How The Native Americans Learned To Master Their Environment | 1491: Before Columbus | Timeline

Indigenous people created significant changes to their environment through resource harvesting, farming, urban development, irrigation, controlled burning, and deforestation.
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[@infoskrimp420]

Ive seen this "1491 untold story of the americas before columbus" has 8 parts. please post all of them! this is so informative and helpful. I appreciate the variety of nations/tribes covered.

[@ScorpionXXXVII]

I suggest the book. "1491: America's before Columbus "...it's an amazing book. I never knew how advanced and populated N and S America was before Europeans showed up. Tens of millions of people, cities, amazing things lost to time

[@user-ov1rc8sj4v]

Yes I will oh I also am Cherokee same as you with the language barrier I can't speak none but I did get letters saying I have land from my people for being native American didn't say how much though have to call the number and see how much land I have

[@user-ov1rc8sj4v]

Have you heard of this?

[@user-ov1rc8sj4v]

Maybe Tennessee or not trail of tears goes from Tennessee to North Carolina I read so beautiful land of course yes

[@user-ov1rc8sj4v]

But don't know how much land maybe 60 acres or maybe 600 acres didn't say so. .

[@guymorris6596]

The native American people are descended from the Mongolians. Years ago DNA testing was conducted on both groups of people and there was a solid match. That definitely explains why the horse was and still is important to native Americans. The Mongolians are considered to be the greatest and most skilled equestrians on the planet. The Mongolians crossed the land bridge into what is now modern day Alaska Canada. From there they migrated all over the land mass that we now know as North America. I have Cherokee ancestors from North Carolina, Randolph County specifically. I have one identified as half Cherokee and her mother as full blood Cherokee. I haven't been able to find more information on her than her name, birth area and rough year she was born. My mother was working on the genealogy for her side of my family for me. She discovered Cherokee and Lumbee ancestors. All I know is I'm proud of all of my native American ancestors and feel really good inside when I attend native American events.

[@vickielewallen3799]

My daughter, adopted as a baby at 4 mos old, is Korean. She had the very same "Mongolian Spots" on her back (the large blue spot/splotches) that i used to see in the Navajo babies i knew. When i got her and saw those splotches, i knew there was a connection.

[@fload46d]

It is generally recognized that the indigenous peoples acquired horses from the Spanish. The woodland natives did not have horses before the Spanish.

[@mmakotal4388]

Nothin has been proven .

[@mmakotal4388]

Why they find human foot prints older then the bones in Africa in the americas ?

[@mmakotal4388]

Europe like to rush Native American r nit from America and r other people so they have claim to America more and feel lesss bad . It’s all untrue civil started in America

[@rob1014]

Proud to be a real American indígena from Mexico

[@RichardGolD-wz3is]

Are you sure you're not Spanish descendants who colonize the native mexicano

[@josephweisberg835]

My mother's side of my family is Cherokee. She was a incredibly strong woman in so many ways . Nature was her playground and pantry . I have no doubt she could have fed her family with out a grocery store being involved. Mis you mom.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today,

[@foryoumysofteyes]

I feel incredibly grateful for this series. I do not know the words. The respect of our past and the Native Peoples who lived and continues to live on this Turtles Back touches me deeply ~ eternally. Over and over while viewing I say out loud 'WOW!". Blessings! PEACE!!!

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

I like your comment here Leah Bee How are you doing Leah?

[@nebulis6509]

@@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72 lmao wait I am so confused rn, surely this isn’t THE vgleahbee???

[@Last_Chance.]

thanks for watching

[@kt6332]

Finally, this history is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

[@tthomaskiss4539]

I hope you're having a blessed day

[@tthomaskiss4539]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

May God be with you today and always! I hope that you have a nice day today.

[@cavelvlan25]

This is what we need to be doing instead of stripping the land, narrowing the rivers and poisoning the land with fertilizers and pesticides

[@tthomaskiss4539]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today.

[@cavelvlan25]

@@tthomaskiss4539 thank you for the kind words! May your harvest be plentiful and your life fulfilled. Godspeed.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

If I may ask where are you from as for me I am from Dublin Ireland but I have spent most of my life in Florida??

[@cavelvlan25]

@@tthomaskiss4539 missouri

[@tthomaskiss4539]

Once again it's really my pleasure to meet you if I may ask are you happy married with kids my lovely friend

[@hobbscoblin1313]

There is Aztec runes in Wisconsin. Look up Aztalan. It blew my mind. Also in Ohio I found information on Mayan Indians. Also note, any word like Miami as in Miami river, city has Mayan connections to it.

[@DaViiloW805]

Trade routes. north to south, east to west. Land and sea, whole golf of Mexico, the pacific ocean and Atlantic.

[@hobbscoblin1313]

@@DaViiloW805 Interesting fact. There's lake superior and Michigan copper found in West Africa. That's wild.

[@DaViiloW805]

@@hobbscoblin1313 I believe that at one point in history the new world of the Americas was the land of legends told by the brave people sailing from the old world. People from the continent of Africa for sure knew about the route, which rumors travel fast around the old world,, not to mention The vikings. But in regards of the Natives American. They were all connected via ocean Canoe fleets or walking Caravans, the trade business is super necessary. ✌🏽🇲🇽🇺🇲

[@eftheusempire]

Yeah except that Aztecs didnt carve runes and if youd look that up yourself youd see it was an entirely different culture...

[@DaViiloW805]

@@eftheusempire wasn't there capital in the middle of a lake? What makes you think they didn't trade with costal communities?

[@hardnotsoft111]

I am Cherokee and I am just saddened that our language was filtered out of our culture during the course of history. I can’t speak it, my mother can’t, my grandmother can’t, only my grandmother’s father could.

[@pedalingthru2719]

The only people to blame for that are your people.

[@danielboard9510]

@@hardnotsoft111 language will never be forgotten, because it informs our new language. The more we remember the thoughts and idea's of those before, the more we can impower ourselves. And create something new.

[@YanoshRagauld]

My soul's heart goes out to you . Iam in the UK age nearly 50 now. I grew up with the westerns that presented the natives the baddies and I always rooted for the cowboys,,. Untill, one day when I was about 8 or 9 I saw on the telly, a beautiful native American woman staging a one woman protest at mount Rushmore. She'd taken herself to the tourist platform that overlooks the giant faces and then raised a few basic points. She was so passionate and heartbroken. She was loud and kept repeating the few basic horrific facts. And I felt and knew she was right and true do do so. Security soon came down on her and dragged her off kicking and screaming. Beautiful long black hair,, all in her face with tears. Horrible to see men restraining crying woman. A tragic scene replayed once again I realize now. The tourists get back to their picture taking. As a kid, seeing that, feeling it's truth, over the next few days, my heart broke with a sorrowful awakening. My love to you all.

[@meme4one]

I love the Cherokee but prefer the Wrangler.

[@hardnotsoft111]

@@YanoshRagauld thank you for the heartfelt message my dear British friend. Any acknowledgment is good for our nation; the Cherokee Nation.

[@evanrutherfordlazyahole9079]

Bout damn time we respected this timeless knowledge hopefully we can integrate it into our education in a healthy way.

[@road_2wisdom415]

What do you mean by "healthy way" if they were to integrate any kind of knowledge especially history-related knowledge the must do so without distorting the facts, because we as human beings are defined largely by our history ...

[@alwayslive7460]

DON'T COUNT ON IT. THE WAY LIBERAL AMERICAN EDUCATION IS HEADING, THERE WILL BE NOTHING BUT DOPEY, PASSIVE UNICS

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@tthomaskiss4539]

May God open doors of blessings for you today and favor you in all that you do. Good morning.

[@Bigbadwolfanderson]

I mean they also used human flesh in their pozole and practiced human sacrifice , maybe we shouldn’t do everything they did.

[@eemoogee160]

This is actually very important information for humanity to come to grips with. Thus far, we are becoming less and less sustainable with our culture. It cannot continue this way.

[@arthas640]

Some of the earliest empires collapsed partially due to unsustainable exploitation of resources, including farmland. It happened in the fertile crescent, the Americas, and the rest of the globe. Some polynesian cultures like those on Easter island cut down all the tress on the islands and had ecological collapse, there were south american cultures who slash and burned until they ran out of trees, and some places in south and central america farmed the same land until soil salinity and depletion of ground water doomed their farms. Many empires outside of large river deltas sapped all of their farmland until the soil was depleted and their farms collapsed. The same helped cause the Dust Bowl and great depression. It's a lesson people never really learn.

[@Perspectiveon]

Utopian many would say but imagine a world we could have had if only tolerance, co-existance and harmony were the foremost aims of our ancestors. The quest for land, wealth and imposing own views and beliefs that my european ancestors and others had - and many still have - ruined so many opportunities for diversity that could have enriched the world. I´m so taken by the ways and cultures of indigenous peoples around the world. Treasures for mankind I wish will live forever.

[@AmericaLexicon]

Watch some Thomas Sowell and learn how some of that may be wrong.

[@ClintEastwoodenDoors]

yeah.... because the native american tribes were so tolerant and harmonious of one another before we got here.. Lol What Europeans did to the red man was no different from what theyd done to one another forever. We were just better at it, and theyre still salty about it hunders of years later. Sad really

[@kwal949]

We’d still be on the Stone Age and enduring massive suffering on a daily basis.

[@ocelotl7416]

@@kwal949 Nice joke there. Most of Europe, if not all of Europe couldn’t compare to MesoAmerica. At a time in Europe when street cleaning was almost non-existent and people emptied their overflowing chamber pots into the streets as a matter of course, the Aztecs employed a thousand public service cleaners to sweep and water their streets daily, built public toilets in every neighbourhood, and transported human waste in canoes for use as fertilizer. While London was still drawing its drinking water from the polluted River Thames as late as 1854, the Aztecs supplied their capital city with fresh water from the nearby hill of Chapultepec by means of two aqueducts, the first built by Netzahualcóyotl between 1466 and 1478, the second some 20 years later by the ruler Ahuitzotl. Should I go on?

[@ocelotl7416]

@@ClintEastwoodenDoors “Because the native Americans tribes were so tolerant and harmonious of one another before we got here.” The Tainos impressed Columbus with their generosity, which may have contributed to their undoing. “They will give all that they do possess for anything that is given to them, exchanging things even for bits of broken crockery,” he noted upon meeting them in the Bahamas in 1492. “They were very well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces....They do not carry arms or know them....They should be good servants.” Here is how Christopher Columbus described the Arawak, tribal people living in the Bahamas when he landed there in 1492: "They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance…. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."

[@annalorree]

There was a time when the cultures of Europe were very similar in technology, likely similar in cultural stories, and faith practices to those of the Americas. As a descendant of European peoples, I wish we still had access to that. Our cultural roots from those times are lost to us, and I think we are poorer for that loss. All we have is archeology.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Europeans are not like Indigenous People at all. -COMANCHE NATION

[@annalorree]

@@thechiefwildhorse4651 the European people who came to the Americas definitely are not like the indigenous peoples of this continent, and haven’t been for a very long time. Before gunpowder, before steel, before Christianity, before iron, before bronze, when we used stone and wood to hunt, when we grew crops along rivers, when we painted horses, deer, bears, wolves, and other animals in caves by fire light, when we made earthen mounds and stone circles, our peoples were probably much more similar than they are now. I wish my people had retained some of that. I mean no disrespect with my comments.

[@meme4one]

@@thechiefwildhorse4651 how so? Europeans migrated to Europe way before Native Americans migrated to the US.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

@@meme4one Lol What? Indigenous People have been here for hundreds of thousands of years. Europeans were created to mine gold and minerals only a couple thousand years ago. Europeans don't even belong in Europe. Common knowledge lol -COMANCHE NATION

[@johanpalola]

@@meme4one europeans migrated to europe? So where did we native europeans come from? From the moon? I'm north european.

[@kendramalczyk2613]

Fascinating the will to survive and thrive! We definitely need/needed the Natives help and need/needed their wisdom in regards to nature and other important issues. These days there is such a dumbing down campaign against humanity. ♥️🌹

[@funveeable]

The Natives get to use fire to clear dead brush to prevent forest fires. When California firemen try to do it, all the idiots that live there say it's cruel to nature and that's why we have a ton of wildfires.

[@belviabarriner7974]

Absolutely and well said. I’m so dumb that I can’t even convince my southeast Missouri neighbors that climate change might be a real thing.

[@kendramalczyk2613]

@@belviabarriner7974 Honestly, I personally turn to God for such understanding. And, He’s been faithful. It’s important for all of us to be good stewards in whatever we have. But, the issue of climate is that it changes all of the time and that the present situation in the world is well understood from reading Matthew 24. The Bible also tells us that the earth groans for the redemption of creation. There is much wickedness that humans are engaged in and the earth is not happy! Romans 8:22-23. Neither are those that love God. The Bible has answers to everything. God is angry with those who destroy the earth. He will judge them, Revelation 11:18. Here on our land we do everything we can to be wise stewards, from recycling to never using pesticides, and we use organic earth friendly cleaners. Carbon Dioxide is actually a blessing as it is the catalyst for photosynthesis and extremely important for life. Many don’t know that God’s earth actually produces 97.5 percent of the CO2 that help keep the different ecosystems functioning well. Man only is responsible for 2.5 percent CO2 in the atmosphere. So, it’s a big system far beyond our abilities to totally manage. What’s sickening is all of the toxic substances that are dumped into our air, water ways, and soil. Anyway, God is on top of everything and offers us so much wisdom in His word and by His Spirit. Humanity needs to believe and faithfully respond to Him. The Natives had/have a much better relationship to God’s land, at least in general. ♥️💗

[@tthomaskiss4539]

May God open doors of blessings for you today and favor you in all that you do. Good morning.

[@svrreno]

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[@arturasstatkus8613]

Thank You,So Much!!! I grew up reading about your life, and it stayed with me for the rest of my life.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

[@merlin6625]

Pehnaho, tsande imaah Sosoni' ❤️

[@MrZyphose]

I think its great to remember your culture and what it represents co-existing next to other cultures of the time. This is greatness because there was no reason to upturn or subtervert other cultures. Yes, there were skirmishes or competition but not the all out rulership over others other cultures seemed to have. I have a great respect for their restraint.

[@h____hchump8941]

The Aztecs were very peaceful, or do they not count because they were across the modern US-Mexico border

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

How are you doing MrZPhose?

[@rmf9567]

​@@h____hchump8941grow up

[@culbinator]

Bravo on this documentary. We must return to balance as a species. We have the solutions. It’s just a matter of brave people implementing them. Permaculture has the answers to heal the land. Jah provides.

[@michaeledwards9497]

At the time I write this, your presentation was well done, and done well, and yet I hoped to add my Two Cents to your conversation. Firstly, I’m an Elderly Retiree, and I’m a Tribal Member of Lakes People of the Colville Confederated Tribe. On KZbin they’ve listed Top Ten-10 under appreciated Westerns, and in my opinion the unsaid reason is behind the manner the movies treated the Native Americans in the story lines.

[@bethbartlett5692]

The most Authentic Story of Native Peoples History that I've ever heard. One of my degree studies is in History, I also have learned to trust my intuitive senses, Clairsentience (Clear Feelings) and Claircognazent (Clear Knowing), recently I've have a few occ I rented of Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing). Mainstream Academia, whether originally intentional or unknowingly, have cause a chapter I refer to as "the 20th Century Dark Age", a loss of Authentic Information and separation from intuitive traits. This has changed, with countless realizing their thirst for facts and their greater gifts if intuitive traits.

[@DyanneGavin]

I agree, this is fabulous!

[@EricHamm]

None of the things are real. There is no evidence of psychic abilities of being real. You can't prove it. You are literally a crazy person.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

You've spoken really well Beth Bartlett.. how are you doing Beth?

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

@@DyanneGavin I love it when people acknowledge good things 😊 How are you doing Dyanne?

[@Azathoth4444]

It would be interesting to see a video about alcohol made by native american tribe's before european contact. I know of a few tribe's that make ceremonial alcohol that being the tohono o'odham that made tiswin from saguaro cactus fruit.

[@gooblio]

No, you're supposed to believe life was perfect then.

[@meme4one]

@@gooblio and various mammals weren't hunted to extinction by them too.

[@ellanina801]

That sounds really interesting! I went to a pow wow with one of my friends, and it was so inspirational and beautiful. However, it breaks my heart to know how much of the original cultural practices were not included. Also, very sad how much Mormon influence had impacted the rituals, especially after the Mormons massacred Indigenous Peoples. Mormon prayer at an Indigenous PowWow seems so broken to me. This is my perspective from the white man’s world, so I really can’t speak for the individuals actually practicing the rituals. I am very honored to have been invited, and been able to have participated in some of the dancing.

[@jr3753]

Mesoamerica had pulque

[@1N2themystic]

@@ellanina801 you are quite right Ella. The Mormons, nor any religious beliefs, should be imposed into any culture. If human sacrifice, or cannibalism is involved, it's too deep for me to speak about. We know many cultures practiced these rituals though.

[@dannydeschilder9943]

My Good Old Holland was sailing all around the world we found places where no man has gone before, that made our Little Holland great in the World for Centuries.

[@persistentpedestrianalien8641]

That doesn't have anything to do with anything 😕

[@batticusmanacleas510]

Men were already everywhere Holland went.

[@oneshothunter9877]

Where exactly did your ancestors go where there was No people already?

[@danielboard9510]

Danny the Painter, New Holland now make tractors. Go back to painting , some of the Dutch were good at that

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@mato7773]

Thank you for this 🙏, more content like this please❤️

[@smallbeginning2]

its fascinating that the aboriginal people of australia had beliefs about the landscape being divine that meant they couldn't develop it. its fascinating that they seem to be the only ones who had those beliefs.

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

Well said Incog Nito.. I was wondering myself cause I've also thought about what you just said Incog ✅ How are you doing?

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@indigenousamerican3148]

The American continent is our home, we will always be here.

[@sleepisthecousinofdeath7395]

You migrated from Russia

[@rhino5100]

@R Paulson Their bones are in the soil. He doesn't even need you to admit it in your ignorance. Its something you can't change. Your snark and sarcasm has no power here. (Lol.)

[@urbanwoods363]

But they were the first Americans

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

I completely agree. But the same should allowed to be said for all people. If a European says “Europe is our ancestral homeland and it must remain European” some people would be screaming racism..

[@THEROOTMATTERS]

As you should always be here. Any one who says different is not thinking correctly. May Almighty God bless you all. The American continent was stolen from you all. May God Almighty bless your efforts to always remain.

[@cristobalvalladares973]

I am partly Carib Indian. I am in awe of ancient man. How did they know? Farming, navigation all those skills. I thought the Amazon was just filled people who led very rudimentary lives. Boy was I wrong. Amazing thank you.

[@dqreps]

Exactly. I am not Indian but I love the history and heritage. There are so many ancestors and different cultures to recognize and learn about. Never have enough time.

[@SSHitMan]

Did you know the Caribs were cannibals (the very name cannibal comes from them) who came from South America to colonize the Caribbean and displaced, killed, and ate the Arawak Indians who were there first?

[@dqreps]

@@SSHitMan tastes like chicken

[@redplanet7163]

@@SSHitMan Arawaks were yummy!

[@hannah1943]

most were cannibals and they still practicing it some parts of the Amazon

[@craigdouglasmartens7037]

BEAUTIFUL! We need interraction between our people to mitigate very poor habits in our development. Your water philosophies need to be replicated here more then ever. God Bless You All.

[@nehemiahyasharahla7258]

Those canoes is not built to travel the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean so if these people came from Asia to mesoamerica during the Ice Age I don't think it's plausible that canoes was used but more likely travelled on foot.

[@nosillalaluna7078]

Check out the CHUMASH "canoe's

[@nosillalaluna7078]

If they aren't sea worthy enough to do the Pacific kelp highway I don't know what is . These vessels routinely traversed the coast to the channel islands , can't remember how to spell what they are called , Toculca? No , that isn't it , anyway check it out 😁✌️🙈🙉🙊

[@zairatulumierah9436]

Mesoamerica are from different migration.Pacific islanders came by canoes and boat

[@cheri238]

A magnificent video experience of indigenous peoples cultures , northern, southern of the America's. Read quite a bit about this, seen some countries, ruin sights. A privilege to all of great wandering peoples from all parts of the world f or centuries. As it is I have Cherokee in my blood also. Reverence to all.❤️

[@hannah1943]

did they tell you how the Comanches used to steal other people's babies and torture than their death for good medicine

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

You're making a vital point Anna Magnani! How are you doing?

[@PyrrhicPax]

It's so nice to see Pre-European American history! Despite being Cherokee and going to an American Indian school, history class always started with Christopher Columbus, and the Free Real-Estate myth.

[@ellanina801]

I despise all of the falsities we are taught in school. I would love to have lived on this land before the European American history. Maybe we can undo some of the damage someday.

[@SSHitMan]

Since there is little surviving historical writings from the Indians (except for what little Maya and Aztec writings still exist) all we know is from oral histories as transcribed hundreds of years ago. And most of it wasn't about growing food, it was stuff like this: "Sometime before first European contact with the Illini (around 1635) the Winnebago, a Siouan people, were in sad shape. Surrounded by war-like Algonquin tribes such as the Fox (Meskwaki), Mascoutens (Fire Nation), Hurons and others, their numbers were greatly reduced. A particularly severe defeat at the hands of the Fox greatly weakened the Winnebago. Then came a crippling epidemic (possibly flux) and starvation followed. Upon learning of the plight of their northern neighbors, the Illinois sent 500 men loaded with food northward to assist the Winnebagos through their tribulations. The Winnebagos welcomed the Illinois, but during dancing in honor of the Illini, the Winnebagos surprised their guests and killed them. They then made a feast of their rescuers. Upon learning of this treachery, the Illini dispatched a large war party to avenge their dead. Knowing that the Illinois did not use bark-skinned portable canoes, the Winnebago retreated to an island (in Lake Winnebago?). But the season was advanced. The patient Illini waited until the weather grew colder and the lake froze. They stormed across the ice, fell upon the Winnebago, and killed all but 150 or so who were made slaves." The Illini Indians were eventually completely wiped out, by other Indians. None remain, there is no Illini reservation anywhere. That's real history. First racist Victorians invented the "Noble Savage" myth, now it's woke white people who infantilize the Indians to make them look like helpless children and deny them their real history.

[@ellanina801]

@@SSHitMan Please cite your sources for direct quotes. Also, Indians? Native and Indigenous People are not Indians. Wrong country. The falsities I was speaking of are from my own experiences, and the experiences of my friends. The person who I responded to sounded like they were also speaking mostly from their own experiences. Archaeological findings and verbal histories can account for quite a lot of very useful information. Most tribes historically have been proven to be peaceful, despite myths to the contrary. We can also infer certain knowledge based on current patterns. Also, nobody has infantilized Indigenous Peoples that I am aware of. There are systemic abuses in place that are going on to this day. And gross exaggerations of histories that have archaeological evidence disproving what we have been taught (I.e. Mayan and Aztec sacrificial rituals did exist, but not even to a fraction of what we are taught-and all tribes are different, so what you described was not a common issue based on what I have found). This has nothing to do with being “woke,” but rather simply aware. And there are “savage” references from Columbus peeps-they also blamed Native Americans for syphilis. I think the issue is in having denied real and accurate histories. Actually, there is a lot more evidence pointing to systems of trade and a very healthy intertribal network in Northern America. Even most remote tribes nowadays are a reflection of how things would have been hundreds of years ago. I’m sure there was some bad blood amongst some of the tribes, nobody has argued that, in fact it is something people to discuss-it wasn’t the common thing though. Also, pointing out these exceptions really only seems to be an attempt to villainize Indiginous People broadly. It completely ignores the entirety of the history and the attempt by white men colonials to eliminate tribal heritage and language, and the mass massacring of tribal communities on a wide scale basis. And there are still laws in place, and a lot of things going on in modern times that is STILL destructive to Indigenous communities.

[@SSHitMan]

@@ellanina801 If you want to get pedantic there are no humans native to the Americas. My sources are history books I will cite when I get home. Why are you so defensive? Why do you want to rewrite history to ignore parts that make you uncomfortable? Don't they deserve to have their real story told instead of whitewashed and infantilized?

[@SSHitMan]

@@ellanina801 And it is undeniable that warfare was a fact of life in the Americas pre-1492. Choctaws, for example, lived in fortified villages. Those walls weren't constructed to keep wild animals out, they were protecting themselves from other tribes. The Pueblo villages weren't built on cliffsides and made accessible only by ladders because they thought it looked cool, they were a defense against other tribes. And deciphered Mayan writings tell a tale of near-constant warfare between themselves and other tribes. At the end of the day they were humans like all the others, no better or worse. People who demonize Europeans while whitewashing Indian history aren't historians they are propagandists and they aren't doing them a favor by rewriting their history.

[@candaceallen8434]

THANK YOU!!!

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@CartoonHistory]

something i need to read more about... gonna check out the Charles Mann books

[@biggrizzz6833]

I want a video on how they got their corn kernels so big. Around 23 mins in home girl had an ear of corn with kernels the size of a small child's fist

[@sapphonymph8204]

They were magic kernels!

[@proudbrownconservative]

Wait, mesoamericans are different from, natives from North American and South American Indians, totally different ways. The Aztecs would have tried to enslave any other tribe, their are so many differences between the 3 different groups I named

[@ashleelarsen5002]

Meso mean middle

[@cosmyccowboy]

And there was another race that came before what we call native Americans

[@hankterreros223]

Or eat them.

[@sazajac77z]

Then there's the Mormons story...

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Wait wait wait, are you trying to say the American Indians are ANYTHING but 100% peace driven, totally loving, & ONLY did any killings to defend themselves from the crazy bloodthirsty white man? Oh wait you've got the current pass to 'speak truth' given your avatar is true. You're allowed to say what really happened according to the lunatic left. Me, I'd be called a racist for saying the exact same thing you did.

[@CommercialArtServices]

I love this content

[@removalman7963]

Great video

[@chetthebee1322]

Yeah, we know that the poor Europeans didn't master their environment despite surviving the ice age.

[@yvonneplant9434]

It's obvious they did that and it's very fortunate that they did.

[@helenhoward5346]

​@@yvonneplant9434 think I sense sarcasm lol. it's obvious that all societies mastered their environment to a BASIC extent. Some were more advanced than others... I think "Europe" (England, France, Spain, germania, Italy, etc) might be one of the more advanced civilizations... I mean look at the Greeks and Romans, particularly the Romans with their aqua ducts.

[@ocelotl7416]

@@helenhoward5346 Spaniards and their civilization couldn’t compare to MesoAmerica, well that includes most of Europe, if not all. At a time in Europe when street cleaning was almost non-existent and people emptied their overflowing chamber pots into the streets as a matter of course, the Aztecs employed a thousand public service cleaners to sweep and water their streets daily, built public toilets in every neighbourhood, and transported human waste in canoes for use as fertilizer. While London was still drawing its drinking water from the polluted River Thames as late as 1854, the Aztecs supplied their capital city with fresh water from the nearby hill of Chapultepec by means of two aqueducts, the first built by Netzahualcóyotl between 1466 and 1478, the second some 20 years later by the ruler Ahuitzotl. Should I go on?

[@thetruth-hl7ct]

@@ocelotl7416 Don't forget all the human sacrificing the Aztecs did to make the rain fall, or the crops to grow, or just for the fun of it.

[@ocelotl7416]

@@thetruth-hl7ct Don’t forget all the human sacrificing of innocent females the Europeans did was stop all of the “witch curses,” like for the crops to grow, etc, etc... also just for fun. Public executions for the Europeans was a major sporting event. The main victims of public executions were those who “challenged” power or stability in some fashion, an example would be being a imaginary “witch” that magically cursed the the town with a wooden stick from the ground.

[@WkdWnch007]

We don't "master" our environment. We work in concert and respect vwith our environment. We can only master ourselves.

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

Well said Morgan Dawn we can only master ourselves.. how are you doing Morgan?

[@eulaliorodriguez5325]

This is great way how hunt, and great plants to eat. This is great agricultural history.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@iinezlee6534]

Thank You !

[@kipronoian133]

So great tjis Historical movies..Am impressed n learned alot.

[@GR-le1ms]

This happens. Throughout the history of the world, lands have been taken and people have been conquered. Thousands of people have had their language and cultures disappear. I am thr product of that, Native American and European.

[@bobsteward717]

What history doesn’t want to say is Native American tribes would steal other Indian tribes land by the war and enslavement of there own kind. Hundreds of Thousands of Indians have been killed through the centuries.

[@GR-le1ms]

@@bobsteward717 that's exactly my point. I'm the product of such. I'm Hispanic, part native and part Spanish.

[@bobsteward717]

@@GR-le1ms The problem I have is the Native American Indian hypocrisy today blames the white man for everything when they themselves hundreds of years ago were killing each other in the thousands.

[@williamdillard5060]

I am currently reading "The People's History of The United States of America 1492- present" by HowardZinn". What the European did to North and South America's population is ATROCIOUS. This book gives a very detailed account of what really happened. I would recommend all Americans read this book.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

True, true. I hope he included some victories as well as bad news.

[@jamespriddy8275]

This is more a political perspective that lacks much context. He claims that Germans were more accepted than Baltic people because of racial bias, but does not mention that Germany had 30 times the population, for instance. Not saying it isn’t relevant, but that it is not an unbiased perspective. I would recommend the reader look at other evaluations of the book before accepting it as true history. BuryMy Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown is another such book. Very biased but still good reading.

[@wompwomp338]

Got some ultra high resolution video of 1491

[@gregchambers6100]

Our ancient ancestors crossed the Atlantic when the ice sheet was from Virginia to France. We crossed the Atlantic again when Egypt needed trade, thus the tobacco and coca in Egyptian mummies. Back when they called us Atlantians. When Africans enjoyed our foods, culture and music, we enjoyed theirs. Our ancient ancestors crossed the Pacific and settled every Island in it. Our medicine wheels are in Wales, Ireland, New Mexico, Colorado, China, Canada, Mexico, Spain and Africa and are the first calendars. Our burial mounds are in Ukraine, Minnesota, Canada, Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and Missouri. Our ancient ancestors took in Phoenicians and traded with the peoples of the Mediterranean sea long before Caesar. When Julius Caesar burnt the Library these, our connections were lost and we became the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Atlantis is our home to this day. America they call it now. Our people were on this continent 130,000 ago, and everywhere else.

[@jonbovimalkovich1474]

*schizophrenia

[@Holybatman3603]

Meds, now.

[@gregchambers6100]

Aw, Poor darlings are afraid of DNA evidence. Maybe because they were ab used by priests or maybe mommy did things to their hynies? Human artifacts dating back 130,000 years in San Diego Cocaine and tobacco found in 5000 year old mummies. The largest pyramid in the world Cholula makes these poor little darlings want to cry.

[@marilynmitchell2712]

I believe you.

[@ontherocks23]

It is worthwhile to explore, consider, and preserve these historical "maybes" as future discoveries may provide more answers.

[@garethjudd5840]

Sobering fact. The first early pilgrim settlers upon arriving in the Americas found fields full of ripe corn 🌽 with nobody around tending to the crops because over 3 million natives had died in a plague that had spread throughout the tribes.

[@DyanneGavin]

the plague Trail of Tears?

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

No there still in America history is a lie the blacks aka African Americans are the indeginous Americans Indians people glorify over true history

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@DyanneGavin do you know that blacks aka African American are the indeginous Americans Indians being stripped of their identity ?🐢

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@DyanneGavin I'm Choctaw Indian from America my ancestors were already here not slaves from Africa?

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

@@DyanneGavin and some were on the trail of tears Indian wars to the civil war !

[@annelawler6180]

Thanks!

[@annelawler6180]

In honor of my Blackfoot sons.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

@@annelawler6180 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?-

[@annelawler6180]

@@davidmrodriguez8067 Georgia

[@HermitagePrepper]

This is awesome. I never knew any if this.

[@markgarin6355]

And....once a place got trashed....they moved somewhere else. There may have been trade between various groups, but there wasn't an established two continent trade network. Most of the times the major cultural centers were not active when many others were

[@eemoogee160]

Did you have a point? Are you comparing those cultures with the current industrial capitalist culture that is killing life on earth?

[@markgarin6355]

@@eemoogee160 no...commenting on the oversimplified traditional view on how wonderful the indigenous peoples were.

[@eemoogee160]

@@markgarin6355 I guess that's an important message to get out there...

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

Soil preparations and stone walls..sounds much like what i did....but not clay soil...heavy organic compost to hold water...with ponds to warm water for watering crops...most of what I did I just winged it. As a child I had played native all summer long...looking at nature and what grew where...maybe that's what happens on a farm when there are no children nearby to play with...

[@underfellgirlsans2243]

That's beautiful! And you are correct.

[@persistentpedestrianalien8641]

OK, but what did you use for toilet paper?

[@Cynewise_]

@@persistentpedestrianalien8641 A lot of people used corn husks and cobs.

[@persistentpedestrianalien8641]

@@Cynewise_ we call those people ....perverts

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

@@persistentpedestrianalien8641 a leaf known around here as lambs ears..it is a mullen.

[@erpthompsonqueen9130]

Thank you.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

[@mariabejarano7849]

Where can I found that information?

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

Maria Bejarano what exactly do you want to find?

[@ChrisP3000x]

It's more amazing how little they knew.

[@robertayoder2063]

Little they knew

[@danielboard9510]

Who? Who are you talking about? It is a great statement, but means nothing.

[@ChrisP3000x]

@@danielboard9510 Did you even read the title of the video, the video description, or even watch the video?

[@jr3753]

They didn’t have the luxury of old world trade routes.

[@ChrisP3000x]

@@jr3753 therefore....?

[@IAMPeterofRome]

I rejected the timeline when I was in my early teens. Native Pyramids look too much like those in Egypt. They taught us Egyptian pyramids were 3000 years old but the pyramids down in Mexico were not. Nothing added up. Now that science has caught up with the truth I feel better now. I'm almost 60 and I have rejected "Discovered" in favor of "Arrived." Someone arrived in the front yard and said, "Nobody is here." Centuries later they told us it was "discovered" and the people were primitive! That stonework in Puma Punku, Bolivia has to be over 10,000 years old and some of those overgrown cities in South America are over 10,000 old, I think as well. I'm completely happy that this information is out there now and it should be taught to EVERY child in the Americas. The truth adds up perfectly.

[@ocelotl7416]

The oldest pyramids are in the Americas and Mexico has the biggest pyramids.

[@shellynwillis4342]

Your Oppressors were Sent=Not from the Earth Realm=came from elsewhere=nonHuman=Alien....the word AuroDynamic design car, Auro=Space=cars designed like Space ship.Think fancy cars Telsa Bugatti Lamberquini

[@mildredrharmon4032]

My daddy and mom always went by the signs to plant a garden, canning or anything! ❤️

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

How are you doing Mildred R Harmon?

[@wandaparker9340]

Very interesting!

[@richardgrant2948]

Hello Wanda, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there 👉 I hope your day went well Wanda?

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

You can say that again Wanda Parker😊 how are you doing Wanda?

[@pruephillip1338]

It's one thing to 'master' your environment (as most cultures do) but it's another to actually live in harmony with an environment. As it was the spread of 'native' people into Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia led to the mass extinction of many mammals.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today

[@pruephillip1338]

@@tthomaskiss4539 In Australia the great burning began before modern humans arrived. And with the aboriginals as we know them today no animal larger than a human survived their arrival. This, across the globe, was called the Pleistocene Extinction. Everything was eaten or burned out.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

If I may ask where are you from as for me I am from Dublin Ireland but I have spent most of my life in Florida

[@pruephillip1338]

@@tthomaskiss4539 Australia. We came from Normandy to England 1006 and then to Ireland, after Cromwell we went to Virginia and ca 1900 to Aussie land.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

Once again, it's really my pleasure to meet you. Are you married and do you have children ?

[@andreadams3967]

Wow very interesting i am Bushman we hunters we lived a extremely low carbon foot print life style after the blacks and white came from the ocean and the blacks came from over the river our culture and people was destroyed genocide i hope the america s protect whats left of all cultures

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@scottfergusson8411]

Proud of my native blood lines. Choctaw and Seminole.

[@eulaliorodriguez5325]

This great testimonies of intelligence of the first nations.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Literally all different peoples around the world have learned to master the environment they live in. Otherwise they wouldn't be living there.. This is not a phenomenon unique to natives americans at all. Strange title.

[@ThermicLight]

Not strange at all if you're trying to peddle a political narrative.

[@underfellgirlsans2243]

You are so right.

[@ClickClack_Bam]

The political agenda pushing loves to forget that some peoples mastered their environment so much that they conquered the sea as well & traveled across the ENTIRE Earth to far away places. Funny they demonize Europeans while placing Indians on a pedestal of innocence! They fought with one another & there are tribes of Indians that were erased on purpose from other Indian tribes!

[@PyrrhicPax]

The title is "How the native Americans learned to master their environment" NOT "how the native Americans, and nobody else, learned to master the environment" Nobody is claiming environmental mastery is unique to native Americans. Strange comment. Thermic Light, if anyone's trying to push a political narrative, it's you, feeding into Solo Traveler's strawman arguement.

[@ThermicLight]

@@PyrrhicPax - Well done. What the world would be like if not for you selfless heros of the internet interjecting with comments of wElL AcTuAlLy mUh sTrAwMaN SaYs oThErWiSe. So compelling!

[@ClintEastwoodenDoors]

They should've just titled this video "the myth of the noble savage"

[@mikeybarboza3086]

If any people should be labeled savages it should be the Caucasian race

[@ClintEastwoodenDoors]

@@mikeybarboza3086 yeah the race that invented electricity, automobiles, airplanes, the internal combustion engine, refrigeration, basically every medical technology there is and everything else that you use daily and take for granted are "Savages" Lol Cope more, L0ser

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

Because it's all a lie

[@robinmcgilvra8753]

This was very cool.

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

How are you doing Robin McGilvra?

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

[@cheeseburgerrunner5217]

Love this video, kinda wonder why size dimensions are given in hectare though. I don’t think that is immediately understood by most people

[@KatieB33]

Because a majority of the world use the term hectare 😉

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@tthomaskiss4539]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today.

[@shellynwillis4342]

Hidden knowledge

[@tthomaskiss4539]

If I may ask where are you from as for me I am from Dublin Ireland but I have spent most of my life in Florida what about you???

[@larrystenger1247]

I cannot right a wrong but my heart goes with all the native American people who lost their land, their culture, their language and way of life due to white colonialism. All life is precious.

[@vids595]

Yes Europeans were exceedingly successful at war and colonization, at the time when nearly every culture on Earth participated in such things. I was surprised to learn of the horrors native populations visited on one-another prior to European contact. They were no strangers to war, just not as technologically advanced as people from the old world.

[@robertbroussard316]

Fake narrative not all tribes were friendly and attacked each other. Never heard a United pre American tribal nation have you? Learn real history

[@larrystenger1247]

Proud of your white war mongering heritage are you? Sad.

[@RedRabbitEntertainment]

@@robertbroussard316 There were several confederacies of tribes and nations in America prior to European invasion.

[@dbix11]

Yes they used their environment just like any population of people in the stone age

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Stone age? Europeans died their first 5 winters here. -COMANCHE NATION

[@dbix11]

@@thechiefwildhorse4651 yes, stone age

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

@@dbix11 Europeans brought the first STDS. And Covid. Still spreading after 400 years. Talk about stone age lol -COMANCHE NATION

[@ocelotl7416]

@@dbix11 Europeans wouldn’t of gotten out of Stone Age if it weren’t for the others back in the Old World. Cradle of civilization (Old World) is in the Middle East, not Europe.

[@dbix11]

@@ocelotl7416 S T O N E A G E NO BRONZE NO WHEELS NO SHIPS

[@jamescurrie2525]

Glad we have access to videos like this, as a white man in America I’m disappointed we weren’t taught enough about the natives in school

[@Charlie-hp2oh]

super

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?-

[@karinac.3378]

I wonder what kind of world would we live in today if only Columbus's ship never made it to land and just sank somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Same goes for all the conquistadors and "discoverers"

[@lynnwoodcarter3486]

Lol would be a bunch of copper colored people running around

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@sapphonymph8204]

You wouldn't exist.

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

Karina C well said.. but I believe we can change the world 🌎😊 How are you doing?

[@philosophiahelvetica]

Pretty unfortunate that the Native Americans are basically extinct. They definitely have lots of wisdom and stories, most of them we don't know of due to losing their history. I think the history of Native Americans should be taught much more in schools and universities.

[@danielboard9510]

Oblivion, is a powerful thought.

[@juanharmon138]

we are not ‘basically extinct.’ saying that is the case helps no one -encourage people to learn and make relations with existing indigenous peoples instead of pretending they don’t exist

[@DJCashEel]

But they're not? There are still a LOT of indigenous people still around, and they're still spreading their wisdom and their fight every day, you just have to actually try to listen to them

[@gooblio]

Absolutely, but tell the truth; not this fluff piece. Wars, slaves, torture, needless killing of animals, human sacrifice, life expectancy was under 40, cabalism etc.

[@jeremys.950]

We learn Cherokee in school in the town in Oklahoma I live in. My kids know more than I do, but they are more exposed to it than I was

[@keelyevans4695]

9:42 that's so beautiful!

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@neblina5]

I know this well my father was Cheyenne and Chippewa and Russian (white) but he honored the Native American he was.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@darkisland04]

A very interesting documentary. North and South America were essentially a deliberately planted and managed series of gardens, maintained over thousands of years. A VERY impressive and massive feat of bio-engineering, indeed. The population of what is now the U.S. is estimated to have been 350-400 million people--denser than it is today at 330 million. However, about 10-15 years before Europeans arrived, some kind of epidemic swept central North America, reducing the population to about 2.5 million. There are many European reports about finding hundreds of deserted villages, filled with many skeletons. The European settlers couldn't determine what had happened, and scientists today are still baffled. There's only one documented report of a Spanish sailor in the Bahamas having what sounds like influenza, some 2-3 years before the arrival of the Jamestown colonists. This was years after the outbreak is estimated to have occurred, though. It's possible that the Spanish horses that swam ashore on the West coast in the 1500's brought horsepox/smallpox with them. Or monkey pox could have spread northward from South America. South Americans would've had resistance to that, but North Americans probably wouldn't have had any. But I'm just guessing, since there's no evidence either way.

[@vids595]

Your population numbers are wildly off from what I was taught in anthropology classes and what seems to be the range of consensus amongst experts. Not to mention defying common sense. How did the monkey pox get from Africa to South America? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas#Estimations

[@prophetnozza4150]

What a load of tosh.. there was no more than 10 million! BTW you murdered the wyts there b4 you .... LOL a big garden...... The rubbish you people believe!

[@sapphonymph8204]

@@vids595 yeah, there's no monkeys in south America!

[@keithstringer1140]

True. It was the natives inability and unwillingness to unite that allowed white Americans to take their lands

[@fatimaperez9181]

Really? It’s actually the whites desire to colonize. You must be white lol it shows

[@hannah1943]

you ignorant racist they were different nations and they hated each other like all other nations.from Europe to Asia

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

Wow Keith Stringer well said.. how are you doing Keith?

[@BINHNGUYEN-ox6hc]

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING HISTORY NATIVE AMERICANS, SPEAKING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES NOT ENGLISH!!! Exciting !!

[@matthewmann8969]

Through the winds, chimes, sounds, and echoes yeah

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

[@venkateshvilapakam7248]

This is true of the Americas, African Continent and the Indian Sub Continent... All these countries were nature worshippers and were viewed as following Pagan traditions as per the European colonialists who embarked on voyages in an attempt to spread christianity. The Europeans viewed the indigenous traditions and beliefs as backward and uncivilised and not congruous to their Christian beliefs. The aborigines were viewed as Savages and hence treated with contempt and disdain. The slave trade of Europeans was an offshoot of such vile and abhorrent beliefs of the Colonial Europeans. All because, their voyages were funded by the Christian church of Europe and the voyagers were entrusted with the responsibility of spreading "The Word of God and harvest souls". So they used even violent means to subjugate the people, their cultures and civilisation... I would recommend people to read about the colonial theories that are very well researched and documented...

[@dcpack]

Yes, subjugation by the strong over the weak NEVER was a thing by Native Americans or Africans. Man, a little education can go a long way...

[@Holybatman3603]

@@dcpack True, but they mostly did it amongst themselves, the Europeans did the same thing in a wider scale through, so there's that.

[@tthomaskiss4539]

This day is a blessing from God, May it be a blessing to your life. Have a good day!

[@Bigbadwolfanderson]

Yeah they also are human flesh in their pozole and practiced human and child sacrifice. Their” ways “were not right either.

[@Bigbadwolfanderson]

@@dcpack you are completely wrong and have no idea of history , I’d go read “the barbarous years” and see what was really going on here. This is a one sided documentary.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

A huge amount of triggered trolls commenting on this video. Awww poor babies.🐝❤️🤗

[@Wildman-lc3ur]

It's unfortunate that so many people are ignorant, white supremacist trying to prove they were better than the indigenous people and just full of ludicrous claims without evidence

[@tannithk.correa1331]

A crack in the earth magnetic field has open. Whoever the first Americans were I hope they were original to the planet ultraviolet UVC radiation it is now at ground level 40% increase in death rate 18 to 49 doctor said they don't know what's going on? What happened in 2021 and 2020 it rhymes with the word vasectomy endometriosis low sperm count. Whoever the first Americans are I hope they could withstand all that solar radiation.

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

😊How are you doing Deborah Danhauer? Your comment makes me smile 😊 How are you doing?

[@ForwardNewsToday]

How old are beavers? When did they evolve? The earliest humans could’ve witnessed beavers chopping down trees and easily learned how to do so themselves

[@craigdouglasmartens7037]

Please refer to Dake Rechsand to understand desert geening conďitions. This could really assist.

[@ededdedgar9239]

I im Native American south mexico i love all my people from Americas this is our land not the white men or any men but the brown skin men

[@ellanina801]

With all due respect, don’t the people belong to the land tho? The white men stole the land, I acknowledge that part of history. Aren’t the Indigenous Peoples keepers and protectors of the land who is the Mother, and the people inhabit her and she protects them and nourishes them in return? She does not belong to anyone, we belong to her, and we are her children-that’s what I learned. When the white men came, I thought our Mother wanted us to unite in common and the Indigenous People were supposed to bring the White Men back to her through them and their teachings…? Instead they have exploited her, and try continuously to destroy and exploit Indigenous Peoples. That was what I have learned, and some of the Indigenous People have become sick with the Colonialist culture, where they were asked to heal the white men. Our Mother loves all of her children, but the white men got lost somewhere along the way, and we are all supposed to return to her. That’s really what I had been taught.

[@jolldoes1515]

And today the white man shooting rockets on the moon running some tests !!!This is unfortunately but they have done more damages then good .They are constantly going against God principals .

[@hannah1943]

@@ellanina801 word is the white conquer design like everybody else around the planet did.including anative Aborigines

[@mojangthecockatoo9153]

A tall white race that the natives called "si-te-cah" lived here before they did and they killed the last of them in lovelock cave according to their own legends.

[@ellanina801]

It sounds like that happened because those people were cannibals.

[@mojangthecockatoo9153]

@@ellanina801 If i recall correctly, legends said that the si-te-cah dug pits on trails to catch/kill them. The natives however used game trails to walk on, so the intended target was likely wild animals. If your hunting trap is sprung by a native instead of a deer, and has most likely been impaled on spikes, they likely wouldn't waste the meat.

[@mojangthecockatoo9153]

@@ellanina801 the white race lived here first and the natives moved in, outnumbered them and committed genocide.

[@ocelotl7416]

Europeans and their fairytales are so hilarious.

[@john.rc.3274]

Looks like humans have been attempting to change, modify and alter their environment since humans first appeared on the planet for their survival with just a little attention to the effects of this change on the distant future . With newer technology the humans continue this trend at a very rapid and alarming pace. Thank for giving us this historical context as to why we are at currently and probably where we will be at in the future.

[@saborfrancias]

*Where is the part when they talk about human sacrifies*?

[@Erik-op2hy]

That’s after the white people came.. you know.. people who stole the land

[@pixie3760]

I wish it was the same in Australia. So many languages and traditions lost forever. Often when an Elder passes so does the history and often the language. If you knew how many languages we lose every day you'd cry. EG: who knows how to say hello in French? Most of you. Who knows how to say hello in one of our Koori languages??? I'm proudly Koori ( we have regressive genes) Indigenous Americans are our brothers and sisters. Don't please Don't lose your traditions.

[@ashleelarsen5002]

California loves you Australia!!!

[@ThermicLight]

"Often when an Elder passes so does the history and often the language." You can be sure that it was lost well before anyone landed. Especially without the written word history and languages change overtime losing any semblance of what they originally where. That's why we still know French. It's even why we know languages of Ancient Egypt because people then had the good sense to write it down.

[@sazajac77z]

Been this way for thousands of years

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

You are a white woman -COMANCHE NATION

[@pixie3760]

@@sazajac77z being this way for thousands of years still doesn't make it right, it in fact further reinforces the need for indigenous traditions to continue. You can't say age justifies anything.

[@carlosridd140]

My people. Soon our day will come. Be prepared

[@ClickClack_Bam]

What's that supposed to mean?

[@carlosridd140]

@@ClickClack_Bam it means togetherness of peace love brotha

[@PyrrhicPax]

If tribes across the country are willing to fight for sovereignty when the Second American Civil War breaks out, I'll fight for my tribe, and hopefully, a Union of Tribal Nations or some sort. I think tribal membership should be based on heritage, not genetics, but aside from that, Tecumseh was right, tribal nations have to stand together if the federal government is to be resisted. If I were talking about States banning together to resist the federal government, conservatives would agree but for some reason they don't think native Americans deserve independence.

[@dbix11]

just keep to your peace pipe and fire water, chief

[@carlosridd140]

@@dbix11 this dude understood the assignment

[@ered203]

During the section on the terra preta, the father is telling the son, "When I was young, my father had me mix the soil." Son (enthusiastic but naive) - "Can I do that one day?" Dad - "Why do you think I brought you all the way out here? Not only are you ALLOWED to mix the soil, but from now on, you're ALWAYS going to mix the soil. Grab that stick over there and get to work, boy."

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?!

[@Dougarrowhead]

What a wonderful story. I bet every word of it is true.

[@zephheine9681]

corn is yum..and you can pop corn it😋😋

[@funveeable]

The corn grown today is Yellow Dent 2 corn, which is taken from Native American corn and genetically modified by US farmers into the sweet corn we enjoy today. A merging of the old and the new.

[@rhondagilbert-puketapu6246]

The Natives of Turtleland “America” renamed by Christopher Colombus, have been carrying this knowledge since the beginning of times Creation. They hold valuable information, same with many indigenous peoples across the world. Westerns came in and blew this knowledge away, and now we live in a society that is unbalanced. The poor, the wealthy, religions.. All believing in different beliefs, belittling others. Narcissism is everywhere all created my a Westernised System. Unhealthy. Native Americans and Indigenous peoples hold “ the way of life”. We can learn so much from them.

[@SSHitMan]

Exactly, bring back cannibalism and human sacrifice!

[@kieranh2005]

Rhonda... from your name, you're Maori. Remember that while westerners, yes, did do these things, the indigenes themselves were doing them long before we got here. Who burned the old forests before westerners ever set foot in these lands? Was that done to live in balance with the ecosystem? Where are the moa today?

[@rhondagilbert-puketapu6246]

@@SSHitMan Agree to disagree, Eureopeans weren’t any better. Again my opinion based on humanity today, something’s gonna change, and some are just in for a rude awakening.

[@rhondagilbert-puketapu6246]

@@kieranh2005 What’s me being Māori got to do with my comment? That’s how uneducated one can be, by assuming I’m “just Māori I’m also Pakeha so “remember that”. My previous comment stated nothing against white black red blue, I’m talking about a System a “Westernised System” that doesn’t seem to be working for humankind. What is the ecosystem to you?? And what do you know about the Moa? You read a book and ran with it, or heard a storie and went with that. This presents how much “knowledge” one doesn’t have. Just knows bits and pieces kinda scary ones going to spread a plague if misconception.

[@SSHitMan]

@@rhondagilbert-puketapu6246 Europeans didn't engage in cannibalism and human sacrifice.

[@Sabotage_Labs]

Ok so.. I have a respect for the natives. Living in AZ and being fortunate enough to be accepted in an tribe, I've learned a lot and have to come to appreciate many things about their culture. Buuuuut.... after 20 years..,at least her in north America...they still didn't come up with the wheel. Round rolling things are pretty common in nature. Ok... kinda playing but... to keep things in perspective. The Native tribes in most ways were just like Asian or European groups. For instance... the Aztecs were some straight up pyscopathic killers. They loved their sacrifices! You were s better warriors for capturing...and not killing...your enemy in battle so that the high priest could slice him open from stern to stem, reach into his chest and rip out his besting heart. The warriors family would then make some human heart stir fry to gain his power. Good times. In North America, the Lakota Soiux, who.,, have amazing family bonds and love to laugh. Well, they were traced back to the Ohio Valley area and migrated up over the great lakes and then down into the plains...just killing, slaughtering and enslaving any unfortunate tribe they encountered. Just mentioning these things as there's been a lot of misinformation in these overly political times. The Natives did what the white man did to them. They just unfortunately did have the technology or numbers to compete. Had they..,they would have won. That's why the US Army names rotor aircraft after them. Out of respect and admiration of their fierceness in battle and devotion to their people. They honor them!

[@rhino5100]

Have you read any real scholarship about the human sacrifice in the early Americas? There were many varieties of it. There is the sacrifice that occurred in war that you speak about. There are other kinds also. There as a discovery in the past couple of years of a Mezo-South American sacrificial victim who as a female, aged about 15 years at the time of her death. Her body showed signs that at the time of her death she was suffering from late stage tuberculosis. She would have been suffering greatly and also have been a risk to the community because of her communicable disease. The chemical analysis of her remains showed that she was given a highly intoxicating drink before her death so that she wouldn't have likely been fully aware of what was happening to her at the time. Her death would have (1) ended her suffering, (2) protected the community from her disease, and (3) possibly given some meaning to her life and death due to the ritual nature and the belief system in the community which would have included her family. In a society that didn't have a cure for the disease and didn't have an understanding of what caused that kind of suffering, it really wasn't the dumbest or cruelest thing they could have done. They were doing something that made sense at the time inside of their belief system. Not stupid really.

[@colehartel7206]

Inventing wheels is not simply about round rolling things. It's more about how to design a bearing system that allows an axle to turn while it carries weight, while also having ground that is both smooth and firm enough to make wheels actually useful.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Europeans brought the first STDS and COVID. You are still illegal. -COMANCHE NATION

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

@@rhino5100 Abortion clinics? -COMANCHE NATION

[@eveoakley6270]

@@rhino5100 there were many reasons for human sacrifice, the one you described was only one of them. I once read a book about human sacrifice through the ages and most of it was to just psychopathic slaughter.

[@MrGA555]

You know, I think we still miss the point. We keep thinking of villages and a small groups of people that managed the land. I think in reality it was massive cities and HUGE groups of people that manage acres of land. Of course in their down fall, they were so interwind with nature that the environment easily reclaimed their creation.

[@wrongplanet1957]

#MayGodAlwaysWhisperToTheCherokee

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?-

[@Angel268201]

Ok. So what? What is your point? That you should be exempt from being conquered? What about cannibalism and human sacrifices and the “Flower Wars” of the Aztecs? Cannibalism was evident in North, Central, and South Americans. Why should the Natives of the Americas be exempt from conquest?

[@ClickClack_Bam]

Exactly. They conquered one another! They absolutely erased other Indian tribes through sexual enslavement of the women & murdering all of the men! The Europeans just played the SAME EXACT game but better. For anybody who doesn't already know this, go read what the Indians used to do to one another! It's brutality on a whole other level! I mean burying an Indian into the Earth & cutting his eyelids off so he goes blind from sunburn before succumbing to dehydration which makes you hallucinate before you die blinded! Scalping. Genial mutilation. They would slowly torture one another through light beatings & give water & food to the Indian to recover them only to up the violence a little more! For many tribes it was the WOMEN who did the torturing!

[@PyrrhicPax]

Lol you just got TRIGGERED 😂 Yes, native Americans, along with all people, should be exempt from conquest. Conquest is immoral and wrong. Although the past cannot be changed it can be acknowledged. Cannibalism was also NOT evident in North America, and the ONLY "evidence" of cannibalism is limited to the Carib tribes in an account by one of Columbus's men, and in account by a dutch merchant who claimed to ve captured by Aztecs and rescued by a French fur trader who escorted him to Spanish ships, however that is regarded by some as a folktale. There is no *archeological* evidence of cannibalism. Just because it's not the history of what you might see as "your" people, does not mean it does not deserve to be remembered and respected, as ALL history of ALL peoples should be.

[@ellanina801]

As if what is happening now isn’t worse than cannibalism. The current system keeps us alive and controlled. Also, the mass slaughtering of other humans is a European Culture thing, and applies in larger numbers than any amount of cannibalism in any culture you could possibly be talking about-also, the above comment about there not being any evidence in North America sounds like what I have also learned. Even Aztec and Mayan sacrifice was grossly exaggerated. Like ALL of The Trails of Tears and the intentional attempt at erasure of Native Languages and Cultural Heritage is insignificant? Didn’t the European murder more than half of the Native populations??? I know that the Mormons slaughtered many Natives, then turned around and played the victims (and sadly Mormon culture is present in some Native tribal practices in Utah and Nevada - I have witnessed this first hand).

[@SSHitMan]

@@PyrrhicPax Cannibalism was definitely a thing in North American Indians, as documented in their own oral histories. And it was the Arawak Indians who told the Spanish about the Carib penchant for human flesh. And there is a story about the time the Winnebagos killed 500 Illinois Indians who had come to help them, and then they ate them. I know this is inconvenient for you but real history matters.

[@Angel268201]

@@PyrrhicPax is it immoral? And according to whom?

[@HoldYourBreat4]

Master their environment but hadn’t invented the wheel by the 19th century

[@PyrrhicPax]

They had clean cities, natural medicine and a plague free society, while your ancestors were killing cats to keep the plague out of super slums, drinking led, and using cocaine to cure headaches lol oh but u had carts and guns gtfoh! 😂

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

Right. Exactly right. See, the modern culture thinks to master the environment means to tame it, or make it over into something we like better. Native people mastered the environment by learning to live with it as it was, so it would always be there as it was to feed generations of humans forever.

[@jr3753]

Wheel was present in mesoamerica

[@HoldYourBreat4]

@@jr3753 was not discovered or used by American Plains Tribes

[@ocelotl7416]

@@HoldYourBreat4 Europeans didn’t come up with the wheel either. The oldest evidence of wheels in India, for example, dates from 4,500 years ago. The wheel did not reach Europe until 3,000 years ago. In the Old World, one of the last peoples to adopt the wheel were the Britons just 2,500 years ago.

[@trumpbidensameclub6668]

I am native American because I was born here. Cherokee too. 😁👍

[@thebomontellano4996]

Sure buddy. All whites say that they're Cherokee. 😂

[@GehanAdel]

This kind of documentary should be exposed in schools as an educational materials this is an effective way to let new generation know their history by resurrect the history and let them be in this era they will not forget it it is far superior to trawl through information in books 📚🤷 thanks for your efforts

[@letlovealwaysleaddonovan72]

How are you doing Gehan Adel?

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?,

[@Randomvideos502]

Real Americans ✊🏻

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@baswordfish]

This is the 2nd on 8 episodes : Environnement

[@limaysemental66]

In NICARAGUA (central America) it was sad language call MALESPIN my grandpa use to speak with one of his friends when he visits him, but that language didn't came to my ears and knowledge, government forced to forgets our aboriginals language. That bad.

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?

[@arturasstatkus8613]

A-HO! Great People!!!

[@davidmrodriguez8067]

I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm David by name from Overbrook Philadelphia and you where are you from?