I'd like to see you do a series about the Native American tribes. What life was like for each group. What were their similarities and differences,customs, etc...
For EACH group? Each region would be better. There isn’t going to be much of a difference between the Chickasaw and Cherokee. Now the Navajo and Tlingit yeah that’d be cool
@@jonsmith848 beat me to it. All because of “sacred land” 🙄 its so disgusting what’s happening in the desert. And damn all those who are trying to justify it. Damn them straight to hell.
Cherokee indians would've gone extinct if not for Andrew Jackson. Thats why congress and senate approved the act. Northern tribes had already gone the way of the dodo due to settler expansion. Jackson knew the only way to preserve them was segregation not integration. The Cherokee nation thrives to this day . The number of the 4000 dying along the journey in a lie propagated by one one mans guesstimate in a letter written by Elizur Butler .
@@ScottyBennitoneNorthern natives formed the haudenosaunee confederacy to prevent going the way of the dodo. Where did you get the information of the number being an estimation?
A series on the "5 civilized tribes" explaining the history behind each tribe and when they signed a contract with the U.S. government and what happened to them after signing. Also maybe an episode on the tribes that refused to sign a treaty.
This is really cool to see a channel talk about. You should do The Long Walk of the Navajo. It was very similar to what happened to the Chereokee. My family avoided the Long Walk by hiding in the mountains but a lot of people were taken. My grandfather, in fact, remembered an old man who was born while the Navajos were in captivity. People like to think it's old history but it's not. It's extremely recent.
@@shawnahmoore4540 I don't agree to how Andrew Jackson did the Trail of Tears or how America treated Native Americans in general, but no. Not taking him off the $20 bill.
@@shawnahmoore4540 The reason he's on the 20$ bill he tried to kill the federal reserve bank and succeeded so they put him there as a revenge and punishment.
Hi. I'm from Japan. I'm learning American history, having found this video by chance. This is so informative and makes understand "Trail of tears" intelligibly ! I didn't expect the condition of the trek was so harsh and brutal. Also, Indians walked barefoot. I feel sorrowful.... The historical site should be stored. I'd like to keep studying and hopefully go there someday.
Human history is unfortunately perpetuated with crimes like these, and I can't think of any country really exempt of it. From native Americans on the trail of tears, to Cossacks during the red terror, Palestinians in the modern day, Zanichi Koreans during the great kanto earthquakes and occupational era, to Hawaiians during the annexation and Japanese American nisei during the second world war. What's left is for us to do better.
My family somehow avoided this, and took great pains for the next few generations to keep their indengenious blood secret. It wasn't until my generation, and I am only 41, that they would start talking about it. What happened and the fear that transpired afterwards was absolutely horrible. I am reading all these comments about how people didn't know about this, honestly is incomprehensible. Maybe it was where I was raised, but I remember this being extensively covered in school and the wrongness of it. Even the knowledge that the indigenous people retained slaves. I grew up in the central Georgia area.
@@KAT-dg6el They lied about their heritage. It was either that or they would have lost their homes. Others hid deep within the local swamps so that they couldn't be caught and than made their way down into Florida so that they could join family down there in Butler. There are other family stories but those are really grim and stomach churning secrets. Those came out when my great grandmother started developing dementia, and yes some were poor but the other side was fairly upper middle class and they claimed to be German Italian mix. DNA testing blew that lie up.
What tribe were they from? My I am the product of 2 tribes? The Cherokee and the Shawnee. My family looks indigenous. My dad’s generation and my generation have never had to cover it up. I think my grandfather’s might have. My family escaped to Southern Indiana to escape the March. Being indigenous here has never been a problem. Sorry, that it was so bad for you and your family. Prejudice is horrible thing!
@@deborahchapman222 Lower Cherokee and Creek. That is honestly the limit of what information we have been able to gather together. I have been tempted to try to piece together a more thorough family tree, but because of their choices I am not comfortable delving in too much, not after finding out a few things that I have. They were at least to outside the family kind and generous, and my granny's father was at least well tolerated despite personal faults and deplorable decisions, because of what he had experienced. A lot of fear and PTSD. Both understandable but I am very conflicted with his character and maybe that's why his siblings left to go further south and not live as he chose to. He let fear rule his life and he found solace where he shouldn't have. Partially circumstances, in my personal feelings and opinion, entirely by his own decisions. Where as my great, great grandmother, who we called Big Mama, did what she could to move on losing many family members some that she never found again. That was the thing she would cry about and it made me sad as a little girl.
@@amethyst5538 it sounds like a sad situation for your family. You can try but it is hard to get information about indigent people heritage using the DNA kits. Even people living on reservations cannot prove their ancestry using those kits.
I’m from just south of Indianapolis and when I was a boy in the early 90’s there was an old man that lived alone in this creepy mansion outside of the town I grew up in. He told my brother and I that his father bought the land from the Lenape, and that a community of them lived there well into the 1900’s.
Shouldn't have went back on trade agreements with settlers in favor of war because a bunch of savages and scalpers didn't want peace. You think Jackson just woke up one day and was like, "enslaved all the natives for absolutely nothing!" If you're going to learn about history, learn all of it and not just what fuels your hatred toward an entire race 🖕
n the Cherokee nation's own files, now on deposit in the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, the number of Indians departing the East in 13 main parties is recorded at 12,623, the arrivals West at 12,783. Some stragglers joined on the way. American military counts are almost the same. The Cherokees were being paid per Indian moved.
It never fails to make my heart ache every time I see something about the Trail of Tears. Even as a small kid hearing the watered-down version of the event in history class, I was always shaken by the extreme savagery of the American settlers. Having read lots of things about the Trail of Tears, I must admit it does feel good knowing that there are organizations like Weird History telling the details of the event as they occurred. Thank you guys for telling the truth and not sugar-coating it as school teachers tend to do.
I feel sorry for these people and how Americans treated different people that were not white but I also thought when I was watching the video was which side would I have taken if I was alive during this or in the 1900s during segregation. As growing up in the 90s up until now I would hate the things we did to non white people but it might be different being born in those times
I remember learning about this 30 years ago when I was in primary school. I remember my teacher talking about how much our great country has improved and evolved and how we should learn from the past mistakes of our ancestors. I think what's sadder is teachers that actually want to teach instead of preach are becoming few and far between.
@Alice Rivierre Columbus discovering America was taught from the western European perspective, not that he discovered it outright as if no one was already here. As far as the western Europeans were concerned, they knew nothing of this land. It's like if you go into this restaurant you never heard of before and liked the food, you'll tell all your friends about it and how you discovered it. It's a matter of perspective.
@Alice Rivierre Not when it comes to him discovering America. There's an alarming amount of people that take that very literally and say dumb shit like "How did he discover it if people were already here?". Those are the ones that didn't pay attention in class when it was being taught. The word "discover" is used all the time for a variety of archeological and historical finds, yet it's only when it's used for Columbus that people have a problem with. Why does no one get mad when people say the statues on Easter Island were discovered? Why does no one get mad when it was reported about the recent discovery of Gobekli Tepe? Why does no one get mad at that word when any artifacts are discovered? It's only for Columbus, and only by people that didn't pay attention in class. If you truly thought that Columbus discovered this land, that's your fault not the teacher's.
@Alice Rivierre I'm not pro-Columbus, I'm anti-truth twisting. People that take the word discover as literal as they do are twisting the truth. It always was about the western European perspective, not that he discovered a previously uninhabited land. His discovery of land on this side of the Earth was a big deal from a historical standpoint though as it united 2 halves to make a whole. Who knows what this world would be like if that didn't happen, for better or worse. Columbus did some fucked up shit when he got here, but he didn't do anything that hadn't been done to others before. Including by the people that were already here. Natives enslaved other natives all the time. They were at constant war with each other. He was also punished for his crimes when he went back to Europe too, but that gets ignored to promote a narrative.
@@davidmartinez52420 You state that it was always about the western european perspective.... but isn't that the whole point here? America has been teaching its children history for decades now, however only from 1 perspective: the western european one. Isn't that in some sense skewing or twisting the truth of our history 🤔 What people want now are for our children to be taught the WHOLE truth, from different racial & cultural perspectives. Teaching kids to see only 1 perspective is only painting a very small part of the picture, to see the whole picture they need to learn from other perspectives. Unfortunately, now we have school boards banning any topic that could cause emotional distress to white kids, which is 100% just another way to reinforce a one sided education system that praises & prefers a one sided whitewashed version of our country's history. White conservatives are fighting tooth and nail right now to keep America's youth brainwashed & ignorant.
My great great grandma was apart of the Choctaw and was on trail of tears. She was sexually assaulted by a man in the military and became pregnant with my great grandmas brother. It’s is a true tragedy how people were treated on the trail of tears and i think it is even worse that the majority of schools don’t explain how bad the trail of tears really was
Yeah, well when Native Americans go around on the regular, slaughtering neighboring tribes down to the last woman and child, a strenuous hike kinda doesn't make the highlight reel.
@@ii9nn391 we talk about what the whites did tho, it’s shoved down your throat but anything to do with indigenous peoples owning slaves is hush hush cause their supposed to be the victims in the narrative so they couldn’t have done anything bad 🤷🏼♀️
@@tylerjeb7888 that’s there culture they fought over land and resources to survive they would fight till everyone’s dead so they didn’t have to deal with a retaliation. Those are there wars. they lived in a different world than the white man did.
My Grandmother was part of the Keetoowah Tribe in Oklahoma and, apparently, some part of my ancestry comes from them making the trek of the Trail of Tears.
I’m from Europe and I wasn’t educated about this topic… this is atrocious and it pains me to see cultures erased and people suffering, even dying, because of the need some men have for power. I’m so sorry for what the Native people and the African American people had to go through… and it’s even saddening that we are not taught about this
I would like to see your take on Wounded Knee! Thank you for bringing this information to attention, it is a gap in the everyday education that deserves to be heard.
I had heard how the native tribes had been forcibly removed from their lands...however I am shocked at how cruel this turned out to be...but not in the least surprised...every government has done the same...the same happened to my kin in Scotland with the Clearances...there are still traces of abandoned villages in the hills.
Yes, as I am Cherokee and Scottish, I've read about the Clearances and was happy to see my MacLeod family took great pains to keep their people home and safe on the Isle of Skye.
@@Anaris10 Same here except on the Irish side of my family. We had the Potato Famine and oddly enough the Choctaw actually sent us food, but the British promptly confiscated it in order to allow the genocide to continue.
Growing up in Oklahoma around Natives my whole life, it blows my mind living in Tennessee seeing how revered Andrew Jackson is out here. He was a piece of garbage. Where I’m from, his name is hated. Here he is honored
Jackson is the president Trump looked to as his presidential example. There are a remarkable number of similarities between them and I despise them both!
@@IsaPodrasky I still can't believe Jackson would make a document of Indian remove act. There are those Indian who fought with him in the battle of New Orleans and those even fought Tecumseh federation. Yet Jackson do this?
What a great video. My kids dad is part native and we try to teach our kids as much about their heritage as possible. He and I know from our public school days that this event gets glossed over or ignored entirely. 🙁
Thanks for shedding light on this tragic, but little known chapter in USA history. I've always been interested in native Americans and their history, so this video gets a 10 out of 10 in my opinion! What was really intriguing were the other native American groups forced out of their ancestral homes, not just the five so called civilized tribes. Didn't know about that, so thanks again.
Tell me about it. I’m Black/Native American. My Grandmother was Half Cherokee, and my Father’s Parents were Creole Chickasaw. My Mom(Who’s Grandfather was Cherokee)and I watched a Documentary on it. I had never seen her crying and Angry at the same time. I Resent to this Day that AJ is on the $20 bill.
@@plawson8577 you have a beautiful heritage!! The atrocities committed on the trail of tears is akin to genocide and it’s sick that anyone who helped mastermind it is still on a pedestal. I hope your family members found some healing.
@@swweets yes ! and her make up is fabulous ( I don't wear make up , my daughter does , she is the 1 who introduced me)...glad you're trying to post her channel... she deserves it... never met any1 as funny as her
I live 12 miles from where the Trail of Tears ended at the Brazos Reservation. My great-grandma was forced into that boarding school. Now I think I made a big archaeological discovery, along with a massive coverup. Thank you for this vid. Little things like this mean the world to some of us! ❤
I'm 61, grew up in Missouri and I don't remember ever learning about this in school. I have since read a great deal about it myself. Just another reason why history shouldn't be whitewashed to make some people feel more comfortable.
I live in California they never taught this in school either but I learned it bit by bit over a life time. Even in the 1930's and 40's the white man because he was poor was driven from Oklahoma and Arkansas. They could not get welfare nor government help at all. They moved to California, it took some of them month's to get here . My 10 year old mother had to help my grandma have a baby on the side of the road for the white trash Dr,s would not help them. Hey and my grandpa was white but grandma Black foot. Once into California they lived in a big tent for several years I recall that tent for while we were what they called (Fruit Tramps) that is we followed the fruit like all other migrants. Many back then starved to death . This was during what they call the Dustbowl days and some years there after. Man has always been evil to others even my Cherokee forefathers supposedly had slaves that were driven with my forefathers on the trail of tears. All man fight and devour one another none are righteous, no not one is pure.
I'm interested in Brazil's indigenous history, it seems like everyone outside the Amazon died off and no information exists about who they even were, yet in parts of Brazil there are uncontacted tribes.
My great grandmother was born on The Trail of Tears. My grandmother, Flo Lahoma Hall, being born and raised in Oklahoma. Her skin, and my father's skin was actually red. My brothers skin is really dark.
Thank You for this presentation. It's painful to watch, but important to share history as it happened. There are those who now want to legislate against the teaching of our true history. They fear the truths of our nations dark past and now wish to whitewash it out of public schools and books. I feel fortunate to be born an American, however I feel that it is of great importance for all to know the all the truths of are nations past. This includes the good as well as the dark sides, in order to form a more perfect nation.
@@Jay_Hall Based upon that comment it appears that you wish to whitewash over history. I don't how knowing the dark side of our history would lead to a race war or a genocide. Nobody should feel guilty for the sins of their fathers. Nobody should be fearful of the truth.
@@ilovephotography1254 CRT teaches racism and hate, trash that! As to history that is true such as the trail of tears and atrocities carried out by Native Americans to Europeans and one another and the Nate Turner terror, put that in the history books too. But never think the USA of today does not have equal protection under the law and equal opportunity under the law, and this is what we will fight to preserve no matter how much the present administration wants to ignore that. :)
the trail of tears I also reminds me of how similar it is to the Armenian genocide death march to the desert, absolutely brutal. And The fact that many people are commenting that they’ve never heard of this part of history is alarming
Welp I'm super depressed and sad now thanks for that. Seriously though thank you. It helps people like me who have a hard time caring about anyone. A perfect mix of info music/sounds to pluck the tiny only heart string I got.
Schools don't teach that American Indians had African slaves because that goes against the narrative that American Indians were peaceful and Whites were brutal, but this government high school teacher sure teaches the truth! I also use your videos in various lesson activities so keep making them.
Do the research!. The ONLY way escaped slaves were kept from being returned to their masters was to be enrolled as a slave on tribal registers. Some were kept as slaves while some were adopted into the tribe.
Does this school teacher also teach that Africans also owned slaves and sold other Africans to white men for slavery? Or does that go against your “narrative”?
In georgia the rendezvous point for removing the Cherokee to Chattanooga was a town called new echota. Also the birthplace of Sequoia. I live in Cherokee county Georgia, named for the removed tribe. This story runs deep in my blood. My grandmother was as red skinned as it gets and always told that when her ancestors were removed they broke away at some point and came back. Taking the name Strickland to help blend in along the way back. They managed to make it into the smoky mountains and stayed there until after the civil war when they returned to Georgia. I couldn't be more proud of those roots and to have that story as part of my family history
Are you aware of the law back then?. Runaway slaves could be apprehended by the Slavecatchers and returned to their White masters if the tribe didn't take them in. They had to be labeled as Slaves on Tribal registrys or they went back to hell. Some tribes made them family, some did not.
Does it really "sicken" you? Are you that weak of person that this sort of thing affects you emotionally down to the point that you are sick? Lol grow up and live your life dude.
My great uncle married a part Cherokee woman who was descended from Susan Ward. My mother told me about the Trail of Tears as she had related it, and it was clear that it still made her furious to think about it.
Even THEY owned black slaves?! American society has come a long way, thank all. Let's never forget the past and be thankful for the present. There's still plenty of room for improvement, but we should be proud of our growth.
@jshowa o If you had to guess. I think maybe you're being biased. This were not the perfect people we currently make them out to be. Victims yes, but also victimizers. Let's keep it real.
This is disgusting and shameful! But its history and it needs to be told. So it may never happen again. I wonder how things would’ve turned out if we had respected and embraced the Native Americans. This country will be much better off I think.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 99% of human history is land conquest and slavery. There's hundreds of thousands of years of war on north America. Yall act like these tribes were all friends smoking pipes until Columbus. Tribes were trying to get land back. How do you take back what wasn't already taken? You think native tribe A helped the French wipe out native tribe B because there wasn't generations of hatred and trying to get resources? If anything Jackson just United the tribes with a single person to hate. Morality has nothing to do with it. To this day we turn a blind eye to atrocities for resources. From the current genocide in China, to ignoring the literal slave trade in Lybia.
Treating the native American's as a peaceful unified people doesn't do service to actual nuances of history. They had tribal wars, fought with and against Europeans, and fought for the confederacy against the United States. Many tribes enslaved people too.
@@JohnGalt916 you sound ignorant as hell there’s a difference between war between people in a land and complete genocide. Yes there was war amongst tribes but some were completely peaceful and they definitely didn’t commit genocide on themselves you fool. I bet you would make excuses for hitler too cause that’s the counterpart to colonists.
Great resource for my Pakistani online students who are doing an IELTS reading passage about the Trail of Tears! I learnt some gory things here that were not in the reading passage or history books I have previously read, like their having to make the walk barefoot during the wintertime with spectators staring at them! I grew up in the North Georgia mountains, and my high school research paper (100 pages, still in the Foxfire archives) was on Cherokee mythology and religion...went to the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina to do interviews for it. The American indigenous people were treated so much more brutally as compared to the hilltribe people here in Northern Thailand where I live now, and so, not surprisingly, are very different from the Thailand hilltribe people in their attitude toward showing their culture to tourists and outsiders.
SE Asians were still burning Austronesian villages as late as the late 1800s. Austronesians are the same race as currently occupies the island of New Guinea.
You should do an episode on "The Indian Wars" longest war in US history; 350 years 1540-1890. Lots changed about the view of us from "screeching devils" to "noble savages" another idea is the worst defeat in American history (96% battle casualties) "Battle of the Wabash" or "battle of the thousand slain"
My great grandma's mom so my great great grandma was a baby when her and her family had to make that trek along the trail of tears. My great grandma cared for me from the ages of 2 until she died when I was 7 and those stories that were passed down to her were my favorite stories for her to tell ❤ I still miss her everyday... the 1830s seem so long ago but somehow also not that long ago... crazy
Also once my great great grandma was old enough she moved her and whatever family was left back to Tennessee where my great grandma grew up!! And even tho she moved to Illinois as an adult she still wanted to be buried in Tennessee and she was!!
Indians also would enslave other Indians as well from other tribes especially the women and children. This idea that its all about white folk enslaving and oppressing people groups like they are the only ones doing it is a farce. Every culture, tribe and nation has done it and unfortunately it still happens in places like Africa. Another kind of slavery still happens here in America as well called sex trafficking. That needs to stop and really should be the highlight in politics and in media but people are so focused in on the past that they've never experienced. Leaving young boys, women and girls to be forced and trapped into prostitution on our city streets!
I am glad that this historical telling included the fact that NA ppl had Black African slaves. I feel like history gets intentionally lost when it doesn't fit cleanly within a narrative.
@jshowa o It doesn’t matter who had more slaves. Native Americans who had slaves are just as guilty as white people who did because slavery is WRONG no matter who is doing it. PERIOD.
Im AA and my great grandmother was part Simenole. We were always told the slaves would escape and find refugee with the natives but rhe older I get the more I find that they too probably became the slaves of the natives. History is rarely kind to anyone.
Thank you for covering this I had ancestors walk on it and Die on it on the cadron river of a cholera epidemic there's a plaque by the river with some of my ancestors name on it..her name was Susie Ward.
What kind of surprised me most was that the native tribes knew what it meant to be unwanted and treated harshly, yet they themselves kept Afro-American slaves that were in turn apparently not treated too well by the tribes :-/.
Yeah. The Cherokee tried to assimilate as much as they could from creating a written alphabet for their native language to even owning slaves. Didn't do them any good.
Generally speaking, slavery was not common in the "five civilized tribes". It was almost entirely the $$ people who were trying to imitate white enslavers in an attempt to have their own skin color overlooked.
Native Americans were the FIRST people to be enslaved in North America. They did not have slaves until they were taught this but colonizers 🙄 Unlike Africa where slaves still exist to this day
Yes I’m aware. What’s been an open secret is that there’s Tons of Black Americans with Native American blood in them. My Great Grandfather was a Full blooded Cherokee who’s Sister was Half Black.
@@gnostic268 No, that's just not true. Some tribes would keep war captives as slaves prior to european colonization. Granted, it was very different than chattel slavery and treatment varied from tribe to tribe...but still slavery.
@@marieelisa1 Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 (H.R. 3326), a 67-page act, is Section 8113: "Apology to Native Peoples of the United States." "The United States, acting through Congress, apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States”
My Great Grandmother x3 walked the Trail of Tears, decided to stop at Arkansas. I even have a photo of her toward the end of her life, Tennessee Jones.
Andrew Jackson the face on the $20 bill. If you happen to be a Native American who ancestors were victims of Jacksons actions, it must be a painful reminder to see him still being honored today.
@@Olds_Pwr1928 Jackson appeared on the $20 bill. Attitudes have evolved. Society appears to be more inclusive. In my opinion, it's time to retire his face our currently.
@@Olds_Pwr Jackson born in 1767 most likely did not serve in the Revolution. Yes, he served in the 1812 and the Senate and as President. Jackson also ignored the Supreme Court's decision not to relocate the Native population. Hitler and Jackson had many parallels. Hitler served in the Great War, he too was elected to public office. Hitler admired Jackson's actions towards the Native Americans. It was the template to invaded the Soviets for Lebensraum. There are those today, who feel that Slavery was positive for the nation, therefore justified. I don't. Yes, you are correct when you point out that Men from the caveman days had been fighting for conquest. This includes the Native population, long before European settlers. I believed that we have evolved, that living in a civil society is not the same as 20,000 or 200 years ago. We should look back to history to learn and grow for the better. Times have changed, so have attitudes and I agree with you that 200 years from now that our history will be judged. In Jacksons day the Natives were seen as subhuman savages. Today they are Americans native to the US. For that reason, I feel that we should no longer celebrate Jackson and replace his image with someone else from the $20 bill. It's likely I won't change your point of view. That being said I appreciate you sharing your comments and opinions.
Thank you very much for going into this ♡ it's always glossed over as a 'sad time' but no one ever explains it in detail or with empathy. It's very shameful so I would imagine a tendency arose to do that.. I'm a Seneca myself, Nya:wëh ♡
I've heard so many different stories about the trail, from history lessons and family stories. Tsalagi (Cherokee) is my heritage, and my family kept their tribe, and some of their land in Cherokee, NC. My 2x great grandfather and his father were Chieftains of their tribe, and they passed down stories filled with dread about how they were forced to make the most of the little land they were given. While the men, women, and children that walked the trail were extortioned, worked to the bone, and were shot by random "locals" who disliked their skin and clothes, the rest of my people who stayed were pillaged like savages. Their land was raided during harvest seasons, animals were killed, sometimes for food, sometimes just for sport. And RUclips guidelines won't allow me to say what they did to the women. My grandfather was a product of what happened, I'll just leave it like that. He was eventually told to seek a better life amongst white men by his father, and so he did. Even though Tsalagi welcomed foreigners, my ancestors resented the foreigners who kept taking more and more without giving in return. My family is just one heritage line that became broken and scattered due to European colonizers...I hold no ill will towards Europeans, whites, or anyone that falls under Anglo-Saxon skin tone, but I won't tolerate any glorification of the actions of their ancestors. I love when history is told as is, despite how much it hurts my heart and soul hearing the actions my ancestors and their people went through, everyone needs to know the truth because it cannot be repeated.
There’s actually historical markers in my hometown of Marietta, Ga, north of Atlanta, where part of the trail began in GA, and where the first death of the trail occurred
Thank you for this. I learned about this in elementary school and you've added more context to this. For those who've never heard of this and are American citizens, remember this is why learning history is important. Someone once said that history is written by the victors... think about it.
my ancestors were on the trail. my Grampa made it up there with his family. waited about an year and left in the middle of the night. took the long way home.
I truly hope this nation achieves balance one day and lets these people return to their homes. Imagine the Everglades National Park administered by or in part by the Seminole as their nation. Imagine the already-strong Cherokee presence in far western NC becoming something even more culturally significant. We can achieve balance; it's amazing to me that Native Americans feel such patriotism given what this nation did to them. Oklahoma, with Indian Territory again being recognized in a Supreme Court decision, is already proving that the Indian and non-Indian can live side by side and administer land together. We have to work for this; the reservation system is cruel and outdated.
I agree they should have to work for there Property like Everyone Else!!!! Enough of the Free Shit!! Past is Past!! I’m tired of Hearing about it!! If you don’t want Horrible Consequences then DONT LOSE THE WAR!!! I bet you would feel ALOT Different if these Tribes were Near your town before they were Removed!!! They would’ve hunted and Scalped YOU!!!! Lol PPl today have NO IDEA!!! But it feels good to Virtue Signal and beat up on America!!!! Truth is You would’ve BEEN BEGGING the Government to get those Heathens out of your Area!!! As would 99% of PPl in these Comments!!
I had a co-worker who had an ancestor that was on that trail. She told me that her ancestor was a little girl at the time and one kind soldier helped her make it by hiding her in a pickel barrel. It's good to know not all the soldiers were jerks.
@@pistolpayne I am Native and very pragmatic. We are Americans by any metric now. The Indian Wars are long over and we recognize that to consider America "The Enemy" is to regress. Both my parents were Native and White, should I despise one or the other?. My family has served in the military going back to the Civil War.
@@Anaris10 Amen brother! I had to very amazing veterans in my life that made me want to serve. Desmond Doss which Hacksaw Ridge was base off and Frank Buckles..the last WW I veteran who passed away in 2011. Both men were brave and strong!
First picture is inaccurate. Trail of tears started further East, including Murphy NC. Historically known to be Where the last of the Cherokee were who evaded being caught. The Last group ran into the mountains in the hanging dog area before being caught. Murphy was set up military camp (fort butler) and town where they pulled all the natives to be ready to start the gruesome journey. There’s tons of plaques throughout the town, a museum and online websites, etc claiming this. Murphy is now in a county called ‘Cherokee’ county where the Cherokee own 70% of the land.
I just found out my 4 the great grandma on my dad's side was full blooded Overhill Cherokee. Her name was Nar-Nee. She was lucky to marry my 4th great grandpa so she didn't have to leave. But the rest of her family(and mine) walked this horrible trail. It's heartbreaking and awful what they had to endure.
I'm sooo glad you included the slaves of the 5 civilized tribes!!!LOL.As a child no one mentioned black slaves on the trail of tears.It must have been nice having someone cauter to you as you suffered along,but not alone.
They're in the same boat and only played the same roles as any other native would've if they had enough people to fill the positions if they weren't sick and dying. Native culture was soooo incredibly different than white culture if you can call it that. The slaves were more so treated as equals filling roles that any other respected member would fill but ofc treatment depended on the tribe but most of the time natives didn't treat slaves as bad as the common white person did and so the 'catering' idea really only speaks about white culture as there was no class system when everyones dying equally
@@raisin8051 Stop trying to defend slavery just because a non-white group did it. Slavery is wrong no matter who is doing it, and the Native Americans who had slaves are just as guilty as the white ones.
one thing to keep in mind is that as bad as this was it was really!! bad for the Black slaves of the Cherokee (and other tribes) who were forced to go along. Even oppressed people can in turn be oppressors. History shouldn't be censored.
Video taught me something today. Didn't know some native American tribeS had African slaves. When you hear history in it's entirety, a real eye opener.
@@reversegiraffe3164 yes I’ve known about this all my life! When I would tell people they wouldn’t believe me. It’s literally in books! Now granted the books will say something to the extend that they treated their slaves better in comparison to whites, but idk, a slave is a slave! Come on ow
Coming from a frontiersman background where he’d had mostly friendly relations with the Native Americans, Davy Crockett strongly opposed the Indian Removal Act while he was in Congress, and it ended up costing him his political career. He migrated to Texas in search of a new start in politics, and ended up getting caught up in the Siege of the Alamo, where he would lose his life.
The Hildebrand route in southern Mo is right around the area that I grew up. I haven’t been in those areas in sometime.. I will have to visit there again.
My ancestor, Haley (English name because he was in a residential school) has born on the trail of tears. There are stories that were passed down within my family that his mother gave birth to him in the back of a wagon. He was 2ish when he finally reached Indian Territory.
It's a miracle any of us descendants exist today! My Grandmother would never say an unkind word about anyone, but I always knew how she felt about Andrew Jackson!
My grandfather told me about it how they kept warm and eating whatever they could find on the trail and people were dying on the way crying on the way sad and they wanted to say this their American not
A white Indian Agent, Douglas Cooper, upset by the Native Americans failure to practice a harsher form of bondage, insisted that Native Americans invite white men to live in their villages and "control matters."[26] One observer in the early 1840s wrote, "The full-blood Indian rarely works himself and but few of them make their slaves work. A slave among wild Indians is almost as free as his owner." Frederick Douglass stated in 1850, "the slave finds more of the milk of human kindness in the bosom of the savage Indian, than in the heart of his Christian master.[8] But references to Indian kindness were generally to the sanctuary offered by underground railroads operated by non-slaveholding Indians -- not to Indian who kept people in slavery.[27]
As an Oklahoma resident(non-Native American), the Trail of Tears was heavily discussed during Oklahoma history class in high school. We even did a presentation for the Trail of Tears.
The most surprising thing for me was the total lack of discussing my tribe, the Choctaws. We were the first to be removed, starting in 1831. We were the guinea pigs for this. It was dubbed the Trail of Tears by us. Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw words Okla and Homma, which means "honored people" and the lands still belong to the tribes, as the McGirt case Supreme Court ruling shows. There's also a group of women from the Choctaw Nation who make the yearly walk from Mississippi to Oklahoma, it's called Yappali. And the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma also does an annual 10mile walk to honor our ancestors who walked. Lastly, this walk also led to the creation of the Oklahoma Choctaws and Mississippi Choctaws as there were several who decided to stay in Mississippi. Please, all this information is available online. This could have been better researched and not so American textbook of solely focusing on the Cherokees. Yes they faced hardships, but we all did and we all deserve to be recognized for it and heard
I'd like to see you do a series about the Native American tribes. What life was like for each group. What were their similarities and differences,customs, etc...
For EACH group? Each region would be better. There isn’t going to be much of a difference between the Chickasaw and Cherokee. Now the Navajo and Tlingit yeah that’d be cool
I agree with you. I want to know more about them as well.
Watch the series 500 Nations, quite old though its from the early 90’s.
They wouldn't be able to hit every tribe but they could certainly do some well-known and lesser known tribes.
That's a lot of episodes 😳 would be awesome tho
I can’t even imagine being told I have to leave my home against my will. Terrible
Ask a Palestinian
They lost the war though, human history is written that way.
@@jonsmith848 beat me to it. All because of “sacred land” 🙄 its so disgusting what’s happening in the desert. And damn all those who are trying to justify it. Damn them straight to hell.
Cherokee indians would've gone extinct if not for Andrew Jackson. Thats why congress and senate approved the act. Northern tribes had already gone the way of the dodo due to settler expansion. Jackson knew the only way to preserve them was segregation not integration. The Cherokee nation thrives to this day . The number of the 4000 dying along the journey in a lie propagated by one one mans guesstimate in a letter written by Elizur Butler .
@@ScottyBennitoneNorthern natives formed the haudenosaunee confederacy to prevent going the way of the dodo. Where did you get the information of the number being an estimation?
A series on the "5 civilized tribes" explaining the history behind each tribe and when they signed a contract with the U.S. government and what happened to them after signing. Also maybe an episode on the tribes that refused to sign a treaty.
This is really cool to see a channel talk about. You should do The Long Walk of the Navajo. It was very similar to what happened to the Chereokee.
My family avoided the Long Walk by hiding in the mountains but a lot of people were taken. My grandfather, in fact, remembered an old man who was born while the Navajos were in captivity. People like to think it's old history but it's not. It's extremely recent.
A’ho
The devil andrew jackson(doesn't need to be capitalized) needs to be taken off the 20 dollar bill and replace it with Harriet Tuban.
@@shawnahmoore4540 I don't agree to how Andrew Jackson did the Trail of Tears or how America treated Native Americans in general, but no. Not taking him off the $20 bill.
@@shawnahmoore4540 The reason he's on the 20$ bill he tried to kill the federal reserve bank and succeeded so they put him there as a revenge and punishment.
This wasn’t extremely recent this was over 200 years ago lmao
Hi. I'm from Japan. I'm learning American history, having found this video by chance. This is so informative and makes understand "Trail of tears" intelligibly ! I didn't expect the condition of the trek was so harsh and brutal. Also, Indians walked barefoot. I feel sorrowful.... The historical site should be stored. I'd like to keep studying and hopefully go there someday.
similar to the anu in northern japan ???
As an American, I wish you the best of luck 😌
@@jeffduvall737 u mean Ainu ?
Thank you for learning! Much love to you and yours.
Human history is unfortunately perpetuated with crimes like these, and I can't think of any country really exempt of it. From native Americans on the trail of tears, to Cossacks during the red terror, Palestinians in the modern day, Zanichi Koreans during the great kanto earthquakes and occupational era, to Hawaiians during the annexation and Japanese American nisei during the second world war.
What's left is for us to do better.
My family somehow avoided this, and took great pains for the next few generations to keep their indengenious blood secret. It wasn't until my generation, and I am only 41, that they would start talking about it. What happened and the fear that transpired afterwards was absolutely horrible.
I am reading all these comments about how people didn't know about this, honestly is incomprehensible. Maybe it was where I was raised, but I remember this being extensively covered in school and the wrongness of it. Even the knowledge that the indigenous people retained slaves. I grew up in the central Georgia area.
@@KAT-dg6el They lied about their heritage. It was either that or they would have lost their homes. Others hid deep within the local swamps so that they couldn't be caught and than made their way down into Florida so that they could join family down there in Butler. There are other family stories but those are really grim and stomach churning secrets. Those came out when my great grandmother started developing dementia, and yes some were poor but the other side was fairly upper middle class and they claimed to be German Italian mix. DNA testing blew that lie up.
What tribe were they from? My I am the product of 2 tribes? The Cherokee and the Shawnee. My family looks indigenous. My dad’s generation and my generation have never had to cover it up. I think my grandfather’s might have. My family escaped to Southern Indiana to escape the March. Being indigenous here has never been a problem. Sorry, that it was so bad for you and your family. Prejudice is horrible thing!
@@deborahchapman222 Lower Cherokee and Creek. That is honestly the limit of what information we have been able to gather together. I have been tempted to try to piece together a more thorough family tree, but because of their choices I am not comfortable delving in too much, not after finding out a few things that I have. They were at least to outside the family kind and generous, and my granny's father was at least well tolerated despite personal faults and deplorable decisions, because of what he had experienced. A lot of fear and PTSD. Both understandable but I am very conflicted with his character and maybe that's why his siblings left to go further south and not live as he chose to. He let fear rule his life and he found solace where he shouldn't have. Partially circumstances, in my personal feelings and opinion, entirely by his own decisions.
Where as my great, great grandmother, who we called Big Mama, did what she could to move on losing many family members some that she never found again. That was the thing she would cry about and it made me sad as a little girl.
They covered it in history here in Houston Texas!
@@amethyst5538 it sounds like a sad situation for your family. You can try but it is hard to get information about indigent people heritage using the DNA kits. Even people living on reservations cannot prove their ancestry using those kits.
This is so sad,knowing my ancestors went through such horrific times. Its awful. Thank you
Me too.
I feel even worse for my black ancestors after watching this
@@janaef3222 yes,I can imagine. God bless them
@@janaef3222 oh no, incoming play the victim card!
@@janaef3222 haha haha
Learned about this as a child. This was my introduction to the horrors that humankind is capable of inflicting on one another.
I’m from just south of Indianapolis and when I was a boy in the early 90’s there was an old man that lived alone in this creepy mansion outside of the town I grew up in. He told my brother and I that his father bought the land from the Lenape, and that a community of them lived there well into the 1900’s.
I appreciate how respectful your videos on such heartbreaking topics are.
Half native here, inrolled into the Mvskoke creek tribe, sad to know this happened to my great great Great grandparents
I’m so sorry for your family. I think we as white people …have so much to learn from our native people. They are a proud and beautiful people..
I didn’t know Native American Indians had slaves until this episode.
Shouldn't have went back on trade agreements with settlers in favor of war because a bunch of savages and scalpers didn't want peace.
You think Jackson just woke up one day and was like, "enslaved all the natives for absolutely nothing!"
If you're going to learn about history, learn all of it and not just what fuels your hatred toward an entire race 🖕
n the Cherokee nation's own files, now on deposit in the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, the number of Indians departing the East in 13 main parties is recorded at 12,623, the arrivals West at 12,783. Some stragglers joined on the way. American military counts are almost the same. The Cherokees were being paid per Indian moved.
@@gjd424 some did some didnt, just like white ppl.
It never fails to make my heart ache every time I see something about the Trail of Tears. Even as a small kid hearing the watered-down version of the event in history class, I was always shaken by the extreme savagery of the American settlers. Having read lots of things about the Trail of Tears, I must admit it does feel good knowing that there are organizations like Weird History telling the details of the event as they occurred. Thank you guys for telling the truth and not sugar-coating it as school teachers tend to do.
I feel sorry for these people and how Americans treated different people that were not white but I also thought when I was watching the video was which side would I have taken if I was alive during this or in the 1900s during segregation. As growing up in the 90s up until now I would hate the things we did to non white people but it might be different being born in those times
I remember learning about this 30 years ago when I was in primary school. I remember my teacher talking about how much our great country has improved and evolved and how we should learn from the past mistakes of our ancestors.
I think what's sadder is teachers that actually want to teach instead of preach are becoming few and far between.
@Alice Rivierre Correct. Columbus was a War Criminal.
@Alice Rivierre Columbus discovering America was taught from the western European perspective, not that he discovered it outright as if no one was already here. As far as the western Europeans were concerned, they knew nothing of this land. It's like if you go into this restaurant you never heard of before and liked the food, you'll tell all your friends about it and how you discovered it. It's a matter of perspective.
@Alice Rivierre Not when it comes to him discovering America. There's an alarming amount of people that take that very literally and say dumb shit like "How did he discover it if people were already here?". Those are the ones that didn't pay attention in class when it was being taught. The word "discover" is used all the time for a variety of archeological and historical finds, yet it's only when it's used for Columbus that people have a problem with. Why does no one get mad when people say the statues on Easter Island were discovered? Why does no one get mad when it was reported about the recent discovery of Gobekli Tepe? Why does no one get mad at that word when any artifacts are discovered? It's only for Columbus, and only by people that didn't pay attention in class. If you truly thought that Columbus discovered this land, that's your fault not the teacher's.
@Alice Rivierre I'm not pro-Columbus, I'm anti-truth twisting. People that take the word discover as literal as they do are twisting the truth. It always was about the western European perspective, not that he discovered a previously uninhabited land. His discovery of land on this side of the Earth was a big deal from a historical standpoint though as it united 2 halves to make a whole. Who knows what this world would be like if that didn't happen, for better or worse. Columbus did some fucked up shit when he got here, but he didn't do anything that hadn't been done to others before. Including by the people that were already here. Natives enslaved other natives all the time. They were at constant war with each other. He was also punished for his crimes when he went back to Europe too, but that gets ignored to promote a narrative.
@@davidmartinez52420 You state that it was always about the western european perspective.... but isn't that the whole point here? America has been teaching its children history for decades now, however only from 1 perspective: the western european one. Isn't that in some sense skewing or twisting the truth of our history 🤔 What people want now are for our children to be taught the WHOLE truth, from different racial & cultural perspectives.
Teaching kids to see only 1 perspective is only painting a very small part of the picture, to see the whole picture they need to learn from other perspectives.
Unfortunately, now we have school boards banning any topic that could cause emotional distress to white kids, which is 100% just another way to reinforce a one sided education system that praises & prefers a one sided whitewashed version of our country's history. White conservatives are fighting tooth and nail right now to keep America's youth brainwashed & ignorant.
My great great grandma was apart of the Choctaw and was on trail of tears. She was sexually assaulted by a man in the military and became pregnant with my great grandmas brother. It’s is a true tragedy how people were treated on the trail of tears and i think it is even worse that the majority of schools don’t explain how bad the trail of tears really was
Yeah, well when Native Americans go around on the regular, slaughtering neighboring tribes down to the last woman and child, a strenuous hike kinda doesn't make the highlight reel.
@@tylerjeb7888 what the fuck are you talking about
@@tylerjeb7888 like there weren’t any horrible tragedies in europe…
@@ii9nn391 we talk about what the whites did tho, it’s shoved down your throat but anything to do with indigenous peoples owning slaves is hush hush cause their supposed to be the victims in the narrative so they couldn’t have done anything bad 🤷🏼♀️
@@tylerjeb7888 that’s there culture they fought over land and resources to survive they would fight till everyone’s dead so they didn’t have to deal with a retaliation. Those are there wars. they lived in a different world than the white man did.
My Grandmother was part of the Keetoowah Tribe in Oklahoma and, apparently, some part of my ancestry comes from them making the trek of the Trail of Tears.
Lol right, her and Elizabeth warren too! Dummy
Did they own slaves too?
I'm
@@BeerDad69 I think your just mad bc your life sucks?
your people where savages ....they ate human flesh.
I’m from Europe and I wasn’t educated about this topic… this is atrocious and it pains me to see cultures erased and people suffering, even dying, because of the need some men have for power. I’m so sorry for what the Native people and the African American people had to go through… and it’s even saddening that we are not taught about this
The european terrorist left their american cousins in charge ...
I would like to see your take on Wounded Knee! Thank you for bringing this information to attention, it is a gap in the everyday education that deserves to be heard.
@@David-ki2dl I'm Lakota, so the history is very dear to me haha. It's a black mark on history that def deserves being talked about.
I read that book, and I was shaking by the end.
I had heard how the native tribes had been forcibly removed from their lands...however I am shocked at how cruel this turned out to be...but not in the least surprised...every government has done the same...the same happened to my kin in Scotland with the Clearances...there are still traces of abandoned villages in the hills.
Yes, as I am Cherokee and Scottish, I've read about the Clearances and was happy to see my MacLeod family took great pains to keep their people home and safe on the Isle of Skye.
Every country has its dark past that was just the way the world worked back then.
@@Rule-be6lw bro kill that bs and reparate people
@@Anaris10 Same here except on the Irish side of my family. We had the Potato Famine and oddly enough the Choctaw actually sent us food, but the British promptly confiscated it in order to allow the genocide to continue.
Poor people!!! The Bible says: “The whole world is under the influence of the evil one !” 1 John 5: 19
Growing up in Oklahoma around Natives my whole life, it blows my mind living in Tennessee seeing how revered Andrew Jackson is out here. He was a piece of garbage. Where I’m from, his name is hated. Here he is honored
Andrew Jackson is one of the biggest disgraces of a potus. I've heard some reservations refuse to even accept a $20 bill..
Jackson and Jefferson won't be welcome in God's Kingdom.
Jackson is the president Trump looked to as his presidential example. There are a remarkable number of similarities between them and I despise them both!
Seriously, Harriet Tubman should be on the $20, and Andrew Jackson should be downgraded to being on the back…making him an ass because he was one!
@@IsaPodrasky I still can't believe Jackson would make a document of Indian remove act. There are those Indian who fought with him in the battle of New Orleans and those even fought Tecumseh federation. Yet Jackson do this?
I am from Canada and we had these “schools” for native children and even today they are uncovering mass graves full of children. Such a travesty
In the name of christianity abominations were commited all through history.
@@sueme1954 Much like Islam!.
No mass graves have been found in Canada. Just poorly maintained cemeteries.
@@sessayu2502 285 children's bodies found in BC that's a mass grave
@@Anaris10 true.
There are so many wrongs in this true unfortunate story, that I don't even know where to begin with...
Have you thought about giving your home and your belongings back to them?
@Alice Rivierre
You don’t think that’s fair? I bet you’re a white colonizer as well! Either give back to the tribes or shut up, Alice!
@Alice Rivierre HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT PLEASE DONT ALICE! I’m part Indian
What a great video. My kids dad is part native and we try to teach our kids as much about their heritage as possible. He and I know from our public school days that this event gets glossed over or ignored entirely. 🙁
Thanks for shedding light on this tragic, but little known chapter in USA history. I've always been interested in native Americans and their history, so this video gets a 10 out of 10 in my opinion! What was really intriguing were the other native American groups forced out of their ancestral homes, not just the five so called civilized tribes. Didn't know about that, so thanks again.
In case anyone wants to learn more, Bailey Sarian has at least one really good video explaining what an actual demon Andrew Jackson was
Tell me about it. I’m Black/Native American. My Grandmother was Half Cherokee, and my Father’s Parents were Creole Chickasaw. My Mom(Who’s Grandfather was Cherokee)and I watched a Documentary on it. I had never seen her crying and Angry at the same time. I Resent to this Day that AJ is on the $20 bill.
love her!
@@plawson8577 you have a beautiful heritage!! The atrocities committed on the trail of tears is akin to genocide and it’s sick that anyone who helped mastermind it is still on a pedestal. I hope your family members found some healing.
@@dawnhopkins3085 I love her too! She’s so fun and shares so much knowledge. Great channel
@@swweets yes ! and her make up is fabulous ( I don't wear make up , my daughter does , she is the 1 who introduced me)...glad you're trying to post her channel... she deserves it... never met any1 as funny as her
I discovered this channel 2 weeks ago. I am Hooked.
I live 12 miles from where the Trail of Tears ended at the Brazos Reservation. My great-grandma was forced into that boarding school. Now I think I made a big archaeological discovery, along with a massive coverup. Thank you for this vid. Little things like this mean the world to some of us! ❤
My ancestors were strong enough to survive this. I can’t even get out of bed 🤦♂️
damn mine were in germany and canada
I'm 61, grew up in Missouri and I don't remember ever learning about this in school. I have since read a great deal about it myself. Just another reason why history shouldn't be whitewashed to make some people feel more comfortable.
I live in California they never taught this in school either but I learned it bit by bit over a life time. Even in the 1930's and 40's the white man because he was poor was driven from Oklahoma and Arkansas. They could not get welfare nor government help at all. They moved to California, it took some of them month's to get here . My 10 year old mother had to help my grandma have a baby on the side of the road for the white trash Dr,s would not help them. Hey and my grandpa was white but grandma Black foot.
Once into California they lived in a big tent for several years I recall that tent for while we were what they called (Fruit Tramps) that is we followed the fruit like all other migrants. Many back then starved to death . This was during what they call the Dustbowl days and some years there after.
Man has always been evil to others even my Cherokee forefathers supposedly had slaves that were driven with my forefathers on the trail of tears. All man fight and devour one another none are righteous, no not one is pure.
I learned that African American slaves also made this journey.
Suggestion: What was life like for children living on a plantation?
I really love your channel one of the best if not the best on RUclips. Thank you for what you do!!!!!
As a Brazilian I wasn't aware of that part of USA history. What a sad moment.
I'm interested in Brazil's indigenous history, it seems like everyone outside the Amazon died off and no information exists about who they even were, yet in parts of Brazil there are uncontacted tribes.
You have no idea brother. This is the most evil county in the world.
@@Awakeningspirit20 Not really, there are indigenous tribes throughout the country. They are just not "news" so to speak.
@@pistolpayne Yet I bet you won't live anywhere else.
One of the few videos you've made where I knew every detail thanks in part to being from North Carolina and having some Cherokee ancestors
If the natives weren't dressed properly for the conditions on the force March imagine what their slaves endured.
I’m surprised they even own slaves
Thank you for being the Tour Guide on this journey down the Trail of Tears
If you guys haven’t yet, you guys should make a video about Tecumseh. Thank you guys for the indigenous American history
My great grandmother was born on The Trail of Tears. My grandmother, Flo Lahoma Hall, being born and raised in Oklahoma. Her skin, and my father's skin was actually red. My brothers skin is really dark.
Are you an enrolled member of the CN?
Thank You for this presentation. It's painful to watch, but important to share history as it happened. There are those who now want to legislate against the teaching of our true history. They fear the truths of our nations dark past and now wish to whitewash it out of public schools and books. I feel fortunate to be born an American, however I feel that it is of great importance for all to know the all the truths of are nations past. This includes the good as well as the dark sides, in order to form a more perfect nation.
Teach it ALL, but keep the HATEFUL CRT out of schools.
I love, CRT teaches hate, if you want a race war or a genocide,,keep it up.
@@Anaris10 Nobody should feel guilty for the sins of their fathers. Nobody should be fearful of the truth.
@@Jay_Hall Based upon that comment it appears that you wish to whitewash over history. I don't how knowing the dark side of our history would lead to a race war or a genocide.
Nobody should feel guilty for the sins of their fathers. Nobody should be fearful of the truth.
@@ilovephotography1254 CRT teaches racism and hate, trash that! As to history that is true such as the trail of tears and atrocities carried out by Native Americans to Europeans and one another and the Nate Turner terror, put that in the history books too. But never think the USA of today does not have equal protection under the law and equal opportunity under the law, and this is what we will fight to preserve no matter how much the present administration wants to ignore that. :)
That was hilarious! I love how you inject humor into every episode.
the trail of tears I also reminds me of how similar it is to the Armenian genocide death march to the desert, absolutely brutal. And The fact that many people are commenting that they’ve never heard of this part of history is alarming
So true!!! It's also similar to the European holocaust of the 1930s and 1940s.
Welp I'm super depressed and sad now thanks for that. Seriously though thank you. It helps people like me who have a hard time caring about anyone. A perfect mix of info music/sounds to pluck the tiny only heart string I got.
Schools don't teach that American Indians had African slaves because that goes against the narrative that American Indians were peaceful and Whites were brutal, but this government high school teacher sure teaches the truth! I also use your videos in various lesson activities so keep making them.
Do the research!. The ONLY way escaped slaves were kept from being returned to their masters was to be enrolled as a slave on tribal registers. Some were kept as slaves while some were adopted into the tribe.
@@Anaris10 There were 500 Black Seminoles on the trail of tears, and 3,500 Black Slaves and Freemans.
Does this school teacher also teach that Africans also owned slaves and sold other Africans to white men for slavery? Or does that go against your “narrative”?
Schools plenty teach that natives had slaves. It’s just that whites had more, and they shipped them to the americas.
@@richardboyer1346your anecdotal story doesn't negate mass genocide!
In georgia the rendezvous point for removing the Cherokee to Chattanooga was a town called new echota. Also the birthplace of Sequoia. I live in Cherokee county Georgia, named for the removed tribe. This story runs deep in my blood. My grandmother was as red skinned as it gets and always told that when her ancestors were removed they broke away at some point and came back. Taking the name Strickland to help blend in along the way back. They managed to make it into the smoky mountains and stayed there until after the civil war when they returned to Georgia. I couldn't be more proud of those roots and to have that story as part of my family history
I had no idea that those tribes kept slaves let alone took them on that trail. A double tragedy.
Are you aware of the law back then?. Runaway slaves could be apprehended by the Slavecatchers and returned to their White masters if the tribe didn't take them in. They had to be labeled as Slaves on Tribal registrys or they went back to hell. Some tribes made them family, some did not.
It really sickens me that TO THIS DAY the trail of tears isn't classified as a genocide
Does it really "sicken" you? Are you that weak of person that this sort of thing affects you emotionally down to the point that you are sick? Lol grow up and live your life dude.
My great uncle married a part Cherokee woman who was descended from Susan Ward. My mother told me about the Trail of Tears as she had related it, and it was clear that it still made her furious to think about it.
I live very close to Jonesboro, Illinois, this is where Trail of Tears came through. 😢
Even THEY owned black slaves?! American society has come a long way, thank all. Let's never forget the past and be thankful for the present. There's still plenty of room for improvement, but we should be proud of our growth.
@jshowa o If you had to guess. I think maybe you're being biased. This were not the perfect people we currently make them out to be. Victims yes, but also victimizers. Let's keep it real.
Please do more videos about native americans! This is the most interesting topic
This is disgusting and shameful! But its history and it needs to be told. So it may never happen again. I wonder how things would’ve turned out if we had respected and embraced the Native Americans. This country will be much better off I think.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 99% of human history is land conquest and slavery. There's hundreds of thousands of years of war on north America. Yall act like these tribes were all friends smoking pipes until Columbus. Tribes were trying to get land back. How do you take back what wasn't already taken?
You think native tribe A helped the French wipe out native tribe B because there wasn't generations of hatred and trying to get resources? If anything Jackson just United the tribes with a single person to hate. Morality has nothing to do with it. To this day we turn a blind eye to atrocities for resources. From the current genocide in China, to ignoring the literal slave trade in Lybia.
Treating the native American's as a peaceful unified people doesn't do service to actual nuances of history. They had tribal wars, fought with and against Europeans, and fought for the confederacy against the United States. Many tribes enslaved people too.
@@VTnumb you can rationalize it all you want. it doesn’t matter. It’s not OK to commit atrocities.
@@JohnGalt916 you sound ignorant as hell there’s a difference between war between people in a land and complete genocide. Yes there was war amongst tribes but some were completely peaceful and they definitely didn’t commit genocide on themselves you fool. I bet you would make excuses for hitler too cause that’s the counterpart to colonists.
If we had respected and embraced Native Americans, everyone would’ve gotten back on their ships and returned to Europe.
Great resource for my Pakistani online students who are doing an IELTS reading passage about the Trail of Tears! I learnt some gory things here that were not in the reading passage or history books I have previously read, like their having to make the walk barefoot during the wintertime with spectators staring at them! I grew up in the North Georgia mountains, and my high school research paper (100 pages, still in the Foxfire archives) was on Cherokee mythology and religion...went to the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina to do interviews for it. The American indigenous people were treated so much more brutally as compared to the hilltribe people here in Northern Thailand where I live now, and so, not surprisingly, are very different from the Thailand hilltribe people in their attitude toward showing their culture to tourists and outsiders.
SE Asians were still burning Austronesian villages as late as the late 1800s. Austronesians are the same race as currently occupies the island of New Guinea.
You should do an episode on "The Indian Wars" longest war in US history; 350 years 1540-1890. Lots changed about the view of us from "screeching devils" to "noble savages" another idea is the worst defeat in American history (96% battle casualties) "Battle of the Wabash" or "battle of the thousand slain"
My great grandma's mom so my great great grandma was a baby when her and her family had to make that trek along the trail of tears. My great grandma cared for me from the ages of 2 until she died when I was 7 and those stories that were passed down to her were my favorite stories for her to tell ❤ I still miss her everyday... the 1830s seem so long ago but somehow also not that long ago... crazy
Also once my great great grandma was old enough she moved her and whatever family was left back to Tennessee where my great grandma grew up!! And even tho she moved to Illinois as an adult she still wanted to be buried in Tennessee and she was!!
I was just about to finish the book trail of tears rise and fall of the Cherokee nation by John Ehle
How is it? I’m looking for some good books to read
@@blackbartthepoet3820 it is WONDERFUL I highly you check it out
This really helped me learn a lot about the Trail of Tears. Thanks!
my God there are no words 😢
There will be plenty when these descendants of scriptural Job are restored.
I am glad that it was mentioned that there “civilized “ tribes had African American slaves with them! Most people try to leave that part of his out.
I didn’t even know native Americans had slaves. You learn something new everyday
Indians also would enslave other Indians as well from other tribes especially the women and children. This idea that its all about white folk enslaving and oppressing people groups like they are the only ones doing it is a farce. Every culture, tribe and nation has done it and unfortunately it still happens in places like Africa. Another kind of slavery still happens here in America as well called sex trafficking. That needs to stop and really should be the highlight in politics and in media but people are so focused in on the past that they've never experienced. Leaving young boys, women and girls to be forced and trapped into prostitution on our city streets!
I am glad that this historical telling included the fact that NA ppl had Black African slaves. I feel like history gets intentionally lost when it doesn't fit cleanly within a narrative.
It was hardly like owning them they were basically part of the tribe
A lot of times they married the slaves and had babies.
@@sb416 Stop justifying slavery.
@jshowa o It doesn’t matter who had more slaves. Native Americans who had slaves are just as guilty as white people who did because slavery is WRONG no matter who is doing it. PERIOD.
@jshowa o Why are you going out of your way to justify slavery? “Oh, they didn’t have as many slaves so it’s not that bad.” Seriously?
Im AA and my great grandmother was part Simenole. We were always told the slaves would escape and find refugee with the natives but rhe older I get the more I find that they too probably became the slaves of the natives. History is rarely kind to anyone.
Mankind are just as cruel to one another's as they have always been.
This may very well be the saddest moment in US history. Very shameful that this was allowed to happen.
Greed
Thank you for covering this I had ancestors walk on it and Die on it on the cadron river of a cholera epidemic there's a plaque by the river with some of my ancestors name on it..her name was Susie Ward.
My great grandmother a Seminole survived the trail of tears
Video about the Mississippian culture from 800CE to 1600CE would be cool!
What kind of surprised me most was that the native tribes knew what it meant to be unwanted and treated harshly, yet they themselves kept Afro-American slaves that were in turn apparently not treated too well by the tribes :-/.
Yeah. The Cherokee tried to assimilate as much as they could from creating a written alphabet for their native language to even owning slaves. Didn't do them any good.
Generally speaking, slavery was not common in the "five civilized tribes". It was almost entirely the $$ people who were trying to imitate white enslavers in an attempt to have their own skin color overlooked.
Native Americans were the FIRST people to be enslaved in North America. They did not have slaves until they were taught this but colonizers 🙄 Unlike Africa where slaves still exist to this day
Yes I’m aware. What’s been an open secret is that there’s Tons of Black Americans with Native American blood in them. My Great Grandfather was a Full blooded Cherokee who’s Sister was Half Black.
@@gnostic268 No, that's just not true. Some tribes would keep war captives as slaves prior to european colonization. Granted, it was very different than chattel slavery and treatment varied from tribe to tribe...but still slavery.
Thanks for this! 🪶🐎
Wow. This is the first time I hear about this. Those conditions sure were terrible :(
Thank you . Excellent Narrator
The United States Government owes Native Americans a huge apology for all the atrocities it imposed on them.
They won't do it
@@marieelisa1 Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 (H.R. 3326), a 67-page act, is Section 8113: "Apology to Native Peoples of the United States." "The United States, acting through Congress, apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native Peoples by citizens of the United States”
My Great Grandmother x3 walked the Trail of Tears, decided to stop at Arkansas. I even have a photo of her toward the end of her life, Tennessee Jones.
Andrew Jackson the face on the $20 bill. If you happen to be a Native American who ancestors were victims of Jacksons actions, it must be a painful reminder to see him still being honored today.
@@Olds_Pwr And those pros justify genocide 😂
I always fold his face inward on those.
@@Olds_Pwr1928 Jackson appeared on the $20 bill. Attitudes have evolved. Society appears to be more inclusive. In my opinion, it's time to retire his face our currently.
@Alice Rivierre I'm good with that.
@@Olds_Pwr Jackson born in 1767 most likely did not serve in the Revolution. Yes, he served in the 1812 and the Senate and as President. Jackson also ignored the Supreme Court's decision not to relocate the Native population.
Hitler and Jackson had many parallels. Hitler served in the Great War, he too was elected to public office. Hitler admired Jackson's actions towards the Native Americans. It was the template to invaded the Soviets for Lebensraum.
There are those today, who feel that Slavery was positive for the nation, therefore justified. I don't.
Yes, you are correct when you point out that Men from the caveman days had been fighting for conquest. This includes the Native population, long before European settlers.
I believed that we have evolved, that living in a civil society is not the same as 20,000 or 200 years ago. We should look back to history to learn and grow for the better.
Times have changed, so have attitudes and I agree with you that 200 years from now that our history will be judged.
In Jacksons day the Natives were seen as subhuman savages. Today they are Americans native to the US. For that reason, I feel that we should no longer celebrate Jackson and replace his image with someone else from the $20 bill.
It's likely I won't change your point of view. That being said I appreciate you sharing your comments and opinions.
Thank you very much for going into this ♡ it's always glossed over as a 'sad time' but no one ever explains it in detail or with empathy. It's very shameful so I would imagine a tendency arose to do that.. I'm a Seneca myself, Nya:wëh ♡
I've heard so many different stories about the trail, from history lessons and family stories. Tsalagi (Cherokee) is my heritage, and my family kept their tribe, and some of their land in Cherokee, NC. My 2x great grandfather and his father were Chieftains of their tribe, and they passed down stories filled with dread about how they were forced to make the most of the little land they were given. While the men, women, and children that walked the trail were extortioned, worked to the bone, and were shot by random "locals" who disliked their skin and clothes, the rest of my people who stayed were pillaged like savages. Their land was raided during harvest seasons, animals were killed, sometimes for food, sometimes just for sport. And RUclips guidelines won't allow me to say what they did to the women. My grandfather was a product of what happened, I'll just leave it like that. He was eventually told to seek a better life amongst white men by his father, and so he did.
Even though Tsalagi welcomed foreigners, my ancestors resented the foreigners who kept taking more and more without giving in return. My family is just one heritage line that became broken and scattered due to European colonizers...I hold no ill will towards Europeans, whites, or anyone that falls under Anglo-Saxon skin tone, but I won't tolerate any glorification of the actions of their ancestors. I love when history is told as is, despite how much it hurts my heart and soul hearing the actions my ancestors and their people went through, everyone needs to know the truth because it cannot be repeated.
When is the next timeline coming? I’ve watched the 80’s and 90’s more times then I can count😂 great video as always btw!
That was difficult to watch. So terribly sad.
lol baby
There’s actually historical markers in my hometown of Marietta, Ga, north of Atlanta, where part of the trail began in GA, and where the first death of the trail occurred
Thank you for this. I learned about this in elementary school and you've added more context to this.
For those who've never heard of this and are American citizens, remember this is why learning history is important. Someone once said that history is written by the victors... think about it.
my ancestors were on the trail. my Grampa made it up there with his family. waited about an year and left in the middle of the night. took the long way home.
I truly hope this nation achieves balance one day and lets these people return to their homes. Imagine the Everglades National Park administered by or in part by the Seminole as their nation. Imagine the already-strong Cherokee presence in far western NC becoming something even more culturally significant. We can achieve balance; it's amazing to me that Native Americans feel such patriotism given what this nation did to them. Oklahoma, with Indian Territory again being recognized in a Supreme Court decision, is already proving that the Indian and non-Indian can live side by side and administer land together. We have to work for this; the reservation system is cruel and outdated.
I agree they should have to work for there Property like Everyone Else!!!! Enough of the Free Shit!! Past is Past!! I’m tired of Hearing about it!! If you don’t want Horrible Consequences then DONT LOSE THE WAR!!! I bet you would feel ALOT Different if these Tribes were Near your town before they were Removed!!! They would’ve hunted and Scalped YOU!!!! Lol PPl today have NO IDEA!!! But it feels good to Virtue Signal and beat up on America!!!! Truth is You would’ve BEEN BEGGING the Government to get those Heathens out of your Area!!! As would 99% of PPl in these Comments!!
I had a co-worker who had an ancestor that was on that trail. She told me that her ancestor was a little girl at the time and one kind soldier helped her make it by hiding her in a pickel barrel. It's good to know not all the soldiers were jerks.
So sad what my Cherokee ancestors went through. God bless them. Their land, and future was stolen from them!
Why did you serve your enemy?
@@pistolpayne I am Native and very pragmatic. We are Americans by any metric now. The Indian Wars are long over and we recognize that to consider America "The Enemy" is to regress. Both my parents were Native and White, should I despise one or the other?. My family has served in the military going back to the Civil War.
@@Anaris10 Amen brother! I had to very amazing veterans in my life that made me want to serve. Desmond Doss which Hacksaw Ridge was base off and Frank Buckles..the last WW I veteran who passed away in 2011. Both men were brave and strong!
Thank you for this.. my granddaddy was a full blood BlackHawk Indian from Illinois..
The most surprising thing I learned is that the US government broke promises. I didn't think that could ever happen. 🤣
First picture is inaccurate. Trail of tears started further East, including Murphy NC. Historically known to be Where the last of the Cherokee were who evaded being caught. The Last group ran into the mountains in the hanging dog area before being caught.
Murphy was set up military camp (fort butler) and town where they pulled all the natives to be ready to start the gruesome journey. There’s tons of plaques throughout the town, a museum and online websites, etc claiming this. Murphy is now in a county called ‘Cherokee’ county where the Cherokee own 70% of the land.
The first Bataan death march, just a lot harder ,longer, and more painful.
Stories like these make it hard not to think America's current troubles aren't just uppance a' comin'.
Every single country in the world has done terrible crap. This isn’t unique to America.
I just found out my 4 the great grandma on my dad's side was full blooded Overhill Cherokee. Her name was Nar-Nee. She was lucky to marry my 4th great grandpa so she didn't have to leave. But the rest of her family(and mine) walked this horrible trail. It's heartbreaking and awful what they had to endure.
I'm sooo glad you included the slaves of the 5 civilized tribes!!!LOL.As a child no one mentioned black slaves on the trail of tears.It must have been nice having someone cauter to you as you suffered along,but not alone.
This is the first I've ever heard of it myself.
@@johnbjones8825 same ive never knew that
They're in the same boat and only played the same roles as any other native would've if they had enough people to fill the positions if they weren't sick and dying. Native culture was soooo incredibly different than white culture if you can call it that. The slaves were more so treated as equals filling roles that any other respected member would fill but ofc treatment depended on the tribe but most of the time natives didn't treat slaves as bad as the common white person did and so the 'catering' idea really only speaks about white culture as there was no class system when everyones dying equally
I had no idea that the tribes had black slaves.😥
@@raisin8051 Stop trying to defend slavery just because a non-white group did it. Slavery is wrong no matter who is doing it, and the Native Americans who had slaves are just as guilty as the white ones.
Wonderful video. Thank you.
Can you do a video on how these Indigenous tribes were able to own slaves? Was that part of being the “5 Civilized tribes”?
I wish this episode was longer!
one thing to keep in mind is that as bad as this was it was really!! bad for the Black slaves of the Cherokee (and other tribes) who were forced to go along. Even oppressed people can in turn be oppressors. History shouldn't be censored.
Exactly. Everyone likes to talk down to white people, well white people weren't the only sinners.
@@jared6361 what an asinine take.
@@Artliker1234 how so? I'm not responsible for what white people did back in the day.
Video taught me something today. Didn't know some native American tribeS had African slaves. When you hear history in it's entirety, a real eye opener.
@@reversegiraffe3164 yes I’ve known about this all my life! When I would tell people they wouldn’t believe me. It’s literally in books! Now granted the books will say something to the extend that they treated their slaves better in comparison to whites, but idk, a slave is a slave! Come on ow
Stop the background whistles and random music. Please. Your channel is simple and easy to listen to. The additional track hurts it.
Coming from a frontiersman background where he’d had mostly friendly relations with the Native Americans, Davy Crockett strongly opposed the Indian Removal Act while he was in Congress, and it ended up costing him his political career. He migrated to Texas in search of a new start in politics, and ended up getting caught up in the Siege of the Alamo, where he would lose his life.
Which side did he fight for in the Alamo
The Hildebrand route in southern Mo is right around the area that I grew up. I haven’t been in those areas in sometime.. I will have to visit there again.
People who aren't even being treated fairly and respect had slaves too. Dam. The definition of being on the bottom
My ancestor, Haley (English name because he was in a residential school) has born on the trail of tears. There are stories that were passed down within my family that his mother gave birth to him in the back of a wagon. He was 2ish when he finally reached Indian Territory.
It's a miracle any of us descendants exist today! My Grandmother would never say an unkind word about anyone, but I always knew how she felt about Andrew Jackson!
My grandfather told me about it how they kept warm and eating whatever they could find on the trail and people were dying on the way crying on the way sad and they wanted to say this their American not
A white Indian Agent, Douglas Cooper, upset by the Native Americans failure to practice a harsher form of bondage, insisted that Native Americans invite white men to live in their villages and "control matters."[26] One observer in the early 1840s wrote, "The full-blood Indian rarely works himself and but few of them make their slaves work. A slave among wild Indians is almost as free as his owner." Frederick Douglass stated in 1850, "the slave finds more of the milk of human kindness in the bosom of the savage Indian, than in the heart of his Christian master.[8] But references to Indian kindness were generally to the sanctuary offered by underground railroads operated by non-slaveholding Indians -- not to Indian who kept people in slavery.[27]
As an Oklahoma resident(non-Native American), the Trail of Tears was heavily discussed during Oklahoma history class in high school. We even did a presentation for the Trail of Tears.
The most surprising thing for me was the total lack of discussing my tribe, the Choctaws. We were the first to be removed, starting in 1831. We were the guinea pigs for this. It was dubbed the Trail of Tears by us. Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw words Okla and Homma, which means "honored people" and the lands still belong to the tribes, as the McGirt case Supreme Court ruling shows. There's also a group of women from the Choctaw Nation who make the yearly walk from Mississippi to Oklahoma, it's called Yappali. And the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma also does an annual 10mile walk to honor our ancestors who walked. Lastly, this walk also led to the creation of the Oklahoma Choctaws and Mississippi Choctaws as there were several who decided to stay in Mississippi. Please, all this information is available online. This could have been better researched and not so American textbook of solely focusing on the Cherokees. Yes they faced hardships, but we all did and we all deserve to be recognized for it and heard
Also, my 5th great grandfather walked this when he was 6 and my 5th great grandma was an infant