What a beautiful intro music!

You can tell she’s mixed too.

This second lady makes me think of the show and novel Christy by Catherine Marshall

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You a lucky woman you had a good life

She sounds Lumbee😲

lol everyone one saying they friends and family in this movie so now I’m not watching

Loved 🥰 these interviews, I’m privileged to live ten miles from the Cherokee reservation. It’s an absolutely beautiful place to live. Blessings. 🙏🏼❤️

This was first aired in May 2012.

My mother was born in 1933 and lived in the woods in north east Texas. There were 11 siblings and her father rode in with other men to Dallas TX to work. He was gone most of the time. I heard my mother and aunts talk about the same things - swinging on grapevines and climbing trees. They had to pick cotton with no gloves and sometimes did not get to school because they had no shoes. Her mother was narcissistic and mean and did not want all those kids. Most of them including my mother became alcoholics and were mean. They were Irish and Indian.

That's why today I'm told .I am a old child.and that's pretty much the way I live.and used that frame of raising my 3 girls and the grandkids I. Had to raise from my oldest daughter.i. thank god I followed the steps of my grandparents. And I wish they were here today without rules in your home.you will never go wrong.

She looks just like my grandmother

What a beautiful story ,thank you for sharing we would do well to live more like this😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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Amanda I’m seventy seven and work at our church called pioneer girls and help with lesson while parents are in sanctuary ❤ the piece of of pottery that you are holding looks like the one that I have from a gift for my wedding glad to hear you’re active in your community thank you for sharing your childhood memories ❤

This a great video these woman are true and talented ❤

😮 another another thing that people need to know about the Appalachian mountain people is that a lot of them did not let others know that they were of African descent for fear of being you know reckoned against so they would say I'm Cherokee, it is very important to note that even though a lot of us are Cherokee that Cherokee Indian is also indigenous afro

What I love about this documentary and what I love about the indigenous people to this certain part of the Appalachians is that they identify with their Afrocentric genealogy as well as their Cherokee genealogy and with some European and these group of people lived in harmony they married and migrated throughout each other and you know they had a hard time but they made it work so that tells you that racism can if you ignore it okay and these documentaries is the reason why I don't excuse people when they're racist for no reason because in these times let's be clear there was white supremacy there were Jim Crow laws and most of these people were people of color and they lived in harmony they raise their children they married and they migrated and they made a community with one another and they acknowledge their African ancestry and they acknowledge their Indian roots and they acknowledge the classification of Love amongst one another a lot of times racism is taught and that's why I give no exception to the racist

It is so hard to identify race with impurity because wherever there will have been a indigenous afro, or an indigenous afro what they call Indians as they call them today because that was another thing that they did they divided all of the indigenous afro Indians into labels for the better sake of keeping us divided the indigenous Indians especially the Cherokee were not people of white skin they were actually really dark skin people just like the natives just like the Seminoles the Seminole Indians just like the tobacco Indians these are all indigenous groups of Indians that thrived and believed to have come from Africa and it explains why India as we know it today that is supposed to be in the region of Asia was actually a part of on the oldest maps India was a part of Africa and that better explains why the people's phenotype and color is very distinct with indigenous Afrocentric people on in Africa just like the Somalians and the Ethiopians they are all very specific African people that have a distinctive look because let's just be clear Africa is a continent but Europeans have always found their way around us and some reason they were always found to either be getting rid of us because of the color of our skin or breathing out the indigenous color by raping

Priceless footage…Blessed my heart big-time! Thank you 😊

This is my blood comes from I’m proud of it ❤❤

I’m 44 years old mother of 6 mixed race Hispanic and white now I am blessed to have 4 grandchildren Never had the pleasure to have a grandmother but I will pass along our family’s traditions . Praying for God’s wisdom blessing and protection

This lady talks just like me and my family. I grew up just like this. My mom and mommaw did all this and taught me to do it also. The music was old. Religion was old regular primative baptist. My school went from K thru 12. We lived in a coal camp. Everyone was kin some way. She has our accent. Love it. Im 68 years old.

Beautiful

Strong and beautiful people

I met my wife's grandmother while courting my wife in 1960. Courting was not a causal thing. Granny waa 80, well maybe 83, she was a one room school teacher up on Little Canada (Wolf Creek) NC. Great Smokeys, NC. That was in 1960' Her smokies were from the previous century. I never knew how far back she reached. Some reached to stories of the Civil war. Queen is one of my wife's ancestors. I liked her and she knew that her grand daughter was designed to mate me for the next 60 years. My girl schooled down at the Cullowhee lab school, where her daddy would be the dean of the local college where I found her, or was it the other way round.

"Black" people are also indigenous to the America's.

What beautiful sweet women. They are just amazing.❤ love and prayers from Albany Georgia 🌹

This was life for everyone in WNC at that time. It's only mysterious for the wealthy family's and the younger generations that never experienced it. I don't care what anyone says, those days were so much better than now.

Mrs. Swimmer is a very, very sweet lady. It's too bad that more young people in Cherokee don't listen to her. She is extremely appreciated by many though.

Amazing knowledge of herbs; what a strong woman.

Thank you for this. I will probably end my life alone., but that is my gift .

Your words about sodas are profound! My mother never bought drinks, and I appreciate that now. Bless you🌹

Hello, I climbed a large cherry tree when I was a young small child to eat the cherries. Unfortunately, a brother (Harvey) had to climb to get me down.

What does “Blow Your Corn” mean your special woman🌹

Such beautiful Ladies They have so much that they can share. I would consider it a privilege to know any one of them God Bless each of them and their children and their children’s children 🙏💜😇🥰

I’m a white 50 year old and bringing back my grandma

The first Cherokee lady, looks so much like my ex husbands Mamaw. Who I loved very much, just as I do my mother in law. Who taught me much about raising a garden and canning etc. She grew up in Virginia, She always said she was half native -american descent, but married a white man? If I remember correctly ? She spoke very much like this lady too. My husbands people are all dark skinned, and the rumor was that there was Melungeon in the blood line as well, I have always been curious,. Good folks who treated me like family and still do. Listening to the second lady say "every feller" carried wood etc. was something my mother in law still says to this day. Its a term of endearment . I find myself saying it once in awhile, to my own surprise. LOL I have the privilege of being in a close family, where we were taught to take care of our elders, and the same with my ex husbands family. My Mom lives with me, in the house I have lived in since I was 22 years old, and My mother in law lives next door and my ex husband takes care of her. My sons take good care of all of us. My family is from Kentucky and my ex husband's family is from the blue ridge mountains of Virginia. We ended up in Ohio, and I love it here, but the hills always feel like home to me, like i can feel my feet sinking in to the soil, connecting with the roots of my heritage. . Life has a way of changing, and my divorce was part of that. I don't think I ever got over it, and I don't think he did either. We both live next door to each other, with our Moms. Neither of us ever remarried, In my heart I guess I still am his wife and always will be. I don't know how he feels, bit I know If I ever need anything I know I can go to him.. We both made some mistakes, and I am thankful to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who has forgiven me ,and him too, for our mistakes.

the third woman would be 100 if this was filmed in 2020. I believe it was filmed way before that - the 1980's would put these women in their 80's. I wish they had presented this more clearly, like what year it was made.

If this was filmed in 2000 & the second lady was born in 1914, she'd be 106

I'm 60 years old now and I loved my grandma I loved just being around her. We would go and visit her sister's and I remember that they were big healthy women, funny and sweet. My grandmother didn't have a Prejudice bone in her body,. She accepted everyone. Now that all my aunts and uncles, grandma is gone, I miss them all. I wish I would have been able to spend more time with them all. I. Not crying 😢.

So much respect for these women... a native Northcarolina girl here. Mountains are closer to God, and have loved my life growing up in the mountains ❤🙏

I am a woman or the Ozarks but my kin come from Appalachia. This sure made me emotional....emotional and homesick.

The Native American woman and the Black woman are indistinguishable! #staywoke

28:07 Amen 🙏🏾

This is what the Democrat Schills are destroying for bribes. The Corporate Fascism and Global Oligarchs hate the very thing that was depicted in this film. First all the wanted was mindless Consumers but since they've had a taste of complete & total power & control they won't stop till they get it. They are playing God and destroying our link to our Ancestors & Heritage all in the name of "Peace & Good will". Their disgusting dogs that should be punished like Judas!

I thought at first the second lady was a scottish immigrent, which had lived in the us for so long that here acsent had faded a lot. Its impressiv that you can almost hear a rolling ''R'' in her dialekt, in some words.

Wonderful documentary of these strong, loving women. Thank you 🙏🏻 New Zealand 🇳🇿

Well done .Thank you for this video.