Thanks so much for watching! This took far longer than I anticipated, but there was a lot of information that was crucial to get right, so I'm glad I took the time to do so. With the six main story chapters done, let's reflect: what was your favourite and why? I think I have a four-way tie (at least) so I'd love to know your thoughts.
Thanks for uploading. I always like your videos, You put so much effort into them. On another note, it’s such a shame how the governments treated the native Americans. I hope there are reparations made in the future. The Native American genocide is easily the worst crime in human history.
in historical connections, chapter 6. i love the native american plot so much. in general, chapter 2. simpler time for the gang and a lot of unseen map to explore
One thing I can appreciate about Real pixels is that he always pushes that extra mile to get little obscure facts and it's unlike any other RUclipsr I know.
@@gamerstheater1187 "Arthur hit his chest with a closed fist, the first recording of a closed fist tuberculosis chest clearing was in 1754" - Real Pixels
My grandma was Yaqui and she had some stories about this time period. She was born in 1918 and her mom in 1882. Her mom was the last link to our people before leaving the Tribe. My grandma despite being Yaqui, able to speak it, & retaining cultural knowledge, lost a lot from that. As a kid she got sent to Mission school with her cousins who were different Indians. And then when her mom died my grandma got kidnapped in the “Mexican Repatriation”. Yaquis land was both in Mexico and the US so many Yaquis were also Mexican in nationality, some even speaking Spanish. Not my grandma tho & she wound up in an orphanage where she took care of kids. This was a dark and messed up thing that happened but if it hadn’t, she wouldn’t have fallen in love with the brother of the orphanages owner, my Mexican grandfather. She was proud to be Mexican and she was through her father. But my grandma was also proud of being Native. It was just sad though that her kids never learned the language because it was more advantageous to learn Spanish and English. And she was an expert with herbs and medicine, always picking stray weeds to make it into something. And she could fight, her mom taught her. I get sad sometimes when I think about her and when I remember that this horrific history is also my history.
A couple of notes too from a Canadian perspective. Indians in Canada are legally called "First Nations" now. And Canada too had boarding schools for First Nation's as well called "Residential Schools", the last one closing in 1996 in the province of Saskatchewan.
Yeah I got real confused when he didnt call them First Nations. Its actually in the US and a bit all over Latin America where the term Indian or Indio is retained. Legally on a lot of paper work and official nomenclature many Tribes across the USA are called “American Indians”. And if you speak to them they will say they prefer being called Indians. And it makes sense, cause its been in use for several centuries now. Longer than when the nation state of India existed.
Hi! Native here!!! This was an absolutely amazing video and a good watch! And ya got the pronunciation for Lakota so well (I can’t tell you how many people have messed up that word) it makes me hecka happy especially since I’m from the same tribe and band Crazy Horse is from! So it was so cool to hear about all this history that most want to ignore! Tysm for this video it was so amazing!!!
Chapter 5 has always been my favorite, at least in terms of Red Dead Redemption 2's story. The fifth chapter is when our two leads, Arthur and Dutch, truly begin to show their true selves, with Hosea's death and the failed bank robbery in Saint Denis being the perfect storm (or I guess the storm being the one that shipwrecks them). Also the civil war aspect on Guarma is a ton of fun to play.
The sniper rifle being used by Arthur is a VERY anachronistic Carcano M38 carbine (the same gun used to kill JFK), it would’ve been more accurate to see the original M91 Carcano or a similar Mauser pattern rifle.
It's obviously a Carcano that had a scope fixed on as a custom piece. People have been doing that for a while; Rockstar calling it, and treating it, as a sniper rifle is kind of dumb, but they did it to just fit more modern conventions in gameplay than trying to keep it accurate in its portrayal.
I COMMEND all your work on this beautiful 1 year journey (didn't believe it's been this long) diving into the deep research and recreation of west of Mississippi America the team at Rockstar achieved. I can't wait to see this series coverage on RDR2 wrap up with the epilogue video and, hopefully, see you move on to the first Redemption.
Losing my mind at this idea, I gotta start throwing money at it or something, it has to happen (edit: the patreon link in the description doesn't work)
EDIT: Wait, that's confusing. In all the descriptions it implies that the epilogue won't be done, yet the end of this video hints to the contrary. I guess we just have to wait and see.
@@RandomRebelSoldier i think that's just some weird wording it's just their are 6 main chapters in the game the epilogue is technically seperate from the main chapters
I come from the Chinook, Flathead, and Kumeyaay tribe. Seeing indigenous culture acknowledged in a game, with videos like this to acknowledge our history is beautiful. Many people who play the online part of the game with no idea what it means to be native, no knowledge of the real history pretend to be native. These people have no idea the atrocities we suffered at the hands of boarding schools, colonization, injustices and more. I hope this video breaks this cycle of ignorant online players pretending to be of indigenous descent, and I hope they learn of our real history instead of a John Wayne movie.
lol good luck with that. Generally the kind of people who need to learn that shit are not the kind of people who actually go out of their way to do so.
My native friend who’s passed away now educated me in the history of the native tribes and what I’ve learned is that there was no good and bad side, the natives did atrocities too, and I appreciated that he called a spade a spade, more often than not alot of people of native decent do not mention or acknowledge the brutality that was shown on all sides, and I believe it’s better to know and share the truth rather the romanticized story’s of either, for the sake of history not repeating itself, there were good and evil people on every side
@@magpipe146 Yes. Certainly not like natives came up with scalping as friendly greeting. That shit is horrific and brutal. Europeans take all the flak because they were so obscenely good at doing the bad shit. I don’t doubt there were a good number of tribes who wished they could so easily dispatch of their enemies and rivals once upon a time.
My guy, as much as I'm obviously on your side regarding the atrocities committed to your people, you were tribals in a world which was developing consumerism, capitalism and corporate greed. If you like to think that you could've been spared the whole genocide part that's fine, but you would have never kept your land, you would've never been left alone to leave in a reservoir and you would've never been allowed to be a group of tribal people. Progress wouldn't have stopped because of one culture that couldn't even defend itself. And you weren't the first nor the last. What was done to you was, and still is, terrible, but it's not uncommon, so don't feel like you're the only ones in the world to get that treatment. You were people out of time in a world that didn't need you anymore. You had two choices, get lost to time or modernize yourselves, and unfortunately none of those choices was a good one, but that's how society works.
I swear it's so hard to hear about America's history with Native Americans. I'm always brought to tears hearing about the endless suffering but at the same time I'm honored to learn about their history so that I may never forget how far they have come and endured.
@@officialconchSlavery is more well known as an American attrocity. What happened to the Native Indigenous people was thrown under the rug for the longest time. If memory serves correct the history was whitewashed until a few decades ago.
@@Darkvortexwolf”an American atrocity” where do you think they got the idea? Native American tribes enslaved each other America didn’t create slavery, they mass produced it and turned it into business
@@Darkvortexwolfthere was good and bad on any side, no one group of people are all innocent, humans do horrific things no matter what race, because it’s a human problem not a race problem
@@magpipe146 American slavery started from indentured servitude from whit eeuropeons. They then found it more profitable to have blacl slaves and deprive them of righta.
Finally! I just rewatched/listened to all the previous episodes for the 10th time or something yesterday and knew the next one would come any day now. This is easily my favorite channel on RUclips now, and one of the few ones where I'm looking forward to each and every video you upload. And I'm so happy you finally got the time to really talk about the poor natives and the terrible physical, medical and even sexual abuse they were subjected to. Thank you for all these high quality productions. These deep historical dives you take into my favorite period of history are amazing. Love your use of the best RDR(2) scores, it always fits so perfectly. If I wasn't a poor student I'd definitely donate to your Patreon for all these videos, especially if it means that you continue making these for the epilogue and potentially RDR. Whatever you decide to do I'll keep watching so keep making them!
If they wouldn't be patting themselves on the back so much I'm sure Rockstar would shout these videos out, I'm sure they are watching and appreciate the length to which you go to discover and highlight the game's historical accuracy!
It hits too close to home when you hear about what my ancestors had to go through 😔 Thank you for making this video because we all love the masterpiece that is RDR2 💕
I know this is an old comment. I interpreted it the same way you did at first. But, I think he meant the school's in the 1600s were optional....because the residential schools of the 1800s definitely were not.
I really appreciate the sensitivity you bring to your discussion of historical atrocities. I was especially grateful for how you addressed the Indian Boarding Schools in the US (and Canada). I'm a white guy of European descent, but I actually live on the ancestral lands of the Puyallup people, and while unaffiliated with the tribe, the college where I teach is named for the Puyallup. One of my colleagues is descended from a man who was forced to attend the Carlise school; she just gave a presentation on that history at a faculty event a couple days ago. So while I've been growing more familiar with this history (for several years now, I've been assigning excerpts from Zitkala-Ša's 1921 memoir, American Indian Stories, in my writing courses), it still surprised me to see references to both the Puyallup Indian School and the Carlise Indian School in your video. Again, I'm deeply grateful for how you handled that history here.
As a Native American born in Canada, I can confirm this is accurate and I greatly appreciate it. Foster care still exist today and is another form residential school in some manner. Source: I was in foster care for 14 years
Canada is excellent at hiding its cruelty and appearing nice and polite, especially to other English countries. I am French Canadian and want to learn to expose what the English did to us. It's hard to make our stories known when those in power want to keep us quiet. I sympathise with you because I can't imagine how much harder advocacy is for First Nation people, who are suffering much more than my people does
The fact this game not only has the most realistic physics of almost any game, a great story, and on top of that historical accuracy both in the people and weapons portrayed is why this game is not only in my top 10 games but also remains one of the top 10 most sold video games to date.
These RDR2 historic series held my sanity together during finals at nursing school. Thank you so much for this amazing work! I can listen to these historically accurate facts for days!
Such awesome details. Really appreciate the work. I'm just disappointed we never got an analysis of Arthur's proper identification of a certain type of animal: "You, sir, are a fish."
Thank you for this past year. I waited every time to watch not only your videos on this series but also your videos in general, so once again, thank you!
Can these just never end? You lay out the info in such an interesting and heartfelt way with due senitivity and reverence. Thanks. Hope youre doin well.👊🏻😉
coming into another video to say again, i so appreciate the research and effort you’ve put into these videos. i especially appreciate that you don’t shy away from the ugliness in American history (or even worse, complain about “games getting political” 🙄). addressing the horrors that Indigenous Peoples went through at the hands of imperialism is so, so necessary and it’s obvious from your narration that you care deeply about these games and these real-life issues. thank you again!!! i’ll definitely be putting your channel in my acknowledgements ^^
Thanks so much for the kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. I'd love to hear more about your Western (and hopefully read it one day)-please feel free to reach out again!
I love the use of Etymology in these videos. How we speak evolves with values, what was scene, and appreciated at different times. So when making even historical games, making them speak more "modern" can be a bit strange. Sometimes, even though it's the very same language, it might not make sense to us due to dialects, and even chronology. It's hard to capture the spirit of an era, takes a lot of research. Even learning new languages can be tricky because little colloquialisms, but as you learn them, you start to understand how other people think.
from scotland here, just wanted to say how interesting this topic is. i knew the most basic history and background when i came to native americans so it's really interesting to learn about them in more depth. this video is very underrated.
This series is absolutely amazing. I didn't even know this series spanned over a whole year. I remember watching the first video on this, and being absolutely amazed by the amount of effort you put into it, every little thing that was shown in the game was researched about, what you make is very unique in comparison to other youtubers. As nobody goes this in-depth in detail, we appreciate the hard work you put into this Real Pixels.
A cold, rainy day, a cup of tea and this video. True relaxation. Seriously, I love how your videos always manage to deepen my love and respect for this game and I think this inspired me to yet another playthrough :)
I loved this video so much. I'm a fan of history and i have a huge amount of respect for your commitment to accuracy and finding sources. Also congrats on making such a niche avenue for teaching histroy in such a fun & engaging way. Mucho grande respect my good man. Subscribed!!!
It is interesting to see that the Wapiti are heavily based on the Lakota of primarily South Dakota. If making connections with Valentine being based off of its counterpart in Nebraska, Fort Wallace can be a connection to the real life Fort Robinson not too far from Valentine in Nebraska. Also where Crazy Horse surrendered and was murdered in custody.
All these comments are so cool with stories and i just wanna say thank you for making these videos because you put so much work into them and deserve more recognition.
All these historical quotes having light shed on them as they were spoken in game is a service, thank you, but you missed one important one. "Lenny!!!!!!" But seriously, I was beaten for speaking my native language in school, and this was the late 60's early 70's, yeah I'm old. But I seen shit you call history.
I have to say that this RDR2 series of History details has been amazing to watch. I cant even fathom the time it took to do all the research needed that you provided so wonderfully in these vids! Thank you very much for all that you put into them!!!
It's interesting that the Wapiti are based on the Lakota, when Wapiti is an Algonquian word. I grew up near the Wapiti river in Alberta. It was usually pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable though, not the second
Again, a splendidly informative and entertaining video. The end of Arthur's journey is moving, heartbreaking, even, and I appreciate the way it was presented here. Otherwise; I have been interested in history all my life, and especially the real history behind what is called "the Wild West". But still, Real Pixels uncovers a LOT of facts of which I had no knowledge of whatsoever. Looking forward to the next video, but this was of course a milestone. Great job!
I'm of relatively close Cherokee descent (my great grandma was almost full blooded if not completely full blooded) and hearing about what was done to my ancestors is horrible, I knew it was bad but not this bad.
The moment you mentioned the Carlisle indian school i was hit with a wave of emotions, I live about 10 miles away from what once was the school and I'm native myself, finally a person brings to light the atrocities of those reform "schools".
RIP Arthur - forever in our hearts. I'm replaying RDR2 for the third time - first time on my PC and actually taking my time and truly enjoying everything this game has to offer. Your videos really help put the game into perspective
Its interesting how north american natives look so distinct vs mexican and central american natives. Theres a certain cut to the jawline and t impeccable cheekbones that such a unique and beautiful look.
I love your video essays. I was super excited to kick off my 13 hour work shift today with this. Keep up the good work! Will be patiently waiting for the next one!
My favourite mission in this chapter is The Fine Art of Conversation. Arthur confesses that he’s scared to Sister Calderon and she tells him that he should help someone and he applies that advice working tirelessly to save John. Arthur saves Captain Monroe a and Rains Fall is one of my favourite characters in the game. He is really important in Arthur’s quest to redeem himself.
residential schools were a big thing in Canada for year from the 1800s to 1994 and actually today the 30th of September we now have a holiday because of the native kids that died at the school
This is without a doubt your best video of the series. The storytelling, the topics, and the respect given to Arthur’s demise were all masterfully crafted
Once again wonderful video mate 👏🏼 Hope you’ll continue these series with New Austin, Epilogue missions, other towns like Annesburg or even Van Horn and gangs like Skinners or Del Lobos ❤
the saint lawrence seaway connects chicago to the ocean via the great lakes. it wouldve been perfectly normal & reasonable for dutch to suggest this as a means of travel in 1899
21:13 is very interesting point and Parallels between reality vs romanize fiction. I can imagine a historian talking about the infamous Dutch Vanderlinde gang and how they we’re fighting against the rich and helping the poor. I could see some people wanting to romanize Dutch as a hero of the old and dying west and as a outlaw who wanted to help his people. But all that historians would have to do is simply look a little closer to see that Dutch was anything but a robin hood. They would take into account all of their failed robbery attempt and the innocent people that were caught in the crossfire. Or how Dutch murdered an innocent girl in Blackwater for no reason whatsoever. it’s so interesting to think Dutch might be mentioned in fictional historical America but also quite unsettling to think that just as big and bad Dutch was to the United States in 18 century, he would easy be forgotten as just another folklore story about a man trying to be something he’s not.
I’m part at least part American Indian and spent a lot of time as a child in Cherokee NC to learn the history, culture, and language of my ancestors. Being called Indian wasn’t ever seen as something to be ashamed of, it was something to be proud of! Even though it’s been many years since I’ve been back to the reservation I still see the people here as my family and I will always supported and defend them with my life. Edit: The book you’re reading from isn’t about the civil war. It’s about the Cherokee massacre which was known as the removal act. My ancestors learned English, had a functioning government, became Christian, lived as the white man with farms and even had a newspaper! None of this was enough and they were removed by force from their capital in Northern Georgia. Some fled to the mountains and some intermarried with Scottish settlers who were also treated like trash at the time and found a kingship with the Cherokee. During the Civil war these men fought for the Confederate States. Far too quickly people forget what the American government did, not the Confederacy to native peoples!
@@boostergold20 It is really big of a deal. His body glitches out in cutscene that suddenly becomes wider. Even Arthur's body as well during mirror at camp and his body becomes like John's. And to point out they were false advertising his Epilogue character model on screenshots.
This is superb. And it highlights just how important it is for video game developers to tell their stories with historical accuracy particularly when that history is notoriously brutal and oppressive.
Holy crap, I never thought I'd hear the puyallup school. Although most people I know had family who were forced to the Tulalip schools, I have some friends at squaxin whose families were sent there.
You always do an amazing job on your videos and editing of them. Hats off to you for the superb work. I wish I was that good, but the various editing programs today just confuse me more with all the features than help me in the long run. As for the subject of this one, it will forever disgust me how our ancestors treated the Native Americans and their culture, all because of mostly screwed religious ideals. These people were here before the white man arrived and deserved to be respected, not stomped low or killed, and our government has never stopped treating them like dirt ever since. I love the Native Americans and their heritage, so it is always difficult to hear about their tortured history by our forefathers. It makes me wanted to time travel back and set the ways right, hopefully creating a better future. BTW, I'd stop looking at that piece of crap Christopher Columbus as the founder of America (he landed in the Bahamas) considering the fact that so many other cultures (Viking, Irish, Spanish before Columbus, Chinese, South Pacific Islanders, Incas, possibly even Egyptians, etc.) all came and left their marks here way before his diseased butt brought plagues to the New World.
on the matter of cordite, around the 7:50 mark, i have to add onto this. Not only is Dutch quite Well Read, He is also quite well connected, there are at least 2 Brits he is close to (Young buck Sean, and Josiah Trelawny.) so it isnt out of the question that he'd heard from them about the Cordite, and possibly even gotten some illegally smuggled to him for a job in the previous 10 years of development Nothing iron clad but it would make some nice sense instead of thinking of it as an accident
Good point! Both Trelawny and Sean seem like people who would make that same reference, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s who Dutch learned it from.
27:25 "Equivalent to about 1.5 million dollars today, seems they have enough money for Tahiti after all." The game's money is not accurate to the time period, a C-96 Mauser would have cost $35 in real life 1899 but costs a whopping $250.00 in-game, indicating that the value of the money in the cave could be worth less than 1/7th the value when factoring for inflation. That would mean Dutch would only have just enough to escape to Tahiti after so many gang members have died or abandoned the cause.
Dutch knowing about Cordite makes absolute sense. During the 1890s, America themselves were busy playing catch-up to the Europeans after they swiped the "best gunmakers" title off America by introducing new repeating arms quicker than the Americans themselves and the 1st new rifle that introduced this thing called "Cordite" was the French 1886 Lebel rifle which was chambered in the new smokeless powder (Which was basically cordite) and soon everyone was playing catch-up to them and even the US Military caught wind of this new thing. Thus out to purchase new rifles that could take this powder already happened back in 1891 and by 1892, a competition was set for the procurement board on what rifles to get and the competing ones were the Lee, Schmidt-Rubin, Krag-Jorgenson, Mannlicher and even Mauser but ultimately, in that competition, the Krag won which became the US 1st smokeless/cordite bolt-action rifle which was then coded as the M1892 Springfield. Then the cavalry version would be introduced which made its name again in 1898 during the Spanish-American War and by this time, cordite powder powers everything the US used from it's rifles and even it's breach-loading cannons and same goes to the Spanish forces going against the US in Cuba. Considering the same events happening in RDR2 like if the Spanish-American War did happen, then it's totally not a fluke that Dutch knew about cordite at all because basically it's already been used by the military for at least a 8 years by the time it was 1899 and also, somehow, Arthur can get a Carcano rifle (Albeit an anachronistic version in the game with it being the M1891/38 variant which, as the name suggest, fires the 7.5mm Carcano and designed in 1938, 4 decades after the events of RDR2) and even Bill was using the same Krag rifle he used during his time in service which was also firing cordite powdered rounds.
Didn’t Custer literally have a game about him where the goal is to sexually assault Natives? I remember watching a video on banned games and it was one of them. It was called “Custers Revenge” I think
Thanks so much for watching! This took far longer than I anticipated, but there was a lot of information that was crucial to get right, so I'm glad I took the time to do so.
With the six main story chapters done, let's reflect: what was your favourite and why? I think I have a four-way tie (at least) so I'd love to know your thoughts.
Thanks for uploading. I always like your videos, You put so much effort into them.
On another note, it’s such a shame how the governments treated the native Americans. I hope there are reparations made in the future. The Native American genocide is easily the worst crime in human history.
in historical connections, chapter 6. i love the native american plot so much. in general, chapter 2. simpler time for the gang and a lot of unseen map to explore
@@CAV_PEE I found it depressing. The gang is in shambles and now, on top of that, the suffering of these folks. Was a bit much, wasn't it?
would've been cool to see the epilogue explored as well
your profile picture is a few pixels to the right from center, I can't unsee this.
One thing I can appreciate about Real pixels is that he always pushes that extra mile to get little obscure facts and it's unlike any other RUclipsr I know.
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yeah true
Yeah, Arthur could breathe and he would track the first recorded event of breathing
@@gamerstheater1187 "Arthur hit his chest with a closed fist, the first recording of a closed fist tuberculosis chest clearing was in 1754" - Real Pixels
@@otimo144 this guy is going into as much detail as the game!
My grandma was Yaqui and she had some stories about this time period. She was born in 1918 and her mom in 1882. Her mom was the last link to our people before leaving the Tribe. My grandma despite being Yaqui, able to speak it, & retaining cultural knowledge, lost a lot from that. As a kid she got sent to Mission school with her cousins who were different Indians. And then when her mom died my grandma got kidnapped in the “Mexican Repatriation”. Yaquis land was both in Mexico and the US so many Yaquis were also Mexican in nationality, some even speaking Spanish. Not my grandma tho & she wound up in an orphanage where she took care of kids. This was a dark and messed up thing that happened but if it hadn’t, she wouldn’t have fallen in love with the brother of the orphanages owner, my Mexican grandfather.
She was proud to be Mexican and she was through her father. But my grandma was also proud of being Native. It was just sad though that her kids never learned the language because it was more advantageous to learn Spanish and English. And she was an expert with herbs and medicine, always picking stray weeds to make it into something. And she could fight, her mom taught her. I get sad sometimes when I think about her and when I remember that this horrific history is also my history.
Im from Saudi arabia and i think the Arab nomads are similar to the Natives
Yaqui are mexicans not natives... that they are natives is just an illusion. They never had a language except spanish.
@@hostilesavage4299 and you’re a nerd
It's so fascinating to think there's only two or three generations separating people of today from what happened back then.
Hey Manny, miss you. Long time no see.
A couple of notes too from a Canadian perspective. Indians in Canada are legally called "First Nations" now. And Canada too had boarding schools for First Nation's as well called "Residential Schools", the last one closing in 1996 in the province of Saskatchewan.
Yeah I got real confused when he didnt call them First Nations. Its actually in the US and a bit all over Latin America where the term Indian or Indio is retained. Legally on a lot of paper work and official nomenclature many Tribes across the USA are called “American Indians”. And if you speak to them they will say they prefer being called Indians. And it makes sense, cause its been in use for several centuries now. Longer than when the nation state of India existed.
yep, I lived in Canada, and I can confirm
Canadian Indians. There i said it. Arrest me.
@@aloaloings5596 the idiot turned himself in
@@aloaloings5596
Get over yourself.
The term “eye for eye” actually comes much earlier than the exodus. It comes from Hammurabi’s code of laws from the Babylonian empire
yep-oldest written codex of laws to date.
Wow great comment. The 23rd law kinda blew my mind. 128 and 133 are pretty fun too lol. Very very interesting
The reform schools were worse in Canada. The last one was disbanded in 1996. Skeletons are commonly found buried near them, in unmarked mass graves.
I agree with this statement.
That's one thing a lot of people don't know about us Canadians. Our residential schools were disgusting to those poor people.
Is this common? Im only aware of one case of this and it turned out to be natural material
Reading about the "Highway of Tears" changed my perception a lot about Canada and its treatment and neglect towards Indigenous people.
Skeletons we never get to see pictures of
Hi! Native here!!! This was an absolutely amazing video and a good watch! And ya got the pronunciation for Lakota so well (I can’t tell you how many people have messed up that word) it makes me hecka happy especially since I’m from the same tribe and band Crazy Horse is from! So it was so cool to hear about all this history that most want to ignore! Tysm for this video it was so amazing!!!
Chapter 5 has always been my favorite, at least in terms of Red Dead Redemption 2's story. The fifth chapter is when our two leads, Arthur and Dutch, truly begin to show their true selves, with Hosea's death and the failed bank robbery in Saint Denis being the perfect storm (or I guess the storm being the one that shipwrecks them). Also the civil war aspect on Guarma is a ton of fun to play.
Just wish it was longer
Just wish it was shorter.
I think it was the perfect length
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@@ephremHRZN 😂
The sniper rifle being used by Arthur is a VERY anachronistic Carcano M38 carbine (the same gun used to kill JFK), it would’ve been more accurate to see the original M91 Carcano or a similar Mauser pattern rifle.
It's obviously a Carcano that had a scope fixed on as a custom piece. People have been doing that for a while; Rockstar calling it, and treating it, as a sniper rifle is kind of dumb, but they did it to just fit more modern conventions in gameplay than trying to keep it accurate in its portrayal.
Arthur: *breathes*
Pixels: breathing was around when the first plants entered the planet
I COMMEND all your work on this beautiful 1 year journey (didn't believe it's been this long) diving into the deep research and recreation of west of Mississippi America the team at Rockstar achieved. I can't wait to see this series coverage on RDR2 wrap up with the epilogue video and, hopefully, see you move on to the first Redemption.
👋 🐔 😂
@@knrz2562 i’m guessing you’re 10-12 years old huh
Bro could you please do one of these for rdr 1 too? This series has been the best thing I've ever watched
my “dream” series is after this it’s RDR1 then Mafia 1, 2, 3 that way it’s 1899-1969
Losing my mind at this idea, I gotta start throwing money at it or something, it has to happen (edit: the patreon link in the description doesn't work)
@@flacobrian3754 THIS RIGHT HERE
I will miss this series when it's complete. It's been masterful.
Truly
EDIT: Wait, that's confusing. In all the descriptions it implies that the epilogue won't be done, yet the end of this video hints to the contrary. I guess we just have to wait and see.
@@RandomRebelSoldier i think that's just some weird wording it's just their are 6 main chapters in the game the epilogue is technically seperate from the main chapters
I come from the Chinook, Flathead, and Kumeyaay tribe. Seeing indigenous culture acknowledged in a game, with videos like this to acknowledge our history is beautiful. Many people who play the online part of the game with no idea what it means to be native, no knowledge of the real history pretend to be native. These people have no idea the atrocities we suffered at the hands of boarding schools, colonization, injustices and more. I hope this video breaks this cycle of ignorant online players pretending to be of indigenous descent, and I hope they learn of our real history instead of a John Wayne movie.
lol good luck with that. Generally the kind of people who need to learn that shit are not the kind of people who actually go out of their way to do so.
My native friend who’s passed away now educated me in the history of the native tribes and what I’ve learned is that there was no good and bad side, the natives did atrocities too, and I appreciated that he called a spade a spade, more often than not alot of people of native decent do not mention or acknowledge the brutality that was shown on all sides, and I believe it’s better to know and share the truth rather the romanticized story’s of either, for the sake of history not repeating itself, there were good and evil people on every side
@@magpipe146 Yes. Certainly not like natives came up with scalping as friendly greeting. That shit is horrific and brutal. Europeans take all the flak because they were so obscenely good at doing the bad shit. I don’t doubt there were a good number of tribes who wished they could so easily dispatch of their enemies and rivals once upon a time.
Wise guys once said about John Wayne
"John Wayne was a naht233"
My guy, as much as I'm obviously on your side regarding the atrocities committed to your people, you were tribals in a world which was developing consumerism, capitalism and corporate greed. If you like to think that you could've been spared the whole genocide part that's fine, but you would have never kept your land, you would've never been left alone to leave in a reservoir and you would've never been allowed to be a group of tribal people. Progress wouldn't have stopped because of one culture that couldn't even defend itself. And you weren't the first nor the last. What was done to you was, and still is, terrible, but it's not uncommon, so don't feel like you're the only ones in the world to get that treatment. You were people out of time in a world that didn't need you anymore. You had two choices, get lost to time or modernize yourselves, and unfortunately none of those choices was a good one, but that's how society works.
8:38
Arthur: "RHER RHEEER!"
"This phrase definitely existed in the common vernacular at this point"
You can’t understand what he’s saying? Lol
I swear it's so hard to hear about America's history with Native Americans. I'm always brought to tears hearing about the endless suffering but at the same time I'm honored to learn about their history so that I may never forget how far they have come and endured.
What about enslaved Americans?
@@officialconchSlavery is more well known as an American attrocity. What happened to the Native Indigenous people was thrown under the rug for the longest time. If memory serves correct the history was whitewashed until a few decades ago.
@@Darkvortexwolf”an American atrocity” where do you think they got the idea? Native American tribes enslaved each other America didn’t create slavery, they mass produced it and turned it into business
@@Darkvortexwolfthere was good and bad on any side, no one group of people are all innocent, humans do horrific things no matter what race, because it’s a human problem not a race problem
@@magpipe146 American slavery started from indentured servitude from whit eeuropeons. They then found it more profitable to have blacl slaves and deprive them of righta.
Finally! I just rewatched/listened to all the previous episodes for the 10th time or something yesterday and knew the next one would come any day now.
This is easily my favorite channel on RUclips now, and one of the few ones where I'm looking forward to each and every video you upload. And I'm so happy you finally got the time to really talk about the poor natives and the terrible physical, medical and even sexual abuse they were subjected to.
Thank you for all these high quality productions. These deep historical dives you take into my favorite period of history are amazing.
Love your use of the best RDR(2) scores, it always fits so perfectly.
If I wasn't a poor student I'd definitely donate to your Patreon for all these videos, especially if it means that you continue making these for the epilogue and potentially RDR.
Whatever you decide to do I'll keep watching so keep making them!
If they wouldn't be patting themselves on the back so much I'm sure Rockstar would shout these videos out, I'm sure they are watching and appreciate the length to which you go to discover and highlight the game's historical accuracy!
It hits too close to home when you hear about what my ancestors had to go through 😔 Thank you for making this video because we all love the masterpiece that is RDR2 💕
I don't even think i'm related to any native americans yet i still feel so bad for them
"I'm like 1/64th Cherokee"
*Sips pumpkin spice*
“Optional mission schools” the Optional is very strong, from the story’s of my grandmother and grandfather..
they weren’t even close to being “optional”
Optional as in your two options are go or die
Yeah lol
I know this is an old comment. I interpreted it the same way you did at first. But, I think he meant the school's in the 1600s were optional....because the residential schools of the 1800s definitely were not.
I really appreciate the sensitivity you bring to your discussion of historical atrocities. I was especially grateful for how you addressed the Indian Boarding Schools in the US (and Canada). I'm a white guy of European descent, but I actually live on the ancestral lands of the Puyallup people, and while unaffiliated with the tribe, the college where I teach is named for the Puyallup. One of my colleagues is descended from a man who was forced to attend the Carlise school; she just gave a presentation on that history at a faculty event a couple days ago. So while I've been growing more familiar with this history (for several years now, I've been assigning excerpts from Zitkala-Ša's 1921 memoir, American Indian Stories, in my writing courses), it still surprised me to see references to both the Puyallup Indian School and the Carlise Indian School in your video. Again, I'm deeply grateful for how you handled that history here.
Nothing is quite as sad as a white liberal who tries so desperately to cock ride another race
As a Native American born in Canada, I can confirm this is accurate and I greatly appreciate it. Foster care still exist today and is another form residential school in some manner.
Source: I was in foster care for 14 years
Canada is excellent at hiding its cruelty and appearing nice and polite, especially to other English countries.
I am French Canadian and want to learn to expose what the English did to us. It's hard to make our stories known when those in power want to keep us quiet. I sympathise with you because I can't imagine how much harder advocacy is for First Nation people, who are suffering much more than my people does
The fact this game not only has the most realistic physics of almost any game, a great story, and on top of that historical accuracy both in the people and weapons portrayed is why this game is not only in my top 10 games but also remains one of the top 10 most sold video games to date.
These RDR2 historic series held my sanity together during finals at nursing school. Thank you so much for this amazing work! I can listen to these historically accurate facts for days!
Such awesome details. Really appreciate the work. I'm just disappointed we never got an analysis of Arthur's proper identification of a certain type of animal: "You, sir, are a fish."
every time one of these releases, it makes me replay the entire story of rdr2. thank you partner.
Thank you for this past year. I waited every time to watch not only your videos on this series but also your videos in general, so once again, thank you!
Can these just never end? You lay out the info in such an interesting and heartfelt way with due senitivity and reverence. Thanks. Hope youre doin well.👊🏻😉
coming into another video to say again, i so appreciate the research and effort you’ve put into these videos. i especially appreciate that you don’t shy away from the ugliness in American history (or even worse, complain about “games getting political” 🙄). addressing the horrors that Indigenous Peoples went through at the hands of imperialism is so, so necessary and it’s obvious from your narration that you care deeply about these games and these real-life issues. thank you again!!! i’ll definitely be putting your channel in my acknowledgements ^^
Thanks so much for the kind words! I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. I'd love to hear more about your Western (and hopefully read it one day)-please feel free to reach out again!
Games are getting political though. Not rdr2, but a lot of other ones
I love the use of Etymology in these videos. How we speak evolves with values, what was scene, and appreciated at different times. So when making even historical games, making them speak more "modern" can be a bit strange. Sometimes, even though it's the very same language, it might not make sense to us due to dialects, and even chronology.
It's hard to capture the spirit of an era, takes a lot of research.
Even learning new languages can be tricky because little colloquialisms, but as you learn them, you start to understand how other people think.
from scotland here, just wanted to say how interesting this topic is. i knew the most basic history and background when i came to native americans so it's really interesting to learn about them in more depth. this video is very underrated.
funny Seymour, Indiana is mentioned that's where John Marston voice actor Rob Weithoff is from
It's always a good day when the new episode of this series is out :)
This series is absolutely amazing. I didn't even know this series spanned over a whole year. I remember watching the first video on this, and being absolutely amazed by the amount of effort you put into it, every little thing that was shown in the game was researched about, what you make is very unique in comparison to other youtubers. As nobody goes this in-depth in detail, we appreciate the hard work you put into this Real Pixels.
Your videos always give me an urge to replay this amazing game again. Once more, a great video! Thank you so much!
What can I say, I am so thankful that there is still more game and more history left. Thank you for seeing it through, Real Pixels man.
R.I.P Arthur Morgan, the greatest gaming protagonist to ever exist!
Hosea too.
One of the greatest sure, but not the GOAT.
A cold, rainy day, a cup of tea and this video. True relaxation.
Seriously, I love how your videos always manage to deepen my love and respect for this game and I think this inspired me to yet another playthrough :)
always amazing leaning so much about history and Rockstars attention to detail.
LMAO
@@wiwysova what's funny?
My guy, you deserve so many more subscribers, the amount of effort that goes into these historical breakdowns is impressive and very appreciated
I loved this video so much. I'm a fan of history and i have a huge amount of respect for your commitment to accuracy and finding sources. Also congrats on making such a niche avenue for teaching histroy in such a fun & engaging way. Mucho grande respect my good man. Subscribed!!!
It is interesting to see that the Wapiti are heavily based on the Lakota of primarily South Dakota. If making connections with Valentine being based off of its counterpart in Nebraska, Fort Wallace can be a connection to the real life Fort Robinson not too far from Valentine in Nebraska. Also where Crazy Horse surrendered and was murdered in custody.
Ahhh! Yay! I love these videos so much-I'm always looking forward to this series. Thank you for taking the time to make this!
All these comments are so cool with stories and i just wanna say thank you for making these videos because you put so much work into them and deserve more recognition.
Please for the love of Lumbago do RDR1 after this series is over. It's truly one of my favourite series on youtube and it's very professional.
All these historical quotes having light shed on them as they were spoken in game is a service, thank you, but you missed one important one. "Lenny!!!!!!"
But seriously, I was beaten for speaking my native language in school, and this was the late 60's early 70's, yeah I'm old. But I seen shit you call history.
I have watched all of the ones you’ve done multiple times and will continue watching them.
I have to say that this RDR2 series of History details has been amazing to watch. I cant even fathom the time it took to do all the research needed that you provided so wonderfully in these vids! Thank you very much for all that you put into them!!!
one of the best gaming/history video series on youtube, you never fail to impress with the detail you go into
i never miss an episode, can't wait to see another awesome video of yours
I think that this is one of the best and the most interesting series on this platform. Great video as always, good job!
It's interesting that the Wapiti are based on the Lakota, when Wapiti is an Algonquian word. I grew up near the Wapiti river in Alberta. It was usually pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable though, not the second
Will you consider doing a accuracy series on red dead redemption one? I hope you do, incredible video as ever keep it up!
Coming in guns blazing with the first few comparisons, it was honestly hard to watch, Quality content mate.
My dad was given an aboriginal name by a local chief. He’s called “One Leg Runner” on account of his leg he lost when he was younger.
Again, a splendidly informative and entertaining video. The end of Arthur's journey is moving, heartbreaking, even, and I appreciate the way it was presented here. Otherwise; I have been interested in history all my life, and especially the real history behind what is called "the Wild West". But still, Real Pixels uncovers a LOT of facts of which I had no knowledge of whatsoever. Looking forward to the next video, but this was of course a milestone. Great job!
I'm of relatively close Cherokee descent (my great grandma was almost full blooded if not completely full blooded) and hearing about what was done to my ancestors is horrible, I knew it was bad but not this bad.
Are you talking about how the chickasaw Indians treated you guys?
@@Originalchili colonizers too.
Note: I'm more white, and not claiming to be a native myself, but a decent chunk of my family tree is.
The moment you mentioned the Carlisle indian school i was hit with a wave of emotions, I live about 10 miles away from what once was the school and I'm native myself, finally a person brings to light the atrocities of those reform "schools".
RIP Arthur - forever in our hearts. I'm replaying RDR2 for the third time - first time on my PC and actually taking my time and truly enjoying everything this game has to offer. Your videos really help put the game into perspective
Its interesting how north american natives look so distinct vs mexican and central american natives. Theres a certain cut to the jawline and t impeccable cheekbones that such a unique and beautiful look.
I love your video essays. I was super excited to kick off my 13 hour work shift today with this. Keep up the good work! Will be patiently waiting for the next one!
My favourite mission in this chapter is The Fine Art of Conversation. Arthur confesses that he’s scared to Sister Calderon and she tells him that he should help someone and he applies that advice working tirelessly to save John. Arthur saves Captain Monroe a and Rains Fall is one of my favourite characters in the game. He is really important in Arthur’s quest to redeem himself.
residential schools were a big thing in Canada for year from the 1800s to 1994 and actually today the 30th of September we now have a holiday because of the native kids that died at the school
That's so lame.
This is without a doubt your best video of the series. The storytelling, the topics, and the respect given to Arthur’s demise were all masterfully crafted
Hello again. You never answered on Patreon.
Once again wonderful video mate 👏🏼
Hope you’ll continue these series with New Austin, Epilogue missions, other towns like Annesburg or even Van Horn and gangs like Skinners or Del Lobos ❤
the saint lawrence seaway connects chicago to the ocean via the great lakes. it wouldve been perfectly normal & reasonable for dutch to suggest this as a means of travel in 1899
The level of research that must go into these videos is boggling. Great work!
21:13 is very interesting point and Parallels between reality vs romanize fiction. I can imagine a historian talking about the infamous Dutch Vanderlinde gang and how they we’re fighting against the rich and helping the poor. I could see some people wanting to romanize Dutch as a hero of the old and dying west and as a outlaw who wanted to help his people. But all that historians would have to do is simply look a little closer to see that Dutch was anything but a robin hood. They would take into account all of their failed robbery attempt and the innocent people that were caught in the crossfire. Or how Dutch murdered an innocent girl in Blackwater for no reason whatsoever. it’s so interesting to think Dutch might be mentioned in fictional historical America but also quite unsettling to think that just as big and bad Dutch was to the United States in 18 century, he would easy be forgotten as just another folklore story about a man trying to be something he’s not.
Can you please cover Mexico during the events of RDR1?
One of my favourite series on RUclips!
I’m part at least part American Indian and spent a lot of time as a child in Cherokee NC to learn the history, culture, and language of my ancestors. Being called Indian wasn’t ever seen as something to be ashamed of, it was something to be proud of! Even though it’s been many years since I’ve been back to the reservation I still see the people here as my family and I will always supported and defend them with my life.
Edit: The book you’re reading from isn’t about the civil war. It’s about the Cherokee massacre which was known as the removal act. My ancestors learned English, had a functioning government, became Christian, lived as the white man with farms and even had a newspaper! None of this was enough and they were removed by force from their capital in Northern Georgia. Some fled to the mountains and some intermarried with Scottish settlers who were also treated like trash at the time and found a kingship with the Cherokee. During the Civil war these men fought for the Confederate States.
Far too quickly people forget what the American government did, not the Confederacy to native peoples!
Man you could make a series about trees it rdr and I’d still watch 😭
Now how historically accurate is John marston’s model in the red dead redemption 2 epilogue.
it's almost like he grew older over the years.
@@renaigh it’s almost like a persons jaw, hair color, eye color and hair growth can change into a ugly abomination and revert back in 4 years.
@@blake2521 It's not that big of a deal lol. I barely noticed.
@@boostergold20 It is really big of a deal.
His body glitches out in cutscene that suddenly becomes wider. Even Arthur's body as well during mirror at camp and his body becomes like John's.
And to point out they were false advertising his Epilogue character model on screenshots.
I’m lakota myself and even I didn’t know how accurate rdr2 was. Great video
I was just wondering when you would upload another video. Keep up the great work.
Splendid job. Always fascinating to learn new things about history and its influences on Red dead. I look foward to watching future videos.
AMAZING AS ALWAYS! CAN'T WAIT FOR THE EPILOGUES!!
*4 DAYS AGO!!? COME ON RUclips!!* I love these videos and you refuse to recommend this one to me? Lol. Unbelievable! Glad you're back Pixels 👌
One of the few channels that I watch new videos without a break . Great work👍
I'm a Native and I love RDR2 Online. I play as a Native woman (I'm a man though) who's a mix honored bounty hunter. Super fun to role-playing.
Thank you. This added depth to an already deep game. Such a worthwhile watch.
This is superb. And it highlights just how important it is for video game developers to tell their stories with historical accuracy particularly when that history is notoriously brutal and oppressive.
Absolutely incredible the amount of effort and detail you put into these videos, cant wait for the next!
Holy crap, I never thought I'd hear the puyallup school. Although most people I know had family who were forced to the Tulalip schools, I have some friends at squaxin whose families were sent there.
Absolute treasure trove of information. You’re outstandingly well-read!
You always do an amazing job on your videos and editing of them. Hats off to you for the superb work. I wish I was that good, but the various editing programs today just confuse me more with all the features than help me in the long run. As for the subject of this one, it will forever disgust me how our ancestors treated the Native Americans and their culture, all because of mostly screwed religious ideals. These people were here before the white man arrived and deserved to be respected, not stomped low or killed, and our government has never stopped treating them like dirt ever since. I love the Native Americans and their heritage, so it is always difficult to hear about their tortured history by our forefathers. It makes me wanted to time travel back and set the ways right, hopefully creating a better future. BTW, I'd stop looking at that piece of crap Christopher Columbus as the founder of America (he landed in the Bahamas) considering the fact that so many other cultures (Viking, Irish, Spanish before Columbus, Chinese, South Pacific Islanders, Incas, possibly even Egyptians, etc.) all came and left their marks here way before his diseased butt brought plagues to the New World.
Honestly one of the best red dead RUclipsrs. Very underrated!
on the matter of cordite, around the 7:50 mark, i have to add onto this.
Not only is Dutch quite Well Read, He is also quite well connected, there are at least 2 Brits he is close to (Young buck Sean, and Josiah Trelawny.) so it isnt out of the question that he'd heard from them about the Cordite, and possibly even gotten some illegally smuggled to him for a job in the previous 10 years of development
Nothing iron clad but it would make some nice sense instead of thinking of it as an accident
Good point! Both Trelawny and Sean seem like people who would make that same reference, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s who Dutch learned it from.
this is such a great series i’ll be sad when it ends
the treatment of native americans in rdr2 was very mild... its fucked up what all happened
wow this is a really important video for anyone impacted by the game to learn about history
Was waiting for this! Do you plan on doing one for the Epilogue? I'd love to see it! Amazing work on this series!
I was so happy to see this upload not gonna lie
I know I’m only the most recent to say it but great job, these videos are amazing.
These videos feel like Christmas when they pop up in my subscriptions. Thank you
Are you willing to do a (history accurate) for the new Assasins creed or the Arabian sources are hard to find?
I really love your series it’s really informative
27:25 "Equivalent to about 1.5 million dollars today, seems they have enough money for Tahiti after all."
The game's money is not accurate to the time period, a C-96 Mauser would have cost $35 in real life 1899 but costs a whopping $250.00 in-game, indicating that the value of the money in the cave could be worth less than 1/7th the value when factoring for inflation. That would mean Dutch would only have just enough to escape to Tahiti after so many gang members have died or abandoned the cause.
Dutch knowing about Cordite makes absolute sense.
During the 1890s, America themselves were busy playing catch-up to the Europeans after they swiped the "best gunmakers" title off America by introducing new repeating arms quicker than the Americans themselves and the 1st new rifle that introduced this thing called "Cordite" was the French 1886 Lebel rifle which was chambered in the new smokeless powder (Which was basically cordite) and soon everyone was playing catch-up to them and even the US Military caught wind of this new thing.
Thus out to purchase new rifles that could take this powder already happened back in 1891 and by 1892, a competition was set for the procurement board on what rifles to get and the competing ones were the Lee, Schmidt-Rubin, Krag-Jorgenson, Mannlicher and even Mauser but ultimately, in that competition, the Krag won which became the US 1st smokeless/cordite bolt-action rifle which was then coded as the M1892 Springfield. Then the cavalry version would be introduced which made its name again in 1898 during the Spanish-American War and by this time, cordite powder powers everything the US used from it's rifles and even it's breach-loading cannons and same goes to the Spanish forces going against the US in Cuba.
Considering the same events happening in RDR2 like if the Spanish-American War did happen, then it's totally not a fluke that Dutch knew about cordite at all because basically it's already been used by the military for at least a 8 years by the time it was 1899 and also, somehow, Arthur can get a Carcano rifle (Albeit an anachronistic version in the game with it being the M1891/38 variant which, as the name suggest, fires the 7.5mm Carcano and designed in 1938, 4 decades after the events of RDR2) and even Bill was using the same Krag rifle he used during his time in service which was also firing cordite powdered rounds.
Great watch and coverage as always 🙏🏿
Didn’t Custer literally have a game about him where the goal is to sexually assault Natives? I remember watching a video on banned games and it was one of them. It was called “Custers Revenge” I think