The History of the Totem Pole
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28 күн бұрын
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@ChristopherKuhns
@ChristopherKuhns 2 күн бұрын
Aztlan roughly translates to "place of the heron". Aztec /Azteca peoples did not go by that name themselves. The Spanish gave them the title. Mexica' (me-shee-kah) phonetically pronounced. Thus country of Mexico today. It is beleived the northern ancestral land of "Aztlan" (might not for certain might) have been a place now known as Mezcaltitan near San Blas in state of Nayarit. Mezcaltitan is a village on an island on a lake. Look up on Google Satellite Maps to get a birds eye view. In Goleta California (just west of Santa Barbara) there was a populous Chumash Village named Helo' named by the Spanish in 1769 as Mescalitan Island. This island village was in the middle of Goleta Slough (silted in by atmospheric river storm early 1860s). The Spansh expedition led by Gaspar de Portola' 1769-70 visited this village and gave it that name as it reminded them of "Mescaltitan" Village back home where they started the expedition (San Blas). Mescalitan Island is still marked on modern maps and is at south end of Santa Barbara/Goleta airport. To contruct airport part of island was bulldozed as fill for airstip back in 1941.
@vickinger
@vickinger 4 күн бұрын
Nothing has changed... thinking all the wigs in California.
@ChristopherKuhns
@ChristopherKuhns 12 күн бұрын
0:38 to 0:44 are paintings of Chumash tribe polychrome pictographs from a rock shelter along Pleito hills near San Emigdio Mountains. Most of the pictographs have been eroded by centuries of wind blowing into rock shelter not vandalized. Hiked there and saw it. Similar thing happened to the "Painted Cave" near San Marcos Pass above Santa Barbara.
@cookiekitty8122
@cookiekitty8122 12 күн бұрын
Thanks.
@kungfu2toe
@kungfu2toe 12 күн бұрын
Scalping was passed down from the elders.
@SonOfTheOne111
@SonOfTheOne111 13 күн бұрын
Probably scalps of their enemies.
@HistoryofAztlan
@HistoryofAztlan 13 күн бұрын
It doesn't seem like it was, although it does seem like some sort of trophy item at first glance. The reasons it isn't however is that it is made from woven hair and the peoples who made the capes had an aversion to handling or keeping anything belonging to the dead.
@hioehjgojiwhgfi
@hioehjgojiwhgfi 12 күн бұрын
@@HistoryofAztlan you made sure to mention that claim several times, yet it's outshone by COUNTLESS accounts of their (the tribes in general) habits of collecting scalps among other, more disturbing things. r8p e, sla very, can niba lism etc. To take that one statement and run with it to dispell things that are commonly known of them seems dishonest or naive. Logic woulds dictate that it absolutely is more likely the scalps of their enemies than some mysterious and unknown, yet conveniently non brutal method that just miraculously evades us.
@Robpires2
@Robpires2 11 күн бұрын
Too much Hollywood wild west movies.
@theaquariancontrarian3316
@theaquariancontrarian3316 13 күн бұрын
I wonder if this is where the word pachuco came from.
@HistoryofAztlan
@HistoryofAztlan 13 күн бұрын
Interesting connection you made, funnily enough when I typed 'pachugo' into the search engine it'd redirect me to 'pachuco'. With the etymology of pachuco being up for debate and associated with the border regions, there may just be a small chance it was appropriated from 'pachugo' like other borrowed indigenous words used in Mexican Spanish.
@DeePresentsTC
@DeePresentsTC 12 күн бұрын
From virgins. It was untainted.
@YAYYayey
@YAYYayey 14 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. I was born in Baja California.
@katherineacosta9640
@katherineacosta9640 15 күн бұрын
Thank you for your hard work!
@stephensmith9756
@stephensmith9756 23 күн бұрын
Terrible narration 👎🏻
@HistoryofAztlan
@HistoryofAztlan 26 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching! And that wraps up my end of the year marathon of videos 😅 I will be returning to releasing new videos on the peoples of Baja California in mid January. Hope everyone has a happy new year!
@drewsugiura5414
@drewsugiura5414 26 күн бұрын
Do us a favor & say "I'm Scott Malkison & I've got diabetes." It'd be shuper!
@GreenCanvasInteriorscape
@GreenCanvasInteriorscape 12 күн бұрын
🚫🤡
@lemontek
@lemontek 29 күн бұрын
Awesome vid, Great job! ✨️'Tlingit Girls Rock'✨️
@NeilMcCue
@NeilMcCue 29 күн бұрын
Good evening. Totem poles are just one example of how we used them. Bragging about where your lands started and stopped. Whos clan had use. What game, medicine, fruit with vegtables can be found. Distance to next vilage, Time and other information is shared. So old these Carbings here in Ontario have turned to stone. Different Trees, turned to different stone. We havnt even touched Creators Teachings so i cant wait to see another video on this important, misunderstood small part of Canadas foundations.
@MiaEZ
@MiaEZ 29 күн бұрын
Much more please 🙏🏼
@wargerschaager
@wargerschaager Ай бұрын
Go CSUCI!
@stephenlitten1789
@stephenlitten1789 Ай бұрын
Not something that is often covered
@lesjones5684
@lesjones5684 Ай бұрын
Native Americans own the artafacks 😢😢😢
@lesjones5684
@lesjones5684 Ай бұрын
They don’t own them 😢
@Khankhankhan420
@Khankhankhan420 Ай бұрын
Many conquistadors write about being attacked in mass and having to retreat after slingers and dart throwers can upon them. It was only with native allies and cannons that they eventually got the advantage
@standingbear998
@standingbear998 Ай бұрын
rehashing the same ole false narrative people have been in the Americas far longer. so tired of people not keeping up
@snapon666
@snapon666 Ай бұрын
how can they be indigenous if they came from other places ?
@joehopfield
@joehopfield Ай бұрын
My brothers and I made rickety driftwood rafts while camping in northern california. There's no way first peoples didn't develop sophisticated watercraft while expanding along incredibly rich coastal ecosystems. The anti-indigenous propaganda pushed in california schools from the 60s until now is a crime - literally heard a docent at a mission describe forced laborers as "savages".
@jeffreywickens3379
@jeffreywickens3379 Ай бұрын
Gay.
@henryknox4511
@henryknox4511 Ай бұрын
Clovis were not first this is pretty well known nowadays, recent DNA evidence says the earliest Americans arrived in Chile 30 plus thousand years ago. Dr Nathaniel Jeanson covers it in his lost history of Americas series.
@nibiruresearch
@nibiruresearch Ай бұрын
The Hopi people tell in their history book: "The History og the Hopi from their origin in Lemuria" that they arrived about 30,000 years ago from the sinking continent of Lemuria to the Americas.
@hypothebai4634
@hypothebai4634 Ай бұрын
Where is this mythical "Americas" place?
@Jigger2361
@Jigger2361 Ай бұрын
Cleveland
@matthewwillis4892
@matthewwillis4892 Ай бұрын
I would love to see more on this.
@katherineacosta9640
@katherineacosta9640 Ай бұрын
Is it true the one's at the bottom of the pole are considered more powerful because they are holding up the others?
@HistoryofAztlan
@HistoryofAztlan Ай бұрын
@@katherineacosta9640 I don’t think I’ve heard of that before, or the meaning behind the order in which the motifs are placed on the totem pole for that matter. It does seem plausible though, as based on where totem poles were placed, on the waterfront, so everyone passing through in canoe could see them, it could serve as a symbol to denote that the lower motifs of the pole which would be more visible, were more powerful since they were at the base holding up the rest of the pole.
@katherineacosta9640
@katherineacosta9640 Ай бұрын
@HistoryofAztlan Thank you! BTW I heard it from my Yupiq mother, born in Juneau. I'm not sure though if she heard that when young--went to orphanage at age 3 so knowledge of things was lost.
@Titosmith911
@Titosmith911 Ай бұрын
Wow wow so Nuno de Guzman got to die of natural causes while de Balboa was executed for treason after being officially the first European to see and claim the Pacific ocean to the Spanish kingdom.
@jimtower231
@jimtower231 2 ай бұрын
Shaped like the star drill holes
@francisfischer7620
@francisfischer7620 2 ай бұрын
You need articulation and voice training!
@gildedpeahen876
@gildedpeahen876 2 ай бұрын
great channel! subscribed right away!
@tinaamador3799
@tinaamador3799 2 ай бұрын
This would have been a really great video if it wasn't for the narrator he put me to sleep in the beginning and was boring boring boring
@MiaEZ
@MiaEZ 2 ай бұрын
I give you honor dear for uploading these beautiful videos. They feed my soul and your voice soothes my mind. Tlazocamati
@MiaEZ
@MiaEZ 2 ай бұрын
Tlazocamati
@MiaEZ
@MiaEZ 2 ай бұрын
With much respect and gratitude. Tlazocamati I subbed fast! 🙏🏼
@Chris-from-AZ
@Chris-from-AZ 3 ай бұрын
Very great content!! Very helpful!! My question is, are the chichimeca a brake off tribe of the Toltec??
@HistoryofAztlan
@HistoryofAztlan 3 ай бұрын
@@Chris-from-AZ Thank you very much! They weren’t a break off of the Toltec exactly since, if they did exist, and did come from the north as sources claim, they would’ve been lumped in as Chichimeca, the catch all term for the nomadic peoples north of Mesoamerica. However, the Chichimeca who arrived with Xolotl could be considered successors to the Toltecs, since they intermarried with them, and adopted their heritage and political structure, while maintaining their own ethnonyms that reflected their Chichimeca past, such as the Tepaneca.
@Chris-from-AZ
@Chris-from-AZ 3 ай бұрын
@@HistoryofAztlan So the Toltec and the chichimeca, all mixed then in a sense
@herbertwilliams1608
@herbertwilliams1608 3 ай бұрын
APPLAUSE
@fastinradfordable
@fastinradfordable 3 ай бұрын
Cool! Outstanding Craftsman ship
@SterlingHenken
@SterlingHenken 4 ай бұрын
Sigma
@clo8862
@clo8862 4 ай бұрын
You do know that there was guachichiles in southern coahuila too right ?? These tribes were found in communities living in other tribes territories some guachichiles also lived and fought together with the zacatecos at one point
@clo8862
@clo8862 4 ай бұрын
I thought are you ever gonna make videos on aridoamerica and mexico again specifically west mexico or northwest mexico (sonora) trincheras culture ? ?
@HistoryofAztlan
@HistoryofAztlan 4 ай бұрын
Of course! Right now I've been focusing on the cultures of Southern California, but afterwards once I'm through, I wanted to make my way back to covering Aridoamerica and Western Mexican cultures, especially now since there seems to be a lot more new finds and studies coming from those areas, changing the perspective of what we thought we knew about what was between Mesoamerica and Oasisamerica in the Southwest.
@thathobbitlife
@thathobbitlife 4 ай бұрын
How interesting!
@NathanLarin
@NathanLarin 4 ай бұрын
🤨They look like keys.Wierd.
@marting2003
@marting2003 4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for these videos
@SxTxferlife
@SxTxferlife 4 ай бұрын
No wonder so many lovers attempt to end it there. Lived here in oxnard all my life and in my 31 years always assumed the name Hueneme belonged to another person like the Oxnard brothers or Mr Saviers. Just like my grandma said, theres ALWAYS more to learn
@Cnsalmoni
@Cnsalmoni 5 ай бұрын
Thank you… grew upon Santa Barbara and learned nothing of the native people in school. In Hawaii, the children are all taught the native language in school. I wonder how our society would be today, if we had learned about and had direct contact with indigenous culture and language.
@danielleon7706
@danielleon7706 5 ай бұрын
Millón de gracias y bendiciones. Hermosísimo !!!
@spazzrock1
@spazzrock1 6 ай бұрын
Heraldic poles I believe 🙂.