Ken Burns: Confronting America's shameful, violent history makes us stronger as a nation

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2021
  • The violent history of the United States can be difficult to reckon with, perverting the meaning of patriotism. Filmmaker and guest commentator Ken Burns says for many, choosing to remember our failings is somehow considered anti-American. But Burns argues the treatment of Native Americans across the country was often brutal, bloody and shameful, and confronting these hard truths makes us stronger as a nation. He points to the National Park Service's decision to recognize the Nov. 29, 1864 massacre of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people as a part of this process. The Sand Creek massacre was misrepresented as a “battle” for nearly a century. Read more: wapo.st/burnspatriotism. Subscribe to The Washington Post on RUclips: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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  • @errr.antiez
    @errr.antiez 2 года назад +58

    Let history speak honestly and without interruption…be strong enough to listen

    • @l337pwnage
      @l337pwnage Год назад +3

      lol, you won't find honest history here.

    • @yanapostolides601
      @yanapostolides601 Год назад

      Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course, which leads me to believe he is a brainwashed political hack and liar that is EFFECTIVLY HELPING A RACE WAR AND DIVISION IN THIS COUNTRY. When will you open your eyes to the lies?

  • @MR-in4yi
    @MR-in4yi 2 года назад +20

    Good read "BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE" Thank you Mr. Burns.

  • @FreddieVee
    @FreddieVee 2 года назад +18

    Nationalism is often confused with Patriotism.

    • @trumfit
      @trumfit 3 месяца назад +1

      I think they are just different levels of the same thing.

  • @sgauden02
    @sgauden02 2 года назад +13

    Manifest Destiny was unconstitutional, and it was wrong. The American government did terrible things. I'm glad to hear that the natives are regaining some of their ancestral lands, and that their population has really been growing in recent years. Hopefully, the mistakes of the past, or at least some of them, can be fixed.

    • @yanapostolides601
      @yanapostolides601 Год назад

      Sure was but it doesn't change the fact that Ken is liar and an obvious political hack not interested in the truth or healing. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course.

    • @auntiebobbolink
      @auntiebobbolink 8 месяцев назад

      Manifest Destiny was built on Doctrine of Discovery.

  • @bestia2.063
    @bestia2.063 2 года назад +49

    It would be nice if they did a special on all the contributions native people have had in the culture food and music

    • @johnrichardson5858
      @johnrichardson5858 2 года назад +1

      What culture? The fought and killed each other just like everyone else who is completely godless and worship spirits

    • @bestia2.063
      @bestia2.063 2 года назад +1

      @@johnrichardson5858 so are white people. Regarding religion that you all worship country Middle East. I needed to have culture vulture that you all found fit to emulate. And it is to have a card to call him the Creator

    • @MsTinkerbelle87
      @MsTinkerbelle87 2 года назад +2

      @@johnrichardson5858 ………you make me dread the future of this country. We can change as a nation but not with an awful attitude like that. 🤦🏼‍♀️

    • @rosasmith9835
      @rosasmith9835 2 года назад +2

      @@johnrichardson5858 so did you and your kind.
      World War 1, World War 2, the "100years War", etc.

    • @cosmo9390
      @cosmo9390 2 года назад

      What contributions?

  • @JoseMartinez-hm7hi
    @JoseMartinez-hm7hi 2 года назад +14

    This is true American history.

    • @yanapostolides601
      @yanapostolides601 Год назад

      Ken Burns is a liar, I'm not saying he never says the truth. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Jefferson knows he struggled with it. Why did no host on CNN push back? Because they are dumb.

    • @henrygjergo871
      @henrygjergo871 7 месяцев назад

      1. What are the critical differences between the TWO accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre?
      2. Why do you think the two sources provide such different interpretations of this event?

  • @threehorsesxxx5759
    @threehorsesxxx5759 2 года назад +32

    We learn by our mistakes. And admitting them helps to heal

    • @yanapostolides601
      @yanapostolides601 Год назад

      That's nice. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. How is this helping? What else did he lie about?

    • @quarter_moon_and_a_guitar
      @quarter_moon_and_a_guitar 10 месяцев назад

      were that only true

    • @terriejohnston8801
      @terriejohnston8801 8 месяцев назад

      Threehorses...thats the issue. Few white ppl.( & others) are ever willing to speak the truth. Too many hypocrites & liars.

  • @zod6250
    @zod6250 2 года назад +10

    One learns more from failure then success .

  • @dorenerussell2668
    @dorenerussell2668 2 года назад +6

    That’s why we will never know peace

  • @melaniemaec1
    @melaniemaec1 2 года назад +18

    Wonderful documentary, just like what has happened in Canada! We must confront our past, admit the horrible acts done to Indigenous people before we can walk together as equals. And they finally deserve to be seen for the genocide that occurred in your country and ours.

    • @aofeizhang8735
      @aofeizhang8735 2 года назад +2

      But you got the land and became rich, native people lost the land and became relatively poor, confronting the past can give no land back to native people. It's fundamentally about the ownship of land property.

    • @kipuvi9181
      @kipuvi9181 Год назад +1

      @@aofeizhang8735 we must first confront our past so that we can build the political momentum necessary to give what was unjustly taken back to its rightful owners - these two statements are not mutually exclusive - they go hand and hand as a road map to true justice and reconciliation... and even then the past cannot be undone, but we must always work to amend for the genocide and theft and address the current issues of our present

    • @grantsmythe8625
      @grantsmythe8625 11 месяцев назад

      @@aofeizhang8735 It's also about the ownership of the Narrative, the Story, of whether the Story will contain the whole Truth or the sanitized version championed by the Triumphalists.

    • @jameshill8493
      @jameshill8493 9 месяцев назад

      @@kipuvi9181what land is being given to who? Are you gonna give up your property.

    • @henrygjergo871
      @henrygjergo871 7 месяцев назад

      1. What are the critical differences between the TWO accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre?
      2. Why do you think the two sources provide such different interpretations of this event?

  • @jennifervan75
    @jennifervan75 2 года назад +38

    Finally indigenous people are being acknowledged

  • @daphnecausey3516
    @daphnecausey3516 2 года назад +33

    And hopefully never repeat those wrongs against any other people! There is only one race, the HUMAN RACE

    • @nativeeurope1299
      @nativeeurope1299 2 года назад +3

      Well they are intentionally replacing Europe's indigenous populations right now.

    • @rosasmith9835
      @rosasmith9835 2 года назад +2

      @@nativeeurope1299 perhaps it's karma my pagan brother

    • @Gretabpooh
      @Gretabpooh 2 года назад +2

      @@nativeeurope1299 Europe's indigenous population was replaced over a thousand years ago.

    • @nativeeurope1299
      @nativeeurope1299 2 года назад +1

      @@rosasmith9835I like how the comment that started this thread says "hopefully never repeat those wrongs against any other people" and when I point out that indigenous people are being replaced right now your attitude changes to "Its karma". You obviously dont have any problems which holding two contradictory beliefs at the same time. And karma for what exactly?

    • @nativeeurope1299
      @nativeeurope1299 2 года назад +1

      @@Gretabpooh You should stick to commenting on things that happened in your own planet.

  • @margaretdurner2224
    @margaretdurner2224 2 года назад +30

    Thank you Ken Burns for correcting misrepresented history. Its about time.

  • @huffdaddy3845
    @huffdaddy3845 2 года назад +20

    This is the kind of history that the GOP doesn't want our children to learn. I think it is despicable to prevent the truth from being taught.

    • @johnchambers2996
      @johnchambers2996 2 года назад +2

      Rubbish. You must have got your total U.S. historical world view from Howard Zinn. We've been utterly steeped in this guilt crap ever since we were kids. Practically every historic U.S. male person with a European ancestry, since Christopher Columbus was labeled either greedy, racist, homicidal, or owned slaves All the other races are either ignored or portrayed as peaceable-pastoral people - pure nonsense.

    • @meebrbey
      @meebrbey 2 года назад +3

      I think it is despicable too ..to prevent the truth from being taught is going to be the downfall of humanity

    • @johnchambers2996
      @johnchambers2996 2 года назад +4

      @@meebrbey Apparently, just as long as it's your particular version of "the truth". The funny issue are groups that pontificate so much about "diversity" yet turns people out of higher education whose only brush with U.S. history is Zinn or Chomsky; they've never heard of McCullough, Brinkley, or Foote. One gets a real eye-opener when they read several versions of the same history.

    • @LeonFelixRusso
      @LeonFelixRusso 2 года назад +2

      @@johnchambers2996 is a racist.
      With denial issues.
      Take out the Trump trash.

    • @johnchambers2996
      @johnchambers2996 2 года назад +1

      @@LeonFelixRusso Reading and exploring differing points of view is not "racist" - you just might address your own racism.

  • @James.Payne.
    @James.Payne. 2 года назад +14

    This country is incapable of telling the truth.

    • @yanapostolides601
      @yanapostolides601 Год назад

      Ken Burns is a liar. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. I ask you James, how is this statement allowed to float on live air on CNN in 2023 after all we know about Jefferson. Would you like me to quote Jefferson? What else did he lie about? How is this lie helping anything?

  • @chriscarney5374
    @chriscarney5374 2 года назад +28

    Bury my heart at wounded knee. A must read in all schools.

  • @lorisharpe
    @lorisharpe 2 года назад +7

    Ken Burns is the best!

    • @yanapostolides601
      @yanapostolides601 Год назад

      The worst. Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course. How is this helping anything?

  • @robertglasper4845
    @robertglasper4845 2 года назад +13

    I truly thank you for your Truth. Actually the truth about the past history of how native American was truly Treated by this racist American government.⚖️🗽

  • @stevebrady8477
    @stevebrady8477 2 года назад +10

    We are still here
    Still fighting genocidal acts and white written history

    • @magnusthered4973
      @magnusthered4973 2 года назад

      Oh shut up every race has done this it has nothing to do with race but corrupt leaders who want to be rich and powerful

  • @ObamAmerican48
    @ObamAmerican48 2 года назад +14

    A shameful episode in Colorado's history as well. Living near the site, many of us feel it deeply.

    • @aguy7848
      @aguy7848 Год назад

      The first major, and to this day the largest, mass shooting in state history, and bare in mind we have an abnormally large amount of them. This event was no different than if a bunch of soldiers from Fort Collins loaded up armored vehicles, drove to the nearest reservation, and opened fire on everyone they saw. Innocent blood is innocent blood, regardless of time.

    • @crawwwfishh3284
      @crawwwfishh3284 Год назад

      Yes it was a sad time for all even those white folk that were raped scalped and tortured to death by the Indians.

  • @davidgalloway266
    @davidgalloway266 2 года назад +2

    Thanks.

  • @suziperret468
    @suziperret468 2 года назад +20

    Great explanation of patriotism by Ken Burns!

  • @jaimelaureano6649
    @jaimelaureano6649 2 года назад +16

    ... This took courage ... Kudos to you Mr. Burns.

  • @_i_am_unceded
    @_i_am_unceded 2 года назад +15

    November 20, 2016
    During the Battle of Backwater Bridge, at about 1 a.m., I was standing next to an Elder from Cheyenne River, and he taught me some Lakota.
    Nahahci Le Okunpi
    We are still here.
    I am direct descendent of James 1st, King of England.
    I am direct descendent of a signee of the Mayflower Compact.
    My story, from Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock, from building the greatest empire in modern history, to defending indigenous people from heirs of that empire, is my famlies immigration journey that still is alive, still evolving, still growing.

  • @peterismyfirstname2872
    @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад +6

    I haven't had my coffee yet, a bit heavy this early in the morning. I'll check it out when in the right head space.☕

  • @jaimelaureano6649
    @jaimelaureano6649 2 года назад +6

    ... If you must hate ... Hate Social Injustice.

    • @Quantrills.Raiders
      @Quantrills.Raiders 2 года назад +1

      i agree, hold democrats accountable for letting murderers go free

    • @jaimelaureano6649
      @jaimelaureano6649 2 года назад +5

      @@Quantrills.Raiders ... You're the kind of "person" people pray "Darwin's Law" goes to visit.

    • @Quantrills.Raiders
      @Quantrills.Raiders 2 года назад +2

      @@jaimelaureano6649 youre the kind of person that makes warning labels on chemicals a requirement... dummy

    • @loriannrichardson7644
      @loriannrichardson7644 2 года назад +2

      @@Quantrills.Raiders nah, that's trump.

  • @ts3784
    @ts3784 2 года назад +12

    History repeating itself in Palestine

  • @pluribus_unum
    @pluribus_unum 2 года назад +10

    Integrity requires honesty and accountability. There is no patriotism without integrity in my opinion.

    • @parkerjgiles
      @parkerjgiles 2 года назад +1

      Why would you be patriotic in a racist, colonial country?

    • @pluribus_unum
      @pluribus_unum 2 года назад +1

      @@parkerjgiles - You're mistaking nationalism for patriotism.
      I'm a patriot in order to push myself and others to continue to perfect The Union and fulfill the promise of our Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the continually evolving list of additional Amendments that illustrate that collective endeavor to "more perfect" the USA.

    • @Drav_ven
      @Drav_ven 2 года назад +1

      @@pluribus_unum That is just an illusion. Sorry to say.

    • @pluribus_unum
      @pluribus_unum 2 года назад

      @@Drav_ven - I disagree.

  • @lekendrickwilliams1594
    @lekendrickwilliams1594 2 года назад +13

    Educational.

  • @joeihlenfeld8560
    @joeihlenfeld8560 2 года назад +5

    I was born in 1960.
    And our history teachers taught us of the sand creek massacre as well as other shameful treatment. I was not mislead as Ken is proposing

    • @johnwilson2487
      @johnwilson2487 2 года назад +5

      This is a left-wing talking point claiming that previous generations, like you and I, were not properly educated. And it is the responsibility of the younger generations to learn the things that our teachers "omitted" due to their explicit or implicit racism. These claims are demonstrably false.

    • @Vebemonograms
      @Vebemonograms 10 месяцев назад +4

      I think he's talking about how it's not mentioned at all. I am apache displaced by said historical events, and am relearning all of the history that was NOT taught at all. I'm now 40 and just learning about this? Not to mention I am college educated, I hold a trade license, so lack of education is not the issue here. Why this is not spoken about more is beyond many of us. My feedback is not a "left winged" point of view
      -from south TX

    • @Conn30Mtenor
      @Conn30Mtenor 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@johnwilson2487 left wing? Since when does right have a monopoly on the truth?

    • @JeromeWade-lm8jh
      @JeromeWade-lm8jh 7 месяцев назад

      OH REALLY?

  • @jamapx
    @jamapx 2 года назад +2

    Me too, me too!!

  • @budgusler5320
    @budgusler5320 2 года назад +1

    Had no idea

  • @msxmurda2385
    @msxmurda2385 2 года назад +15

    I’ve learned more about U.S. history from Ken Burns and Lynn Novic than 18+ years in school. You’ll be richer if you watch these…
    The Civil War, WWII, Vietnam, The West, Jack Johnson, Central Park, Lewis and Clark, The National Parks, The Roosevelt’s, and Prohibition.

    • @twoplustwo07
      @twoplustwo07 2 года назад

      Drunk history is better than our school system. And fun to watch,

    • @jimmcloughlin
      @jimmcloughlin 2 года назад +5

      Pale Zombie: One of my American relatives of English origin loves reminding Americans that without native help there would not have been a Thanksgiving to celebrate. Then without Sekagawea the Corps of Discovery could have been wiped out.

    • @lindaminton
      @lindaminton 2 года назад +3

      I used to like his work until the Vietnam series, where he got so many facts incorrect and was blatantly biased on behalf of the communist. It was his first "documentary" of an era that viewers could still recall first hand. All of his work has been subsidized by the taxpayers of the United States of which he obviously despises. He's a grifter feeding the self loathing youth like yourself.

    • @jimmcloughlin
      @jimmcloughlin 2 года назад +2

      @@lindaminton That is a pretty harsh summary. He gathered the facts direct from those who fought the war, the communist bias as you call it were the first hand facts from the other side. The American involvement divided the nation when you remember the amount of anti war movements that sprung up in opposition to it escalating.

    • @lindaminton
      @lindaminton 2 года назад +2

      @@jimmcloughlin Of course there was strong anti war sentiment, especially from veterans organizations like the American Legion. However, it was the American left that rioted in cities and and attacked returning military in airports like LAX, facts that burn's downplayed or just omitted. He also didn't hesitate to show Nixon as a warmonger even though he had inherited the quagmire that was Vietnam from the Kennedy/ Johnson administration and got us out, yet burn's portrayed Johnson as a sympathetic character that had no other option than to send in more troops. Vietnam veterans were on the front lines of the global war to prevent the spread of communism, they had an honorable mission that burn's deliberately distorts to make the United States out as the villain.

  • @elainemunro4621
    @elainemunro4621 Год назад +1

    Lots of parallels today with migration from oppressive countries into Europe and USA. These people add to populations that are in decline and that is exactly what is needed in these countries to give them a boost to their economies. Yet, these countries continue to reject and withhold. Selfish and shortsighted.

  • @Mis-AdventureCH
    @Mis-AdventureCH 11 месяцев назад +1

    I don't think anyone who's studied the plains wars in the post WW2 era ever called it anything but the Sand Creek Massacre. "Crimson Plains," SLA Marshall's seminal work on the era from the early 1960s refers to it as such. Not sure where the notion that contemporary historians ever overlooked that. More likely the sudden emergence of a socially conscious general public as the new fashion finally took interest in these things. Because they didn't know about it, they assume that it was somehow suppressed. No, it wasn't suppressed, you all just never cared enough to take a look.
    What has been scrupulously overlooked is that the Regular Army detachment that was with Chivington refused his orders to attack. When the reports of that detachment's commanding officer made it back to Leavenworth, the army immediately convened an investigation, which recommended court martial for Chivington. Only his demobilization as a colonel of volunteers prevented him from being dragged into a military court, as he was no longer under their jurisdiction. He spent the rest of his life generally reviled and died in obscure loserhood.
    That Burns then states that it was somehow Federal policy to randomly massacre Indian encampments is balderdash. Such an assertion is not only bad scholarship, but dishonors an entire generation of frontier soldiers and officers who did everything they could to not only keep the peace between natives and migrants heading west during the 1850s, but also between the tribes themselves. See the events at Massacre Canyon in Nebraska for some insight into that.
    His use of the term "Citizen Soldier" is likewise off base. He knows full well that in our modern vernacular and perception that means National Guard, your neighbor down there street. Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to Chivington's "command." In todays day and age those brigands would likely be incarcerated. That was a sly bit he snuck in there for the post-modernist shame effect, of which he has developed a habit of late.
    Likewise, the only reason Chivington's command was ever authorized was because Confederate forces had reached as far as Glorieta, NM and were really no more than a two week march from Denver. Confederates. Likewise they had sent emisaries to the Comanche and Kiowa hoping to incite them to attack settlements in Colorado in order to deny th Federal war effort the silver and beef that territory produced. So yea, you want to blame anyone for Sand Creek, it starts with the Confederacy, whithout whom Chivington would have remained an obscure, local blowhard.
    And lets not forget the Cheyenne raids on eastern Colorado settlements that led to Chivington taking to the field in the first place. Minor spats between groups of young Cheyenne men and radom traders or miners that turned into real massacres of innocent parties uninvolved in the original affront....which was the regular pattern of conflict out there.
    The tardiness for the site's inclusion as a property under Park Service management stems more from budget disagreements than any attempt at concealing anything. Ask anyone from the Park Service, getting the most basic things nescessary to continue the operations they have is like pulling teeth, never mind a large, new procurement like Sand Creek.
    There's confronting history (or maybe just paying attention to it for a change), and then there's using it as a whipping boy to stir up modern day division. Seeing too much of the latter these days.

    • @asbeautifulasasunset
      @asbeautifulasasunset 7 месяцев назад

      that's some knowledge you have there. thanks for taking the time to write your lengthy comment. interested in knowing more about this subject. do you have any specific recommendations for sources of info other than internet research and libraries? thank you.

    • @Mis-AdventureCH
      @Mis-AdventureCH 7 месяцев назад

      @@asbeautifulasasunset It's been a lifetime of reading anything I could get my hands on, visiting the actual sites, and having a nose for long out of print books I turn up in my travels. I can't even begin to remember them all.
      You just read dozens of books; from journals, to reports from indian agents, to contemporary histories, anthropology, etc, etc. It adds up. Do that enough and you can stitch together the intersecting complexities that led to these events.
      That period was a train wreck of colliding cultures and personalities, where the actions of one person could set off a chain reaction that set events in motion across the entire region.

    • @asbeautifulasasunset
      @asbeautifulasasunset 7 месяцев назад

      @@Mis-AdventureCH Thank you for your reply. I forgot about travel! Only a few hours away from the area so I’ll go there next year.
      Attended a presentation yesterday evening that reacquainted me with SCM. It was great because two Indians attended the presentation and made corrections to some of the information. For example, Black Kettle did not sign a document further limiting the land that was to be “given” to the Arapaho and Cheyenne. Only one who signed it was drunk at the time… Figures.
      I did find a local resource that is going to be very helpful. There are online versions for some of the manuscripts I want to read.
      Two of my favorite authors are Vine Deloria, Jr. (We Talk, You Listen and Custer Died for your Sins) and Kent Nerburn (Neither Wolf nor Dog Trilogy).
      Really do wish Neither Wolf Nor Dog would supplant Lord of the Flies in high schools.

    • @Mis-AdventureCH
      @Mis-AdventureCH 7 месяцев назад

      @@asbeautifulasasunset If you haven't read "Empire of the Summer Moon" I highly recomment. Very honest account of the Commanche in TX.
      The problem I see with the whole thing is that few people have the ability to step out of their own lives and experience and see the world through the eyes of others. Not easy in the every day of the here and now, even harder to do so with generations long since gone. You need a very deep background in the times all this took place in.
      Disease, for example. If you don't understand choldera, you're not going to be able to fully comprehend a big part of the reason people went west "in search of a better life." You're not going to understand the reaction of the Cheyenne to these new migratory routes.
      That's but one layer, and there's an infinite number of them.

  • @TerlinguaTalkeetna
    @TerlinguaTalkeetna 8 месяцев назад

    I visited the Bear River Massacre site( two markers on the side of the road) this summer after reading a short piece by Barry Lopez about it, seems it was the worst single day of all the killings ever done in our history against natives in the US. 300 + mostly women and children and of course warriors trying to defend them died in southern Idaho.

  • @jonathanbush6197
    @jonathanbush6197 2 года назад

    Thanks for using the word "complicated."

  • @kitsonk717
    @kitsonk717 2 года назад +2

    Oh yes, Ken Burns!!! He is the perfect person, along with Jane Elliott and Tim Wise (only white people) who need to lead this discussion for America at this time. They can bring in other scholars as long as they are white and as long as they can prove without a doubt any statements made. White people, this is the assignment! Because, these people that have gone over the ledge, need you to bring them back into the fold. And, a tv station needs to give you the airtime, because this is cra cra and black people NOT going no where. Don’t get it twisted ✌🏽

  • @hoboroller5642
    @hoboroller5642 2 года назад +8

    They need to talk about the way the Native American Indian has been treated from the 1960s till today!!! Like me😟 they made an example of me

    • @Drav_ven
      @Drav_ven 2 года назад +1

      Tell your story.

  • @judykinsman3258
    @judykinsman3258 2 года назад +8

    I disagree that we are the envy of the world. Maybe in countries trying to find a path to democracy, but not in countries who have healthy democracies.

  • @abhilashpanda2108
    @abhilashpanda2108 2 года назад +9

    Great documentary.

  • @timgross8952
    @timgross8952 16 дней назад

    Has he ever made a documentary on how more violent American Indians were against other American Indians. Show both sides and mutilation they performed

  • @lunchbox3235
    @lunchbox3235 2 года назад +7

    Thank you for this. Can’t wait to share with my son❤️

  • @fatdad64able
    @fatdad64able 2 года назад +3

    Next:"The haymarket affair.", or "haymarket massacre" as the rest of the world calls it. The reason why 1 May is labour day in so many countries and also the reason, why workers have no rights in your country. Greetings from Germany.

    • @kurtdunbar912
      @kurtdunbar912 2 года назад +1

      Or Ludlow, or Lattimore, or Blair Mountain, or Everett...ad infinitum.

    • @grahamkerr2803
      @grahamkerr2803 2 года назад

      America has always been a genocidal nation, they practice the same foreign policies today.

  • @you_beg_my_pardon
    @you_beg_my_pardon 2 года назад +7

    That's called education!

  • @QueenBDreamwalker
    @QueenBDreamwalker 9 месяцев назад

    Truth & Reconciliation is the path to Healing ~ the first steps are painful to cleanse the wounds & give it air so the transformation to Healing can begin for All of US 👣🪶💜🌎

  • @Chris-ut6eq
    @Chris-ut6eq 6 месяцев назад

    Genocide
    this was one piece of a larger genocide cycle.

  • @DjWellDressedMan
    @DjWellDressedMan 6 месяцев назад

    2023:
    My 81 year old British Friend said she studied the Cheyenne Nation decades ago and quickly understood that the Cheyenne Nation were the Civilized People and it was the Europeans that were Savages.

  • @tommynicodemus4242
    @tommynicodemus4242 5 месяцев назад

    Why did you fail to detail General Shermans participation in the killing of Buffalo in your last documentary? Confederates, Indians & buffalo.

  • @jaysea7743
    @jaysea7743 2 года назад +1

    They were not noble savages

  • @flunkywill2000
    @flunkywill2000 2 года назад +5

    I would love to see the government return Secret Sacred land May the good spirit be with you in these difficult times and always.

  • @Labor_Jones
    @Labor_Jones 2 года назад +4

    Thank You, Mr. Ken!

  • @noelkelly5510
    @noelkelly5510 8 месяцев назад

    What a shame but then there were many

  • @cynthiastorer1230
    @cynthiastorer1230 2 года назад +2

    No one was convicted for Massacre; Demand conviction of Insurrections et al; with Punitive Damages paid, Attention: addressing Referrals of Political Correctness of Current History also imclude. You Offender's are sinfully sick... Keep America & the whole World Beautiful...

  • @rangerk9
    @rangerk9 2 года назад +4

    I wish that every American citizen could visit this tragic site. I walked the ground there after reading the accounts of this massacre. I did so with such a heavy heart and tremendous sadness that rattled my soul. And, I was deserving of feeling that way. We all should.
    This is part of the CRT that needs to be taught in our schools and educate our youth/adults. I am a retired U.S. Army Officer (multiple tour combat veteran) and am deeply ashamed of many actions that this country and myself have been a part of.
    Please support One Nation Walking Together (a fantastic organization based in Colorado Springs, CO that assists our indigenous peoples). It's one way, of many, to do our best to make amends for the wrongs committed in the past. Patriotism = education of all facets of our nation...for all it's good and all of it's wrongs. It is the only way we can truly become better human beings on this planet. It is our DUTY to one another!

    • @hedylamarr1688
      @hedylamarr1688 2 года назад

      Bullcrap.Crt is a dishonest guilt trip ...brought to indoctrinate the most vulnerable.

    • @rangerk9
      @rangerk9 2 года назад +1

      @@hedylamarr1688 you are special. It's sad that you don't read about or embrace the world. Have fun with your QAnon cult.

  • @hankwang8324
    @hankwang8324 2 года назад +4

    Thank you ( for the education).

  • @jordanwhisson5407
    @jordanwhisson5407 2 года назад +2

    The cruel rea;ity is that given the chance it would happily happen again and again
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  • @devilmtn
    @devilmtn 2 года назад +10

    Own it, Peeps. Feel bad. It WAS bad.

    • @honeybld67
      @honeybld67 2 года назад +2

      'Own it, feel bad' please explain what that looks like

    • @peterismyfirstname2872
      @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад +3

      On Mani Padme Hum = May All Living Beings Be Free From Suffering

    • @morgainedepolloc4161
      @morgainedepolloc4161 2 года назад +1

      We need to acknowledge---ALL of US, but NOT wallow in a sorrow that tears is apart.

    • @johjoh1203
      @johjoh1203 2 года назад +4

      Own what? What have I as an individual done that I should feel guilt over? You own it, if you feel you ought to. But no, I am not guilty, culpable, or shamed by the deeds of another whom I had no part in encouraging them to do.

    • @Quantrills.Raiders
      @Quantrills.Raiders 2 года назад +2

      should the navajo own what they did to the hopi? Should the Iriquois own what they did to the Illini?

  • @robertogutierrez2897
    @robertogutierrez2897 3 месяца назад

    Two incredible books that detail the blatant mistreatment of Native American people by white colonizers and our government are: A Century of Dishonor by Helen Jackson and Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hamalainen. The "history" we were told in school was white-washed. Ken is right: "How we remember history is also a part of our history." Let's stop pretending that "Manifest Destiny" was a virtuous thing. As Don Henley wrote, "We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds, in the name of destiny and in the name of God."

  • @vickybennett2163
    @vickybennett2163 2 года назад +1

    There should be negative cast to those killers of my people I don't know how the evil ones can stand up and praise God for what they did beyond sickening women's and babies that must have been rough took a long time to wipe them out you got nothing better to do losers rotten hell 🕊️

  • @MrK67017
    @MrK67017 2 года назад

    Redrum! Plain and simple.

  • @Cayuse2009
    @Cayuse2009 2 года назад +12

    I was married to a native American woman and lived on reservations for 27 years and can tell you the worst thing we ever did to the Indians was to put them on reservations and promise to take care of them forever. The policy turned a self sufficient people into dependent people and proud and brave people into degraded and lackadaisical people. It's long past time to relieve these people of having a governmental overlord and let them make or break it on their own.

    • @loriannrichardson7644
      @loriannrichardson7644 2 года назад

      America doesn't take care of them. Many live in abject poverty, reservations are lacking in basic infrastructure,(like running water), they're over-policed, etc., etc. Is that what you mean by taking care of them? Forget that, just treat them equally.

    • @jonathanbush6197
      @jonathanbush6197 2 года назад

      What do you propose? I don't have a clue either.

    • @Drav_ven
      @Drav_ven 2 года назад +2

      I didn't realize that I am a lackadaisical and downgraded person.

    • @karenbattiest6488
      @karenbattiest6488 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@jonathanbush6197 Pay them what is owed.

    • @asbeautifulasasunset
      @asbeautifulasasunset 7 месяцев назад

      😂 well i guess you know now, right? @@Drav_ven

  • @kurtdunbar912
    @kurtdunbar912 2 года назад +3

    Burns now needs to do something on the 1619 Project. Don't stop at Sand Creek. Walk your talk Ken.

  • @satelitemikedatapro2498
    @satelitemikedatapro2498 2 года назад +3

    What's the saying? History is written by the victors?

    • @nlabanok
      @nlabanok 2 года назад +2

      In our case, I guess that translates to "history is ignored by the victors...and don't dare anyone try to set the record straight".

  • @randyjustrandy9937
    @randyjustrandy9937 2 года назад

    Ken Burns lives in Walpole, NH. Population: 98% White

  • @willnzsurf
    @willnzsurf 2 года назад +1

    🔥
    🗽
    💪

    • @willnzsurf
      @willnzsurf 2 года назад +1

      🌴😎💯

    • @801GMC
      @801GMC 2 года назад

      oh! pretty emojis.
      and giving yourself a thumb up.
      grow up.

  • @stonedwalljackson5806
    @stonedwalljackson5806 Год назад

    Getting rid of Jeff Bezos and all his property, would make us stronger as a nation

  • @LostinMIA
    @LostinMIA Год назад

    Ken is not saying the right things. I was taught about that in school back in 1985. If he says they have taken it out of schools then he should be addressing the correct people and focus on them, not playing the historian saint for clicks.

  • @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists
    @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 2 года назад +2

    learn from Germany....so simply and human 🤍

  • @amirstanfield
    @amirstanfield 2 года назад +6

    It's funny how much empathy people have for the Native Americans and not the descendants of American slaves

  • @nancyvolker3342
    @nancyvolker3342 2 года назад +1

    i wish he would do something on Teddy Roosevelt

  • @lizannewhitlow1085
    @lizannewhitlow1085 2 года назад +1

    🙈

  • @cynthiabora9440
    @cynthiabora9440 2 года назад +6

    Oh Ken I have to remind you there were massacre's on both sides! tribes atttacked and killed homesteads, settlers, wagon trains, early in the 1800's before soldiers ever decended to protect the settlements!

    • @sageredowl8506
      @sageredowl8506 2 года назад +3

      Bull,our land was stolen! the government committed "GENOCIDE"against those that survived.The government has never accepted what they did to the native tribes, A Few SETTLER'S died,A few thousand Natives paid the price,We are still waiting for an "APOLOGY"!

  • @bigfrank1010
    @bigfrank1010 2 года назад +11

    In history theres winners and losers 🇺🇸

    • @kissthesky40
      @kissthesky40 2 года назад +4

      thank you.

    • @rosasmith9835
      @rosasmith9835 2 года назад +2

      United States census of your people is currently estimated to be 57% of the entire population as of this year.
      Get ready to lose.

    • @jhgust
      @jhgust 2 года назад +1

      Big Frank, you sound like one of those losers!!!!!

    • @bigfrank1010
      @bigfrank1010 2 года назад +2

      @@jhgust hahahahahahaha

    • @bigfrank1010
      @bigfrank1010 2 года назад +1

      @@rosasmith9835 buy bullets

  • @proudamerican4345
    @proudamerican4345 2 года назад +1

    I'm sorry did we not have a 500 year war?

    • @Drav_ven
      @Drav_ven 2 года назад +1

      Nah, there is a clear difference between war and genocide. Current events have shown a clear distinction.

  • @jimdellavecchia4594
    @jimdellavecchia4594 Год назад

    I wanted to see Ken Burns at an event, bot it was sold out. I bought tickets from a scalper!!
    The guy I bought tickets from wanted them back. Indian giver!!
    I traded him some shiny beads, guns and fire water for his wigwam and car!!
    The restaurant was busy, but thankfully I made a reservation!!

  • @JohnSmith-ry1ri
    @JohnSmith-ry1ri 2 года назад +1

    All of this time the media has fed us a steady diet of the world war II Holocaust and now you're finally speaking out about indigenous people (ret)

  • @thomasriley4963
    @thomasriley4963 2 года назад

    How easy to only see one side

  • @justrosy5
    @justrosy5 2 года назад +5

    Why should modern Germany be more patriotic and honest about their horrible past than the U.S. is about it's same level of horror, both past *and present?!*

  • @Bhead69
    @Bhead69 Год назад +1

    And let’s hear about all of the massacres the Indians committed against other tribes

  • @morgainedepolloc4161
    @morgainedepolloc4161 2 года назад +6

    It is ironic. Some of the same troops that freed the enslaved after the Civil War ended up creating and commiting genocide after "freeing" slaves. The whole story does need to be told. We ALL own it---not just one ethnic group, not just one race, not just one region---ALL of US.

    • @John-mu2js
      @John-mu2js 2 года назад +2

      Really? White people have been running the country since the beginning. The exception is Obama and he's half white. 🖕you. Black people aren't responsible for the BS that's happened to/in America.

    • @kissthesky40
      @kissthesky40 2 года назад +3

      No.
      None of us own it, unless you were there.
      Ridiculous.

    • @morgainedepolloc4161
      @morgainedepolloc4161 2 года назад +3

      @@John-mu2js Almost ALL of is are part "white," whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, no matter how painful that may be. During the Obama administration I directly experienced "black" discrimination against Hispanics in the workplace. We ALL can learn.

    • @c-noclark8153
      @c-noclark8153 2 года назад +1

      @@kissthesky40 you”own it” if you perpetuate the Theft of Indigenous Lands, Resources, Justice and Liberty!!!!!

    • @kissthesky40
      @kissthesky40 2 года назад +1

      @@c-noclark8153
      Get off it. That crap is so 2017.
      Victimhood is a liability.

  • @kdaddy100
    @kdaddy100 2 года назад +4

    America, The Daughter of Babylon isn't going to repent. The Bible tells us that it won't and we're seeing how The Most High gave America 400 years to repent and generation after generation after generation carried on violently and viciously against the Indigenous and Blacks as well as against the rest of the earth. Now your judgment has reached to the heavens and your time has come to an end.
    Jeremiah 50
    Jeremiah 50
    Revelation 18
    Isaiah 47
    Genesis 15: 12-14
    IT"S OVER

    • @le7mule21
      @le7mule21 2 года назад +2

      Absolutely! They are going to fight to the death over their right of their alternative facts as the truth. We have not forgotten "The Devil's Punchbowl" Concentration Camp of Nachez Mississippi. 20,000 freed slaves perished. Look it up.
      Shalom

    • @johndavidwolf4239
      @johndavidwolf4239 2 года назад

      "The Bible" is just the opinion of a small group of people who lived in a very different time.

    • @le7mule21
      @le7mule21 2 года назад

      @@johndavidwolf4239 But yet a majority of Europeans and others nations of the world copied altered and base their whole lives on it. That in itself says a lot.

    • @johndavidwolf4239
      @johndavidwolf4239 2 года назад

      @@le7mule21 ; Is that supposed to be a good thing?

    • @le7mule21
      @le7mule21 2 года назад

      @@johndavidwolf4239 The question is why? Egypt, India, Europeans and Asia had their own gods and religions.

  • @brigandboy1425
    @brigandboy1425 2 года назад +6

    I'd love to dislike this, but my opinion no longer matters.
    Almost like it was specifically for this kind of bullshit that the dislike button was removed.

  • @mattklimczak4609
    @mattklimczak4609 2 года назад +1

    This is why you don't give the govt the sole ability to defend its citizens.

  • @peterismyfirstname2872
    @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад

    Hell of wake up. Fine, 'how do you do' (not) timing is everything

    • @flyinhawaiian49
      @flyinhawaiian49 2 года назад +1

      TROLL

    • @peterismyfirstname2872
      @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад

      @@flyinhawaiian49 really, who tried unsuccessfully to steal the Zappa vibe, REPENT and return the venerable image to it's rightful owner.

    • @peterismyfirstname2872
      @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад

      @@flyinhawaiian49 Hell of wake up. Fine, 'how do you do' (not) timing is everything
      It's too early in the morning to worship all that's bad in the world. REPENT AND RETURN THE VENERABLE FRANK ZAPPA IMAGE TO IT'S RIGHTFUL OWNER

    • @peterismyfirstname2872
      @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад

      This vedio was sent to me first thing in the morning as a subscriber, I didn't go looking for it. REPENT AND RETURN THE VENERABLE FRANK ZAPPA IMAGE

    • @peterismyfirstname2872
      @peterismyfirstname2872 2 года назад

      @@flyinhawaiian49 This vedio was sent to me first thing in the morning as a subscriber. Before I woke up and had coffee, I didn't go looking for it. I was trying to help the Washington Post with their dropping vedios in inappropriate time of day. REPENT AND RETURN THE VENERABLE FRANK ZAPPA IMAGE self- identified troll

  • @j.rmeadows1689
    @j.rmeadows1689 2 года назад +2

    Captivity coming up esau

    • @bestia2.063
      @bestia2.063 2 года назад

      Speak for yourself Hebrew Israelite natives aren't on that bandwagon

    • @j.rmeadows1689
      @j.rmeadows1689 2 года назад

      @@bestia2.063 they not around I guess they can't speak for themselves

    • @bestia2.063
      @bestia2.063 2 года назад

      @@j.rmeadows1689 of course natives are around

    • @j.rmeadows1689
      @j.rmeadows1689 2 года назад +1

      @@bestia2.063 I don't see any in my area

    • @bestia2.063
      @bestia2.063 2 года назад

      @@j.rmeadows1689 well they're around.

  • @bobhabib7662
    @bobhabib7662 2 года назад +5

    Great idea Ken. Why don't you lead by example and donate 100% of everything you own to the native tribes? In fact, I want you to issue a social challenge to leaders like AOC, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to be the first to volunteer up their ill gotten gains.
    Go for it Ken. Let's see if you're willing to put your money where your mouth is.

  • @philmajohnson9150
    @philmajohnson9150 2 года назад +1

    Not as shameful as Jeff Bezos

  • @magnusthered4973
    @magnusthered4973 2 года назад +1

    What they did was unacceptable but same goes to the massacres the Indians have done like fort William Henry the worst massacre from them in my opinion why focus on one groups unacceptable mistakes and focus on all

    • @jonathanbush6197
      @jonathanbush6197 2 года назад

      "Focus on all" means what exactly?

    • @cocophillips9251
      @cocophillips9251 2 года назад

      @@jonathanbush6197 it's always "all " when they get called out and don't have a lie to try to dispute it..it's called false equivalency

  • @kissthesky40
    @kissthesky40 2 года назад +6

    commies

  • @bahamutstear1369
    @bahamutstear1369 2 года назад +1

    All the moments in this country are completely shameful starting with the rebellion against our king

  • @JB-uv4hm
    @JB-uv4hm 2 года назад +6

    Manifest Destiny baby! ‘Merica, love it or leave it.

    • @JB-uv4hm
      @JB-uv4hm 2 года назад +10

      @Robert Hunt magaturds are too stupid to understand history. You’re a fine example. Go read a book.

    • @rollothecat2010
      @rollothecat2010 2 года назад +12

      @Robert Hunt Nah, we don't hate it. We want it to be better than it has been in the past. We want an America that is not full of hate or unnecessary violence. We want a justice system that fair to all citizens. Not just some. We do not believe in lying about the past. If you lie about the past, you are doomed to keep repeating it.

    • @lizannewhitlow1085
      @lizannewhitlow1085 2 года назад +6

      @Robert Hunt Shaddap.

    • @lindawarnke5150
      @lindawarnke5150 2 года назад +2

      @@lizannewhitlow1085 He is absoultely correct. If you don't learn from it you are going to repeat it!

    • @karlberger7130
      @karlberger7130 2 года назад +3

      @Robert Hunt Can you build a bear with cotton candy?It sounds like someone needs a hug.Momma.

  • @belnordgertfordiii643
    @belnordgertfordiii643 2 года назад +2

    Most proper, this Propaganda.
    Like we need more reasons to be even more divided....
    Hopefully we can learn from this, that this could happen to any of us now in this day and age in these United States. Passports?
    How do you say passports in German? Deutsche?
    Reisepass? Papiere, bitte.
    We need to stop using these pieces of history for reasons to in fight each other and instead, use it to prevent governments from having absolutely power.
    Just saying is all.

  • @CasualMisinformationSpreader
    @CasualMisinformationSpreader Год назад +1

    MAGA 2024!

  • @riorockers
    @riorockers 2 года назад +3

    I used to hold Ken Burns in the highest regard for the content, research, and audiovisual techniques in his documentary. I thought he was an honest and impartial historian/documentarian. Then I saw the documentary on The Central Park Five he did with his daughter. It is so full of outright lies and misrepresentations that I would question anything he says or does. Sad...

    • @arkybaldknobber8062
      @arkybaldknobber8062 2 года назад +2

      He is a leftist pinko who hates America

    • @Quantrills.Raiders
      @Quantrills.Raiders 2 года назад +3

      same, central park 5 were guilty af, anyone who looks at the evidence can see

    • @timburdeb359
      @timburdeb359 2 года назад +2

      Ken Burns is an honorable and truthful man. The documentary on the Central Park 5 is the TRUTH.

    • @Quantrills.Raiders
      @Quantrills.Raiders 2 года назад

      @@timburdeb359 please dont vote or have children

    • @johndavidwolf4239
      @johndavidwolf4239 2 года назад +1

      ​@@arkybaldknobber8062 : In what way is factually covering the history of the central park five advocating for state control of the means of production, or do you not really know what "pinko" is, other than a buzz word?

  • @lindaminton
    @lindaminton 2 года назад +6

    The easiest critique by man is judging history by modern standards of morality without any context. Mr. Burn's lies by omission of important facts, but yet he continues to benefit from the taxpayers dime of a country he obviously despises.

  • @loriamora6202
    @loriamora6202 2 года назад +2

    like the kenosha rioters are called heroes by the...

  • @shanehester5317
    @shanehester5317 2 года назад +3

    i find it interesting we never talk about the bad things the indians did.

    • @johndavidwolf4239
      @johndavidwolf4239 2 года назад +4

      Like defend the land that they had occupied for centuries from foreign aggressors?

  • @Laotzu.Goldbug
    @Laotzu.Goldbug Год назад +3

    Nothing shameful about being the conqueror

  • @arkybaldknobber8062
    @arkybaldknobber8062 2 года назад +3

    The Indians, they sure love their liquor

    • @watan9397
      @watan9397 2 года назад +3

      This racist comment is allowed to post?

    • @roadrunner381
      @roadrunner381 2 года назад

      You watch too many John Wayne movies