Africa, today.
As soon as the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, they were approached by the local Wampanoag Indians and asked to ally with the Wampanoags against the Narragansetts of Rhode Island.
In fact, the only reason the natives did not kill the Europeans right away , except for the colony at Roanoke Virginia, was because they coveted all that "stuff' the Europeans had...things made of metal, like knives and guns. Look what the Vikings encountered in Nfld. Canada. In their sagas they wrote "As soon as we had set up a permanent camp the Indians came and moved right in beside us...and proceeded to beg borrow and steal everything they could" . They even had a good name for them "Skraelings" translated as "The wretched ones".
This is the unfortunate nature of mankind and it just seems to get worse. One of my ancestral grandmothers was an Algonquin whose first husband and their children were murdered by the Iroquois. Another grandfather was kidnapped by them and tortured for months before escaping. It's as if we never learn from the past.
I always WANTED to believe that the Native Americans lived these peaceful lives in harmony with nature and each other. But another part of me said; they were human beings, and they probably did what humans do everywhere.
@dreamsofturtles1828 How old are you? We were taught that there were many different tribes and the location they were from and it was common sense they had constant conflicts.
Mr Sowell! Thank you for your contribution to our understanding of our human nature. We can’t leave our defects behind until we are able to stand before the Truth. I am so grateful for your existence as a way shower!!!!
Nice to hear an honest and balanced discussion of the history of US and Native American relations. I like to tell people that the Native Americans did to each other everything that they complain about us doing to them. Which is also true of Muslims and Israelis.
Very interesting. Too bad American history is not taught in public schools were Satanic Marxist and Woke ideas are the preferred means to dumb down the ignorant massess into democrat controlled plantations as was and continues to be the methodology of the American oligarchy, and war pigs...
I wouldn't lump the Israeli's into that. The UN created the country so it is not their fault. Israel has non jewish citizens that are treated as equals. Then every country that borders it started multiple all-out wars against them. Israel, as the victor (multiple times) had the right to seize all of the lands they conquered in retaliation but gave 90% of it back. The latest terrorist attacks were from regions that they could've incorporated into Israel but allowed to coexist.
Wouldn’t be so bad if Gaza’s government applied its humanitarian aid received toward the betterment of life in Gaza for its citizens. Instead their government has used these funds to built tunnels under residential areas and stockpile weapons in hospitals solely to kill Jews because they are Jews. Also, Gaza’s southern border is with Egypt, so why not decry it as responsible for this “open-air prison” as well?
7:04 this painting is the view I see every day from my place. Peaks of Otter, Sharp Top mountain in the front, Flat top in the back. The creek in the front is literally 50 yards from my car.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has always been on the side of the Opresseb and Disenfranchised in our Societies at Home and Abroad; and doing so with that sense of knowledge and understanding that comes only with the dedication of deep and intense work of study, and the enlightening search for the truth, total understanding and knowledge of the particular subject matter. GOD BLESS Him and his gifted ability for study, and the teaching of his fruits of his work to the world at large.
@@eek412 You wouldn't believe how much I here and see "Well they were doing it to each other". No, I don't think so...natives never attempted complete genocide of their own race....
ALL pagan cultures, pagan defined as having had no influence from Judeo-Christian morality , share these three core characteristics ; their societies are marked by extreme violence, extreme aggression, and extreme promiscuity and perversity. What is the warrior culture if not a all three characteristics combined ?
@johnbrown4900 That means im part native American. And I'm glad Christianity came to these lands! That was my point. You people are obsessed with categorizing people.
Lol I could never look fondly on those who stole my land, raped and pillaged my people, and destroyed the cultural fabric of my society. But different strokes for different folks I guess
It's because that it's not mainstream. today history is not taught properly because the approach to it is isolationist in condemning and writing. It's cherry picked and politicized with death by association, rather than give the overall true picture of it.
That’s only partial. After disease many tribes were just trying to survive. No offensive wars just defensive to get food. The story of Natives is very complex and the United States and its citizens have a huge atrocity to answer for. A just God will not take it lightly if you think it was ok.
My Cherokee ancestors were overjoyed by the arrival of Europeans because the so called "white man" protected them from constant attacks by the Comanche. Eventually they integrated into America and had their own hospitals and universities. It amazes me how modern tribes remain on a piece of land their whole lives. Thankfully much of the youth is deciding to either go to college, trade school, or join a branch of the military to improve the outcomes of their lives.
There are no truly indigenous peoples anywhere. We've been migrating throughout the world for millions of years. Now, we need to show kindness to each other.
Everyone is indigenous to somewhere... and people have been conquered/ enslaved yadayada for thousands of years... and every culture/ race has participated in one way or another... all are guilty
I was not there then but could believe it started with more than 2 people yet in different places at about the same time. Perhaps a place in ancient Africa
@@erenjaeger1738 Seems like human nature. Every race and continent had expansion and contraction The only difference is the Europeans spreading out around the world was prophesied in the Bible. That is why every European nation became Christian, then for the most part threw off the shackles of Catholicism, and now are being invaded by non white peoples. The same people behind the Central banks are behind the movement of peoples, the gay agenda, the trans agenda, and the mixed races (browning of Europeans). It's all in the Bible. The peoples behind it all are the ones you can't talk about, and are against the mixing of races in their own country. They are even trying to expand their land by war and genocide.
I'm from Pennsylvania and a lot of people here are mixed with European and Native American blood. William Penn bought the claims of the land from the Native American tribes, after he was given the land by the King of England. My mom's side still has family with the last name of Morningstar. Thank you for the informative video.
@@mahlonrhoades4509 He only includes what support his contentions. Did he mention the were no horses in North or South America before the Spanish? That people living in small groups of hunter gatherers with mostly stone tools have limited ability to wage a murderous war. That many groups did not have a written language. That corn and potatoes are GMO's? They don't survive without human intervention and they were domesticated plants developed by the peoples of North and South America. No Sowell would rather go on about liquor and guns because it suits his shallow thinking of capitalism and trade being responsible for everything. Here were people who had no need for land surveys, private property and imoney incentives to produce a life for themselves. It flies in the face of all who say people need rich bosses to tell them every move to make.
When I was a boy my dad told me a story of long ago that the Navajos almost annihilated a neighboring tribe. Finally an agreement was made, and the Navajos let the small tribe go. Just think how many other tribes were annihilated by larger groups that were never documented or orally recorded?
There are several known " Extinct" Tribes just in Florida alone (Apalachee, Timacua,Mocoso, and others) ,either annihilated by the Seminole and Creek in inter Tribal Wars, or killed off entirely by the Spanish Conquistadors taking control of Florida , I can only guess at how many times that process repeated itself across what is now the US, Canada, and Mexico with small, lesser known Tribes, although one noteworthy vanished Tribe is of course the Mohicans.
I read the book he wrote. It is an excellent piece of work and I learned so much from it. Highly recommend "Conquests and Cultures" which explains so much from geography to culture to economics to human nature. A must read if you really want to set aside your prejudices and assumptions and want to actually learn something.
@@erenjaeger1738 they would still raid other tribes and intrestingly some of the northwestern tribes were in a similar role as the vikings. but no the majority of them were not chill, the californian tribes were chill to my knowledge.
The US government hosted visits by hundreds of tribal leaders to Washington to impress upon them the need to control their peoples and accept the reservations. Many, like Red Cloud (a warchief unlike the legendary Sitting Bull, fought the US Army to a standstill and forced the destruction of federal forts in the Powder River country), accepted the finality of the roaming ways while others would not give up roaming and raiding throughout millions of acres. The plains tribes could not be contained until their remudas and the buffalo were missing; this is why the pony herds and buffalo were shot. If the goal of the US Army and government was to "exterminate" the tribes they failed miserably; "The federal government recognizes 574 Native American tribes in the continental U.S. and Alaska." Moreover, in the 160 and more extant winter counts which recount generations of events, no genocide can be interpreted. Contrary to modern sentiment tribal warfare was massacre of all, sometimes only sparing some few adolescents and young women who might be adopted into a tribe if they proved their worth. Moreover, the popular myth of tribes in their own territories lying supine before the Europeans wilfully ignores the reality of tribes and peoples in constant warring flux contending for dominance, not unlike Italian warring renaissance states and not the spiritual beings living in harmony with nature as modern minds popularly imagine. "Whitewashing" is the word used by those ignorant of history to excuse their ignorance.
I agree, Native Americans got a raw deal. Their history is "parenthesis" of the history of the world. Their way of life would not have lasted. Someone, from somewhere that developed new technologies would have invaded eventually. It could have been the Chinese, Japanese, Arabs, Africans etc. The Europeans were just first to the new technologies for a plethora of reasons. One was the competion to survive with the Turkish Muslims that had white slaves, any slaves and controlled the Asian land route to China trade. Europeans, Portugal and Spain started exploring the ocean improving ships and navigation. Why didn't China discover California?
574 tribes. That says it all. A ridiculously balkanized, broken-up patchwork of human social groups and that's a built-in weakness. That was destined to fail when confronted with an invading culture that was more united in language, order and customs than they were.
@@davestang5454 That "invading culture" was not some monolithic unity but riven itself by nationalities, locales, languages and religions. The history of Europeans in the New World interacting with the indigenous peoples, from the Spanish alliance with tribes and peoples to collapse the Aztec empire right through to the plains Indian Wars as Crow (Absaroka) and others allied with the US Army to track and defeat the Sioux (Lakota), is a patchwork of alliances against other groups or confederation. As example, the Apache at first looked to the Texans as allies against the Comanche and Mexicans, which devolved into the Apache being the last to surrender to the US government. The Huron and Iroquois as respective allies of the French and English incidentally served the Europeans; for the Huron and Iroquois it was a hereditary fight to the death, and the Huron lost.
@@rocknroll368 That end question is a little out of nowhere but I can answer: The ruling dynasties of China had enough problems trying to settle nearby lands like Vietnam or defending itself from Mongol hordes or peasant uprisings. That and the Pacific is quite a bit larger than the Atlantic with no contiguous island chain like Iceland then Greenland to supply a long voyage. The Bering Strait would have had to been explored by Imperialist Russia, but they had there hands full in Europe.
What i love about Mr. Sowell is he gives us facts,even unpleasant to hear facts,and lets us think for ourselves intead of trying to sell us a politically correct narrative.
As an American Indian. Of course they wouldn’t take it down. Although the right thinks that Natives have some special place in the lefts pantheon, they really couldn’t care less.
Excellent video! I think the underlying issue is that society is unable to separate or distinguish between "reality of a situation" and "justification of current or past treatment" Essentially, there are plenty of examples of how the Indigenous people lived... and how they were ultimately treated... but that doesn't make the current status quo correct on either front. Saying the Indigenous weren't united, isn't an excuse to erase them... it's just a reality of the past. Saying cultures fought and conquered eachother for millennia, doesn't mean we can ignore the atrocities of the past. But lumping all Indigenous into this fantastical, can-do-no-wrong, kumbayah-singing, purely innocent of anything and everything... is just a wrong as lumping "white people" together into this race of pure evil. Unfortunately our society can't see nor tolerate the gray area. They say there must be a clear winner and loser, beaten into oblivion, pointing to acts of atrocities, acting like they happened yesterday, so engulfed by the past they cannot see they're killing the future. Digging out of this mess doesn't mean "white people" won... or that colonization won... or anybody won. At present were all on the same loosing path and it's going to take everyone working together to get out of this mess. Sadly I don't see it happening any time soon. Much like the warring tribes of the past, the American people are at war with eachother, be them Indigenous or not. It will take either an incredible leader... or an incredible tragedy to get out of this, and the thought of the future where this doesn't happen absolutely horrifies me. Nobody asked to be here... nobody can rewrite history... but we can learn from it... we can be better... we have to be.
I think the issue is many people are lead to believe native americans were somewhat of a monolith, even if they have different tribes. When in reality it's more accurate to think of pre-columbian America of thousands of different smaller countries constantly in a flux of war and trade. Much like medieval Europe.
He is the only black historian I'll listen to and trust. Too many black historians just can't resist lying and making up stuff to make themselves Jews, Indians, Egyptians, or others. If many can not even tell the truth about slavery, then not much else should be taken seriously. I can understand their desire to steal history, but its still lies One day they'll be able to be honest and many will see people will listen and want to interact more. Right now, a large part of the group is just lost in myths, fables, and false victimhood thats like a drug because it gives them a shield from accountability. I love decent black folks and pray for the group daily
@neglectfulsausage7689 Are you unable to read ? Lol. Saying there are too many lying black historians doesn't translate to "theres too many blacks" Im hoping you're just trolling
I almost feel sick in my stomach to see that in late 2023 there is only 369k subs to this channel. How few have a love of the truth, or even a desire for it :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((!
@@gordonlewis9377 Cortez had less than 200 men. The Aztecs were not overthrown by Cortez, but by the surrounding tribes that the Aztecs had enslaved and used for human sacrifice. The tribes rallied around Cortez because they thought he was a deity come to deliver them. (yeah, I know, silly them).
Although, it seems the more agrarian the tribe was, the less likely they were to be always at war with their neighbor. The more they were hunter/gatherer the more likely they were to be aggressive to the other tribes. Just my observations and opinion.
This was true of Europe, India, Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia as well. Just because a location is controlled by the predominance of a single race does not mean that there are united, often they are in competition with each other. European history for example is full of internal conflicts between nations and people for over 2,000 years.
I think that's the point of this, which is to push back against this ignorant rhetoric that conflict was caused by Europeans wherever they went. Study history of the East and it will make European history of the 16th-19th Century look like what the UN preaches.
What happened to the Indians was inevitable. A more advanced civilization came along and anytime that happens in history the old civilization is washed away.
Not true, sometimes lesser civilizations defeat more advanced civilizations. In this instance it was only advanced weaponry and strategies that beat the natives. If you think murdering raping, and stealing makes for an advanced civilization then you are not aiming high on the advanced scale. If an advanced society should aim for high morals and principles then this is not a good example of an advanced society.
@@souptecBut you proved his point. The tribes had primitive weaponry from the stone age. The white man had vessels, guns and cannons. The fact that the tribes HAD such weapons and knowledge of warfare disproves the fairytale held by leftietards that "minorities" have been incapable of starting wars and conquest campaigns. I have NEVER met a leftietard who acknowledges that genghis khan wasn't a white man and he conquered many lands with his army. Should Mongolians of 2023 pay reparations for the sins of their long dead ancestors? Didn't think so. Should the tribes pay reparations for the sins of what their dead ancestors did long before contact with Europeans? Didn't think so. "Minorities" are treated with kid gloves despite the fact that history disproves the fairytales your kind believes.
@@souptec Hate to burst your bubble but Native American tribes engaged in rape, murder of other rival tribes. They warned against each other long before the Europeans showed up. The largest Native American massgrave is from the dark ages. One tribe did that to the other. All this information is in the library. Research it. But nobody takes the time to.
They believed in capitalism!! lamo but they did !
Monopoly isn't capitalism.
Imagine if free trades without conflict happened here
How far we could have gone without the population losses of conflict?
@@ThomasSowellTV Most certainly is. Many utilities have been and still are in places; monopolies. Featured, Microeconomics
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1) PERFECT COMPETITION
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2)It can set the price (i.e., it is the price-maker)
3)There are high barriers to entry and exit
4)Only one firm dominates the entire industry.
@@dylaninnes8541 As with all animals, 'scarcity' controls populations.
@@crforfreedom7407 supply and demand are limits in all things from chemical reactions to the way species interact with the world
We can tweak those limits by planning
My grandfather was Pawnee. The Sioux murdered his parents, uncle and sisters. He survived 16 days in the prairie of the Nebraska territory, then rescued ( adopted) by my great grandparents who were American and English. He was the First Town Constable of Cornelius Oregon, William Merrill.
Wow! Great family history. Sad, too.
If he is Pawnee, so are you. Do not let them deny you your culture.
@@BaslightBatekeepBoybossis your Indian name “Demands DEI”
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@@BaslightBatekeepBoyboss He or she was just saying his or her grandfather's race. Never mentioned his or her own race. And who is "them?" Seems like the Sioux would have denied this person his or her life. So maybe the white people were the heroes in this case. Quit trying to light fires and stir people up.
We fought like hell, slaughtered one another, and some of us engaged in slavery. We’re people, in other words
Yup. Given enough time the Native nations and tribes of North America would have developed into early technological societies like the Europeans and Chinese. The wars and progress would have looked similar.
No no no. It's a surprise! It's the truth! There was even surprising disunity!!! And among Indians even (not the ones in India).
@@CharlesYuditsky Maybe if they had another 4000 years to work at it.
I have $5 too.
@@CharlesYuditskyThe Mayans were already very far ahead even in the middle ages, pretty much equally advanced in most areas with many countries in Europe.
This history needs to be taught. Man is man, no matter the skin.
Man has a sin nature. He has to bridle and control it, and decide to do what is right, not what is natural and easy.
Should be taught by American Indians when talking about the indigenous American Indians and their history or the confusion continues.
Amen brother
In school we were taught it was all peace love and harmony before the white man came. I was the class of 2011 cant imagine how bad public education is now.
@@Dillon6767 We weren't taught this in the 60's and 70's.
The natives were killing one another and taking one another's land and resources for centuries before Europeans arrived. No human society is blameless.
Might makes right, weapons through stone modification, domination of resources and territory -> Breed: We are still hairless apes playing the same game we always have
None righteous. No, not one.
Centuries old rivals & grudges. That's why the other tribes helped Cortes overthrow the Aztec's. He couldn't have done it without their help. Like it or not, it's true and It was an often repeated story in the new world.
@@jakealden2517 "There are none Righteous. ,No, not One.
The Fairytale of Noble Savagery.
Gasp!
As a Native American, before I even watch this, Im gonna say, “Its not a surprise to us.” The US would NOT be what it is today if we still had sole control of this country. We do not and never have worked well together. We may be “Native American” but that umbrella term does not mean we are united by any means.
In the current political atmosphere, indigenous academics and political leaders are trying to create a united front. I applaud them for their efforts. But sometimes their interpretation of historical events has to be taken with a grain of salt.
@gq...not all tribes were nomadic...in fact, a great many were reasonably settled, growing beans, or fishing, or whatever...the continental USA 500 years ago was incredibly rich in wildlife and plantlife...likely no one here has ever seen the mast of a single American chestnut tree, and it is hard to imagine a herd of buffalo taking 3 days to pass by, being in the millions of head...
Your comment seems to imply that the US is a good thing, when it's the biggest threat on Earth.
@@synupps877 Compared to who?
Russia and its constant warmongering?
China and its destruction of the environment?
Why you here anti-American cultist?
If you study white european history, just because EUropeans were white didn't mean they didn't spill blood... Germany and Russia hated each other; Italy fought within their 23 regions and were not united until the late 1800s... white people are not united because of their skin color... hell we had a civil war lol
When I was a child, I remember asking my mother why Indians (now called Native Americans) fought each other. Her answer was, "For the same reasons Europeans fight each other."
Cool
This is often a bit mythical. Most often it is one side being far more aggressive than the other.
They are still called Indians at every Indian Casino. It’s always in huge bright AF lettering too AND on BILLBOARDS for miles before the location, all over the country. They went Woke, fell for the Poke…but forgot this change the signage…for the sake of CASH CASH CASH I’m guessing.
Interesting. When I was in Europe, stationed there in the US Air Force, I was surprised at how much animosity different Europeans still have towards each other. I realized that the stereotype that Americans are hated is wrong. Europeans only dislike Americans when there are no other European groups around. Get a group of different European ethnicities together and they all hate each other more than they dislike Americans. I was decorated in the war in the former Yugoslavia; those people still hate each other for things that happened 600 years ago! and we complain that people still hold grudges from the Civil war 160 years ago.
The formation of a nation built on ideas rather than ethnic rivalry was a conscious effort by men who belonged to esoteric societies and cannot be easily recreated if it is torn down. I hope we do not destroy what they built just because they were not perfect. If their experiment fails, it will be a thousand years or more before it is tried again.
@@jaycampbell6402you have the dutch to thank that america exists today, the Netherlands has a very big stake in the Discovery and political history of the United States. Hec the British banned the dutch from trading with the usa when they wanted freedom from the uk but the dutch merchants still traded guns and ammo plus more to the American colonists. Also the American constitution is based on the dutch one, many American presidents were of dutch descent and not to mention Thomas Jefferson visited the Netherlands for a loan !
As a Native American, I can assure you that my ancestors were not peaceful prairie hippies, at one with nature, and living in tranquility, peace and harmony with other tribes. My ancestors were Warriors who lived for killing, raping, torturing, pillaging, and enslaving our enemies, other tribes who believed in doing the same thing to us. Our enemies were anyone and everyone not of our immediate tribe. Men women,and their children. From new born babies to the very old. Killing and stealing were the only ways to gain honor, status, and wealth. Torturing our captives to death was a good time, and family entertainment. But all of that is in the past, and America would not be the great nation that it is today if we stayed there. Nothing was ever stolen from us. We were conquered by a stronger, more powerful people, just as my ancestors had conquered those before them. Spoils go to the conquer.
I am proud to be an American.
This comment hit me hard.
Thank you for posting.
Wow, very forceful and true.
I'm a grown woman, but I'll tell you that what I greatly resent is how absolutely dishonest the public education system is with their "framing" of history. It's the narrative and framing that's been pushed in schools for many decades, the "European ancestors...automatically bad" framing. Its very dishonest, damaging, and we're seeing the repercussions of manifesting in America today. Young people feel shame or dislike automatically for simply being born here, and if they do have European or white ancestors, somehow it's at least implied you should feel shame; shame for something you took no part in, and shame that people you might or might not have been long-distance related to, might've done some bad things over a century ago. If this aspect of history has been distorted, imagine what all other history the education systems (public schools and colleges, and private ones as well) has purposely been deceptive about? And is it just the educational institutions, or are the historians also guilty of deceptive framing and misleading?
History needs to be taught honestly, and from a neutral standpoint, no matter how uncomfortable for us that it might be; that's how we learn from our ancestors mistakes. Someone(s) does not want US knowing our actual history.
Odd, you never mentioned tribe.
@@mystdragon8530 Is that a problem?
Simple! Someone always wants to be in CHARGE !
Hence the phrase “Too many chiefs not enough Indians.”
Families fight amongst themselves, often to the point of violence. Why people believe that there was ever a group of peace loving people where violence was absent is beyond my understanding. This belief that there was or can be a Utopia leads to incredible violence on a global level.
All day long!!...
I like this girl for her good sense.
The story of Cain and Abel ought to remind us why peace is an illusion.
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Maybe what it teaches is... "Peace is a choice"....
Granted, the people with the most power over the masses... Seem to make every choice, the worst possible. 🥴🤔
@@jimhughes1070 Not remotely true. Just more propaganda you've been fed by leftyst hollyweird and leftysts education.
The search for beaver has always led to trouble
....I see what you did there.
Let’s hope it doesn’t go extinct
If modern feminists and other modern extremists have their way it will. @@anthonyhulse1248
LOL! Ain't it the truth?
Yet nowadays you have to ask how do you define a beaver.
This is why Rome conquered Britain - the Britons were disunited and constantly warring with each other ❤❤❤
Same in gaul
Lucky for them. The only thing that makes them special is they were both Roman provinces. Otherwise they would be the same as Eastern Europe today.
They got only as far England. They never made it to Scotland
Same anarcho-terrorist behaviour was involved on both sides at the earliest of contacts...
It's notable that some tribes immediately joined with Romans and let them get on with it...
Enjoying peace and life is not an unreasonable desire, especially in a world of differing but recognisable pagan beliefs that played little part in colonisation by stronger or better technological peoples...
Tom Sowell is the rare historic truth teller.
What, he chooses his words carefully…call a thing a thing. Stolen land.
@Lloyd.Browne Stop your ignorance is showing. Savages are savages and that is the point. But of course, since you are a scholar, at least in your own mind, you know so much more. Stick with Howard Zinn he is right up your alley.
@ Thomas Sewell’s skill in manipulating narratives highlights how the truth can be obscured to serve hidden agendas. By framing his discussions to distract from critical realities, he enables oppressors to justify their actions as ethical, even when evidence suggests otherwise.
This tactic reflects a broader strategy of maintaining control by distorting public perception. It’s imperative to critically analyze such figures and their motives, rather than accept their narratives at face value.
Genuine intellectual integrity requires thorough examination and a commitment to uncovering the truth-qualities Thomas Sewell appears to disregard in favor of serving his own or others’ interests.
I do hope you have learnt something from this comment.
@@Lloyd.BrowneIn that case you are intellectually unarmed. You only reveal your lack of knowledge and/or very liberal indoctrination by such a comment.
@@motorcop505 This is where you get to cite, critical your point...
Thomas Sowell is the type of intellectual / Scholar America needs. Driven by FACTS, LOGIC and Causality. Not Emotions, victimhood and bogus philosophy’s.
Yes but that doesn't help to divide and promote politicians and their agendas...people also tend to believe what they want and just find some way to confirm what they think. It might work to teach children actual history again unbiased but I fear we can't go home again if you know what I mean
You only say what you are saying because he hasn’t spoken the truth about you or challenged your belief system. The moment he speaks something that doesn’t fit into your narrow minded narrative ,you will throw him under the bus. You people are the biggest hypocrites who have ever breathed oxygen. I hate these things who call themselves “Human!”
@@Denise_2262 Sowell like the ruling class itself is a short sighted intellectual fool. A cherry picker for the capitalist ruling class.
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Indeed.
The age old lesson here is that if you are not strong enough to hold onto your land, someone else will take it from you.
The problem is people use today's standards to judge events of the past. Land is never stolen, it is either gotten through war or it's paid for.
Which is why countries have borders.
@@ThomasSowellTV AGREED and well said. Manifest Destiny was america's battle cry back then and they made it come true by any means necessary.
@@ThomasSowellTV The problem with what you've posted is that you're using unethical principles from the past that have been banned for a long time. "Proscription" (in the below quote) means "banned."
Quoting from the "Right of conquest" Wikipedia page:
The right of conquest is a right of ownership to land after immediate possession via force of arms. It was recognized as a principle of international law that gradually deteriorated in significance until its proscription in the aftermath of World War II following the concept of crimes against peace introduced in the Nuremberg Principles. The interdiction of territorial conquests was confirmed and broadened by the UN Charter, which provides in article 2, paragraph 4, that "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations." Although civil wars continued, wars between established states have been rare since 1945. Nations that have resorted to the use of force since the Charter came into effect have typically invoked self-defense or the right of collective defense.[1]
same as money it is never stolen only taken by those more powerful like the government through taxes. hail taxes@@ThomasSowellTV
They conquered each other for millennia, then were conquered. Nothing was stolen, it was won.
It was stolen because of the DISEASES Europeans brought with them
Exactly, nothing new going on, this has happened all over the globe for tens of thousands of years. Still is actually.
and 99% of the deaths by disease were incidental. Most natives died without ever having seen or heard of a white person. Also, the europeans came back from the new world with syphilis, for which they had no defense. The natives were mostly asymptomatic.
Shush… the truth is dangerous.
@@zombieapocalypse3837 It led to the birth of our great nation. They were the longest running military adversaries that the United States has ever had, now we're all Americans. If that's not worth honoring, I don't know what is.
Mr. Sowell should be writing our history books. These books should be what our children are learning from.
no. we should be writing our history books. we should be interested. we should use common sense. we should do basic investigation.
Good Uncle Thomas always tells you what you want to hear and leave out the details.
I had a "friend" years ago that mentioned that he was mostly Amerindian. I thought I that we had something in common, so I said that I had Amerindian on both sides of my family. He asked what tribes. I said that on my father's side was Osage and didn't even get to tell him the other tribe because he said loudly that the Osage were bad people. Evidently, he still held a ancient grudge. No wonder the Europeans could take the whole continent so quickly.
Exactly, it’s all the in-fighting. People say colonialism is why certain groups of people or places are not as strong as the western world. Not true, it’s because of all the tribalism! They cannot evolve or advance when they are just focusing on knocking each other down rather than uniting and building. There is still tribal warfare in a lot of places today.
My grandmother's tribe is Arkansas Cherokee (Tsalagi) & the Osage slaughtered most of the band when they were "relocated" to the eastern lands of Osage territory. Indeed, they have bad blood with the Kiowa & Comanche as well.
The Osage: they had it **coming**
@@thedude4795 And what is that supposed mean?
This is odd, I am part Chippewa and part Chreokee and I have never met another Indian, or part Indian, that still held those views. Granted, I have met some Apache that just outright hated everyone except other Apaches. Here in the US we are all mutts these days with the common issue of a big governement trying to subjugate us all.
Thomas Sowell is a treasure for any sane mind or objective learner.
Especially since he was a Socialist when young. He saw that it didn't work and grew up. Thank God. No BS here.
Amen to that :)
@michaelanderson1067 Not in this instance. Bet you can't cite occasions when he was wrong
Perspective is easily lost online.
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Disunity is weakness. Dr. Sowell has so much to offer to those who would listen.
That's why the british used divide & conquer against all the indingeous they subjugated (or tried to subjugate). It was quite effective for them.
@@Corteum Divide and conquer has ever been the tactic of tyrants. And we are still seeing it today.
@@Corteum Same with the Romans who practically invented the divide and conquer method of war
There can't be unity between different people , you can only achieve peace for a while
But, actually, diversity is strength!
I'm Cherokee Nation. I'm not actually Cherokee but the Cherokee adopted my ancestors from other tribes where war had taken place. Indigenous Americans are as human as anyone else. A desire for survival and to have power over your circumstances is something we can all relate to.
Hi cutie.
Cherokee isn't a race, it's a tribe. If your ancestors were adopted into the tribe you're Cherokee.
@@Tom-y1j I'm aware of that. I was trying to tease out the idea that plenty of tribes had and do have unity with each other.
@@MakeYourOwnMind OK, let's acknowledge that many didn't though.
@@Tom-y1j I've got no issues with that.
Every American should be taught Sowell in school. He is one of the greatest academics of the 20th century.
No. No, he's not.
Yes. He is. Case closed.@@synupps877
@@synupps877 so who is?
Thomas Sowell IS one of the greatest academics of the century, but we're in the 21st century.
@@mayormccheese6171 Why do you ask? Sowell isn't.
Schools, politicians, and the "news" media in Canada totally ignore Canada's pre-Columbian slavery, slavery that was rampant in most, but not all, regions of Canada.
Raiding was essential for smaller tribes for genetic diversity and sometimes supplies. Larger nations were the slavers.
The tribes were still killing other tribes into the 1900’s but it’s all the settlers faults. Also in Canada they make a big deal about missing indigenous women, take a guess who is to blame for the majority….you got it, indigenous men.
THEY CALL IT HAVING MEMORY PROBLEMS AS THEY WANT TO BE SEEN AS EARTH'S MOST SPIRITUAL BEINGS!! LAMO AT THAT ONE , THEY WERE SAVAGES !
indeed, a classic case of to lose your history is to lose your way.
What happened with those ''discovered graves'' in Canada? nowhere to be found...
I have been saying this for years. We need to stop pretending that the United States was the only country that had slaves. That’s not saying we don’t recognize that fact it’s just to say we need to stop acting like slavery was an American invention
Native Americans and and South American natives like the maya and Incas had slaves long before a single European foot hit the shores of north, south and Central America.
The Chinese had slaves, the Vikings had slaves, the Egyptians had slaves, the Persians had slaves, the African tribes had slaves, the Greeks had slaves and the mongols had slaves. Now if you break that down that’s every single continent except Antarctica that had slavery but we are the only ones who seem to constantly bring it up like we were an exception and not a rule
Very interesting. Too bad American history is not taught in public schools were Satanic Marxist and Woke ideas are the preferred means to dumb down the ignorant massess into democrat controlled plantations as was and continues to be the methodology of the American oligarchy, and war pigs...
All races, all nations, all civilisations had slaves. The British, the Americans, both Christian Nations were the ones that stopped it. Paying for a higher Moral Cause with blood and treasure. If reparations are due, should they be paid to those who ended slavery.
Don’t forget the Romans…I won’t lol
Feel better now do ya?
And most importantly the majority of these slaves were not black in spite of what some victimhood addicts would insist. Slavery throughout most of the world was not a race thing, just a "my people conquered your people (which could be anything from nations warring down to family feuds) so now you serve us".
Dr. Sowell is a treasure that much of America has not learned to value and appreciate.
Thank you, Dr. Sowell, for all your videos and your knowledge in educating the masses.
They don’t introduce him in the public school system.
He's worth listening to but he is an inveterate and shameless sellout.
We need to celebrate Dr Thomas Sowell today, not when he passes..
We need to build a statue of him today, not when he passes away.
That’s always bothered me. In a small town I grew up in they named the local arena after a dedicated caretaker who worked there his whole life. Why not do that before he passes?
I'm in. Gofundme?
.......the little white libbies would want to tear it down.....it would represent the truth...they don't like that.
Leftists will just tear it down and call him racist
Nah! They’ll only tear it down!
Facts and logic, a rare thing these days. This man really makes you stop and think, which I'm sure is why many people avoid him.
Sowell,facts and logic simply don't fit the popular narrative.
Bruh this doesn't surprise is the lack of education people realize not all native Americans were these same tribes have same beliefs. They all have history before the Europeans came in. It's also a joke when people also think the colonizers were some heros as well when reality they all left Europe bc it was shit. The audacityXD
I stop and think. And I get surprised. Wow. Disunity. That is a real fact and logic. And these Indians are not from India.
So the original settlers were OUT NUMBERED 100 to 1 ... if the Indians are SUCH BUTCHERS WHY didn't they kill the settlers???
They out numbered them 100 to 1 - and the assertion is that the indians are war like - so why didn't they slaughter the settlers, given they out numbered them 100 to 1???
Mmm.
@ridgemonthigh8h4a The evidence continues to point out the fact that we live in Clown 🤡 World.I'm 68 and old enough to have lived in a time when things were more "normal".And this makes our present situation all the more painful.
Sowell is so intelligent. I always benefit from his wisdom.
They he shouldn't have used the term Indian where people without context will get confused with India people
The system just makes sure its a black man that tells you this so you don't hear it from a white nationalist that will ultimately lead you down the path of natural law.
@@HistoricalWeapons Sounds like a you problem.
@@HistoricalWeaponsI would expect listeners to relate "Indian" to the context. The conversation is totally in North America.
I have learned more about American history from Thomas Sowell than my government education, both high school and college.
Uncle Thomas is very good at distracting and covering up America's Satanic history. He's perfect for those of you trying to protect your fragile ego from the truth.
True story from Michigan on Indian Disunity. Eastern Michigan University's "native mascot" was the Hurons. Central Michigan University's is the Chippewas. Various protestors picked both universities to drop the mascot names. The Chippewas (Ojibwa, actually) asked the Huron Tribe to do it first. So, EMU dropped the Hurons and became the Eagles. The Chippewas approached CMU, got a license for the Tribe's name to be used by the University, and CMU is still known as the Chippewas ( *fire up, chips!* ). The Chippewas now smirk at the Hurons and enjoy the name and licensing rights.
Chippewa and Ojibwa are the same tribe but European attempts at spelling the same name. A tongue twister, as well as a mind bender! On the Great Plains they are called the Saulteaux. Pronounced So Toe. I knew a young Saulteaux woman here in Calgary who was a waitress at Boston Pizza and was she ever beautiful! Ouch!!!
LOL that's hilarious
Anytime someone says they'll give up something if you do it first, you know they're cheats and crooks.
The Native Americans were constantly fighting amongst themselves. There are literally hundreds of books on this, tens of thousands of individual accounts, historical documents and observer writings. There was no Native unity.
This reminds me of the two Senators who recently "faced off". ...("Stand up"! ..."No, you stand up"! )@@5Gburn
The native Americans are too often portrayed as tree hugging nature lovers with great sagely wisdom. The alliance among the tribes that defeated Custer broke up afterward, driven by old tribal feuds They were brutal in their dealings with other tribes, and were not above genociding other competing tribes. In the movie, "Dancing with Wolves, the Pawnees are shown as the bad guys raiding the Lakotas, when historically it was the other way around. The Lakotas/Sioux picked on the smaller Pawnee tribe, and committed the notorious Massacre Canyon in 1873, consisting mostly of women and children, mutilating many of their bodies. If Europeans had never set foot in America, they would still be torturing, raping, enslaving, and killing each other today.
" If Europeans had never set foot in America, they would still be torturing, raping, enslaving, and killing each other today."
You only have to go onto a reservation to see what it's like without Western governance methods.
We have the same problem here in Australia. We have aboriginal 'communities' ie land given to the natives so they can live their own lives how they choose. They are all terrible conditions with much, much higher rates of violence, rape, and incest. But it's somehow this is still Whitey's fault...
The Pawnees fear of the Sioux is the reason they volunteered to live on a reservation, they were promised U.S. cavalry protection.
One constant in life is that you can count on Hollywood to change facts around to "suit" the movie.
Yup. That's the cold hard truth. Truth hurts. Natives act like the ancestors were kind and loving to one other. But that wasn't the case at all. The ancestors fought one another.
@jonnyneace8928 oh. Why are you saying we? Are you over 300 years old? Did you see the wars? Did you see how brutal the ancestors were to each other? I ain't lying. The ancestors always fought each other. There was even in fighting. All over land and game.
But I was taught that all Indians lived in an idyllic and peaceful world, at one with the spirits and nature. What a shock!
The truth is in old books that can't be censored by big media. I learned the brutally of the Natives this year from yt documentaries and old books.
Who taught you that? I was taught about the in-fighting of native long ago. It's a human flaw and tragedy for us to kill for control and power. It doesn't matter if it were the Chinese, Africans, Arabs, European, or in this case, the American natives. We can't seem to get along without murdering each other.
Like wakonda in africa. Africa is so peaceful. 😄
LOL
except the uncles are all alcoholics and they have like 30 cars in their yard (only one works)
Dr. Sowell is one of the greatest thinkers America has ever produced. A true intellectual giant.
The Indians were raiding and fighting amongst themselves for millennia before Europeans arrived.
And the Europeans had been raiding and warring against each other for millennia before that.
@@EinsteinSurferyes, we are all human. Good and bad tendencies. Lets add the others to our list
Just like the Euros but only with rocks and wood, very civil, greed was taught
@@EinsteinSurferif it makes u feel better.
Murder, rape, kidnapping, enslavement…it’s almost like they were human too. 🙄
Sowell is a gifted intellect.
He's just telling the truth-the rest of the "intellectuals" are slaves to the dogma and / or the dollar.
yep he's a great guy. but you know what he mainly does? questions what he's told, finds the facts, presents them. nothing we couldn't do ourselves.
Thank you Thomas as always for bringing historical truth to yet another emotional subject.
The only thing Sowell proves is that humans existed in tribal societies without written language, private property, money and nuclear families.
Thomas Sowell is great! He gets the untold truth out to the masses -- as long as we also help in the spreading of this info also.
Kudos to Thomas Sowell!!!
Always blows my mind that everyone crying about the native Americans in the colonial days thinks that they were all just living in a peaceful utopian commune with no struggles and perfect harmony between each other until white settlers showed up. If you actually read any of the actual journals or historical writings from some of the first settlers here, you would see why they called them savages. Not only through the actions that they committed on the settlers, but the actions that they committed amongst each other. They weren't all just sitting around campfires smoking and worshiping mother earth and singing with all the forest animals as they want you to believe.
Having known the truth as a kid in the 90s, my eyes were further opened to the cult-like hive mind of leftists when I witnessed them go into mental gymnastics and have near-meltdowns anytime I pointed out the truth about the oh-so-sacred natives.
It’s like they were determined to hate themselves and their own people.
Colonialism.
Imagine a snapshot in time.
Most today reference the slaves in America. Most today reference the Natives in North America.
Most never reference how Brazil brought in 10 times more slaves then the Americans, and killed them after 6-7 years for non-service instead of re-purposing them. I don’t hear anyone blaming the Portuguese for this at all. And again, they were 10 times worse than the Americans.
So now reference a new snapshot in time
100 BC. Before Christ. The Roman Empire spread through the Europe continent, Africa, and Middle East.
They made all their way up to Britannia, Gal, Germania, almost as far as present-day Norway. All of these had different names then, all of them given names by Romans.
They moved in, Killed nomadic barbarians. Put others in reserves. Almost all of which believed in multi-god religions, including the Romans. The Romans brought in roads, Aqua ducts for water, fences so you did not have to chase your animal food. Methods to get rid of waste, don’t poop in the water you drink. They brought horses for battle, advanced weapons, advanced smelting, mass commerce systems, orderly government. But still even took slaves, sold them, used women as chattel, and killed any dissidents.
By Mid 400 A.D. these occupied people adopted many Roman ways, religion, and all of the things brought to them by Romans. Even their life expectancy increased by about 20 years. They then figured out they could take back their land, the Romans had a weak emperor. The Goths pushed them back, and over time the Roman empire fell.
No where do I ever see the blame put on the Romans or Italians for doing what they did. But they single handedly changed the world. They raised its bar in all aspects. Government, Commerce, waste handling, Food supply chains, almost everything.
They too were overrun buy others, like the Muslims, the Khans. But all have learned from it and developed. Not blaming anyone before, and be god damn real here, for far worse atrocities than most things that happened in America. Sure there was some deaths, some hardships. But the Romans where far more vicious and ruthless.
Don’t see the entirety of Europe blaming the romans for their ancestor’s pain and suffering, or making the Italians pay reparations. If anything the Muslims were equally ruthless when they spread over lower Europe in 680- 1100 AD.
The point of all of this is that we always reference history that supports the blame of a narrative. We take all that we learn from imperialism free of charge, but if occupied you must pay pay pay no matter what you learned.
All of this history is an evolution of our civility. This is how we bumbled our way to enlightened thought and development.
Nah fam, u see, that is Ypipo writing, and as we all know Ypipo be the devil and lie with their pen and their tongue all day long so we can disregard the writing
The idol worship is also a grave sin. Acting like worshipping mother earth is peaceful shows how deceptive it is.
Great point.
Thomas Sowell should be in every textbook in America.
He won't be as long as Democrats control public education.
Onley in white schools..
@@gordonlewis9377 Thanks to Dems and Marxists, you’ll actually have “white schools” again. Way to go! Nice progress.
@@gordonlewis9377 The way things are going, you’ll soon have “white schools” again. Segregation has been brought back by the left. Some progress that is.
Liberal education groups hate Sowell. It won't ever happen.
Thomas Sowell's books should be used in every history and social studies class in every school and university in this nation.
Agreed but the politicians don’t want educated and critical thinkers. Politicians want emotion driven and uniformed voters wha are easy to manipulate.
And in Canada too!
My dad is a native american, the first of his tribe to become a medical doctor. He worked for the IHS, Indian Health Service, for the majority of my childhood. One school I was going to had a new teacher cone in who was extremely liberal. She tried teaching us that the natives were peaceful, and had no disease before the Europeans came. She said that natives only counted coup instead of killing for warfare. All the kids laughed at her. Eventually the tribal council got wind of what she was trying to teach us. Apparently they were outraged that she was taking away their proud history. She kinda stopped talking about native hostory after that
@Okami1313 - That’s so bizarre to me. Every culture on earth has engaged in behavior that is bad to even outright evil. There’s not an ethnicity on earth that has not been enslaved *and* also owned slaves themselves at some point. There’s not an ethnicity on earth that hasn’t committed genocide *and* that hasn’t been the victim of genocide.
My paternal Great Grandmother’s parents (my Great-Greats, of course) were full-blooded Native American Indians of either Cherokee or Chickasaw - we’re not exactly sure as we don’t really have records around to investigate, sadly) and it’s because of them that I have an appreciation for Native American Indian culture and artwork (I even have a tobacco pipe made for me by hand by a full-blood Cherokee pipe carver named Michael but I’ve never smoked it. I own hundreds of briar pipes but I just can’t bring myself to smoke that one even though he wanted me to smoke it! I really should just fill it with some fine pipe tobacco and smoke it - that’s what he wanted) but I know that the people who crossed over the land bridge that was once between Asia and what we now call Alaska and became the First Nations peoples of Canada, Native American Indians of the USA, and those who pressed even further south and filled Central and South America were not peaceful and loving people - they were as savage as every other ethnicity on our planet have been. Why bother denying that when we all know it’s nonsense? War, rape, slaughtering children, taking slaves, all of it - all of our ancestors did all of these things no matter what part of the world they settled in.
B-b-but...White Liberal women know _everything._ Don't you know this?
@EatTheMarxists pack that bowl! If I gave you an apple pie, then you would eat it, right? Apple pies are meant to be eaten and pipes are meant to be smoked. You may think both of them look nice sitting by the window but that's really not it's main purpose, but it's a pipe so you can really have your cake and eat it to. Make that bowl official!
I as a native American (Choctaw) support this video and Thomas sowell this information is accurate.
Same here, cuz! :)
@@ronthunderwoodstudios1367 And neither one of you get to speak for all Native Americans any more than I get to speak for all Europeans. Maybe that was true for Choctaw. Doesn't mean it was true for all of the hundreds and hundreds of Indigenous tribal groups with varying systems of governance, trade, and conflict that preceded European contact.
Thank you sir for the truth.
@@shanegiofu213 Lol, yet the native tribes could be exceedingly brutal with one another, and we have a history of large empirical native peoples slaughtering their enemies and failing as an empire. Not to mention all the tribes that faded into nothingness, being wiped out and/or assimilated into another tribe.
No one claimed to speak for everyone, but history speaks for itself, all people seek power, and many at any cost. Native Americans were no different, and the Europeans brought enormous power, but even if they didn't, evidence proves that control was passed just as much, if not more, between tribal groups in the Americas than the rest of the world.
@@shanegiofu213My paternal grandmother and her parents, etc, were Cherokee. They told oral history of tribes fighting other sides. They said it was brutal. They chose not to live on a reservation. Reservations breed poverty.
The history of Chief Pontiac and the Iroquois is great reading. Pontiac "sold" the white settlers land he had taken from other tribes, and then later got the tribes together and went to war against the British settlers after they had driven out the French during the French and Indian War. His war against the British eventually set up the western boundary of the colonies as the peak of the applachian mountains, however that did not last.
What books are you referring to?
I can’t imagine how hellish war was back then given the rather “primitive” methods we had of healing wounds and such
Fascinating history. Those pre-revolutionary war centuries are practically ignored in school; the Mayflower landed, and then some dudes threw some tea into some water, and then there was a star-spangled banner yet waving over the land of the brave and stuff. Don’t worry about that 200 year gap in between. We barely even mention the French and Indian wars, despite their importance in triggering the revolution. Who was it that mistook Pontiac for Cadillac?
Correct
This is why GM should've never discontinued Pontiac disgraceful & wrong!
If only 90% black people would listen to this great Man! 🙏🏼❤
Hes bought and paid for by white people to make you feel comfortable about being racist 😂 How can an intelligent person not see this.
🟪🟧Spineless coward Thomas Sowell, never traveled to the deep racist South, to fight against brutal Southern hate and racism, alongside: MLK, Jewish Rabbis, Rev. Jessie Jackson & thousands of college students.
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Very interesting. Too bad American history is not taught in public schools were Satanic Marxist and Woke ideas are the preferred means to dumb down the ignorant massess into democrat controlled plantations as was and continues to be the methodology of the American oligarchy, and war pigs...
The Dems would never Win again.
The most friendly indians i personally met were Navajo. Some fun times with them!! Love u guys!!
@@SuperZippyzippy Yet, the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi aren't "close". Many of us whites kind of group those together
After traveling the world, my husband and I were in agreement that the Thai people were the kindest, most polite people in the world.
Yet, when I was sharing this view with another woman at a nail salon once, the Vietnamese nail tech who was working on my nails Very quickly informed me that, as someone who had spent over 18 months in a Thai immigration camp, that hospitality Wasn't extended to other Asians. She was very bitter about what she related was exceptionally cruel behavior. Apparently all the other Vietnamese were in total agreement because the chatter between them went from daily banter to obviously angry stories and personal experiences.
Very similar to the Celts and Germanic tribes in Roman Europe. Tribal grudges often took priority over anti-Roman sentiment.
Its not just similar its identical. Including the less developed and hopelessly inferior cultures clashing with an utterly superior one. I make no bones about it: my ancestors were utterly humbled by Roman supremacy. We didnt whine about it though. We didnt demand reparations. We simply exceeded them.
Still does. Look up Glasgow Celtic Green Brigade and why they support Palestine
It's the same everywhere, in every culture in all history. Even the Chimpanzees are doing it...
The idea that whitey bad, browny good is a concoction of Hollywood and it zombie masses who pay money to buy into the BS.
Caesar's strategy in Gaul was to side with one tribe over another, then rule both. More explicit, but a similar situation.
@@fredfreddy2338 If you mean the Roman supremacy or British and certain other European powers surpassing them to build the modern world its basic history.
The Romans engaged in brutal slaughter and slavery surpassed only by their genius at the time. Go look at historical depictions of Rome and compare them to what my ancestors called "cities" at that time. Go look at their roads. Their aqueducts. Their bathhouses, their villas and the colesseum.
In other words, Indians behaved toward each other the way other humans did in Europe, Africa and Asia. Tribalism is hardwired into humans. If aliens from another planet invaded the USA, would the Russians and Chinese come to the rescue of the USA? If they invaded Israel, would any other middle eastern countries come to the aid of Israel?
Exactly. That was has of course been the way Europeans have behaved towards each other most of our history too.
My own people, the Finns, were colonized by the Swedish and then remained a part of Sweden for hundreds of years, and the main reason may have been that the Finns didn't manage to unify into any bigger group, like a real larger kingdom, before the Vikings had gotten that idea and had become that actual big kingdom. So while during the Viking era Finnish tribes still managed to keep kicking the marauding Vikings out once they started to come as a unified force - and kept coming and kept coming once their rulers had decided that that was something that needed to be done - while Finns were still separate tribes, or very small "kingdoms", fighting among themselves as much as against the invaders, Finns could no longer stop them, but they just kept coming until most of what is now Finland was under their power. Because back then there really were no "Finns" yet.
Against something like aliens - maybe, if we got the idea strongly enough that the invaders are something "other", and those invaders managed to piss off enough humans from different groups that it would become the human tribe against that other tribe. But if they knew enough of humans, from previous study or something, that they valued the truth in "divide and conquer" when dealing with us no chance in hell we'd manage to combine our powers against them. At least not in time.
@@pohjanakka4992 You want to see a sudden, idiotic version of tribalism, go to a Boston Red Sox game, sit in the bleachers at Fenway Park wearing a Yankees shirt!
When the British started to take over India, they made damn sure they had allies. Similarly, one of the first things the British did in North America was ally with the Iroquois. That alliance proved critical on a number of occasions. So, to answer the question if aliens invaded the USA or Israel, a lot would depend on the their strength and motives. I mean why take on the whole world if you don't have to? The aliens would probably ally themselves with the Russians or the Chinese first, before trying to conquer the entire world.
@@joep8787make it better. Otakus fighting against each other for which anime character is the best.
I think it was Reagan that made a comment that it would take an alien invasion for people on Earth to get together. Although whether they would actually do so is debatable as well- see Harry Turtledoves Alternate history sci-fiction story.
This guy is killing it, it has to be liberating and refreshing to say things based on logic and facts in those time and age.
Just goes to show that diversity among native Americans was not their strength.
Lmfao
My students love Thomas Sowell.
Good for you! Do you teach high school students? College? thanks.
Good to hear.Sowell should be taught in every public school.A great American.
Thank goodness someone is introducing the young to this man's works.
I was thirty years old when I was exposed to Thomas Sowell… (high school, university, grad school all seemed to ignore him…) It’s so sad, as his writings have single handedly help shape my thought process
That is a promising sign. Keep sharing truths with your students.
I LOVE how Thomas Sowell thinks, so grateful he is an American and proud of it. America is enriched because of him.
They were competing with one another’s tribes long long long before settlers and firearms ever came into the picture. They competed and conquered one another over whatever resources the land provided. The same was true of the African , European, Asian, and Celtic peoples of every age of humanity. The implication that the Indian tribes only oppressed one another once “ white” people immigrated to the continent is ridiculous.
So right! Watch APOCALYPTO, Mel Brooks directed it, quite mesmerizing
Historically the same with us Africans and to this day.
Yes, same story all over the world.. we're all just humans fighting for resources
@@notundermywatch3163 Consider the French and English. Or the English, Scots and Welsh... Or the Texans, Oklahomans and Missourians... People are humans
And biology influences history. Native Americans had no immunity to diseases from other continents, & were decimated by plagues in both North & South America. Europeans could not handle African diseases, so fighting the local populations was much harder. The way things unfolded the African population stayed far more numerous than immigrants & colonizers, so Africans are the leaders throughout Africa, today.
As soon as the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, they were approached by the local Wampanoag Indians and asked to ally with the Wampanoags against the Narragansetts of Rhode Island.
There was more peace between Indian tribes during the 50 years after the Pilgrims arrived than there was before.
In fact, the only reason the natives did not kill the Europeans right away , except for the colony at Roanoke Virginia, was because they coveted all that "stuff' the Europeans had...things made of metal, like knives and guns. Look what the Vikings encountered in Nfld. Canada. In their sagas they wrote "As soon as we had set up a permanent camp the Indians came and moved right in beside us...and proceeded to beg borrow and steal everything they could" . They even had a good name for them "Skraelings" translated as "The wretched ones".
@@fredfreddy2338Well of course they didn't call them Indians...they called them SKRAELINGS , as my post clearly explains.
@@fredfreddy2338
--- readers can understand what he is saying clearly
@@markanthony3275 Not sure if they killed them where are the bodies.
Beautifully explained and backed with historical facts, free from woke narrative.
This is the unfortunate nature of mankind and it just seems to get worse. One of my ancestral grandmothers was an Algonquin whose first husband and their children were murdered by the Iroquois. Another grandfather was kidnapped by them and tortured for months before escaping. It's as if we never learn from the past.
I always WANTED to believe that the Native Americans lived these peaceful lives in harmony with nature and each other. But another part of me said; they were human beings, and they probably did what humans do everywhere.
No, we don't. And we never will.😪
@dreamsofturtles1828
How old are you? We were taught that there were many different tribes and the location they were from and it was common sense they had constant conflicts.
Getting worse? I think overall violence is much less common than ever before, just look at the story you mentioned.
@@afriday11 Less common? Have you watched the news lately? There is more violence in the world than ever before.
Mr Sowell! Thank you for your contribution to our understanding of our human nature. We can’t leave our defects behind until we are able to stand before the Truth. I am so grateful for your existence as a way shower!!!!
I love The Prof! Perhaps the greatest mind of our time. Even his speaking style is pointed yet soothing. A National Treasure!
The best President the USA never had.
Nice to hear an honest and balanced discussion of the history of US and Native American relations. I like to tell people that the Native Americans did to each other everything that they complain about us doing to them. Which is also true of Muslims and Israelis.
Very interesting. Too bad American history is not taught in public schools were Satanic Marxist and Woke ideas are the preferred means to dumb down the ignorant massess into democrat controlled plantations as was and continues to be the methodology of the American oligarchy, and war pigs...
I wouldn't lump the Israeli's into that. The UN created the country so it is not their fault. Israel has non jewish citizens that are treated as equals. Then every country that borders it started multiple all-out wars against them. Israel, as the victor (multiple times) had the right to seize all of the lands they conquered in retaliation but gave 90% of it back. The latest terrorist attacks were from regions that they could've incorporated into Israel but allowed to coexist.
@@ChatGPT1111 "Allowed to coexist" as an open air prison.
Wouldn’t be so bad if Gaza’s government applied its humanitarian aid received toward the betterment of life in Gaza for its citizens. Instead their government has used these funds to built tunnels under residential areas and stockpile weapons in hospitals solely to kill Jews because they are Jews.
Also, Gaza’s southern border is with Egypt, so why not decry it as responsible for this “open-air prison” as well?
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 doesn't Hamas govern that land?
Guns and liquor-two things that will never become obsolete.
The indigenous people's gave us tobacco in return, and now we have a government bureau called Alcohol, Tobacco. And Firearms.
Ha!
Add usury, slavery and sex-trading and you can fund an empire.
7:04 this painting is the view I see every day from my place. Peaks of Otter, Sharp Top mountain in the front, Flat top in the back. The creek in the front is literally 50 yards from my car.
Dr. Thomas Sowell has always been on the side of the Opresseb and Disenfranchised in our Societies at Home and Abroad;
and doing so with that sense of knowledge and understanding that comes only with the dedication of deep and intense work of study, and the enlightening search for the truth, total understanding and knowledge of the particular subject matter.
GOD BLESS Him and his gifted ability for study, and the teaching of his fruits of his work to the world at large.
Agreed. And there is not a more oppressed group today as white christian men 🙏🏻
God bless you Professor Sowell.
People move around, people fight wars, boundaries are drawn, things change
Even leftietards such as the USSR, China, etc. colonized other countries and forced communism.
That doesn't make it right, or excusable....
@@robertlee4809 If "minorities" have done it, you have no argument.
@@robertlee4809 it's just a descriptive reality, not an ought claim
@@eek412 You wouldn't believe how much I here and see "Well they were doing it to each other". No, I don't think so...natives never attempted complete genocide of their own race....
Sowell is an American icon.
500 Nations, 500 different ways of life.
ALL pagan cultures, pagan defined as having had no influence from Judeo-Christian morality , share these three core characteristics ; their societies are marked by extreme violence, extreme aggression, and extreme promiscuity and perversity. What is the warrior culture if not a all three characteristics combined ?
Tribal people only get along when there is some one else to fight, if not they fight amongst themselves.
My grandpa was Native American. I’m glad Christianity came to these lands.
That means you are native also
@johnbrown4900 That means im part native American. And I'm glad Christianity came to these lands! That was my point. You people are obsessed with categorizing people.
Lol I could never look fondly on those who stole my land, raped and pillaged my people, and destroyed the cultural fabric of my society. But different strokes for different folks I guess
@@sloth6247We’re just creations of god. The ideas about races, and so on were invented by humans.
@@seanskywalka5172 That's a fairytale story. Things aren't so black and white.
More people need to know about this. There’s this misconception that Indians were peaceful victims of European conquest.
There will Never be peace with different people, culture,countries! Somebody’s always wants to be in Charge! The Boss!
This sounds so much more realistic than they other stuff I've heard. Human nature doesn't change that much. People be people.
It's always refreshing to hear authentic accurate history.
It's because that it's not mainstream. today history is not taught properly because the approach to it is isolationist in condemning and writing. It's cherry picked and politicized with death by association, rather than give the overall true picture of it.
That’s only partial. After disease many tribes were just trying to survive. No offensive wars just defensive to get food. The story of Natives is very complex and the United States and its citizens have a huge atrocity to answer for. A just God will not take it lightly if you think it was ok.
Truly COMPLETE history. The ONLY way to tell it.
My Cherokee ancestors were overjoyed by the arrival of Europeans because the so called "white man" protected them from constant attacks by the Comanche. Eventually they integrated into America and had their own hospitals and universities. It amazes me how modern tribes remain on a piece of land their whole lives. Thankfully much of the youth is deciding to either go to college, trade school, or join a branch of the military to improve the outcomes of their lives.
Thank you Thomas, you are a great man and I love your videos, telling the truth that some blacks never hear.
There are no truly indigenous peoples anywhere. We've been migrating throughout the world for millions of years. Now, we need to show kindness to each other.
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almost true
Everyone is indigenous to somewhere... and people have been conquered/ enslaved yadayada for thousands of years... and every culture/ race has participated in one way or another... all are guilty
I was not there then but could believe it started with more than 2 people yet in different places at about the same time. Perhaps a place in ancient Africa
The Indians were fighting each other long before Europeans arrived. They often wanted the other tribes land or game, or wanted to settle old grudges.
That's EVERY demographic. Europeans & Asians fought worse than everyone else.
Hmm it's almost like Europeans did the same shit hmm very strange...
@@erenjaeger1738 Seems like human nature. Every race and continent had expansion and contraction The only difference is the Europeans spreading out around the world was prophesied in the Bible. That is why every European nation became Christian, then for the most part threw off the shackles of Catholicism, and now are being invaded by non white peoples. The same people behind the Central banks are behind the movement of peoples, the gay agenda, the trans agenda, and the mixed races (browning of Europeans). It's all in the Bible. The peoples behind it all are the ones you can't talk about, and are against the mixing of races in their own country. They are even trying to expand their land by war and genocide.
they also raped, pillaged, sacrificed, and enslaved each other. They were barbaric, and not much has changed
This video and the comments are a fabulous history tutorial. Thank you to all. And as many have said: we are all Americans now, native or not.
I'm from Pennsylvania and a lot of people here are mixed with European and Native American blood. William Penn bought the claims of the land from the Native American tribes, after he was given the land by the King of England. My mom's side still has family with the last name of Morningstar. Thank you for the informative video.
Thomas deserves his flowers but will never get them because he is well researched and speaks facts, and we all know truth is canceled.
what sort of flowers does he deserve? Roses, tulips, daisies?
@@mahlonrhoades4509 He only includes what support his contentions. Did he mention the were no horses in North or South America before the Spanish? That people living in small groups of hunter gatherers with mostly stone tools have limited ability to wage a murderous war. That many groups did not have a written language. That corn and potatoes are GMO's? They don't survive without human intervention and they were domesticated plants developed by the peoples of North and South America. No Sowell would rather go on about liquor and guns because it suits his shallow thinking of capitalism and trade being responsible for everything. Here were people who had no need for land surveys, private property and imoney incentives to produce a life for themselves. It flies in the face of all who say people need rich bosses to tell them every move to make.
@@kimobrien. Are you a Marxist, as your icon proclaims?
Yet everything he said was still true
@@bigtobacco1098 If I only tell you what you want to hear is that telling the whole truth?
When I was a boy my dad told me a story of long ago that the Navajos almost annihilated a neighboring tribe. Finally an agreement was made, and the Navajos let the small tribe go. Just think how many other tribes were annihilated by larger groups that were never documented or orally recorded?
There are several known " Extinct" Tribes just in Florida alone (Apalachee, Timacua,Mocoso, and others) ,either annihilated by the Seminole and Creek in inter Tribal Wars, or killed off entirely by the Spanish Conquistadors taking control of Florida , I can only guess at how many times that process repeated itself across what is now the US, Canada, and Mexico with small, lesser known Tribes, although one noteworthy vanished Tribe is of course the Mohicans.
Sounds a lot like Europe over the last 2000+ years.
I read the book he wrote. It is an excellent piece of work and I learned so much from it. Highly recommend "Conquests and Cultures" which explains so much from geography to culture to economics to human nature. A must read if you really want to set aside your prejudices and assumptions and want to actually learn something.
It’s good to know that all indigenous people were peaceful and loving
Bruh all people fight. Europeans have been taking each others' heads off for millennia, including two world wars 🤣.
They were just all loving each other and making pottery until the evil Whites showed up😂
I mean depending which tribes tho? All tribes weren't warriors. Many were chill hunters gatherers like in California and northwest
@@erenjaeger1738 oh yeah who you think the warrior tribes killed, captured, raped and enslaved? Yup those Beatnik Indians.
@@erenjaeger1738 they would still raid other tribes and intrestingly some of the northwestern tribes were in a similar role as the vikings. but no the majority of them were not chill, the californian tribes were chill to my knowledge.
The US government hosted visits by hundreds of tribal leaders to Washington to impress upon them the need to control their peoples and accept the reservations. Many, like Red Cloud (a warchief unlike the legendary Sitting Bull, fought the US Army to a standstill and forced the destruction of federal forts in the Powder River country), accepted the finality of the roaming ways while others would not give up roaming and raiding throughout millions of acres. The plains tribes could not be contained until their remudas and the buffalo were missing; this is why the pony herds and buffalo were shot. If the goal of the US Army and government was to "exterminate" the tribes they failed miserably; "The federal government recognizes 574 Native American tribes in the continental U.S. and Alaska." Moreover, in the 160 and more extant winter counts which recount generations of events, no genocide can be interpreted. Contrary to modern sentiment tribal warfare was massacre of all, sometimes only sparing some few adolescents and young women who might be adopted into a tribe if they proved their worth. Moreover, the popular myth of tribes in their own territories lying supine before the Europeans wilfully ignores the reality of tribes and peoples in constant warring flux contending for dominance, not unlike Italian warring renaissance states and not the spiritual beings living in harmony with nature as modern minds popularly imagine. "Whitewashing" is the word used by those ignorant of history to excuse their ignorance.
I agree, Native Americans got a raw deal. Their history is "parenthesis" of the history of the world. Their way of life would not have lasted. Someone, from somewhere that developed new technologies would have invaded eventually. It could have been the Chinese, Japanese, Arabs, Africans etc. The Europeans were just first to the new technologies for a plethora of reasons. One was the competion to survive with the Turkish Muslims that had white slaves, any slaves and controlled the Asian land route to China trade. Europeans, Portugal and Spain started exploring the ocean improving ships and navigation. Why didn't China discover California?
We used to make up 100% of this lands population
Now we supposedly only make up 2%
They succeeded in our extermination
574 tribes. That says it all. A ridiculously balkanized, broken-up patchwork of human social groups and that's a built-in weakness. That was destined to fail when confronted with an invading culture that was more united in language, order and customs than they were.
@@davestang5454 That "invading culture" was not some monolithic unity but riven itself by nationalities, locales, languages and religions. The history of Europeans in the New World interacting with the indigenous peoples, from the Spanish alliance with tribes and peoples to collapse the Aztec empire right through to the plains Indian Wars as Crow (Absaroka) and others allied with the US Army to track and defeat the Sioux (Lakota), is a patchwork of alliances against other groups or confederation. As example, the Apache at first looked to the Texans as allies against the Comanche and Mexicans, which devolved into the Apache being the last to surrender to the US government. The Huron and Iroquois as respective allies of the French and English incidentally served the Europeans; for the Huron and Iroquois it was a hereditary fight to the death, and the Huron lost.
@@rocknroll368 That end question is a little out of nowhere but I can answer: The ruling dynasties of China had enough problems trying to settle nearby lands like Vietnam or defending itself from Mongol hordes or peasant uprisings. That and the Pacific is quite a bit larger than the Atlantic with no contiguous island chain like Iceland then Greenland to supply a long voyage.
The Bering Strait would have had to been explored by Imperialist Russia, but they had there hands full in Europe.
Thank you Dr. Thomas Sowell for this historical brief.
What i love about Mr. Sowell is he gives us facts,even unpleasant to hear facts,and lets us think for ourselves intead of trying to sell us a politically correct narrative.
Can’t believe RUclips posted this video. Filled with truth and RUclips can’t handle they truth . American Indians!!!!
Canadian Indians are way worse.
As an American Indian. Of course they wouldn’t take it down. Although the right thinks that Natives have some special place in the lefts pantheon, they really couldn’t care less.
This is right up there with the Irish through the centuries. If they couldn't find a reason to fight, they'd drink 'til they thought of one!
Excellent video! I think the underlying issue is that society is unable to separate or distinguish between "reality of a situation" and "justification of current or past treatment"
Essentially, there are plenty of examples of how the Indigenous people lived... and how they were ultimately treated... but that doesn't make the current status quo correct on either front.
Saying the Indigenous weren't united, isn't an excuse to erase them... it's just a reality of the past.
Saying cultures fought and conquered eachother for millennia, doesn't mean we can ignore the atrocities of the past.
But lumping all Indigenous into this fantastical, can-do-no-wrong, kumbayah-singing, purely innocent of anything and everything... is just a wrong as lumping "white people" together into this race of pure evil.
Unfortunately our society can't see nor tolerate the gray area. They say there must be a clear winner and loser, beaten into oblivion, pointing to acts of atrocities, acting like they happened yesterday, so engulfed by the past they cannot see they're killing the future.
Digging out of this mess doesn't mean "white people" won... or that colonization won... or anybody won. At present were all on the same loosing path and it's going to take everyone working together to get out of this mess.
Sadly I don't see it happening any time soon. Much like the warring tribes of the past, the American people are at war with eachother, be them Indigenous or not. It will take either an incredible leader... or an incredible tragedy to get out of this, and the thought of the future where this doesn't happen absolutely horrifies me.
Nobody asked to be here... nobody can rewrite history... but we can learn from it... we can be better... we have to be.
I think the issue is many people are lead to believe native americans were somewhat of a monolith, even if they have different tribes.
When in reality it's more accurate to think of pre-columbian America of thousands of different smaller countries constantly in a flux of war and trade. Much like medieval Europe.
He is the only black historian I'll listen to and trust.
Too many black historians just can't resist lying and making up stuff to make themselves Jews, Indians, Egyptians, or others.
If many can not even tell the truth about slavery, then not much else should be taken seriously. I can understand their desire to steal history, but its still lies
One day they'll be able to be honest and many will see people will listen and want to interact more. Right now, a large part of the group is just lost in myths, fables, and false victimhood thats like a drug because it gives them a shield from accountability.
I love decent black folks and pray for the group daily
"too many blacks" racist bruh
@neglectfulsausage7689 Are you unable to read ? Lol. Saying there are too many lying black historians doesn't translate to "theres too many blacks" Im hoping you're just trolling
U ypipo will try to downplay anything bout ur cave mutant ways @@cowel8734
Thomas Sowell is not a historian.
you arent either so Iguess you cant criticize his claims. Get rekt. @@christheprophet6583
I almost feel sick in my stomach to see that in late 2023 there is only 369k subs to this channel. How few have a love of the truth, or even a desire for it :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((!
They're too busy playing Minecraft and eating pizza in their Moms basement.
@@solomonstello Or getting advice from their teachers to decide what gender they are at the moment, hmmmm, how can you tell.
The products of a lifetime of brainwashing.
Most native nations did not get along with each other for the same reason that British, French, Spanish, etc did not get along with each other.
Which tribes were these. Lier
@@gordonlewis9377 All of them
Not at all but your not native you will never understand..
@@gordonlewis9377 Cortez had less than 200 men. The Aztecs were not overthrown by Cortez, but by the surrounding tribes that the Aztecs had enslaved and used for human sacrifice. The tribes rallied around Cortez because they thought he was a deity come to deliver them. (yeah, I know, silly them).
Although, it seems the more agrarian the tribe was, the less likely they were to be always at war with their neighbor. The more they were hunter/gatherer the more likely they were to be aggressive to the other tribes. Just my observations and opinion.
Never saw someone that knows the answer to everything.
This was true of Europe, India, Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia as well. Just because a location is controlled by the predominance of a single race does not mean that there are united, often they are in competition with each other. European history for example is full of internal conflicts between nations and people for over 2,000 years.
I think that's the point of this, which is to push back against this ignorant rhetoric that conflict was caused by Europeans wherever they went. Study history of the East and it will make European history of the 16th-19th Century look like what the UN preaches.
The point I've been trying to make. 🙂
Excellent. Thank you. Always great work Mr Sowell. God bless
Fascinating! This is the kind of detail I have been wanting about Native Americans but books on them by and large ignore.
No man is pure.
What happened to the Indians was inevitable. A more advanced civilization came along and anytime that happens in history the old civilization is washed away.
Correct. Life is not "fair" and never will be. Same thing happens with every other life form.
Not true, sometimes lesser civilizations defeat more advanced civilizations. In this instance it was only advanced weaponry and strategies that beat the natives. If you think murdering raping, and stealing makes for an advanced civilization then you are not aiming high on the advanced scale. If an advanced society should aim for high morals and principles then this is not a good example of an advanced society.
@@souptecBut you proved his point. The tribes had primitive weaponry from the stone age. The white man had vessels, guns and cannons. The fact that the tribes HAD such weapons and knowledge of warfare disproves the fairytale held by leftietards that "minorities" have been incapable of starting wars and conquest campaigns. I have NEVER met a leftietard who acknowledges that genghis khan wasn't a white man and he conquered many lands with his army. Should Mongolians of 2023 pay reparations for the sins of their long dead ancestors? Didn't think so. Should the tribes pay reparations for the sins of what their dead ancestors did long before contact with Europeans? Didn't think so. "Minorities" are treated with kid gloves despite the fact that history disproves the fairytales your kind believes.
@@souptec Hate to burst your bubble but Native American tribes engaged in rape, murder of other rival tribes. They warned against each other long before the Europeans showed up. The largest Native American massgrave is from the dark ages. One tribe did that to the other. All this information is in the library. Research it. But nobody takes the time to.
@@JohnSmith-vy7ck So they did it and that justifies what the Europeans did to them.?
Everyone born here is Native American 🇺🇸
Not really
Moral of the story: Never prioritize opportunities amongst strangers over peace and compromise amongst your neighbors.