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Valuable knowledge right here. Accurate reporting of history is a sacred thing.

Damn!!! You really didn't mince words. I love it. I had to subscribe when I heard you giving the traditional names for the places. I'm Coast Salish, from the Penelakut tribe, so these people are my relatives! They have a beautiful home and a beautiful language.

Over one hour of indigenous history? Hold on. Gotta pause so I can get comfy in my wingback, light my pipe and pour a glass of sherry.

Yes! My home states native peoples! Thank you for spreading the history and knowledge of the native people ❤️

As a white man adopted in a Puyallup family I really wish I could have visited Seattle before this time and the mixed time.

Thanks for all the info. I am a Seattlite and always interested in this place When I was kid their were a fair number of indigenous people living in downtown Seattle but they have all gone. Seattle has been gentrified by the Tech Businesses. A lot of the working class roots of this town have been painted over. The homeless of Seattle were created by the destruction of low income housing, and single resident rooming houses to make way for $2k a month apartments.

United Indians are the reason I had continuity of housing as a teenager. I owe them much

Absolutely love this video series, no one else comes close to putting so much detailed, succinct information that needs to be heard in a well thought out, easy to understand format. My only criticism is Chinook is pronounced with a hard TCH, like chin, not the soft SH.

Thank you for this history presentation. Let us incorporate these lessons in our future.

I moved here six years ago and it has driven me crazy how spotty the history i've been able to find is, and how absent the native side of things obviously was in what i did find; so this video is amazing. thank you.

I lived in Squamish for 9 years. This is really interesting and well done. I miss taking walks down to Agate Pass. It's a beautiful little beech with a lot of history.

I took three quarters of southern lushootseed at UW with professor Tami Hohn, and your pronunciation is really good!

growing up in washington, this history is very close to my heart and that of my family and friends. thank you for the video!

This is so good. I live on the historical Puyallup land. Thank you for making the indigenous names prominent in this historical accounting. I will be sending this to pretty much everyone I know.

Glad to be living here.

I love your documentary so much! You are really good at your job. You need to do every single area in the world!

There are so many cool habits and traditions of ancient cultures, like they did what a lot of us cant without our phones.

thank you for such a wonderful video documenting indigenous history. i can tell how much research you have done, and even things like giving indigenous names for locations shows you’re well informed and care about the history you’re sharing. keep up the great work, indigenous history like this needs to be a required part of institutional education!

I am So looking forward to this documentary. Ty. I’m a NE native, and visited the NW. My experiences during the month is spent in Seattle, exploring the city, viewing native art and taking in the new but deeply familiar topography. I had what some would call an out of body experience, that friends tell me made me invisible to the eye while in the same room. It’s not a stretch to tell you that I wasn’t as surprised by that report as a person commonly would be. While I was having the experience, the only thought that connecting me to that present time was the hopes someone would not disturb me physically and cause a premature end. The experience was deeply rooted within me and was remembered while studying some native art. Luckily, something, whatever, prevented that from happening. Can’t wait to deeper dive the area, as well as return. ❤

I start my PNW history course in 2 weeks at WSU. This looks like a fun documentary to watch to get myself ready!

Thank you so much!! Excellent information!❤

This was fascinating and sad. I'm sharing with all my friends in Seattle.

i needed this content so much. thank you for doing this important work to educate those who benefit from land theft and genocide, should the ever choose to see and hear.

Over an hour of really interesting history that almost seems lost to time. It’s awesome coming from West Seattle and hearing about where old villages used to be respective to what’s there today.

best video I've watched on youtube in forever, thank you so much for making this. So happy this popped up on my feed

this was incredibly enlightening. thank you for your work ❤

They need to teach these things in state history

I haven't finish the vide yet but I just want to say that the quote at 17:12, and the whole part about cultural intermixing is fascinating. I'm glad I've found this channel.

Great video! I was born in Seattle, but moved away when I was a toddler, so I never learned anything about the history.

REALLY appreciate this video. THANK YOU for the hours of work that went into compiling info/ scripting/ filming! Very well done!

This is the best one yet. The channel is really growing the beard, no pun intended. For real though, the videos really help and we appreciate them on many levels. Thank you for doing this. I promise I'll be a patron soon. Rough year.

Great stuff! I spent my summers in Seattle as a kid and never knew any of this. Also well presented.

WOW! Detailed, well researched, full of fascinating facts as well as great analysis and commentary. Terrific! Thanks for your efforts.

I haven't been to Seattle yet, but perhaps some day.

Thank you this was so illuminating and as a lifelong Seattlelite whose parents immigrated here from Asia I had little idea about this history, save for a few brushes with artifacts in Tilikum Village and visits to the totem pole near Alki Beach. Of course we never learned the true history of Seattle in school, and I am ashamed to have been part of such a racist, colonial school system and city. More recently, as a full-fledged adult I have attended pow wows, events at Daybreak Star, and the indigenous food symposium at the UW Intellectual House. I am doing my best to educate myself on the true history of the land on which I live, and it feels good to know the truth and stand in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the world. Also, I am curious whether/what tribe you are from? You are so knowledgeable and in depth with your research :)

44:25 this reminds me of a quote that went something like “white people love everything about black culture but actual black people”

This is very well done and informative. You worked hard on this. Thank you.

This is so good. Thank you for making this and sharing it.

I appreciate your details of context 🙌

Wow! Amazing work, I’ve lived in the south sound my whole life and was unaware of a lot of this history. I appreciate you making this video

Great job you did a fantastic job on this video!

Fantastic! Thank you!

I'm over in Kitsap, so I find this very interesting to learn that Chief Seattle was mixed with the Suquamish tribe that I see locally. I really like how you frame the history, without idolizing either side, but describing the cultural battle that took place. It is a shame to see how much we lose in the name of progress. I want to learn more, Instant sub for more native history, thanks.

There will always be jealousy presided amongst certain things. We should accumulate focus on those who deserve mercy. Sadly this is a modern progression. Love your work

A great video presentation. Incredibly educational. Thank you for the time and effort it must have taken to not only put this together but also the time itself must have taken you to have learned all of this history.

that North Wind vs Storm wind story is interesting I dont remember hearing Graham Hancock or Randall Carlson talking about that one. thats a gem.

Hey hello! As a someone born and raised in Seattle this video has to be the best video I have seen on it, maybe ever. This video has really sparked my interest on the topic. Out of curiosity do you have a place where you have your sources, so I can read through them myself? Anyway thanks for the video!

I have lived in Washington state my whole life, but I know little about any of this. I will be watching your other videos as this is fascinating to me.

I really enjoyed learning from you! This is very well done. Thank you for all of the effort you put into making this and sharing these important elements of our history!

Super awesome, thank you for your work in making this!

There's a book "Totem Tales of Old Seattle" where the author relates some stories of Chief Seattle, including where he "put down" a medicine man who was killing a lot of his patients via his incompetence and where he planned and executed an ambush on a Muckleshoot raiding party that had come to prey on the Duwamish. There was also a story about a speech he gave where he shared the stage with a (governor? mayor? I can't recall) some important government guy and due to the height difference the Chief kept resting his hand on the head of the government guy while he spoke, like he was the podium.

Thank you for a revealing look at Seattle's Indigenous history before and after colonization by the whites. I am white and I was born and grew up on Vancouver Island. It too has a related indigenous history of cultural appropriation by whites. It is heartwarming to see the current revival of First Nation's culture here, and in your homeland.

You have helped to educate me. I am from Northern Indiana where there are very many Amish and I have Amish ancestors, so when I heard you keep saying the word: "Duwamish" I kept mostly just hearing the word "Amish" so I had to stop your video and look up the word "Duwamish". And then I came back to this video. I have never heard of this tribe, but you have done a great job of telling the history. I like your style. My Indengious-American tribes are from out here in the east, but my heart still sympathizes with other tribes and the horrible genocide and extreme abuses they received. I live in Miami Chief Little Turtle's area where he and Shawnee Chief Tecumseh worked together to fight off the stealing of their lands. It is sickening to understand that this crap against the Indegeneous peoples of this country all had to go through this stuff. Within my blood flows the people on both sides like millions of other Americans. Those Duwamish women that got put into working in cat-houses, that is so sad that their culture became so annihilated that they had to do that for money to survive. I am so sorry, so very sorry that the Duwamish and all the other Indegeneous people had to endure such abuse and extreme disrespect. 💔

I've put a lot of time & energy (though not nearly enough) into learning local indigenous history, and this was still almost entirely info I have never heard before. Thank you so much for putting this together! I plan to use this as a teaching resource as well; this video is an awesome primer for students in any subject area to start their learning grounded in the history & present of the place they're learning in.

Wow! Your knowledge and education is incomparable. Thank you.

Wow! That was so incredibly Insightful and I hope your video continues to enlighten those that don’t know this part of PNW history. Subscribed and look forward to future videos and I’ll be sharing this one! Good work, you’re a super talented story teller and thanks for sharing that talent with the world!

Awesome video. Showing some maps while describing these places Enhances the knowledge

Been looking for a video on this topic for a while. Thank you!

Really well done. I learned a lot. Thank you.

Hey! I found your channel recently and have been making my through the content, which I'm loving so far. Incredibly informative and rich analysis. Plus he visual artefacts (paintings, photos, etc.) are a fascinating accompaniment. I do, however, have one small gripe. It may be just me and my speakers, and if so, fair enough -- but would it be possible to increase your microphone volume for future videos? Sometimes, especially if I'm cooking, cleaning, or otherwise making noise while listening to your videos, the volume seems quite low (even at max volume and even if I'm wearing headphones). Keep up the good work! Conor from Ireland, now living in Vancouver :)

I learned allot, thank you 🙏

Thank you so much for this video! I'm a white Seattleite and I've been thinking a lot lately about Seattle's indigenous history (thanks to reading the excellent memoir Red Paint by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe), so this came at a perfect time for me to learn more :)

wow! what a great video, i learned alot! thank you

Thank you for such a comprehensive and informative video!

I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel. I've wanted to learn about indigenous histories, especially the ones from my home state.

Great coverage! I'm a Denverite (though partially raised in Eugene, OR), but I love the PNW. I'm a big fan of Coll Thrush too!

as someone born in washington and lived in washington my whole life, it was interesting to learn the history of my home :)

This info is so important, more now than ever! Amazing work on the pronunciations!

Awesome video!

Fantastic video.

Great job! Very interesting to observe the old photos, how they had electric polls and street lights, sky scrapers sticking out the ground when the were supposedly clearing the hills. Seattle is definitely a major mud flood city and is older then said!

Well done. Much appreciated. 🦅

Theres was 1000's little clans and bigger tribes in Pacific Northwest and Washington state had coastal peoples and numbers of other peoples or what Pacific Northwest 9th grade history teaches you focusing on one or few tribes then relying the vastness of peoples of my beloved Washington but luv Chief Seattle and that majorly explains alot like the name for earlier Sea-town thanks for covering the historical information of being Washingtonian person.

Excellent work. Thank you ❤

Well researched! Portlander, but went to 5th and 6th grades in Georgetown (always a working class neighborhood). I learned a lot about the early history of Seattle from this. I don't remember much local history in grade school at the time there. Family heritage on my mother's mother's side includes field work on the farms around Snohomish and north by my aunts and uncles and cousins during the 1930s. The governments official recognition policy is horrendous. It ends up pitting tribe against tribe. Witness also the issues of the Chinooks on the lower Columbia. They helped our white asses (pardon the expression) arrive and assume unceded land all up and down the lower Columbia. But due to an unsigned treaty and no reservation they officially do not exist. I have a cousin who married one, so seems to me they exist. Their struggle also continues. Keep up the great work on these. Let's hope some of us become somewhat more educated about the existing Indigenous peoples,

t̕igʷicid for this video. Your Lushootseed pronunciation wasn't bad! A minor note: Seattle is home to more nations than the Duwamish, and the Duwamish are made up of more than just three historic subgroups: the šilšulabš, the dxʷdəwʔabš, and x̌ačuʔabš. the x̌ačuʔabš were not a nation in the same sense of the Duwamish or other nations. It is the name given to multiple nations whose historic villages were located along lake Washington (x̌ačuʔ "lake Washington" + =abš "people of"). They were the dəxʷx̌ʷubilabš, sluʔwiɬabš, šabalʔtxʷabš, saʔcaqaɬəbš, and sc̓ababš. Also were the stəqabš, once a powerful group who contributed many leaders to the contemporary Duwamish (Seattle's mother was of this village) Other than that, excellent video!

Very well done and thank you!

This was a great documentary! Good job

The duwamish tribe is not the only tribe still fighting to get Federal recognition around the entire country. I'm just stating that it's a larger problem than it appears.

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Great video

Excellent video, thank you.

Found myself fighting back tears like ten times, I kept thinking how does this keep getting worse?

Did anybody notice the fish jump in the background at 2:48? Very awesome!

Wow respect to you brother I’m not even from Washington but this makes me happy because I can tell this is accurate

1:33 that use to be my smoke spot😂

Great video! I learned so much about the place I've made my home. I went to the Powwow this year at Daybreak Star Indian Center, and I had no idea the site was originally an occupied decommissioned military base! The center and Discovery Park seen like a pretty cool outcome, esp considering how things things ended with the Indian occupation of Alcatraz. I support the Duwamish tribe too and have made a few attempts to learn Lushootseed (though it's very tricky for my tongue!)

This is fantastic! Can I get a bibliography by chance? I'm trying to up my historic literacy about the area

I love this!! I hope to remember to come back here and go through what you got. The area is not familiar for me. I visited twice. 🙋 Cali and Colorado. Great video/knowledge.

Living in Interbay and I love love love learning about who was here before the rest of us showed up. Gonna start calling Ballard Shilsole

And you my friend, have earned a subscriber! I love history, and I had no idea, that Seattle had a cultural intermixing at first. Think the ex-Confederates after the civil war moving to the PNW had anything to do with it?

You should reach out to professor Zoltan Grossman at The Evergreen State College. He is incredibly active in indigenous studies, especially in the PNW and his home state of Wisconsin

knowing the rich geological, archeological, tribal mythologies and historical tapestry of seattle makes seattle's police department staffed by east washingtonians from spokane across the mountains look like weird fleshy tanks, roaming around for the next 'free one'.

Thank you.

Great narration ❤

So well done all around

Ty for educating❤

Hypothetically speaking, if 57k people went and signed that petition how effective would that be?

I thought you may be interested to know that Salish is pronounced say-lish not sal-ish.