The Terrifying Collapse of the Plains American Indians

As the US government pushes once mighty tribes like the Comanche and Apache onto reservations, a resistance emerges in the north, led by the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne among others. This dramatic saga features chiefs like Sitting Bull and Red Cloud, warriors like Crazy Horse, and military icons like George Custer. Gruesome violence, massacre, and removal are tragic constants in this story. This is the harrowing last stand of Native Americans on the Great Plains. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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A note on terminology:
Wherever possible, we use specific tribe or nation names. In addressing larger groups of indigenous people on the American plains, we occasionally use the term “Indian,” as it legally refers to the indigenous people of the contiguous United States and possesses considerable legal weight with regard to United States-American Indian treaties. As such, the term also serves to focus the scope of this video, which is the 19th-century plight of indigenous plains nations vis-a-vis the US government; the indigenous plains peoples farther north and their relationship with the Canadian government would be a video for another day. For a deeper look at this subject, check out the FAQ section of the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian: americanindian...
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Frazier, Ian. “Another Vision of Black Elk.” The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2017, www.newyorker.....
Hämäläinen Pekka. Lakota America: a New History of Indigenous Power. Yale University Press, 2019.
“Interviews and Statements of Chief Henry Oscar One Bull.” The University of Oklahoma Libraries, digital.librar....
Lapointe, Ernie. Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy. 1st ed., Gibbs Smith, 2009.
Morgan, T J. vol. 1, United States Office of Indian Affairs, 1891, pp. 180-181, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891.Extracts from verbatim stenographic report of council held by delegations of Sioux with Commissioner of Indian Affairs, at Washington, February 11, 1891.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. The Last Stand Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Vintage Books, 2011.Pratt, Richard. 1892, pp. 46-59, Official Report of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of Charities and Correction , quod.lib.umich....
“The Surrender of Joseph.” Harper's Weekly, 17 Nov. 1877, p. 906, babel.hathitru....
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[@animation1234111]

An interesting fact. One of the soldiers who guarded an imprisoned Sitting Bull was a Chinese man named Edward Day Cohota, who described the Chief as being quite pleasant.

[@WildindianTv]

There were lots of Asian immigrants at that time as well as black and white Europeans that were here around that time. Notice they never show pictures and paintings of the real indigenous aboriginals it’s mostly mongoloid Asian blacks.

[@HistoryDose]

Hi Divine Order, do you mind spelling out your position for me? I'm not sure why you think the photographs we present of the Lakota and other tribes in this video don't depict "real" indigenous people. What constitutes a real indigenous person for you?

[@WildindianTv]

@@HistoryDose those are chinos that migrated from Asia around the early 1800s the aboriginals of turtle island are copper colored dark bro and light brown complexion with straight coarse hair and some had nappier hair. Do your research i do. And to answer your question my position is an indigenous aboriginee of turtle island I know my relatives and that picture might be a mixed breed of my people and Asians but We know the difference.

[@villeworld5580]

@@WildindianTv your right i found from a young age that im a descendent of the Lakota tribe but most people don’t believe it because of my hair and dark skin tone i also found that i have Chinese in me to which crazy to think because the Lakota and the Chinese were in close proximity of each other alot during this time period

[@WildindianTv]

@@villeworld5580 osiyo brother and see what I mean if people did they own genealogy and didn’t believe everything that they were brainwashsed into believing they would understand this is true and it happened. Thank you for proving me right may the ancestor be with you. Wato

[@judethedudeisrude16]

As a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma, I can’t help but see things like this and think to myself “I exist because of the luck and endurance of my ancestors, who survived this genocide.” It’s just awful to think of the fear, pain, and terror they all went through.

[@jacobs4545]

All things come around. Everything does. D.C. will one day suffer the fate that befalls all Romes and Babylons

[@judethedudeisrude16]

@@jacobs4545 I hope I’m no around for it, because it means we will pay too

[@judethedudeisrude16]

@elesandraele6758 I bet you wouldn’t be saying that if you were at the museum in Germany for holocaust victims. With your logic that was just a “conquer” too. Who am I kidding, someone like you probably spits on homeless people and kicks puppies, then goes on KZbin to make fascist-leaning comments like the many you made on this video.

[@MRDYNAMITEDAWG]

@elesandraele6758 lmao you are the one playing victim here. All they said was they are thankful for their ancestors? then you come in crying about your ancestors getting enslaved? Your pfp is literally a nazi flag lol. You feel so much white guilt, lil boy.

[@beedubree2550]

@elesandraele6758 if you died in your sleep tonight not a person on this earth would miss you

[@skycollins7314]

One of my great grandfather's was a cree chief he worked as a scout for the army against sitting bull. Not long before he died he confessed that it was his biggest regret in his life

[@skycollins7314]

@Joe Griffin he still shared the same fate as the Lakota so fighting with the US in the hopes of gaining a good reputation with the whites was a waste

[@Tgm_464]

@The Rose Lace Empire To me its hard to say that. Intertribal conflict and encroachment and devouring by an imperialist government. If I was in their shoes, its better to throw another tribe under the bus and attain favor with the Imperialist government so you can get a better outcome. The enemy tribe isn’t harassing and destroying you and the Imperialist government loves you. However, in the end the US government doesn’t care about favor or history, they only care about their selfish desires fist.

[@wanto4279]

Traitor's decent!!

[@skycollins7314]

@@wanto4279 my ancestors were fighting with the Lakota long before the whites arrived we didn't betray them we were always enemies

[@skycollins7314]

@@jjmbeausoleil my grandfather's are chief little bear and big bear we settled in montana and we're still here on rocky boys reservation also do yourself a favor lose the smug arrogant tone

[@mgs_4k198]

"With the blood wet foot dangling against his mount, Sitting Bull journey’s back to familiar earth. Where swaying hills slope into cool rivers and wolves wonder under silver light. " This is just so beautifully delivered.

[@smokeymcpot69]

Wow, he said that exactly as I was reading this comment. So gorgeous

[@philipreid2542]

*wander

[@mgs_4k198]

@@philipreid2542 wander indeed. Thank you good sir. *British man with top hat drinking tea meme*

[@drewinsur7321]

Blood Meridian style of delivered for sure

[@charlesspringer4709]

Taken from or in the style of Homer, "The Iliad". Setting out across the wine-dark sea, etc.

[@t2io34]

Heartbreaking history with well executed narration, and art. You guys deserve such praise for your research and meticulous devotion to your channel and the history we tend to forget.

[@HistoryDose]

Thanks so much

[@mysimplepractice]

@@HistoryDose why is it "white Americans"... were dark-skinned Italian, Spanish, Mexican, and Black Americans prohibited from entering those lands? Thanks.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

@@mysimplepractice ._.

[@WildindianTv]

@@mysimplepractice lol they don’t wanna answer your question because it goes against the false narrative they promote

[@mysimplepractice]

@@WildindianTv I'm half Italian so perhaps I would've gotten kicked out in the summer when I had a tan. It's been about good and evil since the Garden of Eden, but they want to pretend otherwise. Can't be a real historian if you don't understand that. Lol.

[@Godzilla00X]

Utterly heartbreaking history that should be taught in schools. One Red Cloud quote that stook withe was "they made many promises, more than I can remember but they only kept one. They promised to take our land and they took it". That picture of a 90 year old Red Cloud makes me want to cry, you can see the pain of his life in written all over it.

[@quitexofficial7076]

@grand nagus Americans literally just took their land. The americans had literally no right to do what they did to these people.

[@BoxcarPhill]

@grand nagus And I assure you the Natives thought the same about the Americans trespassing onto their lands. Killing and taking what doesn't belong to them without permission from the Natives and continuously pressing them until the Natives had no choice. It's easy to say they should have just listened to the U.S government, but its impossible to do so when they keep breaking promises. Don't bring up stupid liberal vs conservative arguments here. What happened was a tragedy and denying it as such just shows how uninformed you really are.

[@joeldm5278]

The Sioux was a cruel and savage enemy. They murdered and tortured.

[@sheldonpegram8421]

@@joeldm5278 sounds like white people to me.

[@DccAnh]

@grand nagus typical white, when other people commit crime they’re savage, but when you do it, you call it frEedOm, what a butt load of hypocrisy

[@jakekonig3119]

I essentially never leave KZbin comments, but I strongly feel the need to do so here-this really is one of the most well done videos I have seen on KZbin and I am incredibly moved after watching it. I have been fascinated with Indigenous North American history (especially in this time period) for my entire life, but no resource really "scratched the itch" and I always get left wanting more, whether it be personal accounts & powerful quotes, information, geography, story telling, etc. You accomplished the whole picture: From the hauntingly beautiful artwork to the stunning narration that did not paint the Indigenous Peoples either as saintly pacifists who were easily rolled over, or as "ruthless" warriors who killed for sport-but as human beings in an incredibly difficult and unique time in history. Thank you for this work, and please continue to create these videos. I will be keenly watching them all and recommending them to my friends. The History genre is huge on KZbin, and you have struck a unique chord. I think this channel is going to get really big, and you certainly deserve it!

[@HistoryDose]

Thanks so, so much for these kind words, Jake. Joe (the artist/editor) and I made this video in part because, like you, we couldn’t find a video that presented the matter in full. There’s a sort of tragic beauty to the plains, accented by very disturbing scenes of violence, that gets lost when people describe this history on a macro level- maps and euphemistic allusions to “removals” of American Indians, I think, lose something very human in translation. I’d really love to return to this time period at some point.

[@freddycookjr.2164]

IF YOU WANT A MOVING AND ACCURATE DESCIPTION MAY I SUGGEST THE JOURNEY OF CRAZY HOUSE BY JOSEPH MARSHALL III A LAKOTA WRITER OF NOTE ALSO READ CHEYANNE MEMORIES BY JOHN STANDS IN TIMER ALSO BLACK ELK SPEAKS REQUIRED READING FOR THE NATIVE PERSPECTIVE

[@petersonlafollette3521]

The Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne tribal cross section should have been declared a national treasure and given their own section within U.S. as a vital blueprint of U.S. military strategy.Up until the 1860's U.S. did not have a choice- it was called Comanchería...

[@petersonlafollette3521]

Oh- they were ceded a homeland before it was taken from then- probably where the phrase "Indian Giver" came from.

[@petersonlafollette3521]

Don't Agree RE Native American strategy?Look up U.S. code breakers in WWII.

[@heidiharris_]

Iron Hawk’s quote, “they called for it and I let them have it.” is the nineteenth century way of saying, “they eff’d around and found out.” Iconic.

[@ROYAL-lp5lg]

You guys have such a beautiful way of telling history, I was wondering if maybe one day you could do the story of Hawai’i perhaps about King Kamehameha’s conquest of the islands; as a Hawaiian that would mean so much to see my own history told as beautifully.

[@HistoryDose]

Thanks for your kind words. That sounds really interesting. I will definitely add that to the list of potential topics.

[@Evanderj]

Hawai’i Nei, no ka oi 🤙

[@nnoobbooddyy1190]

@@Evanderj bless

[@make_hi6365]

Goku?

[@jerryreed9446]

The Indians would of eaten the country to the ground .that's why they was nomadic and majority came from Canada's .

[@LotharOfTheHillPeople]

Growing up in Montana and northern Idaho, these stories were told as heroes' tales of brave men fighting government overreach. It's very strange now living in Atlanta to hear the way kids outside the West are taught to think of Native Americans.

[@iloveyoushima]

Why would you move to Atlanta from Montana?

[@username7777771]

@@iloveyoushima try a winter up here. It's not for everyone.

[@nomoregunsinthevalley]

I know, fking CUSTER 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@jarrodnaude3004]

@@iloveyoushima that's what I was thinking. Everyone has a preference I suppose

[@ronepting5030]

Your brave ancestors fought against actual terrorists...God bless Amerikkka I guess

[@psychobear1290]

That was as beautiful as it was horrific. The narration, artwork, script and research came together so eloquently that I believe that you have all honoured their memory

[@chaosdweller]

Bear is such a funny word in English, I will never know the meaning behind it when it's used most times haha.

[@atomic_bomba]

@@chaosdweller "Bear" almost always refers to the animal, such as a Black Bear, or Polar Bear.

[@dariusalexandru9536]

to bad is biased

[@mareoism]

I'm Cree from Saskatchewan Canada. I love listening to these stories and documentaries of our peoples. Can't help but get emotional and cry when he talks of the women, children and elderly being massacred. Can't help but imagine my family and friends being the ones laying on the ground when he describes the corpses and little fingers clutching dead mothers

[@HistoryDose]

Thanks for commenting. This one was definitely a tragic one to sit with researching and writing for around two months. That being said, I’d love to cover more North American indigenous history.

[@DavidPatersonPortraits]

I'm from Scotland and my heart breaks over this story of evil men's doing. Their spirits will be punished.

[@nativechique7589]

It was when the young boys stood up when they said they were safe 😢

[@pinkiesue849]

How soldiers could massacre little boys is beyond imagining. The soldiers must have been satanists

[@charlest5604]

Does it make you cry that your people also pillaged, raped, killed, and enslaved others? The only difference between the natives and the European settlers was that the Europeans won. Both sides committed atrocities against each other and their own people.

[@nativewarrior4802]

As a proud member of the colville tribe from WA state. I'm a descended from chief tonasket. I'm salish wenatchi and sanpoil Indian. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to let our history Be known! We were not all slaughtered we are still HERE and PROUD! #NativePride

[@numbnumbjuice3375]

Okanagan nation

[@dennisbielfeld6707]

Whats there to be proud of? You lost lol

[@numbnumbjuice3375]

@@dennisbielfeld6707 okanagan nation never lost no war

[@danielcadwell9812]

Every people should be proud of who they are and where they come from, but I know you know that.

[@RafProductions3]

When your whole personality is related to one aspect of your being.

[@Rymontp]

Beautiful but chilling and horrifying documentary. As a European, this is a topic I haven't really looked into much before, despite liking history. You always hear about the wars between the Natives and Americans but it isn't something that really ever gets adressed in Europe. Thank you for this detailed explanation.

[@WildindianTv]

The narrative being pushed is these Asians claiming to be indigenous to America the pictures you see are mostly Asian immigrants. Most of These are not the real indigenous aboriginals of turtle island. They are mixed breeds but the history or narrative is true it’s just showing pictures of other people.

[@Rymontp]

@@WildindianTv I don't get what you're trying to tell me. Even if these Native Americans are descendents of Asians, that doesn't change how the US government treated them? Like they clearly adapted to the culture and if I remember correctly, they migrated thousands of years ago. That basically makes them natives or do you think that Europeans aren't native to Europe because they only migrated there after the Ice Age?

[@WildindianTv]

@@Rymontp they came around the 1800s not no ice age you are misinformed the problem is they’re taking our heritage and replacing us with mixed breeds and people that are not really indigenous to this land

[@Rymontp]

@@WildindianTv I never said they came during the Ice age, I was referring to Europe. Also, what??? Are you saying that the Natives in this video are actually Asian? "They're taking our heritage and replacing us with mixed breeds" sounds like some really Nazi ideology stuff. Asians are Asians. They aren't pretending to be natives. It's just that Natives are genetically very close to Asians.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

@@WildindianTv Unusual old school racism you've got there...

[@chasejarvis8499]

Proud Lakota from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota commenting here! 🙌 our history has alot of dark times but appreciate the light shed on the history, regardless ❤️❤️

[@TannerWilliam07]

Hey Chase, I'm also enrolled in Cheyenne River, there are a lot of history keepers on both Standing Rock and Cheyenne River regarding Indian History. They're usually located at the Tribal College and University's. You should reach out and learn more from our own perspectives! Dakota Good House is amazing!

[@FamiliarAnomaly]

Most of the settlers butchered by Lakota were German immigrants told a tale in the east about free land so someone could sell a wagon or two.

[@freddygray8058]

The Lakota were a brutal, bloodthirsty people. You brought your destruction upon yourselves.

[@j9392]

@@TannerWilliam07 is it just me or do you Indians not look Indian anymore? Most I’ve seen look as white as a white man can be.

[@biglips9884]

​@@freddygray8058 Arrogant ostrogoth

[@dakota7109]

I’m from the Dakota people on the southern boarder of Canada, I watched your Viking raid video and instantly knew I would be subscribing for more, now you have a video on native history it’s amazing dude can’t wait to see what you have in stored for us!

[@divinewineismine9829]

haven't you learned by now don't trust europeans, don't trust the white mans disconnected evil ways of life. But you need to not bear hatred on bitter intent for such evil men and civilization will destroy itself and themselves by their own arrogance.

[@TrentMcNary420]

Hey I’m from South Dakota 🤙🏾🖤

[@steveperreira5850]

Long live your tribe! I have not an ounce Of Native American blood, but I admire the native people so much, the land was beautiful, and well-kept when it was just the native people here.

[@TedH71]

One thing I would like to add...the Crow were living in their traditional lands and the Lakotas plus other tribes were constantly trying to kill off the Crow. It was not the Lakota lands. To present day, the Crow STILL have their reservation on their traditional lands while the Lakotas were pushed back to North and South Dakota. Originally the Lakotas were from Minnesota or thereabouts, believe it or not. The only reason the Crow allowed the American road to be built through their lands was because they needed American strength to fight off the Lakotas.

[@daniellaforge4956]

Our current lands were often occupied by other tribes. Shoshone Pikuni Cheyenne We sought for peace but ended up being labeled as traitors since we had scouts for the 7th calvary (Tom LaForge). We however were not the only tribe to have scouts but they dont want to have that discussion.

[@Threezi04]

Indian tribes were pushed westwards into other's lands by Europeans who pushed them out of their own.

[@TedH71]

@@Threezi04 some tribes were lucky and stayed. Most of the Iroquois tribes stayed. My tribe which I'm descended from did stay but some went up north with the Seneca and some like my direct ancestors went down to Louisiana while some continued to stay in Virginia. There are some tribes who were 100% forced to move though.

[@mutiny_on_the_bounty]

All y'all celebrate the warfare of the tribes, but never celebrate the tribe that beat everyone. Why y'all bitter?

[@kristianOLS]

We all migrated across turtle island, fighting and making lives. It’s time to forget old fights and fight for our rights

[@michaelwolfe7918]

I am still living our history.. I am a proud Northern Cheyenne. My forefathers our whitehawk,Tallwhiteman,Bobtail horse,crawling,Whitemoon,hollowwood.

[@T410ce]

Michael, I hope you find peace and satisfaction somehow regarding your people’s history and legacy. I do not mean to be/ sound ignorant but many people admire Native North Americans for there rich culture, may God bring the NA indigenous people justice and wholeness in this generation. Bless you brother.

[@michaelwolfe7918]

@@T410ce thank my brother. If many none native Americans have the hearts they do now for the people. Our past and present will be always honored.

[@yemyearmii7231]

Solidarity cousin. Love from Iroquois 🧡🪶

[@Lohanujuan]

I hope you keep it and pass it along. It’s history that shouldn’t be forgotten

[@jacqueslefave4296]

I'm all white European ancestry, but I am proud of Native American history and monuments and artifacts, it is American history. I wish them well, and no ill will.♥️

[@coreymichael1880]

Any history teachers watching this should definitely show this to their students. This was incredible.

[@narlywaves2371]

Not in Texas.

[@daveretiredbkk4701]

But it's not accurate. The timelines, and the origin of the tribes, are off. The Blackfoot are from NY, The Cree are from Ontario, Canada, and the Shoshone are from Mexico. They were all constantly moving and stealing land

[@robertoacevedo3805]

I am going to say something and I mean it. I hope many who read this feel the same. This is by far the best KZbin channel I have ever come upon. Your videos are so beautifully edited. I actually feel the heart soul and sorrow of the information being bestowed on us. The message embodied through the narration sound and illustrations. Thank you so much.

[@TheBigRockman]

One of my favorite classes of my 4 years of college was early U.S. history. It covered from the first tribes of man that crossed the Bering land bridge, accounts of Native American history prior to European interaction, then onward up until Reconstruction, after the Civil War. It was one of my favorite classes because of how passionate the professor was, and how unyielding and unbiased the lectures were. We read accounts of violent acts and brutal living conditions on all sides. I remember one of his most intense lectures was when he argued for the consideration of the duration of any and all violent conflicts between European Americans and Native Americans as the longest lasting war between two opposing nations in all of human history. It lasted for hundreds of years, after all.

[@keenanfriday285]

indigenous people have been here longer than the bering strait theory

[@CloudWind0643]

@@keenanfriday285 that’s literally not possible.

[@keenanfriday285]

@@CloudWind0643 footprints in New Mexico have been carbon dated around 23000 years ago. It was a recent find in augusti believe.

[@brosepheus]

It's hard to reasonably consider that proposition. The Native Americans were not one nation. There were hundreds of tribes, often bitter, brutal enemies to one another. Most tribes had little or no knowledge of other tribes outside their general geographic region. You can't reasonably suggest that they were all one nation fighting against European Americans (who themselves were fractured along lines adamantly in opposition to one another).

[@keenanfriday285]

@@brosepheus What do you mean outside their geographically location? indigenous people had trade routes that reach from the plains to the west coast of British Columbia. You're explaining my history to me?

[@3xicanboyxx]

Absolutely 10/10 fellers, such a sad part of history that needs to be heard.

[@skyhappy]

Really really shitty how the US didn't keep to their treaties. Fight for land, ok, but killing women and children and breaking your treaties while you have the upper hand? Dishonorable as hell.

[@mikaildt]

It's a forgotten genocide

[@admiralkaede]

@@skyhappy to be honest the native American also did the same no side was the "good" guys

[@markdavis6586]

@@admiralkaede what are u serious. Wtf was they suppose to do??

[@admiralkaede]

@@markdavis6586 not scalp idk

[@daltonfourie63]

The last quote literally sent chills down my spine.

[@chaosdweller]

Wow ! same ............

[@sweetdukes7031]

This has got to be one of the hardest videos I've ever had to watch. The systematic extermination of Native Americans for greed & hate was overwhelming to take in. What has happened should never be forgotten. Thank you for putting together this video.

[@johngaither9263]

What are you talking about? The whites did exactly the same thing to the Indians that the Indians did to one another and would have done to the whites if they could have. There is no high ground or moral superiority on any side of this battle. Indians were unwilling or unable to make an allied resistance to the European invasion and takeover.

[@that1ginger22]

The Indians massacred each other long before Columbus set sail,only because the colonists beat them they cry wolf Damn well knowing they would have done the very same thing to us if they landed in Europe or killed the settlers. The tribes and thank God they didn’t;were/are hypocritical savages that would happily repatriate all non “native” Americans (Whites,Asians,Blacks,Latinos and everyone else) if they had the numbers or power so get off your white horse cleanse yourself of the white saviour mindset and realise mentally they are just as smart as you so don’t pity or underestimate them.

[@jakev4191]

Whites were/are the strongest/smartest tribe. We won and they wouldn't have treated us any better. No way they would give us reservations.

[@isolatedbutjacked7036]

If the Indians all united against the colonists they would have won, quickly.

[@isolatedbutjacked7036]

@elesandraele6758 yeah

[@7MinuteMyths]

Absolute masterpiece, thank you for preserving these stories and spreading awareness of the scope of these tragedies

[@cheapdate2334]

@grand nagus truth hurts snowflake

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Part of it's a tragedy, part of it isn't.

[@ashercroy4982]

Watched this video again just now, forgot just how emotional and moving it is. Your way of telling history is incredible

[@94sjolander]

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown is a great book on the subject

[@JosephElliottColeman]

As is Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne

[@joebacca7611]

Ahhhh bury my heart is so amazing

[@HistoryDose]

Indeed. Dee Brown's approach to the subject was a bit of an inspiration here with regard to making the Native Americans the protagonists of the story, rather than passive peoples merely acted upon.

[@94sjolander]

@@HistoryDose I can definitely see the inspiration. You really nailed the feelings of betrayal and distrust. Of being slowly pushed away from your homelands and signing treaties that arent worth the paper theyre written on.

[@berserk9085]

@@94sjolander the Lakota were the first who broke the treaty by the way you racist.

[@craig5322]

This work is absolutely extraordinary. This is what history should be. You have distilled the poetry and meaning while demonstrating excellent research with numerous primary sources, presented in a way that makes it viscerally real. I never dreamed of making any sort of historical work of this kind of quality.

[@christophervanasse9911]

I grew up on the Ft Belknap Indian reservation in Northeastern Montana. What’s almost sadder than the story of the Indians’ downfall is seeing their living conditions on reservations today. Heartbreaking but incredible video. Thank you for this wonderful production.

[@imnotracistbut-9559]

That’s what gets me too. I live in the area where the Chickasaw were relocated to in OK and while not a reservation, the towns are probably 90% populated by people who come from some Native heritage and it’s not all of them and the degree varies but they have had everything taken away and forced to rely on government aid. Alcoholism, gambling addiction and crime rates are astonishing in these communities. They’re still essentially outlaws, even in a town where they’re the overwhelming majority. It’s just awful what’s happened and they’ll never get to be themselves again as they were for centuries. I hope the tribes keep doing everything they can to educate and embrace their religion, culture and languages as they have been

[@ltdc426]

While I don’t argue we put them onto less than pristine land, I’ve been through many reservations. No fences, no gates, no guards, WHY are they still there?

[@nativechique7589]

​@elesandraele6758so why is it every tribe has high ratrs of all these things?

[@nativechique7589]

@elesandraele6758 whatever ypu were saying we did to ourselves, why do we have such high rates ? Gotta read your previous replies to anothers comment

[@John_on_the_mountain]

@@nativechique7589 high rate of what?

[@cathalodiubhain5739]

"A Celt will soon be as rare on the banks of the Shannon as the red man on the banks of Manhattan." - The London Times, smug, triumphant editorial, 1848, at the height of Ireland's "famine".( genocide not famine)

[@Tempusverum]

Reminds me of the newspapers crowing about the decline of whites in Europe and promotion of diversity. Vive la France.

[@kabohakevin4103]

@@Tempusverum karma is a bitch

[@BR-dy1ie]

@@kabohakevin4103 How is that karma? The whites of today are not responsible for the actions of those hundreds of years ago.

[@kabohakevin4103]

@@BR-dy1ie but the whites are still paying for the crusades. The sins of the father always follow his son.

[@BR-dy1ie]

@@kabohakevin4103 What? No not at all and the sins of the father absolutely do not transfer to their child. Careful with that line of reasoning

[@loods2215]

Absolute MASTERPIECE. This is by far the best video I've ever watched on the matter. The quality of this is out of this world 💯 This channel deserves millions of views. Keep going like this and good things will come :)

[@HistoryDose]

Thank you for such kind words! It's comments like these that make the long tiresome nights researching and editing worth it.

[@loods2215]

@@HistoryDose 🙌❤️

[@gabemelber5875]

What I will never understand is how when taught in school were told they “were savages” but they were only fighting to save their land and fighting against invaders that were coming into their home

[@ManSeekingMeaning]

I'm thirty. I have nephews in school, and a daughter soon after. Neither they nor I were ever taught native americans were anything other than poor defenceless victims. Don't lie.

[@gabemelber5875]

@@ManSeekingMeaning idk where you went but I was always taught up until high school that they were savages who would attack those coming to America

[@Popeyedfreeze]

@gabemelber5875 what are you talking about, history taught in school favors the natives

[@gabemelber5875]

@@Popeyedfreeze no it doesn’t. Over half of all history classes I’ve been in have shown the natives as “savages”

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Unless you are 100 you were never taught that. Just making things up now to be upset about.

[@AP-fo5cf]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this channel's so underrated. The quality's amazing

[@tatehanson2264]

Much appreciation for educating people. Our native history has been forgotten and no one seems to realize what atrocities took place for the U.S. to be what it is today :(

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

Also, like about 400 years of intratribal warfare.

[@Mister_Pedantic]

@@Doo_Doo_Patrol Oh yes, the old saving-them-from-themselves line.

[@nialloneill5097]

@@Mister_Pedantic Everywhere you look there are psychopaths using these themes to justify their various land, money, and general materialistic grabs. For sadly, there are few men with little conscience these days, as it was when European settlers invaded the US, and greedily and deceitfully acquired it for themselves. I have sacred texts of this time, which describe the natives as spiritually advanced, hence why they knew that to honour the Great Spirit, they had to also honour the land and their fellow men and creatures. Sadly, the ways of the white man have no honour, and to bizarrely claim the countless violent, treacherous, inhuman acts as part of a greater genocide were for their own good, well that sums up the denial and deceit of the white man, and his ways. These ways have not changed, maybe even deteriorated, thus the Prophecies given to the red man long ago will know prove true, as the world feels the wrath of the Great Spirit in the karmic storms that befall upon mankind. Let us pray for and awakening and enlightenment of the spirit, as it was in many of the native tribes, before the white man brought his woes. Aho!

[@DensityMatrix1]

@@nialloneill5097 sucks to lose

[@nialloneill5097]

@@DensityMatrix1 How can one consider it losing in such instances, after all the natives were generally much superior warriors, and could have sent the whites back into the sea early on, if they so wished. They were fooled by two-faced, fork-tongues, who after being generously being helped, helped helped themselves, for give an inch to a beastly glutton, and they will take a mile. And neither do I consider the use of the spreading of deadly disease and destroying all the game part of some worthy contest, but akin to biochemical warfare of a true psychopath, which will soon return to this nation, in full, according to the law, thou must reap what thy hath sown. Thus, the only real winners are those who use these sad experiences to raise themselves up spiritually, and attain to Paradise, despite the bitterest experiences here on earth, which has generally become an asylum for madmen, who revel in their rich pickings and insanity.

[@fleuger99]

As a non American, I've always found the Native cultures very interesting. It is a sad matter of affairs of how the Native American tribes were first given treaties which dissolved into thin air when it suited the white Government and ended in genocide. I'm glad the Natives and their cultures have survived albeit, at great impact and cost.

[@johndiggle9129]

Awwww wahhhhh our armies sucked and we couldn’t win anything wahhhhh -literally any native amercian sympathizer

[@fleuger99]

@@johndiggle9129 Wow, you really are mature aren't you? What a dick!

[@tahltanhavoc1706]

@@johndiggle9129 you choose to be ignorant while the facts are given to you..

[@freddygray8058]

You should learn of my dead ancestors, killed and mutilated by the Comanche and Kiowa, before making such a misinformed claim. You simply don't know what you are talking about. Take the time to learn the history of the Texas Panhandle.

[@SteveNoverini]

@@freddygray8058I find it interesting that In these videos there is never anyone telling the stories of American Indian brutality towards white settlers. There are numerous.

[@magellantv]

A tragic reality - thank you for bringing light to such monumental history!

[@HistoryDose]

Thank you!

[@magellantv]

@@HistoryDose You're very welcome!

[@StockyDude]

Very objective and neutral telling of history. Most history content creators prefer to only mention the atrocities of the Anglo-Americans against the Natives. You didn’t shy away from mentioning the atrocities committed by Native tribes against other Native tribes.

[@dennisbielfeld6707]

@@ADHDisYippeeeeeeeeee Cope.

[@StockyDude]

@@ADHDisYippeeeeeeeeee They would fight viciously with one another even before the whites threatened them. In the culture of the Native tribes that lived on the plains, raiding and torturing or gang raping captives was completely acceptable. The Comanche women would be the ones who came decided how male captives would be tortured for entertainment. The Apache Chief Geronimo spoke of how he felt so free whenever he went out raiding. It’s like they were the Vikings. Yes, what happened to the Native Americans was a tragedy, but it would be inaccurate to paint them all as docile hippies.

[@taserrr]

@@ADHDisYippeeeeeeeeee Get out of here with such misunderstandings. People fought people all over the world, they mostly fought each other. Slaves were common practice everywhere around the world, the ones who stopped slavery were the Europeans yet they're the ones who get all the hate for it. History is littered with bloodshed and brutality. Humanity has fought against each other since our species evolved, just like many other animals fight for territory and control.

[@okbill18yearsagoedited25]

@@ADHDisYippeeeeeeeeee they fought just as viciously long before Europeans ever knew they existed idk what your point is

[@StockyDude]

@@ADHDisYippeeeeeeeeee The Comanche and Apache in particular were very active in expanding their territory. I agree that several tribes such as the Mandan were largely peaceful. It’s interesting that desert/plains tribes all over the world, who live with scarce resources tend to develop a culture of raiding through mounted attacks. The Mongols, Arab nomads, and Comanche share common tactics. The Vikings, though not from the plains or deserts, also had to deal with scarce resources vital to survival in their world. Raiding with extreme violence seems to have become acceptable in the eyes of the raiders, who needed to view their victims as inferiors in order to rationalize doing to them what they would not do to members of their own community.

[@ryanleblanc6817]

I read Empire of the Summer Moon in jail this past summer. The power and warfare competence the Comanche Indians possessed was astounding. They singlehandedly stopped the French, Spanish, and English from settling the western US for over 100 years.

[@mikesaunders4775]

I don't think many English set out to conquer the American West.

[@ryanleblanc6817]

@@mikesaunders4775 Well all 3 of them were stalled right at the border of Comanche territory for some time.

[@paulstone3590]

Yes the Comanche were the powerhouse of the Plains tribes. The most brutal, vicious and military competent of all of them. Hopefully next time you read a book you won't have to go jail to do so. Best of luck.

[@mesomemore97]

Yes and they were a friendly peace loving nature loving beautiful people. If you found yourself down and out in Comancheria they'd nurse you back to health. The neighboring tribes loved them and were always glad to see them. Especially the Apache.

[@somuchsoul3041]

@@mesomemore97 why are you being sarcastic? No one ever said that they were friendly. You’re projecting the foolish warped white image of native Americans as a peaceful people. They weren’t always peaceful, I think peace is confused with stoicism.

[@huntymcbunty]

I visited the plains over this summer with my dad, I have a heart for history and have found myself bidge watching your channel. But out west is absolutely insane, flat plains, animals, and more. I have always imagined what it was like when Lewis and Clark went through, there was a lookout point on the Lewis and Clark highway I think it is called, and the waypoint described what they saw there 200 years ago, thousands of elk, bison, pronghorn or antelope (I’m from Maine) Mule Deer, Elk, and Grizzly Bears. Just like Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse a mountain monument as well as a warrior, this was all based upon funds and donations of you the people. It also has a movie that you can watch there and a building to show more of the history.

[@HistoryDose]

Mainers here as well! Thanks for sharing!

[@Mathotato]

One of the only times I have genuinely felt sad in a history video. I absolutely love your way of telling history. Keep up the great work!

[@that1ginger22]

If he was a bit less biased towards the losing/non white side he would have double the subscribers

[@yankeeyankee5]

The battle of the West was one of the most intensely interesting, heartbreaking, and yet oddly beautiful periods in history. As a native Coloradan, I find this is so important to learn, and the struggle between the two sides is poignant to learn about. I always try and put myself in the shoes of who I’m learning about, I think it helps me feel empathy with both the natives and settlers and understand why some of these actions were taken. More than anything, war is hell, and I pray that many of these who died in these heart-wrenching ways found eternal peace.

[@josephtraficanti689]

Sir, you have said it exactly right. The violence, betrayals, shear senseless brutality heaped upon people, animals, forests and the very mountains and earth themselves was all for nothing. It ought not have been that way, But it was. I cannot avoid saying it. Within each of us is a laughing playful curious child With goodness in his heart. A desire to love and be loved. And coexisting within everyone one of these children is a demon capable of such atrocity that Satan could bust his britches with pride.

[@flammingdragon]

The movie the revanant and seeing the Oregon trail interpretive center put this stuff into a whole new perspective for me and I keep realized how brutal it wwas. I've been fascinated since.

[@BR-dy1ie]

@@josephtraficanti689 Was it all for nothing? I don’t think so. The violent conquest of the indigenous tribes was an inevitability. If the Americans hadn’t done so, the Spanish/Mexican empire/British or Russians would have. The natives had not the numbers nor the resources to establish their own true independent state. They were doomed the moment the first European set foot on their shore. And as for the end result, I mean it’s created the most powerful nation in history. Seems to have not been for nothing.

[@jonnyh5858]

“Native” Coloradan?? What tribe? Calling your bluff - and I’m guessing you have a bumper sticker to match 😆

[@yankeeyankee5]

@@jonnyh5858 The Boulder Tribe! 😂 No bumper sticker for me, just happy to one of the few here actually born here and not in CA!

[@lucas3918]

Oh this is going to be gloriously heartbreaking

[@kingnaga619]

Wildly underrated and underviewed KZbin channel. Masterwork quality in every way.

[@jessekahoaalohakupaa6185]

This was deeply moving. Thank you for your work.

[@chaosdweller]

I'm agreeing half way in I hope I don't regret it haha.

[@2strokin70]

Im choctaw and the history of my ancestors is something to be proud and amazed and also saddened by..we are a people of amazing strength and ingenuity.

[@davekuhn9342]

That was incredibly well done. You have a gift for bringing out the human experience in such tragedies with subtlety and respect. I'd love to see you apply your craft to other under appreciated historical tragedies like the Sino-Japanese War or the Ukrainian Holodomor.

[@terrencemoldern2756]

Wow! Just wow. I have to say. Out of any historical video on the Indians. This has to be one of my favorites. Not only is it fair and actually explores the darker side of the natives here. But it also goes on about the tribes themselves and figures within. About the only leaders I heard of but didn’t know was Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. It’s nice to see a video that is made to be about actual history and isn’t just pure US bashing like most. I came here to learn about the people themselves. Not hear about my country being horrible for the millionth time in a row... and this video did that. Thank you!

[@jamescuratalo2609]

I’ve read many original journals of the earliest explorers to the American west. They found almost every Indian tribe at war with every other Indian tribe. Occasionally tribes would form loose, temporary alliances in order to protect themselves against other more powerful tribes, but a constant state of warfare was the general rule between all tribes. Once they mastered horsemanship and acquired guns, the Comanche began a ruthless extermination of the Apache and Navajo. The only thing that stopped that genocide was the Texas Rangers, who defeated the Comanche in the mid 1800’s and brought final peace between the local tribes.

[@villeworld5580]

Im descendent of the Lakota tribe the most i can find about them is this how they were forced off their land and killed multiple times by the US army but this part of their story needs to be told.

[@zylo7324]

Same as every others native

[@zylo7324]

Sad, ppl are so clueless and want to point the finger and call others immigrants

[@Cobe-Wan]

I'm Sicangu Lakota, member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and raised on the reservation. There's a lot of our history out there, don't stop looking. Our people struggle but we are still here!

[@villeworld5580]

@@Cobe-Wan thank u brother ✊🏾

[@ElMakz]

@@Cobe-Wan there are no full blooded natives left in North america. You are all Mixed, you are mestizos like us Hispanics now. U r Indians no more.

[@btsnake]

This channel does such a great job with sober objectivity. This video was a masterpiece of that - a wonderful retelling of the dominance, then defiance, and finally, brutal and wretched subjugation of the plains nations. It always really bothers me that in so much of our historical account, all native Americans are treated as one contiguous body of people who were just waiting to sit around and die after Columbus arrived. What you have done is a brilliant rebuttal of a narrative that is not merely reductive but outright incorrect, and told us a more true story about the path of history. Well done, you have outdone yourself, and with a channel as good as yours, that is quite a feat.

[@ScarfaceCamonte]

Absolutely loved this, this subject isn't talked about enough, I am of Comanche heritage and this was so well put together. Love this video my friend keep up the good work.

[@HistoryDose]

Thank you. Once I find more time, I’d really love to revisit the Plains and do a Comanche-centered video in this style.

[@allninelivez7631]

Your people still put fear in the Texans.

[@scoutearnest4858]

@@allninelivez7631 you obviously don't know what you're talking about

[@winchester1351]

@@allninelivez7631 how exactly?

[@redacted_vombat5742]

@@scoutearnest4858 Texans fear a little winter so it's understandable

[@Sky2-n4g]

Thank you so much for doing a video on my tribe i am very proud to be LAKOTA I am part of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe and the Rosebud Sioux tribe of Pine Ridge Reservation

[@Epoch11]

Actual American history, strange how I never read about this in my textbooks. Sadly most "history" is propaganda. We need more history like this.

[@MH-ms1dg]

i have two comments, not issues, just additions: 1) i don't think the video intended to mean this, but it suggested the Lakota only had some rifles, and still fought mostly with bow and arrow - not at all, they were all heavily armed with guns that were actually better quality than the US Army, which still had many European-immigrants fresh from the Civil War - having a gun and horse was a basic sign of manhood for the Lakota 2) it's rumored Custer may have been killed by Buffalo Calf Road Woman who also saved her brother in battle, either by club or gun, or that no one really knows who killed Custer; some Indians said that they didn't even see him in the battle

[@anuthur9970]

@@MH-ms1dg How did they end up with rifles better than the US military? I always assumed they obtained the same type of firearms the settlers had via trading.

[@vincataldo8645]

@@anuthur9970 The Spanish army from skirmishes in Texas and the west. The Spanish gave up.

[@bobbob-kc9wd]

My school textbooks covered stuff like this in full detail

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Your school must’ve sucked. We spent over a week on this topics not just a day about trail of tears

[@timelkin838]

You guys are artist in every way you go about this. This is perfect to show a classroom. Many kids aren't interested in history but I think this has such artisty that it helps viewers learn something. I actually like everything I've seen on this channel but the Japanese videos are my favorite. I can't wait to click on what you got coming.

[@HistoryDose]

Thanks Tim! We love reading comments like these :)

[@azdrifter3968]

My kids mother is Lakota Sioux and I currently live in a household full of them, two of whom grew up on the rez. They say the Pawnee, and other tribes came to the american government for help and protection from the Sioux and thats why they were put on reservations, because it was a place where the government could possibly protect them with the army. But during a Pawnee buffalo hunt, that army scouts were taking part in to try and protect the Pawnee, the Sioux attacked all the Pawnee men and the army scouts and overran them. Slaughtering all the Pawnee men. The Pawnee chief who was present had brought his young son along had to slit his own sons throat rather than see him tortured to death by the Sioux. After killing the Pawnee men, the Sioux attacked the Pawnee reservation full of their women and children and elderly. When the women saw the Sioux coming they knew their men had already been slaughtered and began killing their own children as fast as they could. The Sioux reached the reservation and pulled out all women, children and elderly from their teepees and stabbed or clubbed them all to death, after raping the women in front of their family members. At another point in the saga of those days the Sioux and apache had to come to the American government and team up with the army in an attempt to fight off the commanche, who were raiding and killing everyone that wasn't them. They also say that they had been encountering whites since long before Columbus, and they had been trading with whites up in what is now Canada that were coming from Norway and Greenland since long ago. Also the spaniards were living as far north as what is now Kansas and had been trading and living alongside the commanche for so long they created a race that was half white, half commanche, called commancheros. They had their own nation called comancheria in the middle of what is now America. A great many natives were killed off by other natives, and the majority of natives killed off by whites had natives fighting alongside them who were enemies of whatever tribe the whites were fighting. The Mexicans also killed many natives in the Mexican/native wars that were taking place in the southwest. It was one big free for all death match here in what is now america. As it was in much of the world throughout most of human history.

[@davidgodfrey9780]

No, man!! You're wrong!! The natives were all peaceful and loving and so, so accepting of all. Even those that were different from them. The white man taught them hate, war, and rape.

[@BrooklynneMuffett]

The sadness in my heart for my ancestors (potawatomi tribe) and all the others who suffered such heartbreak and unjust treatment. Still today this nation is hateful. Makes me sick. Proud to come from genuinely kind, brave and thoughtful people. Proud to be native American. 👊🏼

[@maxthibodeau3627]

its called imperialism, very not fun for natives.

[@verb5066]

You missed the part where every tribe existed on land they had fought wars with other tribes for, its the same thing

[@satsu3098]

@@verb5066 killing millions of bison over a handful of years to nullify a treaty is not the same thing. "everybody did it" is a childish and mentally bankrupt reasoning with the amount of people and culture we are talking about, i hope you can grow enough as a person to not gloss over so much violence with a shit facetious remark of "you missed the part where everybody did it"

[@seleluxout]

@@satsu3098 Thank you for calling this mindset out.

[@Hazardxv]

@@verb5066 Gotta be stupid to think this is at all the same thing. This is not even fair conquest in the sense of land gained through war. It was dishonorable in every way.

[@misaelvillalba8671]

This channel is so underrated. Great video guys, keep on giving us good content.

[@joecoonan3931]

Brilliantly presented, but oh so tragic! Being of Indigenous lineage myself, albeit Australian Indigenous, this cannot help but bring tears to my eyes...My mother's people, too, suffered through such massacres, and no treaty was ever signed for our people, who were destined to become fringe-dwellers, on the edge of European society, packed into missions, and used for slave labour on the farms, and left with no hunting grounds, or land to call their own...The children who had any European blood were stolen away and taken to missions, where they were taught to turn away from their Indigenous background and were assimilated into white society. (This is my own background, being of the Stolen Generations.) This continued all the way up until the 1950s. The after-effects of such events are still affecting our people to this very day, and massacre sites litter this country from end to end. So sad that things had to come to pass this way. Thankyou for sharing this very direct and real historical account of the history of your country.

[@forbiddenbeard2210]

People can be so cruel to one another

[@berserk9085]

@@forbiddenbeard2210 The British banned Infantcide.

[@berserk9085]

The British banned Infantcide.

[@kevting4512]

This chapter reminds me of the PBS documentary the West. It was an eye opener that challenged conventional public high schools narrative on the US westward expansion. This video refreshed most of the main topics from that documentary.

[@joshlewis575]

Ken burns' documentaries are great

[@MehrdadParthian]

"by evil was this land made... and such evil cannot be healed by the shining light, so by light it must be burned"

[@usamade5943]

Are you saying it was not God's will for the United States of America to exist? Read what the bible says about government in Romans 13. You may want to rethink that assertion.

[@keithfaulk1354]

I can’t say how much respect I have for all these people!! Of yesteryears !!

[@randallsanchez3161]

The sad part is the failure of the US to follow their own treaties. I would have been pretty interesting had news and/or representatives reached other European nations. The Euros could have put the US's feet to the first when negotiating any treaties or even large business deals.by pointing out how they couldn't even abide by simpler treaties with the Native Americans. Above all else, had the treaties been followed, things would have been VASTLY different. And possibly for the better. Imagine if they integrated into a state and had real voting power. Imagine if we had Comanche military instructors or entire squadrons of Native trained/filed horse soldiers during our wars with Mexico. What would have happened if the Confederates or Federals had them on their side during the civil war?

[@mailio4536]

i think you're forgetting that the europeans in general didn't treat their colonized people fairly either, and in the case of britain (Canada, Australia, etc) did a ton of shit to the local native population too. This coincided with the European expansion in Asia, and the latter part with Afrika. If a country like Britain, France, the Netherlands, Russia, etc. Started pointing out how the US made unfair treaties with the natives, or simply broke them. Then the US could do the same towards the European dealings in China, Malay world, Afrika (Irish famine in case of Britain?) Unequal and broken treaties are not a specifically Amerikan thing, It's something made possible by a power imbalance enabling one side to dominate the other. The Europeans likely knew what was going on, at least to a degree, especially Britain. Europeans werent some noble people looking out for the oppressed, they actively took part in oppression for their own gain (tbf every people worked for their own gain). Think you look at them with rose tinted glasses. Indian nations took part in the civil war a great deal, and to a degree it even split some nations. Two examples of civil war indian troops are the Confederate Thomas' legion made up from Cherokees, it was a quite unusual legion for their use of combined arms, the unit consisting of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. The Union's most famous indian troops being K company of the 1st Michigan sharpshooters regiment, consisting of members from the Ojibwa, Odawa, and Potawatomi nations. There were ofcourse many more, worth researching if you're looking for a nice read.

[@lanzknecht8599]

Maybe this could be of interest for you: the Meusebach-Comanche treaty. It was a treaty between german settlers and a Comanche tribe and is one of only a few that was never broken. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meusebach-Comanche_Treaty

[@Exgrmbl]

You have to realise that all kinds of treaties are kind of illusory, legal fictions. What it ultimately comes down to, every time, is power. If there is a rough balance of powers or mutual respect or fear, treaties largely get respected. If that is not the case, it all falls apart.

[@paulduffy4585]

The purpose of the treaties was to take the land. There was never any intention to honour them. It simply creates the legal pretext to take something that isn't yours.

[@leewilkinson6372]

I think this fails to take one thing in to account.... Europe had no reason to care. What use could the Native Americans really be to Europeans at that time? They didn't really have numbers, didn't trade with Europe, didn't have embassies of any kind.... I dont wish to be rude, but they had no power to speak of on the global stage.

[@Drew791]

The PBS sponsored documentary, The West, by Stephen Ives is a great way to view multiple viewpoints of America’s native people and how their culture was pushed out and marginalized. One of the women interviewed near the beginning of the film (who is also native) brings up a good point about how a lot of modern people have this singular viewpoint that Native Americans were somehow innocent peaceful bystanders, but in fact perpetrated awful crimes against each other. It’s pretty much human nature to be greedy and kill, but of course it’s beyond messed up that the American government encouraged and subsidized the genocide of these people and their culture.

[@robertgiles9124]

It's the same all over; Chinese killed Chinese...Africans killed Africans... Germans and French and English...but the new Narrative is just the White folks are bad. You hear that especially from White Liberals. America now offers a life and freedom to all; Marxists say no...it's tainted and evil.

[@fishfossils8858]

Yeah, many also forget that the Confederacy was fighting for Native Americans rights, especially that of the Cherokee and Cree, who actually joined the confederate states against the US. That being said, the point is that no cause is purely righteous. No peoples are without their sins. But nobody is purely evil either.

[@georgeptolemy7260]

@@fishfossils8858 All 5 'civilized' tribes in Indian territory (Oklahoma) joined the confederacy.

[@fishfossils8858]

@@georgeptolemy7260 the 5 tribes of the Cherokee, the Cree were allied on their own and represented themselves.

[@georgeptolemy7260]

@@fishfossils8858 what? Like this is why grammar exists.

[@snowman4313]

Amazing video! What a sad and cruel human and cultural genocide

[@bennelong8451]

And they have the audacity to claim China’s doing it with no actual evidence

[@bosanski_Cevap]

@@bennelong8451 "no evidence" Damn forcing someone to forget their religion, their culture, settle en masse chinese colonists, try to remove the ability of fertility from people, shoot anyone who is against them. Damn saddly those are not evidence but facts.

[@snowman4313]

I'll have to partially disagree comrade, I understand the west is no saint, but there is evidence of cultural repression in China, but yes I understand part of the information eventually gets distorted as it happens with every antagonized government, I personally see China in some instances as a tragedy

[@bennelong8451]

@@bosanski_Cevap you realize everything you said was a lie? Kinda proving my point. Just google demographics of xinjiang and you can see the non Han populations are increasing

[@bosanski_Cevap]

@@bennelong8451 explains why in the 30s 90% of xinjiang was non han and now it is arround 50-60%. A drop of 30-40% in a province with many millions if people. Next thing you gonna say is that the Qing didnt do genocide in yunnan against the local muslim populations

[@sleeptv3366]

The picture of the man standing on a mountain of bison skulls is something straight out of my nightmares

[@icespeaker81]

Pretty sure that's fake lol

[@Freedom.1776.]

My ancestors were Cherokee. While I learned all of this from family, this is the most incredible story telling about this part of history. Thank you for sharing the real history of what happened to American indians.

[@coppertopv365]

Trail of tears should never have happened.

[@chazarkansas1366]

LOL

[@franksinatta6440]

It’s really cool to get to follow this channels visual evolution. The visuals for this one is stunning. Do you consider sending to filmfestivals as short docs?

[@HistoryDose]

We actually haven't considered it before!

[@franksinatta6440]

@@HistoryDose The short-docs genre could really do with some competition! I really think you guys deserve a name in the film industry. What you’re making is ten times some of things racking up heavy prices at festivals. KZbin is lucky to have you guys

[@dhill7173]

Last summer, I was able to travel to the Black Hills in South Dakota. I would encourage all Americans to see the Crazy Horse monument being built and spend time in the museum there. I spent hours there. Very shameful what our government did in the name of progress.

[@chazarkansas1366]

not really.

[@septdre]

@@chazarkansas1366 the fuck you mean “not really”?

[@andrewmichieli1760]

@@chazarkansas1366 what do you mean “not really”? Are you claiming this is not a black stain on our nations history?

[@jeffreyjimenez3112]

I am Iroquois Oneida. Our people endured such hardships after European conquest. Forced relocations, enslavement, indigenous forces integration into society. Now we suffer even more . Reservations are desolate. Racial discrimination still radically exist in some places. But we endured. And out culture survives to this day. I am proud to be Native American.

[@free2beme123]

This makes me so sad. I live in the plains area and knowing the bloody history is so, well the only thing I can think is it just makes me sad. Every kingdom, every nation, every great empire in history the world over is built on blood and genocide and slavery. Such a tragic reality.

[@Th3Chuzzl3r]

9:44 I always knew that American settlers drove the bison to near extincion, but this photo really brings it into perspective. The photo itself is almost unfathomable, even when staring directly at it.

[@namedrop721]

Especially when you find out killing all those bison was just to break a treaty and the ability to survive

[@MC-wg3fm]

This made tear up reminding me when I was as a kid my great grandmother used to tell me the story that her mother told her about being forced to walking the Cherokee Trail of Tears when she was only five or six years old. They had to walk hundreds of miles and she said she her parents refused to carry her. Not because they were bad people but because they knew if they carried her they would for sure die bc they were starving to death. They told her don’t stop walking. Don’t fall behind because you will die. So much pain. My grandmother always finished the story with tears in her eyes and telling me “Don’t forget where you came from! Don’t forget who you are!” 😢 Wasn’t able to watch bc I was too busy at the moment but this is so good! Excellent narration, excellent work on the story and the production. The music was great! Pushed the atrocities of the true stories over the top with a disbelief, sadness, horrifying tragic reality that all our ancestors, lived through.

[@gaz4553]

Lots of black slaves on that trail of tears….

[@warchantillini]

Just discovered your channel. Story telling is phenomenal! This one broke my heart!

[@paulstone3590]

Beautifully done. You showed a lot of empathy to the Indians. But also the realities of plains warfare. The brutality and lack of compassion the Indians had for their enemies. The hate and greed in people. In the White man and the Red one. And what the Sioux had done to the Pawnee, the Whites had them at Wounded Knee.

[@PreacherLevi]

Fuck em. No empathy from me , now there mostly gone. Brought it on themselves.

[@loslobos786]

My great Grandfather was taken from the reservation to go to one of those schools two states over. He supposedly ran away from it twice and returned to the reservation and his family. After that they didn't try to take him a third time, guess they couldn't take the indian out of some of us .

[@boblezaer4851]

A lot easier to buy your food at McDonalds than to chase totanka around. I don't get what so great about the Indian lifestyle.

[@polybius3609]

Wow, this is incredibly well put together. The script wonderfully written.

[@christopherfleming7505]

This is a wonderful video. No matter what your beliefs or ethnicity, the story of the indigenous peoples of the Great Plains is tragic. Their way of life had to end, that's the way of the world: adapt or die. However, the way it ended did not have to be so bloody. In my opinion, if the settlers had tried to convert the "indians", respecting them as fellow human beings, rather than trying to exterminate them as a lower life form, things could have turned out differently. In South America, where the Spanish carried out a policy of conversion and granted citizenship to the natives, a hybrid culture flourished throughout the 16th to 18th centuries. There were many abuses and massacres, but Spanish policy was never one of extermination and pillage, as in North America. One cannot but feel admiration for the pride and bravery of the Great Plain warriors. I do not fall for the romanticised version of tree-hugging pacifist hippies, so often presented these days. They were brutal killers, often more brutal than the white man. But the genocide that occurred was a terrible crime.

[@brdispatch8559]

"They came to fight us and we had to fight. These white men wanted it. They called for it. And I let them have it." BRUTAL. Gave me chills reading

[@chazarkansas1366]

lol

[@alec8511]

Soul crushing. This is pain and truth formed into a bittersweet art piece.

[@BLiiNKentertainment]

Damn! This is a special video, the history of the Native Americans is one of pride and pain. As an Irish person, It's scary to think that a few of those settlers may have been displaced Irish people, looking to escape the injustices of another Empire, only to encroach and disrupt another people's lands and way of life.

[@rianmccarthy2474]

A lot of the Indians had ancestry from Irish and Scots and poor English slaves who ran away from the plantation colonies into the appalachias and beyond and went native. Tecumseh looked European as did many others.

[@grogdizzy5814]

Was there ever a time in history where people did not fight each other for land or freedom?

[@finnhd915]

The genocide of the native peoples of the Americas is one of the greatest injustices in history. My family wasn’t even in the Americas early enough to be considered colonists and they were poor Irish and polish people, however, as an American I still feel a deep sense of shame for the history of this country and it sickens me that we aren’t thoroughly taught these things in school

[@_runtybeatle36_68]

As an American, I always strive to never forget what we did to the people that were here before us. No one should ever forget.

[@instigator6262]

Don't use the word "we" when you describe what was done to them. That was a different time

[@Jay-jb2vr]

Who is *"we"* speak for yourself *white American*

[@CelticConservative]

No one alive did anything to them, it's history. This wasn't black and white, it was war. Two people's trying to wipe each other out. Both sides committed atrocities, we learn from history, but feeling guilty from a war almost 170 years ago makes no sense

[@jcaliberty8288]

@@Jay-jb2vr but you still benefit from it fool

[@Jay-jb2vr]

@@CelticConservative it's the Victors and liars who write history

[@davegreene1198]

My father explained it to me back in the 70's by saying... It was a culture war that was inevitable. He was a wise man of few words.

[@reneemoreno8030]

My great great grandfather with the 7th Calvary. He survived and went south and took my great great grandmother a Yaqui Native she was 14. They had 11 children and then he went north to Canada and had another family there. He was English and our ancestry is quite noted in Great Britain as there is a Family Society. The Matchums. Thank you for your narration and kind presentation, I see myself as an Yaqui Native American.

[@avatar2350]

To put this in simple words, Indigenous peoples suffered Genocide A majestic contrast between beautiful storytelling, and heart wrenching facts. Thanks History Dose

[@scottjuhnke6825]

Outstanding work. Sympathetic, but not fawning. A a trained Historian, I can say that this is superb work.

[@HistoryDose]

Thank you so much for kind words. This took along time to produce so reading comments like these makes all those nights worth it.

[@isaakfrmla]

On a cross country road trip I stopped in Oklahoma and seen two bison in a little area that showed Native American history. I immediately felt so sad and sick knowing how many used to roam this land and now there was only two in that little shack when I bet before there would be thousands running around

[@yeildo1492]

You should be very proud of what you have done here. Tremendous work.

[@SerialChiller1000]

I live just down the road from the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This episode hits quite close to home, literally.

[@ophirhh]

Another masterpiece. Thank you for spreading incredible content that is 1 part well researched and 1 part wildly entertaining. My second point shocks me however. I am watching, as entertainment, a once impressive warrior tribe's struggle and death. The extend to which the natives were decimated should never be forgotten. Westward expansion was a new beginning for many. Yet for some, it was the end. We should always remember that the world is cruel, yet simultaneously more merciful than ever in history.

[@ambarvizcarra9656]

One of my professor’s books holds personal accounts from those children who were forced into Christian schools. They were stripped of their names, language, religion, diet, clothing, and soul. Thousands of children actually died due to these extreme changes in life and there would usually be graveyard on site at the schools. There aren’t words for the horrors committed.

[@fuzzyjoe61]

they had a 50% survival rate

[@TruePT]

Was those the ones in Canada? Wasn’t that debunked?

[@patriley9449]

This story is basically a history of the human race all over the planet. Humans cannot get along with each other and constantly covet what others have or disagrree with what others do.This sad tale tells about Europeans taking what the Native Americans had, but they themselves had their lands taken by others. It is a sad fact that humans cannot get along over time. We are seeing this today as well.

[@charliefasthorse5710]

I’m from North Dakota from the reservation of Standing Rock. My name is Ohitika Charles Fast Horse. But it’s easier and less of a hassle if people call me Charlie growing up to local Caucasian people. My father was a chief tribal member of standing rock(he has his name and a picture on cereal box believe it or not) and he always told me stories of Crazy Horse. I thought of him as my own action hero growing up. Being in a small town moving to college I was teased all of the time for my name and became insecure about it. But I always wear my name as a badge of honor to my father and to my history. I’d like my father to pass along his name from me to my own son. There are not many of us left in the population; and it worries me. Thank you for this video, I’ve subscribed before but found this video and it means more than you know of your history coverage

[@Dog.soldier1950]

It’s difficult to see how the Indians, a Stone Age people and warrior culture, could continue their way of life unimpeded. Contact with western culture brought radical change but once that change started it could not be stopped. Tribes had access to hundreds of square miles in a nomadic life. That could not continue. Conflict was inventable and the free life of the warrior culture came to an end.

[@drlca6601]

Actually the Native Americans of the NE had developed metallurgy and had been using copper for millennia.

[@thomasshelby1922]

Bravo.

[@tayloralvidrez4342]

Empire of the Summer Moon, tells the story of the rise and fall of the Comanche Indians, the most dominant and feared tribe in history. One of the best books I've ever read.

[@Levitations]

18:47 I cant comprehend how evil a person could be to do this. It’s horrifying to me that such a cruel and sinister act occurred right under our feet. I hope all those souls find peace in heaven.

[@yankeeyankee5]

This was common on the Plains. It's not happy history. Almost every single tribe on the Plains would kill infant captives.

[@daustin8888]

As an African American, i apologize on behalf of my ancestors (The Buffalo Soldiers) who helped partake in this insidious crime against humanity

[@CoolSmoovie]

Bothers me how the Union is viewed as “good guys” in recent years, then they went and did this. It’s almost like 9/10, there are no good and bad guys in history

[@ConsciousEntitySound]

Can you make one of these about the natives in Canada and what it looked like when Europeans/UK came to settle? These are fantastic videos.

[@obviousgorilla124]

It was mainly the French and later the Canadians under dominion of the crown to commit the atrocities. The British actively kept the rights of the Indians sacred, until they were kicked out by the American Independence movement.

[@brownjatt21]

​@@obviousgorilla124 you say that like the Canadians and Americans weren't just recent British settlers. Anglos and their descendants did the most damage.

[@obviousgorilla124]

@@brownjatt21 wrong. actually the british had many treaties with the natives to protect their lands, and the american’s and later canadians tore it all up

[@brownjatt21]

@@obviousgorilla124 and what ethnic group did the majority of Americans and Canadians mostly comprise of back then ?? Anglos. North American history and the atrocities committed and it was always the Anglos doing the most damage. Slavery in the 13 colonies was all British for over a 100 years but Brit's love to wash their hands and just blame "Americans" for it. The most racist and hateful group in the US that always had the power were always the Anglo immigrants and their descendants.

[@obviousgorilla124]

@@brownjatt21 Just because you belong to an ethnic group doesn't mean everyone is responsible. British people are not responsible. It was America that was fucked up, not Britain. Cope and seethe. You provided quite possibly the worst argument I've heard all day.

[@Roger-go6jc]

Beautiful presentation, thankyou. The way you ended with Red Cloud touched me. I love this man and his history. In the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee there are 2 pictures of him. One on P.109- mature, strong and proud. The other on P.448- old, worn and disheartened. A powerful representation of the effect of manifest destiny on an amazingly resilient native people. Also in the book: When Chief Black Kettle's large village of Cheyenne and Arapaho were camped at Sand Creek they were attacked by the US military. Led by Col. Chivington it was a massacre of mostly old people, women and children. Black Kettle survived, but the village was flying the American flag and a white surrender flag in plain view. We are going to need more than patriotism, flags, treaties, rhetoric(yes especially rhetoric). What they need is equality, representation, open hearts and minds, and ancestral lands returned

[@BlueFire2769]

I'm sorry to say this my fellow human being. But as long as the ultra rich multibillionaires run the country, we'll never get the justice we deserve. Take a look at income inequality you'll see what I'm talking about

[@Roger-go6jc]

@@BlueFire2769 Thankyou for acknowledging me as a human being. My heart expresses itself always in the way I feel, and I am frequently dismissed as a dreamer and irrelevant. But I am very aware of what the true situation is and am vocal about where the true focus should be, and am quite often derided for that by the mainstream. All my life I have been a dreamer. All my life I have had a native heart, and realised that the things that came naturally to me a lot of people saw as weird. My mum would leave books around that I would read. These people in this video among others became my heroes. My mum was always in contact with Aboriginal elders so she had a big influence in my life making sense of it. There is a good book by Bruce Pascoe- 'Dark Emu.' It's an eye opener. I'll keep fighting the billionaire to get the simple person in ascendancy because that is how it should be, and hopefully with love in their heart for what is around them. That is who I am.