The funny thing is that as soon as the Sioux Indians got guns and horses from the white man, they exterminated the Arikawas. Most people today are very naïve about the brutality that went on for thousands of years in tribal warfare

It’s a shame that we’ve nearly forgotten all of this history. Thank you for keeping it alive.

I hope you defeat the algorithm because you deserve a million subscribers. So glad I found a great actual factual history channel

Never a good idea to sneak into another man's teepee.

I really love these historical presentations. Very well nuanced and better than any fictional story you could hope for.

As someone said, "We owe them (the Mountain Men) a debt we can never repay......."

People are being taught fake history. I am glad a channel like this exists to push back on nonsense. I like your narration.

I remember in high school years ago we read old documents about settlers in Ohio fighting against Indians. There was a group of 4 or 5 settlers that would wage their own war against Indians during the war of 1812. They would sneak up on a Indian camp, wait till dark and pick off one Indian with their excellent shooting skills. Then melt back into the forest. Wait four or five days and do it again to the same group of Indians. This went on for months with the Indians being unable to fight back. It was a very effective means of waging war.

I love listening to your takes on historical stories that you've researched! Thank you for the content.

Fighting and dying for land is how life on this planet rolls

I like how in his letter he failed to mention that they were attacked, not out of the blue, but because 2 of their party decided that they wanted a little extracurricular activities.

I just love these little historic nuggets! Really great format!

Any time you mess with women, your sister, daughter, mother, wife, you are asking for, and deserving of, a fight. Real men honor and protect women. Great episode!👍👌💪

Excellent! Thank you!

You do a wonderful job sharing these awesome stories!

I am of native American blood and of Portuguese, but I am American Puerto Rican and my family from way back in 1920s have always said that if the Europeans wouldn't of taken over , some other country would of, so me personally I am happy that America is what it is now , if not this country would of been like South America and very poor

Enjoyed the short history of the Arikara. The era this happened was nearing the end of the great tribes of the plains Indians. A time where life was short for many and hard for all. I will watch for more of your history lessons. Thanks!

Brilliant Video!!!

Just stumbled onto your channel and I like what I see! Subscribed and looking forward to more! The history of North America, Pre and post colonial is absolutely fascinating. You gained a fan, great narrating and well told. Take care Also including the letter to John's family by Hugh was a nice touch.

So basically" 2 men broke ranks & went outside of the security of the camp seeking sex" & sacrificed the mission & saftey of the trading party"" A lack of order in the ranks caused this disaster.

Love these videos on north Americas Indians. I live one hour from the present day Arikara reservation. They have beautiful land, rich with oil.

I really enjoy your story’s

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Liked, subscribed and bought the book. What more can I say. Fascinating stuff.

Without repeaters, you better be good at hand to hand combat

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Trading items for sex was a regular occurrence. Most likely it was a growing animosity that was the key to this fight.

Thank you

I always love when I get book recommendations from htoc

This happened just north of Mobridge SD and the Island was named Ashley Island. It's now under water as the whole valley was flooded Oahe dam in Pierre. The next year, Colonel Leavenworth came back and picked up 800 Dakota Sioux and kicked the Arikara's ass. There was a monument placed at the site. It's now at the Mobridge museum. Not sure why they put it out in the middle of the prairie? There is now a bay named Leavenworth bay on Lake Oahe north of Mobridge. I'm from Mobridge and had to learn all this on my own as none of it was taught in school.

Damn fine Art for your invite image.

The Hugh glass biography is amazing great book

Very good story

One must conclude the foolhardy venture of the two Mountain men into the Arikara camp. They had already brokered a deal with the Native tribe yet tensions were still somewhat high. I don't blame the Arikara at all for being upset over the fact the two Mountain men wanted to have intimacies with their women. I would have acted the same way to be honest. Especially as they went in after dark to try to procur sexual favors. That showed they knew it was probably not going to be looked upon with favor. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

Sounds to me like those two trappers should have just stayed in camp and rubbed one off and left well enough alone.

Best old west history channel out there

Have you done an episode on Adobe walls? If not , it would be great if you would sir...Big fan of your channel. Just recently found it...👍

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Yet another great history lesson, thanks for this window on this fight and the hero's that fought and died that day.

Sir ? Whoever you are , I love the way you represent and explain away your knowledge on this here subject, I like this channel and just for that I will subscribe right this very moment , thank you 👍

The Arikara were well aware of the fur trappers crimes and injustices against other Indigenous groups and it was prudent for them to establish themselves as a strong force not to be abused. If it were not for the two trappers that snuck into the Arikara camp to defile the women, reinforcing the suspicions of the the tribe, then this very well may have ended in a more mutually amicable relationship.

Short, but good stuff, thank you. Many years ago, I ordered the "Indian Wars" on VHS and I seen that it was reissued on DVD's later, but was mixed differently, so idk if content was added or taken from the original? However, one thing we can all agree on is that when money, women, whiskey and horses are involved, "there will be blood.."

Interesting - Thanks 🙂😎👍

Hugh Glass was my wife's fifth great grandfather

Thinking of the Revenant listening to these stories, pretty brutal.

great comentary

Jedediah Smith Redwoods park in California is my personal favorite slice of the giants

First time to hear one of your stories and I enjoyed it very much. Your presentation was First class , and if you closed your eyes, you could feel the fear of death all around you. I hope to hear many more of your stories. Thank you.

Many superb images, especially at 7:25 min in.

Just finished empire of summer moon , stuff nightmares are made !

I believe this is the battle that is depicted in the movie, "The Revenant".

What an insane time

Grazie per aver condiviso questa vicenda, che conoscevo, ma che ogni volta che leggo o sento, trovo emozionante. Trovo incredibile il coraggio di cui erano armati i mountain men, nell'addentrarsi in zone così remote, selvagge e pericolose. Erano proprio altri tempi. Ho sempre pensato che se i due uomini che erano entrati nel villaggio Arikara in cerca di prostitute, non lo avessero fatto, non sarebbe avvenuta questa tragedia. Il rispetto reciproco è alla base di ogni rapporto umano e, in questo caso, i cacciatori bianchi, non ne hanno avuto per il popolo Arikara. Un abbraccio e ancora grazie!👍🤝

History. Love it. Learn from mistakes?...naw. My wife is Pyramid Lake Paiute. Her Aunt is Sara Winnemucca. 4x Great Grandfather: Chief Truckee. Elders still speak ancient language of: Numu. Amazing culture / history. John C Fremont first discovered Pyramid Lake, Nevada

interested in those 'retributive actions', keep it comin!

Warn’t Hugh Glass skelped and survived it? I forgot what tribe lifted his topknot but legend has it he kept a bearskin over his nekkid skelp..

Damn those two with whiskey and trinkets!!

What's the name of the music track you use in all your videos?

Whenever the little head takes over the thinking of the big head, disaster incurs. Most of the time it's better to keep Peter in your pocket, a "hard" lesson to learn when you're young.

Misfortune is often miscalculation in search of fortune and fun. Keep your powder dry and your endeavors honest.

I'd say give the would be creeper up for a deal, but since that would be condemning a man to long drawn out death.... Good leadership story, presented with tough problem caused by someone elses stupidity with no good solution.

I love South Dakota, especially the Black Hills. I wish the stove pipe hat would make a return, except that I like beavers. If not for the cold winters, I would retire in the Black Hills.

Lived in Ashley Valley by Ashley Creek.

The story sounds like it would make a good movie.

Leapfrogging from one defensive position to another. Good tactics can remedy a bad situation.

No mention of the great Jim Bridger?

The image represented as Hugh Glass is not accurate. There are no documented images of him

Algorithms are correctly bringing me to you... Woooooo

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Yeah, that was bound to happen eventually.

Great history site…but the music in the background looping over and over for me is annoying….

Ah the eternal search for beaver is something I can relate to lol

Carpetbagged this one

Too Quiet!!!

The clash of European cultures with the tribes in North America was inevitable. The chief reason is that the Europeans brought horses and new technology that gave them an advantage in warfare. The fact that it was an Indian that stole muskets from Jamestown and used them to attract other tribes. The tribes that acquired these things first attacked the ones that did not. This more sharply defined the raiding tribes from the peaceful ones. There were tribes that immediately saw the improvement that the white way of living brought and adapted them or did later. Few people know, for example, that 500 Sioux had taken to farming in Minnesota before the 1862 uprising. They wanted to keep their farming community together and begged the White minister to not flee. But he was pressured to leave by the violence and the farming Sioux were shamed into rejoining the larger, warlike contingent of Sioux, who were one of the greatest of all trading tribes. This is why when General Crook rode out in 1876 as the main force of the Montana Campaign that year, he had 262 Shoshone and Crow allies with him when he encountered the Sioux and Cheyenne at Rosebud Creek. Crook, BTW,. faced the same forces that Custer would face a week later at the Little Bighorn River with far fewer forces, and could not defeat them. The Battle of Rosebud Creek was at best a draw. Crook retreated to resupply, and so Custer, Terry, and Gibbon did not know that Crook and his vital force of 1,2000 would never arrive as planned.

Check out the 1999 song "Mountain Man Boogie" by the band Scissorfight... its about Hugh Glass. It's a good'un.

Love your content! Trying to find a video about a guy fighting for his life. This guy could reload his rifle on the run. One of the Indians stopped and said, don't follow him, his gun stays loaded! I'd sure like to see that one again. PEACE AND LOVE BRO!

Smith wasn't the hero you say. Later he had trouble getting men to follow him after his California trips. on his first trip only he and Harris made it back out of over 25 men.

Their tribe VS tribe violence prior to European encounter is different because the victorious tribe isn't going to defile and destroy the land for gold and oil. They we all about nature and the environment.

The Arikara scouted for Custer, though some survived and told their tale in the Arikara Narrative.

The thumbnail photo is the guy from the DiCaprio trapper movie where he ate the raw meat.

The story is great and the only fitting thing in Mr Dicaprio is the look. The Rickarees are great looser at this time, lost 4/5 of their Tribe in the small pocks epidemic and the Dakota for decades heartily dominated got firearms and grow more powerful. Many Arikara married to Pawnee. Read the book The Renvenant and you get the story of a real badass and I do believe that every mountain man was out of this mold. Are there any sure pictures of the Arikara? Liked from Northern Germany

So this is the scene from the Revenant ?

Drinking can lead to some really foolish ideas... in any century...

Mmmm... Beaver!

I think the trade with the Arikara would have gone well had it not been for the two men who betrayed the group. Sex, greed, and religion continue to cause strife around the globe to this day.

How many mountain men were killed and how many survived... ?

You know I have lived an interesting life as a mountain man. Yet there perils that I and others like me could not recreate or experience. What the rugged fortatatude it took to open and explore. Contrast that to today when masses want hand outs and are unwilling or to walk across a street to help themselves.

Engines was mighty rough on ary folk wasn’t their kinfolk or them that they had treaties with…kilt’em and scattered there innards all over creation..

I've read about this as well. There was a reason Colonel Ashley was sent. I've read somewhere there were some fur trappers missing and this village may have Clintoned them. This was the 1st time the US military came up river.

I Swear I Saw Super Trump in there somewhere

Those two fools can take the blame for the whole disaster. That tends to happen when another culture is violated.

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Moral of the story: This a time and a place not to keep it in your pants, and trading with people of a different culture ain't one of them.

The Musket Wars in New Zealand could match the atrocities in Africa over the last 200 years and more. If it can happen, it will happen.

Did the traders actually think that violating indigenous women was a good idea and was going to end well for them?

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This was only round one of a 2 part blood feud which was revisited upon the Arikara by General Ashley along with a polyglot composite force of trappers, US soldiers and Sioux warriors. Later on the second battle was more bloody than the first.

Why the insistence on "horse flesh" as opposed to "horses"?

They shouldn't have tried to defile the women