I’ve been sharing and researching the stone Art of North Carolina for almost 3 years now. Academia knows nothing of the people who inhabited this land before them. I’d like to remind everybody, only been here for a little more than three people ago. Just over 200 years. We’re still actively covering up a genocide. ❤

Amazing info! Live on nc va border chowan River courtland va thank u so much for video ! Keep historic videos coming !

I appreciate Ralph Lane, the English explorer of Roanoke for documenting the existence of the 20 Chowanoke cities in the Virginia/North Carolina area in 1584. The Chowanoke were Algonquian and affiliated with the Powhatan Confederacy. They opposed English settlement at Jamestown for 70 years until they were overtaken and sent to Bennett's Creek, the first example of a Reservation in North America. Many intermarried with the English and the tribe lost their language in the 1800s. It's a shame, but we know they existed, they're not extinct, they just *joined the English Tribe* as it's Algonquian Clan.

Hi Mr.Jones.Did any of your Jones ancestors move or live in Edgecombe between 1800 -1868?

I have chowanoke lineage that's connected to the Freeman,Petty & Pocahontas on my Ancestry DNA tree

The brave boys was a black tribe so the colonizers slept with there women

Thank you for this fascinating talk on the native peoples of your region & their connections with other native cultures before & after European arrival. Dr. Smallwood brought up a number of things not usually mentioned in these histories. My own ancestors in the 1600s were both English & French as well as Cherokee, with a family member in each generation passing down our history since before European arrival & after. My English & French ancestors both fled via Britain in the 1650s to the English colonies in Virginia, but these Eur. ancestors almost immediately fled the Va. colony to join the Cherokee Nation in what is now Cherokee County, N.C. Our family is not legally recognized by US law as Cherokee, sincr our ancestors fled their homeland when the US troops were sent by Pres. Jackson to force all Cherokees from their homeland. The legal requirements for each Indian nation today are very complicated as well as very different. But with the Cherokee, you cannot legally qualify as Cherokee unless an ancestor signed one of the rolls with the US, & none of our ancestors did so because we fled the homeland in order to avoid being taken captive by the US militaey & forced to relocate to Indian Territory. Quite a few Cherokees escaped the US military roundup, with some living secretly in caves in the homeland for years & with some escaping by fleeing to other regions. Well into the 20th c, there were hundreds of Cherokee communities across the southeast (& elsewhere) that were Cherokee communities in diaspora, forced by the US to declare themselves as either Black or white by the later 19th c. These communities in diaspora were usually very small & scattered out through the forests of the southeast, mostly in areas the Euro. settlers had not yet overrrun. I wish i could find more information on these communities in diaspora like ours, but very little has been written. Our community was called Cooterneck, which means turtle neck, because its center was at a fork in the road. When my ancestors & other fleeing Cherokees founded the community there were no "white" towns nearby, so until later in the 19th c we had many miles of old forest to live in. The thing is, if u were a Cherokee (or other Indian from the southeastern nations), u could not live freely on US territories; rather, you'd be forcibly removed to Indian Territory. It's a long & complex history. My family had kept our family history since long before Eur. arrival, with someone in each generation becoming the family historian & passing it down through each generation for centuries. But my family's history, which had been written down by the 1700s, became partially lost when the US along with gangs of white settlers invaded the homeland nation, often burning down the people's homes & killing the occupants or forcing them to flee. These invaders were given legal title to any Cherokee lands/homes they seized, thanks to Pres. Jackson. Our family historian's home in the Forced Removal period (1838...) was burned down by invading white settlers, with our written family history destroyed. Thus we lost most of our knowledge of our family history before the late 1700-early 1800s. This or similar things happened to many Cherokees during that period, resulting in the widespread dispersion of Cherokees who did not walk the forced death march to Indian Territory in 1838. But again, thank you for this fascinating talk by Dr. Smallwood. It helped me better understand what happened to our ancestors during the invasion by the British & then the seizure of our homeland by the US.

Saw this guy on another show. He is very good and stands his grown on concrete and documented info. Not fairy stories.

Blah, blah, blah! Not a word about the actual story, how disappointing.

Thank you for sharing the characteristics of Quakers. I have Quaker ancestors from Yadkin County, but all I knew about them was that they were pacifists. Being primarily Moravian, which was also known as a pacifist sect, it's interesting to see how pacifist religious sects addressed the issue of slavery. Puritans of the Puritans? Wow!

Thank you for shedding light on these forgotten heroes!!

Wonderful presentation!

I LOVE this!!!! My father was born in Aulander in 1918 in Snakebite Township, but he raised me in Baltimore, Maryland. The first Quaker meeting house still stands on a corner near Johns Hopkins. Maryland was established as a Jesuit Slave Province, but they call that the "Free State" and to see that your first Quaker built a brick house and it has the name "White" on it makes me think Jesuit Father Andrew White. If a salesman came to you that dealt in human cargo and held the beliefs of an Ancient God.... they could get you to believe anything - even that slaves would increase business. I have a story about what Francis Scott Key was peddling on the people and THAT did teach people an unquestionable religion. Much Love from Baltimore - what happened during that time? A suppression from 1773-1814

Early 1800 's Edgecombe County Lower Fishing Creek area NC is the location of where my Mulattoe 6 Great Grandparents lived . He was a run away indentured servant.Their neighbors in the community were listed as black. I'm thinking that they were Tuscaroran remnants. We've never been able to trace earlier generations.

I am the niece of Danny Barber and he was a wonderful kind man. He was never aggressive and was a true gentleman. He has 2 beautiful girls and a beautiful wife who adored him. He has since passed on and we hate terribly he had to endure this horrible treatment. We pray for Brenda's family and we are so sorry for their loss as I am sure he was as well. May God give them peace!!! I hate they had to go through this as well!!!

Ugh! I wouldn't eat either souse or head cheese! Sorry, not trying to be a hater...I swear. But, I'm sooo close to being a vegetarian! except i hate cooked veg!😅 I'll starve to death.

So, was William related to the famous pastor Charles Spurgeon?

Spurgin is my ancestor. We are going to buy 3 books for family and tell others about it. Thank you for sharing this

I’m a descendant of Chiefs Menatonon, Skyco, Thomas, and John Hoyter. My paternal grandfather has Chowanoke roots. His family is from Bertie County, particularly located in Woodville, Roxobel, Kelford. Other places, Harrellsville, and Chowan County

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No one had anything to do with WHO they are...or when their Mother and Father got together and made them,,,,,They came out into the world Just as they were intended to and they can not change anything (naturally) to change anything about who they are...STOP,,,trying to be who you are NOT and just be the best person that you can be as YOU ARE!!!!

Tons of info!!! But You might consider someone else to do your narrating, with a professional voice. I’m afraid you sound like a teenager with the “you knows” and the “ums” . Makes me want to double check your narrative and creates some doubt about your research. So sorry but I believe it’s true.

please! Please mention all the dates when these events happened!!!! In order of when they happened!!! Otherwise it’s just a story out there floating around and around in an approximate time because your story seems to go back and forth a lot.

Um.. no we did not become Muskogee. This was wildly inaccurate

Please continue to upload videos.

I just recently found out thet one of my relatives fought in the US Colored Troops. Thank you for this information.

Excellent

I'm just now learning about this part of my heritage on my moms side, after finding chowan ancestors married in with my romany traveller ancestors in the 1700s&1800s in Nc and Va ❤

Just bought your this will make it taste good. I think you are the most adventurous cook I have ever come across. Power to you😍❤️

Very well done, extremely informative. Thank you so much.

Who was in America before the native Americans?

To answer your question about women at the Ai fortress, I suggest that they were prostitutes.

Spanish disease wave was 1520s, much sooner than 1560s, that was the second wave after DeSoto and Pardo. Don’t forget Gordillo, Quejo and Ayllon Expeditions. They’re the reason why the original Chiefdoms of the Carolinas disappeared and fell to the newcoming Tuscarora

You left out the peoples here before the Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Muskogean speakers… The Chicora and Duhare were the people of this land before being lost to waves of European diseases and replaced by these waves of the ones you mentioned. Why cover newcomers and not those who were here for thousands of years? Lawson and Woodward both document the changing of Native Languages in the early 1700s

Awesome presentation, Cousin Marvin!

I’m loving listening to this guy , looking for the book now, we missed getting to the shipwreck museum this trip ,so thank you sir

The music in the background is really AWFUL and completely unnecessary. It distracts from what the speakers are saying.

My 6X GGfather Richard Spinner fought in the Virginia Continental Line - Sapona Indian 🪶🏹

Free colored / all other free. Black is a painful misnomer. American Indians and Huguenots for the most part.

Very informative presentation.

Hello, the presenter William Dunstan discusses Nell Cropsey and Jim Wilcox on a popular true crime podcast: Erik Rivenes Most Notorious (episode 308).

Should keep to Chowanoke history...

On my father's side (Skinner), has deep history in this county and state about time that you are speaking about in the late 1600's and 1700's. Such as the first US Marshal for the state of North Carolina that was sworn in by George Washington, being my several times great-uncle. I definitely need to come to that area to do some of my genealogy research.

All these black peoples are in fact Sephardic Jews and Muslims Moorish ancestry not from west Africa

Black Americans are the Real Indians, the FIRST AMERICANS

This is what honest archeology looks like.

Fascinating program! Thanks so much!

Ancestry has traced my ggg relatives 7:20 back from 1600s to 1800s Perquimans County, NC and Chowan, NC after moving from Nansemond, VA ♡

The way religion was able to get away with forcing the indigenous to change their ways to helping them get civil rights is one of the best psychological strategies in history. The caused the destruction and then were the good guys. Mass manipulation.

Very informative but the format is not fun to watch. Video editing is pretty easy these days ladies.