Damn must suck something awful to be raised like savages

I grew up in Los Angeles of Arkansas and Oklahoma Elders...near every Summer a road trip to Arkansas. Great Summers! I have traveled this country extensively, lived many types of life...but landing here in White Rock Township Arkansas is great.

My maiden name is PRINCE.

Amen. Kids. Now. Don't. Get. Out.

Am the 4 generation and proud of it

❤ 25:50 I absolutely love that her mother made sure to introduce her to all of the churches and scriptures. ❤ so she could form her own opinion ❤

The first lady looks so much like my mother's family, only a little bit darker. 🤔 The 2nd lady's nose looks like a throwback mixed race feature. The thing about black or white families who recount having Indian in their families, I found out recently, that person could actually have been mixed race black and white with more white in them until their hair was straight and they were very light skinned. At that point the government would deem them to be Indian and have them move out of free mixed race communities to form new "Indian" communities made up of racially Ambiguous mixed race people being told they were Indian. And that label would have passed down. Many of these free mixed race people married into white communities if they were light enough and were accepted. And others were happy to stay among their own. My mother's entire family were mixed race black people, very light skinned with more European presenting features. America is so messy racially speaking and there's been so many secrets in families with mixed race babies being taken from their mothers to be raised as white. But genetic bits and pieces always show up. 🤷🏽‍♀😊 It's fascinating!

They eat better foods, drank better water, and lived better lives.

The lady Elizabeth looks likes my mom, very beautiful woman ,she was born in 1922 in the delta of Mississippi. I love her so much 💗. She was 94 when she passed ❤

I am in my 60s and children and young adults have no tolerance for my stories

My Great Gramma totally amazed me - memories still do - no matter how many people would show up any time or day, it seemed next thing you knew, the table was set and loaded with food, and flower bouquets in green mason canning jars. My Great Great Auntie had a big loom.

Reminds me of the stories my Grandma would tell us!!

This is so precious. It gives you a warm feeling inside and a longing to know pure, gentle souls, like these women.

This documentary is so beautiful and well done! This was my second time to see it. I love the three women and their stories. Indeed, the general perception, and this included mine until I saw this documentary for the first time, is that the people of Appalachia are all poor, uneducated, toothless hicks. Clearly, this is not true. The people have a very rich history. Their diet and way of living sounded much healthier, also. I look forward to learn more about this place and its peoples. Thank you. Btw-what's the title of the song and can I be able to google and listen to it again online? I would like to see the lyrics, too. I sounds nice.

To share a bit of personal and family history from Pennsylvania Appalachia of the 1950’s and 1960’s - My mother taught in a rural public one room school house in the early 1950’s. A friend of mine attended a rural public one room school house from 1st through 8th grades. The school closed in late 1964. In 1965 a school classmate of mine lived in a house with out plumbing and used an outhouse.

My sister lived in the area these women are living

Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. I'm in my 70s so my parents were born in early 1900s 1908 etc and my grandparents born in the 1800s and they helped raise us. It was horse and buggy days when they were young and grandpas one helped build the railway going to Oregon and back east from the west coast the other was a fireman in the first fire department in SF and Oakland ( 4 white horses pulled the engine). Started working at 12 and grew up on a ranch. Very different times than now. These ladies childhood sounds much like mine in the type of play and no we were not board we invented games etc

I'm 81 and never thought I was growing up poor. Outhouse, well or spring, cold in winter, no shoes in summer, not a lot of food, shared with others without complaints, etc. Only knew about the situation after becoming an adult. Still don't believe I was poor. ❤😂👣🙏

These people look like my fathers people who were supposed to be Lumbee.

This was a way of living not , Oppression they knew not …how can they speak about it ?

Intressting👌i feel like im an Appalach🙂

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Our Pastor, Arnold Murray, brought these people in a teaching when he was in the area studying rock writing. Good show!

Thank you, Mothers, for these stories and history! I've driven through this area of the country several times; often wonder about the folks who live in those homes nestled in the trees. I could talk to these ladies for hours! Beautiful documentary 👏 ❤❤😢😢😢😢❤❤

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We r not African we are the indigenous people of North America

I too and 70 years old

Teacher assistant teach us we are listening to you

Whatever you believe to be true will become true🎉

What a pleasure to meet these amazing women I would have loved to porch sit with some sweet tea and just listen. I am listening to the cultural backgrounds and surprisingly we have the same backgrounds although my ancestors settled in Texas via Germany then Scotland to Ireland, where we added Comanche to the mix lol yep make me really angry and the mix starts whirling lol Inspires me to dig further and find out if we have family amongst these impressive people it would be an honor to count them as family

My grandma made bedding and clothes from the feed sacks and or curtains for her windows from the feed sacks .

No disrespect to narrator but we absolutely DO NOT SPEAK english here. Americans speak AMERICAN! Only british speak english as they are from england but we in America speak AMERICAN.❤

Plum butter is delicious yum❤

Three of the most beautiful women ever. What a wealth of information.

My last name is Queen also !

The kids have both parents ❤

The baskets r beautiful good with thier hands

I remember my grandma singing this first song while she was cooking some of the best food i ever ate❤❤❤

Love This

i'm from east central KY. technically i grew up in the foothills, in the bluegrass region of central KY. but i've lived in the mountains in eastern KY now for several years. i absolutely love this part of Appalachia so much. there's nothin better than this rural life, its harder and i understand why some people think its too difficult a place to live in. but its so beautiful. and there's so many vivid, vivid memories i have of this place, you get so strongly rooted to place, here in Appalachia. and you're steeped in your own culture, and your own people, generations back. and your own history. there's old cemeteries, stone fences, churches, homesteads, all over the place. its such a beautiful region and the culture and history is incredible. i love it here. and its really, really nice to hear perspectives from non-white cultures that lived here in Appalachia. they made our whole culture so rich and varied, and really influenced all of us, more than we realize i'm sure. what a great documentary, love this

This was awesome thank you so much for this content. I am 53 years old and ever since I was a kid I always had a fascination and felt a connection to homestead culture, especially Appalachian. The one thing that I always found refreshing is no matter how much research I’ve never come across strong obvious racism in this culture for some reason it just never really seem to exist the same way it did in many other regions of the south; that alone makes them special and unique!💯those three women saw more similarities in each other then they did differences.I think that’s awesome really that’s what America should be💯

Plum butter homemade from momma; Ma'am you lived a blessed life💯🌹

Grade A+ video.I remember my parents telling stories as these ladies did.Thanks for sharing these 3 beautiful ladies' heritages.May they R.I.P 💯💯

These women were just like my grandmother. She was so wise. Her garden was amazing and she refused to use any kind of pesticides. She took hair from our brushes and made her own repellents. I miss her wisdom still.

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

20:21

You a lucky woman you had a good life

She sounds Lumbee😲