Indigenous People of the Pacific Northwest DOCUMENTARY

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[@CJStrongheart]

I am from this territory, I am Carrier from the Sai'kuz Nation. Thank you for sharing a piece of my people's story.

[@nathanielvashaw2328]

I live in the Pacific Northwest (Washington State), thank you so much Kings & Generals for exploring this gorgeous region that is my home on your channel

[@tannerdenny5430]

Me too. To both

[@immortal2u]

@@tannerdenny5430Me three to both, born and raised.

[@bryank3500]

Me too..born and grew up in Everett...thanks Kings & Generals.

[@nathanielvashaw2328]

@@bryank3500Born in Oregon, raised in Washington

[@atlegangmoeketsi8865]

​@@nathanielvashaw2328 I'm just curious but which tribe are you from, or are you European descendant?

[@andrewhansen6404]

As someone that lives right next to the Lummi nation, it’s always really cool to see this regions indigenous history and culture get the attention and appreciation it deserves.

[@Mancub2024]

Not just the lummi! But also the upper skagit, nooksack, and sammish nations too! I grew up in Whatcom county myself, learning coast salish history and culture inspired my anthropology degree. The lummi hold the distinction of inventing reef netting, one of the most efficient and sustainable meathods of large scale fishing in the world

[@roihanfadhil2879]

The history of Pre-Columbian native American society is very underrated and interesting!

[@kaiheaton4858]

What I like about it most is they would insure the land would sustain 7 generations after their own.

[@fabiandoge1210]

@@kaiheaton4858 And when generosity is the indicator for how rich you are, you come to an understanding of why it is like that in my opinion.

[@collinward1241]

Video on the Inuit or Iroquois next?

[@Gen.berseker25]

This reminds me a lot of Disney's Brother Bear!

[@mattROKX]

Heck Yeah! I'm super excited to hear about this subject! I live in the Pacific Northwest and I've been trying to learn as much as I can about the people who have lived here for thousands of years in this beautiful place.

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

this is minor and it would have been a nice sentiment anyway, but im glad that u said "have lived" and not "lived". the social narrative has tended to present them in the past tense but indigenous people are very much still here in a very real way and thats gotta be common knowledge

[@mattROKX]

@@user-ze7sj4qy6q Absolutely! They're still here! When I was in elementary school we took a field trip to a Chinook plankhouse/museum, and got to see a performance of their dance ceremonies. It really impacted me and gave me a deep respect for the people of this land, and made me want to learn more about them.

[@sydliriousgaming769]

I love that you’re doing the native people of the North America and Canada regions. They are proud people and know the land before we did and glad your showing there stories

[@TJSchwood]

I love the more unexploded parts of history

[@BallisticDamages]

Really would love more in-depth videos on the peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Their history and culture is so rich, but so little is actually passed on in our educational system

[@ilovemesomme]

Please do a video on the Nez Perce, Yakima, Coeur D'Alene, Kootenay, and Shoshone-Bannock/Shoshone-Paiute next.

[@daniellawson652]

Yes please. I live inland and it would be very interesting to hear and learn how inland tribes lived and had to confederate to survive.

[@ilovemesomme]

@@daniellawson652 The Kootenay are especially interesting. They're a complete language isolate, and rebelled against the federal government in recent memory.

[@Dmitri_Donskoy]

I literally lives 50 feet away from the Fraser river lmao. Watching this on my balcony hit diff😂😂😂

[@abcdef27669]

Always good to hear about pre-columbian peoples. Suggestion for another video: The Great Tupi Migration from Amazon towards the coastal areas of Brazil, and their fights againts the Jê Tribes. There are several legends about this great migration, about the search of a mythical land called Ivy Mara Ey ("Land without Evil", in Tupi), under the leadership of a single chieftain called Tupi, the ancestor of all Tupi tribes.

[@nigelboyle3526]

Thanks kings and generals for using my language Dän K'e to describe our lands and not using the English term southern tutchone. It was the first time anywhere I've seen it being used other than by my First Nation.

[@KingsandGenerals]

The writer for the episode has been specializing on the history of the region

[@nigelboyle3526]

@KingsandGenerals For translation, Dän means people. Specifically our people. And K'e means way. So Dän K'e means "Our Way." As a joke, when The Mandalorian came out, we would say "this is the way" all the time to describe ourselves.

[@nigelboyle3526]

@KingsandGenerals I also sent this video to our language group chat for everyone to watch. Great job as usual. I've been a follower since the beginning. This is one of my favorite channels.

[@asundryofsins9635]

I'd pay thousands to just watch a single documentary about the Haida of this quality from K&G

[@nellym46664]

Next time please don't place additional text at the bottom of the screen because when I pause to read it, YT's UI obscures it.

[@lerneanlion]

This video made me wanting to study about the histories on both sides of the borders that split the Pacific Northwest between the U.S and Canada now. So thank you!

[@Sermentian1867]

Please do one for the indigenous plains peoples of Canada. And one for the Inuit please

[@onionmilk5855]

Writing an essay about this 🔥

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@kwitshadie6539]

Awesome video of the Pacific Northwest. My Step-Dad’s family; the Chinook have legends of taking 5 year trips to Japan and bringing wives as souvenirs. The legends also state that Turquoise was gathered from the Mexico area. :) Chinook Wawa was a trade language that was used as a commercial language in the Pacific Northwest until the Great Depression.

[@pencilvulture]

Thank you for increasing the awareness of the history and culture of the region I live in! Love from Washington ❤

[@offroadturkey]

sweet! Im from Oregon and love to learn more about the areas indigenous peoples! Very underrepresented! Cheers!

[@RespawnM]

Born and raised on Vancouver Island, I really appreciate this video! :) Thank you for all the amazing content

[@airborngrmp1]

I've been living in the PNW for over a decade now, and it is by far the most historically and naturally interesting, diverse and breath-takingly beautiful places I've ever been, and I've moved around the N. American continent quite a lot. This area (along with the central Mexican isthmus) are historically, culturally and culinarily far and away more complex, sophisticated and fascinating than any other region I've visited on the continent.

[@gilbertosantos2806]

This is Fantastic! Not enough people know the history of Indigenous people in North America, and Videos like this help quell ignorance!

[@zachjordan7608]

I absolutely love Coast Salish art and totem poles, they are unbelievably beautiful

[@shanestevens5352]

My stepmom is from the Haida tribe in Alaska and I’ve lived most of my life in the Pacific Northwest. I appreciate the video

[@jacobloomis6350]

One of my favorite things about the Indigenous Peoples of the PNW is how they passed down history through oral traditions, especially the history of natural disasters like the 1700 Cascadia Earthquake and even as far back as the eruption of Mount Mazama which forms today's Crater Lake

[@Reformedhillbilly369]

Such a joy to see attention given to this lesser known but vibrant culture. Excellent work Kings & Generals.

[@Wkumar07]

Fascinating subject that I did not expect to see on this channel!

[@Rainforestdelight]

You forgot to add the Nuxalk nation in your map of the PNW.

[@richardcook3328]

I couldn't be more pleased to receive this video. It's a subject with which far too few Americans are familiar. In fact, to the extent sufficient history has been preserved (in the face of forced assimilation policy), I'd love to see more videos devoted to the history of individual NW coastal tribal nations.

[@Jim-Stick]

This is great! I live on Vancouver Island and am part of the kwakiutl first nation. It's great to see things about our area and people.

[@AdrianBoyko]

I lived in Vancouver for 10 (pre-KZbin) years during which I learned about 1/20th of the content of this 20 minute video. Well done. Now that one episode of Stargate SG-1 makes a lot more sense!

[@andrewneilson8461]

I LOVE this! More exploration of these kinds of civilisations! Mauri and the Pacific kingdoms next or King Kamehameha in Hawaii

[@arjunroy4468]

Please Make a Doumentary On The Indigenous Peoples Of The Andaman and Nicobar Islands!

[@blazinchalice]

Thank you for focusing on this fascinating inkling into a peoples not well understood by people not of the region.

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

A series on Timurid dynasty or series on Kannujj Tripartite struggle when?

[@Algenro]

Cool Plz make a video about austronesian expansion

[@orktv4673]

Excellent video. I'm still having a bit of a blind spot when it comes to pre-colonial America, like nothing happened there except for some random tribes, but society there was in fact very lively. I'd like to know more about the political situation. They waged wars and raided for slaves, but which entities did that? Families? Clans? Confederations? Please keep on making these!

[@praphaichanthachon2147]

Thank you

[@darylmckay]

It's incredible how many similarities there are between the peoples of the Pacific Northwest and the peoples of the Pacific and the Maori of Aotearoa 😮

[@huebdoo]

So in Canada ... we call it the west or south coast ... PNW is an American context. I grew up in the heart of the BC Coast where I grew up using Chinook Jargon without even knowing it. We called the Sea the "Salt Chuck" and someone who was Big was "Skookum" going into the woods was "going into the sticks" ... I grew up next to the Tla'amin peoples.

[@rahowherox1177]

Lol... Americans... it would be the north east pacific to most ...

[@davidford694]

My father was partly brought up by a Haida, Florrie. He was the second white child born in Prince Rupert, BC. While this video does a good job of outlining the broad outline of the history involved, its treatment of the relationship between the settlers and the indigenous people lacks subtlety. The settlers didn't all wear black hats! Take the residential schools, for example. They were not entirely set up as instruments of oppression. The government of the day realized that it was going to be very difficult for illiterate hunter gatherers to survive in the culture the settlers brought with them, and thus there was a need to provide them with the basic skills. The residential school model was a response to an intractable logistical problem. The students were thinly scattered over a wide area. It wasn't practical to bring teachers to them. And while abuses certainly existed, not all were hell holes. Recall that at that time it was customary for the British upper classes to send their children off to residential school (a.k.a. "public" schools) at a very early age, and this is the model the administrators had in mind. I think it is not unreasonable to say that the current cultural and political resurgence of the northwest peoples is based on the educational background the schools provided.

[@rorymonkey]

I'm from SE Alaska. Thank you for this video.

[@4Fixerdave]

You nailed it. Best 20min summary of this incredibly complicated topic I've seen. Second time this week I've seen a "best in class" description of some complicated subject by a youtube channel I've subscribed to for entirely different content. I love the internet :)

[@krspaceT1]

Timely for my last day in British Columbia

[@oddbird5825]

Aw man. Great video but I wish you mentioned the Salish dogs. It’s cool that you mention the cedar bark clothing but there was another way they made clothes. There was a breed of now extinct dog that they essentially used for wool. They would take hair from their dogs and turn it into clothing. Some of that clothing is around today and they’ve done genetic testing to it that proves the case.

[@Jane_8319]

This is an important video. The genocides against native Americans are a horrifying chapter of history that, in many ways, still hasn’t ended. Thank you for covering this part of the world.

[@deron2203]

I appreciate this so very much! I live in the northwest region (WA) and the native culture is sadly just not talked about as much. I'm gonna show them this to help spread the awareness of the culture that they have access to see for themselves!

[@samuelbutler3215]

I like these cultural videos even more so than the battle ones

[@JOGA_Wills]

Cascadia has been getting a lot of [KZbin] press lately. Im always here to ingest more knowledge, the niche the better

[@musicaccount7116]

I really wish the Indigenous people would've had the ability to write their language down. Image the history and stories we would have from the natives of any land. Alot what we have today is from oral stories passed on, I'm sure there was many more we could heard and learned from.

[@tuzonthume]

cedar and salmon are the legacy of my ancestors.

[@Goodsdogs]

Did it have to be a 20min video ? I like the 3 hour ones XD

[@fletchercarr8435]

Very interesting

[@janlindtner305]

Outstanding lecture and thank you very much for it. Could Kings and Generals do a similar one about Inuit?👍👍👍

[@berserkerboy9777]

Oregonian here

[@sarantissporidis391]

1996?!

[@ramzcoldlampin5460]

PNW represent! 🙌

[@brendamoote7304]

Instead of making a 20 minute video of all of them in one video . Why not to a 90 minute. Then you can do a 20 minute video of each one. I know I’m interested in the people who first lived here .🐻‍❄️🦅✌🏼♥️

[@lunarsoul1737]

Reminder that roughly 2 indigenous languages in the US (not sure about Canada unfortunately) go extinct each year! Keeping them around is incredibly important as language is one of the foundations of culture.

[@feartheamish9183]

Love these would appreciate more deep dives into Native American cultures pre Columbian exchange

[@Unknown-yz4ji]

Well that was fast

[@AlfonsoTheTraitor]

You’re absolutely correct 20 minutes is not enough and I’m sure I am not alone when I say I would love to see more in depth episodes of the people’s of the Pacific Northwest. I hope we see more.

[@flamingbird101]

I like totems.

[@Gen.berseker25]

I’m absolutely buzzing with Disney vibes right now! This totally transports me back to Disney's Brother Bear, but set in the breathtaking landscapes of Alaska during the Pleistocene era!

[@LostInSpace175]

First thought too!! Reminds me of Disney !

[@fungisrock8955]

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO (born in Oregon, this was my social studies)

[@TheLawDawg]

Nicely done. So rare to see anything on north America’s First Nations that is both fair and accurate.

[@uria3679]

Please make a video on The Battle Of Fishguard The official last time mainland Britain was invaded

[@Brabantian]

I'm curious to know how much of this is fact vs mostly assumed with how they didn't keep written records

[@marcanton5357]

With these kinds of oral societies, every new thing they come up with ends up as "always was" and "since the beginning of time" when recorded orally, and that old thing that they would have done for 1000 years gets forgotten without anyone ever noticing.

[@tannerdenny5430]

Ah cool. Not enough coverage of it. I'm in Seattle so of course I think so. And my great great '' grampa was the first white man to build a cabin up there. The old family property, South lake union Seattle, is called "Denny way". We're all tied into history somehow.

[@SouthPaw444]

Ok, but what about the indigenous people of the specific northwest?

[@JohnMcgrane-k7x]

Do a documentary of Scotland and Ireland a English and Welsh please

[@JohnDoe-vi1im]

Shouldn't there have been many more than just 250'000 people in such a large area, especially given the natural wealth of the region?

[@drewgraham1085]

I really enjoyed this ❤

[@Guydude777]

That was really interesting! Thanks.

[@treyburton1469]

So proud of my people (I’m a white German/Irish descended man)

[@avataryellow]

Love it! As an Oregonian, i love learning about the Chinook and others who came here first

[@Playernumbernull]

I honestly thought the title read "Disingenuous People of the Pacific Northwest".

[@CrackinJacks138]

This guy bragging about being dyslexic, what the hell

[@ceejayjohnson1533]

Tlingits had some of the first bullet proof armor among the indigenous peoples on this continent We recently had the U.S. Army in Wrangell, Alaska for a military apology about the bombardment of the village. One of the local clans adopted the 2-star general who was there to extend the apology Last year, the U.S. Navy was also in Kake and Angoon to apology to those Tlingit villages as well Thanks for the video! Really enjoyed it

[@ohno6676]

Could you do a video on Californian tribes like the Kumeyaay plz

[@parthiaball]

This was an amazing video and I very much enjoyed learning the cultures of this area, especially that if the Tlingit people. However, I had no idea this region was referred to as the Pacific Northwest, and I found the title very misleading because I didn't know. It makes no sense for the region to be called the Pacific Northwest, when it's actually the Pacific Northeast. The Pacific (Ocean) Northwest should refer to the area of the Northeast Asians/ Siberians, and *maybe* even the Micronesian people of northwest Oceania. Why on earth is the northeastern part of the Pacific Ocean along the coastal of North America referred to as the Pacific Northwest???

[@samanteater]

It's not the northwest of the Pacific, it's the northwest of the Americas.

[@parthiaball]

@samanteater Then it should be called Northwest America(s). "Pacific" indicates the geographical location on the earth, aka the Pacific Ocean. "Northwest" indicates a more specific area within that broader location.

[@samanteater]

@parthiaball It would if "Northwest" came first, but it doesn't. "Pacific" is the adjective, so it's a northwest that is Pacific (which is true), not a Pacific that's northwest. If that bugs you, you can always call it Cascadia instead.

[@parthiaball]

@samanteater Respectfully I disagree, whether one says "Pacific Northwest" or "Northwest Pacific", it still indicates the NW of the Pacific Ocean. But thank you for explaining! 😄

[@danzelbaker2390]

hey its me and mine :D

[@andi9188]

Nice

[@HistoryBeyondBordersTV]

Great video about the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America. I’m really impressed by their diversity and richness.

[@gamebawesome]

I live in Washington. So I thank you for making this video about the diverse cultures of the Pacific Northwest

[@Unsolicited-Info]

Ok I see we’re not ready to talk about small pox blankets yet 😪

[@SoldadoCatolico]

Doesn't matter how many antique references you use to try and make them look cool it ain't really working

[@orktv4673]

Speak for yourself, this video is awesome

[@dylanfreethy3005]

I grew up in Haida Gawaii, been watching Kings and Generals for years. Never thought my remote community would be highlighted. 😀

[@langleyj8199]

Eventually if not Europeans, one group or other would have arrived in NA. And all indigenous migrated to NA.

[@scottmarquardt3575]

grew up in West Seattle in the 70s &80s, was never told what was there before us colonizers. my mother pulled in with my older brother and I in a beat up car, ended up making millions building jets, real estate and marrying money. Gave it back to the natives by gambling

[@Medisinz]

Im from the sklallam, skokomish and nuxalk people. About time!!!

[@kdubbsthe3rd]

You should do one on the Calusa of Florida next.

[@markstyles1246]

Thankfully, for the last six years or so, the "modern" Canadian $10 bill has had Viola Desmond, a civil rights leader, on it.

[@drincmusic2769]

Why u talking about my great great grandparents

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

Just saying but I can’t wait to see a video on the indigenous people who lived on the Great Plains and the reason why is because they interest me a lot and the reason they interest me is because there were two major kinds / groups of the plains Indian tribes the first kind/ groups were fully nomadic people who followed the vast herds of American bison across the Great Plains and some of these people occasionally engaged in agriculture but they mostly were nomads and the tribes in this group are the Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda and Tonkwa tribes. The second major kind/ groups of plains Indians were sedentary and semi sedentary and in addition to hunting bison they lived in villages, raised crops and actively traded with other tribes and the tribes in this group are the Arikara, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kaw aka Kansa, Kitsai, Mandan, Missouria, Omaha, Osage, Otoe, Pawnee, Ponca, Quapaw, Wichita, Santee Dakota, Yanktonai and Yankton Dakota and besides these tribes there was also the Sioux.

[@matheusrondelleite8015]

The blackest day in history was when Cristopher Colombus sailed West

[@averongodoffire8098]

OOOOOH HELL YEAH THIS IS CONTENT WE CANADIANS ARE EATIN’ GOOOD TODAY FOLKS