What Really Happened When Europeans Landed In North America? | Nations At War | Absolute History

In just over eight hundred years, the greatest invasion in human history would totally transform the map of North America. Through centuries of violent struggle and hardship, the First Nations would fight Europeans and each other. To safeguard their cultures and protect their homelands for the generations yet to come.
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[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Host blinks at 8:39

[@modestoca25]

Lol

[@evelynhernandez3393]

Loooooooooollllllllll

[@johndoeiii9767]

_"They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us that we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved."_ - Chief Pontiac (d. 1769)

[@ikepren3696]

He was such a great chief.

[@johndoeiii9767]

@@ikepren3696 He was. His tribe alongside others, rallied behind him. A great Chief he was.

[@modestoca25]

Or they could go back to killing each others' tribes and cannibalizing enemies.to.gain their strength/essence...

[@escaramujo]

Not the ones giving them Bibles were the ones 'stealing' their land. Under the Spanish crown their were Spanish citizens, it was when the English took the land from Mexico when the nations were stolen from their land and their rights.

[@congoknight13]

When the conquerors tell your story one knows it will be a LIE

[@davidenos1277]

This doc went wrong with the decision to slant it as a thrilling war story. The result is a confusing mess that is mostly irrelevant minutia, and yet still doesn't present a coherent framework for understanding timeline, politics, historical forces, or subjective experience of any of the participants.

[@johndoeiii9767]

Lest we forget..........✝️⏳ > Native ceremonies were considered crimes and punishable by imprisonment until the *_Indian Religious Freedom Act_* passed in *_1978._* _"They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us that we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved."_ - Chief Pontiac (d. 1769)

[@magneticartist]

They were not Christians who did this to you. They are people blinded by demonic beliefs, greed, power, and hate which is the opposite of what a true Christian is. History shows that religion has often condoned, justified, or even promoted war while pretending to work for peace. For decades, Jehovah’s Witnesses have exposed such religious hypocrisy. Should Christian religions support war? What Jesus taught: “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:39) “Continue to love your enemies.”-Matthew 5:44-47. Consider: Can a religion claim to obey Jesus’ commands about love and at the same time encourage its adherents to kill others in war? What Jesus said: “My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be handed over.” (John 18:36) “All those who take up the sword will perish by the sword.”-Matthew 26:47-52. Consider: If Christians were not to fight even to protect Jesus, should they take up arms for any other reason? There's a lot of honest people with good intentions but history shows after thousands of years humans cannot rule themselves. God's kingdom promises a world of peace without the wicked: "I well know, O Jehovah, that man’s way does not belong to him. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."--Jeremiah 10:23 ""In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever,"--Daniel 2:44 "Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; You will look at where they were, And they will not be there. But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."--Psalm 37:10,11 "And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.""--Revelation 21:4 jw.org

[@johndoeiii9767]

@@magneticartist Yes they were. They were Christian. Their spirit and zeal, was Christian. Modern Christians tend to downplay the spirit, and the religious zeal, that carried Christian evangelicals, missionaries and pilgrims, from one continent to the next. It seems as if - to rationalize why Christians did what they did - 21st century Christians tend to pretend as if, Christians from centuries passed, weren't "as Christian" as the Christians who were born in the 20th and 21st centuries. When in reality, that is simply untrue. To them, they were rightly guided, divinely chosen.... to civilize and "save" non-Roman barbarians, the heathens, the savages - and all the "damned souls". That was the Spirit of Christianity on earth, that was the Presence of Christianity on earth. Dating as far back, as the Holy Roman Empire, and as recent, as the South African Christian Apartheid Regime. The driving force, the spirit that guided them, was Christianity. For us today to say that they weren't acting in the name of Christianity, or that they weren't Christians, or that they didn't feel the Holy Spirit amidst their mission to preach and spread the Gospel... would be flatout wrong, and actually unfair (with respect to them and the sincerity they had in their zealous spirit as Christian pilgrims, Christian missionaries, Christian evangelicals).

[@john2510]

The narration is so bad it’s distracting. Overacting while staring blankly into the teleprompter.

[@soosquatch4236]

I agree. I wanted to listen to this, but the narrator ruined it for me

[@zazzifizzle]

Ikr. Instead of coming across as mysterious and regal he's just awkward and creepy.

[@danyelnicholas]

It is all so tedious and horrible, why don’t we learn anything about the cultural achievements of those people?

[@jameslascelle9453]

My indigenous Cree, Sioux and Métis family robbed and fought my German and French family around The Battlefords during the 1885 rebellion. Pretty crazy how a century later we’re all mixed together by blood. Multiple cultures now as one new culture taking aspects of them all. My kokum Mable was born in a road allowance and she told stories to my mom on how they struggled to find food as they weren’t allowed to hunt on the newly set land for Ukrainian immigrants. She also became a prostitute at the age of 13 so the family could have money to buy much needed necessities.

[@missheadbanger]

I've been to Batoche, there are still bullet holes visible on the outside of the church. My paternal side is French Metis and some of my ancestors lived and were buried in the town. I'm also distantly related to Etienne Brule, a French Explore and fur trader under the leadership of Champlain. He was killed and cannibalized by the tribe that he was friends with, they thought he betrayed them. As someone who loves history, to be a part of it in a way makes it even more interesting to learn about.

[@escaramujo]

Everyone is part of history through their ancestors.

[@melivey4196]

Well done. Thanks.

[@matthewmann8969]

More historical touches, pokes, pokers, and tags should be done about the history between First Nation's(Crees And Denes) And Inuits.

[@MrChristianDT]

Some minor issues- I'm fairly certain the Dutch never gave the Iroquois guns. I have a paper someone put together on the Susquehannock Nation where he includes finding sources of the Dutch freaking out, trying to understand where the Iroquois suddenly got all these guns from. Around the same time they got them, the English attacked Quebec & the Iroquois spontaneously also declared war on the Algonquian & Huron at the exact same time. Iroquois land was still claimed by the Dutch then, but that would heavily imply the English gave them the guns. Dutch were just straight up incompetent with Native relations & that's one of the main reasons New Netherland was conquered by the English in the 1660s. Also, the Americans did attempt to court the Natives to their side & even promised the ones in Ohio Country they could be the 14th state, but miscommunication led to the Natives never upholding their end of the treaty, which the Americans took as treason & they ended up suffering from both sides at once during that war. Though, I get this documentary is only 20 minutes long & it's mostly accurate enough. It's just, this subject is so much more complex than anyone ever bothers to give it credit for.

[@seemoore57]

the only issue is that the these people should have stopped everyone that touched the land. What a garbage bin that has resulted.

[@rebbyy95]

@@seemoore57 was gonna happen sooner or later

[@seemoore57]

@@rebbyy95 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

[@alexevans4877]

@@seemoore57 Hardly the same. Zero resources, zero space, zero desire to be there. No one wants to take what they have. So we put laws in place to protect them. Its hardly like they are "Stopping everyone that touched the land" One guy with a gun could clear the whole place, if it weren't for the many men with guns that stop them from going there and doing that.

[@seemoore57]

@@rebbyy95 you have been perfectly trained. Congratulations.

[@Patrick3183]

Misunderstandings followed.

[@tymanung6382]

Thank you for explaining almost unknown or censured W Europe empires and N American Indigenous nations. Could you now produce parallel video for Mexico. C and S America, and Caribbean also E SE S Asia, Pacific Mid E + N Africa, W C S E Africa, etc = whole modern W invaded--world?

[@DarkFire1536]

I made it to 3:50 and couldn't handle the narrator.

[@OursK85]

You couldn't handle a native american man talking about native american history?

[@denniscleary7580]

Don’t know why this is not taught in public schools, public schools were always bad for miss information

[@johndoeiii9767]

Islamic Civilization and the Muslim world reached the Americas +-200 years before Christopher Columbus. Columbus himself, noted that he came across a Muslim presence, while on his voyage. +-200 years before Columbus sailed past them and noted their presence in his journal, Muslims had already settled in the Americas and established peaceful relations with local Native Americans. This contact between Muslims and Native Americans is evident by the materials Native Americans had in their possession, which had been produced in the Islamic world. These cloths and pieces of clothing such as scarves, handkerchiefs, etc, were likely gifted to the Native hosts by their Muslim guests. For +-200 years, there was no forced conversions, no tents and villages burnt down, no animals sacred to Native Americans massacred, no Indian Chiefs burnt alive, no Native American babies burned alive, no Native American babies skulls smashed in order to "save" their souls, no diseases, no Thanksgivings genocide, no rape, no residential/boarding schools designed to "kill the Indian" and "save" the man. Muslins from West Africa reached and settled (as guests) in the Americas +-two hundred years before European Christians "discovered" the homelands of Native Americans.

[@cardboardempire]

It is.

[@sommmeguy]

The Metis were not really outnumbered and outgunned. Gabriel Dumont, the Metis general, wanted to attack Carleton's troop column as it slowly marched towards batoche in unfamiliar territory. With his highly mobile troop disciplined hunters, he probably could have decimated the Canadians. However, Riel held him back because he was still hoping to negotiate a peace.

[@toxicKween83]

Shaping continents...but none would live long enough to see the fruits of their labor, the future of their sacrafice...if so, they may have never fought to begin with.

[@magneticartist]

I take it you like history and books. So which book has the truth? What book has authority over all other books when it comes to history and future events? The Bible. This was going to happen as told by Jesus Christ and then the end will come. See, God has given humanity enough time to prove themselves that they don't need God as ruler. But history proves otherwise and is clear as water, "we can't rule ourselves" we are sinful, we suffer and die. Adam and Eve sold perfection over slavery of sin which is what we all inherited. All that sin brings in the end is death. "You are going to hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for these things must take place, but the end is not yet."--Matthew 24:6 "Another came out, a fiery-colored horse, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword."--Revelation 6:4 Satan is working harder than ever to turn people away from God because time is running out: "So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. ... On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.”"--Revelation 12:9,12 "Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; You will look at where they were, And they will not be there. But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."--Psalm 37:10,11 jw.org

[@xmorte]

@@magneticartist tldr

[@willhalt01]

@@xmorte tldr, they believe the propaganda the Bible tells them.

[@polpotpie715]

Cool jacket brah

[@starkilr101]

Seen

[@BridgesDontFly]

The US and Canada need to establish a Viking day just as Columbus day.

[@xryxix]

Yeah could do away with Columbus day and have a Viking Day instead actually

[@5eA5]

my german ancestors in the states would have hung these slavers. As Columbus, the sick prick.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

@@xryxix absolutely

[@Patrick3183]

The woke lot will love that. More days to celebrate white colonialism

[@viewer-of-content]

its called Indigenous Peoples Day or American Indian Day. Started the first official Name Change in South Dakota and is only being Held up on a federal level by the East Coast states who're more about being Italian Descendants than celebrating good people/things. We could at least change it to Da Vinci day or something if they love Italy so much, but instead we celebrate a genocidal explorer.

[@susanroutt6690]

Did the native Americans catch European diseases that spread throughout the new world? Some South American populations seem to have been weakened before Columbus and Cortez arrived.

[@dickmcshan9778]

No... Columbus was not the first Europeon visitors.

[@mrshrek362]

James lascelle😂😂😂

[@tubasungod]

They went straight to the casinos, everyone knows that.

[@AntzLoks1314]

Antz-that-crawls-on-the-ground ~~ El_lord_de_Aztlan

[@OstblockLatina]

Have a thumbnail of a Viking and a Native American next to each other in the thumbnail - mention the Norsemen reaching North America for like a couple of seconds and then continue about 17th century and later colonization and war on the continent for the rest of the video. Dislike for clickbait.

[@robnewman6101]

I care about the Native Americans today. Their own Country Land Homes were so badly taken over by the White European Settlers.

[@larissahorne9991]

That was very impressive with how they were able to defeat the Vikings. And I impressed how the Picts of the Scottish Lowlands including some of my ancestors managed to defeat the Romans. It took three battles for them to succeed before the Emperor Hadrian built that wall to TRY and keep them out.

[@opalescencedoll7840]

Hi

[@alteriwnet5805]

Finally a non woke explanatory video! Thank you!

[@therrgteam1952]

Ah you enjoy a good lie to support your existence

[@colonelsanders1349]

So a civilization of loose tribes, who weren’t even “native” to begin with, were conquered by a more advanced civilization. Historically speaking, that sounds pretty normal. No clue why so many Americans feel guilty about it.

[@anchal6405]

So historically normal means morally correct? I’m confused

[@clarissagafoor5222]

Saying that the people who first inhabit an area of the world aren't 'natives' gives the lie to the IRA movement in Ireland that Americans are so in love with!

[@kittydranae1762]

Ah another conspiracy theorist that has no actual proof that my people weren’t the first lmao Wasicu suyapé

[@magneticartist]

So advanced they are all dead.

[@gingerbread7113]

Native Americans wasnt anywhere to be found.

[@cherylcallahan5402]

*Absolute History beginning of 19th century Nation's at War appreciate your videos Listening 🌟 from Mass USA TYVM 💙*

[@crystalharris7394]

💗💗💗

[@HaHaroni]

Nope. That's not what happened.

[@justinreilly1]

I applaud the director’s decision to employ an intellectually challenged indigenous narrator.

[@mattzegarski3831]

The presenter can blink!!!

[@MyKnifeJourney]

Poorly written and mechanically narrated by a bizarre actor who doesn't blink. Great topics poorly executed.

[@edwardhammer5427]

How can anyone watch this with his improper pronunciation of Iroquois🤦‍♂

[@OursK85]

The Iroquois has been loat a lot due to being mixed with Britains. Even now many Iroquois and Mohawks don't speak it.

[@xryxix]

Appreciate people that tell the truth of our history vs peddling lies for us to repeat our mistakes. Be safe yeah 🍀🍀🍀

[@keneutervalve9459]

Ahhhh, 3-dog narrations.... nothing finer.

[@jamesmichaels4979]

Teenagers: "Columbus and Leif didn't discover America. People were already living there!!"🧟‍♂️ When you find something for the first time you discover it. When Europeans found the Americas and the native Americans, they DISCOVERED the Americas and the native Americans. "Today Jimmy DISCOVERED a shortcut on the way to work". Language.

[@gingerbread7113]

Native Americans? Thats a white mans lie

[@willhalt01]

Thank goodness you are here to rail against these dastardly teenagers.

[@prunabluepepper]

videos like this is the reason why I unsubscribed. pompous title, next to no content in the video.

[@rackroll4405]

Human culture is around 12000 years old.

[@dachshund5340]

Why do modern natives look white but in pictures they look like that guy in the thumbnail

[@FuzBrain]

It sounds like you haven't met that many Native American people? But for the few you have met, there's a few different explanations. 1) There was a white person who married into their family/vice versa. Sometimes people fell in love, and there were even some cases where a European person would join a tribe. Unfortunately there were also cases where men would specifically try to marry Native women to legally get their land. This was not always consensual. Also fyi, just like mixed kids between black and white people, the kid could come out looking a lot like one parent over the other, so even after just one or two generations a kid might just look white. 2) Rape. Rape happens, and if you're familiar with the story of Pocahontas you already know that fetishizing Native Americans was and still is very common. On top of that, getting anyone to punish a rapist was way more difficult then it ever should be. 3) Culture Vultures. People who will claim to be part of a culture, without being part of that group and not actually caring about them at all. Often seen wearing head dresses as accessories, talking about how they're "related to a Indian princess", claiming that because they're "not entirely white" they can say the n-slur, and saying "the native Americans believed", without specifying what tribe(s) believed the probably untrue thing they're talking about.

[@dachshund5340]

@@FuzBrain thank you for responding!! I was actually curious and your response was very interesting

[@kittydranae1762]

Native American here from the Salish kootenai reservation Please start researching our peoples genocide if you haven’t, the falsities spread by American “education” run deep, 500 peace treaties never followed, 90% of our population wiped out by disease, roots of pain that run deeper than any tree you can find, we don’t want reparations, we want respect and understanding Also ask native peoples if you really want to know our story, don’t listen to our story through mouths that can’t even pronounce our language, there are so many falsities I see in this documentary but it’s not their fault, these things are not only not taught, they are hidden

[@john2510]

“Our people?” When did the many warring tribes of North America become one people? That’s a modern European American myth.

[@kittydranae1762]

“The warring tribes of North America” I can already tell you don’t know much about actual history, and as it stands today we stand united as one people as far as I am, and every native I know is concerned Our “warring tribes” had massive cities up the east coast and trade routes spanning from the farthest northern point to the farthest southern point We try to speak for ourselves, and if you ask for evidence, we aren’t able to prove it because it was all burned, destroyed, and pillaged during colonization, the land bridge theory that people claimed up and down was true, that we have been stating is not true for AGES has been disproved as of this year with footprints from New Mexico much older than the land bridge were found www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature/fossilized-footprints.htm So what exact proof do you have that we were all “warring tribes” besides books wrote by the people who wiped us out?

[@kittydranae1762]

It’s a colonizer mindset to assume that just because we were separate, means that we were constantly waging war upon eachother, sure war was there that’s undeniable, does that detract from the genocide that was committed? Or the fact that we had a civilization 100x the size of the European civilization before disease decimated 90% of our populations brought over here by Europe

[@kittydranae1762]

Also saying “our people” does NOT detract from the separate tribes nor their systems, it unifies us as a people who faced the same persecution and genocide who shared the same land and decently the same ideals, communally, as well as our respect for the earth and its inhabitants

[@john2510]

@@kittydranae1762 I'm not aware of the remnants of those tribes denying their warfare. The different peoples of North America were still warring with each other long after the Europeans got here (as discussed extensively in this KZbin video). In many cases, one tribe would ally with a European country to maximize its military leverage against another tribe. Of course, that's in the histories written by Europeans. Some native Americans learned to write and could have written contradictory accounts at the time, but they did not. It's hard to know the history of a people who never developed a written language. It has to be recorded by those who did. The lack of a written record also allows those people to develop a fantasy version of their history that no one can deny. Native Americans are not unique. Pretty much every square inch on earth was once occupied by a people who were conquered. The current occupants are typically a blend of the conquerors and the conquered. For better or worse, that's the history of humanity. That the native Americans didn't treat each other any better than the Europeans did doesn't make what the latter did right, but it puts it in a meaningful perspective.

[@fcukyou2_]

the worst presenter of all time..that dudes voice just seems so fake

[@meejinhuang]

Europeans didn't discover any of the Americas. There were natives everywhere the Europeans went. The Europeans did conquer them though.

[@alicerivierre]

Thank you! Thank you! Somebody here gets it! It really grinds my gears to hear someone say "Columbus/Leif Erickson discovered America", and I'm like, yeah ok, let's negate the fact that there were Native people living in the Americas for thousands of years before white people came over and took over. Ugh! But yeah, thanks a bunch, dude! You mean the world to me! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@johndoeiii9767]

@@alicerivierre Islamic Civilization and the Muslim world reached the Americas +-200 years before Christopher Columbus. Columbus himself, noted that he came across a Muslim presence, while on his voyage. +-200 years before Columbus sailed past them and noted their presence in his journal, Muslims had already settled in the Americas and established peaceful relations with local Native Americans. This contact between Muslims and Native Americans is evident by the materials Native Americans had in their possession, which had been produced in the Islamic world. These cloths and pieces of clothing such as scarves, handkerchiefs, etc, were likely gifted to the Native hosts by their Muslim guests. For +-200 years, there was no forced conversions, no tents and villages burnt down, no animals sacred to Native Americans massacred, no Indian Chiefs burnt alive, no Native American babies burned alive, no Native American babies skulls smashed in order to "save" their souls, no diseases, no Thanksgivings genocide, no rape, no residential/boarding schools designed to "kill the Indian" and "save" the man. Muslins from West Africa reached and settled (as guests) in the Americas +-two hundred years before European Christians "discovered" the homelands of Native Americans.

[@jamesmichaels4979]

When you find something for the first time tou discover it. When Europe found the Americas and the native Americans, they DISCOVERED the Americas and the native Americans. "Today Jimmy DISCOVERED a shortcut on the way to work". Comments like yours are so dumb.

[@jamesmichaels4979]

@@alicerivierre they did discover America because they didn't know it existed. First Europeans. Not first humans. When you find something for the first time tou discover it. When Europe found the Americas and the native Americans, they DISCOVERED the Americas and the native Americans. "Today Jimmy DISCOVERED a shortcut to work". Comments like yours are so dumb.

[@lindenpeters2601]

If only there was a word to for when you find something you didn't know was there already...oh yeah... "Discover"

[@marjtab1530]

I don’t like this presenter 😒

[@johndoeiii9767]

The Islamic world and Muslims reached the Americas 200+ years before Christopher Columbus. Columbus himself, noted that he came across a Muslim presence, while on his voyage. 200+ years before Columbus sailed past them and noted their presence in his journal, Muslims had already settled in the Americas and established relations with local Native Americans. This contact between Muslims and Native Americans is evident by the materials Native Americans had in their possession, which had been produced in the Islamic world. These cloths and pieces of clothing, etc, was likely gifted to the Native hosts by their Muslim guests. For 200+ years, there was no forced conversions, no tents and villages burnt down, no animals sacred to Native Americans massacred, no Indian Chiefs burnt alive, no Native American babies burned alive, no Native American babies skulls smashed in order to "save" their souls, no diseases, no Thanksgivings genocide, no residential/boarding schools designed to "kill the Indian" and "save" the man.

[@toxicKween83]

Wow...American, and did not know this bit.

[@xryxix]

Exactlyyyyy. And honestly toxic, they don't want you to know

[@FuzBrain]

Yeeeah this sounds like bullshit, no offense. What evidence is there of things produced by Muslim people in North America that early? Ya know, other than the word of the stupid monster who thought America was India. Everything I've ever seen or heard of being found in North or South America that dates back that far, was made with local materials. On top of that, weaving and sewing is something that humans everywhere figured out pretty early on, and that multiple Native American tribes were fantastic at.

[@Komodo1312]

😂😂😂 this is almost funny

[@aleksstosich]

@ApostateProphet we've got a live one for ya 🤣😂

[@deanamodeo4072]

Progress happened

[@johndoeiii9767]

Progress for whom?

[@deanamodeo4072]

Everyone here. Medication, your I phone, vaccines that sometimes work, flight, modern medicine. I can go on for hours. You should go live in a teepee.

[@marjtab1530]

Poisoning happened

[@willhalt01]

Genocide happened.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

White wins Red loose

[@willhalt01]

Racist

[@sebastienloyer9471]

@@willhalt01 a year later, LoL 😆. Thanks

[@sebastienloyer9471]

@@willhalt01 , you are probably lacking the proper knowledge about mankind's. Know thy self. There is only one human race named: Men,woman, children. To be against an other race,is to be against the Beast's.

[@willhalt01]

Apparently you don't know how the internet works.

[@4otrot65]

They've been terrorizing people for thousands of years but don't make the links at least easily or outright and the false settlement here was a matter of convenience including to traffic is all over.... Repeated and long standing targets of it. Like long standing supporters of thinking this can ever be accepted.

[@woodystorey]

I'll tell ya exactly what happend, wether for better or for worse, the Americans built a country that was the richest, strongest, most admired country EVER and it was done in a shorter time than any other....