Yep just same old Marxist BS.

They were much less civilized. Human sacrifice and cannabalism in many tribes in america.

I did, because it is utter nonsense.

Well, since you took the time to learn that history, why not recognize the roles that both tribes played in shaping (and being shaped by that land) previous to European settlers? Why not recognize the existence of alternative ways of being in the world, alternative worldviews and values/ideologies whose models of governance maintained and shaped that landscape sustainably for 1000s of years. Mainstream, globalized society is busy pushing us ever closer to the ecological boundaries of the planet. Why not seek out and acknowledge alternative worldviews and the kinds of social institutions and governance structures that they gave rise to?

@Karma Chameleon 🤡

So, according to your value system/worldview, I hope you have enrolled your child in the military academy and martial combat lessons. Maybe we should all go buy guns so we can defend whatever piece of "land" we might have managed to acquire from anyone else who wants it and believes that "might makes right" and violence is the ultimate/final expression of human morality/ethics and law. Sounds like a great way to help our kids thrive and live in a happy, healthy, and stable/secure society. No denial that conquest took place (and continues to take place), but imperialism is far from a universal/inevitable feature of human societies. If there's one thing that nature has learned over 3 billion years in the school of hard knocks is that continual diversification and establishment of mutually supporting relationships amongst beings is the key to long-term survival of systems of life. And we've had 6-8 million years of evolution (separate from the great apes), and another 300 000 years as homo sapiens, wherein our brains, behaviour, cultural plasticity, and instinctual values developed within chiefly egalitarian societies (e.g., the idea of "fairness" is a universal feature of human value systems). Our brains (unfortunatly?) and the cultural diversification/plasticity that they now enable, have to keep re-learning these lessons that have otherwise been hard-wired into the genetic information of life generally. No doubt, imperialism is good for short term gains in productivity of specific groups/societies, but it's generally destructive to anything considered "external" (e.g., other societies or lands). And I'd also argue that the wealth/power/resource concentrations necessary to form imperial hierarchies more or less always lead to socio-ecological collapse of one kind or another as the socio-ecological systems themselves become dysfunctional through broken down feedback loops between different social and environmental components/scales of the system (e.g., blocks in information flows, lack of empathy/recognition among social strata, scarcity and competition dominating over cooperation and mutualism, unrecognized ecological feedbacks between top and bottom of hierachy, etc.). Lots of recent history over the past 5000 years spells out the collapse of many empires. I think there are some striking shared features between ecological and human social systems that become apparent when you consider cultures as living organisms. Europe had loads of political and ecological unrest (disturbance) such as re-ocurring conflict, the plague and other zoonotic pandemics over the last few thousand years, mainly arising one way or another as a result of the development of settled agricultural societies, which enabled high population densities of both humans and farm animals. Here, I think a majority of European cultural evolution was shaped within these disturbance dynamics similar to how weeds evolve to fill disturbance-based niches in nature. A growth pattern that succeeds by grabbing as much resource as possible, growing as fast as possible, and then when the local area is exhausted, developing methods to translocate to a new "freshly disturbed" area. Crucially, there is little reward from establishing mutually beneficial long term relationships with other groups, because the socio-ecological scene is not stable enough so that long-term benefits can be reaped. Thus benefits from short term, competitive, and self-serving behaviour outweigh longer term mutualistic benefits, while the costs of short term exploitation are not experienced because of translocation to new areas, or at least creating access to resources of new areas (e.g., slave-plantation agriculture). And overtime, these cultural traits get hardwired into our worldviews, moral/value systems, governance institutions, and behaviour. In contrast, stable climatic/ecological conditions give rise to a tremendous diversification and establishment of mutually supporting relationships amongst species (even competitive relationships facilitate mutual dependence, think tropical rainforests). Here survival is achieved through long-term co-existence, and not short-term domination. And I think human cultures arising in these conditions can also show similar traits (complex social traditions and ceremonies to mediate disputes, signal intentions, ceremonially "show" or signal power and influence rather than wield it, and honour/reciprocate connections to other beings (both human and nature), etc., to motivate harmonious long-term (sustainable) development of mutualy beneficial/dependent relationships. So long story short, what sort of society do you want to live in? One based on long-term stable/mutually-dependent/beneficial relationships or short term exploitative/competitive relationships? Land acknowledgements seek to reconcile Indigenous and settler descendent people together to create equitable long-term relationships with eachother and with the land/nature). At the moment, we have neither of these, while mainstream western-globalized society is quickly running us towards the cliff-edge of ecological limits of the planet. Then we'll find this planet-girding, hyper-consuming society has no where else to turn and we'll all crash and burn like so many empires before (though they are trying to turn to space as the next frontier to colonize). As an alternative, we can seek to create/develop long term relationships with eachother to enable co-existence. In Canada's case, this absolutely requires acknowledgement of history and the reality experienced by colonized peoples (and an honest view of the role our European descendents played) in order to build trust for moving forward equitably (how can we steer a course to the future we want, if we don't know where we are/starting from?) Hopefully, your kid(s) might be picking up some of this stuff outside your family, or do you want them to be racially abused, or have them racially abusing someone else's kids in the future?

@@CCDR07 what do you think of black failure and white guilt?

@@CCDR07 that is the most superfluous, long winded, diatribe I have ever heard

@@Tjmax187 I think they are both unecessary, unfounded, and unuseful concepts

@@Tjmax187 Yeah, sorry about the long windedness (got carried away). In retrospect I would just stick with my first and last paragraphs.

The Pueblos were sedentary people and were the first to settle the Southwest and have been here for millennia despite attacks from Apache and Navajo, and eventually the Spanish; therefore we have legitimate land claims being that we built the first settled society here - your ignorance and awareness of history is laughable, if not outright pitiful and embarrassing, no?

I think your portrayal of human nature as one that is primarily imperialistic, selfish, and lacking an evolved in-built sense of ethics, fairness, and equity is unfortunately common in our Western society (not a coincidence given our role as brutal colonizer and usurper of land), but this is an indescribably limited view of reality and ourselves. For one, human-"nature" is a continual work in progress... There have been many types of people, and many types of cultures, worldviews, and levels of self-organization thorughout our short 300 thousand year history as a "species". Humans are incredibly malleable/adaptive in this regard (sometimes incredibly mal-adaptive, as mother-nature and time ultimately determine ). Perhaps, it's not a coincidence that the cultures and worldviews that have developed the last few hundred years of extractive technology and imperialistic expansion are also the ones that at the same time are leading modern-globalized society closer and closer to the ecological boundaries of earth's life systems). Hopefully, we can expand our awareness of history beyond the limited view you espouse here, to better learn from the mistakes of our recent past and modern times.

@@TheMetalCaveZineMedia505 my replies keep getting deleted instantly despite containing zero profanities or personal attacks…typical

@@adamwyker4800That's crazy I wonder why ? it's not like your taking the stance of a genocide apologist or anything, oh wait...

"granted reservations" and "given "land". that's like saying if I came over to your house and took all your stuff, and then gave you back a baseball mitt and your tv remote I will have really done you a solid, and you should be grateful. furthermore, you'll have to stand by and watch me misuse your stuff, wreck it, poison your iguana and dog, and ask you to agree that's progress. oh yes, and I'll force all your kids to learn my language to such an extent that yours will cease to exist. you know what? you're right. we're pretty kickass (not, in case you don't catch the sarcasm).

Good questions, but I think my first question as one who grew up as a white prairie kid, mainly ignorant of the indigenous cultures that existed previously where I lived, is what is this "progress that the new sciences [enable]'" for? And who or what directs it or steers this progress one way or another? I think land acknowledgments and turn towards Indigenous cultures help spur us to seek answers to these questions. What does western society do all this for? What it feels like to me (in regards to both the inequality and injustice present in the world, and the rife environmental destruction) is that Western society is blindly trying to climb all over itself up some kind of imagined ladder, while ignorantly destroying more and more of the natural world (biodiversity and ecosystems) and replacing it with human beings (not necessarily happy or healthy ones either). Here, I think Indigenous people, knowledge, worldviews, and traditions might be able to offer western cultures some advice and wisdom in regards to fostering worldviews, social institutions, and ceremonies that can help maintain harmonious relationships with each other and to the rest of nature over the long term...

you're gonna need to complete thousands of years of world history research on every piece of land ever. possibly even lands that are now underwater, so as to provide justice to those who lost their lands to climate change! i'm offended that you didn't think of this!!!!

hm?

This a powerful message idiot

it may not be unique but we don't need to bury it either, change the narrative. history is repeated by the ignorant.

Having basic respect for the people who we slaughtered and oppressed and their sacred land we stole and desecrated I feel isn't too much to ask for.

@@danielpoll1347 They can have respect when they stop throwing it in the faces of people that had nothing to do with it

all we want to do is respect the people who used to live on this land and still do

Although I almost puked at Trudeau's land acknowledgment at the beginning of this video (very insincere IMHO), I do believe that land acknowledgments have their place. Land acknowledgments are a tradition, that helps show us that we need to respect the land and those that came before us. I do not agree with shaming people for things their ancestors may or may not have done. I am of German, or Russian descent (not entirely sure). Am I to blame present day Germany for the oppression my family went through during the Nazi takeover? Of course not. I lost a piece of my culture, my language, and my family history because of that event, but most German's that are alive today had nothing to do with that (There are people in power who favor Fascism and they should be held to account). To be fair, about the resentment that many Indigenous people hold and the guilt many settlers hold, the last residential school in Canada closed in 1996. To this day, 'Indigenous' people live under a different law than 'settlers' In Canada. There are some questions I bring up about the terminology used. How can I be a settler if I was born and raised here? Is Canada not my native land? Are we not all Indigenous to the earth? Most certainly, I have not much will to go to Germany, or Russia, or Sweden, or wherever my ancestors came from. I wouldn't even know where to go. Essentially, what I am saying is that I don't believe people should feel shame for what their ancestors did. I do; however, feel that it is our obligation to learn about history, to try and understand different perspectives the best we can, and to do our best to incorporate different ideas from different cultures that could prove beneficial in our path forward. Yes, that means I am for cultural appropriation, in the sense that we can all learn from each other.

Yes

@@allmight5465 *le gAsP* all might

Makes you feel good huh? Holy sh*t this is embarrassing...

​@@adamwyker4800 The natives said it means something to them. By the way this video is part of anthropology courses across the nation, so you've immortalized the ugliest part of you in front of the greater educated part of our society for however long this stays up. That's embarrassing.

Thanks for the support, Elvis! You can check this map to see if there's an Outpost near you: usdac.us/outposts1. They hold local programs across the country on an ongoing basis!

ah never mind - watched it again and read it instead of just listening - doh.

Rachel Grossman thanks so much for the tip!! Have corrected (the default setting of "English" is now correct, the "English-Automatic", secondary titles, are still wrong - any idea how to remove?). Thanks again for helping us reach a wider audience - correctly! All best, USDAC Team

U.S. Department of Arts and Culture So sorry: I don't know what that means and so can't suggest how to fix. (I always copy/paste to add titles in, or just transcribe, never use KZbin's automatic CCing bc it's only resulted in text lines full of things like "that ass" instead of "that's us.") Just watched the video with captions and it looked super clean. Email me if you want to talk more. I know it takes more work on the back end but it really helps reach more people (plus helps with SEO). Excited to be a part of a PSOTU event in Washington, DC on Wednesday night. Cheers!