Colorado Experience: The Original Coloradans

[@hollis2557]

As an educator, I had the privilege of teaching and working with students from the Uintah and Ouray reservation and surrounding areas for 20 years. I learned a great deal about their culture, but I must admit, as a white man looking in, I doubt I will ever fully understand their perspective. But I try and am grateful for videos like this that help. One Ute woman called me “whispering breeze” because of my calm demeanor. That still means a lot to me.

[@christianfrommuslim]

Very nice. You sound like a peace-maker.

[@fredharvey2720]

Their perspective is that they're either in denial of or agree with their ancestors committing the Meeker Massacre because the annual government goody bag didn't arrive on time and that to this day they can't admit the consequences for that behavior were having their lands in Colorado stripped away and being kicked out to the Uintah Reservation in Utah.

[@tallglider6313]

western CO is my favorite part of the state...hope to get back soon for a visit and I will keep this lesson of the Ute with me. have visited the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose, CO which i highly recommend!

[@lemons.and.history]

As a non-Native American but a person born and raised in Colorado, I find this topic quite intriguing.

[@brianolson9967]

The Earth is my mother who made me from the soil and clay The sky is my father who gives me the sun to light the day My brother is the fire who cooks my food and lights the night. My sister is the water that cleanses me and provides us life.

[@philthycat1408]

Maybe it's Santa Claus that gives the good stuff then. The cars, tv, boats, fridge freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, bikes etc etc etc etc

[@pontiacaztec917]

@@philthycat1408 it's called time machine the movie of 1960s mush watch and learn.

[@delphinetesla]

Beautiful poem.

[@beverlykorte8581]

Awsome ✌🏻💯🙏🏼🌹

[@BLake-ul5pi]

@@philthycat1408 bet you've been doing well since the first world went to shit... You sleep well at night? If so, give it time... You'll see the americas are falling as we speak

[@sirblack1619]

I am loving these videos about the Colorado experience. Not being a native, but I have fallen in love with the state. So much so that I want to learn as much about the region as I can. These videos are helping a lot.

[@user-wk1oh2ul6q]

Elders, brothers, sisters thank you for teaching history as our people lived it. My Ute culture and heritage has saved my life.

[@Chompchompyerded]

I don't know you, but I'm grateful for that! Keep that culture forever, and pass it on. It is precious beyond anything which money can buy. I am not Ute, but that is how I feel.

[@siltrivwr4958]

Very happy to hear that your culture saved you

[@edmccaffrey1]

Was born and raised in SWestern Colorado, spending most of my life above treeline in the hign country of the San Juan mountains. I have a deep appreciation, respect and admiration for the Ute Indians, the Wuche. Beautiful people.

[@Jonno2summit]

I proudly have a framed photo of Chief Ouray and his beautiful wife Chipeta on my wall. I live here in Colorado now, on ground that others evolved on. I can neither change nor bring any history back, but I can respect what came before me.

[@Chompchompyerded]

I believe they call themselves either as Nuche, or Wemanuche, with the "e" at the end sort of whispered. I may be wrong about that, when I listened close it seemed to me like that's what it was.

[@fredharvey2720]

Read about the Meeker Massacre and get back to us.

[@ColonelNachos]

I find it upsetting all of the people who pity natives. Don’t pity us. We are strong and survived a long journey from human origins in africa across the deserts, tundras, and mountains and kept going. We survived smallpox which killed 98% of all natives. We don’t need pity, we need respect. (Getting our land back would be nice though but such is life) Yá’át’ééh diné of KZbin

[@Guap303]

ColonelNachos Amen to that I get really irritated when my black friends continually bitch about reparations and act like they've had the worst of luck the natives are the ones who have gotten off the worst but bitched the least

[@RobertVeasquez]

The strength Original Americans have is incredible. I have Native American blood via a great great grandmother but not enough to claim a heritage as some dishonest politicians. You have everything to be proud of.....thousands of years of history and tradition.....nurture it....save it...pass it on!

[@grannypug9631]

I respect the native americans and regret the genocide done by my ancestors. We can't change the past, but we can try to be better human beings forward

[@IaMoDiNaRy]

Pity isn't the emotion I feel when I hear the stories of how the natives were treated. I feel empathy, anger & sadness that human beings could treat other human beings with such a total lack of respect & let greed rule their hearts.

[@diggingthewest7981]

@@IaMoDiNaRy And you don't see the general public acting like this now? Anyhow if you're a white person living here in America you have no right to complain. You're very house sits on "stolen" native lands.

[@tonyawtoone4274]

What a wonderful life. Thank you for sharing

[@Dovid2000]

Very informative video! Thanks for posting it. I vividly recall living in the old Ute territory, along the Front Range in Colorado Springs, on a high place overlooking the city and with a good prospect of the Spanish Peaks some 100 miles to the south, where the Ute would journey by foot to hunt in late summer. How privileged I feel to have lived where this special Native American tribe called their home and native land. Sad to hear about their eviction and relocation to reservations in the west and south-west of Colorado, and in Utah. I think it is a noble idea to preserve as much of Ute culture and language as is possible, since that is their connection to their glorious past. Looking forward to more videos like this one.

[@fredharvey2720]

They got evicted because of the Meeker Massacre. They brought it on themselves and should consider themselves lucky they still even exist after that little game.

[@EMonzon]

You will still thrive on this land, and you will expand your borders as never before when the healer returns.

[@monkshavano3613]

No the true owners will return!!

[@billhosko7723]

@@monkshavano3613 Pfft... NO people are indigenous...

[@gloriamartin6261]

We are still here 🖐️👄🤍🎚️👀😇❤️

[@dubthedirector]

I climb all over Colorados mountains today, and i always think of and respect the Ute people who signature is still there. This is not an easy place to live, and how they survived here is amazing.

[@shiverarts8284]

You know it

[@fredharvey2720]

Read about the Meeker Massacre.

[@TheFootballPlaya]

here i am, an ignorant 20 something millenial, watching this from a different state - who searched for 'colorado history' because lately i've been interested in moving there because of tech, weed, size, mountains & climate and i've realized there is a lot more to colorado than tech, weed, size, mountains & climate. Having taken my own state's history course once in the past - and not remembering every nook and cranny of tales i heard (not sure if i even used that expression right) i've come to conclusion I lack a lot of knowledge and i've been closed minded lately. The power of the internet is amazing.

[@venomsnake64]

Stay away, Colorado is already expensive and busy as it is. Its scary over here, 0/10, totally love living here tho. Ish. (Seriously tho, there are other states with weed being legalized)

[@dallasleitz1070]

We're full, sorry. Bye.

[@patrooney2283]

TheFootballPlaya : Its so good that you are open to learning!! Good luck in life!!🙏😚💕

[@TheFootballPlaya]

@Robert Keesecker ​ Thank you for your kind words. Out of consideration of the Coloradans, however, I am still shopping around. Because *sigh*, I am from Texas, I don't know how to drive in snow, I am proud of my state - but I wouldn't mind shutting up about it and focusing on my current living situation if I relocated there - however, I am painfully aware that there is Texism in Colorado. That people over there don't really like us and don't want us to move there. So out of respect for those people and consideration of my own personal well being, I will admire from afar the beauty of that state for now and continue to shop around.

[@carolpatterson3463]

This show was fantastic. I want it to play in the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose. How can I get a copy and show it to my students? Carol Patterson, PhD

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

If you click on the channel name and scroll far right there may be information there on how to contact them. My dad taught on the Ute Reservation 50's & 60's.

[@stellinagiannitsi7164]

Not a word of such a rich, deep history in any K-12 curriculum. Or beyond. Deafening silence and an assault to collective memory.

[@JohnC-ic4js]

The government schools no longer teach history or culture.

[@stelllgp]

@@pattyayers please cite the schools that do what you arbitrarily claim, and provide the links of the sources that prove your claim. Until you do that, you are simply trolling.

[@ellenthompson-tssfaculty5848]

Teacher here to show this to my students!

[@elighhettle4553]

i’m watching this for an assignment.

[@SolomonRasputin]

American school system glosses over the atrocities of colonization. Which in turn keeps white supremacy alive.

[@Wahatoyas]

I dont have ancestry or family history in colorado but I'm still proud to have been born there and grew up in the mountains, I myself will start a family history here

[@luckypurl]

Thank you for sharing this. I’m getting more and more into learning about this beautiful state I call home

[@hadiafelauer8460]

All people, nations, tribes should stick to their cultural inheritage. that is a wonderful matter. So every new generation could learn from the cultural backgrounds, wherever they were living. Colorado must be a very beautiful living area.

[@rockymtndieselrider1133]

+hadia felauer I could not agree more. Yes Colorado is very beautiful. I live in a pretty sacred area I do believe.

[@hadiafelauer8460]

Zach Knight Unfortunately, nearly none of us is protected from the Fuku and other sh... radiation- even though living in the most beautiful areas of our planet. The greedy earthrunners will never understand that dollar notes will not blossom out of beautiful flowers won´t they?!

[@laurac8659]

The same thing happened in South Louisiana, the French language is all but gone. So very sad 😓

[@christianfrommuslim]

Dommage!

[@Lejarzamikel]

Anglos have the habit of aniquilating locals

[@partrobot]

=) utes are awesome people. if you go to southwest colorado, schedule a visit to their tribal park near Towaoc.

[@CosmosProductions234]

partrobot I am part Ute and part Navajo. Thank you u awesome too lol

[@isaiahsanchez417]

Indina legend he pleiades

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

@@CosmosProductions234 that is so awesome. I was born in Durango and my dad taught on the Ute Reservation in the mid to late 50's early 60's. My dad was born in Trinidad Colorado. We moved from Colorado but I have always had a very special place in my heart to love and respect the Utes. Thank you.

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

I would love to get back out that way again.

[@Chompchompyerded]

...and don't forget Ignacio and the Southern Ute Rez also. And if in Utah on Interstate 70 west of Vernal, say hi to the folks at Ft. Duchesne too! And be respectful. You are on their land.

[@Jonno2summit]

At 10:44 is the true definition of leadership and being a husband. It is not a controlling position, but one of servitude to others. To lead the way and bare the brunt of hardships so that life is easier for others. To be a leader is to serve others and lead the way down the trail - to be someone that others will follow, and be someone who confronts the unknown first. It's not rocket science.

[@Chompchompyerded]

It is said in many Native cultures that the man makes the final decision, but the woman has the last say. And he better listen or he might find himself out of the house. It's a balance and a way of working together.

[@baghaei90]

I hope modern Coloradans can hold the respect of these people and live in a way that respects the mountains. I hope that Colorado maintains a strong hunting and conservation culture. I unfortunately think that the coastal people moving here will destroy the mountains with their ski towns and anti-hunting culture that they learned as coastal and city elitists.

[@Guap303]

The Truth B most of the yuppies that moved here to Colorado from California have no idea about Colorado Rich native history or any Colorado history for that matter turning into a miniature Hollywood

[@aprilsaavedra2727]

My family and I have come to the mountains in Colorado every year but this year it was overcrowded. I grew up in Denver. Sad that we have to move. Because cost of living is too much. Ridiculous how it's turned into a circus of pot heads and Assholes with alot of money.😞

[@Chompchompyerded]

When I was growing up it was first Nebraskans in Estes Park, then Texans everywhere. Then it started getting Californicated. Thing is, I have no room to talk because at some point my ancestors came, settled, and ranched on land that used to belong to the Utes (see my comment at up near the top).

[@Chompchompyerded]

@@aprilsaavedra2727 Kinda get the feeling of how it must have been for the Utes?

[@fredharvey2720]

The more I learned about the Ute, the less I respect them. The Meeker Massacre did it.

[@michelleboyes1873]

I loved this,thanks so for sharing ❤

[@DavidHuber63]

I feel you Brother!

[@christianfrommuslim]

Thank you for pointing out the confusion and culture clash between hunter-gatherers (Native Americans) and farmers (settlers) in Colorado history. This is the New World version of what happened in the Old World during the Neolithic period. Knowing this we can better understand the clashes in American history.

[@fredharvey2720]

Uh sort of. Civilized cultures do "clash" with Stone Age savages that declare open season on women and children, yes.

[@elizabethjones2088]

Thankyou for this video

[@calebrosson]

Thank you for this content!

[@epmcguire9983]

I am from the Bear Clan... I have lived mostly in Color-ado, and all of Turtle Island. All Ute guys, and gal's are my brothers and sisters! Lightfoot

[@jayrey1713]

You are Ute?

[@paulaquinn4460]

We too here in Ireland’ our language was forbidden 🚫 to Speak ‘ and our way of life too ‘ today

[@chrisstaylor8377]

Great history , great people’s ,

[@JohnC-ic4js]

Awesome video. Thank you.

[@Mikey95Mendoza28]

It's nice to learn my tribe I'm from southern ute tribe I'm trying to learn my tribe language but Its hard to buy a book

[@Chompchompyerded]

Do you need a Ute/English dictionary? I have one which I have cherished and kept in hopes that someday I might be able to learn the Ute Language. I'm an old lady now, and I know that I will never have the opportunity, but if you need it, I will have someone help me find it and I'll scrape together the money to send it to you. Though it is one of my most cherished possessions, I would gladly give it up if it would help you learn the language I never got the chance to learn. I am a Euro-American, and it would be my honour to give it to you if it will help you learn. I'm disabled and dirt poor, so I have no other way to help except with that, or with my person if I were ever called to do so. I am living on land which by rights should belong to Native peoples, so I do owe.

[@Angeandrowan1]

I find it almost unbearable to watch things like this that plainly show just what the early settlers did to these beautiful, indigenous peoples. Native American culture is SO beautiful and how we almost destroyed them with disease and land grabs. It's heartbreaking and shameful... It's impossible for me to travel out West and look around me without thinking- this is NOT our land...

[@scottwortham533]

The utes run out the apaches out of there ti the south its always been that way

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Is it though? Many Native Americans were incredibly violent. They were constantly at war with other tribes, fighting for land. Some of them practiced cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, etc. The native Americans past is not all spiritual peace and love, despite the idea that you may have..

[@onlyone2948]

There were all kind of tribes, and people within the tribes. The same with the rest of the planet.

[@christianfrommuslim]

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Yes. I watched to learn more about the Utes. But as usual, the only history we get is of the abuses of the last two centuries in the clash between them as hunter-gatherers and the incoming farmers. (The same conflict suffered in the Old World in the Neolithic era.)

[@fredharvey2720]

Yeah you're completely brainwashed. Look up the Meeker Massacre. The annual government goodie bag didn't come so they got mad and began killing - including women and children. As a reward, they had their reservation in Colorado taken away and they were kicked out of the state to Utah. Seriously, get a book. I would suggest Indian Depradations in Texas the next time you want to ooze over the very, very laundered history of these people.

[@Orophile_303]

Love learning about the Natives in Colorado. Native women are very important in Native American tribes. They definitely were first and I'm so proud to be a Colorado resident and the reason why I bought a Ute handmade pendant at the trading post in Estes Park, Co.

[@0351nick-ch8ee]

"Dance like a bear"!!! I love it !!

[@shiverarts8284]

Yup you should!

[@mekeillabaker2125]

happy indigenous peoples day ✨

[@Amontanea]

I would love to learn the Ute language!

[@joshweickum]

Ha. dude in the beginning was all hardcore. "When I say I was before you, I was here before you" i love it hah

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

I am proud to also call myself a Colorado native. Although white, I somehow deeply relate to the Uncompahgre/Tabeguache Utes and their culture, having grown up around their lands, learning their history.

[@fredharvey2720]

I really doubt you learned how they became violent and began cutting up women and children in Meeker because their government goodie bag didn't come on time.

[@Trainer_JT850]

I always felt a strong connection to Colorado even though I've never been there. It turns out my great grandmother Rose was 100% Ute. One day I'll make it from Florida to Colorado hopefully.

[@Chompchompyerded]

I hope so. It's a beautiful place, and the Ute people are beautiful people. If I had the money of Jeff Bezos I'd not buy rockets. I'd buy you a trip to get to Colorado and to get to know your people. I'd also buy up all the in held land and give it to them free. I used to dream about doing that, but dreams don't always turn into reality, even with hard work.

[@bigbastard_lol]

Stay in Florida. It's completely unaffordable and corrupt here

[@fredharvey2720]

@@Chompchompyerded *** Now that they're no longer raiding, scalping, raping, kidnapping or tearing the hearts out of women.

[@sethhack899]

I was told that my great-grandmother was Ute also. Sadly, none of the language and culture was transmitted to us. That side of my family was absorbed into the local Mexican mestizo people.

[@fredharvey2720]

@@sethhack899 I've read the Mexicans had some Navajo slaves and married them. Could be the same for Ute. I'm white but my DNA has indications of Native a ways back so apparently there was marriage and absorption into my family also.

[@jcee6886]

26:00 we're still here💪🏽

[@danepickens508]

i have been through these areas

[@hopeless_himbo]

I need to watch this for school

[@betenoireindustries]

i read the ancient holy rattles were made with thinner skins, with fine quartz crystals inside so that when they were used at night ceremonies, they would flash and glow from piezoelectric effect. very smart. i would go to a service where there were magic glowing instruments for sure

[@emersonbenally7215]

So where were the utes when the cliff dwellers Anaazii were living in mesa Verde? Were they there before any other native tribes inhabited thd area??

[@fredharvey2720]

They lived farther north, warring with people per usual.

[@Bitterrootbackroads]

Mother Earth is mostly ocean covered with scattered & distantly separated continents that prevented contact between different cultures for a long time. Lack of contact insures differences. If the people who invented & built large boats had sailed off over the horizon, and disappeared forever, things may have been different. No smallpox and no horses for starters. I sincerely wish the clash of cultures would have worked out better for native people, but I ponder other possibilities that can & do happen, when such an inevitable clash occurs.

[@martintarango9857]

I’m Mexican American born and raise in the north side of Denver I’m a Coloradan I would love to learn the Ute language it’s part of my Colorado history

[@Orophile_303]

Not many are allowed to learn the language. Pretty sacred stuff.

[@fredharvey2720]

@@Orophile_303 Even better a reason to learn it.

[@M10-i6b]

Unfortunately very few people remain that actually speak it, it is estimated than less than 2000, the same is happening to ancient Spanish spoken in New Mexico, Colorado and a few other locations in the south west.

[@elroybegay7412]

What about white mesa, ute a few members left...

[@hermosasons1]

Wow. Very interesting and I would love to visit one day. I have native in me. But I live in Dubai now. I visit California and I would lo e to visit a reservation. My dream. I am 57 and people say I look young so I know thats my native in me lol.

[@gloriamartin6261]

🖐️👄 I am gifted by the Lord with vision i see a indian woman and man drawing on the tree yes dancing thank you for sharing this video 👀🎚️😇🖐️👄🤍🕯️✨ ancestors

[@pamelapurcell8574]

ALL LOVE PROPHECIES ARE BEING FULFILLED NOW!! LOVE IS HERE!!🕊 🛸🌈☀️🌊🦅🕊🌎🕊🦅🌊☀️🌈🛸

[@fredharvey2720]

Kook

[@johnrohlfs7254]

Awesome

[@ChelseaH1]

They have acquired the strength of what they have endured. Beautiful people.

[@marielleouimet576]

Llyn Kynaston de N

[@germaineprien7691]

Much like what the govt of Australia did to the indigenous there as well!!, but they as a people are strong, a very beautiful, courageous people, people of the mountains🙋‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙆‍♀️

[@bluewaterpines8323]

Are there not many ages of Arapahoe there as well????

[@chrisjenkins2099]

My great-great-grandmother was born on Ute land south of Hesperus and unfortunately was westernized and lived out her life in Mancos. If that didn't happen I wouldn't be here but I still find it sad. :(

[@billhosko7723]

Pftt... and here u r on a 'westernized' computer... hypocrite...

[@fredharvey2720]

Unfortunately?

[@marcowilliams6849]

Wow colorado is amazing 🥰

[@virgiljjacas1229]

Still searching for their origen.

[@worldscollide4691]

They sprung up outta the ground duh

[@elroybegay7412]

Fort Dashing, White mesa, Fort hall and Ignacio all speak the same?

Plenty of my own ancestors come from ancient native American, ancestral families. Some other came from Europe and probably they were not Europeans per se, but immigrants to Europe itself. In the near future, we all will have ancient native american ancestors, here in Guatemala. European ancestors will be absorbed into the Four Nations of our country.

[@ClarenceBellinger]

I was born there great❤

[@counterintelligencereports7867]

Some images made me cry. I don't know why

[@fredharvey2720]

I'd chalk it off to brainwashing. These people lie about history to cast the whites as the villains.

[@mattstacey9941]

True, I'm nuchoo😊

[@72CrossingRS]

I watched a historical video stating that the UTE Indians shared the Southern lands in CO with three other tribes peacefully during the summer months for hunting and gathering. Can anyone find out from the elders the other three tribes? I have an idea of which tribes they may have been due to placement of the reservations. Any information would be greatly appreciated. I am of mix blood with three tribal lines which lead me to searching out this information.

[@blainehillis1921]

Some bands of Navajo were friendly with southern Utes and at times grazed their stock in the San Juans. We Diné also have our emergence place (Haijineí) in the San Juans near Silverton. The San Juan Mtns also mark the Northernmost boundry of Navajo country. Though in historical times the mountains were largely under Ute control, other Navajos were familiar with area.. (i.e.) through hunting there and or fighting Utes.

[@billhosko7723]

Pffft..; you are more 'white'''

[@swan6807]

Hey I’m Colorado native too

[@cq7415]

Some old pictures, thanks

[@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248]

Shown here at 0:08 a genuine Ute time piece with quartz movement.

[@larrybarnett5799]

i believe that another culture had it before you, you took it from them, and then another culture took it from you. regardless of timeline.,..

[@TheRaptorXX]

What IS it with english-speaking? Similarly to Utes and ALL American-Indian peoples the Welsh language all but disappeared in Wales as it was outlawed for years. Only (relatively) recently has it become compulsory in school(s) and has been saved from extinction. I myself am english but realise that to lose a native language is to lose the very HEART of the people.

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

The very same is happening in England today.. Due to decades of mass immigration, the city of London is now minority native-British.. By 2060 or so, the English people will be a minority in their own homeland. The indigenous people of the British isles are being intentionally replaced.

[@M10-i6b]

As soon as the US took the land from Mexico, they started decimating the local tribes, which had survived successfully all throughout the Spanish and Mexican period.

[@kimberlysimpson3206]

Interesting

[@classicwhitebread]

18:00. Damn right

[@celestefrias7665]

okay so im watching this for a school cw thingy i gotta do but when that guy at the beginning was like " when i say i was here first, that means i was here first" i was like PERIODTTTTTTTT.

[@classicwhitebread]

Lol

[@kylebrogmus8847]

Coloradans often say “I’m a native” and I reply, “Yeah, which tribe?”

[@billrodriguez3399]

The Utes persecuted the Ancient Pluebloen Cliff Dwellers.

[@ryancruz1876]

?

[@Chompchompyerded]

There is some evidence, albeit scant, that they may have been the cliff dwellers and one in the same as the other "Anasazi" who were inhabiting the area long ago. They did, in historical times build granaries of similar, though smaller design in the cliffs of various canyon lands such as The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and the Green River and Yampa River gorges. So like, no. That's not true.

[@fredharvey2720]

The Utes were evicted from Colorado after the Meeker Massacre. These people are not innocent little angels.

[@fredharvey2720]

@@Chompchompyerded Anasazi were cannibals. A book called Man Corn details it.

[@JohanGarde-yt6ed]

wen ned to some how to live to gaether... im, on your sid

[@Avia2023]

As a Duwamish tribal member I thank you all. ❤

[@grahamporrerhill3733]

David Tripp.

[@mattstacey9941]

I grew up playing the flute

[@IIVVBlues]

All of us have ancestry reaching back to stone age hunter gatherers. Some were from what is now Europe, some were from what is now called America. Through DNA analysis we can see that every one of us originated in what is now the African continent. All of us had to adapt to each other as we passed through the ages and the strong dominated the weak. That is the way of nature. In the present civilized and modern world, we live much longer, healthier and more prosperous lives than any of our hunter gatherer ancestors. We have opportunities which our ancestors could not have imagined. You can remember what once was, but to long for it to return is foolish. Today is all you have. Make the most of it. It will become the past soon enough.

[@IDNHANTU2day]

Correct! And we move on. It is nice to maybe be proud of your past. But you cannot dwell on it because while you are dwelling on that pride, you are left behind. I notice this in every culture. Some dwell on the fact that Mexico owned California for 26 years before the "White man" "stole" it. The Spaniards owned it for 40 years or so before Mexico stole it from them. And the bears owned it for eons before the Natives stole it from them. You cant imagine how much the history of this continent excites me. But we cant change the past. Not even with reparation checks to the bears. And right now I'm on my way to a Casino and gamble.

[@fredharvey2720]

Yeah you're confused about DNA.

[@ClarenceBellinger]

I'm grateful I took part of my father's ashes to the rocks still speechless

[@oletimerocker]

Shared on my fb page.

[@carriebrill5660]

1 love the comment number 444! My Grandfather had a Irish last name .Because he was adopted. But my mother told me that my great grand pa looked exactly like the Indian on the Buffalo nickel. The Demon that controls USA Government made the Indians choose either Death or citizenship.. knowing now what I learned we are all ALL related , we get our color from the ground and there is only one race . Their were other forms of humans like Chest heads but so much has been hidden but the Father will reveal everything you ask. I love all peoples for we fight not against man but rather we fight , principalities, powers , thrones , evil dark spirits in high places .period I am waiting for the Day Yeshuah comes and All things revealed. Yeshuah spoke to us and said I can't tell you the things I want to tell you because they are to heavy to bear. That tells me we have done so pretty disgusting things in our past and ask yeshuah to forgive me .its all we can do .Faith and believing, IS accredited as righteousness so you wonder how you become righteous by believing. that is what is written. i love each and every person that walks this Earth.

[@christianfrommuslim]

I agree with you. Jesus saves! God's word, where truly practiced, brings peace. Did you know that the Pilgrims in Plymouth made peace with the Native Americans and made laws that they must be treated the same as the whites? They even executed white men for killing a Native. Why? Because they know the Bible and practiced Leviticus 19:34. So racial and religious tolerance in America began in Plymouth 400 years ago. This is COVERED UP by historians.

[@percival1137]

These people can say they were the first, but that is just pride. There have always been people in the Americas. Horses as well.

[@darrenharrison1351]

All natives of landof people's,need confirm military,natives need renite,bow clans,South, Confederate

[@tagfanning9348]

Ouray and Chipeta were friends of my Great great grandparents who homesteaded and ranched in South Park in the 1860s. My great great Aunt was a white child traded amongst tribes and gifted them by Chipeta for caring for a dying youth of their tribe.

[@fredharvey2720]

So your great great aunt was kidnapped and passed around like a field mattress? This wasn't unusual, actually. It's probably why I have distant Amerindian dna. I found an account of ancestors being kidnapped and held by Iroquois or Algonquian and having to escape at night.

[@julianchavez3372]

100 thousand million billion years

[@SuperHorseman22]

I am a Coloradoan, but I have Cherokee blood in me about 10 percent! My family came here in 1965!

[@themadlad8540]

SuperHorseman22 ya so does every other white person pochantas!

[@jettahammond2916]

SuperHorseman22 leave her alone

[@dwightslim6563]

If she's Cherokee, then I'm part Irish ☘️

[@ryancruz1876]

Cherokees never lived in Colorado.

[@cheryllryan8440]

Request info from the Smithsonian under the Freedom of Information Act

[@LaughingblueSu]

In order for earthlings to ever be equal, you must give up the "first people" idea. First as in better. What does it matter who was first? What matter is that we are hear now. All humans make the same mistakes, greed is not determined by skin color.

[@superman12595]

LaughingblueSu shut up. It is their name. Earthling

[@forrestw.6704]

LaughingblueSu here*

[@DIYTFY]

8000 years is not first. Frogs were here first. Get it right! Geez..

[@kaycisnaros5547]

Reena And me Que hora ES! ❤

[@numberonefamilyman]

The Sioux's had Crazy Horse and the Ute's had a crazy bear woman ;) I love oral tradition especially Native American history.

[@Chompchompyerded]

Everyone probably has some crazy in the family tree if you shake it hard enough.

[@monkshavano3613]

This is comical,ouray shot anyone that didn't go with his sell out!!!!wasn't chief,was thief!!!!!

[@harlenjones9685]

Let's take our land back!

[@fredharvey2720]

LOL... Go make me some fry bread.

[@danielsolano602]

One wonders if there ever will be a Proto call to offer anyone who wants to learn at least one Native American language. Let's try not to let them disappear like Latin did.

[@bethbartlett5692]

The British did the same to the Irish, took our language "Gaelic", force to speak English, took our land,, controlled us 700 years +., True. The is more than 1 white race. Irish are originally from Basque People.

[@robertgonzalez8419]

I cry in my spirit for every Ute that was lost and for the loss of their God-given inheritance. God bless.

[@billhosko7723]

Pfft

[@granskare]

In the 1800's, the indians were treated terribly.

[@nakho3550]

The Natives had a much darker skin completion in the 1800s than they are now.

[@siksika4603]

They were still nowhere near black. Try again.

[@nakho3550]

@@siksika4603 nowhere near Black? Beyonce is Black.

[@siksika4603]

All-American people of color are Not saying it in a derogatory term, it's just facts.

[@nakho3550]

@@siksika4603 people of Color? What does that even mean!

[@siksika4603]

@@nakho3550 It means whatever pronoun, Or saying you refer to yourself as.