The stolen nomads The ancestors of the romani There features of the cousins are undeniable the hair the eyes the culture the dance the music The voice so powerful they stole they stole the children grabbed the woman They grabbed the veils of the Holy tribe and forced them to become like them They want to take the gypsy blood there killing the nomads why Because they held on to there traditions Return to the romani roots and also keep the tribal laws There fighters and deserve there way of life to be respected Leave the gypsies travellers and the travelling nomads alone Along with the Arabs and Africans we are all humans and fear God Love you all and will always stick up for all of you There is beauty in the cultures Free palestine 🇵🇸

Great to see this

kindly give my respect to the couple if anyone of them still lives.

a great work and pains taking for postarity. highly apreciate the WHITE MANS apitite for exploration and discovery.

wish I could write to you and share my knowledge of these people that even anthrrpologists miss out. I dont have their photoes but still can tell you astonishing things.

From tinker to traveller doesn't make sense.

No mention of their language SHANTRA,or why settled people are called COUNTRY FOLK,the BOXING and HANDBALL and GAA SPORTING tradition

Once upon time they traveled country were called Tinkers now don't travel at all and called Travelers

The Industrial Boroughs......became the new.,..Metropolitan Counties !

It all began with the shortage of male Labourforce so....Travelling fortune tellers and Caribbean labour....were brought into the......Industrial Parts of...Counties !

There were many travellers who married settled people and as such lost connection with their family groups and as a result their children lost the Travelling culture and connection. These people have been lost and barely spoken about

Ireland has the prettiest women on earth

My grandad was a Irish traveller/munceri his name was tòmas Costello he came to England in the late 30s looking for work met my grandma a gagie/settled person had a few kids including my father in 56 and although my grandad lived a settled life in a fixed house when he started his family he was still proud of his roots and who he was being a Irish traveller and my father told me he always reminded his children although they live a settled life they are Irish travellers and he made sure to keep the identity and culture alive in his children's hearts and minds and my dad did the same his children myself included

Unfortunately they changed and not in a productive way. Women are mostly uneducated and men die young

west brit scumbags

Is she saying (4:48) “he died hard. He died hard as well. He died hard as well”? What does that mean?

I am a traveller From holland,the samé overhere 60 years ago , but what outsiders never understand Is the fact that the traditional work on the land arround the Farmers stocked in these days And since then they ended up Surround the citys in big numbers,Also in holland Is this way off living gone along time ago

They are like the U.S. Amish. Fight like hell to live in the past.

Its" cruelity man" employed by the government to find any excuse to take the children away from their parents and put into horrible working schools/ convents and reform schools , they were horribly abused.

Brilliant documentary

Great story...

There's a romantic lure to the idea of the travelers but its lost to the ages. I am an Indian feathers not dots and my culture is dieing for a long time sad but its just the way

Does anyone know the music used in this? Particularly the music used at 34:00 and 39:30?

That is a lovely documentary. It is nice to see that there are still some of the people from those families that remember the older relatives. *The "travelling way" has been made redundant by the modern era. To acquire a good-paying job one requires an education.* *Wages are depressed (immigration) and an uneducated man with no marketable skills can not support a family in 2023* In Africa, where population demands have led to more people taking up farming; there is resentment of the herding cultures that drive their cattle though the newly plowed and sown land as part of centuries-old traditions of migrations. Often these disputes become violent. The same is true of the Bedouin of Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. The governments don't want them ranging across the desert and disrupting the gas/oil pipelines.

I'm from Holylands and i grew up alongside some of these people. My father was best friends with a man named paddy wall Aka(Wack) and his people Man connor was her neighbor so to speak. I remember the site before the 1st & 2nd lots of houses the built on the old site that was just like wasteland. The family's still reside there to this day. And I'm so thankfully for those days and nights sitting around the fire with wonderful friend/people. I learned a lot from them and of their ways of living and doing of things for the songs the warm meals and endless cups of tea and lemonade for the kids. I loved watching this so much memories of grown up alongside these amazing peoples it actually made me quite emotional to see some faces of the past that was my childhood. Rip Nan Connor's, sack & Bridie Wall paddy Wall, woodsis paddy connors.

Wish you all especially you're daughter all the very best it's great what you've done in raising awareness 👏

This people reminds me of the Appalachian peoples. My relatives go way back there and the Rom are a great deal like them in many ways. Good people but steeped in many superstitions and traditions that can hinder their progress. It is a shame that they cannot keep the good but get rid of the bad. Many of my relatives have come a long way and I can honestly say most of it was because they sacrificed to make sure their children got a good education. Naturally many children left, but they have all keep their memories and many of their traditions and quite a few have returned to their roots and built homes back in the same hollers they grew up in. They too are a proud people. I love learning about all this.

Sublimely evocative photographs!

Wonderful doccie!

I had the joy of two travellers try a break in of my home here in Melbourne.

Crazy to see the same pattern that happened with natives here in american. My family's mixed with native and once they started living on nations aka reservations, the suicide rates trippled, and alcohol and drugs became one of the top causes of death. Id like to know what the correlation is between people settling for the first time and these statistics. Maybe theres something we can figure out and help prevent it in the future with newly settling groups. They say as natives for us its genetic, but now i wonder, is it genetic for the settlers as well or is the truth something different 🤔

Wow what a beautiful documentary . It was so interesting on so many levels esp how much it effected the traveller community when they were forced into to housing . The sad part for some of the families is how much drug dealing and drug taking has done so much damage to its younger generation esp through suicide , which it does to every culture, my own family included .

Wow. What a beautiful adventure. Those kinds of journeys don’t happen anymore and that’s sad the Gypsy culture has slowly been forced into extinction. George and Sharon got to experience what true Traveller life was like in a barrel top wagon out on the road meeting families, cooking over the fire, hearing the old stories and taking all those wonderful pictures. To see the faces of some of their relatives who had never seen the person in the picture or had never seen that particular picture was so amazing… a legacy of a beautiful time in their lives. To hear the story about why the one man came off the road to pursue education was so heartwarming! Incredible how you can change a life and not know it. That goes to show you. You should always have your best foot forward because you never know who is watching you and being inspired by you. ❤

Nothing but trouble with them

23:45 what is this "crootie man/woman" she mentions? sounds like the u.s. boogeyman great doc!

And THAT is the danger in today’s society! Identity and cultures being cancelled and lost to the “woke movement” already we have lost too much!

This is a very important work by anthropologist George and Sharon Gmelch, beautifully told stories and bittersweet. I am glad I discovered this video.

No space is allowed in this world for people who want to travel, there is nobody wants to do seasonal work for a pitance pay. The harvest rots in the field while food is too expensive to buy and a million anthropologists write papers explaining why.

I know it's not quite the same, but the cost of housing and growth of remote work and gig work is creating a class of people in the US who are basically nomads or American travellers. Van life, RV living, and camper trailer travel are popular and becoming more permanent or long-term lifestyles. It does lack the specific ethnic dominance (other than being American) and tight knit culture, but it does exist. Things are definitely changing. People still want a house of their own, yet they're bored of the standard 9-5 lifestyle. We'll see what happens. It's definitely an American subculture within the larger culture.

This was absolutely beautiful, very emotional in places too. How lovely was their relationship. Really enoyed this. Breaks my heart that travellers are treated so unfairly. Things need to change , discrimination laws for a start!

I grew up poor in the US of Irish decent and I identify with this a lot and even though I can't say I am an Irish traveler seeing the culture pass breaks my heart.

Watching this in 2023 knowing that it's now been over 60 years from the original photographs and 20 years since this video, is hard on my soul, knowing that suicide was becoming a common cause of funerals in the early 00s and it's highest among traveler men in the UK now, in 20 years there's been no solution or help for this dying culture and still so much prejudice; is insulting to all humans everywhere.

I really enjoyed watching this documentary, and photos were lovely. It’s sad to hear that so many travellers take their own lives God bless all the travelling communities in all places of the world.

I found this story very moving. We take way to much for granted. If it wasn't for the Traveller's the USA would not be as great as it is today. We are a travelling society. It's not a big deal to live in a trailer here unless you come from wealth. But even they buy a RV. In fact home ownership is expensive, and for someplace ridiculous with rules, taxes. I've lived in both. You learn to appreciate more when you have less. Many seniors sell the house for a RV and settled for a simple life, people work offices from their trailers. Walmart use to let you RV park for free. Some trailers are so nice that you would sell your house.

I love that these people are getting better educations and some groups are even encouraging their children to go to university. That's awesome. EDUCATION IS THE KEY.

I've never heard of this series on KZbin before however glad I've found it, it is very interesting & informative, good to learn about the traditions & values of the travellers. X

That was a beautiful watch thank u so much for the upload ❤️ god bless x

The traveler are lovely people and not as bad as people think as I am one my self

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