Arkansas's First People

As part of American Experience's We Shall Remain, Arkansas's First People is a 5-part series featuring unique perspectives on American Indian cultural legacy, archaeological data, and interviews with modern tribal representatives of those who had and still have an impact on Arkansas.

[@exploark8466]

I was born and raised in arkansas and if you spend enough time in the forest and swamps they become a part of you

[@andrewmcminn6192]

See a doctor

[@billkaldem5099]

@@andrewmcminn6192see a shrink

[@3ForestAnimals]

like in Idaho, to me. nice. arkansas sits 6 miles above our huge crystaline grids

[@mrgeno4682]

Thinking about all those arrow heads us kids found down in Fulton Arkansas. We all had a cigar box full, and would trade them. Often we found them while playing.

[@9thGenerationCajun]

I'am a descendant of Cane River Creoles in Louisiana, One of my great grandmothers was Caddo and in records she was related to a tribe in Arkansas called the "Nassani"

[@LittySmitty]

Dope

[@del7410]

How did you find out, please share? Hint Calhoun county, Franklin township, AR. Much appreciative. Muur.

[@9thGenerationCajun]

@@del7410 hours,weeks have turned into an obsession of looking through records. Your best bet is to research each person in your tree and make note if you notice any last names spelled differently. Being from Louisiana most forget this was a French speaking area so alot of the names changed slightly through translation.

[@del7410]

@@9thGenerationCajun facts!!! I'm one of (for sure /fact), one of these.... Ell, all, el, or al, after the d in surname. 😂😂😂 I'm so confused!!! 😂😂😂

[@del7410]

@@9thGenerationCajun Any websites for the Arkansas records? They shipped me near lake erie. :) loved the travels though!!! :) and the journey back. Thanks 9th!!! Hotep.

[@philishabaird8106]

Anyone who respects and appreciates the art and markings in these caves without touching or altering them, have a true curiosity and respect for nature and life.

[@bungeechord1]

So true!

[@noneyabizz2830]

Glitch,,so umm ???TERRIOST

[@elainemunro4621]

Amazing production! Well scripted, good documentation. Excellent. Every state in our country should have something like this. This should be required in school education.

[@ramencurry6672]

Arkansas is one of the most interesting states. And I’m not even from the area and have no allegiance to Arkansas. However it’s still a great state to learn about

[@noneyabizz2830]

Something like a HOMEMADE police spraying company,HUH CLINTON,,N NATIVE

[@sasachiminesh1204]

Poverty Point, LA has mounds that reach back at least to 1700 - 1100 BC, so mounds are a lot earlier than this video says.

[@donaldallen1276]

Yes history is proven wrong daily! Don't believe what you are taught about history as most of it is personal speculation. Like the land bridge from Asia. As evidence in South America has already proved that false.🌞 Much of our lost history from tool making to types of tools is all built on personal thought and accepted as fact🌞

[@bobolink39]

Clovis peoples go back to somewhere around 10-12000 years so I think that catches about all the history we know of for now. Who knows what may be discovered later.

[@shiningstarr7298]

@@bobolink39 on

[@dreadnegus]

Facts.

[@dreadnegus]

Clovis is not the oldest civilization discovered on Turtle Island.

[@peedevlin3426]

Sending Love & Light! Always

[@tammiebroggins]

I'm Caddoan. Those mounds belong to us. We are still here! They blew up our villages and killed everyone they could! We still have no home! Speak truth!

[@josephstalin5192]

Not 😂

[@jamesgranderson2890]

All my growing up my dad used to tell me we were part Blackfeet. My great great grandma was Native American. I’m trying to research this but not coming up w/ much. Which ever way my research takes me doesn’t matter. The Native American people will always have my utmost respect.

[@user-kb3nf7bu7d]

I feel the same way but let's keep searching

[@TruthBeTold24_7]

Same for me. I knew my great great grandmother. She lived to be 93 and I remember she didn't eat like us. She had a head full of hair, and was never sick. She was always very quiet but it was something so majestic about her. She died of old age. I was often told of her background but without much detail. So I've been studying blackfoot indians for some years now

[@damagecontroller8637]

Weird that no one can dig for truth. Thanks for sparking my interest. One day we will know the whole truth.. better get rid of evidence before we come

[@arthurogarza3771]

I was at Toltec Mounds this morning and even had a good conversation with Amy, very kind and informative! Thanks again Amy!

[@michaeljohnston6856]

I grew up with her. She’s a great person for real.

[@sasachiminesh1204]

Chiefs were not hereditary in North American woodland cultures as far as we know. Oral traditions from many nations bear witness to the fact that each generation chose its leaders by slow process that centers on age-based peer groups and group consensus. Youth peer groups chose their own leaders at various times, giving individuals chance to show their character and ability. Over the process of growing, youths slowly determined who among them was good at what, and assigned roles accordingly. Chiefs were not absolute and could be changed, which is borne out in Lenape and other tribal oral traditions.

[@davidmeadors2121]

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[@fuddwacker4803]

I agree with what you say. AND it’s time we changed our so call Chief of America! I am from Cherokee blood, and pound of every bit of it. We should a day honoring all American Indians! GOD Bless them all !

[@bertrumwendelljr.5700]

Thanks for a great journey into our southeastern Native Peoples history. I have learned a lot and will carry this information with me in my journey.

[@kidmack3556]

THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING AND SHARING!!! I wasn't able to see this entire program on FNX and it wasn't going to be shown again. So interesting and I didn't know Arkansas is so beautiful until I watched this.

[@Numba003]

My wife's mother is currently rather interested in Arkansas Native American groups. I could definitely stand to learn more about the topic myself. Thank you for a very informative video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

[@shawnrachal1631]

I'm from Baton Rouge Louisiana and I love history. You never know what u will find in your ancestors past history.

[@jimneff5302]

I'm from northeast WV hour from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and I have always been very interested in history of all sorts but the more regional to my hometown of Moundsville WV the more interesting and I am also a fact checker to sort out the untruths that the education system have taught us all and just plain left out histories of the U.S and the unfortunate and undeniable treatment of those indigenous people that were so important and helpful in the beginning of European arrival to north America and right on throughout our nations beginning and also the inhumane treatment of those brought here under slavery from indentured servitude but more so black experience and all that entailed and I am absolutely white as they still like to separate us under race but white black are not races so I have always answered this as human as we're all of this race and the other things like skin tone or colors if you must and foods and traditions are cultural diversity and all that I assure you that is just it and by not teaching or acting like unfortunate historical facts haven't happened Will only further and longer divide us all inside of being truthful and empathetic to do whatever needs to happen for healing of those things for future cohesion and understanding and trusting each other and then you will have the best of a bad situation get better over time . Surely this would be better for all involved as descendents of whichever ancestors unless I have a flaw in my opinion

[@jimneff5302]

Sorry so long

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

This are people fam the blacks of America

[@ramencurry6672]

Arkansas is an interesting place to visit. Most people don’t visit which makes it more fascinating since it becomes more mysterious

[@3ForestAnimals]

we are our ancestors, imo.

[@new-life3863]

The Americas Indians were spread throughout as far as so call" Puerto Rico. we are all still here, until the grate Spirit in the Sky had enough. No more wars Bloodshed tears and hate.

[@billparr]

1914 Original Cherokee National Anthem we know as Amazing Grace tells a story who Natives are and what they were part of. I made translation from translation that was done on original Cherokee lyrics if anyone is curious. Search for Cherokee language version of Amazing grace.

[@BORNFREEININTHACD]

Thanks for the update I will look it up😎

[@miabenson-riggs9950]

Thank you.

[@firouz4296]

This should be taught at schools WORLDWIDE!

[@zboyd900]

....Well, my darkskin Copper Color Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw people ALL MADE IT to Oklahoma....not one died ! I have all of their Native names, of which I can't pronounce due to mixbloods stripping them of their heritage and legacy!! I'm a genealogist of 34 years, and I make sure that I CONSTANTLY tell my findings of my family's original Native ancestors....of the so called 5 CIVILIZED TRIBES !! 🙋🏽‍♀️✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

[@josephcooper6572]

My grandmother was born in Arkansas and her mother was born in Louisiana and they were force in Oklahoma of full blood Shawnee, Cherokee Nation and my Great Grandfather were full blood of Mississippi Choctaw Indian

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

Are u African American

[@josephcooper6572]

@@lynnwoodcarter3486 hell naw..don't come with bs ok

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@josephcooper6572 we are the copper people of north America enslaved bruh the natives mixed with my people I'm from oaklahoma my family from Arkansas and they trace back no Africa easily into the 1600$ prolly further

[@jerihayes4018]

My great great grandmother was Cherokee, from Tennessee.

[@drthompson3974]

I don't think so. You look African

[@patriciajrs46]

What part of Tennessee? I am looking for the Rogers and Sweat families. Any help would be helpful.

[@naturesdaughter6341]

Thoroughly enjoyed this watch!!! 🙌🙌

[@jerihayes4018]

Thank you. Was very informative.

[@cindyedgerton3582]

Very informative. Enjoyed this very much and learned so much thank you.

[@peedevlin3426]

Thank you for this knowledge when we go back we can see how we are all connected.

[@Cuernavacachica02]

Very cool and interesting video! In Georgia they have burial mounds that they know (or at least think they know) were for that. Of course here in Mexico where I’m at now, we have some serious mounds, underneath which are pyramids! The name of the Toltec mounds really peaked my interest because one of the tribes of Mexico were the Toltecas!

[@martelinaalmissa39]

maybe they where same tribe in the begining!!!

[@d.j.5790]

They was the same tribe

[@patricialong5767]

Fascinating! My ancestral people: the Cherokees. Thank you for a very interesting dialogue!

[@bsfgee2957]

Patricia Long misguided info

[@huntercarey4327]

Arkansas was Quapaw land. The Cherokee came from east of the Mississippi.

[@Theodora555]

@@huntercarey4327 I mean no offense however, thats not true. God bless you sir.

[@mechellemerritt2125]

Exactly we were everywhere keep knocking our flat nose off we know 😒

[@rocksandoil2241]

I find it amusing that they point out the "stereotypes" we modern humans carry with us, yet the program emphasizes flute and chanting that isn't demonstrable pre-Columbian here. The flute may be 60k old but that wasn't in the Americas. The sounds in the program are typical of northern Plains Indians and we have no idea if it existed when the first people came to America. Every archaeological program plays that same flute music without a clue if it was part of the culture of some past civilization. And they may have played it very differently if they did.

[@sirrom5155]

i bet you're a hit at parties.

[@teresafernandez9849]

Well, I'm Mexican, there is in México, a whole pyramid dedicated to music. Many very advanced instruments were found there. Including flutes! Thank goodness for México and South America, they are the truth keepers!! Half of ur tribes in USA were Mexican!! We know, lies change, our ancient stories stay the same for centuries! USA is the most uninformed about Native ppl, and ur world is very Native small!!

[@antiglobalistgorilla]

@@teresafernandez9849 If anything the muskogee tribes may have used more complicated horns and drums and rattles. This dude is party pooper.

[@knowbuddy0]

"The oldest flute from the present-day United States is a bone flute dating before 4000 BCE. The description in the display case at Heritage Village proposes that it was side-blown, like a transverse flute, and that the player changed pitch by cupping the end of the flute with one hand."

[@georgepops5462]

My great grandma on my mom's side on her mom's mom's side is how you trace our caddo line my mom's mom's mom's mom's and we african american from the ark la homa tex is what we call it texarkana texas texarkana arkansas Dekalb tx hooks tx newboston tx sheveport louisiana idabel oklahoma what you call the red river bottoms valley my mother dad is from sheveport louisiana his mother was black and caddo so our line go a long way cuz

[@PrimitiveOverland]

❤

[@huntercarey4327]

The mounds are pretty well known among the rural population of Northeast Arkansas; maybe not so much the younger generation, but definitely many of the older people know of many of their locations. A lot of people choose to keep where they are a secret as to deter grave robbing because there are DEFINITELY bodies and artifacts buried in these mounds. The mounds are in many places, but time has helped to hide them. There is one tucked away on my family’s hunting land. Over the years farmers have tilled many of them flat for farmland and strewn their contents across large swaths of land. However there are for sure still many around. I used to have an uncle who would take us walking through the fields to look for arrow heads, of which we found plenty: along with shards of pottery and jewelry, and human bones.

[@thebrocialist8300]

Pretty badass. You should try to excavate one of those mounds if you can quietly organize the resources and manpower needed. Don’t inform any person or institution with links to academia, state authorities, or indigenous organizations though. They will absolutely take whatever artifacts are present and suppress whatever they may reveal - in order to perpetuate the current mainstream historical narrative. The truth is that - from the bog mummies of Florida to the enigmatic semi-mummified remains discovered in Paracas, Peru- evidence of ancient European, Phoenician, and Egyptian settlement and [sustained transatlantic contact] exists and is repressed by the government, academia, and the media. Research the earliest (primary sourced) accounts of the Spaniards and their encounters with the Aztecs and Incas. The educated elite of those Mesoamerican civilizations knew those Europeans were somehow linked to the White-skinned tribes that once dominated the American continents (long before nomadic tribes from Siberia arrived) and contributed to the cultures these later Amerindian civilizations maintained.

[@marymurray6163]

That's f****** sad

[@warflowersociety]

@@thebrocialist8300 wow, what if someone said should go dig up your family's cemetery? Never know how many were buried with old diamond rings. Just don't tell anyone. Your comments sound like the German doctor doing experiments at a concentration camp. Unfortunately, you along with many who are doing the above suggested on Indigenous people and artifacts probably don't realize you sound like that.

[@JBlazeCalifornia]

New video m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/sH2wq6Cpmp2DaM0

[@teresafernandez9849]

​@@thebrocialist8300 WHAT? There is absolutely NO scientific proof to this BS! There is NO Afro DNA in the Americas first inhabitants, they looked hard for it, but nada, ziltch, Zero!! Only ancient DNA is from Asia, Eurasia to be exact! The Americas r as old as the earth, USA archiologists have made us the bastards of the earth! The ppl of the Americas were as good at navigating as anyone else, in some cases better! WE all knew each other or of each other thru direct or relay trade!! Finding artifacts that don't fit in a continent, is very common! The Americas and the Americas Natives r treated like a foot note, but no baby, it's VERY possible that the Americas influenced other cultures, thus the oldest mummies, r in the Americas, and the biggest and possibly the oldest pyramid is in the Americas! All this is coming to light with DNA and carbon dating! We have ALWAYS known, we have been here for millions of yrs! In time, u will know the truth! No one else ever took care of and respected the Americas like we did, we showed respect for her gifts, and NO ONE else will EVER care for her like we did and still do!

[@flounder2129]

Very nice, enjoyable

[@Kingofgrowers]

Interesting ... but kind of a dull narrative. I may take a few months and many visits to "digest" and appreciate this work fully. Thank you for the upload.

[@clintjohnson7023]

I know where there's a natural cave in Arkansas that's right next to another cave that was made by stacking rocks next to a Boulder. It has old artifacts in it . The part that is man made by stacking rocks next to a Cliffside looks like it was used for a smokehouse I found this place while hunting as a teenager. It became my favorite spot to hang out and I used the place for years as my hunting camp. There is a clear spring of water that comes straight out of the Cliffside. I swore to myself I would own this place one day.

[@alisalong3610]

around Hot Springs??

[@clintjohnson7023]

@@alisalong3610 no ma'am not in hot springs area. But not far from judsonia

[@windmedicine4159]

Well made. My Cherokee Mayes line were often in Arkansas after removal, some born there. Wado.

[@rharvey2124]

Can't remember now if it was from my Cherokee family members, but an Arkansas resident of the western Ozarks told how the Native American tribes would come back to the Ozarks to get herbs and plant materials that were not available in Oklahoma.

[@warflowersociety]

@@rharvey2124 Most likely visiting family. Anything is possible but also a lot of what is said down the lines could chance or inaccurate. Could be that there was an area they visited that had a type in more abundance. Or while visiting they would gather. Some plants only naturally grow in certain regions. But the Ozarks aren't a different zone than Oklahoma. Unless the individual lived in a populated city, but still there are rural areas where plants would be abundant. An entire tribe or multiple tribes or members of many tribes going to the Ozarks sounds a bit off to me. Visiting family, a sacred place (including an area where those from the Trail of Tears had passed away) are probably more likely. Suppose it depends on how far back. Having family in both areas and aware of them traveling to Arkansas for visit, my guess is gathering while visiting.

[@rharvey2124]

@@warflowersociety Could be on visits returning to family burials - since my family comes from an area settled by the first Cherokee to remove themselves, and a spot where others wintered during the Trail of Tears.

[@fuddwacker4803]

I have been told America now a National recognition Day for Gays and Lesbians which is absurd! Why don’t we instead have Recognition day for the American Indian. The American Indian seem to be always be overlooked. I’m a 74 year old American and this highly disturbs me. So SAD!

[@Gullah_James1962]

I totally agree with you, this just shows you how racist this Country is recognized. A lot of racist people are angry because we celebrate black history month. We don't receive any money from our government and we don't care what these racist think 💬🤔. I am Gullah, from Charleston South Carolina and we are mixed native American indians. I am 62 years old and our culture is native American 100 %procent. My personal opinion is, every single day is black history month, 365 days per year. I love and adore my family so much, this is the way I feel. I can say this through my personal research that the majority of the white Americans arrived in the USA around 1850's. This is actually the real great migration, they don't want to talk about. The white Americans have European names..!!!! This is nothing new because even the old Western movies shows this in Hollywood.

[@okd_v]

I think most lgbtq people would agree that both deserve a day of recognition

[@Andy_Babb]

Why not both? WTF is the problem with recognizing that LGBT ppl are real human beings and contribute as much as anyone to society? I agree we need a Native American recognition day but not in lieu of other holidays or days of recognition

[@Andy_Babb]

@@okd_vright? I’m not LGBT but I’m definitely an ally… maybe we should just replace Columbus Day since it’s a load of sh!t anyway lol

[@Andy_Babb]

Why don’t you worry more about Columbus Day since that’s a complete load of sh!t. Don’t hate on gays just bc you don’t like them… hate Columbus for being a genocidal slaver.

[@72CrossingRS]

Yes we are.. Still here... We remember, cherish our ancestors and embrace who we are. We are the woven basket. 💞💗💖💗💞

[@positivewill2011]

Awesome ! Keep the flame and pass the torch to the young ones.

[@daniellerawlins3887]

@@positivewill2011 ä

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

U do know this is the black people of America aka African Americans people right?

[@gsup3874]

@@lynnwoodcarter3486 White 5 dollar Indians. Claiming to be indigenous American. Only to get the benefits. They are nothing but culture vultures .

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@gsup3874 mad love to you bro thought 🤔 I was going crazy it's sad even some of are people don't know who we are history in America is so deep stay up

[@zebclark9288]

This is a great series

[@georgecuyler7563]

In British Columbia Canada we Heiltsuk (hey-sook) people have been living in our lands for 15000 years and excavation is still going on.

[@br5877]

Great narrative. Bravo.

[@wakentheyassup6974]

Its definitely in our hearts and in our blood

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

U African American?

[@fanman420]

@@lynnwoodcarter3486 yes

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@fanman420 yes wat ? Sir

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@fanman420 ok 👌 yes man if u are African American your indeginous to America not Africa shit crazy

[@bat-shevaavraham6511]

You are a people, without a doubt, with an HONORABLE, BRAVE, BIG HEART! 😊

[@simplepleasures620]

I went to school with Ben Swadley. Good to see him in this series!

[@dewaynelyle5991]

It's good to learn history ,the truth, It's too sad for me,I never can see why all the lives had to suffer or die,never.

[@societyispatheticdeathisma8233]

It seems to me mounds would be incredibly useful to escape floods before we built dams. I've seen old pictures of Chattanooga under water. This might explain why most mound are near rivers. I've never been to the Mississippi river but if it's anything like the Tennessee then it floods to varying degrees from year to year usually in fall and spring. So mounds would be a way to live near water without getting washed away each year kinda like a storm shelter is a place to go to escape tornadoes.

[@billwilson3609]

They built mounds where the soil was easy to loosen and scoop into baskets. I live where the Caddo had numerous villages but no mounds due to it's heavy clay soils. The did have mounds further away by the Red River and Sabine River where the meandering rivers left large sand deposits that were used to build the mounds.

[@patriciajrs46]

What year, or time frame, was Chattanooga under water?

[@jeannetaylor2217]

My great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee. 💕🙏🙏

[@patriciajrs46]

It's interesting to me that a lake in Wyoming is called Toltec. These mounds remind me of the ones I was able to visit in Ohio.

[@dean3337]

Astonishing, I am from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. That history stems back before any Indigenous History in Oklahoma... remind me of the Pecos Skull...

[@positivewill2011]

Oh, I thought Seminole in Oklahoma originated from Florida? Is that accurate? I know south Florida is teeming with Seminole influence

[@positivewill2011]

Pecos skull is truly astonishing. A negroid culture in mesoamerica in pre Christ archaic times... Archaeology is amazing evidence of past unknown events.

[@dean3337]

@@positivewill2011 , it is astonishing. Also; they Archeologists have concluded that the Olmec Civilization was closely related to cultures in Africa. The first President of Mexico was of African Blood and origins. Vincente Ramon Guerrero, there are is a large Afro-Mexican Settlement in Costa Chica in the State of Guerrero MX.

[@dean3337]

@@positivewill2011 , yes sir; the Seminole Nation did originate from the Everglades of Florida in which they are from the Lower Creeks of Alabama. The Seminoles formed their own Tribe in Florida and encountered many Spanish Conquistadors. After the 3rd Seminole War with the US Marines who were defeated by the Seminoles under the leadership of Chief Oceola. The largest number of Seminoles were removed on the (Indian Removal Act) Trail Of Tears to Wewoka Oklahoma. My Great Grandmother and Grandfather and many relatives who traveled on the trail of tears; were called Seminole Freedman (Black Seminoles). We are from the Dosar Barkus Band of Black Seminoles...

[@warflowersociety]

Not all Seminole were forced to leave via the Trail of Tears.

[@sasachiminesh1204]

De Soto was not an explorer, but a Conquistador, whose ran a raid-and-destroy campaign across the region, which became a genocide as De Soto engaged in wholesale slaughter of one after another village and germ warfare as infected persons were repeatedly left at villages, causing devastation.

[@billwilson3609]

The DeSoto Expedition was to explore the American South and report back to Spain what it was like. DeSoto was more interested in finding gold with the natives being aware of that since traders had warned them about the Spanish. The villagers would point north saying you may find it up there to keep them moving along. DeSoto did wander around the mountains in Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee before giving up to head west. By then he was treating the natives badly so they tried to eliminate his expedition as they made their way to the Mississippi River then crossed it ASAP to escape from the irate tribes. DeSoto explored Arkansas for gold and silver. In SW Arkansas the Spanish met the Tula and fled in terror since they were the most highly skilled and ferocious fighters they've ever encountered in Europe and the New World. DeSoto was wounded during one encounter so the expedition returned to the Mississippi River to set up a winter camp. DeSoto died there so his second in command decided to try marching overland back to Mexico City where they met the Caddo in East Texas. The Caddo told them to head west where a big river ran down into Mexico so they did, only to find arid plains with little game and no villages to steal food from from. The Spanish returned to the Caddo and forced them to provide guides to lead them south thru the thick pine forests. Their guides intentionally led them around the large Caddo settlements that had plenty of food and to small villages that had removed most of their food stores earlier and kept just enough in their vacated villages for the Spanish to find and keep them fed for a few days to ensure they kept moving on. The Caddo guides led the Spanish into a dense forest called The Big Thicket that was unpopulated with only narrow footpaths used by traders and large game animals. There the guides took them in circles to get the Spanish lost and hopefully to starve to death since there wasn't any villages to raid for food or visible wild game to hunt. The Spanish wised up and killed the guides before finding their way back out. They found their bearings and headed southwest then turned around near present Ft. Hood since all they saw were arid plains with little water and no villages to raid for food. They marched back thru East Texas and Arkansas to their former camp by the Mississippi and were harassed all the way. There they built boats to float down the river to the gulf where they hoped to reach Cuba or Mexico. They found themselves under attack from the shore and by natives in dugouts for most of the way. The Spanish never did try exploring the southern region again and only built forts along the gulf and the Mississippi River.

[@sasachiminesh1204]

Plants like goosefoot were domesticated at least 3800 years ago in the region, as proven at rock shelters in Kentucky. Squash is known to me domesticated at least 5000 years ago and sunflower at least 4800 years ago.

[@williamerentfro9543]

I am mostly Cherokee. I lived in Arkansas for 13 years. Trail of Tears was a everyday bridge in Delaware.

[@ryanrhodes6471]

You soak the wood,depending on thickness and absorption determines how long then thet it breathe then work the osage, work to thee directions of the wood.

[@wakentheyassup6974]

Love the up to date painting lol

[@brianjennings7644]

there was a Knap-in this past weekend..on the Ouchita river.

[@josephcooper6572]

By Chief spirit of Shawnee, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians nation ♥

[@scottjustscott3730]

Reintroduction of the horse consolidated many bands around the plains culture. They became nomadic hunters and abandoned sedentary farming. They didn't have state lines.

[@Dougarrowhead]

Completely false

[@scottjustscott3730]

There were horses in north America during the Pleistocene. Spanish explorers brought horses, pigs, game fowl and cholera from Europe and unleashed them upon the Americas. Common knowledge.

[@michaeljohnston6856]

They abandoned many of the villages because the diseases desoto left left their population so low their society pretty much collapsed. Which toltec was already vacant.

[@billwilson3609]

@@scottjustscott3730 The Pleistocene natives ate the wild horses. Cholera was a known problem in the Indian subcontinent that started to get spread around the world in the early 1800's. DeSoto selected healthy young men for his expedition so they wouldn't make each other sick during their exploration of the southern woodlands. None of the horses that DeSoto brought along to carry men and supplies survived since those were targeted by the native warriors to take away the Spanish soldiers' advantage of fighting on horseback and force the soldiers to carry the supplies. The soldiers instead took native men as burden bearers that were tethered together to carry their supplies. The natives then attacked the expedition columns where warriors ran up to the tethered natives to hand them their weapons so they could fight the soldiers while the attackers carried off the supplies into the forests. DeSoto's expedition had such a bad time with the native tribes that the Spanish never bothered to explore the Deep South again and only built forts along the Gulf Coast and Mississippi River.

[@terezinhajesus1011]

Louvor

[@justinirwin9530]

We didn't come from Asia or anywhere else for that matter. We have been here since the beginning.

[@wakentheyassup6974]

Yes u did straight across the Bering Straits its over now

[@wakentheyassup6974]

Tell that to Augustino Brunias and Arnoldus Montanus hahahaha busted gtfoh wit that bs lol

[@mmdoz711]

justin irwin Black paleo Hebrew Jews - so called Indian were Blacks! We lived ALL OVER PANGEA When the LAND was One.

[@positivewill2011]

Anthropology and archaeology has proven and provided evidence to support the hypothesis that many thousands of years before Bible times humans migrated to the America's via the Bering Strait ice bridge.

[@scottie1038]

@@wakentheyassup6974 You lie due to a lack of knowledge.

[@sasachiminesh1204]

The correct information starts after 20:00. More than 20 minutes in and no First People have spoken about First People. This should be told by a Native narrator, since it's all about Native legacy.

[@robertsabharwal9787]

How many Native archeologists are there? Probably not many.

[@jeffboyer2747]

How do you know it wasn't?

[@deeelle697]

@@robertsabharwal9787 there are literally millions of native Americans living in the USA. They can tell us what all these “artifacts” mean, but they refuse to because THEY WERE STOLEN.

[@warflowersociety]

@@robertsabharwal9787 That isn't an accurate statement.

[@warflowersociety]

@@deeelle697 I'm not certain that it is just because something was stolen. Even Europeans who took things from various massacres don't run around sharing what they have and how they obtained it. What is shared with others, if shared, is not relevant. Even plants have certain purposes. Traditions/ceremonies are all/often stolen by many who don't understand and/or wish to profit from. That, isn't as much a factor into why things are not discussed with those who are not Indigenous. Some cultures many it is only certain times that things can be discussed/told. As well, we're trying to restore such traditions/cultures within our tribes. In some places, some practices are still not allowed. In other areas, they are and there is much to these practices that should be and remain part of our culture. I recognize the sincerity of many but I see a lot of individual and large groups selling our ways. Even those with sincere good intentions don't say, "I learned it from my grandmother". They say, "I learned it from a TRIBENAME elder." Essentially bragging vs. understanding truly the sacred significance of our customs and traditions. Regarding artifacts, many, including the bones of our ancestors are still in boxes archived. Such facilities gain their doctorates, publications, book sales, tourists, academic students and continue to profit. Society, as a whole, still treats us like laboratory rats and observes us like animals in a zoo. So much has been taken from us, why would we share information that isn't for anyone but our tribe and continuation of customs/tradition/ceremonies? The European way is not the Indigenous way. Plenty was placed on Indigenous people, but every right to keep some things, what is left, ...sacred. That is my opinion and not on behalf of any specific tribe. Simply observation as both Indigenous and European, a tribal citizen and still learning tribal customs and history in a modern society.

[@gew2027]

Aztec and Mayan culture long live the Arkansas shainers

[@HundoxBando]

My family lived and many of them were raised by the mounds in Parkin before it was a state park lived there forever I was born and raised in Parkin back by the mounds is apart of my history as well

[@dianeupshaw5337]

Interesting how burial mounds were not unique to Native Americans alone. The Americas and Europe had burial mounds though their cultures were previously unconnected. In Europe they were known as barrows and they were also used for people of status. Even Tolkien uses them in his tales to note people of former status.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@ 5:50 Where is this point overlooking a river? Is it in NE Arkansas also?

[@newline6069]

And in southeast Arkansas. As a kid, I found a arrow head & so I knew Native Americans lived there. And there's a old town named Murdock, could it be Modock indians? I bet they came through there or fled back there. Race Massacre of 1919 in Elaine Arkansas, my hometown, near Murdock. I've known for a while that area has a sad past. A past God is prepping me to transform it

[@Qingeaton]

I wonder if a UVA light would show anymore detail on the cave art?

[@juliefarrell3957]

Are any of y’all familiar with the Whelchel family,my grandfather was Alfonso...a coal miner who left for work in Indiana in the Forties. My father was born in Paragould

[@MrKodyw7]

I grew up with Cory and Cody Whelchel. Huntsville Ar.

[@dean3337]

We have many Caddo Indigenous People in Carnegie Oklahoma. They are Aboriginal To Arkansas just as the Quapaw, Osage Nation...

[@bsfgee2957]

native native, Yeap Ouachita And Aniyvwiya

[@georgepops5462]

Down in the ark la homa tex red river bottoms

[@billwilson3609]

The Caddo first showed up in Ohio after the Serpent Mound Complex was built. They got pushed out into Kentucky by the Iroquois then out of Kentucky by stronger tribes that wanted it as a hunting preserve. The Caddo crossed the Mississippi into Arkansas and ended up being the dominate tribe in eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, East Texas and NW Louisiana.

[@gew2027]

@@billwilson3609 the caddo are a branch of Aztec

[@billwilson3609]

@@gew2027 They very well could be related to bands of Aztecs that migrated north into Arizona and New Mexico from the mountains of Northern Mexico and ended up by the Great Lakes by following the bison herds during their seasonal migrations. The Plains tribes Pawnee and Wichita are related by language to the Caddo so may be bands that decided to stay put in the plains while the rest of the Caddo bands headed towards the Woodlands. Bands of the various tribes moved around a lot due to droughts and being pushed out of territory that had plenty of wild game.

[@johnlove5724]

i must say i heard in different documentary there are 18 million native americans alive in world today

[@drdrethechiroprenuer599]

Yeah its more the paper genocide called them negro

[@DJThorb]

but they have only found one that isn't mixed blood with non indigenous people. I should say , people who are indigenous of somewhere else. All people are indigenous of somewhere and mixed blood at the same time. Genetics is a strange new science that will eventually break this tribal mentality and bring all people together, where they belong.

[@vatolocosforever803]

@@drdrethechiroprenuer599 you out your damn mind

[@warflowersociety]

@@DJThorb "break this Tribal Mentality" that sounds like Kill the Indian, Save the Man. Only one person who isn't full blood Indigenous? Who found that? Source? Full bloods still exist.

[@tjtj6540]

Because its the so called blk ppl..

[@tlatoanimachi]

23:09 conjecture. Where is the source for this statement? I have several primary sources from over 200 years ago stating otherwise.

[@jamesbobo3128]

Hello from Ohio my grandmother was full blooded Cherokee Indian and she always said that the flute and the Reeve pipes weren't part of their culture back then but was always making baskets and other things one of my moms sisters and two of her brothers took after my grandmother and they also looked just like full blooded Cherokee Indian

[@owlstarvideos]

First 5 min of the video, want to know what the approximant angle of the sides of those mounds , but ill carry on watching the rest of this

[@mikemitch4]

Fernando Desoto described them and the villages. But he described the peoples as “dark”.

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

It's my people

[@tanyas.3812]

What can we do now, to help the First Nations arise to their splendor that is true to their ancestry?

[@warflowersociety]

Research history and write the truth to educate accurately. No sugar coating it or completely omitting.

[@billwilson3609]

They were Stone Age tribes that were mean towards each other when times became rough. Take the Caddo for example. They moved into Ohio from somewhere after the group that built the serpent mound complex had left. They stayed there building more mounds until the Iroquois forced them out into Kentucky. The Caddo stayed there for awhile before being forced out by stronger tribes that wanted the region for a hunting preserve. The Caddo crossed the Mississippi River to end up taking over SW Arkansas, SE Oklahoma, East Texas and NW Louisiana. Archeologists believe that the Caddo population grew to 250,000 then began a steady decline well before any Europeans reached the Western Hemisphere.

[@patriciajrs46]

We can try to stop destroying the Earth.

[@shermanatorosborn9688]

Caddo site in Fayetteville too

[@quique7764]

Interesting, damn near every tribe's name taught to us in US schools is NOT the name of the tribe but the name given to them by early colonizers. IDK mb I'm just weird like that but how about we teach them history as accurately as possible. Granted it seems like you can't given how many ppl were supposedly outraged when they accurately portrayed Columbus as a raping & genocidal madman. Even a Spanish priest reached out the King Spain to tell him about the brutal exploitation & murder of Native tribes.

[@about2mount]

The North and South Native Americans have revealed identical human-like figurines matching those found at Gobekli Tepe and many other sites in Turkey. DNA has also been matched to the Black Sea area of Europe.

[@GaryArmstrongmacgh]

In some small respect I can identify with the Native Americans. Though not under threat of death, I have been priced out of my native California never to return. It is heartbreaking. People who aren't from there are taking over. I was born there. We should have treated the Native Americans better. There was no excuse for our behaviour.

[@thomaszaccone3960]

I wouldn't treat an animal the way they treated these poor human beings. Horrible - Trail of Tears.

[@Owl350]

Remember the struggle of the working class , keep people unionized to stop fascism.

[@ThinkGodThankGod]

🤟

[@leonardpriestley6822]

Who else caught the Green Lantern Oath in there?

[@midnitewaterchief]

They did not come from Asia!

[@terrencemorgan5961]

It is nice to see the land. Thank you for the tour. However, in my opinion. As I sit here with an original American woman from those lands. None of those people even closely resemble her.

[@playgroundjustice3587]

I agree, but I’d rather hear the facts, as known, from the experts in their fields and disciplines.

[@sagennicole5953]

I can agree and after watching another video called "Lokota" and hearing the old woman say that some of them would say they were mexican because they were afrid to die. Makes me think that these very people are mexican, some even look white.

[@LexxLucious]

@Terence Morgan. Absolutely. I myself Am Cherokee born in Hot Springs and I look nothing like what they portrayed.. Though I can see my Grandmothers eyes in many of the people they did show. It was nice to see my Homelands regardless of the expected propaganda 🖖🏾😊

[@carlahansen4000]

My grandmother's grandma, as she called her walked from Mississippi to Oklahoma... my father was born in Nowata, Oklahoma.... which I'm sure is an Indian name.....

[@billwilson3609]

That's due to inter-marriage between tribes and races over the generations.

[@jt0774]

Those ephargees are not pale-skinned Indians. They are of the dark er ones. At 42:14, that's a black/dark Indian. They took the rights of those ones and told them that they were not Indians.

[@lesjones5684]

How can I find my family tree 🌲

[@al-yahnaihawkins4060]

Psa 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

[@RuggedBrotha]

THE NEXT TIME I SEE AN INDIAN, IM GONNA GIVEM A HUG.

[@Theodora555]

Okay, see you around. God bless you sir.

[@samaias1981]

Well you better be ready to give all so called African Americans hugs when you see them!

[@Theodora555]

@@samaias1981 TRUTH!

[@gew2027]

The five civilized tribes couldn't settle in Arkansas because the Osage tribe wouldn't let them that's how the five ended up in Oklahoma long iive the Arkansas shiners

[@bizygirl1]

Some Cherokee were in Arkansas for 20 years before they got their property allotments in Oklahoma

[@gew2027]

@Zeb Taber tell me how

[@bjh1]

The Keetoowah Band Cherokee were always the western band from North Western Arkansas or the Ozark area. Most people don't know that there are 2 bands of Cherokee.

[@gew2027]

The osage paid for the land in Arkansas .the Cherokees got pushed into Oklahoma

[@williamerentfro9543]

It has went further .

[@nativebrown4991]

Too funny,more like arkansas's last people

[@timothyoneill7268]

does anybody think mounds were built because every mound site floods annually? Maby they got tired of drowning every year for at least a month a year.

[@huntercarey4327]

No, they were used for ceremonial burial. There are bodies and artifacts buried in them.

[@gilbertrainey-bc2sg]

Preserve Arkansas Post.

[@ronnalscammahorn8002]

28:00 when carving a bow Go With the grain Not against the grain , try it , you'll see . PEACE BROTHER

[@wayneclifford6775]

i think at times mesages get lost in transmision

[@creaturafauna]

Can we please watch a documentary without the depressing flute music?

[@kennethcriley5704]

thank you Jesus Christ Of Nazareth for who I am ( A - MAN )!!!

[@Arbear64]

The only thing you are and sound like is an idiot. You need to come back to reality

[@Wally-pu2hh]

You are welcome

[@user-rk8pk1ck5b]

I am Cherokee i live un Tennessee

[@hdwallace8145]

Who knows who was here first…?….and when we’re dead and gone….it matters how?

[@teknowil]

that joke went plum bayou...wa wa waaaaaaa

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"