FIERCE Native American Tribe That DEFEATED The Conquistadors

For thousands of years, the Calusa Tribe ruled the waters of southwest Florida. Known as the "People of the Water", they built a civilization unlike any other, thriving where the land and sea become one. Their kingdom stretched across the shores, islands, bays and rivers of this vast, shimmering world. They did not till the earth for crops, for the waters provided everything they needed.
Their ancestors, with their hands and hearts, created the Great Mound Key, a great artificial island, built entirely of shell, bone, and stone. Rising high above the waters of Charlotte Bay, it stands as a monument to their ingenuity and their bond with the natural world. Their warriors were as fierce as the waters they commanded. From their dugout cypress canoes they could strike swiftly, navigating the currents with ease.
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[@lboiv001]

I recommend everyone reach out and seek a deeper dive into what History class barely skimmed over, if not altogether skipped. History is actually a fascinating subject

[@davidtaflan941]

Much of what this series provides is not taught in schools. Native resistance to the Spanish is a largely forgotten subject. Thanks for bringing this to light.

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

Before we can know about the Indians resisting the Spanish, we have to be taught that the SPANISH were here FIRST before the English. It is the biggest omission in American history books.

[@RedEdgedSavage]

@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy . Yeah.. Saint Augustine is the oldest city in the U.S .. only the Spanish didn't go first to other places in the north first.. like Massachusetts.. to me, it makes little difference as far as world empires that invaded.. they came here and fought each other for control, draging tribes into their fighting

[@davidtaflan941]

@@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy Yes, The Treaty of Tordesillas saw to that.

[@RoscoPColtrane17]

@@JoseGonzalez-ps6vyI’ve never read a history book that has the English here first.

[@jd2966]

Just to be clear so that there is no confusion, this story was written in the 2020s and not the 1500s. These aren't the words of anyone in the Calusa tribe. This language is heavily biased. We don't even know the chief's name, yet alone what they were thinking that day.

[@The_Florida_Jay]

For real it seemed a little too first person for people that didn't have paper stone tablets...... And as we all saw with the Romans and the Celtic people history is written by the corrupt bureaucrats that wrote it.

[@ElFlaccoBlanco]

Wow! That Calusa King speech was so motivating I had to, aaah- take the dog for a walk, as they say, to stay focused and keep my head in the game, as these Mysterious Origins videos are AWESOME!!!

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

Made up poetry. The Caloosa didn't have a written language and they vanished in the mid-1700's. There is no possible way that we would know what he said. But I'm glad you felt good about a fake speech.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

There is no Gold in Florida? What is this British guy talking about?

[@RjSierra-m2v]

There was also a Temucoa tribe having members over 200years in ages. Historical FACTS!

[@SEMANTIC_BLOCKAGE---_]

@RjSierra-m2v yes They have settlements or findings of them here in Seminole FL, Timacua or Timacuan Also were very tall

[@danielg.1365]

I love this narrator! 🤯 amazing. I could listen to this for days.

[@BufordTGleason]

It’s ironic that indigenous people living in harmony with the land and nature had a much better long-term outlook before western civilization that brought technology and progress.

[@RYDR6517]

3:34 That's estero Bay not Charlotte Bay. I live in Southwest Florida and have been to mound key .

[@teyanuputorti7927]

what a great video if history was taught this way more people would be interested in history and educated

[@lorenzogomez8686]

This was a great video. Much of the centralization that was a part of Native American societies was lost due to diseases that scattered populations even before colonization began on the East Coast. Prior, there was trade between tribes from the Rockies to the Florida and the Carolinas.

[@tonysiragusano5149]

Interesting people. Great way to tell their story too.

[@CoffeeinAmerica]

Fantastic, compelling! Subscribed!

[@katipohl2431]

In Chile Lautaro and Tok Caupolican of the mapuche tribe defeated the Spaniards under Pedro de Valdivia.

[@umarheadcutter7189]

@@katipohl2431 and lautaro also died by beheading and why don’t you mention that ?

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

Wait what? Are the Mapuche in charge of Chile or something?

[@BCanterbury42]

What’d they do when hurricanes came 😳💭

[@BufordTGleason]

When there aren’t millions of people living in harms way, and the infrastructure is not complicated and interdependent it’s not as catastrophic

[@astralclub5964]

If the natives of North America had possessed a leader that could've united all the tribes, they could've ejected the Europeans up to the end of the 17th century. However, after that period the Europeans were too numerous and the natives too weak from diseases and war.

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

And if the Europeans had fighter jets and AR-15's at the time, they would have succeeded much much quicker.

[@treystuart1999]

What are your sources on this?

[@donnygout4558]

it's in the description.

[@RjSierra-m2v]

Do the Calusa, or Lucayo tribes have descendants today? That might have folklore about their past.

[@teyanuputorti7927]

as far as I know they're extinct

[@RedEdgedSavage]

Any left over after disease we're absorbed into the Spanish or Seminole

[@donnygout4558]

Love it! they really need to make more historical based TV series about these event's Amazon made Hernán was a huge succes amazing series. you got Conquistadores Adventum wich is sadly only availble in spanish without subs. but i would love to see more about the Carib people the Taino's and , the maya's and aztecs, and also the early spanish contact with tribes from north america. there's almost next to nothing on these particular events.

[@jakepulley1653]

The sources are pointing to the tribal way of life at this time, but not the actual words of a native American living in what became Florida. More than likely the commentary was from a woke and enlightened college professor. I guess he has some super powers into exactly what the natives were thinking right when Ponce landed with every detail. What if natives were intrigued by the horses the Spanish brought? Also, the Spanish didnt bring women on expeditions such as this. So the natives here saying the Spanish women were dirty looking is fabricated.

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

Best comment so far.

[@luisvelez-s1j]

A British speaking about Spanish, what a joke

[@RedEdgedSavage]

Yeah ?

[@josemariafernande-vicario6772]

Los restos de este increíble pueblo son extraordinarios restos de calzadas y templos y ......y eran todos felices ,sin comentarios

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

If you really want to know the story, click on the sources listed. The video is a collage of made up stuff.

[@KentPetersonmoney]

So native women went barechest like the natives in south America?

[@ArenTainment]

What is the source of this video?

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

Huh? That account from the Chief sounds like made-up poetry. How does this youtuber have a "historical account" of the words of the Chief of the Caloosa Tribe in 1513? They didn't have a written language and the Caloosa disappeared hundreds of years ago. The only one that could have recorded what he said was the Spanish Conquistadors themselves and they were pretty busy fighting him and apparently, the Chief wasn't in the mood to sit down and talk to them either. What a bunch of rubbish.

[@niesenjohn]

Spanish sailors would wash up on Florida after ship wrecks and go native. Just like how when Cortez landed in the Yucatán there were premade translators from ship wrecked Spaniards. If I’m not mistaken this comes from when Hernando de Soto landed in Florida 1539 where he met a Spanish sailor who had been in Florida for more than ten years who told this story or translated it from a native who knew this chief. If not that specific case, likely a similar situation. It’s obviously a mix of Spanish and native knowledge. It’s certainly like any historical narrative (especially premodern ones) taking poetic license in telling a story.

[@Lee-xn8by]

I call total B.S that this was written hundreds of years ago. Lol

[@RedEdgedSavage]

YEAH.. By the time we came to Florida..most Calusa and the other original tribes there had died off from disease..

[@stevezapinski7706]

Did they walk around painted like that all the time, oh vey, vanity!

[@alwaysfourfun1671]

This was very informative. The whereabouts of early European invaders and the people-cultures that they met.

[@theblackhammer9142]

After the part about the women the insult to my intelligence! Refuse to watch further

[@tubo1639]

Too much propaganda.

[@bminusconstruction4212]

Yeah and where are they now... 😢😢😢😢

[@daniel8728]

I understand that the Caloosa were wiped out by the coming of the Creeks who wiped out the Caloosa. The hatred against the Europeans is disturbing

[@MysteriousOrigins1]

The Creeks were chased off the lamds by Colonists

[@Randive]

>The hatred against the Europeans is disturbing Maybe because they were taking their land. Hello?

[@RedEdgedSavage]

Calusa weren't wiped out by Creeks.. where did you get that mumbo jumbo ? Calusa were wiped out by disease.. any remnants were absorbed into the Spanish or Seminole.. geez.. all it takes is just reading a little history to know

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@southfloridarob2350]

indians never had horses or anything before the advanced culture came

[@Randive]

now we have mcdonalds and ozempic

[@mikeleone2699]

Crocodiles? Negative

[@gideonporter537]

Didn't help them much - or any other indigneous peoples the Spanish, Dutch, English, Portuguese etc colonised. They ALL resisted but ancient enmities within themselves led to them easily being set against each other.... and then disease and superior weapons, disciplined soldiers, and centuries of tried and tested war strategies made indigenous peoples easy pickings. But yes, many fought, and fought well, but still died, by the hundreds and thousands. Millions more died from disease. Thanks for saving us with christianity though.

[@lonniepope2296]

A British narrated,whimsical outlook from a natives pov of real events...no irony in the comments either 😏

[@MysteriousOrigins1]

What English accent do you prefer?

[@greenpill7320]

Fake

[@albruno09]

Yeah and the descendents all speak Spanish now

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

Yet, if you go to South Florida, everyone speaks Spanish. No one speaks Caloosa and barely anyone speaks English. I think the Spanish won after all.

[@jjwashington3872]

@@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy 💯

[@joseantoniopazosvega9621]

Gracias al gallego Fidel Castro y la estampida que provocó.

[@3drhodes]

I wonder if you have your green card and what language are you writing in 😂😂

[@ThomasDoragh]

Estero Bay

[@albertodiefenbach7332]

Really,it didn't take long for the Spanish to take over most of South America, central America and a part of North America,not bad for a few against so many!!💪

[@rudolfkraffzick642]

Take over? Some forts and settlements, some subdued tribes. Most of the Spanish colonies were claimed territories without or just superfical control of a far away government.

[@MysteriousOrigins1]

Yet it took them 1000 years to free Spain from Arab rule

[@withoutpassport]

Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. Florida has been Spanish longer than it’s been under any other rule and if you live here today you NEED to know how to speak Spanish. Even our state flag is a modified Spanish flag. Florida is the freest of all 50 states.

[@mattnewhouse1781]

@withoutpassport we speak English here, and proud of it.

[@southfloridarob2350]

CONQUERED LAND

[@MAW51187]

Conquistadors became the Native Americans. This title should say the Native tribe that defeated conquistadors. The combining of the crown and native tribes is what created the Native American ethnicity.

[@Supremor-tj9dv]

AD comes before the year. It’s AD 1521.

[@JoseGonzalez-ps6vy]

I want to know the name of the woke professor who wrote this script. Why? So I make sure my kids don't end up in his classroom.

[@panatypical]

Looks like they were ultimately defeated nonetheless. Why isn't this mentioned? What a bunch of politically correct garbage!

[@alternativetheory641]

Saying everything you don't like is "political correctness" is stupid, Obviously, everyone knows what happened later.

[@ancientvoices1]

Brilliant comment. Did the Native American lose the Europeans really? Wow I never heard that.

[@travist2176]

Is this a serious comment or a joke?

[@panatypical]

@travist2176 If you didn't already know you wouldn't ask! I'm not going to apologize for being Caucasian! If you don't like it, lump it!

[@ATREZ0123]

Do you think that anyone doesn't know that the Spanish slaughtered millions of Indigenous Americans? The country that I love is evidence of that already. How else could an entire continent hundreds of miles away be filled with Europeans? They came, enslaved, stole, killed and moved in. But native Americans from North, Central, South and Caribbean fought for their homes for years until there were very few left. Is that what you wanted explained?

[@Ador828]

They were bad ,english even worst to natives, plus bartolome de las casas...

[@DanteAlahandro]

It was the Florida native that killed Ponce de Leon.

[@dallasraika1751]

No black history