Indigenous History of the Pacific Northwest Coast

[@AncientAmericas]

Splendid video! I always learn a lot from your stuff, especially when you discuss the more modern side of the history. Great job!

[@davidgjam7600]

Ive been looking for a long time for a channel like this. Theres no real excuse, but it can be hard for me to sit down and read history books, so I'm grateful that I found a channel that talks about Willamette Valley & Oregon Coast native history. Even despite a lot of progress, I find that it's like an uphill battle to find resources about native cultures, when there's reams and reams of settler history that's easily digestible and well-curated. I hope that as time goes on, everyone in the PNW starts to interalize the fact that there are parallel lived cultures all around us that deserve dignity and respect as nations.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

It’s not your fault. Good scholarship about Indigenous history that doesn’t just parrot settler biases is really hard to come by. Fortunately, that’s been changing recently (which makes my job of finding it easier), but there’s still a lot more work to be done.

[@Rockstar97321]

I live in the Willamette Valley. In 2013, a member of a historical society near Albany (about 60 miles south of Portland) gave me a map of around 145 Calapooia mounds and burial mounds between Albany, Halsey, Brownsville, and Shedd. The map was made around 1950 for the Linn (County) Historical Society. I investigated almost every mound site, and found only one mound that had not been looted and flattened. That mound is in South Albany near 53rd Street. It is about the size of a football field. I took a copy of the map to the museum near Spirit Mountain Casino. The curator of the museum assured me that he had that map, and part of his job was to keep maps like that out of circulation. We were in the back room of the museum, and I saw dozens of maps similar to mine rolled up and neatly organized. I asked him if I could look at them, and he said that I could not.

[@grubbinvgm]

After watching the previous PNW vid, I clicked on this one expecting more "ancient" or "Pre-Columbian" history. Instead I faced an informative and well-made video on endless modern injustices. Sobering, but really well done. Thanks for this.

[@jackwellington8275]

this channel is a hidden gem

[@logistico21]

This is excellent work and well needed. There are language maps for the tribes which can be very helpful and informative about tribal migration patterns and cultural differences prior to European settlement. Worth a look if you haven’t studied them.

[@TheSerfTimes]

You make learning fun!

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

That is such a high complement! That’s exactly what I hope to do, thank you!

[@RichGilpin]

Great work! I would look forward on your take on Chinook tribal recognition. A complex story with a long documented history yet not the recent history or 'political clout' to obtain tribal status. I was born over 70 years ago in Clatskanie, Oregon, and until my sister passed 3 years ago this spring have always had ties to the lower Columbia river even though I moved away when i was 6. Only when I took part in a Lewis and Clark bicentennial planning meeting in Vancouver, Washington did I, as an adult, knowingly meet a member to the tribe. Even though I had excellent teachers and education throughout the northwest, there was little exposure of Indigenous Cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Your series is providing insight much needed especially by those of us living in the Pacific Northwest. I learned a lot from this, right up to current events like the Canoe Journey.

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Thank you for your kind words. Chinook tribal recognition is now on the list of suggestions!

[@haleyguthrie3113]

I want a video on our "Vikings" of the PNW, the Haida

[@njshultz7735]

I grew up outside Portland and in third grade we learned all about the Natives of the area. We have a performance of the dances and we went on a field trip to Chief Lelooska, who would have a Potlatch Ceremony and Dances

[@Ooze_yt]

Thank you for the video

[@AVERYSADVENTUREWORLD]

i love your channel keep up the good work

[@redoktopus3047]

My all time favorite bioregion on earth. Very happy to have a video lecture on the history of its first peoples!

[@swed9339]

W Video you should do a in depth video on all the tribes on Vancouver island and the the coast next to the island

[@kylecurkan2825]

These are really great videos and thank you for making them, keep it up!

[@haleyguthrie3113]

Chief Se'ntl's tribe was the Duwamish and are not federally recognized. Chief Se'ntl also sent help to settlers when they were attacked by a different tribe in the War of Seattle. THEN...named Seattle after him, while he was forced to leave for a reservation.

[@tsibdatixpayac9594]

Se'ntl????

[@haleyguthrie3113]

It's a more accurate pronunciation than "Seattle". Many native words have been anglicized over the years. Sasquatch is another, it sounds more like "se'sxac". There isn't a write way to spell many words without complex alphabet.

[@greymatter6834]

Your sniffling the right tree. There are a thousand variation’s. Good work anyhow. 🌎

[@allenschmitz9644]

not the law of the jungle, but a new world order and no new tax's.

[@hagvaktok]

Wow, you did your homework. I'm always amazed that NW cultures survived through the epidemic years when their populations plummeted. How would customs survive if most of the tribe was dead? At 5:28, Hearne's route did not take him to Bathurst Inlet [as shown on the map], but to Bloody Falls at the mouth of the Coppermine River on the west end of Coronation Gulf.

[@adrianbluepythons]

Great content

[@97kodiak]

That is awesome I’m KZbin famous I’m featured in you photo of canoe journey

[@Ooze_yt]

I can imagine the natives heading up the rouge to there summer hunting grounds in agness.thank you

[@nathanbunney3604]

Incredible anthropology videos, I am an anthro student going to uw next year and I’m yet to find anything better than these videos on pnw coast indigenous people

[@angryatheist]

Have to tell you my friend , I’m very triggered by what’s happening around the 10 minute…. 😢 for me , I don’t know how to greave for what I don’t know but grief is the only word there is for ….. this generational trauma

[@whoohw5780]

Womp womp

[@jeaninecalderon121]

Epic great video. tnx Im Quileute!!!!! 💪❤🧡💛💚💙

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

Ah! I love La Push it’s so gorgeous out there

[@DillonHartwigPersonalChannel]

Is this a reupload of the other video or a new one?

[@angryatheist]

@@IndigenousHistoryNow hello my friend quick question. What’s bp ?

[@AncientAmericas]

@@angryatheist BP means Before Present. It's a measure of years before the advent of carbon dating (1950). If you're ok with rounding up a bit, you can just take a BP date, subtract 2000 and get the rough BC/BCE date. Hope that helps.

[@angryatheist]

@@AncientAmericas lol cheers tag team , yeah that’s perfect I knew it was something like that just never heard it before so wasn’t sure what it meant specifically 💜

[@allenschmitz9644]

@@AncientAmericas No.2 lead pencil.

[@kidmohair8151]

feeding the algo-deities insatiable maw

[@allenschmitz9644]

But with class.😉

[@Ms.matrixmetaphor]

Mukilteo in❤Washington for sure was native land and yet not recognized even to this day. But having native blood I can feel it and I know it just being there .

[@louisjov]

I grew up in the local Seattle commercial fishing world, and the Boldt decision I remember growing up was always viewed as kind of a travesty, The argument was giving half the fish to 10% of the fishermen was unfair I've since developed more nuanced understanding of native and white relations, and the decision seems a lot more reasonable given the context of treaty agreements, and also ya know, the rampant stealing and pillaging that was going on for centuries

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

I went through the same journey when I first learned about this. Stay tuned, a whole video on that topic is only a few weeks away

[@louisjov]

@@IndigenousHistoryNow Nice. Yeah the topic of the Boldt decision, and native/white fisheries relations in general is an interesting one. It's something I've never really seen covered well, or really at all on KZbin. The relationship of the public's relationship with commercial fishing in general is an interesting one also, though that particular situation is a little outside the scope of your channel.

[@adamhauskins6407]

One can't get much more fair than 50 50

[@karenabrams8986]

There is a town in my county still named after murderers. It was named Kelseyville from Big Valley about a hundred years ago. There is a big fight going on about a request to change the name. It needs to change. Nothing should be named after mass murderers.

[@soldierman3828]

What does BP mean?

[@IndigenousHistoryNow]

It stands for “before present,” it’s roughly equivalent to saying “years ago”

[@karenabrams8986]

Thanks!

[@tmadden4951]

Looks like closer to 29,000 years

[@allenschmitz9644]

Man!, you did your home work, the tribal legal thing is a thing now.

[@clairerobsin]

@38:00 ...'Masters of their Environment'? How comes it took Capt. Cook to look after the Cartography of it all then?

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

Cartography has nothing to do with any of the points raised at the time stamp you’ve referenced.

[@EmceeSurge]

Environment=/= maps. I have no idea what you're trying to suggest here. Mastering an environment does not require physically mapping it, and with a fundamentally different sense of direction that doesn't use the so-called cardinal directions, I honestly don't know where to start to help you learn.

[@clairerobsin]

@10:26 ...yes, please be Clear about these matters.