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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @themermaidtree1144
    @themermaidtree1144 7 месяцев назад +6

    Beautiful and honest documentary of our people. Such a blessing the language is returning after a long and bitter sleep.

  • @dragonryderslair
    @dragonryderslair 2 года назад +28

    I am 3/4 Cherokee my father's family survived the trail of tears and was born on the reservation in Oklahoma. He left the reservation. At 15 when his parents died traveled to St. LOUIS MO. I was born when my parents were much older and my dad's second family. My mother was Cheerokee and Irish her mother was full Cherokee my maternal grandfather was an Irish immigrant
    My father taught me a great deal about my native history and I am extremely proud of my heritage. I am blessed

    • @donellbra3000
      @donellbra3000 10 месяцев назад

      STOP LYING IT CHEROKEE FROM THE LAKE LANEAR THAT THEY FLOADED AND MADE A LAKE OUT OF!

    • @cynthiaamersonmclean8854
      @cynthiaamersonmclean8854 2 месяца назад

      You are what ppl call a $5 indian

  • @appalachiashomesteadwithpatara
    @appalachiashomesteadwithpatara 6 лет назад +23

    You will not find a more beautiful person than Lou Jackson. So thankful for this documentary!

  • @colddeadhand7414
    @colddeadhand7414 6 лет назад +116

    I just took my daughter to Echota today. I picked two flowers at the side of the road,one for her and one for our ancestors. She placed it on the marker 300 yards where the city use to be. It's a shame how the Cherokee were denied the ability to keep their history.

    • @anthonymullings8666
      @anthonymullings8666 4 года назад +9

      my great great grand father was a cherokee I was told by my grand mother I love the native people of America God bless them

    • @siras8355
      @siras8355 4 года назад +6

      -- who ever you are, because you don’t even seem to have a name. Do you mean to say that computers belong only to the white man? Wow you couldn’t be more brain dead. Learn to accept the truth that our tribal cultures are way beyond the white mans culture. That is why to this day we are able to have close knit family ties to say the least.

    • @colddeadhand7414
      @colddeadhand7414 4 года назад +16

      @Sira S No it's what every ethnic group in human history has done. I am a mix of Cherokee and Irish. To hate on white people is to also hate myself. Even the native Americans dominated other tribes, took land, some had slaves and did exactly what every other culture of the world has done. I don't blame anyone in the past for anything. If those series of events didn't happen the way they did then chances are I wouldn't be here. Bad things have happened to every ethnic group in every nation since time began. To generalize an entire group of people and blame people today for what happened hundreds of years ago in my experience obsolves people of today of all of their personal responsibility and essentially gives them a free pass to be a horrible human being. I treat every person with respect and for the most part I get it in return. For those that don't offer the respect I deserve then that person is an asshole, not an entire race. See how that works?

    • @siras8355
      @siras8355 4 года назад +2

      -- am not a leftist nor am I trying to flame racism. Believe all men are equal I speak what I see and experience . So let us just agree to disagree

    • @colddeadhand7414
      @colddeadhand7414 4 года назад +5

      @-- Exactly, if I'm going to lay blame at anyone's feet it would be government. They have the world record on thieft and genocide and the force to back up such policy as the Indian Removal Act. If anything I've learned from the past and stay armed to the teeth because of what they do.

  • @deathofme1
    @deathofme1 3 года назад +43

    My family was on the Daws Roll when they came west through the trail of tears. I may only be ¼ Cherokee but my father was raised by his white mother and I was raised by my white mother. I'm almost 30 and I'm just now learning about my culture. I know more about my mother's Scottish culture than I do about my grandfather's Cherokee culture. I'm looking forward to learning more.

    • @ckryegrass11
      @ckryegrass11 2 года назад

      There are many of us that are not on the white mans list and to this day are not accepted. I call it the list of cowards.

    • @nancydunton3031
      @nancydunton3031 2 года назад +5

      My great-great grandfather was on that roll as an infant. He made it to the west and returned to the Eastern Cherokee band to live out his years . I was born not far from Echota. My uncles and aunts and cousins all lived on the northern side of Fort Mountain and all to the west of Dalton, Ga. I was born in Dalton, 69 years ago. I visit Cherokee,NC when I can. Blessings

    • @imhere653
      @imhere653 Год назад

      @@ckryegrass11
      That's so very Cherokee of you to pass judgement and denigrate those of us that have ancestors listed on the Daws Rolls. I'm proud to see an example of our preference for peace and fellowship being demonstrated so enthusiastically in these modern times. You make us all proud.

    • @ronaldlogue1516
      @ronaldlogue1516 Год назад

      Hello. Do you know of any Logues or Gilmores? Hope to here from you. Looking for my lost family.

  • @kentonhammond8938
    @kentonhammond8938 3 года назад +22

    My Great Grandfather was full blooded Cherokee from the Paw Paw Kentucky area, and that's where my Mother was raised also. I'm proud of both my Cherokee & Hillbilly Ancestry. I was raised in the North, but did move to & live in Kentucky for 20 years. Best people in the world.

  • @sharon8927
    @sharon8927 3 года назад +16

    My grandfather was Cherokee. He raised his family this way and my father raised us this way. Our family lives all over but my father made sure we knew our family. He showed faith in God every day.

    • @donellbra3000
      @donellbra3000 10 месяцев назад

      LIAR

    • @coyotewalker1
      @coyotewalker1 7 месяцев назад +1

      Whoa, that's an awful strong accusation there! Prove it!😊

  • @lindawild6568
    @lindawild6568 3 года назад +8

    My great-great grandmother and her mother were on the Trail of Tears! My great grandmother was born on the Trail of Tears and my grandmother was born after they reached the reservation in Broken Bow, Oklahoma!

  • @nancybaldwin1811
    @nancybaldwin1811 6 лет назад +24

    Beautiful documentary. It's nice to see the village where they lived. No walls, no guns, no powerful rulers. This is true freedom.

    • @deleted7706
      @deleted7706 5 лет назад

      They have guns

    • @ifloridawarriorcatfan9918
      @ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 4 года назад

      They have guns remember back in the war, the White settles would give them guns to fight off other tribes.

    • @harrettarowson9578
      @harrettarowson9578 3 года назад +1

      I like listening to this about the Cherokee tribe, This interesting.

  • @aristobrat4987
    @aristobrat4987 5 лет назад +20

    My great grandmother is a full blooded cherokee woman but the strong physical traits of the white men married into the family and eventual marriage of more white couples in the family has left me very pale with blue eyes. But i thank the cherokee people of Oklahoma who still treated me like i could learn like the full blooded kids. I appreciate the kindness that stays with me from the tribe. I grew up feeling love from the cherokee people i met and overwhelming acceptance. I hope to share that as i get older and have kids. I really hope to use this language in my life, to keep its sound echoing through time.

    • @paradoxstudios6639
      @paradoxstudios6639 Год назад +2

      Chuck Norris is half Cherokee, you wouldn't know it by looking at him though.

  • @candacenagle505
    @candacenagle505 6 лет назад +21

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful film.

  • @mahimaabm6286
    @mahimaabm6286 6 лет назад +67

    I don't have Native Americans blood. No other native ancestry at all..But I like people who respect the Earth 🌎....

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 6 лет назад +2

      Mahima Abm
      I do to - it is a living and supporting life planet.
      🌱🔆

    • @mysticmogwai8184
      @mysticmogwai8184 4 года назад +2

      The trees are fighting to save our water supply... please plant trees as much as you can.☀️🌳💧💜🦅

    • @marythomas6827
      @marythomas6827 3 года назад +1

      I found out that I am a Cherokee Indian

    • @Threezi04
      @Threezi04 3 года назад

      @@marythomas6827 You mean like 3%? lol

    • @PHDWhom
      @PHDWhom 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Threezi04maybe you should stay in your lane? Are you one of the indigenous peoples of Australia, where you live? If not, why would you feel it appropriate to comment on something that is not your concern? Only the tribes have the right to say who or who is not a member of their nations. That is what sovereignty means! And for some Cherokee bands, blood quantum is used, and others not. In any event, no outsider has any right to comment on it.

  • @jamesgeorge1147
    @jamesgeorge1147 5 лет назад +20

    Am 1/8th Cherokee Indian proud member of eastern band of the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina USA and am a Wolf clan.

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 4 года назад +3

      James George Do you identify as white or Indian?

  • @nancygould6789
    @nancygould6789 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for sharing this story. The Indian is owed a lot.

  • @garygerow4822
    @garygerow4822 8 лет назад +18

    Thank you so much for sharing yourselves .My ancestors came to this beautiful land in the 1680,s . In New York , I,m French on both sides , my fathers side got burnt out of France in the 1600,s and fled to this land , my mothers side I found came from France to England between the mid to late 900,s . Then eventually to Plymouth . I live in the Alleghany Plateau of the Appilachian Mountains , in north central Pennsylvania . I love the hills and the wilds, we have alot of forest . I feel at peace and very spiritual out in these places and dream that I could be back in the old days living , give and take from the forests . Sorry I rambled , Thank You so much for Sharing , May the Creator of All Bless you and yours .

    • @paularobinson2352
      @paularobinson2352 2 года назад

      I have always felt like I was born in the wrong time period, myself.

  • @themason3100
    @themason3100 6 лет назад +20

    I miss my mammaw!!and Pap!!God Bless all we live here together people be humble and kind!!!from Kentucky on the line were 3 states connect in mountains on dead end road and the way some are talking on here we are still at a dead end road.Be Blessed😊

  • @creativeperspective
    @creativeperspective 3 года назад +15

    My grandmother in Oklahoma was very into genealogy when I was a child. Nathan Kirkland, Cheesesquire, was my 5th great grandfather. She rooted me in knowing that this is my heritage, despite my pale skin and blonde hair. Despite these physical traits I am proud to be part of the bird clan.

  • @tessakai
    @tessakai 2 года назад +3

    This is amazing. I am a descendant of European (Italian) immigrants to this country, and I am so glad and proud to learn about the indigenous Native Cherokee people who live in this area (I'm in North Carolina, the Piedmont, and I'm an immigrant from NY). Thank you so much.

  • @LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY
    @LITTLEMUSTANGFILLY 4 года назад +14

    I’ve got a little bit of Cherokee heritage in me. It’s cool to learn more about it. I wish history had gone a little differently. I think if natives had been able to win the cultural wars we would not be in such an environmental crisis.

  • @hollymaxx
    @hollymaxx 4 года назад +7

    My home, where I grew up with Cherokee speaking grandparents. I miss it

  • @rebeccamd7903
    @rebeccamd7903 4 года назад +9

    My grandmother is Cherokee through her Thacker line but the lady at 10 minutes could be my grandmother’s clone down to the hairstyle and glasses...So much so, I sent my dad a pic and he thought I’d found a picture of his mom. My jaw is on the floor!!! 😱
    My family are Southeastern Kentucky since around 1790 & my Sizemore line hid Natives in caves during the Trail of Tears. I just can’t help but to cry thinking about that time. It’s broke my heart since I was a child. 😞😢

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 2 года назад

      Mine too.

    • @eathealthier4u
      @eathealthier4u 5 месяцев назад

      Ummm, we have Thackers and I’d love to find out more on the Thacker line!!

    • @eathealthier4u
      @eathealthier4u 5 месяцев назад

      All these people look like my relatives on both sides in middle TN

    • @eathealthier4u
      @eathealthier4u 5 месяцев назад

      George Guess I’d like to know his Geneology, we have Guests in our family tree…

    • @eathealthier4u
      @eathealthier4u 5 месяцев назад

      I am learning so much this video is priceless. Oconostoda is my direct ancester from my understanding. Dragging Canoe is another…

  • @mikekinney9830
    @mikekinney9830 5 лет назад +4

    Thank you for a very fine portrayal and true representation of our People! Blessings! A-ho!

  • @yemeat2841
    @yemeat2841 3 года назад +6

    I clicked on this video not expecting to be brought to tears.
    As soon as I heard the singing I knew instantly that was my pastor.
    Pastor Bill Drywater passed a couple years back.
    It felt so good to hear that voice.
    His wife has just recently moved back to North Carolina to be with their daughters husbands family, who were eastern band.
    So yeah, were all one people anyways.
    Hard times caused confusion. I can't blame my ancestors.

  • @phillipmerritt1428
    @phillipmerritt1428 5 лет назад +8

    I really enjoyed this video about the Cherokees in snowbird NC. Gingdah

  • @mahimaabm6286
    @mahimaabm6286 6 лет назад +12

    I learned some lessons about the Cherokee Nation in the local high school Here in New York . I were told about the Trail of Tears 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢 😢...I can relate to the Trail of Tears.... ❤

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      @aborigineone2377 4 года назад

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  • @johnnyunderhil5129
    @johnnyunderhil5129 4 года назад +9

    I grew up beside new echota and found out that I had ancestors that lived there and escape from the trail of tears by running to north Carolina and hide in snowbird

  • @dennislockhart8627
    @dennislockhart8627 7 лет назад +28

    Very beautiful
    May "The Creator"
    Always bless us all
    We Are One ☝️
    🌬🌀❤️

    • @themason3100
      @themason3100 6 лет назад +4

      Dennis Lockhart Finally some sense Bless you!🙄

  • @djiceyfan
    @djiceyfan 6 лет назад +20

    my grandfather is Cherokee and from swain county... the museum has a statue of my very very great family member sequoia ....when my grandfather came to the charlotte area he for some reason had his last name changed from "guess" to "Johnson" ...i remember my grandfather speaking to someone in Cherokee language when we visited family and i wish i would have asked him to teach me when he was alive...and seeing that gravel road running along the creek dead end into the trees he told us about the cabin he was raised in up in those woods and talking about a friend of his named Jim Swaney whom is probably deceased now as well.....and now the government has taken it all =(.

    • @aroundthebound828
      @aroundthebound828  6 лет назад +5

      Cherokee diaspora spreads to every state. But hoping you could clarify some things. You said Sequoyah was your aunt? Did you mean uncle? The man who invented the syllabary was Sequoyah whose white name was George Gist/Guess. There are still families among the EBCI with the last name Sequoyah. However Sequoyah was born in Tennessee and would later move down to Georgia area. The Cherokee who reside in Swain/Jackson co. are usually from their ancestors who negated the trail and hid in the mountains. This group of Cherokee spoke Kituwah/Middle dialect and come from North Carolina. This of course means they way they spoke was different from that of Sequoyah who would have spoke Overhill/Upper dialect. Now the Cherokee who reside in Graham co. would closely share the same dialect as Sequoyah. But I do not know the connection or relationship between the man who created the syllabary and those who have the last name Sequoyah. I can say through genealogy that Cherokee families like present day, shared the same name without family connections. It is also harder to prove bloodlines because up until the early to mid 19th century Cherokee families did not go by two names. It was not up until census records that Whites began giving families the surnames of the head man of the house.

    • @vickylawrence3958
      @vickylawrence3958 6 лет назад +5

      Peridot Rain I am half Cherokee. My father was Cherokee and Mom was white. My last name is Johnson. Seems that Johnson was a common last name that some Cherokee took.

    • @irisessex90
      @irisessex90 4 года назад +1

      Peridot Rain: May I inquire as to why this land was taken from them?

    • @paularobinson2352
      @paularobinson2352 2 года назад +1

      I think choosing Johnson as a surname was common. My grandmother was full blooded Iroquois from Canada. She moved down to the US to hide from an abusive husband (4th if I remember correctly). She moved in with her daughter who was passing as white. Lamothe was her married name at that time, as the husband was a Frenchman. She left behind her son, with her sister, because she knew he would search for her until he found his son. He didn't care about finding his daughter as much. Oddly enough I found no further evidence of him ever returning to Quebec or that he ever searched for her. I found cousins in Canada that had a lot of details that I didn't have.

    • @BruteForce087749
      @BruteForce087749 Год назад +1

      My Granny said she was Cherokee and half pilgrim from Lynn, Arkansas Elizabeth Richmond, Walker, my granny❤❤❤🔥🐺

  • @wayukapi
    @wayukapi 2 года назад +3

    This is an excellent video, and sounds so much like my people out in Hollister Halifax County. Traditional customs and ways of living as an "Indian" is just a "part of you in your heart". No paper needed to identify you with that.

  • @brandondarrin3067
    @brandondarrin3067 7 лет назад +46

    I'm a product of the few surviving from the Trail of White Tears. Cherokee didn't cry even when their family died on trail. They carried their dead as they continued walking. The whites lined the trail crying from the sight they saw.

    • @hennyoldman8068
      @hennyoldman8068 7 лет назад

      brandon darrin did your family take their slaves with them?

    • @terilefevers6189
      @terilefevers6189 6 лет назад +8

      Although I am of mixed heritage...more than anything else, the Trail of Tears makes me ashamed to be white.

    • @bernadettehayes5486
      @bernadettehayes5486 6 лет назад +10

      Henny Oldman just STOP! These Beautiful, Caring, civilised, intelligent,people have suffered enough! White peoples DESTROYED EVERYTHING that WAS RIGHTLY THEIRS! White people HAD Absolutely NO Respect or Right to treat these beautiful people the way they did! And YOU will find that white people in my opinion where the instigators of SLAVES!! So! Be Quiet YOU know nothing!!!!

    • @vickylawrence3958
      @vickylawrence3958 6 лет назад +18

      Bernadette Hayes You know I am half White and half Cherokee...What the white man did to the Indians were bad. There are not any white man alive today who took the Cherokee land. I don't hate the white man because I would be hating part of myself and part of my family. If you hate all white man does that mean you hate all of me or just half of me.

    • @MarkEvanWhite
      @MarkEvanWhite 6 лет назад +3

      @@hennyoldman8068 the slaves that were more prosperous than the poor in the North? Those slaves?

  • @wandamcgann7728
    @wandamcgann7728 3 года назад +2

    that lady in the blue pants speaking she favors my mother very much. my mother is now in Heaven along with my father. when i seen this lady I thought of my mother. very pretty lady. My mother was also Cherokee, My 4x great grandmother was said to be 3/4ths cherokee. she was written in the Cherokee log books. just amazing.

    • @imhere653
      @imhere653 Год назад

      If you are a direct descendant of a person listed on the Dawes rolls, your path to becoming recognized as a member of the Cherokee Nation is much easier than those who do not know their ancestors names or if they are listed. I encourage you to get your Cherokee CDIB card and be counted. CDIB is an acronym for Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood. We need to be as accurate and complete as possible. Please contact the Cherokee Headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. You COULD start at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in Washington DC, but that's not as precise as weeding out all the other unnecessary red tape. The information you have is all you need. You'll end up being referred to Tahlequah in the end, anyway. Be counted! Be a participant! Be involved!

  • @thomasmiller1774
    @thomasmiller1774 7 лет назад +44

    Thank God I am Cherokee and of the Paint Clan

    • @yonagwy5826
      @yonagwy5826 5 лет назад +1

      Thomas Miller my mother was bird clan. My father is Scandinavian.

    • @godwannabe8976
      @godwannabe8976 5 лет назад

      @@yonagwy5826 My mother's hungarian, and my dad's half hungarian, half german.

  • @kdugg
    @kdugg 3 месяца назад

    My great grandfather was put through a native boarding school. He was a man of few words and a serious face all of the time. His mother, my great great grandmother was the same way. Tough as could be. I had the privilege of knowing both of them. They lived to be near 100 years old.

  • @eleanorsmith9706
    @eleanorsmith9706 2 года назад +9

    My mother was Afro American and Indian mix, she resembled An Indian, her maiden name was Snow. From her appearance she had very strong Indian genes. I’m looking forward to seeing her again in the new system.She hard a very hard life, trusting in the resurrection hope when the dead will hear his voice and come out.

    • @makenziemarino9102
      @makenziemarino9102 2 года назад +1

      This system can’t last much longer so soon my sister soon

  • @pamelabennett1492
    @pamelabennett1492 Год назад +1

    Fabulous!

  • @doveleboeuf6625
    @doveleboeuf6625 Год назад

    The last of the Mohicans is one of my favorite movies. I've watched it at least 4 times or more!!!

  • @WadeKing-dm2hw
    @WadeKing-dm2hw 10 месяцев назад

    I love Cherokee hymn singing. They use the four point harmony like the Old Chuck Gang. My grandpa use to talk about the Cloud family and how beautiful their singing was.

  • @edwinthompson6510
    @edwinthompson6510 7 лет назад +18

    I come from Cochise County Arizona........ We have a ranch near Tombstone we also employ Chiricahua Apache Native Americans as ranch hands..... They are expert horse wranglers they have a way with the horses they call it horse whispering its uncanny the horses do what ever the Chiricahua want them to do......... As well as Horses i have witnessed an Apache snake dance .... They dance and handle live Rattle Snakes...... Again these reptiles are completely under their control The Chricahua live for the land on the land ... not like us white Americans take take if only we could listen but we are deaf They are a proud Nation ...I am proud to say i know them / work with them and share their culture ........ For although what has happened in passed years they can still care for us ..... incredible there is not a thing they wouldn't do for us and us likwise ............ If more people in our Country were as kind thoughtful as Chiricahua it might just be one hell of a better place..... My Great great great parents came from England in the early 1800s.... Crossed America by wagon train along with thousands of other white pioneers Every one contributed some way to make our Country a place where freedom is precious Thank God for America Amen

    • @aaronengland8289
      @aaronengland8289 6 лет назад +2

      Edwin Thompson
      Our folks used to chew a plant called "rattlesnake master", blow it on their hands, and pick up rattles like they were chihuahuas lol

  • @jameskirkland7310
    @jameskirkland7310 4 года назад +5

    My half brother shorty lives there. I wished I was close with him but I'm not and it is what it is. Now I'm in Hendersonville at the moment cooking for 53 residents in a facility over ran with covid 19. I miss home.

  • @Onelightoftheworld
    @Onelightoftheworld 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for this!

  • @simosc2
    @simosc2 8 лет назад +15

    thank you...my heart hungers for Cherokee

  • @KaitlynMcCary
    @KaitlynMcCary 5 лет назад +1

    Came here because I miss my grandmother. She was half Cherokee. What a beautiful heritage

    • @ifloridawarriorcatfan9918
      @ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 4 года назад

      My great great grandparents were survivors of the Trail of Tears and my grandpa’s native but doesn’t live on the reserve and I agree that it’s a beautiful heritage.

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 4 года назад

      Kaitlyn McCary So you are 1/8 Cherokee DNA? Have you taken a DNA test to see the percentage Indian blood? You look white so I assume the 87.5% is European, if you are 1/8. I suggest getting a DNA test...you saw what happened with Elizabeth Warren...you don’t want to be that lol

    • @KaitlynMcCary
      @KaitlynMcCary 4 года назад

      Tito Torres I want to take one! I’m not trying to claim I’m Cherokee or anything, just wanted to appreciate my grandmothers heritage ❤️

    • @IslenoGutierrez
      @IslenoGutierrez 4 года назад

      Kaitlyn McCary Of course. But you should get one just to see how much actual Indian blood you have. I suggest 23andme, it’s the best one.

  • @garypulley5450
    @garypulley5450 3 года назад

    Thank you alot to take in

  • @kimsutton2268
    @kimsutton2268 2 года назад

    Thanks for sharing and taking us along on the historical journey

  • @aneshiadixon8762
    @aneshiadixon8762 4 года назад +9

    I'm not Cherokee I'm Choptank Nanticoke their cousin😊
    This is like watching a documentary about myself and my family. This is so cool.

  • @caseyrayharris.esquire489
    @caseyrayharris.esquire489 3 года назад +1

    Mary. You are both, 1 impossible without the other. You have a good heart. I stumbled upon the spiritual belief of my great grandmother.. Today. I practice a hodgepodge of religious beliefs and the creator"a name I had never heard exclusively any god that was who I asked to forgive me for not knowing names or his will. So I just let him guide me. I have sang to deer & birds for hours. I know of this sounds crazy but faith is uniquely the same everywhere u look. I feel that only fuels it's validity. all life is the honorable in my heart, but I'm proud of my survivors. My Cherokee Heritage is honorable. .

  • @trishgels
    @trishgels 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for sharing this! I'm fascinated by this history! It's a crying shame what was done to our Native American ppl. We could've learned so much rather than seek dominion over their land. Progress isn't moving forward if you forget where you've been, IMHO.

  • @evanswann1106
    @evanswann1106 7 лет назад +9

    My grandmother on my mom's side of the family,told my father that we come from the Snowbird tribe.

  • @saramcgaha1029
    @saramcgaha1029 5 лет назад +14

    I’ve come to find I’m native and proud.

    • @judithrausch4742
      @judithrausch4742 4 года назад

      I would be too. Grew up few miles from Cherokee where Scottish grandparents lived.

  • @janebarrow4960
    @janebarrow4960 6 лет назад +21

    Be your own people . Be Proud Cherrokee!! Shankan Wankan Mapya Hota !!!

  • @katnip198
    @katnip198 3 года назад

    Interesting, informative video. Beautiful people. Thank you.

  • @sheyannebarton1235
    @sheyannebarton1235 2 года назад +1

    Great video

  • @chrisjustus5446
    @chrisjustus5446 4 года назад +2

    Almost every day I use some of the Cherokee language of the little bit that I know and this makes me feel so truly American. This is what for a goodly part really makes America great, being able to align myself as one who is mostly of European origin to function in the moment by enjoying the use of an American language, the Cherokee tongue.

    • @chrisjustus5446
      @chrisjustus5446 4 года назад +2

      It behooves stores that are in towns such as Bryson City, N C , Waynesville, NC , Canton, N C Murphy,N C and Hendersonville, N C to have the general signage there in English and Cherokee. Which would give exposure of the Cherokee language and it's syllabary on behalf of the common public.

    • @noninoni454
      @noninoni454 4 года назад +1

      Is there any online resource to learn how speak Cherokee?

  • @anneblackie3757
    @anneblackie3757 4 года назад +2

    I love native American culture and customs especially cherokee got no ancestry native American but would love to learn more they have so much wisdom

  • @margaretno211
    @margaretno211 4 года назад

    Thanking for teaching - hopefully the past can make a strong foundation of good now and into the tomorrow's.

  • @indigenouslife9123
    @indigenouslife9123 3 года назад +1

    Am from jamaica,am of taino herittage,before i found out,when i was a child,i watched a native american movie ever since i fell in love with them,i make a little bow along with arrows made from stick and nail,i used to chase fowls for their feathers.and it is 7 years ago i found out my father was (indigenous taino)i love all native americans.we are family,

  • @dianebuckalew7313
    @dianebuckalew7313 4 года назад +1

    THANK YOU FOR SHAREING

  • @mgmassey174
    @mgmassey174 3 года назад +1

    This woman looks so much like my grandfather's sisters. I often come just to hear her
    Bless
    Osiyo

  • @illusiv2135
    @illusiv2135 Год назад +1

    My Greatgrandmother was one of the ones who hid and stayed in the East. She later married a Choctaw Chief. My Grandmother was half and half! DNA testing revealed that in the roll of the DNA dice, most of my DNA is American First Nations. I’ve been told that I very much look like my main DNA heritage! At 70 years of age, my hair is still dark, my skin is darker compared to Europeans, and my facial features are just like my Grandmother’s and as stated, she was full blooded Native American…half Cherokee and half Choctaw. Ancestry has verified this bloodline!
    I have always felt that pull. My Grandmother taught me a great deal. If you had an ailment, she knew exactly which herb from the forest to get to make you feel better.
    She lived to be 107 years old, best that we could tell. I miss her a great deal!

  • @naturesdaughter6341
    @naturesdaughter6341 4 года назад +4

    Proud 1% Eastern Band Cherokee... My 5 times great grandfather was from The Smokies. I am so proud and so deeply connected (from an early age) to every Cherokee!! Ayo! 🙏
    While being proud I am so upset, I don't connect to my euro side at all..... I'm actually ashamed of them!

  • @maryann902
    @maryann902 4 года назад +2

    My grand father is half Cherokee so my mom was a quarter and I and my sister are 1/8th. Wish we knew more of the traditions we came from.

  • @johnbhughes3419
    @johnbhughes3419 6 лет назад +23

    I recently found out my grandmother father was a snowbird Cherokee he's a rattler I knew her mother line was Cherokee but they where in the painttown area

    • @kaleahcollins4567
      @kaleahcollins4567 3 года назад +1

      Never forget who we are brother even if the so-called civilized tribe don't accept us because they were rather accept a whites for financial gain

    • @johnbhughes3419
      @johnbhughes3419 3 года назад +1

      @@kaleahcollins4567 What are you talking about?

    • @timwarcloud
      @timwarcloud 3 года назад

      @@kaleahcollins4567 ridiculous...

  • @KristenMitchelle
    @KristenMitchelle 20 дней назад

    Love all y'all. God bless you!! ❤ ✝️ 🕊

  • @donniegray553
    @donniegray553 4 года назад +1

    I have Tsalagi ancestors from both my father and mother. Dad's mom, the only grand parent I knew growing up, told how her own grandmother came from "eastern Tennessee and told stories of coming to eastern KY in a covered wagon". I remember the highway going over the mountains where the tunnels are now (into Harrogate, Tn and its hard to imagine horses crossing them while pulling a wagon load of stuff. Automobiles often over heated trying to cross there.

    • @eathealthier4u
      @eathealthier4u 5 месяцев назад

      Is this Dragging Canoes tribal city?

  • @shareejacobs4509
    @shareejacobs4509 Год назад

    Great documentary! My husbands grandmother that raised him was Cherokee and Blackfoot. She was a Christian woman that always took care of the babies in the church nursery for free. She would give the pay back. If not for her what would my husband have done!? She is his real mother. I met my husband at that church. God bless and keep you guys! 🙏🫶🏻🙂

  • @carylbrowngirl5148
    @carylbrowngirl5148 4 года назад +1

    My mother who would be 95 this year always told us that her mother was half cherokee indian, born in South Carolina. She died from burst appendicitis when my mother was five, around 1930, in Massachusetts.

  • @martinlane6877
    @martinlane6877 3 года назад

    Nice to know the history of my great-grandmothers people

  • @kaleahcollins4567
    @kaleahcollins4567 3 года назад

    Two of my three times great-grandmother's Eastern band Cherokee I'm both North and South Carolina

  • @danesmith5840
    @danesmith5840 Год назад +3

    13:00 That’s my family! Denadagohvi!

  • @gcjbhar
    @gcjbhar 4 года назад +1

    My father and his father ,my Grandfather ,were both born on the reservation. My Grandfather on my mothers side was also born there. My mothers father was Rev. Ronald Holland that was a circuit preacher in that entire area for most of his life!! He was Ronnie Milsap's Godfather and was also named after him I've been told. There is a book for sale on Amazon titled "High Calling The Journey of a Mountain Preacher" that explains it much better than I can.

  • @Healingestures
    @Healingestures Год назад

    I am not Cherokee but I believe we are all human beings and we are all synchronized so we are all part of everyone and if you tap into your real true self you will find more love and care from nature and people who cherish the real beliefs in humanity as they truly are with all differences and similarities as long as someone is good and by his and her behaviours brings good into this world should be let free accepted and have all the rights to live according to such freedom and discovery without good foundation that is tradition we won't be able to carry ourselves through this world into the new being of ourselves and another so we need to be open hearted open minded for another discovering new cultures is always an incredible journey for all our senses and mind it can help to heal from unhealthy social script and connect with more powerful healing sources and wisdom thank you for this documentary ! 💚

  • @shirleybowers7251
    @shirleybowers7251 4 года назад +1

    Many whites even those in places of authority are deceived - not nearly as smart as they think they are. I have repented of pride and all my sins and have come to have a deep respect and love for our Native Americsns. Jesus is our Lord and Savior and He makes all the difference in attitude, behavior and relationship. Fellowship is so precious. Thank you for this valuable documentary. God bless America as we continue to learn truth and change our ways where truth requires.

  • @jackiek553
    @jackiek553 4 года назад +4

    Ella Jackson looks VERY physically similar to my grandmother, who had a great grandmother that was full blooded Cherokee in late 1800’s. Wonder if we are related.

  • @delonzo83
    @delonzo83 7 лет назад +19

    my grandmother still alive she was born in 1923 in Alabama and she always tell me that my ancestors was crow tribe .

    • @stormy-le6pb
      @stormy-le6pb 7 лет назад +6

      delonzo83 LOL you know tha's a lie. Crows are so far from Alabama. ROFL It is just a family myth that your mother is Crow. Everyone knows by now that every black family had that myth that they were Indian. For some reason blacks sure idolized Indians, that they told lies to their family that they were Indians.

    • @aryanasaiter6150
      @aryanasaiter6150 7 лет назад +8

      delonzo83 * It's true that many black people are part Native Americans. This was proven by DNA. Their history is always an oral record.

    • @musol246
      @musol246 7 лет назад +4

      2016stormy meanwhile these mixed caucasian/asian hybrid people are recognized as full blooded native

    • @Allhoney33
      @Allhoney33 7 лет назад +4

      Aryana Saiter Not true. Most Black Americans do NOT have Native American ancestry, instead it's mostly Caucasian ancestry. We even look more Caucasian than say Black Latinos and Black Carribeans.

    • @musol246
      @musol246 7 лет назад

      Lizzie Beth Actually they are Asian/Caucasian mix. Learn to read because that's what the DNA test say

  • @dcr6389
    @dcr6389 2 месяца назад

    The Cherohala Skyway runs through the Snowbird Mountains from Tellico Plains, TN to Robbinsville, NC, there is no more beautiful place on earth

  • @Happy_HIbiscus
    @Happy_HIbiscus 8 лет назад +5

    dude, this is cool

  • @danielworley2273
    @danielworley2273 3 года назад +1

    My family is from Jackson County. I dream of one day returning.

  • @doveleboeuf6625
    @doveleboeuf6625 Год назад +1

    Yea, if theres a family gathering and the aunts are all there or grandparents then if they scolded you then you had to do what they told you to do or not do. And we always brought food and cooked for a family death, or took turns staying with the sick family members. My mom belongs to the Eastern band of Cherokee.

  • @Sratgayzer86
    @Sratgayzer86 7 лет назад +9

    I am sorry for the loss of your Elders. I must say, it saddens me a bit to see my people baptizing themselves to Christianity. So much was taken...but, I am happy if you're happy.

    • @gatorsonthe54th43
      @gatorsonthe54th43 7 лет назад +3

      They can still believe in their own spiritual ways ......in truth both ways have the knowledge of a great spirit......

    • @DogLover-nh5sf
      @DogLover-nh5sf 6 лет назад +3

      Great spirit nurtures. Yahweh is an energy parasite. A massive one. If you think Christianity speaks to great spirit then you have no clue who great spirit is

    • @Joanne88346
      @Joanne88346 6 лет назад +7

      You are very wrong - I am of the wolf clan. When the white man came to our land we were already baptizing our children. The Great Spirit walked with us and taught us His ways. This is what we told the white man. We also showed them our drawings of the Great Spirit, His Son and the Fire Spirit. We have known of the 'trinity' from the beginning. I suggest you go back to your elders and perhaps seek council from other clans. Peace be unto you.

    • @aaronengland8289
      @aaronengland8289 6 лет назад +2

      N. Joanne Mathis
      That's a myth. White folks visited us as early as the 1500's, long before they had began moving in on us. Earlier Europeans taught us about the Bible and that was how we knew those things when the whites began to settle among our folks. European doctrine states that "the first Christians on any land own it".
      Dead give-away that we weren't praying to Jesus.

    • @leeannegifford3503
      @leeannegifford3503 6 лет назад +1

      @@Joanne88346 you are 100% right. Keep telling the truth. I'm so glad to read your comment, that you actually know because it's been passed down, from even before God saved a righteous Hebrew family from the 2 ND destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem & made a way for their escape to the Promised Land. & Even now the evil ppl still persecute the Natives because they are the chosen ones, a Royal Priesthood, Sacred Blood. The Scottish & Irish are, too. See how England & the Crown persecuted them & the genocide of them, too. I've always felt in my Spirit I was different than others, & the more I learn about everything, I understand why. Thanks for letting ppl know that The Great Spirit was here & did teach His Gospel & ordances, like baptism by immersion & so more, you are very intelligent!?

  • @ronaldlogue1516
    @ronaldlogue1516 Год назад +1

    My family are Gilmores. Native side. My 4th great grandfather was Conky. He took the name John Gilmore. Looking for cousins. Thank you. My last name is Logue.

  • @rebeccaschultz9199
    @rebeccaschultz9199 2 года назад

    As I was watching, my brother appeared. His name is Fred Bradley and is a Cherokee story teller.

  • @keepyourfamilyclose
    @keepyourfamilyclose 6 лет назад +9

    Shkee I am Saw-la-gee and will always will be ❤

  • @jeffreyramsey2735
    @jeffreyramsey2735 2 года назад

    My great grandfather had several interactions with the Cherokee around 1900 in the Low Gap area of N.C..

  • @franciscoprazzio225prazzio
    @franciscoprazzio225prazzio 2 года назад +1

    I like to learn more about Cherokee History, and Culture since i found out i am of Cherokee ancestry.

  • @jvc.swedenjj.artisteri9334
    @jvc.swedenjj.artisteri9334 6 лет назад +2

    WONDERFUL Thanks from sweden Jeanette von Cedric

  • @wolfhawaii1
    @wolfhawaii1 5 лет назад +3

    I honor my ancestors of the Deer Clan, and my eastern relatives; we remember.

    • @rae7269
      @rae7269 4 года назад +1

      Olotele Forge you havnt been native American in 300 years.😒

    • @patsymullendore3829
      @patsymullendore3829 3 года назад +2

      My people were from the deer clan also

  • @ronniebell9749
    @ronniebell9749 3 года назад +1

    My mother was born and raised in little Snowbird North Carolina.

  • @michellemartell5378
    @michellemartell5378 3 года назад

    Many years ago I found out that my great grandfather is Creek, my grandmother never spoke of anything about that part of my family, I have been trying to learn everything I can,, the culture, language, dress, everything I can about Creeks

  • @kennethsmith1744
    @kennethsmith1744 5 лет назад +2

    I love you all forever

  • @devonslife7970
    @devonslife7970 2 года назад

    Aww my great great great grandma and grandpa whitehead were from there probably related to you guys ❤️❤️

  • @heatherdashrae2
    @heatherdashrae2 Год назад +2

    My Grandmother was Cherokee, on her Mom and Dad's side from the Chattahoochee Georgia area. I would like to know why white people flooded most black communities, and now I see that they flooded an Indian community as well. White people also paid to be listed as Indian on the census.

    • @donaldirvingjr6869
      @donaldirvingjr6869 Год назад +1

      Try reading, "$5 Dollar Indians: Pay To Play" on how Indigenous In America (s) turn from Melinated to pink pale face white "Native" today!
      Also one will see why NFL FOOTBALL "WASHINGTON REDSKINS" NAME & LOGO WAS BANNED in AMERICA! BLESSINGS!

  • @edwardjones9631
    @edwardjones9631 5 лет назад +1

    I am largely from Northern Europe but am part Cherokee! In my travels across North America I have met many tribes of (IA) Indigenous Americans, as I was amateur photographer. I once learned that IA believe in about 4000 spirits. It got my attention by the kachina dolls made on the Hopi Rez in Az. In my opinion, this tradition may be their only fault? What God has created let no one destroy! Let's pray for them!

  • @zakk94
    @zakk94 3 года назад +2

    I love my people

  • @chickasawstarrmountain9747
    @chickasawstarrmountain9747 5 лет назад +3

    this world is twisted that they would protect a fish and not a people?? I live close to old town hiwassee in tn it's absolutely beautiful that's where the warrior path starts on starr mountain and goes to tellico town a great cherokee town but long gone

  • @adamhawkins3036
    @adamhawkins3036 2 года назад

    Being from Tennessee ive been to North Carolina many times growin up an as an adult but i went to snowbird one time when i was only five or six but only because we'd got turned around some how i dont know but i do remember how pretty it was what i could see from the car window..im half irish cherokee and very proud of both of them my grandma Radford on my dads side had alot of Cherokee because her mom was a Cherokee princess if i understand right but she was gifted she could blow up a blazin fire just by barely whisperin breath on a small hot coal she could get rid of warts but her and my grandma Hawkins were born in Unaka NC if im right i know my grandma hawkins was then as she got a little older they all moved to Tellico plains Tennessee and thats where im from well right down the road a few short miles but round a bout.. godbless the Cherokee people but he already has i love them and i admire them and what little fragment of Cherokee i have im very proud of

    • @imhere653
      @imhere653 Год назад

      There is no such thing as a Cherokee princess. I would avoid using that term for two good reasons:
      It's a dead giveaway you are not familiar with the people you claim to be a member of. (We say people who repeat this myth have "the princess syndrome".)
      The Cherokee Nation does not include royalty or royal titles of rank.

    • @adamhawkins3036
      @adamhawkins3036 Год назад

      @@imhere653 no i know that they dont use royal terms like the english and no im no expert about the people i say that cause her dad was an elder native man

    • @adamhawkins3036
      @adamhawkins3036 Год назад

      @@imhere653 im not a member of any clan or anything like that i didnt claim that i just said what little small fraction of cherokee i have im very proud of i love the people.. thats it

    • @adamhawkins3036
      @adamhawkins3036 Год назад

      @@imhere653 it wouldnt be correct for me to say half no im not half cherokee but yes i do have a little bit of cherokee in my ancestry

    • @imhere653
      @imhere653 Год назад

      @@adamhawkins3036
      I can relate to your Cherokee pride. If you are interested, I can tell you the steps to be recognized as member of the CN and get a CDIB card. That stands for Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood. And don't go worrying about what percentage you are and how to prove it. That comes later if you expres interest. I don't want to type a bunch of stuff you don't want. Be counted! It's important.

  • @CrowdPleeza
    @CrowdPleeza 2 года назад

    Does anyone know a good source for information on what plants and trees that the Cherokee made use of for medicine,food and other uses?

    • @imhere653
      @imhere653 Год назад

      Where do you live? Do you want to be put in touch with a medicine man/healer? I'm sure you'd rather not have to travel a long distance if you have a choice. If you have not received replies to your question, it's likely because your comments are not set to receive responses. The only option offered through your account is to REPORT your contribution to the RUclips police if a participant thinks it's necessary.

  • @whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
    @whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541 7 лет назад +8

    I share a history with the White Top Mountain Laurel Band, That the Cherokee tribes (Families) was hidden by the Stick People Tribe. We helped many of the tribes that were hidden from trail Of Tears on the northern exile some in that area may call it the tri-county area, into the Northern bands My understanding is that it was from the Laurel Springs earea. Our history and culture society is looking for more information that I was told That I may be able to contact to get more information

    • @aroundthebound828
      @aroundthebound828  7 лет назад +6

      I am not familiar with this but it is nice to acknowledge the Cherokee. Other than former place names very seldom do people of the Great Smokies understand the ancient inhabitants who still remain in their homeland.

    • @whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
      @whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541 7 лет назад +1

      Thank you

    • @aborigineone2377
      @aborigineone2377 4 года назад

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    • @illusiv2135
      @illusiv2135 Год назад

      Was it “Stick People“? or “ Selahtick” People? Curious…?!?

    • @whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541
      @whitetopmountainlaurelchil3541 Год назад

      @@illusiv2135 The Stick People was a Tribes formed of a nother group of Sizemores that was in early time Among The Chilhowee Cherokee People. They Lived in the TriCounty In SW Virginia in Bear Town, and among some of the other Chilhowee Towns that Was from the White Top Mountain Area. Chilhowee Cherokee was one of the Cherokee nations that had Signed the Peace Treaty With Governor Blunt, and the US.
      We want to thank You All For Sharing.
      The Stick People was Not Just Some Of The Sizemores there were other people as well. We are not going in to any more detail.

  • @mildredrharmon4032
    @mildredrharmon4032 Год назад

    She reminds me of my granny toots, they look a lot alike! 🥰

  • @williamwarren1710
    @williamwarren1710 6 лет назад +5

    Siyu osiwotsu to all Cherokee nations

  • @lisadavie5282
    @lisadavie5282 5 месяцев назад

    So Beautiful. The 3 fires the 5 doorways 🙏🌈🌎🌱🐦🐛🦋🌬🌪💦🔥🌎