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Who would've thought a KZfaq video would be more educational than anything taught in schools.

I'm Anishinaabe and Irish. My grandmother was a full blooded Ojibwe who died in 1976 when I was 12. I was born, raised and still live along with all my cousins, aunts and uncles on Bay Mills reservation in the upper peninsula on Lake Superior. Our language is Anishiinaabemowin or Ojibwe to you people of European descent!

As a teacher and African American it was so important to me to teach about this huge part of North America history. Thanks for this story.

Cherokee/Norwegian-Irish here. Our g....grandmother was on the trail of tears. Everyone says they're Cherokee, but we were on the rolls...and, she's in our Family Bible.

"We may never know..." the wisest words this video has offered.

I grew up in the shadow of Cahokia and it has been extremely influential in my appreciation and reverence for all peoples. In college we excavated a game processing camp many miles from Cahokia and the enormity of the resources needed to feed their rapidly expanding population was an incredible story all on its own. I appreciate how thoughtful and well made this documentary is and hope more will be coming in the near future.

This is wonderful but heartrending. All those people lost because of ignorance, and a prejudice that continues to this day. We are all enriched by your studies and conclusions and by the heart of your people that still beats in each of you. Thanks for this.

Great video, have always known there’s more to life than meets the eye, I feel like in this life i am supposed to be doing more than i am doing for the people i love. been seeking for an eye opening enlightenment, a way to be more influential, powerful and protected~

im of native descent but have always seen documentaries talking about native americans from US and canada, im colombian and im muisca, so to see a documentary talking about native history that uses the term native american to encompass both sides of the continent is soo refreshing

Im Mexican of indigenous Nahua descent from Mexico City and Morelos, Mexico. Through Dna testing Ancestry and 23andMe i've found family who are members of federally recognized tribes of the southwestern USA Arizona and New Mexico who are Apache/Navajo, USA Michigan & Canada Winnipeg who are Ojibwe/ Chippewa and Alaska Inupiaq people. Despite not having horses, our people travelled far and wide. Many groups of native peoples took part in the migration from Aztlan down south to what became Tenochtitlan while being guided by the God Huitzilopochtli. The people who migrated down south went from being hunter gatherers to building big cities and becoming urbanized. My Haplogroup is A2, my results 94% Native American, 4% Italian, 2% Greek. My grandmothers were the last in my family to speak Nahuatl.

I will forever appreciates this channei. I think it would be great if there were only 10 million people in the world , or less . I'd love to live in a place with abundant natural resources , no war , and a meditative lifestyle . And some nice cannabis sativa stands .

It's amazing how you guys produced this kind of videos, very intersting and fascinating with a cinematic thrills. I'm not regretting hitting the subscribe button and likes to show love and respect. Thank u for always educating us world wide. Much love. ❤

What an amazing story is being uncovered and told! So many generations, so many lives, so many experiences! We owe a great deal to those that came before us and should pass on the best of what we have learned to those who will follow! We are all different and unique, yet we share what is most important: humanity.

If the dating of the footprints from New Mexico are verified, native peoples existed in North America 22,000 to 24,000 years ago. This has huge implications.

I do believe this is the best video I've seen on this subject. Very well done and informative. I'll be sharing with my grandchildren.

I'm Diné (Navajo). My parents are Diné. My grandparents on both sides are Diné. When I was a little girl I met my great grandmother's sister. She was Diné. I also met my great grandfather's brother. We called him Grandpa Rex. He spoke only Navajo. He talked about his parents, grandparents & great grandparents. They were Diné also. His favorite food to eat was traditional Diné Tanaashgiizh (blue corn mush).

What I always found interesting growing up in S Louis is that the Mississippi Indian Empire had its capital in what is Cahokia, IL but that they buried their dead on the other side of the River in S. Louis. So Downtown S Louis is built on top of a massive ancient Native American Cemetery.

Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president, is officially the first person to say that the only thing hat explains the radical differences in native American languages and cultures is that they were different people coming from different places at different times.

Currently, I am sitting in front of our American Indian shrine, on Wilshire & Santa Monica Los Angeles, CA- which I am very very very proud, their the best doctors, combat money can buy. I want to share this gift I have with them, and keep our traditions & pride as long as we both shall live. We;ll lead with Bobby sherman actor. Here is my pledge for raising America & the world. Lisa

I support and respect the heritage of Native Americans ❤

I very much enjoyed this documentary and learned much from your most excellent examples and explanations. I grew us with the Sioux in the Dakotas and was always intrigued by these peoples. Thank you very much for your well-written documentary.

I love that this features archaeologists of Native American origin. So many cultures all over the world have great floods in the origin stories, I can’t help but wonder if this is based on distant memories of their ancestors’ experiences diuring the rapid sea level rise at the end of the last glacial maximum. Ten thousand years is a long time, but I don’t think it’s impossible, especially in areas where people were largely isolated from other groups and preserved their origin stories through conservative oral histories and legends. (By conservative, I mean tending to preserve early cultural content rather than innovating a lot).

23,000 years ago families were walking along a lakeshore in what is now White Sands National Park. Rock solid dating on these tracks as well.

Best, most objective video i have seen, and I am hooked on watching everything on the History Channel, to include repeat upon repeat.

Fascinating information. I've know much of it before from people and documentaries, but always good to discover more. I have visited ancient ruins all over Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico and Guatemala. They are still uncovering more and more of the Jungles near Tikal. Would be interested on new info on that area because just being on that ancient site moved me so strongly. I still dream about it. Thx

The coastal route makes good sense too. Slipping down the coast, hunting the familiar sea life, taking advantage of land for storm refuge, camping, firewood, wood and rock for tools, is what I would do, with my family. Food is more abundant and easier to take. Boats also may have provided a safe haven if big predators were a problem. Fresh water comes to the coast. Working up creeks and rivers would have provided food, water, firewood, maybe a nice place to stay. Thank you for sharing. This is extremely well done and interesting. Kentucky

I’m full blooded Navajo and I thank the gods for my bloodline and my ancestors even though life hasn’t been easy for native people ,what country continent did we flee to for political asylum? We didn’t we stuck it out those who lived.. and when ww2 came around my father and 2 uncles left boarding school to join the military with my grandparents permission(2 navy 1 marine codetalker)& my mothers uncles(3 army 1 marine codetalker also)3 uncles in Korean conflict 5 in Vietnam my niece Iraq her brother Afghanistan 3 tours native Americans have highest % of military service and prison incarceration

Askwali. Beautifully done! One of the best films Ive ever seen with our Indigenous archeologists and scholars. Look forward to more. 👍🏽

Looks like everyone came to The Americas from elsewhere and made it their home up to and including what we all America today. What an amazing story.

What I find interesting is that when I was a small boy watching old American movies, the Natives normally greeted others with "Hao!" which sounded like "How!" Then, when I got older and studied Chinese I learned "Ni hao ma" meant "hello."

The ending of this documentary made me cry so much. I don't know why. I just felt sad for their suffering. I feel like they did all those things for us. Their future self. They had a clear vision of what they wanted to achieve.❤

Wonderful... documentaries like these show the real Sewer that USA is today.

The cultural similarities between siberian natives and northwestern american tribes is telling ...

I believe that much of the history is unknowable. The stories passed down through generations is so important. They teach lessons and contain knowledge that are timeless. It is so important for us to preserve what is here now, because we have destroyed so much of what we had before we understood the value of culture and history. The native American people and their culture must be preserved as a record of knowledge and history. They have no be a part of the reconstruction of their own archeological records. All people have to recognize mistakes of the past, and figure out how to get from the past into the future, and preserve what is most important along the way. We have so much to learn from those who have a different set of values than ourselves. I sympathize with the struggle of the Native American people. I want to see all people flourish in the present time. Every culture comes with a people, each of which must find their own path through time. We can't bring back the past. But we don't want to forget where we came from. It is important for the people who are of European decent to realize that we are not all knowing. And that we have destroyed so much that is valuable that we can never get back. All because we valued gold, and our way of thinking, more than the other people we came across. We have always exploited people for what we needed from them, and discarded them when we were through with them. We can't force people into our culture. But we also shouldn't banish them to a reservation and try to tell them how to live, or what to believe. They alone can make the transition. We should be there for them, but they must find their own way. And we need to learn from their culture. Because it is somewhere in the middle where we can all live in peace and respect.

How profound -" not in it for the artifacts, in it for the story." and it's a beautiful, fascinating story.

Watching from Australia 🇦🇺

And think one of the most important lessons from modern scientific research into the origins and movement of humanity is that that people are people everywhere. There was a time when Native Americans were thought to be primitive savages -- either natural brutes or natural saints. Of course, Native Americans are neither. They have been just as resourceful, good and evil as people everywhere. The unity of humanity is the clear message of biology.

Actually the ancient native American used large hunting tools. The mammoth and large animals thousands of years later the native Americans use smaller size spears, bows and arrows. Many different tribes lived in other places. The Ojibwe once lived in far eastern Canada and the Navaho came from western Canada. The sioux Dakota- Lakota creation stories are original from the black hills SD there still old curve paintings in the the black hills caves.

I am Cherokee/ German/French and ASHAMED of the continued greed in our tribal government , and the on- going desire for vengeance when WE DIDNT LISTEN to our own prophets....and stop killing our native brothers

Awesome documentary 😍. Always a pleasure to learn about my ancestor's journey.

This is mesmerising and deeply fascinating. At the end I was left wanting to watch so much more, as I was completely engrossed in the stories, and thinking about the similarities between these nations and our own NZ Maori people. 🙆🏻‍♀️

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Sometimes I wish that I could go back in time just to see what the beginning was like and what the first humans look like

I'm Yaqui, my grandparents died in the Mexican and American wars. My father never forgot his people even though his mother died shortly after his birth. Unfortunately we never got any time or experience with our grandmothers to teach us our ways of life. So now we're just like any other people who have migrated here.

Ancient footprints were found in White Sands, North America recently that are more than 21,000 years old, which adds an interesting note to this excellent story.

I believe many origin stories are actually about how that nation formed rather than creation, specifically, that is, the ones that go against other stories. For instance, my nation’s story is that we came from a local mountain, in fact most Apache stories start in that mountain range, maybe that’s just where the Apache identity was formed

there's 2 different haplogroup paths that came across to america.. the first settled the west coast of the americas such as the Hoopa, Wiyot & the other gave rise to tribes such a the Cherokee, Lakota, & Ho Chunk. it's kind of cool. I left Africa both times with each haplogroup. stayed in Korea and hunted the steep from france to kazakhstan to korea till settling in europe over 2000 years ago,

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you!

As a kid at the movies I was always on the side of the "Red Indians". They looked so much more interesting than the cowboys or the cavalry. GREEN FIRE!

Random late-night thought: How amazing would it be if they found enough remains to actually trace the entire migration of all peoples? At any rate, thank you for putting this together. It was really interesting!

Fossilized footprints found in New Mexico rock strata show the Americas was settled AT LEAST 23,000 years ago! This is far older settlement than the 13,000 years previously known.

I am Sioux Indian and African American. My mom is full blooded Sioux Indian and I am 88% Sioux Indian and I fully embrace my American Indian decent. I am just beginning to learn about my peoples rich, untold heritage. Sioux Nation forever!!

As an archaeologist I can say that this is an excellent presentation. And, yes, I hope that more Native Americans will come into the field. However, tradition myth is still myth and must be recognized as such. Just as we see some Mideastern archaeologists trying to support their myths, we must recognize evidence that tells the truth of our past.

Do the makers of this film realize that Columbus NEVER made it to the continental North America? However, the Vikings were here almost 500 years before Columbus was even born. And I don't think Columbus ever made it to South America either.

Outstanding history lesson, kept me engaged from start to end.

I truly find this very interesting and I’m hoping someday to find out if I’m a long lost relative somewhere along that line of peoples. It would be interesting to find out where my ancestors came from, but unable to afford the research. As far as that goes, even with all of our differences, we are still all one big family called HUMANS.

I hope the next documentary about the origins of the Native Americans could give more information on how trade between different tribes in North and South America was a thing, if that in fact did happen. Also some more in depth information on which languages in the Americas have similarities of root words.

Just the mere fact that so many different facial structures, and body structures, can be observed among the various Native American tribes of the United States suggests that they may have had many different points of origin, and were the result of many different migrations.

As a Tlingit I was taught the exact place & legends of undersea villages. In 2014 that site was discovered 100 meters below sea level. Our Elders documented that site as where humans first saw the sun, moon and stars. About 14,000 years ago.

Thanks for this. This is rarely covered

My grandpa on my dads side CHEROKEE Cheif died at 99 yrs. Old...my grandma was Black Foot SQUAW died 98 yrs. Old... we have been looking for a log of their numbers.... i loved them so.....

The Solutrean connection gives us another fascinating aspect to this complex history.

The Solutrean period did not emerge in Europe 19,000 years ago. The oldest sites in Iberia are dated up to 27,500 cal BP. The youngest around 16, 000 cal BP. The period in which they could have reached America is very long and fits with a lot of dates such as White Sands etc.

I for one am so very grateful that Indigenous of all lands are still among us! The true people that are millennium in age and wisdom and true lovers of the earth. Much much respect shold be afforded to them all!

if you had bothered to ask the Pacific Islanders, you would have understood that 1) they are fishermen and 2) they have always navigated by the sea currents and the stars and 3) followed the fish and 4) fished up the North American coastline up to Alaska and 5) come back down again riding those return currents and 6) they regularly did this all the time and 6) the had names for their stopping places along said coastline, which names are still the same or are current variations of the perspective names of those places. they knew the sea currents "like their own backyard". i might remind you also that fishing that coastline is not that unusual--as you know, hence the Russian River has been used in contemporaneous times i.e. during recorded history. At any rate, origins can certainly be ascertained by the haplogroups of the progeny of those old explorers, fishermen, and nomads. it seems as if you are being disingenuous about making it mysterious for no reason b/c it is assuredly a most interesting subject and worth researching, but no need to make an argument of either/or versus both and neither. what is being overlooked is that there are stories and traditions that desperately need to be preserved and kept alive. people need to know their heritage. cheers and kudos for retelling the stories of the people!

We need to promote the Indigenous communities and cultures as primary in the U.S. It could help in many, many ways from behaviors to climate. This country needs to curb the violence and ancient tradition beliefs is a great place to start. Be vigilant and be safe❤

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the first nations people arrived in North America at a date closer to 30000+ years. It was similar in Australia, where people were saying that indigenous Australians could have only been there for a couple of thousand years, when now we know that they were there for at least 60000+ years. I hope more people start to grasp the importance of learning from indigenous cultures from around the world. The modern word would benefit from embracing these cultures. Unfortunately I feel like these cultures are increasing under threat, especially cultures that are passed down orally, what a shame

I love the study of Genetics and look forward to seeing our origin(s). Thank you so much for this incredible program.

We're explorers and now that we know most of the land were goin into space and deeper into the oceans.its in our blood to wonder and explore

I really appreciate enjoy your time work and helpful information on this project and back to some of us came here and Blessing us all life road map thanks ❤

Knowledge is power and understanding is wisdom. This is an educational video.

I was born in South Korea from Korean parents. I did a DNA test and the result came back (to my surprise) that I have a fraction of Indigenous American.

Really love the Pueblos and Acoma , many ancient sites left in Colorado, Arizona , New Mexico , Mississippi , Ohio , Georgia , Wisconsin , Mexico ,Central America and South America...great show...human migration, land n sea , ...

What an amazing time to have lived. 1300 Great Plains would have been an amazing and enriching life. Golden age. It is missed

In the city of St Louis. MO , there were originally 11 Mounds that were leveled and used for land fill.. not far from Cahokia.

Excellent program. Id like to see more from the original peoples historical outlook.

Language is still by far the easiest way to track our cultures. As large as North America is, we still have HUGE base population bands. Like I am surrounded by Salish bands of tribes while we speak a Chimikuan language. Then those bands break down even further into tribes. The difference between the plains natives and the Salish people are astronomical. But we had trading routes (our waterways in the PNW are amazingly complicated and easy to get lost in. The Salish had mapped our waterways in stone from Alaska to San Francisco) that spanned thousands of miles. We knew about eachother. We had languages that are found no where else and many of us also use our hands. Mitochondrial DNA puts my people as more closely related to paleo Siberians than ALL surrounding tribes. We came in waves. But those waves of people still had common origins. No where else on earth, is a continent this big holds people who look A LOT alike. Even South Americans, we are remarkably similar. The runner up would be Australia. Researchers already knew this long before DNA thanks to culture and language. Mitochondria DNA in 2021 determined that there were possibly only a dozen families that populated this side of the world.

Watched ‘Ulzana’s Raid’ today…..a MUST watch imo.

Lous Leaky thought the first peoples presence on this continent dates back about 40,000 years. Considering his other accomplishments, I'm with Louis.

I am a Mongolian born in Mongolia, and my recent DNA test result revealed that a fraction of my DNA matched with the lnuit people and another fraction matched with the native American people. Sadly in this documentary nothing's been mentioned about the long held belief and the obvious connection of the two.

Learning about prehistory and human evolution always impresses me with human ingenuity, creativity and intelligence. What a force.

Thank you for this valuable history.

This documentary is good for a middle school social studies class, but you're not going to learn much about anything. People have to start learning how to research. But I would recommend is to read archaeological articles and books. But if you want to learn about culture, just look up tribes of the Americas then go find KZfaq videos on those tribes (including audiobooks, books, lectures, articles). If audio books are boring to you, put a music track to the video on some free software lol.

Outstanding. I was hoping you'd discuss the genome. Especially in the great lakes and Peru. There always has been people here from all over the world.

I am Apache and Comanche and although these "stories" are pretty interesting, there still is the trouble of "dating" materials as we all know that the carbon dating system and subsequent dating systems are based upon hypothesis and not fact (and the various hypotheses are based upon false premises). I've heard plenty of legends passed down from both the Apaches and the Comanches, and there are similarities as well as differences. I won't argue any of these points as each person has their own version, but my belief system is based on the Holy Bible (not catholic). Blessings to all of you Yaha Noha.

Im comanche /Ojibwe/Meskwaki...my father is comanche and meskwaki and mother is ojibwe...i was born and raised in chicago illinois ..moving to one of the only 2 closed reservations in the United States...im very proud to be native american and wouldnt have chosen anything else..i love all creation though and love to lean about my ancestors...thank you for the educational materials

Hey so quick question, if people can arrive by boat along the ice sheets via the Pacific, why not the Atlantic? :)

A documentary of travelers of ancients tribes mother Earth' s children (lingustics) languages, lines , centuries that unites humanity as one. TIME SUN'S OF LIGHT. WHISPERING SONGS OF BIRDS OUR LULLABY OF LIFE. Loved this documentary ❤️

probably really peaceful and kind to each other

Such beautiful noble people! I wish this land could have remained theirs, though it still is and aways will be regardless of who calls America home.

I really enjoy this documentary It's not every day that you get a documentary about and by indigenous people.

Great work , love the info and images. well done.

If you have never been to Mesa Verde in the 4 corners region, it is well worth your time. Fascinating cliff dwellers from the roughly 1200's if I remember correct.

Excellent documentary. Thank you

As a Lumbee, I remember that long walk from the land bridge to North Carolina. The last mile was the easiest because by then cars had been invented.

There are a lot of unique aspects to this video that I really enjoyed, the small sample of languages, even the hunting reenactments. Native American cultures are so interesting and diverse, they’re just endlessly fascinating. I hope the native languages will always be preserved, there’s always resistance by children, especially teenagers, to adopt the more conservative aspects of their parents’ culture. I remember listening to a Navajo radio station near Window Rock, AZ, and when the “required” traditional song was finished, the young DJ said “that’s enough of that (bleep), the tribe makes us play these!”, then put the latest rock back on. This is universal, not specific to any cultures, kids around the world always want what’s new! When they eventually have children of their own, they’re glad they received the traditional culture and want to pass it on.

I'm a plains Cree from Canada on my mothers side and Hugarian on my dads side. That makes me a Hungry Indian!

i truly like documentaries like these. gateway understanding ancient people we can apply nowadays by rrespect thru beliefs.

I really liked your documentary. Very informative. Would like to see more documentaries on the original people groups specifically of Central America (including Panama). The original people groups of Panama are Kuna, Ngabe, Bugle, Naso or Teribe, Doraces, Bokotas, Wounan and Embera. My maternal great grandmother and grandmother were descendents of the Doraces people. Pure Doraces people exist no more. I read in a book titled Hurakan, that the first Spanish that came to the Panamanian Isthmus were surprised and terrified of finding mountains of skeletons of persons piled up.