Dakota Exile | Full Documentary

Beginning in 1862, the federal and state government began to drive the Dakota people from Minnesota. The story of their exile is told through the words of Dakota elders and tribal historians.
02:12 Dakota creation story
02:58 History of Dakota treaties, forced culture change, and US - Dakota war
05:49 Dakota men killed through mass execution in Mankato, largest in US history
07:50 Dakota people exiled to Dakota Territory settling in Crow Creek
12:20 Gabrielle Renville and Dakota leaders approached government to secure a reservation
15:25 Assiniboine and Dakota moved west to Montana and north to Canada
22:48 Dawes Act opened reservation land for homesteading, goal to Americanize Native Americans
26:30 Role of Christian missionaries to impact Dakota assimilation
30:10 1883 ban on Native American ceremonies and traditions
34:19 Native American grandmothers were keepers of language and culture
35:30 Native American children were targets of assimilation, sent to boarding schools
41:18 Bureau of Indian Affairs recognized eradication of native languages not necessary for education of Native American children
47:00 20 years after 1862 decree to ban Dakota people from Minnesota, some returned and resettled
49:15 Prairie Island became a blended Native American and white community
51:49 Dakota remember 38 men killed in mass execution through Mankato powwow
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[@kristianjl]

Very proud of this production. It came largely from a 15 day trek with crew in a van seeking out Elders’ memories amongst the Dakota (D-speakers) Oyate. Co-writer was Darren Renville- Assiniboine/Gros Ventre/Dakota. Narrated by Robbie Robertson. All the people appearing have passed.

[@danielleengel9752]

This was so beautiful, truthful, & heartbreaking. Sad to hear of their passing. Will pray for all of these lovely souls & their loved ones. They'd be happy to know now that many Lakota & other tribes are teaching their language in many tribal schools. I have not seen it myself but I have seen many youtube specials from reservations & heard many people speaking their tribe's language online. Hoping this will become the norm for all tribal schools to learn their own language. I'm hoping things keep healing & numbers in clans keep growing.

[@jesus.christis.lord.foreve899]

May Our CREATOR Be pleased to accept Our LORD's Own Blood and Self-Sacrifice on The Cross for every mis-step, mis-thought, mis-deed of their lives May they each and every one be cleansed by JESUS's Blood and Born Again by The HOLY SPIRIT and be welcomed into HIS Loving arms and Home i know not HOW LORD G O D YOU Can Do this Yet I DO KNOW YOU ARE ABLE. In The LORD JESUS' HOLY & HONORABLE Name I pray ♡ amen

[@kentkearney6623]

FREE LEONARD PELTIER

[@dreamcatcher5502]

What year was this Doc filmed ?

[@blackbirdstone9339]

I know who Renville was, Lean Man took what was left of the band who didn't stay in Traverse Lake, they moved to Ft. Benton, Montana, they joined the various tribes in the Cypress Hills, the Cypress Hills massacre occured, he along with Sicangu Chief Bears Head went to the Eagle Hills in Saskatchewan, we combined and Cheyenne war chief Mosquito joined us, Bears Head participated in the North West Rebellion he had to flee to Rosebud, Lean Man was pressured by the government to give up his land, he didn't but they took it anyway, he moved to Kawacatoos and he took his people and most of my Sicangu people with him, the rest spread out to Rosebud and Fort Peck. Oceti Sakowin!

[@scottmyran5308]

I am a member of Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation. My uncle Morris of Sioux Valley speaks in this documentary

[@brittanyhayes1043]

And my Amcestoes taught Little Crow English.

[@willharris8677]

I come in love,honor,free spirit...to connect, to make ways of all goodness, though goodness...all colors of life...sounds of happy harts...my great grand mother, possibly was a princess of this clan...it's in my DNA...wishing a way to come back some how and live like we were,when we were free...

[@Omaha11Bravo]

My Grandma Grace Henry was born on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota….her Spirit is always with us…. I want to thank everyone involved for making this film❤️America

[@theeagle7521]

It is good to see the elders from Sioux Valley speaking. I’m born and raised in Sioux Valley and there is still many fluent Dakota speakers here.

[@denniskrieg2100]

It nakes me so sad about how the NATIVE AMERICANS WERE TREATED, LIED TO, AND TREATED LIKE SHIT. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL NEVER BE CORRECTED...

[@Moodboard39]

​@@denniskrieg2100They weren't big in numbers and advanced. So they were taking advantage...no government established.

[@tumbleweed6658]

I had a hard time getting to walk through this one, When I was young growing up in South Dakota I had friends that were from the Indians community most of my other class mates found them hard to get along with the , kids from the Rez some how I felt that it was easier to make friends with them, They always tried to fit in at school but when I started to be invited to dinner after school and walk into there homes then I saw the art work and pictures, peace pipe on a stand and then it turned into spending weekends with my lakota friends we would spear big fish on the river and my friend's Grandmother would make a grand meal out of those fish and the home made bread was so good, then church on Sunday. I grew up in a Luthern church in Aberdeen South Dakota, but on the Rez we sang the hymns in Lakota once the Music started I knew the hymn I could sing with the help the of my friends mom. I will never forget how good and kind this family was to me. I am a white boy as white as can be but those summers spent on the Spear fish are days I will never forget.

[@bubblesdelight]

The Europeans brainwashed the world of the natives of the world . they were truly evil heartless cold people . Its disturbing and discusting

[@eileenmc4746]

I know this truth. Enaa’ bassee for stating it. Facts

[@jazzg777777]

I grew up on the Rez in 1960's in White Swan WA state.

[@willharris8677]

Good words my my brother...may the eagle guide u to happiness...🦅🌀

[@tumbleweed6658]

Thank you brother for your kind words.

[@christineplaton3048]

It's so important to share the history. How heartbreaking...the terrible times your civilization went through. Thank you for speaking out at last.

[@IndigenousEmpressXI]

I feel bad for what happen to the Dakota and all other Indian tribes! I admire their resilience.

[@andrewcross8244]

Resilience?! They were DEMOLISHED absolutely obliterated.

[@Moodboard39]

But not strong enough..sadly

[@sherylpeters5764]

Thank you for this production. While working on my genealogy I discovered my native American heritage. I'm now re-educating myself in truth in history.

[@fredharvey2720]

Yeah this isn't the place. These documentaries don't talk about the evils the Indians did to each other or the whites. They wiped each other out in droves. Kidnapped women and children as a tactic of war - which is how they gave themselves smallpox. They were known to torture enemies to death and some tribes were cannibals. They warred endlessly with each other. They allied with the whites against each other. These documentaries give a falsified and laundered history. They say no good about the whites giving them written language, hospitals and schools, and say nothing bad about Indian culture and behavior. This is propaganda.

[@josesisyowma5242]

Each year I find myself looking for more history from before the year 1600 to 1970 n beyond. Ethnography expeditions to the jungle tribes of South America up thru Mexico to southwest pueblo tribes on up to Alaska should be shared. It's Time. All the names of these tribes that where here before the conquistadors n missionarys deserve their own voice. I appreciate these documentaries that include the voices that no longer are here to share their stories from their grandfathers and Grandmothers. Each culture needs to exist to help one another to heal the wounds from the past. Now since we have gone thru these hard times let the healing continue from All Nations Rise and Stand Strong in Prayer. Let the children know the Story from the past. They need to celebrate the life they we're given. Cherish Your Culture. Sincerely appreciate you PBS TY

[@earthangel_1862]

Aho!

[@susanhanna940]

My father wasPawnee and my mother was Coast Salish tribe -❤️❤️❤️ My hands are raised in respect to my brave ancestors

[@robertwindedahl4919]

Thank you all grandfather's grandmothers Aunts Uncles for your contribution to the truths of this podcast thank you for making your appearances and talk so that others May understand what our ancestors went through and are still going through we are now counting tens of thousands of unmarked Graves at residential schools that have been closed where our children were murdered molested and raped

[@brittanyhayes1043]

Then you go and dig up there Graves and take those remains back to your reservations then.

[@kentkearney6623]

I DON'T EVEN TRUST MY PEOPLE. THEY EXPERIMENTED ON THOSE THAT DID NOT GO WITH THEIR NARRATIVE. INSANE ASYLUMS WERE A COVER FOR THIS. ROCHESTER HAS AT QUARRY HILL UNMARKED GRAVES. NO NUMBERS THOUGH. BY DESIGN. I WAS LIED TO BY THEIR FOURTH OF JULY HISTORY. SO MUCH EVIL.

[@kentkearney6623]

Ask PBS to do another documentary on this subject. Many people do not know the Education of Little Tree nor the inhumanity untold.

[@lulusmith4877]

You talk of white Anglo Christianity as though it's the only rightful belief. .That being how come little crow was scalped and his body bludgeoned beggars belief 😮The mass hanging of Dakota men ordered by Abraham Lincoln. Shocking historical facts

[@lulusmith4877]

Im so sorry for what happened to the Indian ppls .Glad that it's all uncovered and we know the truth .Horrific inhumane behaviour by white American men and they call themselves civilised What a bloody joke!!!! 😮

[@carollido8742]

The systematic and relentless program visited upon those who could not even understand what they were saying was a constant bludgeoning of spirit The production is extraordinary. Wonderful direction and editing here and the the interviews are so important because you show how the people are so so gracious and pure despite the crimes against them. Congratulations on a wonderful piece of work and it is wonderful to hear Robbie's voice. Even though we lost him this year I think we will hear him forever

[@scarlettrenville1663]

my kunsi in this ❤️ miss her

[@nataanda2486]

excellent documentary! and so wonderful to see and hear the elders

[@leorunearthsr5253]

My Uncle Albert Taylor is in this Excellent Documentary

[@courtneyjohnson7530]

I'm little crows granddaughter🌎

[@brittanyhayes1043]

I'm a decendent of Gideon Hollister Pond. My 4th great grandfather met your father and taught him English.

[@lisasmith767]

He was a great man.

[@daniellecampbell90]

@@brittanyhayes1043 I'm sorry but as A Dakota Winyan I feel like your comment is heavily ladden with White saviorism

[@daniellecampbell90]

I mean its part of our history but could you let us talk on our history without including the deeds your grandfather did? There are thousand of stories of "white saviors" who helped our "poor pitiful people" that feel like they need to be included. There are few recountings of telling our stories ourselves and it would be very considerate to not sprinkle those little micro-aggressions into our platform

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@@daniellecampbell90 No. I will speak about my ancestors involvement along with yours. You can't have one without the other. We can agree to disagree. No white saviortiwm just absolute facts that I mentioned before.

[@jelbel71]

I remember when I was a little Girl and we went to the church on the Morongo reservation and we went to the pow wow. It was something that I will never forget. The music and the songs sang… I felt it to my core. The way the songs touch your soul is powerful. Watching this brought this me memories back. More people need to know about these things and make a profound change for the native Americans 🙏🏼

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

Thank you for posting,. it was a very good docu, and also had beutiful shots of the sky and surroundings, thank you again for your efforts.

[@lisaabramovich7656]

Iam 54yrs old. Im adopted. I recently got my birth certificate from the government. I have information on my mother but not my father. I am 33%American Indian. My mother is from Minnesota. I talked to a man who was also adopted from a reservation due to the law. He is my 4th cousin according to DNA test. He said he is Dakota. I know adoption can be wonderful mine wasn't. My adopted mother died when I was 14. My Heart hurts for being away from my family not knowing who I was or where I come from is the most hurtful. I read " Are you my mother"I always felt like I was that bird.

[@kisahnalahnpoveda9068]

I'm Miskitu First Nation ❤ Love all my relatives and Native family 🙏 we have same struggles

[@cecelia1350]

Hopefully some young people will want to keep the Dakota language & traditions alive.

[@LostTreasureable]

Great Grandfather Smutty Bear. ❤

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography pictures 📷/drawings/reenactments/guest speakers. Enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing.

[@sarahdevault763]

I’m so sorry. I feel so much sorrow and sadness in my soul watching this.

[@veeherreraJanecka]

Because you have a heart 🙏🏽🕊

[@fredharvey2720]

​@@veeherreraJaneckaIt's because she's brainwashed.

[@fredharvey2720]

These accounts are meant to portray the whites and government as monolith of evil against angelic peaceful natives. Reality is far from it. These people were often very brutal, against each other, allying with whites against other tribes, torturing each other to death, cannibalizing their enemies, wiping out tribes, kidnapping women and children as a tactic of war - which is how they got smallpox. Whites and only whites tried to lift them up; giving them written language, schools, clinics, vaccines.

[@emilsabatini4038]

Hau mitakuyape, hello my relatives ! You are my Pte Oyate , and Tionspaye , you are my people and extended family! May Wakan Tanka bless you all! I am Oglala Lakota, my name is " Angel With Tatoos".

[@LillaDalaHast]

What a great documentary. I would love to see more like it!

[@lilyrose161]

My 4th great grandfather, Francois Labatte (LaBathe) was killed at the Lower Sioux Agency when the fighting began. He was a Native American trader who had a store that did business with the local people. His son in law, Vanoss Robinette and his family (also Native American) were taken hostage by the Sioux who rebelled against the U.S. Government. They were released and sent to Ft. Snelling where they eventually settled in Mendota and most are buried there.

[@daniellepappas5189]

I currently live on fort Snelling in the barracks they converted to apartments....the history of the Dakota people moved me and i feel incredibly sad

[@kimbercole2438]

When I found out that the law regarding 'Indian Schools' was not stopped until 1978!! I was eighteen years old - which meant that this horrendous practice had been going on my whole life, and I had no idea it was happening. I cried when I finally found out - at the age of 62! I'm 3rd generation Italian and I wasn't taught the language of my grandparents, they wanted to be American. I'm ashamed to be American. The atrocities and genocides perpetrated by America, the rabid racism for anyone that isn't 'white', the inability to do the right thing - in the moment - and if you promise, make treaties, you honor those to the spirit as well as the words of those promises and legal treaties. I am so sorry for what has been done to you. I wish I knew a way to help.

[@Maldoror200]

Well said, and, I hear You Loud & 😢 Crystal Clear, and I feel Your Pain, Darlin..!!!..🙏🥀 (..You are of a strong Heart, & I think, a pure Spirit..You doubtless, feel the pain, the Despair, of Others'..)

[@sara4tears]

my dad went to one and i never new untill i watched this documentary and looked up the boyhome he was at then it all made sense he said when people would run from the school they would shoot at them and they where mostly treated like prison but had slightly more freedom and where all dressed in same clothes i looked for pics but never found anything else but his name.

[@lyngreen2217]

Hi Kimber, You couldn't have put how I feel about this any better. I live in the UK, and really didn't know how bad the treatment of the First Nation People was until I made friends on FB with an indigenous lady, started following a few Instagram accounts as I love watching the powwows, and then began to research for myself. It was like going down a rabbit hole! The more I found out, the more disgusted I was, same as you. I too am sorry for what has been done to them. The only way of helping that I have found is to spread more awareness in the UK. Doesn't matter where in the world you are, a light has to be shone on the injustice that has been carried out no matter where. I also have called out some white Americans too on SM. Trust me, a lot of them don't like being reminded. I'm still getting hate posts from something I commented on a couple of weeks ago. The only way to help from my perspective, is telling people about the residential schools etc. Oh, you should look up the Kamloops residential school in Canada. No less than 200 children's skeletons were unearthed. Flowers were laid at the steps of the school, and several indigenous people danced outside of the school. Dancing for those who never got a chance to do so.

[@kentkearney6623]

Ditto

[@kristinebailey6554]

And if you were British, you'd have to be ashamed to be British, don't you see? We can only change the present and future, not the past.

[@MegInTheSkyWithCloud]

I can't watch, my heart is broken and I can only cry....love from Italy

[@fredharvey2720]

Get a grip

[@1804Ayiti]

Great documentary 🙏🏿

[@amyhunter4309]

Rest in Peace Robbie

[@diannawalker2031]

I was a child at PineRidge catholic school.

[@lillianmcgrew217]

This is a sad history 😢😢

[@user-oy6tv2ze9w]

My mom was from crow hill, north dakota. N my grandma kunsi was Alvina Alberts. She was speaking on this video. It was good to hear her voice again. My mom sounded just like her. This was a very interesting video. My sister Eunice Davidson had done our family tree. She was named Good star woman after her ancestor.

[@jennifertiitinen9006]

I’m reading the seed keeper before Mary Crow. I hope they are good. Any recommendations are very appreciated

[@DevikaK100]

Wow, so the GOVERNMENT assigned a church to each district (of Dakotas)? What happened to the separation of church vs. state?

[@kentkearney6623]

Another lie. You are owned by the Vatican through hospital papers and social security's number.

[@fredharvey2720]

Nothing happened. You're just completely ignorant of basic civics.

[@roseannrook7897]

@@fredharvey2720 Stop being such a downer, troll.

[@fredharvey2720]

@@roseannrook7897 It's being a "downer" to contradict your views? You have a mood disorder?

[@earthangel_1862]

I am Chief Little Crows great, great, great, granddaughter...still, I rise°❤

[@GhislaineGautreau-jk2nd]

His spirit lives in you and will after you. Have a great life, filled with joy and meaning. God bless you.

[@carollido8742]

I have a poem that I have written to him and I am very close by the memorial and I would like to be able to contact you or someone else in your family to get it to you.

[@leebaker5518]

Rest in Peace Robbie Robertson

[@christinahope4996]

Part of this is on Okema album. I love to learn things future, past. Not the way I learned in school, seemed to be missing a lot.

[@sara4tears]

trying to figure out more about this because my great granfather was a renville ranger fort ridgley called a tokadantee prairie dogs he ended up getting his foot shot off with a muskeet ball and he was going to be hung but was pardoned from it he lived 2 winters with chief other day and he told my grandpa about what had happened,he was starving they wouldnt give any land back and drove away mass amounts of animal where told to eat dirt or grass by the settlers he said people where trying to get food but were shot and more then one person died from this finally one man dared the other to steal eggs when he went in the barn and told his friend i cant stand it anymore and i could die for this he was so upset he started cracking all the eggs and paranoid he would be shot like others he grabbed a gun hanging in the barn. then went to the house and shot everyone inside. then the next day settlers started a witch hunt against all of the people in the camp even though they were starved and loss many they still had to fight. my grandpa was given the option to join the renville ranger he did and like i said lost his foot after he was a sherrif and owner of the old native jail that was burned down he turned it into a hotel. i appreciate and thank all of these wonderfull people for their wisdom and hearing the story of strength makes me feel closer to my ancestors.

[@geraldinecharlie1000]

You always were and forever will be ....from downunder

[@nativeandindigenuscraftcre433]

Hi thanks for sharing this documentary I am watching just for fun good luck with everything

[@ariwei6628]

America the country of heart ache.. Great informative documentary

[@jennifertiitinen9006]

Papa I know you would respectfully appreciate this

[@nikhothuntawaphasha]

Tatepsíca, (Running Wind) is my 5th-Great Grandfather and was given the hereditary title of Chief Wahpé'a'sé (Originally Red Leaf, now Red Cap) from his father, Necohundah (Rising Moose) or, (Wahpésé) (The Red Leaf)

[@hobertlee7598]

GREAT VIDEO

[@johnshields6852]

That is so good to see them keep their culture and Their Land.

[@FranciscoDaCosta]

We cannot and must not remain silent - while our ancestors are treated with disdain. Those who are GREEDY have no empathy or understanding of connection to Mother Earth. Those who live on this Earth to exploit all they see will not live - they are the dead. Our Earth is being abused, - and Climate change - is something Morhter Earth can live with. What Mother Earth will not tolerate are conditions that she knows - but the fools do not. So when you see a Hurricane, the wildfires, the floods, the many so-called atrocities - you, the two-legged, brought these calamities upon yourselves. Listen to the Elders - their wisdom and, more importantly, their guidance - one of a kind. Aho.

[@CJJohnson-tt6xs]

Cj good podcast😍

[@martinfriedrich7226]

I am looking for any information about a Man named Kicks Iron . Please help.

[@imransharif443]

Nice video

[@lottiehowes585]

It is so sad that the Native American are treated like this. They are the most beautiful people in the world, and the most kindness we Irish, we will never forget your kindness to the Irish people. god bless you ❤

[@sonamarti]

Sad…. Same is happening now in Tibet by communist China . Very sad

[@bunk95]

Im perfectly fine going down to caveman style men. Native Americans dont seem to be able to be forced into performing as much slave labor as those in/from other groups can/do. Isnt that more wanted by you?

[@fredharvey2720]

They're known for torturing each other to death and cannibalism in their wars.

[@fredharvey2720]

​@@bunk95They took each other slave often enough

[@MeesterSquid]

Thanks for a look into the history of my neighbors and friends!

[@BrentTheGent1]

Its so sad that those extremely wealthy suits have done this to all the nations of peoples over there. The very same thing was done to all Scottish, Welsh and Irish long ago. The Highland clearances where the red coats put mothers with babies out in the snow and were behind a large killing of so many people that spoke with Gaelic talk. So, so very many of my people were press ganged into indentured servitude and many did not even last the crossing from here to what was called "the new colonies" such a deceptive description. I wish that all people would wake up and fully understand just how corrupt the men in suits are, the bankers, the politicians nearly all corrupt.

[@GS-mo2zj]

All over the world for 50,000 years at least: the more things change the more they stay the same .it's a shame that none of these stories that we have from Wyoming and Missouri include what Indians lives were like before the coming of the horse. There were several tribes in the West that did not accept trapping horses and turning them into war machines. And in that case the tribes split in half and oppressed the ones that farmed. Wasn't there ever a time of peace? Globally there are a few instances of communities that have always had the big picture Who is this Great Spirit ? Is he really different tribe to tribe?. Must we continue to debate over the importance of nature, and sane hunting laws to the Great Spirit.

[@MLeibs]

What a nightmare. 😔

[@user-rq4cu5gx3r]

Hi am crazycrow Mayan apache halfbreed learning to be in tbe path the red road path at 56 years old we understand our grandmother and creator much love and respect for you and all of your tribe

[@SandBox-ik5xq]

What a priviledge to hear the elders...I pray the young ones go back to the Earth Way,and start learning their languages again...with love and light...Sand Wahhaba...Peace

[@aarondelacruz7706]

Amen

[@LaVidaesfria_]

Thankyou for the awarness of Native Americans Eventually the Truth comes to Light. Thankyou Ancestors for the Wisdom.

[@jdwest34]

Thanks

[@Mark-ej4uf]

Robbie Robertson is a public figure. He gave also a huge concert in Sicily. I dont have any reason to listen him narrating this documentary in my private computer.

[@willharris8677]

Good words for good life...life seems to be so hard...with out Land, food, shelter,peace...fight for control,steeling,killing ..hunger and slavery...( Two ways from here ) The right way and wrong way....

[@NorSe_RavN]

45:00 - This is exactly what the Mohawk did in the Kahnawa:ke reserve. A Kanien'keha:ka school to teach them their own languages.

[@DevikaK100]

Interesting about the flower ceremony honoring the ancestors. They do the same in China and many other cultures.

[@jazzg777777]

Same in Scandanavian countries

[@creaturecaldwell9858]

Screwed up..if things were assured the people would have gotten the food promised..but the gov. never made sure that these criminals weren't stealing .. I understand why they fought back but the best choice for them was to leave ..if they could. The Florida tribes ran away ..hid..fought..we were mostly killed or sent away west but some of us managed to stay hidden for a long enough time to where when we were rediscovered the gov. didn't see us as a threat big enough to continue fighting..the land itself was a reason for our survival..we were so far out in the swamps where no one wanted to live that we were left alone.

[@robertwindedahl4919]

The white people also told the Dakota people if they were hungry they could eat their own done as well such depravity thank God the white people are becoming a minority in this country now maybe we will get some justice after all hopefully

[@robertwindedahl4919]

I get really tired of hearing from the white man's standpoint what they supposedly and I say in capital letters g a v e Indian people they didn't give Indian people anything we already had everything before the scumbags ever landed on Turtle Island get that straight right now so white people could never give Indian people anything because we always had everything we needed until they showed up with their diseases their lies their treachery their poison blankets everything

[@creaturecaldwell9858]

@@robertwindedahl4919 . The end goal of justice for me is to be fair with a strong loving heart..I don't carry a pay back chip on my shoulder as something in the most importance. I think what's most important is to look for mutual good things for people. I won't abandon love meant to be for the betterment of all..myself included. I never forget of the warpath only I look at it as the last thing I would want..and never wanted more than victory for any and all fools..yes there are ones who would look to all the ill will that they can..maybe they don't care ..my care is stronger than thier absence of care regardless..I won't be a programmed entity that can't think for itself beyond some prearranged situation I was born into. It's said we are all in a reservation now

[@creaturecaldwell9858]

@@robertwindedahl4919 . Remember..it wasn't the white people who would love them as much they loved them in return..it was some low life that wormed it's way into position to abuse the people..and insult them in that way. Many common settlers had friends ..especially earlier ..before masses of people flooded in. I don't have ill will for any of the people..I've loved and have been loved by both sides to have ill will ..I think it is all as people have said..we are a work in progress..living in a process of continuous growth..it should be for the good of all

[@swannoir7949]

@@creaturecaldwell9858 You talk like a $5 Indian.

[@ahydac.2816]

Imagine people coming right now and kicking you out of your home and your city. That was such abuse.

[@jimbailey9915]

They are, and it is still the same enemy.

[@Moodboard39]

Like Palestine ....

[@Moodboard39]

Not sure if u could it home with a government. They were tribe people. They weren't huge in number , no rights to the land I guess ..... Why they didn't do that to China or Japan?

[@siemenvandcamp]

I find bad what they did back in the days. Languages (and cultures) are lost because of what governments did and still do. Even to minor groups in Europe it happens. My parents weren't allowed to speak Limbourgian at school, my mom still did and they punish her a lot for that. Mam is also the only one of the family that learned her children our own language (but also how to work with wild herbs for illnesses and other things) . I find it pitty that there are not many people anymore that I can talk in my language against.

[@dreamcatcher5502]

What year was this filmed ?

[@Moodboard39]

Could be 1990s something around there ....

[@jennifertiitinen9006]

My father just bought Crow Mary and I’m going to get it also

[@nicolarollinson4381]

😢😢😢

[@GeraldLewis-gy5vk]

I like it 👍 in the here and now AMEN

[@theasianwitch]

Beautiful film...I was moved to tears by the end. Although my people are from the Han and Hakka tribes in China, I too felt that I was forced to assimilate in American schools. Thankfully, my elders taught me my native language and raised me with my traditional foods and culture. However, it is not something that is easy to hold onto in these new technological era of cultural sterilization, and I think people from various cultural backgrounds can understand.

[@Moodboard39]

China wasn't conquered like native American..Big difference here . China had some form of government!

[@fredharvey2720]

You shouldn't have come here.

[@KathleenMiles-]

When was this documentary released?

[@TwinCitiesPBS]

This documentary was from 1996.

[@rajkumargurung4608]

We the indigenous people are real of this earth.

[@vabrejuro7854]

S. Meaning blessings to you.

[@KyleIronman84]

My deksi Mike hotain in this documentary Pidamaya do for this 😢

[@geothunder1971]

I am the decedent of exiled Dakota! Mni Sota Makoce is our homelands

[@Dovid2000]

An important documentary on the lives of these people. Sad history. Greetings from Israel.

[@Omaha11Bravo]

❤

[@soniadamian5697]

🍀

[@user-ll1um7tl8n]

The Brave Men, went with a Death Song✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🌞

[@Jewels122003]

I am shaking in horror. I can not conceive of this horror in AMERICA!!!!!!!!

[@yoso585]

Goodness. Get a grip!

[@fredharvey2720]

Should have seen how they treated each other before the whites came

[@fredharvey2720]

​@@yoso585videos like this give selected cherry picked history and are meant to induce white guilt.

[@danieltudio5960]

We must defend our tribal land and our language zizipno ho katoyka dakota

[@agnesprunel2654]

😪

[@angelab4652]

With this next reset,, There will not be enough food/wildlife to sustain as many.

[@robertwindedahl4919]

Return the land

[@brittanyhayes1043]

No

[@DreamCatchAah]

@@brittanyhayes1043 this is borrowed land 😂 honey go home to Europe

[@janetmobilia8520]

@@brittanyhayes1043 Shame on your tongue.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@janetmobilia8520 No shame, only proud of my heritage.

[@brittanyhayes1043]

@janetmobilia8520 Where do you live so I can make fun of you for land back movement idiocy to prove you also live in stolen land from another group, and then another, and then another group had it next.

[@AlternityGM]

Amazing documentary. The history of the North American native tribes since the white man invaded is one of suffering & loss. The same thing is happening now in Chinese-occupied Tibet which lost its independence due to an invasion in 1950 & the Chinese Govt is trying to Sinicize & forcibly assimilate the Tibetan people.

[@Moodboard39]

Hmmm

[@jimbombadill]

its a pitty many of the tribes couldnt make piece before the us goverment picked them off one by one. Many give the crows shit for not fighting against the whites but reading their history it seems like they were realy left with no option being in a tight spoot between other native nations attacking them.

[@user-ll1um7tl8n]

Good people in every race need to know the truth. What goes around, comes around💫 +

[@CAM-fq8lv]

Too sad to watch in one go. I have to stop and come back later.

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

🏦💰💰💰💰

[@kimthomas8717]

I’m saddened as I watch this …. 💔 But yes The Creator saw the entire thing and they didn’t escape superior justice gif doing this to the indigenous peoples 💔

[@user-rq4cu5gx3r]

What happened is the wsys of life those who came with the intention of hate but these are the time to heal that scare of the ways The creator gave us the knowledge turth about our struggles from that trama was pasted thru our DNA much love to Dakota and respect for those of our ways of life we have to be in touch with creator and grandmother at the fire on the other side of the bridge were all will come together ❤️

[@andrearenee7845]

😇💫👣

[@jacquelynmedina5401]

Sounds like what is going on today, 2023.

[@shawnmceachin720]

sad, LUMBEE TRIBE in North Carolina happened the same way

[@stephenkiely9012]

This is the same thing the British did to the Irish. They forbid the Irish to speak their native language. Catholic masses were held in open fields with views all around so that the people could scatter if they saw the British coming as they were forbidden to hold mass. They (the British) apportioned the land per family so that generations had less and less land for each successive generation. During the potato famine between 1845-1852 food that was donated from people around the world sat on British docks and rotted. Over 1,000,000 Irish died from starvation and diseases in these years. Over 2,000,000 left their native lands. Man's inhumanity towards man... nothing but ignorance, hatred and greed. This behavior is the opposite of love and compassion. Shame on all who engaged in harming all brothers and sisters (red,black,brown or white). Their lot has been cast and they shall roam inhospitable lands for what will appear to be an eternity. Time to break the cycle. Time to ask for forgiveness.Time to pray for all that suffered and those whose suffering continues to this day. Time to wake up.

[@wadetaylor1299]

They did it all over the world

[@swannoir7949]

I heard how the British intentionally starved the Irish during the Potato famine; but history books don't tell you that. It wasn't the famine that killed those people, but their own (white) people. But then the second generation of the Irish who came to America, treated Blacks the same way, when they had to compete with them for jobs. In fact, the Irish-lead unions, were initially created just for that. The Native Americans in the south were slave owners and slave catchers -- many whom fought alongside the Confederate Army, and when the South lost, the government forgave the white confederates, but sent the Indians on that long walk that we know as the trail of tears. And the darked-skinned Indians were later classified as Negros, and they have largely been forgotten. The Cherokee Nation broke a treaty with the descendants of their slaves over ten years ago, and it took a court action to re-instate their rights. This is why it is important to know ALL facets of history, because we tend to throw our sympathies to people without knowing the full scale of how, what, and why things happened they way they did.

[@fredharvey2720]

Ireland is being colonized by Africans. Wake up.

[@squamishfish]

I will never understand why the Dakota and Lakota in Canada 🇨🇦 are never talked about , never hear about their history