It Started Here: Early Arkansas and The Louisiana Purchase

"It Started Here: Early Arkansas and The Louisiana Purchase", chronicles the people and land of Arkansas, between the signing of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, leading up to Arkansas statehood in 1836.

[@deanmoriarty8468]

They erected a monument in 1921 but over the next 50 years lost the exact location of the marker. In the early '70s it was decided by the state to rediscover the monument and later make it into a state park. My dad was a surveyor for the state of Arkansas in Monroe County and, as part of his job, he had to find it, which he did over the course of several weeks. I remember him showing me a photocopy of the original survey from 1815 which they used to chain in until they found it. The old notes were pretty cool. In addition to the recorded data there were sketches of various subjects like a journal.

[@alanc1491]

Cool story, Dean. For your dad and his survey team, this professionally must have been like the search for the Surveyor Lost Ark! Speaking of Louisiana Purchase-era journals, have you read The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto? I highly recommend it as a delightful read.

[@ronniedudley2697]

YESHUA LIVES AND RULES ALL...😎

[@danlowe8684]

Great comment. Survey notes are of great importance. They recorded weather, fauna and flora types, native tribes, etc. It was old surveyor notes that led to the discovery of the Plate Techtonics in California after the 1906 earthquake. All of the waypoints were skewed after the earthquake along the faults so scientists from Stanford and Berkeley used the notes to reestablish decades of points to see exactly how the plates were moving.

[@marbleman52]

This was very enlightening and informative...thanks, AETN. One of my ancestors, Jehoiada Jeffery, who fought in the war of 1812, was given one of those grants and he brought his family from Illinois, in 1816, to the White River here in N. Central Arkansas, near where present day Melbourne is. He and his family were among the first permanent White settlers in this area. They established what is now known as Mt. Olive. They became very successful farmers & loggers and business men and were very active in local & State politics. I am an 8th generation Jeffery from these people. One of the wives had been born and raised in Virginia of wealthy landowners and had been sent to medical school while in Virginia. After she moved to Mt. Olive with her husband, she became widely sought after for her medical skills and would often be gone for days, riding on a horse and 'doctoring' people who needed medical attention. This was amazing for a woman of that time to not only be a doctor, but to travel alone, never attacked or harmed by bad people, and was respected and probably protected by those in the area. There is much, much else I could talk about, but then this would turn into a huge novel..LOL..!! Thanks again, AETN..!!

[@anthonyalfredo563]

Instablaster...

[@damagecontroller8637]

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[@reefreef1866]

In other words your family are direct beneficiaries of white terrorism and domination. You should feel shame for taking over peoples lands and destroying their cultures.

[@nutew4809]

That could not have been a easy job !! America is the greatest country in earth. Lets keep it that way.

[@anime_cyko]

Good luck

[@davidwilliamson4937]

Been there…amazing…I knew Dr. Early…wonderful and knowledgeable woman

[@exploark8466]

My home state ❤

[@bernadineschacht8175]

So that’s what “chains” mean in terms of surveys. I had wondered about that on my survey deed of Sudden Sun Ranch, Old Maid Road, Saline County, Arkansas. Thank for the interesting and well done history of the area.

[@QHarefield]

I used to be a 'chainman' working for a surveyor. I knew that a chain was 22 yards long - as long as a cricket pitch - but I had never actually seen one.

[@goatgate3815]

Excellent content thank you very much.

[@multiyapples]

Very interesting.

[@libbylife7161]

Awesome 👍😎

[@9thGenerationCajun]

One of my great grandfathers would've been familiar with this area. Bayou Darbonne in Monroe Louisiana is named after him since the mid to late 1700's.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

Already had a name 👉🏽Only intruders call it that

[@yayayaokoksure]

@@og-greenmachine8623 oh you didn't get the memo? You guys lost. Stay on the res or assimilate.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

@@yayayaokoksure Lost what? USA is a #FAILEDSTATE🇺🇸 -NO enforced CONSTITUTION = ZERO PROTECTION for SLAVES🤡 & TOTAL COLLAPSE of the dollar is eminent. Memo? Nice try, But get the ABSOLUTE fuck outta here🙄 You NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for DEMOCRACY🥴 troll🐷

[@yayayaokoksure]

@@og-greenmachine8623 its not called the USA bro. Only intruders call it that.

[@dynamite6507]

I love these old grainy narrative documentaries

[@ramencurry6672]

I don’t think it’s really old. Looks like it was made in the 21 century

[@ezrahopkins1913]

I live in missouri,but sure love arkansas!

[@ricohernandezjr.2874]

Nice History lesson

[@kathleenboyle8652]

thats wonderful to b able to walk a historic path ...dont forget the tick spray...

[@BooRadley452]

I consider my blood donation to be a benefit to the tick population. We're all in this together. 😉

[@acremo31]

What’s the name of the song in the credits at the end?

[@Robby4291]

That is very much the way..SECTION line street in Hot springs...was named.

[@carleyg1973]

Where is the commission monument? Excited to see it.

[@michaeljohnston6856]

I haven’t watched the video but I have been to Louisiana purchase state park right in the Mississippi River. Really in a huge swamp

[@COOful3]

21:32-46 is my hometown. Pine Bluff

[@QHarefield]

Roy Harper has a song called "I Hate the White Man." Having watched this docu, I begin to understand what he means.

[@SeekerOfWisdom07]

💓 quapaw !

[@travisdodgen6338]

Wow

[@michaelsetfree]

How can someone occupy and sell land that's already occupied?

[@ashleygalvin5625]

Michaelsetfree I was thinking the same thing.

[@billwilson3609]

The natives had no sense of land ownership. They had territorial claims that would change if forced to relocate elsewhere due to droughts or being forced out by a stronger tribe. The Cherokee butting heads with Osage is a good example. Wild game was their main source of protein so the tribes became extremely concerned when large wild bands of different tribes moved into their territory. The natives didn't mind the settlers moving in since they stayed in one place, raised crops and livestock plus were a source of trade goods. Women were scarce out on the frontier so tribal numbers diminished as their females married settlers. The Caddo once inhabited Ohio then were forced out into Kentucky then Arkansas by stronger tribes. They ended up becoming the dominant tribe in a territory that encompassed Eastern Oklahoma, Western Arkansas and Western Louisiana where their numbers peaked at an estimated 250,000 well before the Europeans discovered the Americas. Their numbers included small tribes that were living in those regions and other wild tribal bands that came in looking for a safe place to live like the Quawpaw. The Caddo would direct them to where they could settle and make a go of it. The bands accustomed to fighting were directed to land that bordered territory claimed by hostile tribes to act as buffer from their raiding parties. The Hernando DeSoto Expedition ran into one of those tribes in SW Arkansas called the Tula who engaged the Spanish in three sharp engagements that wounded DeSoto and force the terrified Spanish back to the Mississippi River.

[@spencer6044]

Well they did, so it must be possible

[@wumbodumbo6581]

Hey coach

[@rosemarydolliver]

I visited this park several years ago. Very obscure area!

[@ramencurry6672]

Most of Arkansas is obscure but that’s part of the charm. I just visited some random small town. Basically almost a ghost town but interesting

[@rosemarydolliver]

@@ramencurry6672 born and raised in a small S. Arkansas town. No where in Arkansas is as obscure as where the LP was signed. It’s basically deep in a swamp and to get to the exact place you must walk an elevated wooden sidewalk to get there.

[@ramencurry6672]

@@rosemarydolliver very interesting. Need to visit. I’m new to visiting Arkansas and I like it

[@knotzed]

24:00 how is that ONLY possible there? Clearly NOT true!!

[@drholt2]

Wondered if anyone else caught that bullsh@^

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 424 The major achievement of Monroe's second mission to Europe involved the Louisiana Purchase.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

After some haggling with the French minister of finance, Monroe and Livingston signed the treaty, which was dated April 30, 1803.

[@MariaPerez-qh5rt]

That’s how life was back then. Voyage and conquer

[@dalecole5315]

Yes, on my Fathers Ranch in Douglas County, Oregon. There is a Witness Tree with Servay corodinates. Mapped from Portland, Oregon.From There,( Portland) is a point where the state of Oregon is recorded!

[@ronniedudley2697]

Who cares..We are not talking about OREGASM... WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ARKANSAS YOU IDIOT.. 😄😂🤣😎

[@carywest9256]

What is a "servay"? We spell a term survey in Texas. I was always under the impression that people from California were the smartest people in the U.S. And people from Oregon right behind them. NOT!!!

[@dalecole5315]

@@carywest9256 In Texas There is a Family by the name of West. They are big guys in the West family. Hard to find Caskets large enough to bury them! A local Undertaker got the idea of giving them Enama's and was able to bury them in a match box!

[@valaryward31]

What about Richard Ward and Joshua Goodale?!

[@alanc1491]

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[@KitaBooBear]

He still withstands

[@KitaBooBear]

The sealantcy of this tomb must make you a novice too

[@janetspell1396]

And the damn Hurricanes (the worst ones),..still continue to rip through these lands! 💔

[@jcee2259]

I think Arkansas started when civilians, militia, and US Armed Forces laid aside their firearms to work what the land provided. Improving crop yield and helping other free citizens to do better.

[@PHOENIX777_]

Do u know henri de tonti

[@chocolategravyandbiscuits8418]

@@PHOENIX777_ I know his mom n them!

[@PHOENIX777_]

@@chocolategravyandbiscuits8418 so u know where the gold is

[@LonokeCountyResearch501]

@@PHOENIX777_it’s still a mystery 🚨‼️

[@leaarnold6213]

I need sleep

[@albertking1503]

People forget about the west Arkansas Osage warring with Comanche and the mixture of tribes from the area..the Quapaw were east and missed those battles until they joined with the caddo and also dealt with the Comanche warriors

[@zee8728]

Carolina parakeet or how ever you spell it looks like a mango-

[@antywonhampton7850]

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[@del7410]

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[@jwalker9127]

The war of 1812 was won, but by who?

[@deanmoriarty8468]

They erected a monument in 1921 but over the next 50 years lost the exact location of the marker. In the early '70s My dad was a surveyor for the state of Arkansas in Monroe County and, as part of his job

[@deanmoriarty8468]

@chris falkenberg Well alrighty then…

[@KitaBooBear]

My issues with blood are the sins of his lust

[@del7410]

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[@ronniedudley2697]

It's BYE...OH AND NOT BYE YOU.... APPARENTLY YOU ARE NOT FROM THE DEEP SOUTH 😎😎😎

[@ronniedudley2697]

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[@scottjustscott3730]

The foothills of the ozark mountains? There aren't any mountains down there. Just eroded uplands covered with mixed forest.

[@alexandercoffman8319]

Not Really.

[@UseByDate-Expired]

total ignorance

[@annawallace4943]

WOW! Learning for the first time,the Indians land has been taking more than just by Columbus, breaks my heart! IDC which tribe,it was wrong!!!! Once AGAIN, they were here 1st! How dare anyone,government or whoever,take land and then force them out,then to find out many starved to death,as if losing their homes & land wasn't enough?! OMG! That pisses me off SO much!

[@zachariahmccoy1301]

Then give up your property and go back to Europe lol

[@annawallace4943]

@@zachariahmccoy1301 that's a rude thing to say sir,rude as Hell!

[@A_name_is_a_name]

Anna Wallace you belong in hell

[@drecole7306]

And guess what. These indians this documentary is speaking of are actually the black people you see in america today. They are the original indians. Dont believe me read deautromy 28 and the book of enoch

[@agold2125]

Don’t forget taking their children and destroying their culture..art, language, faith, even clothing. We suck

[@christianala]

They just kicked the natives to the side. They should have fought back.

[@billwilson3609]

The natives didn't mind the early settlers since they stayed in one place raising crops and livestock plus were a source for trade goods. They got along living side by side until more settlers that were hostile towards the natives moved in. That made the local natives relocate further away in their territory or somewhere else much further away to avoid conflict. Bands of the Cherokee and other Eastern Woodlands tribes moved west after selling their land to settlers to avoid conflict with them.

[@ezrahopkins1913]

The great spirit isnt "the gods" The original inhabitants did not worship plural gods,their Great Spirit is the same as whites' creator God

[@comicongaming9757]

First comment?

[@MocroPowerzz999]

Second comment ?

[@RuggedBrotha]

MY CHEROKEE LANDS. STOLEN.

[@manbunnmcfanypakjustacoolg4965]

"Your" stolen Cherokee land is east of the Mississippi River. This was Quapaw land. Keep up dummy.

[@zachariahmccoy1301]

Who cares might makes right , they lost in war , I don’t care to here your victimhood

[@A_name_is_a_name]

To the Spanish.

[@og-greenmachine8623]

What about the genocide We’d have 100 MILLION RELATIVES What about the LIES! I’m Black & have “ONE” African grand 👉🏽“ONE” grandpa Everyone ELSE BEEN HERE FOREVER! WE AIN’T FROM AFRICA!!!!!!!! CHOCTAW ARAWAK BLACKFOOT & CHEROKEE 👉🏽My family. ALL BLACK PEOPLE! WTF IS WRONG WITH WHIT PEOPLE!!!!! 👉🏽FUCKING “SICK”!

[@gew2027]

@@manbunnmcfanypakjustacoolg4965 it belong to the Arkansas shriners the osages with dark skin that glows

[@karenhodges7545]

Too much for me

[@kimthompson2695]

The Original people of what you all call Indians were not a Qua Paw tribe. They were “Osage“ and you all do not pronounce it correctly. And the reason you all continue to tell untruths about our story is because of the oil,gold, diamonds,etc. (land), blood shed for it all. For beings who did such a thing , couldn’t have evolved from original beings. And that bible no we are not all related. Furthermore, in that bible you all say love everyone and do not murder, etc . that same bible has exposed those beings and it’s descendants for doing all of which it says thou shall not do. It’s a disgrace to want a people to love you after what you all did and continue to do to the people’s ancestors. They were people of color of what you all call black(yellow, red, brown, black) not of African descent (not African American) and not $5.00 dollar Indians that are wearing our identities. Murdered the ancestors, enslaved the descendants and disgracefully you all claim to be the descendants of those that yo committed the atrocities against .You have been exposed the Great day is near.

[@ozarksliving1927]

Aho sister may we reconcile what has happened and rid the parasitic involvement of our experience

[@tlatoanimachi]

Mmmm, I don’t think you’ve gone far back enough to really understand how wrong that statement is.

[@carringtonmiles4489]

Sad situation how those ppl have went across the world taking Indigenous ppl land then celebrate it. White ppl are just awesome right?

[@danielwarpaint1963]

Right Away It’s ok, those responsible for the Trail of Tears are in HELL.

[@carringtonmiles4489]

DanielWarPaint I hope so

[@72CrossingRS]

Right here is valid proof that no one with Native Amercan Blood is responsible for all these financial debts! Truth hurts. I love my roots!

[@72CrossingRS]

DanielWarPaint Our Ancestors are with us and still watching over. Their presence has been with me since childhood. I understand it now. Much love! 💞💗💖🌹💖💗💞

[@kevinmoorehead2605]

Right

[@ggallin2072]

god bless trump

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[@ggallin2072]

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[@ramencurry6672]

Huh??

[@outofgas5293]

Let the rich get richer , let the poor bastard beg . The same as today.