They Were Just in the Way | Indian Removal

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The Standard American History Myth treats American Indians as if they were an obstacle in the way of westward expansion and our inevitable march of progress. But nothing about what the United States did to the Native Americans was inevitable.
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0:00 Introduction
5:00 Colonial Period
20:24 Removal Period
39:20 Reservation Period
1:10:38 Allotment Period
1:32:13 Termination Period
1:45:31 Self-Determination Period
1:58:02 Modern Issues
2:18:51 Conclusion
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@m.streicher8286 Жыл бұрын

"No I didn't steal this car, I forcefully purchased it for a value I deemed sufficient"

@kathorsees 27 күн бұрын

And once it came to honoring their part of the so-called deal... "I'm altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."

@candisgoins6306 13 күн бұрын

IKR! I mean basically the same thing!!!!!

@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf 4 күн бұрын

By the 19th Century, 2/3rds of the so called "Civilized Tribes" had intermarried with Europeans and become Christian Americans, they had been neighbors for 300 years. Its why half of Southerners claim to have Cherokee blood. Indian Removal was those natives that refused to assimilate into the new American nation, the horror, so most left willingly to go West, gaining vast tracks of land and a chance to preserve their way of life.

@kathorsees 4 күн бұрын

@@MarkMcAllister-ni9sf Coping much? You haven't watched the video, or you didn't pay attention. You probably clicked on the video just to leave defensive comments because you don't like the topic. The video literally explains, in painstaking historical detail, how natives were forcibly and violently removed, and how the American government screwed them over and refused to uphold their promises every. step. of. the way. Having to assimilate and lose your culture is, indeed, horrific. Imagine having to tell your children not to speak their mother tongue, in case they get punished in school or beaten by bullies. Bettter yet, imagine having your children taken from you and sent to a boarding school with the explicit purpose of "re-educating" them into "proper protestant Americans". The video provides government documents, letters by officials, and statistics covering this forced indoctrination. You have no choice over history, so anyone who blames you for the sins of your country or your fathers is a moron and a douchebag. However, you do have the choice over your own actions. Choosing to ignore parts of history that show that country or those generations in a bad light is, well, less than honest. It takes some bravery and some heart to admit those things. It was hard for me to admit the sins of my country and my ancestors as well. However, it was well worth it in the end, and it opened my horizons a lot. There is no shame in knowing history, and no such thing as collective responsibility.

@patrickmanasco5905 Күн бұрын

@@candisgoins6306only difference is a clean conscience

@whipwalk Жыл бұрын

Choctaw here. I am descended from the Chief that negotiated the removal of the Choctaw from the ancestral lands. He KNEW if he didn't negotiate, they would all be killed. Thank you for mentioning them. I don't look like my ancestors, but I can still honor them.

@chickensandwich8808 Жыл бұрын

Hey! Half Irish here. My dad's best mate is Choctaw. My Uncle Lenny. Just wanted to say cheers!

@jameswalker9441 Жыл бұрын

probably whiter than i am bro lol

@swagcreated9147 Жыл бұрын

@@jameswalker9441good input

@bobhill9845 Жыл бұрын

Don't see how being related makes you qualified to know that as fact lmao, shit I'm related to Genghis Khan lemme make up some shit and claim it as truth.

@BroznikTSOC Жыл бұрын

@@bobhill9845 or its just a historical piece of information that most of the nation more than likely knows

@cher4u2day 5 ай бұрын

What happened to the native Americans was genocide. (Period!) When I was in high school I had history teachers that taught us the truth about controversial subjects. They were fearless and added books to our curriculum that supported the truth.

@PATRICIAANNPAULK1945 Ай бұрын

Oh wow…you were blessed to have this teacher!

@MariaReyes-wg5zx Ай бұрын

NEVER FORGET WHO ARE THE REAL NATIVES. AHO

@nothanks9503 Ай бұрын

They actually probably had pretty comparable kill counts it was more like a war with asymmetrical technology

@GOOBER42018 28 күн бұрын

@@nothanks9503 it was genocide, you are just a genocide denier

@nothanks9503 28 күн бұрын

@@GOOBER42018 explain

@taoistgrandmasterfranklin4210 6 ай бұрын

I am an indigenous Arawak native. I took the time to watch your video completely, and I was amazed of the amount of information you were able to discern and to dispel some of the lies in the myths about native people. Most non-natives are not interested in the fax order history and see us as invisible people, or someone who is still complaining about the past. They fail to understand the history that we had to endure. When do Europeans came to the west. How they were successful in genocide majority of our indigenous tribes, and the remaining tribes try to assimilate or to denigrate what was left. They robbed us of our history and culture. I know this personally because of the history that I was taught, and how my own culture was left out of that education. I want to tell you thank you for bringing this history and documentary tonight and I hope many more people are able to see it and take the time to understand what had to endure I know that things have not changed. I do appreciate your research and understanding of indigenous people and I hope sometimes you could have a documentary on other tribes outside of the continental United States, such as tribes from the Caribbean and West Indian islands.

@imwatchingy0utube388 3 ай бұрын

The arawak are extinct

@elokin300 2 ай бұрын

@@imwatchingy0utube388 A quick google search says otherwise

@AmCLihigma 2 ай бұрын

@@imwatchingy0utube388 Some groups of Arawak survived. So no, there are most definitely Arawak descendants that are still alive today.

@MariaReyes-wg5zx Ай бұрын

They're a disgusting race for that delusional government and culture.

@yhwhs5284 13 күн бұрын

No accountability for the atrocities these people committed only justification and lies.

@AlternateHistoryHub Жыл бұрын

Two hour Knowing Better video. What a day

@angelo4656 Жыл бұрын

Sup cody

@reyluna0 Жыл бұрын

Hi Cody

@Bigdogreilly Жыл бұрын

the king returns

@jacobmott1944 Жыл бұрын

Cody!

@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 Жыл бұрын

And I'm all here for the 2 hour+ video

@iammrbeat Жыл бұрын

Well done and bravo! We need to tell their stories. We have failed to accurately tell their stories for so long.

@hugo98765 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Beat🤤🤤

@katakana1 Жыл бұрын

@@hugo98765 ...

@roopter-8119 Жыл бұрын

Mr Breast give me money

@nuggets0717 Жыл бұрын

Legends supporting legends

@ojoemojo Жыл бұрын

< mr beat

@efitz1524 8 ай бұрын

There really is a crushing irony that a country with the founding mythology of "helpful natives saved our pilgrim settlers from starving" literally forced the natives to settle out west and refused to help them when they began to starve

@Breadcat-kf4mz 8 ай бұрын

@reneedennis2011 3 ай бұрын

Good point.

@nothanks9503 Ай бұрын

Yeah the US also does that to its own people

@toryquinton2677 20 күн бұрын

If that's a bit like saying because my parents stayed together.I can't get a divorce. The real events represented a fundamental profound and complex culture clash. We're in two very different peoples initially found a way to live and work together but then those differences emerged over time. Did you know, that fences played a critical role is in how. Settlers bought land from Indians And the indians willingly sold land to those settlers. But once the deal wasthose se sutlers having a different concept of landownership put up fences to keep their livestock in and as a boundary To mark for tresspassing. The natives on the other hand who sold that land had a different concept of landownership. If they understood that the land now belonged to someone else But they also believed that implicit in that ownership was the understanding that the natives were still free to come and go across that land. As a result, natives would simply tear down the fence. which was seen as an offense by the settlers. Once the natives were on this land, Trust passing according to the understanding of landownership the settlers had they would then visit the homeowner in a sign of hospitality. But here the natives viewed hospitality as everyone sharing everything together. As a result natives would frequently simply walk in to someone's home and sit down expecting to be fed. This was perfectly normal for the natives but it was seen as a threat by the settler. And indeed would be seen as a threat by Is any Europeans at the time. Thus, we see the first signs of string and small-scale violence that would come to symbolize native. While in many cases what was done to natives did rise to the level of genocide it is also an over simplification to define the entire scope of that history as good indian vs bad American. Let's not forget that in the West.The Apache and the Comanchi were bitter enemies who actively sought each other's extinction. And both tribes in turn siught alliances with, and sought to manipulate first the Spaniards then later the Americans.

@patriciaking7096 3 ай бұрын

I am an enrolled Cherokee and a history professor.. It's great to hear someone discuss U.S. and Indian history in such a contextual, nuanced way. It is a pleasure to tune in to your podcast. You have a new member!

@annoyedbipolar7424 Жыл бұрын

I'm an Ojibwe man living in Minnesota. I thought you did a wonderful job. I have family on both sides of my parents who are native and have unfortunately suffered a large number of the issues you mentioned above. For instance, my grandfather was punched by grown men for speaking in his first language until he spoke with a stutter in English. He was at the beginning of the air force and out of the service, he became a medicine man. That didn't stop the cops from breaking his back because my grandfather wanted to witness the police brutality beating on his drunken brother. Or my grandmother on my mom's side who was removed at birth and was raised in a polish-catholic house with an abusive adopted mother. There are more sad details about both their lives because of this subject but that's a whole lot more writing. Indian tacos were a nice touch that's what I had for my 18th birthday for dinner. You should have mentioned the movie Smoke Signals. It's one of the few native movies for natives by natives.

@AngDevigne Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story and the movie recommendation.

@SeanSMST Жыл бұрын

He did include the film, it's in the description as part of his listed sources.

@NukeNukedEarth Жыл бұрын

The ICWA is going to be reviewed by the supreme court this month as far as I know, which makes me fear for what will happen considering the current supreme court

@jn1211 Жыл бұрын

my heart breaks for your grandpa! it sounds like he endured the residential school era of our genocide. I spend a great deal of time being thankful i didn't experience that form of genocide, and also an equal amount of time wishing i was born earlier so i could have a connection to my people. once the whites realized that it was impossible to remove our culture by forcing us into these barbaric schools[or just forcing us to be white in regular schools], they took to completely removing us from our families and placing us in white homes, and if we pass the paperbag test, we have no idea of our heritage. thus the whites job of eliminating our ability to be native has finally been realized. too bad for them it was too late and they got caught and had to stop. too bad for me that i got raped and tortured in foster care as a small child because of my heritage.

@fatguy6153 Жыл бұрын

The same happened to my Grandmother too, she was taken off her reservation as a child and put through the Christian boarding schools and foster system where she most likely suffered severe abuse. She was an alcoholic most of my Mom’s early life, even though she quit drinking her weakened liver couldn’t handle the stress from being in a wreck and later seeing her husband in critical condition from another wreck. She was very loving and kind, she held the family together and her death hit the family hard, after learning the news my grandfather died soon after. Knowing what happened to her and countless other thousands enrages me. I don’t care what people call it, the US actively practiced genocide and continues to do so against Native Americans, there is no justification. I don’t believe it when people ask me why I have zero pride in this rotten country, it literally robbed, raped, and murdered half of my family just 2 generations ago.

@m.streicher8286 Жыл бұрын

You have no idea the joy I feel seeing a 2 hour knowing better on a historical topic

@rasengan37 Жыл бұрын

Ik! Like I gasp with excitement

@larry_doolan Жыл бұрын

i know i know i love knowing better

@rachel_sj Жыл бұрын

KB has been dropping hints on his Patreon and Twitter on his progress on this video for months now. So happy to finally attend his first KZfaq Documentary premiere; KB is following in Folding Idea’s footsteps! 😊

@dbteepo86 Жыл бұрын

Fr! Saving this one for work tomorrow, can't wait 😀

@jamest6732 Жыл бұрын

Same!!!

@r1e234 6 ай бұрын

i've watched this twice already and i'm watching it again because this deserves to be remembered. old wounds cannot be mended if they were denied and downplayed before just forgotten entirely.

@ghostinsideadream7236 5 ай бұрын

CHEERS!

@MariaReyes-wg5zx Ай бұрын

Don't neglect the decedents. Now labeled immigrants in their own indigenous lands.

@moskaumaster1594 7 ай бұрын

All the people in the comments ranting about he apparently portrayed the Native Americans as pure and good and talking about how they acted violently as some form of gotcha is really funny to me considering he adressed it not even halfway into the video.

@DCPTF2 7 ай бұрын

and yet still spends 2 hours saying, "white man bad, kill all white man"

@moskaumaster1594 7 ай бұрын

@@DCPTF2 You cant take even the slightest criticism can you?

@ryanyesman7664 Жыл бұрын

Can always count on Atun Shei to dictate historical documents in their proper accents in random KZfaq videos

@unclejoeoakland Жыл бұрын

Its what he do...

@clayhackney3514 Жыл бұрын

KNEW it was him lol

@henryefry Жыл бұрын

Checkmate Lincolnites

@danielcarchio2804 Жыл бұрын

Who else’s videos is he in?

@joejoethehff7373 Жыл бұрын

@@danielcarchio2804 KB's "Neoslavery", for one.

@emilybrockschmidt1597 Жыл бұрын

This channel is the definition of quality over quantity.

@Kelly_C Жыл бұрын

I mean no disrespect to KB but like have you seen contrapoints

@charlie7mason Жыл бұрын

@@Kelly_C Could you point us to any of them?

@markusmayer898 Жыл бұрын

@@charlie7mason kzfaq.info

@emilybrockschmidt1597 Жыл бұрын

@@Kelly_C yeah I have but the style of content is different, not to mention contrapoints is far more controversial. Contrapoints spends a lot more time on editing, makeup, lighting, and aesthetics while knowing better puts quite a bit more into research. They are both very high quality but I would say knowing better does it a bit better just because his is more content than optics based.

@ddanenel Жыл бұрын

considering the length of these videos, i’d say quantity applies too

@darrenmeans7973 7 ай бұрын

Russel Means was my uncle. He passed away from cancer a few years back. I see some flaws in the narrative, but for the most part this is very accurate.

@jeffreygao3956 5 ай бұрын

Small world!

@karlar8648 4 ай бұрын

I still listen to his videos. Very wise man he was. He was an activist correct?

@despacito2271 3 ай бұрын

this is such a incredibly well done video as a indigenous living in saskatchewan your conclusion was on fuckin point it really does feel hopeless sometimes thank you for this video

@AvengerAtIlipa Жыл бұрын

I remember reading the memoir of an Apache veteran who served as a tank commander in WW2. He was given his position because everyone assumed that he would be the best at navigating the company through the countryside. And he was the best, but only because he paid attention during the navigation classes and always kept a map on him.

@benyaatzie823 Жыл бұрын

Do you know what the name of the apache veteran was?

@Trihahalos Жыл бұрын

@@benyaatzie823 Yeah, I would read that.

@cg1906 Жыл бұрын

I as well would like to know his name or the name of the memoir

@olgagaming5544 Жыл бұрын

This memoir was called "Running Horse - Memories of Apache Indian tank commander during WW2"

@cg1906 Жыл бұрын

@@olgagaming5544 thank you for sharing and doing your part to spread his story :)

@lordgiraffe Жыл бұрын

Every Knowing Better video is like a condensed college course. It’s so high quality you could sell these videos to education institutions

@zaczane Жыл бұрын

OR if education institutions were smart They’d pay for they’re use….but that might be a bit too forward for them.

@seank2251 Жыл бұрын

thats a lovely thought and KB is quite sharp, but trust me he does not replace an in depth 300 level course in 2 hours

@VanceVanceRevolution Жыл бұрын

I had the same thought! A high school history teacher could probably just show this video in class & it would cover the topic better than any outdated textbook could.

@blindedbliss Жыл бұрын

I would hope it is adapted into the curriculum of at least some schools. Be assigned as voluntary reading in relevant college and university classes.

@Ascend777 Жыл бұрын

Education institutions only buy books from capitalists that republish their material version every year. The ultimate definition of ripoff and poor quality.

@xinniethep00h 5 ай бұрын

I fell asleep watching a video, and woke up to this one playing. All I can say is wow. As a white man, theres little more to say than I’m ashamed of the actions of some of my ancestors. There’s very few videos I can say I’ve genuinely learned from and this one’s at the top. From all the different treaties to the American Indian Movement, there’s so much I had never heard of. Top quality content, and you’ve earned yourself a new subscriber.

@UNITEDNATIONSAREAWESOME 4 ай бұрын

Don’t be ashamed

@stopitnow7762 4 ай бұрын

I liked your comment as a fellow lover of factual information. The other commenter is right: don't be ashamed. Be the type of person who would not stand by while anything like this happened again.

@tomford1080 3 ай бұрын

As a black man I'm here to tell you to never be ashamed!!! You didn't participate and you don't know exactly what your ancestors did or didn't do..this Marxist teacher just has a serious case of white guilt and he intends on spreading it to as many whites as he can..it's sickening! Now MAGA ✊🏿

@dragondagger24 3 ай бұрын

Do the natives feel ashamed of what their ancestors did to other tribes?

@Eat_shit--die_mad 3 ай бұрын

@@stopitnow7762this so still happening so you better get to work then, reservations have the single worst poverty, crime rates, disease, and basically every other metric in the book in the nation. Snow exaggeration to say that most of most reservations are brutal slums. And slow quiet insidious destruction of native culture and lands is still happening. Many advocacy groups are still fighting tooth and nail to keep their lands from being rapidly damaged by logging an oil pipelines, Once again violated the treaties sighted in this video.

@Yonnie2436 7 ай бұрын

My friend was Choctaw, we are from Louisiana.. She explained their history, and I never knew, I appreciate & respect her.. 🕊my friend Melissa

@keaton_ Жыл бұрын

Ojibwe here. I deeply appreciate you doing the deep dive that public school curriculum refuses to even scratch the surface of. I’m a descendant of a residential school survivor, and telling the truth about our stories of colonization across Turtle Island reminds people that we aren’t just past tense ancient peoples. We’re still here. We’re still living the effects of what colonization has done to us. Videos like these prove what Victor says in Smoke Signals, “The cowboys don’t always win.”

@Galimah Жыл бұрын

Is Smoke Signals a good movie?

@keaton_ Жыл бұрын

@@Galimah One of my favorites! It’s a gorgeous story about grief, growing up on the rez, and childhood trauma. It weaves a story in the only way natives know how - laughter.

@whenisdinner2137 Жыл бұрын

I've always wondered why people call what is now known as North America, Turtle Island because it isn't an island.

@keaton_ Жыл бұрын

@@whenisdinner2137 I’m glad you’re curious! So, some indigenous nations refer to it as Turtle Island because many of us share an origin story of the world existing on top of a turtle’s back - North America essentially being the turtle’s shell and the rest of the world being the turtle’s body. While it’s not technically an island, you have to consider the limitations of geographical understanding at the time this origin story was crafted. It’s kind of like thinking about the biblical “Great Flood” in the Noah story claiming it covered the world. It didn’t cover the whole world - just the “world” within the parameters of what those people knew.

@nonokodog622 Жыл бұрын

What a bunch of horse shit. Native Americans were a stone age people. When the Europeans arrived they got wasted. That's life. My ancestors came to the US long after that was over. They were wasted by the Ottomans and Muslims. I don't cry about it. If the Spanish hadn't come your people wouldn't even have had horses, just dogs. You'd live to about 50 years old then die.

@RingsOfSolace Жыл бұрын

Imagine making a two and a half hour documentary for literally hundreds of thousands to half a million people to view in less than a week. That's part of why I love your channel, you put it out there and no one does it like you.

@jeffk464 Жыл бұрын

And somebody posts a funny cat video and gets 10 million views.

@Yertle_Turtle Жыл бұрын

Ah, now that I've watched more of the video, I see that the Point of View is entirely from the Modern American. No consideration is given to the Point of View of the annihilated American human beings, 90% of them being infected because of the white genocidal invaders and us, their inheriting descendants. Wow, so good that we don't have to look closely at the Othered alien people, eh?

@CTimmerman Жыл бұрын

@@jeffk464 Because cat videos are shorter and more relatable than yet another list of massacres in the parts of the holy books most people skip.

@drzoidnilsson73 Жыл бұрын

@@jeffk464 😀First, using cats is generally considered cheating already since 1990ties lolcat epidemic Second, 🤔let's change the metrics from views to view time. View time 2½ h * views = a lot of minutes. This vs my cat tipping over my beer onto my keyboard and me using horrible language when i get annoyed is 40s * views = a lot of minutes too, but maybe less than the long non-cat related video(?)

@ChungusTheLarge Жыл бұрын

See the hill, take the hill

@bettyricker9781 5 ай бұрын

There's also a book written by Ron Papandrea called "They never surrendered " the sioux who stayed in Canada. Its about my grandma's family and others who stayed up there after sitting bull and my great x3 grandfather Chief Blackmoon came back down to the united states! And my grandfather who gave the detailed account of Wounded Knee and survived its name was Paul Highback. His father was choef blackmoon.

@ArachnaeFae 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for such an in depth video on Native Americans. I am one who has always seen Hollywood is usually separate from reality. I learned much about Native Americans from Indian friends and my dad who grew up in Eastern Utah mining camps and had many Ute friends. Dad made a bead loom for me and taught me how to do bead weavings. I was always obsessed with Native Americans and in college took the Native American Experience course taught by a Native American studies BYU graduate who was from the Mori people of New Zealand. The course was taught from a Native American prospective. Unfortunately, from what I had learned I was becoming embarrassed about being American when I was around Indians. Then one day I got my DNA results. I had had my DNA done in hopes of finding my DNA family. I had been in a secretive, closed adoption. I had Irish, Dutch, German, and Norwegian, French, and Danish on my non-identifying information, there was no mention of Native American, go figure. My DNA results told me I had Native American blood. I matched with a half-sister that led me to my DNA dad's line. All of my parents and aunts and uncles had passed when I got my results. My DNA dad was registered with the Little Shell tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. He had passed away just a few years before the tribe got Federal recognition.

@angelawossname 7 ай бұрын

Indigenous New Zealanders are called Maori. My son has a friend who is Maori, he came to visit for a couple of weeks in 2021 and got stuck here for 7 months because of the travel ban. He built a fire pit in our backyard. My maternal grandmother was Indigenous Australian, Kuarna mob. Our culture is very different from Indigenous Americans, but we have very similar shared experiences.

@joecamel6196 5 ай бұрын

Our Prophet Joseph Smith advocated Mormons (who were already married with polygamous White wives) to marry Indian women to make Indians become "White and Delightsome." Mormons like bushwacker Porter Rockwell traded and gave whiskey to Indians and put them up to killing none-Mormons. Black Hawk & his tribe was treated and murdered by Mormons and he fought back in the "Black Hawk War." :.

@isaacbunsen5833 Жыл бұрын

I recall going on a mission trip to a reservation back in youth group when I was still pretending to be christian. There was a native American man giving a presentation to a large number of visiting kids and I remember him saying in reference to a local mountain "There's gold in that mountain. Don't tell the US government.". I'm realizing now that that was probably a grim joke that he knew none of us would get.

@TheSpecialJ11 Жыл бұрын

What's crazy to me is before the invention of electronics, gold was practically worthless in of itself and only treasured because it was treasured. Thousands of people (millions if we're talking across the globe) suffered because they happened to be between powerful people and shiny rocks.

@phoebexxlouise Жыл бұрын

I feel like there's a lot more to this story!

@hund7458 Жыл бұрын

@@phoebexxlouise in what way?

@oliviamonteque6407 Жыл бұрын

@@phoebexxlouise Thus proves to me that many white people were the real savages and barbarians that they had the nerves to call any other people of colour.

@oliviamonteque6407 Жыл бұрын

It is time they get the havest they sowed.

@BaseballsNotDead Жыл бұрын

One of the worst mascot situations is in Jackson, Missouri. I lived there for 4 years and the city is named after Andrew Jackson and is located 6 miles from the Trail of Tears state park. There's a big watertower near the highway that says "Welcome to Jackson" with a picture of Andrew Jackson... and right below that it says "Home of the Indians." Yep, a town named after Andrew Jackson, one of the main people responsible for Indian relocation and an area that the Trail of Tears went right though, decided to name their high school team the Indians.

@OutdoorLonghair Жыл бұрын

I really hope that some day we can get through the plethora of location names that need to be changed.

@savagecomanche Жыл бұрын

There's also a school in Tecumseh Oklahoma named the savages

@pamparker4047 Жыл бұрын

Sickening

@Soundbrigade Жыл бұрын

There’s a hockey team in Gothenburg, Sweden (in the Highest league) called Frölunda Indians, but I think the reconsidered and either will or have changed their name. Yepp, the stopped using that name in Sep 2021.

@calebcostigan2561 Жыл бұрын

@@OutdoorLonghair right right. School shootings are so commonplace now that we just go through the motions when we hear of a new one, BUT my town is named after a president that did terrible things 200 years ago. 🙄 Wake up people. Stop letting the parts of our countries history that are terrible divide us even further. Believe it or not many citizens of the US have looked back on our history and privately dealt with it. Of course when you do something quietly and sensibly you don’t get to look like an activist online -which is more important than anything else in our culture currently.

@sunsetheart23 7 ай бұрын

They need to teach these truths in our education systems. From elementary to doctoral degrees. It is way past due. Thank you for dedicating your time to researching and sharing your knowledge.

@user-hb7py7xy7b 6 ай бұрын

Why? What purpose would it serve?

@jeffreygao3956 5 ай бұрын

@@user-hb7py7xy7b The same purpose as what De-nazification did in the Federal Republic.

@user-hb7py7xy7b 5 ай бұрын

@@jeffreygao3956 will you teach modern indians that slavery and human sacrifices are wrong?

@jeffreygao3956 5 ай бұрын

@@user-hb7py7xy7b They already know and besides, I'm not the one promoting the BS plugged by Schoolhouse Rock!

@angeloluna529 4 ай бұрын

@@jeffreygao3956denazification is pretty short to do, 600+ years about Indian American history will take longer, might as well create 13th and 14th grade for high school just for this subject alone.

@joannayeung3705 3 ай бұрын

I managed to sit through your entire video. Thank you ever so much. I'm an ethnic minority historian from London. I recently came back from a road trip from Iowa to Lake Superior. My friend told me about the Indian reservation and casions. I didn't know what he meant, but through this video. I understand now. It is a full new world of history knowledge for me. It is not only interesting. It is so respectful and considerate of minority history which get forgotten and twisted. On the behalf of all minority historians and researchers all over the world. Thank you for being so respectful and standing on the side of the suppressed. I also admire your knowledge and representation skills. Your students will be blessed and be more sound in critical thinking and historical enquiry skills 🙏 I salute to you.

@Ith4qua Жыл бұрын

Keep teaching. You're better than anyone I ever had in school.

@locantora Жыл бұрын

I love my old history teacher because despite being an ex marine and teaching in Florida, he told us that stuff we did was messed up, he told us how it was messed up, and he wouldn’t sugar coat anything or try to make America seem like the good guys.

@Animiel1 Жыл бұрын

I think that an important part of growing up is acknowledge that your country/ancestors did something messed up at some point, try to be aware of the consequences of it in the present and stay vigilant for the future for similar messed up things be done again by yours or other's country

@JDoe-gf5oz Жыл бұрын

We?

@harxist Жыл бұрын

@@JDoe-gf5oz Yeah?

@JDoe-gf5oz Жыл бұрын

@@harxist sure?

@SuperDaveP270 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite history teachers was American Indian, and that made all the difference! He was constantly being harassed by the community for teaching "lies" to the children but that made me want even more to learn everything he could throw at us. I still have the copy of Black Elk Speaks that he gave to me in 1986. He said that one of the most important lessons about that book was when it was written, 1932. At the time I was in that class, he said "This was only a little over 50 years ago. A man who had been at Wounded Knee. It is not ancient history."

@torrentmurthy7383 2 ай бұрын

This was so informative. Thank you for putting this together.

@blueoak116 4 ай бұрын

Exceptionally well done. Nice narrative style. Thanks.

@KnowingBetter Жыл бұрын

I hope you all enjoy this feature-length film. Be on the lookout for the several follow ups! Small corrections: 6:59 Pocahontas had many names. Among her own people, she was primarily known as Matoaka. 1:32:23 While Truman did begin the policy of termination, he did not sign PL280, that was Eisenhower. 1:37:04 I accidentally colored in Sri Lanka as part of India.

@headsinger Жыл бұрын

Thank you for gritting this one out. I am excited to sit and watch this one tonight.

@nicholaskroop6107 Жыл бұрын

in a 2 1/2 hr film and there's only 2 small mistakes i would say u did a pretty damn good job man

@joenathane Жыл бұрын

Always great to see a new video from you!

@luxvult5202 Жыл бұрын

4:30 you say that none of these terms are disrespectful, some of them are, in fact. In our entire continent. Unless you are one of these guys that use the N word because you have "some black friends", then, it's even worse.

@burgertime4994 Жыл бұрын

One helluva title

@Vuosta Жыл бұрын

"Take the child and destroy the Indian within him to save the man" As a Sami this is so scarily relatable. My grandparents all went through this exact process. Indigenous peoples really all face the same struggle, though indigenous north americans certainly had it worse than we did.

@Vuosta Жыл бұрын

And again we also have special rights to the land that doesn't extend to Norwegians which also pisses them off just like in Minnesota (not sure about Sweden and Finland, definitely not the case in Russia though). Sometimes this is just like looking in a mirror.

@axlr1029 Жыл бұрын

The parallels between what happened to the Sami in Scandinavia and what we did to the American Indians here are surreal, and then you have people who make embarrassing takes about how it couldn't possibly be anything that bad because the Sami are superficially white.

@frenchguitarguy1091 Жыл бұрын

@@jakobinobles3263 they are north Scandinavia, mostly within Sweden, most culturally similar to Fins. They have been slowly and often brutally suppressed. The same story across much of Europe, in different flavours- Karelians, Basques, Celts, Tartars and many more over history. The strategies are different, altogether not as brutal as America's, but still as suppressive.

@konayasai Жыл бұрын

@@Vuosta Could you expand on Sami conditions in Russia?

@teslashark Жыл бұрын

@@Vuosta Special rights to the land seems to be a shared point between ethnic discourse in many countries, Americans will say Indian casinos are a great benefit and Chinese Internet have many similar complains about supposedly beneficial minority land rights.

@BreadAccountant 6 ай бұрын

I couldn't make it through the video in one sitting because I had class. Was very tempted to skip the class or to watch it in it. Really great video. Eye opening stuff. Thanks for all of the educational content. Cheers from Ireland :)

@injusticeanywherethreatens4810 8 ай бұрын

Also I have got to say that the music in this video was amazing. I really liked the use of the banjo in the background.

@Marcai Жыл бұрын

I'm not even American so all of this is literally foreign to me, but it was fascinating. I genuinely didn't know the surviving Indian nations were actual *nations*, or even that they did still exist as legal entities beyond what I assumed were more akin to local councils for specific regions of the US. Massive thanks for putting this all together!

@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын

Key word is “surviving” Obviously most of them weren’t fortunate enough/allowed to reach this ambivalent degree of sovereignty

@manifesttruth7645 Жыл бұрын

To be honest, I’m an American, who was sheltered for a very long time, and I didn’t even know this was the case. It’s things like this that have completely changed and altered my view on the country I was born in. This isn’t my land. This land belongs to the people who were here first. No one can change my mind about that

@spyrofrost9158 Жыл бұрын

@@manifesttruth7645 Then leave.

@cGoryeo Жыл бұрын

@@spyrofrost9158 no u

@artemisentreri-isaacs3059 Жыл бұрын

Most Americans aren’t aware of this stuff either, so it is just as foreign to them.

@GanzotheSecond Жыл бұрын

When I was in high school I went on a service project to the Navajo reservation in Arizona, and it was a really eye opening experience. It felt like going to a third world county. No running water in the house, electricity from a gas generator, outhouses, the nearest hospital or grocery store was hours away, and this was in 2019. Not long after in my US history class when we briefly talked about native Americans my teacher made it sound like we had given them all this land and money and that life was good for them. When I argued against that with actual first hand experiences of the way they have been forced to live, his response was “well that’s not in the textbook”.

@cielonehellofaservicedog4648 Жыл бұрын

it tells you how little reading your "teacher" did before actually teaching the subject...

@Justanotherconsumer Жыл бұрын

@@cielonehellofaservicedog4648 they can’t know everything an out everything. Teachers are mostly skilled in conveying information, and at the primary and secondary level teaching (and managing) kids is hard enough. They have very little license to go beyond the textbook anyway. Generally not until college that you run into teachers that are actually experts in the subject. Unfortunately many of them are anything but experts in teaching.

@spookdeville7916 Жыл бұрын

Bruh you saw it with your own eyes and the best that mf could say was "that's not in the textbook" . Well duh white people who wrote the book ain't finna tell the whole TRUTH 🤣 I would have had fun in that class. I've gotten ISS in history class for many reasons.

@adamprice3466 Жыл бұрын

tbf before the evil colonizers came they had no running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no hospitals, no grocery stores so it's not like it's like they had all this stuff then colonizers came and took it all away.

@spookdeville7916 Жыл бұрын

@@adamprice3466 they didn't need or ask for that.

@lisadoes 4 ай бұрын

This was amazing. I learned so much from you!

@PheasantIndianJames 4 ай бұрын

Your research ability is superb. Thank you.

@Bluedog92403 Жыл бұрын

As a Navajo, I thank you for shining the light on the United States' true history when it comes to the topic of Native Americans. But I also like to point out that the fight to defend ourselves isn't over not even by a long shot. Especially concerning the fact that the Supreme Court is currently undergoing preparations to hear the Brackeen v. Haaland case, that is challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act and it's a huge deal for us, especially concerning the fact that it's not just deciding the fate of Native American children for generations to come. But it's also challenging Tribal Sovereignty and if the Supreme Court declares ICWA to be unconstitutional combined with the political climate we're in right now we're afraid that it will set off a domino effect that will result in the total annihilation of Tribal Sovereignty. And thanks to the six republican aligned justices making up the majority in the Supreme Court there's a chance it may happen and if it does then dark days shall be upon on all Native Americans.

@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын

Also the western states right now are specifically working on how to screw the Navajo nation out of it's access to Colorado river water. Since it's running low and changing how water is used by corporate farming conglomerates is spooky Communism.

@tshred666 Жыл бұрын

I’m curious, how does citizenship work for natives who are born and live on reservations? Growing up, I had a few friends who were Cahuilla, but because of how land apportionment works between the state of California and the band of Cahuilla Indians and how the tribes use their land, most tribal members are born and live exclusively on California soil, so they’re seen as citizens by default. Is it different for tribes that are stuck on the rez?

@WithScienceAsMySheperd Жыл бұрын

the term is autochton for all tribes like yours, peace! to all autochtons and metis across the planet, each country has autochton people, not many were imnvaded by colons like in north america

@Bluedog92403 Жыл бұрын

@@Praisethesunson I'm also aware of that, in fact just recently the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases concerning that exact same issue Department of the interior v. Navajo Nation and Arizona v. Navajo Nation both are connected to one another. And this is also a big issue because thirty percent of the residents don't have running water. And sheep herding makes up a large portion of the Navajo Nation's economy, they're dependent on that. And plus the sheep has an important role in Navajo culture they're sacred to us, like how the buffalo is sacred to the tribes of the plains or how sacred the horse is to the Commanche. The Navajo Nation has been demanding equal access to running water for decades but everytime when we demand equal access to water our voices are ignored and now this issue to going up straight to the Supreme Court all because some angry corporate farmers can't handle us having access to water and that's bs at least they have running water while the Navajo doesn't. We need water to live but they say no because they want to use that water, to water up some fancy grass that takes up too much of it so they can feed it to their cattle. And if the Supreme Court rules on their side that means goodbye water and hello major drought for the Navajo Nation.

@annoyedbipolar7424 Жыл бұрын

@@tshred666 As far as I can tell it's the state that surrounds the reservation. However, the reservation despite being in one or more counties functions as its own county and micro-state to the US. (For instance, Red Lake Reservation has recreational cannabis while the state of Minnesota does not. In addition, many reservations elect their own sheriff but many need to contract an outside agency.)

@HamiltonMechanical Жыл бұрын

Damn. That was an Intense video my friend. I'm 37 years old. Born in 1985. Raised in a fairly good school system. I learned more in the last 2 hours than I did my entire 12 years of school. My head hurts now.

@KnowingBetter Жыл бұрын

Please lay down and drink lots of water. You may experience dizziness for the next 48-72 hours.

@HamiltonMechanical Жыл бұрын

@@KnowingBetter In all seriousness, thank you.

@newworldorderresistancemil5066 Жыл бұрын

Indians are fake, there weren't any. An arrow tipped with a flint arrowhead shot from a primitive handmade bow would bounce off of a buffalo, and how did they hunt the buffalo before the white man brought horses to America, did they chase down the buffalo on foot? Lol, get real.

@kristincox4041 Жыл бұрын

As someone who was born in 1984, I second this. Though my heart hurts more than my head.

@JenkemSuperfan Жыл бұрын

By design, of course. Conservatives are all about facts until they're inconvenient

@rascum211 4 ай бұрын

This is brilliant! Thank you.

@TacticalAnt420 8 ай бұрын

11:10 in French, we call this war “La guerre de conquête” (the conquest war). Never heard of the English version before today.

@pminko7296 Жыл бұрын

thank you for covering topics like these, KB i'm chickasaw / chikasha. too many see us as in the past, as historical figures. my grandpa went through brutal whitewashing in board schools, my mom participated in AIM / civ. rights. i'm 19. it's simply not as distant as it seems. - masali

@terminallyonline5296 Жыл бұрын

There are Indigenous people in the present and there are Indigenous people in the future! (Justice for Leonard Peltier)

@AzngameFreak03 Жыл бұрын

Natives are still standing. Respect to your strength.

@DarthDracvla Жыл бұрын

A fellow Chickasaha, chokma!

@pminko7296 Жыл бұрын

@@DarthDracvlaahhh nukfi! holito 😄

@rbtjgonzalez Жыл бұрын

Thank you for another educational video. i knew a small part of what you talked about but you filled in the missing pieces and helped me get a better overall understanding of the history and the problem. Good work!

@theCodyReeder Жыл бұрын

Perfect to listen to on tonight’s long drive.

@matthewbarba3166 Жыл бұрын

Hey Cody!

@UsenameTakenWasTaken Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah, man.

@stirlingshade Жыл бұрын

Subbed cuz by the looks of it you got sum interesting stuff on yer channel I wanna check out at a later date. Would check it out now if I could but I'm about to hop off the phone for the rest of the day.

@tacidian7573 Жыл бұрын

Hope you had a pleasant drive, sir.

@colbaltcolbalt8824 Жыл бұрын

Wow, can't believe I watch the same channel as Cody's Lab

@reneedennis2011 3 ай бұрын

Great, informative video! Thank you for this! Subscribed.

@andydechamplain 7 ай бұрын

Amazingly well done. Thanks for this.

@jonathancombs3209 Жыл бұрын

I've always found it interesting as a Midwesterner how often we love to name our towns and rivers after the tribes that once lived there. I live in Indiana, "Land of Indians" and we don't have a single reservation in the entire state.....

@somethingelse4424 Жыл бұрын

I have to admit, I used to think the controversy of using Indian names for sports teams and such was overblown. I'm from Peoria, (named after the tribe) Illinois (named after the Illini indians), and the mascot for U of I is or was Chief Illiniwik (not sure if it still is). Anyway, having been given the the full story in one sitting, it seems incredibly disrespectful to systematically destroy a people and then name things after them as if it's all in good fun. Even if it's meant as a tribute (I doubt it), it's still pretty terrible. I had some awareness of the massacres and systemic displacement from public school, but the full impact gets diluted and portrayed as a necessarily evil.

@incoldblood975 Жыл бұрын

I recognize Atun Shei as the accent for the British soldier writing about the small pox blankets. I love that you two collaborate. You're both 2 of my favorite history KZfaqrs.

@peterobinson3678 Жыл бұрын

yep, his latest vid is up next. Today is a good day to youtube.

@GregoryBarton 4 ай бұрын

I'm commenting because I finished the video, after a couple watches, and this was incredibly informative and interesting! Thanks KB!

@elizabethhutton8189 7 ай бұрын

Thanks. That was so informative!❤️

@dryroasted5599 Жыл бұрын

I watch this channel because every time you challenge my preconceived notions and make me really think. This one hit especially close for me. I grew up at the tail-end of the baby- boomer generation and considered myself culturally enlightened because I thought I had rejected my parent's stereotypes. When I was in the military in the 80s, I was stationed at a small outpost completely enclosed by a reservation in Washington State. Dating opportunities were few, and I fell in love with and married an Indian girl (despite several entreaties not to by older, wiser friends.) Almost immediately, I received orders to a base in the L. A. area, and the move and adjustment were difficult for both of us, but especially for her. She was incredibly homesick and lost in the big city, and I couldn't help her because I was busy in my new job. She also disturbed me when she told me of portents in the natural environment that were meaningless to me, but held significant import to her. She would hide in our apartment all day until I came home from work, and then want me to take her out for entertainment or just shopping. I was a city kid, and couldn't understand why she was unable to adjust. There were so many things about her life I didn't understand. I sent her home more than once to visit, but things would be the same when she returned. Things deteriorated to the place where it was impacting my performance at work, and I finally asked for and received a release from my contract. She wanted us to return to the reservation and live, but I knew it would be hard for me to find work and support a family there. I broke her heart when I left her and divorced later. It has always been my deepest regret that I couldn't make it work between us. My military career was destroyed, and her life was never the same. I personally witnessed all of the things you said about kids and families on the rez. It's a horrible life for most, but it's all they know, and they cling to it desperately. The stat you gave for life expectancy on Pine Ridge made me cry. You told me more in two hours about how the reservation system came to be than I had learned in a lifetime. Thank you for deepening my understanding. By the way, the image you used for the Hotchkiss gun was the 37mm rotary cannon, sold to governments in Europe, but not the US. The US cavalry used a 42mm single barrel, light enough to be hauled by mules, but still a potent weapon.

@jendelreavis358 Жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@K3end0 Жыл бұрын

@@jendelreavis358 ...

@esotericpince Жыл бұрын

this is a really nice comment. thanks for sharing :). also, i love the juxtaposition of a heartfelt story with a correction on the type of gun at the end.

@SpeakerWiggin49 Жыл бұрын

The human impact is astounding. Being unable to adjust is a hallmark of oppression. It seems you regret not knowing more and being there emotionally for your ex wife.

@phyn9665 Жыл бұрын

@@jendelreavis358 why would you say this?

@mercuryatamolos3687 Жыл бұрын

“25% of Indian children were adopted out of their birth families.” “Adopted out” is a funny euphemism there used to describe literal kidnapping

@JDoe-gf5oz Жыл бұрын

Not always. My mom was adopted out because her mom was an alcoholic with several kids and later met a bad end. Her life is infinitely better for it.

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Жыл бұрын

@@JDoe-gf5oz alcohol from Europe

@faberofwillandmight Жыл бұрын

Many Native American tribes are still some of the poorest, regressive, and crime ridden places in the US. There are bound to be many adoptions.

@GoblinMode3004 Жыл бұрын

Yes. Article II: Section E of "The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide", which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 after the events of WWII, states, "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." By our metric today this act alone, all other acts notwithstanding, constitutes the United States committing real, literal genocide upon native peoples. That isn't even acknowledging the much more egregious violations they've committed. But hey, if it happened before they made it illegal is it really genocide? /s

@JallyJam Жыл бұрын

@@faberofwillandmight shouldnt that morbidly make you happy? it proves that ethno states arent functional. Yes native reservations are ethno states and should be dissolved.

@naMnivraM 5 ай бұрын

My mother is Onieda from the Six Nations Reserve in Canada. She married a white man and had me. I'm proud to be half Indigenous, but the fact I don't speak any languages and I grew up in a city hurts me inside. Im sad that my culture has been watered down so much. She was asked to teach languages years ago, as a few of the languages are dying out. She speaks Cayuga and Mohawk and Ive heard that there are not many left that speak these and they are at risk of extinction. This video has me tearing up and I'm only a little over halfway through. It really is essential that people know what happened and why things are they way they are. Some good people have very little knowledge of these issues and have come to conclusions and perspectives that are negative about Indigenous people. If they knew the whole story perhaps they would be more empathetic. Its a tragedy the way Indigenous people have been treated and the current state of Reserves and Reservations are a direct result of all the broken promises and mistreatment administered by the descendants of the very people that dont understand why things are the way they are. The payments were agreed upon years ago and now people see it as a handout despite it being a forgotten deal made years ago by their ancestors to take as much as possible from a people who had already given everything. This is a brutal, sad reality that is almost lost to the average North American. Canadian or American. Both countries did their share of exploitation. 😔

@DieNextInLINE 5 ай бұрын

I think this videos title hits so hard. Because despite 'they were just in the way' being a completely bullshit copout, it's also a moral condemnation of what we did. We removed a people because, to us, they were simply 'in the way'. We should remember that. Edit: Also, IIRC, the man who refused to give up his rifle at Wounded Knee was, allegedly, deaf and the gun went off after a soldier had grabbed him from behind. There's also some context around the ghost dance that I can't specifically recall but I remember this time being especially harsh for them. The conditions and ability to survive had become so dire for their people that they literally believed there was nothing that could save them from death but an actual miracle.

@oliverm2166 Жыл бұрын

I feel like ever since your Mormonism video, and then again with your neoslavery video, you've raised the bar for yourself and have tried your hardest to make only the best videos. It's paying off, love to see an upload from you!

@Faust1169 Жыл бұрын

I've seen this style pre-trump/early trump. Vocal style. Also i'm sure he got the quantum word from someone else.

@drunkenhobo64 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing seeing an educator that I highly respect take the time to talk about this. This Navajo guy salutes you and pours one out for the minefield you have just put yourself into.

@manuelalejandrolopezrodrig3786 Жыл бұрын

Ay least you got a Sense of humor with that user name

@MelonHead78 11 ай бұрын

It’s a popular opinion he has not put himself in danger.

@thelistener9196 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this truthful tutorial. I am 1/2 Cherokee and never had truthful history in school. Thank you again.

@homegrown1015 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the great dive into Native American Indian history. The facts presented were absolutely not taught in school. I very much enjoyed your presentation and look forward to more history lessons. BTY, I enjoyed a peek at your ferrets. We raised three of those entertaining creatures, so I know you are enjoying them as well.

@mattgeczy3687 Жыл бұрын

As a fellow history teacher, I’m proud to say I’ve long since abandoned the Standard American History Myth(tm) and give the students a more truthful record of our history. This video actually comes out just a few days after I taught about many of the events mentioned here!

@xandercruz900 Жыл бұрын

> I’ve long since abandoned the Standard American History Myth(tm) and give the students a more truthful record of our history And replaced it with the myth of the innocent Indians that loved each other and the earth, and were victums....sure. Skipping over the Aztec imperial domination of Central America, Inca overloardship of the Andes, wars between N. American tribes, and their participation in black slavery. Not to mention Indian clear-cutting of forest in the NE, and their burning of trees in the west to stampede animals so they could hunt them more efficiently. How "proud" you must be.

@emmaarmo379 Жыл бұрын

@Xander Cruz that’s a nice strawman! but please, stick to your containment boards on 4chan

@xandercruz900 Жыл бұрын

@@emmaarmo379 Call it whatever term you learned from Reddit all you want, but it isnt a lie, Emma. I can even toss in their participation in the owning of black slaves. But I guess that is just more "strawmanning".

@emmaarmo379 Жыл бұрын

@Xander Cruz the strawman is you assuming in your reply that Matt is teaching an extremely sanitized version of history without any evidence to back up that assumption. what in his post, or in this video led you to believe that he is teaching these things to his student? you jumped down his throat with nothing to go off of save your own biases. i never claimed you were lying, i mean you are misrepresenting matt’s position. perhaps in the future, you should look up terms you don’t know or understand like ‘strawman’ instead of replying immediately? 😂

@afdhalulakbar5382 Жыл бұрын

@@xandercruz900 lmao strawman fallacy

@-_Dawg_- Жыл бұрын

I'm a quarter Klamath, so technically able to be a member if I wanted to. But the mentality of getting off the reservation, and termination really struck a chord with me. My grandfather was adopted out to a white family. He had no knowledge of where he came from. And died after Vietnam, so I didn't even get to meet him. But I'm glad you were able to give some history to me of my ancestors. In a weird way, I found solace through this video.

@-_Dawg_- Жыл бұрын

@@Jason-hg1pc well, my family knew my grandfather was native American, but we never knew which tribe he was from, we all only learned of this, recently. And so, I barely know anything about native American culture or history. I didn't even know what a pow wow was until this video. So I guess I'll have to do more research

@BigDaddyCruz Жыл бұрын

Klamaths are good peoples. Good buddies there and enjoyed hunting on "federal" lands before the tribe got it back. Just go there see wtf is up if you ever get a chance. *Edit Wow... Just tried googling one of my buddies I haven't seen in a while and he passed away from cancer. Life is short see what you can while you have a chance.

@-_Dawg_- Жыл бұрын

@Dave Firewalker yeah a quarter. Sorry my mom got the 1/2, should've been born before her ig.

@-_Dawg_- Жыл бұрын

@@Jason-hg1pc and thank you man, like you said, I'm trying to regrow some roots. Even if it's not my full history, just like in this video, I want to preserve it, and not have it erased. I'll check the book out man. Thank you.

@heretichazel Жыл бұрын

Oh hey, I live in northern CA so Klamath is quite a common name to me

@LoveyK 6 ай бұрын

This was excellent! But let me dispel a few myths everyone needs to get over. 1) *Indians did not depend solely on the Buffalo for food.* If they did they would have died off from malnutrition and starvation a long time ago. The Buffalo was a food and material source along with deer, elk, fish, cattle and fowl they raised, fruit, nuts, grains and vegetables they grew themselves, etc., etc. Quannah Parker was a Quahadi (Antelope Eater) Comanche. Other Comanche Bands were Penatekas (The Honey Eaters), Kotsoteka (Buffalo Eaters), Yamparika (Root Eaters), and The Nokohi (Wanderers). 2) *The Comanche do not have a reservation.* Quanah Parker rejected the reservation system once he saw other tribes falling into despair. The directive for his people was put into one word: “Assimilate”. He emphasized education as vital to the Comanche’s survival. After they surrendered in 1924 the treaty he negotiated allotted 160 acres to each tribal member and Comanche children attended local public schools along with whites. He went on to pal around with President Teddy Roosevelt and even made a silent film about a bank robbery with Burke Burnett. 3) *Indian Schools required children to speak English for safety.* If there was an emergency such as a fire or tornado the staff could give instructions in English instead of 15 different languages and dialects. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the model for other Indian Schools. It eventually became more of a reformatory and orphanage than a place of education. It closed in 1918. 4) *Comanches, like most Indians, are Christians.* The Spanish came to the Americas with a mission to conquer and convert and they did. 5) *’Empire of the Summer Moon’* is a novel based on historical events. S.C.Gwynne never interviewed a single Comanche or reviewed any family documents. He is not a historian. _When the Comanche decide to rewrite their history they will write it themselves._ 6)*Native Americans call themselves “The People” in their respective languages. In English they call themselves Indians, pronounced “Indin”. THANK YOU

@MovieMajorMarvin Ай бұрын

You did such a good job man. To be remembered for absolutely anything at all is what keeps a spirit alive.

@stephenjansen9475 Жыл бұрын

I find myself deeply moved after watching your video. I am a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe but I never lived there. Raised by a suburban white family, none of this was taught to me. It took me 30 years of research just to learn who I was. What you are doing is POWERFUL. Thanks

@alexanderchenf1 Жыл бұрын

Good luck, Chief. Go teach those suburban whites a lesson!

@thaevildoer 11 ай бұрын

paiute here , peace 2 rosebud

@leemeyer886 10 ай бұрын

How long did you live with your nation?

@projectpat2262 9 ай бұрын

Stop lyin

@SoCalifornia 8 ай бұрын

You're a black man stop telling lies!

@janrudzki5651 Жыл бұрын

As a European who has never been taught the standard American History myth formally, I am terrified by the fact that I had basically believed it. Before discovering your channel I had pretty much believed all the same lies and half truths that are taught. Thank you for helping me to, well, Know Better one video at a time!

@WithScienceAsMySheperd Жыл бұрын

autochton is the correcty word, i'm sad that knowing better doesnt know the correct term... and he's an educated person on the subject! imagine!

@lizardlegend42 Жыл бұрын

@@WithScienceAsMySheperd I'm sorry what is this in regards to? I don't see how this follows from the comment you replied to?

@Polopony20. Жыл бұрын

@@lizardlegend42 ignore them, they've been going around to every comment babbling incoherence.

@TheJasonmanguy Жыл бұрын

@@lizardlegend42 He has been going around telling people to say Autochthon American instead of Native because he’s hoping it makes it seem cool and progressive. Just virtue signaling, nothing else.

@anonymousanonymous4690 Жыл бұрын

@@TheJasonmanguy autochton American sounds like indigenous transformers tribes

@Andrethealchemist999 6 ай бұрын

As a 25% Ojibwe native , I listen to this with welling tears and a sore throat as I hold the tears while at my carpentry job. Thank you for reporting the truth for those who don’t have the time or resources but are deeply curious.

@seeyounextwednesday7451 3 күн бұрын

This video was really informative. You’ve definitely taught me a lot. Keep it up man.

@dylana4088 Жыл бұрын

I live in Tacoma, Washington, pretty close to one of the larger reservations in my area, the Puyallup Reservation. I just got to the part of the video where you talked about the Dawes Act, and that immediately made me think of the Puyallup because they lost control of almost all of their reservation as a result of the Dawes Act, and land being taken by the State and neighboring cities. In the 1930s the Puyallup only controlled 33 acres of land out of their 18,000 acre reservation. They’ve regained control of more of their reservation today through negotiations and lawsuits, but the damage was for the most part already done. Almost all of the Puyallup Reservation has been developed, and now it’s covered in farms, warehouses, white/non-native neighborhoods, a giant oil refinery, and it’s home to one of the largest ports on the west coast. There are hardly any natural areas or any preserved land left. Almost 43,000 people live in the Puyallup Reservation, yet less than 3,000 are actually members of the Puyallup tribe.

@dylana4088 Жыл бұрын

Ah I made a mistake, the population of the Puyallup Reservation is actually about 53,000

@justinwatson1510 Жыл бұрын

If you think that's wrong and would like things to change, please consider joining a group like Socialist Alternative or PSL. We are weak alone, and supporting liberals will only make things worse. Our only shot at a better world will come through communist revolution.

@ytsks Жыл бұрын

@@justinwatson1510 LMAO communism is a curse that has killed, and continues to kill more people than any other regime in history, including religion, which says a lot. Get educated before you continue to embarrass yourself publicly with your "communist revolution".

@tylerf.145 Жыл бұрын

Similar situation with the Yakama Nation :(

@youcanthandlethetruth8873 Жыл бұрын

@Jimbo Johnson According to that logic we should abandon capitalism too because hey, 5 million people died during the great famine of 1876. Also, Soviet communism, stalinisme and socialism aren't the same thing. Don't be silly.

@smithbrosnetwork Жыл бұрын

Growing up in eastern Arizona literally yards from the White Mtn Apache reservation, hopeless is an understatement. I moved away to go to college at 18 and now I’m 50. Very little has changed there, and not just my version of progress. Healthcare and basic needs are far from where it should be. Sadly I think it’s still going to me many more generations before anything will change. Thanks for this video! Excellent work.

@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын

Indians only way to win in the great game is to just stay on the board. If Indian can stay around long enough. The American empire will eventually collapse. At which point the natives of the Americas will have their chance to reestablish legitimate sovereignty and control over their collective destiny.

@BewareofTarps Жыл бұрын

I spent my childhood on the reservation, or at least partially on it (I was born in Show Low and spent half my time in Pinetop-Lakeside, but my dad worked for the tribe as the ski patrol director for Sunrise, so I spent my other half there), and... yeah. I can confirm this. The conditions are dire, and as mentioned in this video, there's very little under the current status quo that can be done about it, since they don't own most of their own land, and what land they do own is subject to aggressively intrusive oversight from the federal government. Related, the Apache friends I made as a kid continued the "brain drain" trend of going to college and never returning, and I can't really blame them. There's nothing there for them. They feel a little guilty about it, but they have families these days, and they can't justify subjecting their kids to the conditions they had to endure while growing up.

@begbieyabass 8 ай бұрын

I am a retired history teacher, i never taught the 1969 Moon landing and was "let go" from 1 private school for refusing to teach such. And after seeing the Indian Moon landing, i cant stop laughing 😂

@michellebrown2623 29 күн бұрын

This has to be the greatest documentary I've ever had the pleasure to listen to. Thank you very much for educating me properly.

@yaboi2587 Жыл бұрын

Native diaspora here. Glad to finally give this a watch now that Thanksgiving is over. With everyone’s anticipation and build up for it all month, I think I would’ve had a bad time watching this beforehand-trying to balance my own bitter feelings on the holiday versus everyone else’s excitement for a day off work with family and good food. But I’m glad you’re covering this topic, as it’s often overlooked, and just shrugged off as “eh, ye olde people and their different values, what can ya do?” Good that that’s being challenged now. Algorithm bless you, all that jazz

@josephallsen3135 Жыл бұрын

I have first nations friends who. refer to Thanksgiving as "There goes the neighborhood day".

@funveeable Жыл бұрын

You forgot all the slaves that the Natives brought with them on the Trail of Tears. They loved slavery as much as the Confederacy did but KB and liberal teachers today won't teach you about it.

@AZ-kr6ff Жыл бұрын

Resentment is the real enemy.

@russia4biden221 Жыл бұрын

Challenged? What more do you Natives want? You have land you can make your own laws on and collect money tax free, you are the most privileged class in the country. You cover up just how many tribes there are, you say "our people" but you were never united in the 1800s, you fought and killed each other before the settlers set foot in America. Stop playing the victim. Learn to heal yourselves by example of the Jews who had it MUCH worse than your people

@jwe5138 Жыл бұрын

Poo hoo poor little Tonto

@rl0001 Жыл бұрын

Thanks KB for not only discussing how Natives were treated throughout American history but also bringing up the issues we face today. I'm of Native descent, Zuni, grew up on the rez, and I find it interesting to look back at my time in high school learning about the history of the USA. I can recall being fed the Standard American History Myth and in a way being taught that if it weren't for the colonists, or for Manifest Destiny, our country wouldn't be what it is today, and isn't that something we (ie little Natives) should be grateful for? And for a good while I believed in that myth all the while many families on the rez were, and still are, struggling to make ends meet, to be fed, or keep a roof over their head. Hell, there are several families/generations that live under a single household since there is hardly any available housing. Many individuals who manage to leave the rez end up returning because we as a people weren't given the adequate tools, resources, or support to thrive on the outside, and when they do return they return with a decline in mental health. Mental health and addiction are major issues back home as too many of my people are conditioned to not talk about our struggles but how could they fix their situation when there is virtually no job market and no end in sight? This leads a lot of people unambitious, uncaring, and unwilling to even try to do anything because they know there is no way to get out of the unending cycle. There are, however, those who do leave for higher education and return of their own accord to help the tribe, if they can manage to secure a local job, but of course they are few and far in between. I tried and failed at university but I managed to get a job in the city which kept me off the rez for the past decade and currently have no wish to go back as I see there is nothing there for me. Sad, I know and I've struggled to make peace with this decision for years as I no longer feel connected to my culture. But don't be sad for me because as a tribe, Zunis have a strong connection to tradition and our language/culture is taught in school, from elementary to high school. When it comes down to it, the American government made this struggle of poverty, depression, and addiction our reality... I guess we should be grateful for that damned Manifest Destiny, right? Otherwise, how else can we enjoy the comforts of the modern day? In any case, thanks again KB for discussing this topic, it's much appreciated. Side note: when discussing which terms to use, it's a generational thing. Older generations (ex Boomers) prefer American Indian or simply Indian. Gen X and Millennials tend to use Native American more often, I personally use the term Native, and Gen Z seems to favor First Nations. However, when it comes to any official documents, like medical records, it will be American Indian.

@panameadeplm Жыл бұрын

It's not a "myth," only so far as your understanding of history. Every civilization on this planet is guilty of these things, these are things that inevitably happen when a people expand into new territory so that they may become a civilization. There is no free real-estate. Most, if not absolutely all European, Middle-Eastern, African and Asian civilizations were guilty of doing far worse to their own people in their thousands of years of history, let alone do it to some foreign "barbarian" faction that was, ostensibly, in their way. The real "myths" you're being taught is the myth of colonialism being some kind of "great evil." Before colonialism, there was only conquest through total war, utter destruction and complete decimation. You don't hear about it because the people it happened to no longer exist, except in the historical records of their conquerors. My people were enslaved by the Byzantines, then Ottomans for one thousand years, then the Austro-Hungarians for another 200, then the Soviets until the 90s. The word "slave" is the name of my people's ethnicity, derived from "slav." "Servus" remains a common greeting in my language, which is the old Roman word for "servant," which is the word they used before that. And no one, not a single soul in my admittedly poor second-world country, attributes any of their current plights to these ancient historical tales that happened lifetimes ago, nor is there any kind of animosity felt towards current-day Turkish, Hungarian or Russian people. Not by mandate, punished by force, but because it is plainly foolish. I'm not saying these things are not instrumental in the fate of a people, nor that they do not matter, nor that they are not cruel and important to know and learn lessons from. I'm saying that there is not and there will never be a "tomorrow" if you continue to view the world in this way. None of the issues you talk about are endemic to your ethnicity, there are more poor and destitute English-descended white Christian Americans in your country than there are native Americans in total. You have been taught to play a fantastical statistics game in order to be consolidated into a political faction to be used as a collective pawn on a chessboard by a ruthless manipulator, for power. A power that will never be yours, and that should, by no right, be anyone's. It is an anti-human commodification of grievance and victimhood that can only lead to self-destruction. With this framing, there can never be forgiveness or grace or unity, there can never be peace, only until the atrocity is repeated once again, except this time by the hand of the "righteous" unto the "guilty," and so again history is repeated, and the cycle continues. I would highly encourage separating yourself from this kind of thinking, for the sake of having a tomorrow and being able to plant a tree underneath whose shade you will not rest.

@rl0001 Жыл бұрын

@@panameadeplm Well your whole comment seems to be a bit undermining to not just what I'm telling from experience but to what KB is also talking about. You're talking as if the atrocities that Native Americans experienced, and are experiencing, were centuries ago and because of that we should "stop playing the victim". It was just a little over 20 years ago that the last boarding school, which forcibly took Native children from their families, had finally closed. 20 years is not 200 years. So I disagree with you, the situations that Natives find themselves in today are very much attributed to and can be traced exactly to how the American government treated us through this country's history.

@rl0001 Жыл бұрын

@@panameadeplm I know what I wrote sounds quite nihilist but when I talk to my friends and family from back home, that is the type of thinking that I encounter and I have been witness to it while I grew up there as well. You're right in saying that this type thinking only continues the cycle, but I don't think it's victimhood to claim the truth of the matter. Natives are in a shit situation because we were dealt a shit hand by the American government. And I kindly ask you to not compare tragedies. Yes, different groups of humans throughout all of history have been through terrible situations but don't undermine one group over the other by saying that there are more poor white Americans than poor Native Americans because that's just simple statistics.

@nobodyspecial4702 Жыл бұрын

@@rl0001 Life is about choices. You can choose to play the victim until you die, or you can choose to do better for yourself. It's entirely up to you to decide which you prefer.

@Vhlathanosh Жыл бұрын

@@nobodyspecial4702 "You can choose to play the victim" as if you lot ever leave people alone. Republicans just a few years ago were trying to plough through their land with no regard. Go f yourself with that bullshit.

@Kai-Made 7 ай бұрын

This was my third full time all the way through this video. KB...I know enough to know that I don't know jack about many things, and really do appreciate your time and energy that you spend bringing us this stuff. I am not descended from Native peoples that I know of, but like with many things, believe the US has the ability but not the will to change it...and I feel we really should. Thanks for the brain food.

@mysticpluck8 8 ай бұрын

Good video. Thank you for making it.

@pjbutton3396 Жыл бұрын

“It’s MY sleepover, I get to pick the movie!” For real, I already know this is gonna be incredible. Fantastic work KB

@magiv4205 Жыл бұрын

Legend.

@Natalie-101 Жыл бұрын

I don't normally visibly react to youtube videos, but the truth in this case was so disheartening and presented so well that multiple times I said "oh no" involuntary or felt myself make a disgusted face. Half the times you hadn't even said it yet, but based on the set up or historical patterns I knew what was coming and was prepared for the worst, which was exactly what you said next every time. Thank you so much for making us aware of this dire situation and it's systemic and historical causes, while dispelling stereotypes and myths that are so easy to never question. You are truly an amazing educator

@vidalrodriguez2001 Жыл бұрын

I groaned, hand and forehead head shaked many times, along with “oh no’s” it’s just so incredibly tragic

@senorsombrero1275 Жыл бұрын

Hearing histories like this make you wonder if people like Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Joaquin Murrieta or Quanah Parker can really be called villains. Killers? Yes no doubt, but can you really blame them? After all that was done to them and their people?

@tylergeorge7633 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for making this

@chimpofthecosmicdawn3863 Жыл бұрын

Mi'kmaw; tleyawi kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki Wela'lin/thank you for this video. You highlighted many wonderful points and were extremely respectful in your delivery. I hope this message reaches the youth, because I didn't feel as though my culture, and in turn myself, was well-represented In school. I was taught as a history lesson, when my home life was contradictory to those lessons. Keep up the amazing content. Nmultis, nitap.

@gamermapper Жыл бұрын

It's amazing that you are still speaking your language! I hope your languages and other Indigenous languages will survive and thrive! They're each very beatiful and unique!

@chorvat6656 Жыл бұрын

'siwestuwok! Kisi-tehp liwihtasu Wolastokuk elakutimok - It was thorough, and even taught me a few things. You know.

@chimpofthecosmicdawn3863 Жыл бұрын

@@chorvat6656 this made me so ecstatic to read. Wela'lin nitap

@chorvat6656 Жыл бұрын

@@chimpofthecosmicdawn3863Kiluwaw aqanu !

@unspecifiednerd Жыл бұрын

I personally found the DNA test line funny. Being from the south everyone talked about being part Cherokee in some sort of fraction and Indian princess. My family even talked about a specific great-grandmother on one side and a great-grandfather on the other. 23&me determined that it was all a lie. Looking back it almost feels like a generations old lie to provide some family justification and offset some white guilt.

@Praisethesunson Жыл бұрын

I can't be a colonist if I have some of the blood of the people my nation did(and continues to) displace

@KD_OIFMedicM6 Жыл бұрын

It might be true, for it to show up, one of your great grand parents has to be full blood. Also, there data base to compare that full blood ancestor has to be related to the 740 individuals that they have on file. Half of that is as South American Indigenous.

@kraftymum Жыл бұрын

I think for many people, claiming some amount of Native ancestry is also a way to claim their place in America as having a family whose been here long enough to mix with tribes. I tend to find it was talked about in hushed tones, as if partly shameful, and partly pride.

@spyrofrost9158 Жыл бұрын

White guilt is a myth.

@snorlax6691 Жыл бұрын

I had some of the same rumors in my family. My 23&Me proved that I am quite white, but I do have a bit of Neanderthal! Lol

@lisadoes 4 ай бұрын

I visited an outdoor “settlement” type museum a few years ago. One of the guides mentioned Andrew Jackson, and mentioned that history has not looked kindly upon him. An old man standing next to me spoke up and said, “Yeah, but the Indians had to be moved out. There was no other option.” I was shocked. To hear that your neighbor said the same thing was wild to me.

@devonnasteele9892 6 ай бұрын

Hahahaha!!! Enrolled member of The Knowing Better Band!!! Hahahaha! Good 1! I love it!!! Nice way 2 cap it. Very informative, I appreciate the effort. - Enrolled member of The Hualapai Tribe

@CrystalMouse1 Жыл бұрын

I’m Choctaw just learning about my heritage thanks to white erasure. It’s been a very emotional experience and I’m grateful for this video

@faberofwillandmight Жыл бұрын

White and black is as much of a race as olive and yellow. White people did not cause you to forget your culture, old European settlers did.

@hochigaming14yearsago90 Жыл бұрын

@@faberofwillandmight propel

@orlandof6496 Жыл бұрын

@@faberofwillandmight those europeans were white people tho lmao

@BB-pt9hv Жыл бұрын

Same, I'm woodland cree and finding my family/our history has been so hard. The amount of damage that have been done to our people is horrific

@BB-pt9hv Жыл бұрын

@Dave Firewalker what's wrong with you? I have a native American parent. Way to show your racism, I can't help how I look, funny how Elders have never shamed me for looking whiter

@SurvivorsQuest1 Жыл бұрын

Even growing up right next to the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes in CT I still feel like I knew nothing about their history. Thanks for making such an in depth and informative video!

@Roguechild Жыл бұрын

You did an internship at the Pequot museum. It's really cool to visit!

@Shawnamsterdam 3 ай бұрын

Incredible list of resources from articles to videos to South Park episodes. So impressive. Thank you.

@iternityhuman1782 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for this vid, learned a ton!!

@rwagingsloth9528 Жыл бұрын

Culture of Hopelessness is an acurate description for the situation in canada. My reserve is actually Called Fort Hope (Eabametoong in Ojibway, meaning roughly, where the current reverses flow because the water changes from flowing from north to south, and goes south to north towards Hudson bay) and is commonly refered to by locals as Fort No Hope. ( i say locals because i grew up off reserve)

@benjaminfrick3034 9 ай бұрын

I am not an American Indian and I can’t claim to speak for them, but I will point out that as an ecologist there has been significant research into the land management practices of tribes, and in many cases those practices better curate species diversity and community resilience. For example, seasonal undergrowth burning in the southeast US maintained long leaf pine savannas for thousands of years.

@dzarko55 8 ай бұрын

One sentence that stood out to me in "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" is (paraphrasing) "the forests on the eastern seaboard were undoubtedly more wild in the 1850s than in the 1650s". Also, I'm glad that forest burning is recognized as having the potential to be beneficial. It was viewed as inherently bad land management for centuries, as I'm sure you're aware, especially by American settlers in the early decades.

@kamilareeder1493 7 ай бұрын

Yes, brush Bruning and clearing is VITAL in Southern California where I come from 😮 Many native plants actually don't drop seeds without the presence of smoke. Controlled Burns and brush clearing prevents forest fires a lot

@BaronVonQuiply 6 ай бұрын

You know.. for some reason I've classified broadleaf plants and needle-leaf plants as separate groups not because of a phylogenetic branching (conifers are ancient), but rather because something in me didn't consider needles to be leaves (more like pre-leaves). Your mention of Longleaf Pine knocked that out of my head.

@haiden2945 6 ай бұрын

that's what we do for the blueberry fields in Maine.

@deborahleone4351 5 ай бұрын

The Indigenous Tribes knew what they were doing with the land, because they loved it, and it supporter them!

@jamithornburg4571 3 ай бұрын

this video kicks ass do some more bro

@OtomoTenzi 2 ай бұрын

Very nice and informative... A sequel is expected!

@BoredomInABody Жыл бұрын

This is fantastic! As a Native woman myself (Cherokee), you've taught me more about my ancestors battles then the public school system ever did, or would attempt to. I can see the time and effort this took and greatly appreciate it! This is also the first video I've seen from your channel. Subscribed and looking forward to more content from you!

@olgagaming5544 Жыл бұрын

Now the karma reversed and many americans are poor while natives are rich gambling magnates and millionaires

@georgepreece2023 Жыл бұрын

The public indoctrination agenda...

@georgepreece2023 Жыл бұрын

@@olgagaming5544 money ain't shit when there will be nothing to purpose,GERONIMO. german Romanov...

@tsdobbi Жыл бұрын

@@olgagaming5544 Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video. He literally talked about this and how only a small minority are actually getting "rich" off of casino profits and many just make enough to to pay for public works and tribal government. Secondly, you act as if there were no poor European Americans while the US was actively waging it's genocide of the natives, lmao. Victorian era America is probably the period of American history I would prefer to live in the least. 16 hour days 7 days a week for a pittance of a wage, where they could literally legal threaten your life if you want to quit. Dying at work was a common occurrence. Today if you chose to work 16 hour days 7 days a week, even at minimum wage you would be far far far better off than someone then.

@AntiCitizenX Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the “warts and all” approach you take to this. Like the bit about Cherokee holding a grudge about their old slaves. Washes away the noble savage myth very well.

@Master...deBater Жыл бұрын

I didn't see any "warts" about the endemic intertribal warfare and butchery tribes inflicted upon each other prior to European contact!!!

@kylegonewild Жыл бұрын

@@Master...deBater This isn't a video about intertribal relations or pre-colonial history. Why would it include some generic "they were violent too" as some kind of point? It's pretty well known that war and violence have occurred on basically every continent except Antarctica.

@Master...deBater Жыл бұрын

@@kylegonewild You're right...this video is nothing more than a litany of non-contextualized, sophomoric "white man bad" grievance laden arguments that nobody with any depth of historical knowledge could ever take seriously. As such...there is no place for any argument or debate of the historical realities that were causal to the events surrounding American Indian/US relations. The reality of course...is that those relations were built upon a complex series of events that began well before European contact. What this PROPAGANDIST leaves out is the fact that many more Indian people were allied with the US than were ever at war with the US. Those people allied themselves with the US government against their common enemies because of the history of intertribal warfare endemic to the continent. None of which will ever be covered by this pseudo-historian clown!

@stacyfiske7903 Жыл бұрын

@@Master...deBater but damn. I'd say the Europeans that conquistadored their way across the Americas sure as f were butchering their neighbors and having wars against the other tribes in their regions too, before they came across the ocean. and your point is?

@Master...deBater Жыл бұрын

@@stacyfiske7903 Reread the thread...my point is very clear!

@stoobpendous 5 ай бұрын

This is a very informative presentation. This will be a recurring theme in the rest of my comments.

@raymondalverez5999 7 ай бұрын

Most Excellent Presentation To date...

@KoobaLive Жыл бұрын

As a half native that grew up in oklahoma it's weird that more people aren't taught this. I went to public schools like everybody else and this was for the most part taught to us. It's like how I know a shit ton about the dust bowl but couldn't tell you jack shit about the gold rush except that the 49ers have their name tied to it. It really shows you just how large America is that we can kind of have different histories taught to us

@Jason-hg1pc Жыл бұрын

I'm a half native that grew up in WA state and AK, and Native culture is more prevalent and also more cohesive maintaining the individual cultures. I thought the rest of the US was as respectful and populated, until high school American history class led to further library research. It's also when I learned that domestic violence wasn't normal, and that my memories of Alaskan village life were that much more precious because they balanced the dark stuff. Just when I got all that realized, I moved from Seattle/Tacoma urban sprawl to small town Bellingham and became a true minority, one who had reason to hate the police, the gov't, and their jock children trying to intimidate me in high school. Except for the heavy metal/punk crowd, with whom I fit in with, just when they all dropped out and I graduated alone.

@Jason-hg1pc Жыл бұрын

I wrote all that as background so I can say that I left WA for IAIA in Santa Fe NM and history class focused on Oklahoma history early on, and that history made me feel normal, and made the NW established mixed population scenario look good, even tolerant. That's what kept me in school.

@wilmanman7783 Жыл бұрын

I from Oklahoma too I was taught all about the horrible things that happened to the Indian Tribes

@brandonpennington1983 Жыл бұрын

It's all going with their plan, they had to teach yall that because yall are closer to where they're located I guess, I'm in SC and they surely don't let you think that they tried to exterminate all Natives. It makes me ashame to be American, and not only this, alot of things .I love my country and the land itself and the people fighting and dying for it, but I DO NOT agree with what the government does.

@Mike_E_DeShaman Жыл бұрын

@@brandonpennington1983 if they wanted to exterminate the natives they could have .. how wer Haitians able to do it .. they wer just a bunch of slaves . U telling me the could figure it out but ol whitey couldn't

@tonygrencho7121 8 ай бұрын

Isanti Dakota here, this is well done and very informative.

@patrickmanasco5905 Күн бұрын

Amazing vid I hope this reaches more people

@shaunsinclair9785 Жыл бұрын

Not sure if it's good or bad that I can recognise Atun-sheis voice nearly instantly no matter what voice he is doing... Awesome too see two of my favourite creators working together, and it's a no brainer to have people who do so much in the American history genre work together.

@KingHayabusa384 Жыл бұрын

It's a good thing. It proofs that you lile good content.

@rachel_sj Жыл бұрын

I was ecstatic when I started heading Atun Shei’s voice narrating the historical quotes (and it started a minute after I thought “Man, it’d be nice to include Atun Shei into this Mega KB Documentary if he’s talking about Jamestown and Plymouth”) 😂

@warlordofbritannia Жыл бұрын

@@rachel_sj The only disappointing part was not using Sheridan’s “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” maxim, would have checked off so many boxes 😂

@brianmccloud8544 7 ай бұрын

Bravo my good man 👏🏽! I’m Native and your video does so much justice. I don’t know where precisely you came up w/ your mascot argument (the 6 categories, etc. ) but it’s the *best* one I’ve ever heard! One critique: why isn’t the word genocide more prominent in your explanation/video as a whole? As far as I noted (to which I could be mistaken), the only use of the word “genocide” was used during one of your Prager U sample clips (and it was said by the narrator ridicule the notion. W/ every legal definition of the word, what the US govt has done to Native tribes (best example being boarding schools but straight up massacres, involuntary sterilization, and even the reservation system itself) is genocide. I think it would be worth a future episode all to itself.