A Conversation With Native Americans on Race | Op-Docs

This week we bring you “A Conversation With Native Americans on Race,” the latest installment in our wide-ranging “Conversation on Race” series. Directed by Michèle Stephenson and Brian Young, the film grapples with the racist contradictions of a country that, many feel, would prefer it if Native Americans didn’t exist.
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[@karnokkantisutar237]

Imagine being a minority in your own land.

[@Phoenix-um1jb]

Cindy Chronister are you saying natives are thieves and they just get worse?

[@jonerton67]

Which tribe?

[@Phoenix-um1jb]

Jon Williams Okanagan

[@dldez8590]

London?

[@dldez8590]

@@BW1875 actually from Africa the cradle of civilaztion

[@russetvelvet]

"My name means that my family survived." So sad yet so proud...

[@tk1950]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmeZm4WGpMt5jbs

[@kathyharrington546]

Allwas with head held very high.! 💖

[@traceyowenhughes9223]

BLOOD QUANTUM PURPOSE WAS TO CAUSE DIVISION AMONGST OUR PEOPLE.

[@mechanicalandsystematicall7899]

What is your name

[@elcoyotecojodeldesierto2300]

Really cool name.

[@AJ_real]

From Ireland I can tell you, don't stop speaking your native language, don't ever stop celebrating your culture, do get politically active and make them uphold those treaties.

[@dorianvedrashko9172]

at least irish people are still 80% or more genetically irish. the problem with the indians is that if you are 1/32nd indian, you can be indian in america. It is absurd. People hate blood quantum, but without it, even Azov battalion can become choctaw or cherokee lol.

[@WSEize]

Man I always like natives and I would play as kid with bow and arrows and I'm not even close to America.

[@gregrobinette8620]

​@@WSEize are you German? Do you actually care tho, cuz most who 'play' dont care, they see them as characters from a show. Here in America we are seen as extinct, Latin America hates us too the mestizo have to accept their Hispanic side only. Its sad.

[@tazinboor3913]

Man, Americans were honestly really bad people, I mean we essentially made another peoples land ours and leveled their population (races) and resources, But I guess you can’t drive bad away from something in order to make it “good”.

[@alexandra6557]

@@gregrobinette8620 I care! Used to play with bows as a Young kid, used to listen music like drums( hippie rock connection), used to read about significant personalities like High Horse and others, în highschool. Also made my paper for the english exam în highschool about the british english and american english underlying the native people but mostly talking a bit of american history în relation with native people.

[@MelaninSpeakzOut]

My heart broke when my sister spoke about her grandfather. Because he looks black he feels like he isn't native enough. Let your grandfather know it's MORE of him then he knows!! Incredible video

[@bashfulbeautybelle]

This speaks volumes. Imagine how many others before him felt the same way and classified themselves as black. It’s a divide and conquer situation. If you divide the lights from the darks there is less ppl to pay/support & the government will phase out of the established treaties sooner.

[@gpostallive5818]

I understand, our plight as dark skinned American Indians! We must lift each other up! Osiyo & Feathers 🪶 Up!

[@beam6229]

@@bashfulbeautybelle exactly I know that feel I’m aztec choctaw and black but my grandfather was aztec in choctaw because his mother in father but he married a black woman

[@TeeceeMoody]

I briefly worked at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) some years ago, and it was wild. It was staffed with a team of white genealogists and a conservative (using this term for a lack of a better word) Native American Branch Chief. They engaged in determining who was Native and which tribes were considered legitimate. At the time, this was being done to see who would be granted casino licenses, and tribes were being turned down left and right. Needless to say that the Native people had a few choice words for that branch chief. The Bureau was a part of the Department of Interior, which was being monitored and investigated for embezzling millions of dollars designated for the Native peoples (I’m not implying that BIA staff was involved. The investigation was occurring on a higher level.) It was so bad that employees weren’t even allowed to use the internet. I’d never seen anything like that, and the experience was eye opening.

[@AmericanLord]

Us blacks are native Americans we are American Indians. A white boy can consider himself native and many do. American Indians were here before native Americans. Natives are actually from SIBERIA. All these watered down natives like the one in the video are impostors. American Blacks are the real and only American Indigenous people.

[@billymiller4586]

When will a native American become president of the USA...

[@PsychAxE]

Probably never

[@kieranstark7213]

Sometime slightly later in the 21st Century at least. We’ll keep our hopes up!

[@diraaa5046]

When will the natives get their land back?

[@kieranstark7213]

Pretty Girl Indigenous people can either be black or tan, or sometimes even white.

[@FortMat31]

YOKOOAH what lol 😂

[@johnnygooch3872]

whenever I hear a white supremacist claim America is a white nation, I shake my head and cringe.

[@johnnygooch3872]

DELTA-SKY LIGHT honestly I don’t blame you, but given the fact that I’m white, I’d have to stand against those aspirations.

[@the_medicine_peddler8324]

@DELTA-SKY LIGHT You should thank the West that you're no longer in the stone age.

[@charlieharjo5268]

@@the_medicine_peddler8324 you should thank the natives for letting mexico live..

[@inthemoment8410]

DELTA-SKY LIGHT Whites were indigenous people once too (everyone was once indigenous to a continent for that matter). They were the first race of people to be colonized (via the Roman Empire).....this was long before Natives were colonized. Before that, whites were of Viking, Barbarian, and Celtic tribes. I realize Romans were White as well, but nonetheless, that was the first sign on earth of mass colonization of one ethnicity over another. Essentially, whites did to other races what was done to them long before. I’m not condoning it....but any person who wants to dig deeper into it would realize that their history is definitely a setting event to them colonizing others. Europe is and always has been much more crowded and has tons of different cultures crammed next to each other. Mass scale warfare was going on there long before it was in North America. I’m sure there was tribal warfare in North America, but nothing on the level of what was going on in Europe.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

I shake my head at your notion it isn't. The United States, was founded and built up by mostly white people. Now you could make the argument the _continent_ isn't white. That's fair and true, but the nation itself is. By your logic Iran is a white nation because before the Arabs conquered it, it consisted of Indo-Europeans.

[@kahealanik6979]

Hmmm. Hawaiian’s have to prove ‘blood quantity’ too. And yes our land, our kingdom was taken forcibly too. I see a common theme here.

[@lalagrimm-stone3177]

I've been hearing about a bigger push for Hawaii to secede from the US and I really hope you can. You deserve to have your home back and your sovereignty.

[@brattingprincess]

Scientific Revolution FYI they illegally were annexed. Federal government owes them reparations AT A MINIMUM.

[@the8568]

I didn't know colonization was a theme

[@lovely-mk4rt]

Yes Kahealani. I have never owned my own home and as a senior I had to prove blood %. Still don’t have a home and my grandparents land was taken by the sugar companies.

[@brattingprincess]

808 Dream I am so sorry and I am so sad we didn't get to display the Hawaiian flag in defiance because of stupid police and racists!! I am so mad.

[@jeskvell3254]

"My family survived Catholicism." WOW, that speaks a lot.

[@carlaeyyy649]

I didn't know Native people had to approve their blood amount. That's messed up

[@goobertgoo3081]

Mr Anderson To be honest, the percentage they ask for is 25% which is low already. It would be disrespectful to true natives by trying to claim assistance when you are example: 15% native and 85% European. If the people are in this video are let’s say 10% native (which some seem to be) they need to stop embarrassing themselves. I’m full black and i have the same amount of European blood (slavery) yet you don’t see me claiming White

[@goobertgoo3081]

Mr Anderson Self hatred is real. I think it came out that she was 0.09% Native. Meaning less than 1%. The only way they try to prove they’re native is by wearing long decorative earrings and doing pigtails. It’s a bit cringe really

[@RobertJones-ew8fz]

Many tribes have no blood quantum requirement for citizenship.

[@chrisbeatty9280]

Lee Ross Depends on your tribe. I am 50%Black, and 50% Native American. My momma was full blood Native. There is a card that shows your percentage. My tribe considers a person a part of our tribe if they are 50%, or more. They are trying to save our tribe’s blood as pure as they can. Sucks though because I have nieces and nephews who will never be a part of our tribe, but they can say they have Native blood in them because they are 75% Black. I have some Black features, but my Native side is more prominent. I have a strong red tone to my brown skin along with coal black straight hair, and I understand along with speak our tribal language. I never lived on our reservation, but I go back to visit. I speak English all of the time for the most part because I live in a city. I represent my Native culture as well as Black culture.

[@charlesjohnson7202]

Yes that is crazy

[@69ridlah]

Stand tall, I refuse to be disregarded. I’m a Maori woman and proud. Indigenous nations all over the world ✊🏼

[@lelouppe]

I greet my Amerindian friends, I live in the south-east of France and after watching a last western at the age of 14 I began to learn the truth about the Amerindians, and since I spend all the free time writing about what I learned when I went to visit the United States several times, now I am not far from 80 years old I always keep this rage in my heart to help the Amerindians to regain their pride and their dignities. I have always followed what has been going on with blacks in the United States for centuries. you are in the same case as these people of color, so wake up and continue to fight, so that one day the Amerindian land comes back to you. Remember, there are a lot of people on your side. kzbin.info

[@boldarock4095]

I Love you for standing tall!!!

[@dssin]

Aotearoa!

[@69ridlah]

Sikario40 Kia Ora my friend 😊

[@69ridlah]

Rami Sebit Look up Maori before you start assuming I am not of an indigenous race thank you. So rude. I am fair because my great grandfather was a full blooded Irish man. But then again why am I explaining myself to you ?? My last name is Maori, my features are Maori, I identify as Maori because I am Maori. We are considered the dark skin race of New Zealand/Aotearoa. I suggest you do some homework instead of coming through with your assumptions.

[@henryvaldez4969]

A big hello from a Mayan native from central America to my indigenous all over the world.

[@freckleheckler6311]

You’d have to recognize the indigenous identity of Europeans to.

[@compashinpei]

Hola, soy japonés y estudio maya!!!

[@stsk1061]

@mkeufish Finno Ugric People are from the Ural Mountains, so I'm not sure why you're bringing them up.

[@henryvaldez4969]

@Davontay Hase don't let the last name fool you. My mom is 💯 mayan father is a mestizo.

[@juanrisa945]

If you are Indigenous or you want to help Indigenous people, please sign this so Indigenous people are treated fairly and receive their resources: www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-give-money-and-resources-to-native-americans

[@blueshinobi8665]

I think all of us natives should be proud because our ancestors had to fight for us to be here

[@Bibianobautista]

Native American president. I really hope that we get one . God bless all native Americans

[@6spirit9]

Bibiano Bautista 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@kaiumeda5990]

Proud Luiseño

[@stellamorenobeebe2114]

Never going to happen. We only have one medical doctor from Navajo nation in Arizona.

[@kaiumeda5990]

Stella Moreno Beebe thanks what you think

[@garvitjoshi723]

You need to have Native president.. cz if you see here in India we got prime minister who puts country and Hindu's first so we are progressing.. so you also need a great leader

[@MichelleMCTran]

I’m native. I’m 50%Cherokee/50%Mohican. I’m native and I am happy . Government just want to divide and conquer people. I’m half of half. I am still proud to be Native

[@j.milesyasharahla1381]

You are what your father is. Seed earth basic concepts

[@johnbalasa711]

Good for you. God made you who are you,be proud .

[@Shahmar]

@@j.milesyasharahla1381 GAD and Issachar want to continue to languish in their abyss of uniqueness and lack of responsibility. They know the front lines is us and Esau they scared man.

[@johnbalasa711]

@Jamal Kinnard Lets talk.

[@Shahmar]

Avia Littlehawk With all due respect where did your father come from before he became a Mohican or Cherokee? that is to imply that either two fathers can occupy the same seed or that two fathers can occupy one womb...No sarcasm or animosity fam I'm checking how deep you wanna go man I can help you through this BS the devil has taught all of us.

[@Yahyahsouth401]

When the lady said what older white men say to her I got so angry

[@greghowarth2540]

You have to remember those are very ignorant people.Not everyone is like that.

[@owen-qy8lz]

@@greghowarth2540 there's a lot of ignorant people tho

[@greywolf7586]

Tina Williamson1984 why should I believe you instead of her.?

[@annas.5894]

Tina Williamson1984 - No Tina. She did not lie. She spoke a very sad and despicable truth.

[@turtlenoheart]

That's why they included it... this is emotional stuff and it is meant to fuel your anger. Don't buy it... this is a small portion of young people. They do not represent Indigenous people in North America

[@bigdaddyd7397]

Why do these Native American sound so weak? As a Navajo man I am ashamed. 😬

[@huh4963]

My great grandparents were Native. I miss them. I miss hearing their stories. I wish they were still alive

[@prnnp]

Share their stories, so they will stay alive🙏🙏

[@richlisola1]

So aren’t you native as well?

[@mimiandnyny7113]

I completely understand what you are feeling. My great-grandmother was full blooded Cherokee. My family always tell me stories about her and how she was and even that part of my family,my culture. She actually married an African American man and loved her family. My family never failed to expose me to that part o my culture even the langue and I’m only 16 years old. So keep digging keep learning you’ll culture. Live it everyday.

[@mac_the_nomad83]

MiMi And NyNy wouldn’t that make you Native??? You say that line like you aren’t...

[@diraaa5046]

I still get told stories and I love it! Every totem pole has a story to it!

[@none23517]

Calling then Indians confuses me lol and I am indian from India 100% pure also

[@jonahsmith5096]

Ok Christopher C came n thot natives were Indians so he called them indians

[@Phoenix-um1jb]

Rem Pandel It’s more preferable if were just called natives, but yes, idk.. that’s something people should ask trump.

[@simoneyoung825]

@Rem Pandel tell that to the ones who have been killed for their organs and the police arent bothered to find the people who did it. You hear more about black people dying for organs that you do about aboriginals is because nobody cares about the aboriginals.

[@Wuei108]

You are a Bharatha!

[@audreyf9092]

Miguel Fraino You guys say the same thing for all minorities. I don’t mean to group all white People but whenever I see a video on any minorities and their struggles in a white society it’s always,” Get a job like the rest of us.” Like ummm the only reason most people have their jobs are because of the privilege and opportunity given to you by your grandparents who were also white

[@sidisme5566]

American whites be like " I am 1/64 native"

[@joshualane1716]

If it's not just a fun fact to them and compels them to look further into native histories, then I see no problem with it.

[@JohnnyBot71]

meh, so do native americans...

[@myriahconlin733]

I'm a white mut born and raised in a town in between two reservations. Mom's boyfriend was Mexican, his kids Native/Mexican. Only sadness I saw was how one reservation had a lot of opposition to teaching town folk, not the town folk from hindering the reservation. Gladly, the community in both town and reservation are learning together and love the land just the same. I did see drugs as a common threat, town or reservation. I have been invited to ceremonies and a lot of good people just want to teach/learn. We can only unite when everyone is willing to learn. My white history made it seem like I was destined to be an alcoholic, German/Irish. History shows that every group of people fought for land. History also shows insane people do insane things. Destiny is not our past, it's our actions that shape our future. I strongly believe everyone needs to learn how to take care of whatever land they are on. People as a whole are very wasteful and greedy.

[@hmpz36911]

And many of them are.

[@NPC13377]

I'm 2% black ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@bpe9578]

It really touched me when the young woman with the glasses told the story about her grandfather. Bless his heart,he wants to protect her but his actions hurt her heart. I hope that he can come to an agreement with her and finally come out of his room.I love what the young woman said with pride about her name.🌺

[@SolAya21]

What action? All he is doing is being black ?

[@jenniferjacksonescogido7093]

@@SolAya21 He stays in his room when native people come over because he doesn't want her to be embarrassed by him and his connection to her. She is proud that he's Black, and that she is mixed and wants him to come out of his room.

[@SolAya21]

@@jenniferjacksonescogido7093 yeah I understand that. I just think it's important to realize that this is what it means to be Black in practically any western dominated society. It is to be shunned, hated, and be vilified. The old man is doing what he knows he has to do because of the racism in his society. There is no agreement he needs to make with his daughter. The issue is the society that has traumatized him so much that his very existence can cause harm to others. This is the part that mixed people seem to struggle with. He will never come out of his room in his life he has seen enough trauma and pain for his mere existence that in order to keep him safe he refuses to even be outside. So to me as a full black person I understand why he has to do it and I respect him deeply for it because she will not change their views those views will just have to die with their generation (hopefully). In the meantime he gave his daughter a chance to live a normal life but what else can you do. White people have poisoned the world against us. Including a group that should see us as their brother as we have experienced the same level of hate but even they deny us, even though there are probably more black people with land right higher percentages of native blood over white people yet they are the ones native communities are happy to claim and seek approval from. It's sad but it's reality. The action he is performing is not just the literal description of what he did but the reality of what it means to be Black in the world..hated, vilified, demonized and exploited to no ends. I appreciate the natives that understand this but I was surprised this type of racism existed but like with everything being Black I'm not too surprised that another group has found every reason to hate us.

[@JamesBrooks-hj3dz]

​@@jenniferjacksonescogido7093What is black?

[@nanih.]

I really do hope that we get a Native American president. Please

[@D_isco_D_ancer]

*It sounds empowering but more important to that is that we, like the African American civil struggle, do recognize that this land was part of first nations with culture and governance. I do not believe first nations want to assimilate to the colonial culture or way of governance, we dont have anything to offer to them honestly if we look at the mess we are in. Coexistence and respect would be the supreme achievement NOT the presidency of a corrupt and faulty system and society.*

[@shittyG1]

Nani Sunami why does it matter? It's just the color of their skin.

[@eleonoramustafaeva1303]

Why lol. We need a qualified president, regardless of their skin colour.

[@kennyraicherter1264]

Nani Sunami oh my god i pray for it and im white

[@kimberlymehrer104]

drew quick ~Not blood, DNA...originating when the continents still connected through the Bering Strait. If you're going to talk about history, there's much more that you need to understand about it! White people, Vikings, came and conquered, then Europeans, the 'original', indigenous people's are all Related!

[@gost4995]

"My existence is resistance" Powerful

[@retard6665]

I disagree

[@f22fighterjet]

I disagree as well. This vid was some left wing dramatic bullcrap

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

F22 fighter jet Try some other outlets then. You’ll see that most natives say very similar things.

[@inetfraud]

Why resist when you can go around? That is more akin to the Native mind than anything. Just goes to show these kids are living perspectives thrust upon them by manipulative puppet masters that have always striven to control the Native Peoples....and apparently, sadly...it's still working with 'some' of the Native Youth today.

[@DerekCivilDefense]

LOL!

[@mitchkahle314]

"My existence is resistance" is a beautiful phrase. Thank you for sharing.

[@BeTheResilient1]

That should be held up during a protest

[@ClayMastah344]

It's beautiful but it's also heartbreaking. Because that resistance is daily, it never stops, even when you want it to. Life shouldn't have to revolve around resisting oppressive systems yet here we are.

[@johncasper5052]

that phrase is from the Bolshevik revolution. :)

[@juanrisa945]

If you are Indigenous or you want to help Indigenous people, please sign this so Indigenous people are treated fairly and receive their resources: www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-give-money-and-resources-to-native-americans

[@w.e.t.fmusicandgaming4154]

@@juanrisa945 Trust me Indigenous People receive plenty of help/Resources already. You should see them up in Canada. I can't walk through downtown in my city without being begged for either money or a cig by some drunk native missing half their teeth. Some of those who ask actually get mad that I have no handouts for them. Been called quite a few colorful racial names by them too lol. Natives get countless benefits such as not needing to buy hunting or fishing licenses, and not having to even follow the hunting/fishing rules that non native people have to follow. Also prescription coverage, paid schooling (college/university), along with money from their band office (my ex got $4000 onetime just for being native....) Then they say that the government is trying to "oppress" them somehow... Like really? They get better rights/opportunities than anyone else in Canada. But it's still not good enough so they got to ask for more and bum off me in the mean time? Lmao If you want them to be treated "fairly" Then take away all those perks and make them like everyone else. It'll have the 2 sided effect of people no longer seeing them as a bunch of welfare low life's, because now they'll have to work as hard as everyone else to get someplace in life.

[@AtlSamuel]

I'm Cherokee and I want all of my native people to know that YOU MATTER AND YOU ARE IMPORTANT

[@benedictcumberbatch4275]

These people aren’t even full blood “native” look at their skin color. They are mixed so they can’t say they are actual “native”. I’m even 15% native with blonde hair blue eyes lol

[@therealwewin]

Your tribe don't mean a thing to me, I see myself as human being. Unlike you who wants to keep racism alive.

[@YS2URL]

What about the ongoing genocide they avoided talking about? Or other modern problems/ issues facing us?

[@WarrenSofine-tp7qf]

I'm Native American Cherokee and Black American I soooo Approve this Message!!

[@SagiSharma]

Yes. They are the real children of American land and true owners of American resources 👍

[@jordinhocharles]

I don’t know what is worst being taken from your land. Or still living on your land but it was stolen from you. They’re both terrible!

[@Patty-qt1xb]

Pick up a history book. Conquest is worldwide, Indians are not special.

[@jordinhocharles]

Patricia Ortiz but Conquest is traditionally a European thing

[@carstenhemel2574]

@@jordinhocharles No, it is not. O - may I remind of the Hawaiians? Who were stolen and overun by the Americans as well?

[@carstenhemel2574]

@potechi "It's only a caucasian thing. Neither asians nor Afrikans went to other race's territories to steal them." Exactly this is happening now! The Chinese have stolen a whole steel factory from Dortmund. We paid the enegeering for lots of stuff and they copy it. Without paying us. If everyone would pay us or the family of Rudolf Diesel for every single engine manufactured after his invention, we would be rich. But no - you run us into a war. And not just one war, many wars.

[@jordinhocharles]

Carsten Hemel i think you at the wrong person

[@jeffwisener1378]

The story of native Americans is basically the story of every indigenous people on every continent and every island. Western civilization diminished tribalism as being beneath western civilization but in reality nationalism and patriotism are the same as tribalism, just rebranded to justify selfishness, hatred, and greed.

[@chrisblack9425]

Jason Smith Bad argument. It’s also in human nature not to be greedy and enslave what is your point?

[@brianisme6498]

chris black he’s saying every culture has done horrible things to each other, the Maori, Australian aboriginals, native Americans.

[@chrisblack9425]

Brian Is Me My point still stands.

[@brianisme6498]

chris black his point was better yours is pretty weak.

[@brianisme6498]

John Burton yes like the Anglo saxons or natives of Scotland and Ireland.

[@PRE..]

Proud of my African, Shoshone , and Cherokee Native blood 🙌🏽‼️

[@terrianwilliams2624]

what part of africa you from?

[@kasheem1747]

You have relatives in Africa ?

[@kasheem1747]

@DroidXPhone No ! Do you ? Respect others as well...

[@regulargirl8367]

Continue to be happy love forget these comments ❤️

[@jamesstuart5016]

Osiyo

[@mr.realistic9791]

I think natives had it way worst than my black ancestors this is your land and always will be

[@rjthomas2237]

That “one drop black ... one drop anything else” point is important.

[@oshkaabewisdebwewin2769]

Many forget we are souls spirit and walk the circle of life

[@oshkaabewisdebwewin2769]

@Sherazade Mayers, You are more than walking flesh randomly evolved, and one can live many lifetimes, to gain and understand through experience. Much native youth will harbor mixed feelings about this, and many do not even take a second glance at what our ancestors have taught nor learn from it.

[@MercyAlwyz23]

Listening to how Native is considered makes me realize that it’s part of the white man tactic! I was watching that show by Henry Gates and he talked about how if your mother was a slave then you were a slave also! They did it this way because many of the fathers weren’t slaves and they couldn’t enslave by generations if they could be free through the father! I think that’s part of why you’re Native through your mother! There were some black families who had a white mother and ended up being free because their mother was free! I never knew this until Russell Wilson’s tree was revealed 😱 History is just twisted!

[@oshkaabewisdebwewin2769]

@@MercyAlwyz23 It depends on the people, some inherit a clan through the mother others like my own it is through the father. The best source of information is from the people themselves as no "Tribe" is exactly;y alike, though many things are shared in common, as many view, the only separation is that of our languages.

[@MercyAlwyz23]

Oshkaabewis Debwewin ok thank you for clarifying.

[@darkdragonnasir]

Please do more on Native Americans, i want to learn the unspoken truth

[@shines9290]

Read a history book. Not just the ones they force you to read in school.

[@Levitaz4236]

Check out an idigenous history of the united states by Roxane Dunbar ortiz. It will be much better than anything the New York Times could offer.

[@spuriouseffect]

One thing that people don't realize is that European and Indigenous lived together for hundreds of years, intermarrying and exchanging culture. There are millions upon millions of people in the United States who have Native Ancestry. And yet some out there believe only those of "pure" ethnicity should be recognized as Native to this land. There are only 8 people left who speak my Native language. None of them are "pure". So I guess we no longer exist. And my brother shouldn't be teaching his children the language, because after all, what does it matter. According to many Indigenous people, we are too watered down to be recognized. Racism comes in many forms. Never be ashamed of who you are. Do not let people tell you that you are less because of what blood you carry.

[@ARosethatBloomsinEarlyMay]

Native Americans are the first and original Americans.

[@chasedadolla2479]

darkdragonnasir check out Trail of Tears and the black mountains

[@momoredel2295]

Love these docs on Native people. We never learn about the problems faced by the native community in school or in the news.

[@erniecorella7676]

To bad you won't know D real truth this American doesn't want to listen they got there heads buried in the sand my hope is that they wake up & realize we are all 1 people & race.

[@ElusiveCube]

well you never had any schools before the white man arrival, so now you just take of the feathers and learn.

[@Emm486]

ElusiveCube natives were the ones who taught how to tell time, days like the calendar etc but what would you know 🙄

[@ElusiveCube]

@@Emm486 Time as a measured interval was first made by the Greek man Ctesibius some 600 BC, in Alexandria, ancient farmers also measured the seasons for timing the harvests, you should go to school the tribal chief is teaching you some irrelevant knowledge, now the whole world is laughing at you WE HAVE FOUND YOU IN A STONE AGE WAKE UP!!!. we do not inherited from a TRIBAL INDIAN AS MUCH AS A BOWL OF SOUP, everything you eat, drive, fly IS WHITE.

[@Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano]

@@ElusiveCube ha ha ha ok roy rogers settle down

[@Jamesbrown-md7qy]

original Aborigines were here first copper colored people with woolly hair

[@HDPersonal777]

That’s what I’m discovering more and more too!! Chino’s claim to be native Mexicans are hired Sephardic slaves since the 1800’s and are still their underpaid slaves now mostly in Southern California and Mexico still too! How does that work out to sell out to hebrews? Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place for the few true white and black likely part real native Americans left! And all of the red head giants the Smithsonian steals!

[@welokdin01]

As a Shoshone/ Cherokee mix, It's truly sad that our culture is the largest genocide in history but it's never talked about or just plain hidden. I remember going to a white mans school as a kid and learning about the white version of history, Now a days, the Native culture is all but completely erased from history books.

[@alvallac2171]

*Nowadays

[@perri_6]

@Elijah Wilson That's all you got? That 's all there is to native history and culture?

[@perri_6]

@Elijah Wilson Of course! But is that all Native American culture means to you? You know what? Don't answer.

[@JohnnyBot71]

why didn't you go to a native school?

[@happyngulube1871]

I here you! That's what they did to the aborigines in Australia. These criminal now sit on these throwns and are honoured for what I ask. Reparation needs to happen and certain people need to be on trail dispite their status

[@ela4la]

My existence is resistance. 🙌🏾✊🏾

[@tw5991]

Erica Atkins a long time ago my great great great relative married a native women. They fell in love 😍.....my family tree exists because two fell in love..I exist now and was born from the same pot that so many call hate.

[@zackp5294]

Erica Atkins your resistance is toward the wrong groups

[@rutht9667]

well the weird thing is even europeans are mixed, for example greek, persians, indians (indo-aryans) were first large empires in the world, the greeks are middle eastern they went to europe and colonised people there, then romans colonized europe , then came the 2nd roman empire the Khazar-German empire, that went to colonize germany and britain, britain/france/spain off shoots of roman empire went to colonise other countries, also in middle east/ north africa egyptians were first to have large empire then came the ummayads who were from north africa, then came the turks who ruled over arabs and entire middle east, then came genghis khan. Meet even im mixed german ashkenazi here.

[@Andy-gw7hd]

Natives slaved people also they should get off the white man and look in there own past even pass when the European came and Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first to find America just the first to survive to tell the rest of the world native bows was the best killing weapon at the time but once the riffle came it was able to over power that being said there was other races that made it to America but couldn’t survive when they crossed pass the native Indians. Indians that cross passed each other when to war and slaughters each other sick of hearing like the native was just tree hugging people with no blood in there hands or a dark pass like every single race on this earth

[@chicagoliightsx]

@@tw5991 "a women" lol

[@nossac1]

My wife is a Celt, born and raised, with a strong connection to her family and home, in Ireland. They have never forgotten the incredible gift the Choctaw People gave during the Irish famine, in 1847, even though they were suffering themselves. The Choctow people, having just endured the Trail of Tears, still had the humanity and compassion, to send what little they could spare , to help the Irish, something their English Overlords, refused to do. There is a sculpture, called Kindred Spirits, in Cork, Ireland to commemorate this great gift. It is a circle of eagle feathers, forming a bowl shape, to represent the gift of food. it is a very humbling and emotional experience, to stand there looking at that sculpture, and be reminded of what two great native peoples endured on their own soils, opposite sides of the Atlantic physically, but closer in mind and spirit, then I have ever known two tribes and clans to be.

[@redwine641]

Not to start anything but did you know that those Natives also owned slaves and their. slaves also endured the trail of tears.I was very disappointed when I learned this ,and the fact that for so long they didn't acknowledge it.

[@lkeke35]

I read about that in school, so you'll be happy to know that somewhere in America we are still learning that history.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

Thanks for sharing! I never knew about that!

[@elchupulooo8970]

The so called American people stole everything and diabetes was used and created in a lab for destruction of the native race of people and know it's chemtrail spraying and other evil and wicked agendas unbelievable but so true WOW

[@vestty5802]

Paul Casson yeah and then the Irish came here and gladly slaughtered native Americans throughout American history example being John Sullivan Also there was irish landlords in Ireland

[@spencer5028]

It's ok for everyone to identify with their group... Accept White people???

[@Raychristofer]

Respect.

[@Raychristofer]

A Person A Person That would be great. One thing I noticed though is even if there is a good caring president for example if Jesus was in the white house people would still talk trash about him and try to assassinate because he doesn't fit their agenda. Being president of this country is a hollow goal to reach for. Better to strive to be the best person you can for your family

[@Raychristofer]

For sure. you know the phrase all men are created equal was written by Thomas Jefferson. I learned he wrote also that black folks are inferior and not equal so those words must have not really applied to them. For a white person to fight and die for this country makes sense but for minorities its foolish.

[@ChihuahuaPorter]

F

[@Knute360cool]

Raychristofer The govt screwed us (on reservations) bad

[@jimburden5113]

Tim Countis won't be the case because you have to be hateful and love war and being corrupted. You have to be willing to let bankers control you. Sadly we won't see it

[@ohitikahwinbeautifulbaldea1407]

Full Blood 100% Lakota Sioux, Youngest Daughter of the 1st Chief of All Indigenous peoples. Thank You for the support. Mitakuyapi Oyasin (We are all Related)

[@joeyquintana8916]

Lakota nice. Me nisqually tribe here in Washington State.take care.

[@loleetairving8295]

yessssss

[@nibbanibba7202]

OhitikahWin Beautiful Bald Eagle I’m also 100% Native American. I’m a Mayan to be more specific from the kiche tribe from Guatemala, but I was born in the U.S.

[@perrodehont5109]

Yes " We are all Related " , we are all native inhabitants of the same very tiny planet in this vast universe.

[@nibbanibba7202]

Perro dehont sweet home Alabama

[@taurahelms3068]

People can say whatever they want, but Natives are still around and they were here first.

[@ojberrettaberretta5314]

can we europeans indigenous to europe do the same or do we get called racist when we dont want more migration...?

[@jacobeksor6088]

Agree

[@benrtinez36]

@Winston Beltran so that makes you ignorant on judgment of others while your not accepted or acknowledged you look down on people mixed.

[@benrtinez36]

That will solve the problem says no one.

[@paovels]

@@ojberrettaberretta5314 If natives would be against immigration they might be called racists too. Instead, they are the ones suffering from racism, which is completely crazy, cause they are the ones being in their home continent. Maybe think if native european would be suffering from racism from immigrants, thats completly stupid

[@nicolescatolini6868]

Thank you for sharing, this was eye opening. I always thought that proving your Native ties was to prevent non-Native people from taking Native benefits (i.e. college funds), I never before though of it as a way to track "dilution" to the point of no longer providing benefits and stealing back the land provided. I appreciate you sharing that and opening up a narrative I hadn't considered before.

[@danielharvey3659]

Hello Nicole, how are you doing?

[@gambofini]

These people are lying they are mongols mixed Europeans

[@gambofini]

They are immigrants who came here nowhere in real history do indigenous people look like them but the dark brown female you people need to stop in this time we read books you people are a serious joke

[@troy7141]

I am Navajo, Creek, and Seminole! i love being native, i’m so blessed and wouldn’t trade it for anything else in the world.

[@karlos_infamous]

Wow that"s great. I just have a question: Based on statistics, the native american population in the US is the lowest. So is there a pressure for a full-blood native american to marry another full blood so as to "preserve" the native american race?

[@ElusiveCube]

Sure you driving a car, flaying a plane, ride a horse, use electricity, and taking gov. HANDOUTS, yes life is easy in a land of the white creator, inventor, HAWK.

[@sanny6295]

@@karlos_infamous where i am no cares anymore, we all just joke about it but never forget what happened.

[@karlos_infamous]

@@sanny6295 wow thats cool. However, i just find it annoying that some white people like johnny depp and elizabeth warren always claim native american ancestry and identify as such 😅 when in fact, they don't have native blood

[@karlos_infamous]

@Time Allen i disagree; i don't think preserving native ancestry is racist.

[@allisonhaskell5440]

Beautiful young people Native American .. They are proud and should be

[@PhaseSkater]

Allison Haskell they aren’t native

[@godofdestructionFTW]

@@PhaseSkater most aren't

[@gummybear5193]

These are whited out Eurasian fakers.

[@miguelsandoval4513]

@PhaseSkater ,pride comes before a fall 💀race is social constructed thare is only one race the human race

[@Native2Islam]

@we have a lot of mixed Native and African American peoples...?

[@JesseWright68]

"My family survived Catholicism." Hear, Hear!

[@jaqueswilliams5192]

What is Catholicism??

[@fxthomunknown7727]

@@jaqueswilliams5192 its a type of Christianity. Specifically during the early modern era many spanish, portuguese and english colonists attempted and or forced natives to convert to that form of religon, Catholicism.

[@BumAngel2001]

@@fxthomunknown7727 so it's not that bad right? They were lucky that Western Europe managed to kick out Islamic take over, otherwise those Europeans would come in the name of Allah, submit or decapitation. All of South, Central & North America would be Muslim and speaking Arabic right now, including me writing this comment to you.

[@BumAngel2001]

My family and my country of Poland is under Catholicism, there is no escaping it. But it's 100% better than Islam, I would be decapitated long time ago, good thing we kicked those devils back to the desert, otherwise your family would most likely not survive and you would be speaking Arabic

[@fxthomunknown7727]

@@BumAngel2001 either way it'd be terrible to be put under any religion by force but i guess it was inevitable that Europe would control and conquer being that they had the weaponry i wouldn't have a problem with speaking arabic but i doubt that would've happened

[@solomonrobinson2742]

What about natives being racist towards white people why don't you hear about that?

[@sanichukakun3612]

What is funny is that the people calling themselves "Americans" are actually all Europeans.. Spanish, Portogese, English etc. etc. Funny xD

[@merckcory65]

Exactly! It seems that they are still trying hard af to be anything and everything they can, except Europeans.

[@juanmoreno267]

Spanish portuguese what are you talking about 😂😂😂 most whites in the USA are of German French Russian Irish Romanian Italian ancestry the portuguese just had colonies in south America learn some history before you talk

[@sanichukakun3612]

​@no you When you are born on the land of America your DNA is one many cultures that were brought to the land. The only real culture of the American land is the Natives'. There is nothing wrong with mixture of people, but the lack of respect to the people that were here before all.

[@AdamShifnal]

@@juanmoreno267 eh? Realise how much of modern USA Spain used to own before YOU speak

[@juanmoreno267]

@@AdamShifnal I know bro I defend Spain it's just that there aren't that many people with spanish blood in the usa besides hispanic.

[@duaastar551]

Native Americans out there we all know that you are the true and real American much of respect for you

[@taibutler1474]

"Natives"

[@sithmaster6434]

@Average Joe78 go back to Germany you commie

[@lalagrimm-stone3177]

@Blexit yes but nobody is talking about Indians so...? Lol fail

[@the8568]

@Sudip Thapa lmao not all Mexicans relate to Native Americans. And natives do come from Asia

[@alvallac2171]

*there, we *Americans. Much *you.

[@decab8292]

Keep your traditions alive, teach the young all of their heritage. It is a birth right for each tribe. Tell the stories and remember the lessons within them. )O( blessings of the mother to you all.

[@erniecorella7676]

I only wish that it was possible really to do that correctly but D church and government won't really allow it.still regardless of what you heard.🤨

[@yashursuntheamericanindian]

Can't teach something that is not yours, you have no spiritual connection.

[@umaribnal-khattabmalaysia6831]

Mad I am 100% agree with you

[@soobetsysatisfaction]

I’m a Native But I don’t hate white people. I’m not treated like trash or anything..I’ve never been treated bad. Nobody cares what my race is. I don’t either. I want people to look at my personality, not my race, and I look at peoples personality not race. And I’m not oppressed and I’m not going to have that victim mentality. To be fair I’m privileged to live in a country where I’m not poor, and I’m thankful for it. And if you wonder what I am I’m Cherokee. If anyones racist..they are bad, but guys. If there’s white people, don’t hate them because of their ancestors 200 years ago. It’s over.. the country isnt ours anymore. But we are still a part of it.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Based.

[@soobetsysatisfaction]

@@JDoe-gf5oz dunno what that means but ok 🥺

[@christopherstein2024]

@@soobetsysatisfaction It's a buzzword.

[@soobetsysatisfaction]

@@christopherstein2024 idk what a buzzword is either

[@sheisheycoco]

People in these comments need to get more Native friends. Depending on your region you will be darker or lighter. 😑

[@alexandermaeshallbailey7932]

Nicole H black foot native blood here!! My tribe is extinct!! & I still continue the fight against the white man.

[@alexandermaeshallbailey7932]

Nicole H fire blood nation!!

[@animalcrackers8880]

Exactly. My bf is from a northern tribe and they're very, very mixed and lighter skinned. We were discussing skintone one day and he seemed confused as to why I referred to natives as medium skinned, since all the natives he knew had light skin, so it must be a myth. I found out I am also NA,29%, and I'm light/medium skinned(I am 60% european),darker than his mom who is apparently 1/2. My dad is medium, he would be about 60% Native, his mom is medium/tan, she would likely be an even higher %. They are from Mexico. It all depends on the region and how much mixing there has been. Generally, I feel like you won't find many porcelain natives, so that is why I was saying "medium"; it's a general umbrella term that applies to most, not all.

[@alexandermaeshallbailey7932]

Nicole H I kinda don't care ! Being native is in a person's soul. Sometimes you can feel peace with nature. Where white blood always craves more paper money.

[@alexandermaeshallbailey7932]

Nicole H I was in jail with thunder hawk and he listened to me rejoice about how I was representing myself & doing great!! I later found out that he was takeing 30 years. Most would lash out due to there own bad luck.

[@Markus_4.0ooh]

I agree with that guy, I don't like being called America indian, or indian. just Native. Im proud to be full blooded native

[@ethancook4465]

xxLazy Blu I am Chickasaw I say I’m Indian to make fun of it

[@johnwilson7769]

Nobodys. Full blooded anything. Anymore so forget that. BS...

[@chicagocabbierick8330]

when did your ancestors immigrate from Asia ? what year was that again ? New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe - 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html

[@chicagocabbierick8330]

Native ? Native is a word from Europe that just means "born in or of" a particular place, therefore all white Americans born in the USA are also "native"

[@jaqueswilliams5192]

John Wilson literally yes there is. There are full blooded people. My best friend is full blooded Italian. Has 2 fully Italian parents. How can you say there’s not full blooded anything? I mean yeah there might be like .1 or .5 percent something else but there’s still full blooded people

[@mazcrowpm]

And native Americans are not dead you'll find full blooded in Mexico,Central and south America.

[@genovevaugarte1312]

@Finn That is sad. Yet when Yanks talk about native Americans they tend to forget "America", is a huge continent stupidly divided in 3 parts. There are so many native, indigenous, original people in the Americas still existing today, without mentioning the mestizos.

[@ElusiveCube]

Yes ,most are in the stone age.

[@nibbanibba7202]

Native American that’s what I was trying to say by comparing the situation that already happened here in America to what’s happening in Europe.

[@nibbanibba7202]

Native American are you actually Native American if so from what tribe or region

[@nativeamerican4563]

I wouldn't put native American if I wasn't that would be stupid 😑

[@9ALiTY]

Looks like mostly yt leftests

[@Antonio-lc4mp]

They all look native to varying degrees

[@christopherstein2024]

@@Antonio-lc4mp varying degrees: 3:08 0:52

[@Antonio-lc4mp]

@@christopherstein2024 yup, exactly

[@honestytruthreality931]

I hated history class because it makes me angry when I hear what they did my kalinago Indian ancestors and then changed our name to Caribs calling us cannibal. I love who I am

[@nevaehlheaven]

Native. Christopher Columbus took a wrong turn and thought he was in India when he was really in the Caribbean Islands and South and central American cost and called the Natives Indians because he didn't know where he was. That's not what we are. We are not Hindi.

[@cjrichards4359]

You from Dominica?

[@honestytruthreality931]

Cj Richards my family from Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines

[@willychua3249]

fight for your right .it is your land

[@bekindandpolite2158]

@@nevaehlheaven of course u are not dude but the name Indian has been given despite the fact that u dont look Indian

[@Bigfish1day]

Thank you for not liking American Indian, you were here first, NATIVE to this land.

[@joshuacollins9346]

Humans evolved in Africa, the Native Americans just used a land bridge instead of ships. They also came in multiple waves and fought the existing people. If you go back far enough our ancestors killed or bred out of existence, entire species of human (Neanderthal, Denovian, etc.). Humans have been generally garbage towards each other for our entire history.

[@RubenLopez-zs2jc]

They came from Asia...

[@Bigfish1day]

Joshua Collins You really do have a point there.

[@Bigfish1day]

Russel Cipriano Help me get this shoe outta my mouth.

[@HiImCool2008]

Don't call Native Americans Indians

[@Aj-qb3pr]

I remember a native was talking on NPR radio on how this is occupied land and how we are occupiers, then the radio went to static. My guess was the government didn't want people to hear the truth.

[@hydrolito]

Weather affects radio waves. I don't always get as many channels on radio and TV.

[@dantejuantrelgeorge4126]

@@juanrisa945no tan race is indigenous . As indigenous means black you are not. Stop stealing our identity and imitating our cultures. It’s sick.

[@grins5030]

Interesting... is that why our government gives top secret job positions to Native Americans? Lol

[@xxpaigejj]

I don't think the government had anything to do with it. It was probably coincidence or related to some other cause. I've heard some absolute ridiculous stuff come from all over. If the government wanted to interfere--we wouldn't be talking to each other like this. Btw, I do agree that we are just occupiers, none of us own the land.

[@johnfellows689]

More likely it was cut because it made no sense.

[@kchiloquin5570]

Be strong. As a Native 💯 from 2 tribes. I have never been not known for my culture and race. Also a male, because of my name. I was denied work in 1 of my high-school towns k Falls. My uncles and Dad where in WW2. My mother had me after she went to prison I was born to an old family. So be smart and tough. My house on the rez and itdid burn 🔥 down. Strengthen yourself.😮 My Dad and siblings where straight out of the forest.

[@lynettebeckles9842]

Why are all these comments so racist? This is really sad

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Champagne Papi Your comment was actually racist to whites. Talk about hypocrisy.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Michelle M You can’t be racist to whites people? What kinda crack you smoking? You can be racist to any race of people, including white people. And there are people in every race that always want to pick a fight, not just white people. You need to stop with the racial prejudice against them, you are looking like the racist now.

[@chrishilton3626]

Michelle M can’t be racist to white people wow wow that’s like saying women can’t be sexist to men

[@Phoenix-um1jb]

It’s because white supremacy beliefs still exist to this day, which it shouldn’t and everyone should be equal. Because were all human.

[@uriahbleue1947]

Why is this video so racist just to make white people feel ashamed

[@mattjim4176]

Hello ya'ta I'm Navajo . still on the rez . all so a veteran. 52 years old and I still listen to my grand parents .

[@ElusiveCube]

So you have been collecting handouts all your existence ?? HAWK.

[@williampotts3008]

Someone screwed a yoobangee .

[@williampotts3008]

So Indians shouldnt screw non indians .

[@Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano]

@@williampotts3008 ha ha good luck to them. race can never overcome a good shag.

[@billiedebra9808]

@Jaime Alonzo he fought for all men and women. Too bad you didn't tell him thank you. Why can't people be polite? Why do people have to be ugly at all times to others? You should thank a vet. Spoiled brats!

[@mstoni269]

This was deep for me as an African descent of slaves. I needed to hear this. Thank you!

[@zen528]

Are you Liberian?

[@j.milesyasharahla1381]

Your an Israelite

[@j.milesyasharahla1381]

@@greatestsawes9712 They don't need help. They need Revelation 9

[@deedee_therapper]

mstoni269 i am too and this just made us to know that the whites are the main foreigners on that land,period!!!!!

[@kokoajay5540]

They were not slaves they were people

[@lordpetty3386]

You're not Indian by blood you're Indian by paperwork no one claims to be Indian has any of it in their blood because the original Indians were in America and they did not look like today's version of a quote unquote Indian. The original native Americans where are darker skin which is where the term colored came from

[@HDPersonal777]

They were darker (Kalifornia) white (Appalachian) and giants too. Same in Japan and India. Japanese were and some still are tall and white Jamone tribe with beards then taken over by Ainu Asian Mongolian race and mixed recently too. In the 1800’s and since, some hebrews underpaid Philippinos and other Asians/Mongolians to put feathers on their heads and claim to me native. The Chino’s in Mexico is a very recent and current and documented proven case and history of Sephardic cryptic hired Asian Mongolian slaves to claim to be indigenous Mexican but they are not.

[@ericbrown8398]

More people need to actually talk to people of other cultures; not view it online for a few minutes. we need to come together as the Human Race!

[@JohnnyBot71]

so you know nothing about the human race, then...never in all of history, has the human race been united...never gonna happen...clearly...classic feckless, feel-good gibberish serves no one.

[@orbitunderground4475]

agreed....hard to find some of these people of other cultures sometimes, though. we are too much in our own little worlds.

[@sjenx1]

Yes, Mr. Brown, it would be great if we could come together. As long as we believe we can’t, we won’t. 💪🏾We have to be open minded.

[@mrsbdubc2174]

Facts!

[@juanrisa945]

If you are Indigenous or you want to help Indigenous people, please sign this so Indigenous people are treated fairly and receive their resources: www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-give-money-and-resources-to-native-americans

[@radrook4481]

Native American isn"t restricted to the USA tribes.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Exactly, but then my mother was the child of a Catholic Boarding School student...

[@onewildsheep]

I am pretty sure it is. That’s Why it has Native AMERICAN in its title, referring to indigenous peoples of Northern America and I believe Alaska. Because in Canada they call themselves Aboriginals.

[@Durin_Son]

Forgive my ignorance but i thoought that native americans should apply to all natives from the Americas(North, Central, South). But i think that in the states it only refers to North American Natives.

[@Patty-qt1xb]

United States Indians began using the term as of late and looks like other nationalities are copying the U.S. They have all been called Indian for four centuries, they are all considered native to the American continent arriving well before European settlements.

[@hugovelasco1586]

True Countries like Mexico, Peru and Bolivia are mostly Native American in origin.

[@andresrtorres6895]

This hurts deeply: Colonizers, thieves, oppressors, addicts of genocide, defining what we are so as to justify their policies toward us.

[@gmil9351]

If natives were not so useless then they would not get conquered so easily.

[@theazure4171]

@@gmil9351 Natives: This is stolen land! White Europeans: We know, thats why we are here to take it back from you and give it to its rightful owner, us!! insider.si.edu/2012/03/ice-age-mariners-from-europe-were-the-first-people-to-reach-north-america/ “We now have really solid evidence that people came from Europe to the New World around 20,000 years ago,” Bradley says. “Our findings represent a paradigm shift in the way we think about America’s early history. We are challenging a very deep-seated belief in how the New World was populated.”

[@gmil9351]

the Azure Land belongs to whoever is strong enough to take it.

[@MoocCow]

G Mil93 the white race is becoming more and more diluted so soon you’ll be the minorities 😂😂😂😂

[@pricesymonej]

@@theazure4171 the fact is that it belongs to the Natives Americans. The Europeans didnt want it when they came.....its still stolen....who was here first is inconsequential...

[@raedawn7991]

we are treated like animals thats why we are hunted MMIW ,,

[@rigging03]

I am a Seminole ,Cherokee and Iroquois mix. They just refer to me as African- American. I am more American than they could ever be. The problem is compulsory education. When we let someone else tell us our history.

[@nakkadu]

Stop whining nobody is stopping you learning your own history.

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

It's your phenotypes that they look at

[@nakkadu]

@Kevin K 😆😆

[@nakkadu]

@Michelle M when you say "y'all" who do you mean?

[@nakkadu]

@Michelle M right....so all white Americans are ancestors of people who killed "native" Americans and therefore guilty of backstabbing?....and all non-white Americans have nothing to do with American history?

[@ShaudaySmith]

The issues of Native Americans is truly unique because where other colonists may have successfully wiped out/assimilated an indigenous culture of a given territory, the Natives of the US have continued to exist in spite of the attempts as integration and extermination. Their challenges are great because they wish to be counted as separate nations from the one that still effectively conquered them. It's a hot mess.

[@SnackMuay]

Shauday Smith I’m not educated on the situation in Australia, but isn’t it similar?

[@ShaudaySmith]

Oops! my apologies the aborigines. I think so too. There are a lot of parallels.

[@kenney0313]

Disease and guns over a hundred or more years decimated enough of us to make subjugating the rest easier. Why sign a Treaty knowing you're not honorable? To get it on paper for future proof of ownership, and since they have those broken treaties in hand and the histories have been fingerfckd there's no one Alive from then to dispute it according to their codes and statutes. Law means nothing to them. They feign lawfulness but are really the least lawful things on Earth.

[@bradhamilton9038]

Yes guess they haven't got the "To the Winners go the spoils" memo!! Hard Truth...harsh reality...

[@laborincana4490]

Amelali . Te Nativos in Mexico when Spaniards arrived were Aztecs, with a great civilazation . Then came Hernan Cortez, and wiped out the Mexicas. In South America there were the Incas. These civilisations were comparable to the Egyptians and in many ways ,superior to European. Francisco Pizarro was the Spanish conquistador that wiped out the Incas. The reality, Europeans had gunpowder. Neither the Natives. in the Americas, nor Australia had it. That's a huge difference between winning a war or just minimal survival.

[@25jomi]

I Love Native American.. I really Love there music.. Salute ✌️🙏 you Guys.. from: Philippines

[@reggied1676]

All of us being alive means we resisted. Beautifully put

[@lelouppe]

I greet my Amerindian friends, I live in the south-east of France and after watching a last western at the age of 14 I began to learn the truth about the Amerindians, and since I spend all the free time writing about what I learned when I went to visit the United States several times, now I am not far from 80 years old I always keep this rage in my heart to help the Amerindians to regain their pride and their dignities. I have always followed what has been going on with blacks in the United States for centuries. you are in the same case as these people of color, so wake up and continue to fight, so that one day the Amerindian land comes back to you. Remember, there are a lot of people on your side. kzbin.info

[@lelouppe]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2nEdWeOqqiJfc0

[@jip230]

I learned so much in five minutes.

[@jip230]

No, this video helps deconstruct social engineering we all encounter through schooling about who Native people were and still are until this day. I guess seeing Native people tell their own stories in their own words scares and upsets you in some way

[@jip230]

SIR Lord Henry mortimer why do you believe that the white man is the devil?

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

rlp230 well, going by what the mainstream media,the Hollywood and in general academia says about us, one can't help but feel that way-we are demonised for God knows what not-from colonialism,to patriarchy , to climate change , to gender rights and discrimination. We are now the button of all jokes in late night shows and if they are from deep south they are considered to be trailer trash and if they are white Christian heterosexual men ,then they are virtual reincarnation of evil.

[@bcvc3365]

ikr

[@drmher]

SIR Lord Henry mortimer Wait why are you even watching this video?!?!

[@ramonbustos8078]

Be proud of who you are and your heritage. Never let anyone bring you down . You matter and you have a voice. There has been a lot of injustice done to indigenous people. I hope one day that will change.

[@sterlingpless9280]

Sorry for what we white people did to you guys its a disgrace

[@therealwewin]

@@sterlingpless9280 they are no different than the white man if not worse, speaking from first hand experience.

[@sterlingpless9280]

@@therealwewin You saying Native Americans are similar to white people or the way they treat you??

[@temeria1986]

@@sterlingpless9280 That's a weird thing to say you people preach ''be proud of who you are and your heritage'' but also ''white people bad''. You people have this idea in your head that natives were living peacefully together not waging war or taking each other's territory, they did exactly the same thing, white people were simply more technologically advanced and thus did it better.

[@therealwewin]

@@sterlingpless9280 Both. Human behavior. All the same no matter what race.

[@InesElm-dj9tn]

NATIVE AMERICANS SHOULD DECLARE AN INDEPENDENT STATE

[@agriope2334]

"My existence is resistance" Right on sister! Love lives on and love always wins.

[@kahealanik6979]

Whoa. Bringing me to tears sister.

[@juanmurillo3914]

stop drinking

[@marssinclair2644]

“my existence is resistance” wow. i wish it didn’t have to be.

[@juanrisa945]

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[@raymundohernandez1918]

Native Indian will Never Die...God Bless my brothers and sisters.💯💪🏿

[@Holocausticfumes]

Interestingly enough...We are Not From INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MORON!!!!!!!!!

[@KSA-gq7kl]

@@Holocausticfumes you guys aint from india 🇮🇳?

[@HanifeÖztürk-u4p]

Yerliler Hintli değil onlara bu ismi beyaz adam verdi ​@@KSA-gq7kl

[@wickedbird1538]

😮😮I have brown skin, hazel eyes, black hair. I have no idea what I am , but DNA says I am 40% Native American and a mix of everything else. I don’t know what that means.

[@AlluminaOnyxia]

Adopted?

[@wickedbird1538]

@@AlluminaOnyxia not adopted. It appears I have ancestors from Spain.

[@nita1stunna1]

It's sad our culture is gone we have to search and find it. Being Native, Black and French is crazy. I am a tribal member and hear all the stories of my 2 cultures of slavery and how native kids would not stop crying for their parents so the soldiers told them their parents were outside and they killed all the kids smh

[@catherha1]

🥺 that's so awful

[@juanrisa945]

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[@angelagardner5230]

so sorry from a english lady a old one at that

[@theodoreroberts3407]

I'm Native, Black, Irish and Scottish. And I remain proud of who I am.

[@Mai-sx3yf]

Black people have ethnicities

[@alishaguerrero2837]

I relate. I am Mexican American and I’ve done a test to find out about my ancestry because I am mixed. I found out I am about half native but I wouldn’t be considered native to the government. I’m Mexican, that’s how I’m viewed. We’re the children of our ancestors and I’m angry and tired of this country’s views on indigenous people.

[@valkiron11]

Plenty of Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans, etc., are all considered Hispanic, despite having non-Spanish blood. This was a direct result of the mestizaje movement brought on by the Spanish during colonial times. It unfortunately also meant the rejection of Indigenous and African roots. And with rejection, comes invisibility.

[@DAn-ur8ik]

@@valkiron11 pardon me 😂😂😂😂😂😂 the only región in the world when you can find Spanish ancestry after Spain itself is Latin America.... of course we also have Native American and in some cases African ancestry but we are all mixed ...... there’s a few minorities that are full native Americans or blacks but the rest is mixed .

[@casanova8762]

@@DAn-ur8ik People from latin america calls themselves "latino" as a race to avoid the fact they actually of native american ancestors, many even considers themselves white! here a video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmbVaJ5sgdKeq6s&ab_channel=RomanianGypsyJaneta

[@casanova8762]

@Bryan Villafuerte Canada part of Latin America? Lmao

[@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672]

@@casanova8762 Quebec, francés es una lengua romance.

[@alaskasfinest726]

Obama said it best! “If your not Native American, you came from somewhere else?!”

[@celestisastarte7863]

Even Native Americans came from somewhere else, if you start going down that rabbit hole then the deeper it gets.

[@juanrisa945]

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[@newnewnew257]

Native Americans came from south east asia 16 000 years ago during the ice age.

[@starshiiine_]

Yet we’re all on the same rock floating through space

[@jamespmullin21753]

Do you really want to go back to hunting buffalo on horseback with bows and spears?

[@travielee186]

I feel sorry for those native Americans whites took everything they had and destroyed everything they had yet no one talks about it 😢😢😢

[@tj-kv6vr]

No such thing as Native American. Get educated. No one tlks about it, what are you 12 years old.

[@kimonodragon7834]

@@tj-kv6vr No, there is such thing as Native American and these people are just that. The original inhabitants of the land.

[@mlgwolftrix4708]

@@tj-kv6vr yes there is I'm native American, too bad your parents taught you wrong

[@not_today_satan-wu2ib]

@@tj-kv6vr then who did we murder?!!

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

I would be mad if they didn't do anything useful with the land they took but they built the strongest and greatest democracy on this earth

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

America and the world as a whole needs to have a frank and honest talk on race.

[@vae3716]

No need, everyone's mixed now talking about race will not benefit anyone

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

@@vae3716 lol are you serious?

[@vae3716]

@@wilhelmhesse1348 yeah I am serious, maybe in America y'all must be having a problem with it but rest of the world is completely fine, talking about race will not benefit anyone, it will only divide people and discriminate

[@vae3716]

@@wilhelmhesse1348 at the end of the day we're all human beings, you're gonna talk something terrible which happened in the past in the modern world?? Yeah sure thing European people may have created racism but we need to end it. How?? Stop calling and stop judging someone by the colour of their skin it's really ignorant. Stop calling brown skinned people "black" and fair skinned people "white"

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

@@vae3716 Example... In Australia where aboriginals were driven to the point of extinction and are clearly even today discriminated against is a waste of time?

[@ACEDIAMOND666]

I'm an Apache. We are a proud people of fierce warriors and survivors. We are beautiful. We will not be erased or silenced. I have spoken. That is all.

[@theputinator8067]

Fierce warriors with tomahawks and bows vs guns and steel, who would win? Looool

[@theputinator8067]

@Chief Tahchawwickah B-b-b-but diseases!!! Yes, diseases that native americans had absolutely no idea how to prevent or treat due to no advances in medicine or the slightest understanding of bacteria. What warring did the natives win? The battle of the little big horn?

[@theputinator8067]

@Chief Tahchawwickah Caucasian genetics built the western world and everything around you. Including grants that natives receive from the government

[@marthastubbs8321]

0:52 thats a white woman

[@UmQasaann]

According to blood quantum? That these white settlers made up. Lol

[@little.bear.98]

i felt the whole “if you’re one drop of anything else then being a native goes out the window” white and native mix over here! don’t waste your hate, rather gather and create

[@IslenoGutierrez]

amber jade sweet In Latin America your race is called mestizo and in Canada it’s called métis. A mixture of white and Native American.

[@snowfalleon7629]

metis... french for mixed blood. i had no idea they still used that term, after 400 years of intermarriage and conflicts. I'm learning about 16th century ideas of catagorizing people. So columbus assumed certain dispositions based on latitude.

[@Lemondrop07]

I am also a mix of native American and European there is a lot of hate about it sucks because I'm really proud of the native side but ppl just see skin color I have all the features of native american but lighter skin. My husband is also Native American mixed with European and he has way darker skin..I consider him to be lucky as sad as that sounds

[@snowfalleon7629]

@@Lemondrop07I think racists are people who are distracting themselves from their self-loathing.

[@kingofgamez_9695]

@Dan Orozco that’s sad the same with the tainos of hispanola, most of the natives in the usa were nearly driven to extinction also there were more survivors in central and south america

[@mawmawvee]

This was an interesting video.To the young woman who couldn't talk without crying--My heart broke for you and you were very brave to say the things you said through your tears.Racism is a human thing, not a racial thing and the more I learn, the more clear that becomes.

[@jctai100]

"My existence is resistance"

[@catherineadair581]

jctai100 hilarious

[@jctai100]

Catherine Adair wasn't meant to be

[@michaeldukes4108]

So dramatic, that line.

[@douglasw1545]

What a joke. Resistance to what? Your own imaginary oppression?

[@Souliban]

In other hand. They are natives from Asia....

[@-timothydexterthegreatestp5391]

in other hands we are all natives from the sea

[@Souliban]

@@-timothydexterthegreatestp5391 Aquaman

[@longdong9113]

They should interview me I'm 3/4 Arapaho & 1/4 Southern Cheyenne my mother is full blooded Northern Arapaho my dad is half southern Cheyenne half Arapaho.. I was born in Oklahoma City and spent half my life on the Wind River reservation and the other half in OKC so I've seen both places I'm known in both places. I'm gang related I grew up in the "hood" as they say as well as the Rez I understand how both places work. I also am involved with our arapaho ceremonies, sounds dumb I know but thats how it is for me. There's not too many like me. I have a lot to say I think the world needs to hear it. Please put me on your platform before I die out here like all the others my people are dying every other day LITERALLY. I've been to 13 funerals this year alone. I could be next.

[@EverlastGX]

Write a book, do an interview

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

Make a video

[@mjs6157]

My soul is connected to this land. Only the few can reach down grab a hand full of dirt and say (in my hand i hold the ashes of all my mothers and fathers before me)

[@longdong9113]

I have no kind of knowledge how to even begin how

[@seanlian635]

Don't eat genetically modified crops like wheat,sugar,corn ect..

[@nisidizo7666]

Most of you commenters on here are making fun of the people in this video for not looking native enough. Ones nativeness isnt just about how dark their hair and skin are. I know many natives that have both of those features but dont practice the culture. It's about how they live their lives, as cultural natives. That is what they are trying to say in the video too, but all of you are being ignorant.

[@bakihanma8156]

Wiisini iiyaas so I can learn Japanese learn their culture and ceremonies interact with them and so on does that make me japanese just cause I want to be one? And does that qualify me to be a citizen in their country and get their benefits?

[@nisidizo7666]

@@bakihanma8156 all the people in this video have native blood in them and practice the culture. Because they dont look native enough is aside the point, again, they do have native blood in them and they do practice and grew up in the remaining culture. You on the other hand likely don't have Japanese blood in you. It doesnt take much to put what I said previously and what this video has to do with together. Culture is the most important, but obviously blood is still an obvious indicator. A one drop rule should apply, but being native is more than how much native blood you have in you.

[@nisidizo7666]

@@bakihanma8156So no. Unless you have japanese blood or were adopted by Japanese people, that doesnt make you Japanese. That should be pretty obvious.

[@bakihanma8156]

Wiisini iiyaas interesting point you got there. I’m Native American and have a little bit of Mexican blood in me. My father is half native and Mexican and my mother is full native but I have more Mexican traits and often mistaken for just Mexican even though I’m an enrolled member of my tribe and live in the reservation and I’m always getting a lot of slack from both Mexican and other native people so I personally think proving blood quantum is good to prove you’re part native regardless if you do the know your culture or not. It’s hard to find native Americans that are full blooded and I personally would be proud to know if I was full that My blood is pure from generations

[@mystique3330]

It is about how dark they are. Full blooded natives are dark. Most of these people look like they have less than 50% native in them.

[@lamayho4062]

I proud to be an Indigenous😎

[@zen528]

Indigenous asian lol

[@lamonesjr4744]

@@zen528 Facts they are Mongoloids from siberia

[@anger101]

Loved hearing about their experiences first hand. Thank you.

[@manuelvillanueva3539]

I think Mexicans and Native Americans are the same, we just were born on the other side of the border, (on the Mexican side)

[@kattykleo8579]

Some of the Native Mexicans are related to tribes in the Southwest of the US. Others are not, and are part of completely different linguistic and cultural roots that do not correspond with US Natives.

[@captain_clutch4983]

@Angel Torres that means mixed I'm meztizo part pueblo born in Mexico

[@kattykleo8579]

​@@riverzend Really? The Lakota are the same as the Quechua? The Inuit are the same as the Hopi? The Cheyenne are the same as the Nahuatl?

[@kattykleo8579]

​@@riverzend And many different ethnic groups within that race. It makes no sense to call them the same, any more than to say all Asians are the same or all Europeans are the same.

[@kattykleo8579]

...I think your English is fine.

[@RD-qx5kb]

Tarahumara from Durango Mexico my native brothers...It will be nice to see all my native brothers and Sisters come together , United we are stronger together..

[@redhawksflyfree3771]

0:51 I love this part with this girl well because of her skin tones white and she's native! My skin tones white, but I'm a good chunk native, I mean I can get registered. It's hard when you tell someone your race and because you don't fit what you "suppose to look like" you are completely denied your heritage by strangers. Anyways proud to be native! Edit: Also love this part 2:46 Where not all a certain color

[@leena1054]

Isaiah Sanchez i agree! People always question my race because I’m not “dark enough” so seeing her made me really happy😃

[@cs0345]

She's still a leftist extremist, probably using her less than 1% blood to promote her victimhood

[@Carina902]

Be proud to be natives nations!!!! Why called natives???!!!.. Natives is the first nations living in that land, , owners, of the land, peoples who are not called as a natives!!! Is the foreigners,

[@danielharvey3659]

Hello Carina,how are you doing?

[@jumpingship3001]

Never call yourself a minority. That word is intended to make you feel small, insignificant, when actually you are part of a beautiful world wide majority.

[@GROZNAYA]

Wishful thinking

[@gabbym333]

I personally prefer to use the term marginalized group, rather than minority. Minority makes me feel less than.

[@catherha1]

Yes.. never in a million years would I ever...

[@juanrisa945]

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[@xxpaigejj]

@@GROZNAYA Not really.

[@joycestewart4893]

I was moved to tears listening these young natives explain my experiences. Proving my blood quantum was not possible because of family adoptions and my native lineage was from my father's mother, so I was not able to get benefits in the 60s. Even with DNA I have difficulty as I have no full blood brother and my father is deceased. I am so proud of these young people for their articulation.

[@shaffy856]

I recommend ancestry DNA to get connected with biological relatives even if they are distant

[@njandrews4105]

This brought you to tears try talking to a Indian boarding school survivor face-to-face about their experiences..it’s beyond words believe me

[@jacklee279]

The Native American Indians inhabited the whole American continent, not only the United States. It is like black people are from Africa, white people are from Europe, and so on. The copper skin, Native American Indians are from the continent of America. In the United States, many people who are really, white, or black, claimed to be Native American Indian, perhaps, because they might have a tiny fraction of that ancestry, while someone from Guatemala, or Mexico, with clear Native American Indian features are called, Latinos, or Hispanics, which thery are really not. The white Europeans from Spain, came to the American continent, and taught the Native people the Spanish language, and baptized them in the name of the Catholic church with Spanish names, but the race of the Native people did not change, it is in the genes, not in the language someone speaks, or in the name someone has.

[@lisac6399]

True a lot of illegal immigrants are Aztecs and Mayans..

[@zadanor2007]

They are Americans not Indians! the immigrants from Europe are the ones that used that word thinking they were going to India. On top of that the Europeans call themselves Americans and everyone else is indian, hispanic and other nonsense. I never saw such degree of manipulation in other continents.

[@jacklee279]

Yes, Zadanor2007, you are definite right.

[@JuanGomez93110]

Jack Lee So I I’m Mexican born and I took a DNA ancestry test and I am 41%Native American 46% European 4% Northern African and 7 % Rest of Africa. I

[@mkm1015]

@@lisac6399 No they are not, ask them and they will tell they are Mexicans.

[@laurieberry162]

Most white people have nothing to do with Native American people. The majority of white people have never been in the homeland. The majority of European ancestry, they don’t have ancestry who got to do with Native American people. My family has Native American DNA, but I was told we don’t claim enough. But I love being white. It turned out that I am six percent Scandinavian. Not so much. Scandinavian people are nice. Very nice. I dated Asian men and I thought that I was going to marry my boyfriend, but he died. It was sad because he was so nice. I will never meet anyone as perfect as my boyfriend who died. I was never romantic with my boyfriends except for one, but I left him because I couldn’t take it.

[@mrgoodiejr]

It’s unfortunate that the US government still practices a racist and discriminatory law that was meant to get rid of Indians. Here in Canada there is no blood requirement for Indians status father status is determined based on lineage and ancestry.

[@annettemeech2115]

The problem with this is some of our linage is from the mother -which is not recognized.

[@Hugo-mt4yb]

You got that right. Google 'Continents of America is Not a New World/China Daily' for plain truth. blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=820652

[@retard6665]

Isnt the Bureau Of Indian Affairs the main problem? People have been wanting that removed for a long time.