A Native Perspective on the Buried History of America

Most people are unaware that the Declaration of Independence, 30 lines below the statement "all men are created equal" refers to the Native Americans as "merciless Indian savages."
Mark Charles is a dynamic and thought-provoking public speaker, writer, and consultant. The son of an American woman (of Dutch heritage) and a Navajo man, he speaks with insight into the complexities of American history regarding race, culture, and religion in order to help forge a path of healing and conciliation for the nation. Mark is currently working to bring about a national dialogue on race, specifically regarding the Doctrine of Discovery and its influence on the very foundations of our nation; including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the United States Supreme Court.
Recorded Oct. 13, 2016, in Mayser Gymnasium.

[@margaretkerr8912]

He knows the history, and shares so eloquently...Greed and power corrupt totally.. Destroys lives... Lies become truth... Powerful to hear the buried history... And the understanding and empathy of the speaker... Seeking truth... And a way to progress in peace... Refreshing to hear... No one has a right to dominate anyone.. All have been gifted life by our creator... Such a powerful talk....

[@patrickjenkins6383]

😎 "300 million undocumented immigrants running around like they OWN the place...." --Classic.

[@elmersmith7698]

🤣 literally that's what we are!

[@OLYMPICHELLO]

Fourth of July is a Day of Morning to Change The Founding Documents of This Nation.

[@jermainewashington2224]

Agreed 💯

[@MrBlingBling04]

This man is special heroic indeed.

[@maestrofinchitti9518]

No wonder why so many natives in Texas and New Mexico say they are Spaniards.

[@nurfacealways]

I feel the reason for Navajo code talkers in war is different then told in "public" history.

[@keechothemaskedmanfromtexa2917]

In the grand scheme of things. Just because it's relevant to you doesn't mean it's relevant to the masses.

[@Bluemann023]

native american culture should be incorporated to american culture

[@rockstar450]

MISQUOTED LINCOLN! “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” Lincoln had already set in action to free slaves. This meant ALL slaves. This misquote misleads the viewer to not realise this was sentence on the scope of how far to push the policy while considering the far reaching implications. The 3rd option listed here had already been actioned because there was heavy opposition. No, not angry tweets but civil war. By selling this as a national necessity outside of morality it was worded in a way to unite on a very dangerous issue

[@nigelpomare86]

The New Zealand doctrine of discovery was given to the Maori chiefs. to sign 1835 and king William of England became the protector to this historical document.. By 1840 the waring chiefs signed a peace treaty and extended an invitation to the government of England to manage our infant country with the principals of ownership going to queen Victoria untill Maori are no longer in our infant state. From 1835 to 2024 the nz government has been able to stack the nz institution in favor of white society and this can be seen clearly in today's government , what took YEARS for nz to achieve as a country is now being undone WHERE IS THE KING OF ENGLAND WHO IS LEGALLY BOUND TO PROTECT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE MAORI CHIEFS PEOPLE LANDS AND MINERALS SECTION 4 OF THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY 1835

[@jamesmooney5348]

Everything stops and starts again at the cross of Christ. This dude needs to let Christ do a work in him. Like "Indians", I mean, you know Natives, can get to heaven without Christ. -Nope! This is a fallen world. This guy acts like this Nation will be heaven. This Nation started off wrong, murdering from day one, and has not changed to this day. Whats new? Just be glad it wasn't China or Korea. Or even if Britain had won, it'd been much worse. And yes, it was bad. Natives are not the only victims in this world. Look at Russias history, especially northern area Russia. Jesus is real. Jesus is alive. Jesus is enough. If he is saved, he should act like it. He'd be better off, with he bitterness, pissing in the wind. Richard Twist played the same game -annoying! God holds sin to the 3rd and 4th generation. Saying that, America is due. He, the Lord, will right the wrongs. He catches all the tears. Do you trust Him?

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

Mr. Mooney, you aren't the one to discuss Jesus as you do. The way you do. Didn't Jesus warn the disciples to not do certain things,and act certain ways, while carrying the Word to different parts of the world ? It's better to just say," I want what I want, and that's that.". Lots of people don't like America anymore. I'm talking about other countries, and ex- pats alike ! Christofascism is alive and well in America, it explains a lot. I'm glad I'm just a first generation American. Knowing what I know these days. There's just no way around one thing : you can't call all these incidents Christian acts. Racist acts,yes. Anyone hear of the Boxer Rebellion,and the Crimean War ? European colonizers did try to pull the same thing in Russia and China, and one sees what happened to them. Not a pretty sight. In comparison, the Indigenous people were very kind to the same kind of people who came here in the late 1500's.

[@Mark-ej4uf]

Consider to take off the market of Trecate your chain of clothes Franklyn and Marshall before delighting us with your spurred Perspectives, if you wan to be credible, if not, you are not serious enough to entertain a legitimate discussion with some Crafted Speaker, never heard around by the way, called Mark Charles.

[@ACrazyKat]

Best lecture I have seen and or heard in all my years. Thank you

[@hoptownsfinest703]

I am using this comment from a wise person American Holocaust, I certify to you that with the help of God we shall powerfully enter your country and shall make War against You in All Ways and All Manners that we can and shall subject You to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses. We shall take You and Your Wives and Your Children, and shall make Slaves of Them, and as such shall sale and dispose of them as their Highnesses may Command. And we shall take your goods and shall do You all the Mischief and Damage that We can as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their Lord and resist and Contradict him. In practice the Spanish ( European Colonizers) did not usually wait for the Indians to reply to their demands. The Indians were manacled then as it were they were read their rights. ( as one colonist and historian described the routine. After they were put in chains someone read the Requerimiento without knowing their language and without any interpreters, and without either the readers or the Indians understanding the Language they had no opportunity to reply, being immediately carried away Prisoners the Europeans not failing to use the stick on those who did not go fast enough. In this perverse way the invasion and destruction of what many including Columbus thought was a “Heaven On Earth” began! Not that the reading of the Requerimiento was necessary to the inhuman violence the Spanish (European Colonizers and the Church) were to perpetrate against the Indigenous People they confronted. Rather the proclamation was merely a legalistic Rational for the fanatical.......the requerimiento is representatives of the very same standards practiced Policing Today. Columbus and his men shipped thousands of Sunkissed, Melanin Rich, Aboriginal, Indigenous American Indians to The Islands, To Europe and to Afrika and sold them as Negroes. Negroland is in Afrika and yet we don’t question why?!? And the idea that Europeans continue to both negate and experiment with the existing functioning Cultures is highly offensive. American History equals, Aboriginal History Autochthonous History American Indian History Indigenous American History = Black History!!! Reclassification from Indigenous to Black and Afrikan American has both denied and confused a great many of Our People, Regarding Our Contributions, In our Own Land. The Meritorious Manumission Act of 1710......In Exchange for Freedom. 1) Save the life of Pigment Impaired. 2) Protect the Pigment Impaired. 3) Squeal on The Sun Kissed. 4) Invent something that the Pigment Impaired can make Financial Gain and Power from. The Fragility is real and seems to be exclusive to the uninvited, Europeans, who’ve no bootstraps to genuinely boast upon.

[@NotPracticingLawdotinfo]

THANK you very much for this video! I know, about the hardships, or destruction of the Native Americans from the pdf... "The American Holocaust" by Stannard, and the slavery of woman of all races here in "Title Island" or from top of the North, to the south tip of South America. I know that Columbus, never **founded** America, and was LOOKING for **India,** and that is why the "Natives" are still called, even by themselves.... Indians or India-ns! So I don't care to understand, and don't see any reason to use any LYING LABEL, placed on anyone who was, and is a NATIVE aboriginal inhabitants, of "Turtle Island," would allow themselves to be called that....LIE! It's like adopting a "LIE" for a name!

[@barbarabartleson8950]

Mark Charles for President 2024❗ ☝️😃 💯% 💟

[@dmh4150]

Everyone needs to Watch this... Thank you very much. Giving us a Voice...💕

[@tonywords6713]

incredible speech

[@mr.roboxihuman4344]

Wow... How the hell does this only have 225 views?! This speech is spot on and amazing. Well done. Well done. This sums it up so beautifully. Thank you so much for your words. They give me great hope to hear someone say these things on a platform.

[@wadesmoke9726]

He's been thinking of running for president

[@mr.roboxihuman4344]

@@wadesmoke9726 would love to see him do so.

[@elisabethdakak878]

Alas, people think it only happens to the others 😩😩🙏🏻

[@elisabethdakak878]

Alas, people think it only happens to the others 😩😩🙏🏻

[@elisabethdakak878]

Alas, people think it only happens to the others 😩😩🙏🏻

[@emmanuelrugina4751]

Mr. Mark Charles is saying the truth about the coexistence of people set to make a one and same nation through the real principles of equality, freedom and cooperation for the common good.

[@ai.culturalquotes888]

E hoa! E kōrero pono ana tau. Ka pouri ahau mo ngā iwi whero o Amerika [Hey friend! You speak the truth. I feel anger for the indigenous people of America]. Their whenua [land] was stolen, their whakapapa [genealogy] broken, and their mana [prestige] disrespected. Just like here, where Pākehā [Europeans] still strut around like they own the place. But kia kaha tatou [but let us be strong]! We are descendants of Ranginui and Papatuanuku [sky father and earth mother], strong and resilient. Australia? Kia ora to our whanau [family] there. They got the worst of it, pushed aside and ignored. Our struggles are shared struggles. We must stand together and fight for what is rightfully ours. Kia kaha te wairua Māori! [May the Maori spirit be strong!]

[@jermainewashington2224]

Mark Charles is correct 💯 ....NO SHARED MEMORY..... SEGREGATION AND JIM CROW😮

[@afkfromk1]

But, what now ? compensation on ALL levels ? I think so and all human should create a Petition, I know the Anglo Americans will say that many time in history unjust is documented, but the first time that its documented so well and glorified by the so-called civilization enlightened world, so if they are so enlightened they should pay for it.

[@jamesmooney5348]

The reason why God allowed the Isrealites that land, is because those people acted in evil in His sight. The same standards were held to the Isrealites. As they did fall short in time and ended up going into captivity.

[@chennblair1252]

That was a Very Well Thought Out Speech ! Instead of Native American Day , Maybe a Reminder of The Trail of Tears Should be Brought to The Table , So it's Never Done Again !

[@maaruz1979]

Sorry dude, America does NOT want to talk about race- now or ever

[@hollybeverlywoodhill7333]

THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS IS LAW BIBLE THOU SHALT NOT KILL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

Yes, Beverlywoodhill, well said.

[@jermainewashington2224]

Frustrated US .... PARALYZED THEM . .. HMMM 🤔

[@henrybaker3320]

I am glad I stayed throng til he finished , he’s not just correct he has a pathway that all of the actors have to go through. Bernie Sanders forced us to look“ under there….”😢🎉😩🤪🤬🤯🥶💩👻💀☠️🤡👺👺👹😈😷🤐.

[@nunyanunya4147]

i am very sorry. i thought this was a lecture on a dig sight or light hearted anthropological precuntlombus study. i am far to stoned to give this speech the attention it deserves. and am very happy this was much deeper than i originally searched for. will be back latter. more lectures ov this vantage fire and credability? asking for a sober but very poor friend.

[@IndiaAniya25]

Basically what has been happening in Palestine

[@harlanbarnhart4656]

I admire this even though I have some philosophical differences. I think the relationship between documents and the true character of the Nation is more fluid, they are linked but not directly like a mathematical equation. The true character of the Nation is the way we think and believe, not the writing on parchment. Of course the two overlap and influence each other. A danger I see in his ideology is tearing things down to the root may open the way for something worse to grow. The French revolution demonstrated this, when everything is thrown out the window, what grows to replace it can be uncontrollable and not what anyone originally wanted. That and a lot of blood. But I support his message, it needs to be heard to change the way the nation thinks and acts. 9.5 out of 10.

[@jamesmooney5348]

What about tribes doing to one another, as "white America" did to the whe nation? Apparently, it's om for Natives to do it to one another. But God forbid if a white man does it to a Native. Is that what your so mad about? That the Natives lost? (It's a fair question)

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

Christians ARE held to the higher standard, because of the commands in the New Testament. Was it right for those intertribal wars to take place ? No. If the Gospel was handled by those who took it seriously enough to obey it, there would have been enough converts made that those wars would have stopped. You can't kill, covet and enslave people as a Christian, and merely using Christian lingo and slogans don't make someone a Christian. Call it something else, like invasion, or European supremacy,which is honest enough. Ditto for slavery and the rest of it. The Indeginous people who heard the Gospels we're open to that teaching like no one before or since. But that was then, before all these events took place from back then, up to this day.

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

Sure the Natives lost, because they just didn't have access to news from overseas, being surrounded by water. You'd have needed that kind of Intel, just like today,to prevent and repel an invasion. You can't fight what you don't know. Once there were the mass migrations by boat, it was on. You'd have had to sink every ship before it made shore, to prevent all this. Border control, it's called.

[@sleepyccs]

The purpose of the 14th Amendment and the other 2 Reconstruction amendments were to nullify Stanford v. Scott, 1857, the Dred Scott Ruling.

[@theresasanders8251]

Another Time to celebrate our people is of course going back to Spring Equinox AND Fall Equinox, as we also introduce the children of the Western Colonizer CULTURE, to their part in the Circle of Life & their privilege to serve as a steward to both the Earth Mother and Future Generations, & our most precious children, who DO lead the way!

[@marybaldwin4181]

Thank you for your perspectives. I read the Constitution when I was in school. I don't remember ever reading that section before. Give us something to think about.

[@nunyanunya4147]

they rush over it. or put (...) in alot to jump over the parts they want to white wash later. on a side note. if you ask why it says that you are asked to talk to the principle and guidance councler after school... long story short i got suspended.

[@hollybeverlywoodhill7333]

THE UNITED STATES GOV AND THE NATIVE AMERICANS NATION NEED A MEDIATOR THE ICJ INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

[@donaldcuster6152]

Manifest destiny. He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword. He who Leeds in captivity shall go into captivity

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

Leeds?

[@wadesmoke9726]

@@marymargaretblumhorst5359 Custer

[@jimpreston1488]

Marianne Williamson for president or vice president! Let's Finally do good for life, Earth, humanity, God/creator!

[@sano1062]

The U.S. Armed Forces lost the Seminole Wars.

[@caseylipok8161]

Very well presented. I also thoroughly enjoyed his TED talk on "We The People" The three most misunderstood words in the English language. He references much of this same material. If historical accuracy was taught in schools at an early age, we might see future generations with more empathy and understanding towards one another.

[@stven8363]

Sand Creek massacre...I had to listen to that several times. I live near Denver and never knew this history. This is important. Brings tears to my eyes

[@zombiewulfgrld6055]

Powerful

[@rodneyreaves2737]

Amazing Speech!!!!!!

[@TheEverlast1617]

great speech and presantation✊

[@ruiaaperahama380]

NATIONAL TRUTH CONCILIATION COUNCIL - great powerful wonderful start

[@hampusw4666]

This is so good!

[@deedee8568]

But Germany ARE doing it again.

[@nicantlacauniversityongoog2162]

WHY IS TRUMP NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS ????

[@mariaglujan4533]

I agreed with all your historical facts until you mentioned the undocumented as running around as if they owned the place I am not too clear as to what you meant by that as a Mexican American Chicana we recognize our indigenous roots and because an imaginary border line was drawn does not erase that our ancestors roamed these lands from Alaska to the tip of South America we have the highest percentages of indigenous DNA. You sounded very racist to my ears after growing up where there were signs at restaurants saying no Mexicans, Indians, Negros served. Don't separate the Mexican experience from the United States we are from this land.

[@Benjamin-jo4rf]

He was talking about 300 million European immigrants.

[@Benjamin-jo4rf]

Just wondering if you have a Spanish last name?

[@mariaglujan4533]

Yes it is Spanish as they landed in Anawak/Mexico. @@Benjamin-jo4rf

[@kerrysuzie]

brilliant! Enrolled Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma here xx

[@CrystalMouse1]

Halito 👋

[@chennblair1252]

Well Said The Blood Quantity Rule , Should be Dismissed ! I am a 2nd Generation Born Off of White Earth & Can't be Enrolled !

[@historion]

Anachronistic.

[@kimberwolf3849]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@jermainewashington2224]

P I T S😮

[@kimberwolf3849]

❤❤

[@normanbonk8064]

❤❤❤

[@davidgarcia-jk6nt]

😮

[@nurfacealways]

To da chi ni... Yay

[@harrison5100]

MVTO!! Excellent!

[@chennblair1252]

Migwetch Cousin Very Insightful !

[@wayneg296]

Sad, every word true. How the hell do we fix it? Voting does no good.

[@kimberleeturner8475]

JESUS

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

First, there has to be an agreement on what a FIX IT means! That will never happen.

[@Adriana-ej3qi]

Give up your land and give it back to the natives. If you want to truly fix it. Do it.

[@b.b.s2860]

@@Adriana-ej3qi Amen 🙏

[@UmImAva]

I'm glad to have found this video

[@jamesmooney5348]

What people need is the healing power of Christ.

[@michaelstevens8224]

mark never mentions the fasces that lincolns hands rest upon at the memorial.

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

Learn to spell.

[@barbarabartleson8950]

Faces? Ive never seen the Lincoln memorial, but I'll check it out to see whose faces are under lincolns hands ✔️ thanks Michael Stevens 🖐️😊 Or is the word feces? Pigeon poop?

[@chenydeniz3594]

Thank you

[@4Youalone3]

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[@gracedavis1854]

Your presentation is 95% correct but the Declaration of Independence was written 246 years ago, and society was different then, but it still is one of the greatest documents ever written. Black history and native history are being taught at schools' nationwide since the 1960-1970s.

[@AmjadAli-up2uw]

Please, stan up for the rights of Native people. They are the real Muslims among us. Insha Allah.

[@dompuma9620]

Islam is spreading amongst the indigenous people Alhamdulillah. The ancestors of my people believed in monotheism before they turned to shirk.

[@Swock010]

Well you were right cause I'm fuming

[@hollybeverlywoodhill7333]

THE CHURCH HAS MANY DIFFERENT VIEW POINTS AND OPINIONS ,THATS WHY THE GOSPEL OF GOD PEACE LOVE SHARING IS THE NEW COVENANT BIBLE

[@hollybeverlywoodhill7333]

GOD ORDERES LOVE PEACE SHARING

[@hollybeverlywoodhill7333]

THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPEL IS DIFFERENT FROM THE TORAH OLD TESTAMENT JESUS COMMAND LOVE PEACE SHARING NOT DEATH OR CONQUEST BY GOD .

[@alfredol8741]

The so called "native Americans" (i.e. the immigrants through the bering strait [whites & blacks through the ocean and mexicans through the southern border])

[@throbbintomahawk4654]

That tells me you believe anything that fits a narrative. There were remains and footprints prior to the ice caps of the bering strait. Explain those? Travel through there was impossible for a large population to cross, but thousand years earlier some how there was human life? Explain that sir

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

​@@throbbintomahawk4654And then there's the matter of what Columbus did, getting his crazy ideas from Marco Polo and his writings ! He thought he could conquer the Silk Road regions, if he went by boat. He knew better than to attempt a land invasion. Because Europe and Asia are connected on the Eurasian land mass, we were always aware of each other. And that's where this Doctrine of Discovery came into play. Before you had the Vatican, you had the Roman Empire. And they wanted the Silk Road since that era,even before the Bible was written.

[@kimberleeturner8475]

It's about the Gospel and God's redemption plan for mankind. All power belongs to God. What Satan meant for our harm, God will turn it around and use it for our good. It's all about exalting our Savior Jesus Christ. What this country needs is the Lord and His truth. It's the TRUTH that will set one free.

[@kimberleeturner8475]

It's not about race, it's about right and wrong

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

​@@kimberleeturner8475This makes a person what would have happened, if the Europeans actually took the New Testament seriously enough not to kill, steal land or kidnap and import slaves from across the Atlantic ocean. Genocide and slavery are lousy foundations for a country. Small wonder that this history was hidden for so long from the rest of the world. So creepy!

[@TheMasterWanker]

2017 Chris Pinto True Christian History of America Part 1

[@TheMasterWanker]

Should we look into the Indians and what they did?.... Just seems pretty one sided you know...

[@monicamacias6155]

@Anderson Erichsen You are missing the point. The main point is White European went all the way to Indians land, kill most of Indians, take their land, possessions and build a nation/country. Indians didn’t go to Britain exterminate natives effectively and build British Empire! Shall I go to your house kill your family, take your possessions and claim is my home? Is wrong isn’t it? Moreover, imagine I don’t even apologise generation after generation. How would you feel? That’s the point. If you have problems( killing, fighting each other) within your home, is not my problem. Likewise, what Indians did in their land is their problem in their land!. European did not have right to go to America, claim that they discovered a new land an make it theirs by killing natives. And yet incapable to apologise. I’m not surprised that exist people like you who are in denial of what European did in that land. Coz, most of people are brainwashed, is designed that way to manipulate people. You are traumatised!

[@heidimueller1039]

Well, how would you react if strangers came to push you off your land?

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

What they did? One sided? I hope you are either delirious or drunk. No clear thinking American could come up with ignorance that would form thinking like this! I cringe to imagine what your historical theory is concerning slavery, or Womens suffrage! MMB!

[@elmersmith7698]

@@marymargaretblumhorst5359 sorry, but yah, you'll get a lot of that. But then you did specify 'clear thinking 🤔 '

[@wadesmoke9726]

@@monicamacias6155 Emenv igido..Amen Sister

[@TheMasterWanker]

24 min - one sided.....

[@TheMasterWanker]

As far as I know the Indians them self - was not so innocent them self....

[@monicamacias6155]

@Anderson Erichsen But is their problem in their land! They didn’t need white man to intervene in their problem! Beside, what you are saying is completely deferent topic.

[@marymargaretblumhorst5359]

Anders,you really need to revamp your historical education!

[@elmersmith7698]

You don't know very far...

[@wadesmoke9726]

@@monicamacias6155 He is missing the whole point..He's in denial..He is angry..He is traumatized. If you don't like what you see in America then we need to come together and take this man's advice..Combined memories of ALL our people here in the US..Native history is white history..good or bad..We had wars but we own them..People of color are not privileged.

[@JulieSevelson-nb9nj]

They aren't claiming to be " innocent" as this statement puts it. They'll be the first to admit that wars were going on among them. And that it was pretty bad, and certainly some leaders like Tecumseh tried to promote unity on a grand scale,and he very well might have succeeded in doing it, had he not been assassinated by William Henry Harrison,back in the day.