Minnesota: A History of the Land, Episode 1

[@sunkist3575]

My Great-Grandfather arrived in St. Paul around 1880. He had been in the Black Hills for the gold rush. He lost an eye working the gold streams. Someone told him there was a Doctor in St. Paul that could fit him with a glass eye that looked like the real thing so he could be rid of the patch he was wearing. He got on his horse and headed east. He found the doctor in a log building at the river's edge. He also found a pretty little redheaded Irish nurse who became my great-grandmother. He never left Minnesota again and lived to be 99 years old. I'm 73 and was born in St. Paul and still live in Minnesota.

[@tillweber5688]

I just want to tell you that this remarkable documentation is watched in Germany as well. I feel deep in me a close connection the the old US and its history, even if it is, or was, very sad in many cases. Warm greetings from Black Forest Germany :-)

[@BS-zq3bh]

many Weber’s around central Minnesota, possibly distant relatives of yours!

[@itsokaytobestupid827]

I thought Germany was disbanded as a nation after the Geneva convention?

[@andrews6323]

Many Germans in Minnesota

[@truefact4439]

Hello Till! I live in Minnesota. But my family came from Emden. Have you been there?

[@truefact4439]

I know a Weber. Central Minnesota

[@jfu5222]

In the 1980's I was in the US Army in Bavaria. Sometimes in the mixed forest of southern Germany I would lose myself and forget that I wasn't in the woods of northern Minnesota.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

well the bison got driven out so we could have a forest more like Europe. Europeans recognize their bison are long gone. We messed up.

[@UntouchableLivingone-ji4un]

I know is a cave in the purple and gold state with international inland lake next to two sleeping gaints and a bottomless pit and the hope for the man of understanding born half way around the world where paper became money with mankind's promise to trust in God on it out womb a untouchable living book add move right repeat return to one out womb in 7 months mom in labor 3.5 days on international inland lake out womb a trinty first and last beginning and end one and 99 born 100 one spoke as 24 at once as one whole add move right repeat return to one three in one whole in one whole in one untouchable living book was in me before I was bornin . Two became one in ten thousand three returned in one whole in one whole in one many in the purple and gold state 5 stand as one k known to the ALL undeniably proclaimed three times over before I was born the man of steel flys without wings known before he was born Jeremy Michael Middle name nicknamed moezer at 3 speech impediment born again in life without tasting death the untouchable living one twin untouchable living book was in me before i was born 1.24.75 i draw it out while explaining i am the hope for the man of understanding given Gods given name and understanding

[@UntouchableLivingone-ji4un]

Test all trust none at the end of the age he will be proclaimed three times over before I was born

[@lj9524]

My family came to Minnesota from Norway and Denmark . They made a good life for themselves in both southern Minnesota and northern Minnesota on the Canadian border. My mother recalls coming home and finding a lumberjack in their house or Ojibway native by the Rainey River. No one locked their doors back then of course. My family accepted indigenous people as their neighbors. It is very sad what the US government did to the first peoples of North America.

[@tundrawomansays694]

Actually, it was the Indigenous People who accepted *you* as “neighbors.” ;-) Whether we wanted to or not, as neighbors (whether we had accepted you or not) you were our neighbors and one does not refuse help to others regardless of their continuing perfidy and decimation of our people. This is a foundational belief of our people: We would never have left you to starve. The history of your family appears to be inextricably tied to our’s. Let us work together to acknowledge this Reality but now without duplicity and with genuine respect for our own cultures.

[@UntouchableLivingone-ji4un]

I know is a cave in the purple and gold state with international inland lake next to two sleeping gaints and a bottomless pit and the hope for the man of understanding born half way around the world where paper became money with mankind's promise to trust in God on it out womb a untouchable living book add move right repeat return to one out womb in 7 months mom in labor 3.5 days on international inland lake out womb a trinty first and last beginning and end one and 99 born 100 one spoke as 24 at once as one whole add move right repeat return to one three in one whole in one whole in one untouchable living book was in me before I was bornin . Two became one in ten thousand three returned in one whole in one whole in one many in the purple and gold state 5 stand as one k known to the ALL undeniably proclaimed three times over before I was born the man of steel flys without wings known before he was born Jeremy Michael Middle name nicknamed moezer at 3 speech impediment born again in life without tasting death the untouchable living one twin untouchable living book was in me before i was born 1.24.75 i draw it out while explaining i am the hope for the man of understanding given Gods given name and understanding

[@UntouchableLivingone-ji4un]

Mine from the heavens

[@AndreasAndersson-ve4jx]

I suppose your family still owned guns and such. Today it is a big difference in gun culture between Scandinavia and the States. If you are a trained hunter (and especially if you own land), it is easy to get a licence for hunting rifles. It is almost impossible go get a licence for a handgun, especially if you live in a city. But e g. in Sweden there were no gun laws until the 30:s. The limitation was more that guns (and cartridges) were expensive and it was very little crime / violence, so if you were not a farmer, you would not own a gun. Except the upper classes, which of course has guns and duels galore, same as everywhere else... So the thumbnail for this Video, stern people with a lot of guns. I guess that would have felt pretty normal for Scandinavian immigrants - back then.....

[@rickwarner4102]

...l am a proud anishinaabe from the Leech Lake Reservation and wish i could have seen it as it was when my people were the only ones living here in the middle of nothing but beautiful wild...

[@brentsweedman9439]

I hear that neege!!

[@ElxPAPAx]

Anishinaabe proud neege !! Miigwich

[@redadmiral5623]

Too bad it didn't stay that way. My European relatives sure f*@#$ed everything up.

[@mikeynorcross3222]

There were dakotas here too jackass

[@rickwarner4102]

@@mikeynorcross3222 ...l was refering to native americans in general living here before the white men showed up with logging and roads and the railroads...Dickhead...

[@johnthompson9513]

In the past 60 yrs I've witnessed more change than I care for Not all of it for the better in my opinion

[@70stunes71]

John... agree. Same here in Southern Michigan. The wealthy manufacturing farmers, literally raping and removing Woods fence rows and even wetlands. The selfishness and greed continues. People with money are ruthless. They can never seem to get enough, or cause enough damage to suit themselves. What is being left is literally a moonscape in many areas. So pitiful

[@stephenbloch4688]

Yes! I am glad I do not have much to go!

[@yoyo762]

@@stephenbloch4688 us too.

[@yoyo762]

@@70stunes71 yeah, let's have useless woodland and then have 50 per bushel wheat. What a A clown.

[@johnthompson9513]

@I ME WE IN ONE Many ; You say much If you ever learn to write you could teach many.. Guten Tag

[@KyleThill]

Thank you for making this available to all of us.

[@BellMuseum]

Our pleasure! Enjoy!

[@NondescriptMammal]

The graphics and animations showing the glacial retreats and the establishment of the convergence of the various terrain and biome and climate features are excellent. They really give a clear picture of how things progressed. Fine documentary here, I am glad to see I have more episodes to look forward to! 🐱

[@lisabrewster15]

Love this, My family was up there in the 1860's on dad's side. Hodel's from Albany, Stearns, Minn . The Log home that was built in 1869 still stands to this day. But, you can't tell it. Lemke's, Mitchell's, Berget's, Rogers. Little Falls, Mizpah, Northome,

[@5872550]

I live in Minnesota so I had to watch it.

[@Zoe-c9z]

Home is just home, until the fascists wreck it.

[@ordinarycitizenn]

​@@Zoe-c9z Meanwhile, Minnesota becomes Little Somalia because of ignoramuses like you

[@aqua1082]

What did you think?

[@loveandfaith6517]

This is wonderful! More than I ever learned in school about our great State, Minnesota

[@johnryman1366]

Surprised any history of the state is taught by the WOKE educators who design curriculum to the NWO -WOKE- socialist standards.

[@BB-mq9qk]

The public fool system is not Education it’s indoctrination.

[@BearManNorth]

I went to public school on St.Paul's far east side. This was all taught in our history classes through 8th grade. What was strang to me, was how the "religious" students were let out at certain times to go to their "religion" instruction classes. Those I know now, at reunions, have a whole different view of how Minnesota came about....of course age awakens reality sometimes, and I now understand why this leaving of public classes was allowed. So do they. They should make this film required each year as history class, and manditory viewing. I love this film, and it is how our tax dollars should be spent....reality education. Without historical understanding, people will always have misunderstanding of our current place as people knowing others that came before.

[@UntouchableLivingone-ji4un]

I know is a cave in the purple and gold state with international inland lake next to two sleeping gaints and a bottomless pit and the hope for the man of understanding born half way around the world where paper became money with mankind's promise to trust in God on it out womb a untouchable living book add move right repeat return to one out womb in 7 months mom in labor 3.5 days on international inland lake out womb a trinty first and last beginning and end one and 99 born 100 one spoke as 24 at once as one whole add move right repeat return to one three in one whole in one whole in one untouchable living book was in me before I was bornin . Two became one in ten thousand three returned in one whole in one whole in one many in the purple and gold state 5 stand as one k known to the ALL undeniably proclaimed three times over before I was born the man of steel flys without wings known before he was born Jeremy Michael Middle name nicknamed moezer at 3 speech impediment born again in life without tasting death the untouchable living one twin untouchable living book was in me before i was born 1.24.75 i draw it out while explaining i am the hope for the man of understanding given Gods given name and understanding

[@daveistrading]

It's not accurate. Cheyenne were chased off their land and the Fench Fur Traders were expert hunters and never needed help from Natives

[@raphaelgoeschl6686]

watching this from austria ! i feel useless and off track but hey nice landscape there minnesota !

[@waden404]

Great documentary. My blood is part Ojibwa (both mother and fathers side.) Love my birth state and wish i had a way to see more of it.

[@eunicestone6532]

My father was a sawmill man. He owned and operated the only mill for miles around and sawed house patterns and mining supplies. Half the houses in Crum WV have boards he sawed. The money was in the mining supplies. Especially after unions came in. Wages went up so the price of sawed goods went up. It was a rough living. I drove our old mule at age 10 hooked to logs. Take them to the cliff and undo them and send them over and down into the creek. The mill was set up close to the place the logs went over. . If I wasn't logging in the hills I was home with mom cooking dinner for the mill crew. I'm a female but dad worked us all the same.

[@aqua1082]

Boozhoo Zigwan ndizhnikaas Makwa dodem niinda'aw Faribault. Gichi-maidoo. 💕

[@jeffreyfrutiger8691]

I am a history junkie and a native Minnesotan so thank you for posting this great series ! My family has been in MN since before it was a state. My great, great grandfather was a pioneer in the Roseau/ Warroad area, they were very friendly with the Indians. They were neighbors. My Great grandfather spent his last days in a hospital sharing a room with an Indian man whom he had known since childhood. My parents said they literally looked like twins, and they always brought gifts for both men. I think that it is fairly obvious, ( the activist leanings of Minnesota's public broadcasting outlets) communists demand everything must be viewed through lenses of hate and "oppression" . So instead of purely contextual information we get propaganda with some history added in. All thanks to Minnesota taxpayers !

[@isanynameavailable6]

Well said. Our tax dollars are funding 91.9 MPR where 95% of everything being said is pure left activist propaganda. The lefts mission is Marxist in nature, they separate everyone in groups of either the oppressed or the oppressor. It’s being taught in our public schools here in central Minnesota and I just wish parents would pay attention because the culture of the future starts with today’s youth, even hitler knew that.

[@JustVinnyBlues]

Yes. Contemporary narrative is based on what I call "telescoping" history. That is, you eliminate 99 percent of human history, then draw a circle around a selected group of events. Then you create some narrative regarding those isolated events as if this is an explanation for complex human behavior. I actually cannot believe how historically ignorant Americans are these days, because they seem to blindly accept all that nonsense. You first dumb down the population historically, then you replace history with pure contrivance for some political advantage. And NPR is now a rather bizarre exercise in propaganda.

[@isanynameavailable6]

@@JustVinnyBlues kids are still being taught that early Europeans in America intentionally distributed blankets infected with smallpox to native Americans even though germ theory didn’t come about until the 1860’s. But anyway I completely agree, the fact that kids aren’t learning the history of our country and of all civilization in general is going to have serious consequences not only now but in the future. It’s really sad.

[@isanynameavailable6]

@E G what an informative and thoughtful comment, you make a great point there….

[@isanynameavailable6]

@E G again… well done…

[@misko8014]

Great video,

[@mikeskidmore6754]

In Europe the Peasants could not own Land.. They were tennants their Tax was to give 50% of their Crops to the Kings , Lords , Govoners in the Region.. This is why they were willing to take the risks to move to Ameica and Homestead on 160 acres of Land .. and keep 100% of what they raised and Produced..

[@mathiasniemeier4359]

Mine as well. My Great grandfather even went to fight for the Union during the Civil War, came back and is still to this Day, living in the old now newer HOMESTEAD , IN SOUTH BRANCH,ST.JAMES. VERY HONORED to be a member.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

When anyone goes out fighting then will do some great damage to others, very few soldiers are whiter than white, a bullet from a gun can kill, this comes from a silly boy of 13 years old who tricked his way into the army by giving wrong details about my age, In a matter of about 2 years, I grew up and realised what in the army they train you to kill and ask no questions why. I swore back then that I would never cross over the border to fight in another man/woman/child's land. You will n to catch me standing on the side of t h read cheering and clapping to many returning soldiers

[@brandonjones152]

@@jamesbradshaw3389 Amazing testimony James … you seem very interesting to talk with

[@lostchord702]

Mathias, my g gf also served in Union Army. May I ask, how old is your grandfather?

[@andrewnelson7199]

my great grandpa was very important in early MN mostly in the saint peter new ulm gustavus adolphus college and scandinavian guard livestock in the civil war and the cannons, modern steam agriculture thrashers and large teams of farmers besides traveling the ismus of panama to get to the steam ship or sail on the other side to gettothe california gold rush first steam ship up the mn river to dock in saint peter or new ulm with my great grand ma's brother. thorson.

[@andrewnelson7199]

and started up farming in mn as they did farming on the king of sweden's land back near the southern tip

[@bautzibauer]

Thank you,I have learned so much about the north american wood and its history!!

[@porcupinebob7907]

Awesome video!, my GF lives in Mankato MN...Thx!

[@karlalden2076]

I'm from Stanchfield in Isanti off of the Rum, very to cool to find where our town name came from.

[@paulwalker6045]

as an irishman now retired in deeply forested sub alpine slovenia, i see commercial opportunism and its damage (development) all around,it appears the people and politicians are too easily led by corporate led consumerism. the carnage of wild life on the roads each morning is heartbreaking,go faster madness and all its associate trashy culture across nu eu

[@WaldoBMC3]

very interesting. ty for the video

[@tomtout6070]

This a very wonderful documentary. Thank you so much for making it. I hate the fact that the Native Nations were not seen as a benefit. As changes come to the climate. We will likely wishwe had honored their freedom and relationship they had with their lands.

[@monkshavano3613]

The healers of the land are still here we will gather some time soon

[@Patriot11111]

"native nations"? They were some asians walking around about the same time. They made a stick figure on a rock & everything.

[@Stareingattheson]

The first and longest practice of slavery in America was due to the first tribes of migrating Asians that are called native Americans!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

@@Stareingattheson the oldest indigenous tribe in South America is proven to have Australian DNA and they even still look Australian aboriginal today - with "African" traits. European "whites" didn't exist until 8000 BCE - and even then didn't really spread across Europe until 2000 BCE - since white skin was a West Asian trait from lack of vitamin D in the wheat monocultural diet. Before that Europeans had African traits also - we should all study our original human culture - the San Bushmen from 70,000 years ago - they are still around today.

[@kindrahayson7024]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 70,000 years is a huge underestimation of the original human

[@jsmcguireIII]

Our Sibley County ancestors were early pioneers and later fought in the Dakota Wars. They had several close encounters with natives at their farmhouse. They described the sad sight of rounded up native families shivering in the cold.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

it was round them up or suffer their constant attacks on us. it's a fact of nature that the strong subjugate the weaker.

[@tundrawomansays694]

My friend, it is beyond “sad” to see us Natives in genuine need, starving to death and not respond in any meaningful manner to them as fellow human beings. *It is genocide.* Words are powerful and convey meaning. We must call phenomena what it truly is without minimizing, denying, rationalizing or in any way attempting to dress up, make more palatable etc. a horrible reality. I am not being snarky or in any way disrespectful of your personal history nor am I overstating the experiences of those who suffered horribly and remain oppressed. The Dakota Wars were the result of the desperation of the people who were not only starving but experiencing their families in such want they were dying while bountiful foodstuffs were withheld due to the US government’s refusal to release the monetary renumeration due the Dakota people simply because they could. It’s simply despicable. It is the systemic, institutional effort to eradicate the Indigenous which indeed by any definition is *genocide.*

[@jsmcguireIII]

It is a fact of history that America is founded on slavery and genocide. My ancestors owned and sold slaves and before that others acted as "long-hunters" and militia to fight native attacks on the Virgina frontier. Many of these attacks were coordinated by first the French and then British interests to weaken the resistance of white settlers. "Champlain's Dream" by David Hackett Fischer has interesting information about pre-European native nation atrocities. History is full of horrible and inspiring facts more fascinating than any fiction. The real crime is white-washing history so we as a society can decide what it means going forward. So much of western history is written by the "victors" so the real challenge for historians is reading between the lines and listening to oral traditions while they still exist. @@tundrawomansays694

[@UntouchableLivingone-ji4un]

I know is a cave in the purple and gold state with international inland lake next to two sleeping gaints and a bottomless pit and the hope for the man of understanding born half way around the world where paper became money with mankind's promise to trust in God on it out womb a untouchable living book add move right repeat return to one out womb in 7 months mom in labor 3.5 days on international inland lake out womb a trinty first and last beginning and end one and 99 born 100 one spoke as 24 at once as one whole add move right repeat return to one three in one whole in one whole in one untouchable living book was in me before I was bornin . Two became one in ten thousand three returned in one whole in one whole in one many in the purple and gold state 5 stand as one k known to the ALL undeniably proclaimed three times over before I was born the man of steel flys without wings known before he was born Jeremy Michael Middle name nicknamed moezer at 3 speech impediment born again in life without tasting death the untouchable living one twin untouchable living book was in me before i was born 1.24.75 i draw it out while explaining i am the hope for the man of understanding given Gods given name and understanding

[@dustyroad4361]

I read the comments, and am amazed at the great hindsight of everyone. Everyone taking the high ground, and claiming they would have done differently. In reality you are behaving the same today as they did yesterday. Today as yesterday people are being forced to do what the elites super wealthy want them to do. You can see this today with forced mandates to make the majority of the people do what a few corrupt elite want them to do. You all had a chance to start to correct this by using the Constitution to limit the power of the government and electing honest people. You all refused to.

[@soulalbeniz]

great comment, respect

[@overtaxedinmn5913]

Amen

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

By " honest people " do you mean donald trump?

[@dustyroad4361]

@@darlenelarochelle4011 I was referring to the people we keep electing. Some of these crooks have been in office for several decades. Now that is laziness on the voters part. We do not pay attention to who we are voting for, and we tend to vote selfishly. Vote for what I want and not what is morally correct. When people are in office for very long get corrupted, even good people.

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

@@dustyroad4361just checking. Cuz, for some reason I cannot fathom, many think Donald Trump is honest. I agree that some of the old timers should go. Like Mitch McConnell, who has stood squarely in the way of getting anything done for far too long.

[@johnaverageman6249]

Over 1000 square miles of that pine forest was burned between 1890 and 1920

[@childrenslivesmatter3073]

I'll have to catch this when I have time.

[@lemonde-libere7062]

I am 69 man From Gaspe coast chalors Bay in 1910 the two sisters of my grandfather move to Saint Paul Minnesota. Melanie and Regina Audet. Married to french Canadian. I think it was at Stillwater. I am on the Gaspe coast of Maria. AUDET for the 7th generation

[@jbiwer32]

I would love to know if the painting at 30:45 is of the actual Mississippi where Minneapolis is now. And if so, would love to own a copy.

[@whitesun264]

I read the book North Country, the Making of Minnesota. Its difficult to imagine the Native Americans could have been treated worse any where else in America than they were in Minnesota. The dishonesty and lack of decency and integrity, that swindled the Indians out of their land was truly appalling. Even after they were swindled they very often weren't paid what was agreed and when they were paid lots of it went to the creditors who gave the Indians credit to see them through the winter months.

[@CrustyUgg]

Happened all over the world my dear .. I love how white ppl can't treat ppl poorly but when other natives lie and murder and conquer.. it's radio silence

[@rogerarrysheldon8394]

its the story of the U.S. we need to demand out government acknowledge the depraved decisions it has historically...ahem... made... there was no great demand by the people to extinguish native American cultures, nations, and individuals...these were moves made in service of an oligarchy that has come and gone, but always ushered in great suffering when given unchecked primacy in the halls of power. we are in another such terror; ever since 1980, the oligarchy has been in control without popular impediment. the rights of men have suffered while the rights of corporations have soared to a position far beyond that of the mere human being. this is parallel to the great failure of our government to live to its stated ideals - a pervasive and permanent state of propagandist trickery that has enabled the appalling past and distasteful present and terrifying future we current inhabit. let's demand more humanity and less monetization in our legislature and executives... and reparations of some form are more than appropriate for natives and slave descendants... we gave trillions to banks over the past 20 years, lets give some money to the people trampled by the forces enabled by those banks since the capitalist revolution of the early modern period... and continually trampled... for _profit_? wtf. how pathetic. sorry, I just agree with ya bro. But it is somewhat important to understand that the US government is not a representation of the people, despite what it continually claims. I think you will find that, throughout human history, the respect generally possessed for Native American peoples by the masses is betrayed by those in power... ya know, for their own enrichment and visions of grandeur... they need to be shamed.

[@jeffreypierce1440]

well that's war. many indians still live today. they were allowed to live because europeans honor the adversary at the conclusion of war. we won they lost. would they have treated us better had they had the upper hand?

[@GratefulOverlander]

@@jeffreypierce1440 you're an asshole. And , they are Native Americans not Indians you illiterate tool! In war, usually both parties know. They were attacked and brutally killed while having their land stolen! NO war has ever done that since

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

@@jeffreypierce1440 You have a tepid imagination, and a meager sense of compassion.

[@larryniidji]

I am surprised you missed the "Three Way Watershed" located jut north of Hibbing, Minnesota in eye shot of the Hibbing Taconite offices. Yes! Right in the heart of mining operation. Holy men will tell of the powers here.

[@meljenkins2043]

Every part of every part of this planet needs parallel histories. Then, every school and community should use such presentations to ground social and civic understanding and actions.

[@chairlesnicol672]

And then along came bob Dylan to reside there momentarily and putting hibbing "on the map"!!! lOL

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

My neighbor was just telling me about the "three way watershed" - that there's a plaque just north of hibbing - but the plaque is on private land though - must be land owned by the Taconite office.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

OK It's off County Highway 60 - so it's west of Hibbing and then North of Hibbing. Surrounded by the mines there. I'll check it out. thanks

[@davidlamb7524]

It seems extraordinary to us now that nobody at that time seems to have had any qualms about the destruction of the forests .

[@aqua1082]

Boozhoo (hello) to all. I am Ojibwe from Minnesota and half German! My German half is from Schweich town Germany!

[@eunicestone6532]

The white pine is fantastic for building..

[@johnjohnon8767]

I have land with white, black , scrub oak. I dont intend to cut them down. Unless there dead and tinder for fire.

[@richardstever3242]

Being so sick of the wood ticks that you burn the whole damn field...ha, ha! Eureka moment of human evolution. The brilliance of the moment comes when you realize the incredible farming opportunity that was created.

[@theoriginalkeepercreek]

Watching this documentary has left me with a sense of sadness and so much more. As a non-native American, when I think of my own ancestors, I cannot stop the sense of shame that floods my heart. A deep sadness for the rape of the land, for the decimation of the wildlife, and for the treatment and displacement of Minnesota's Native People. Is it any less horrific than the Trail of Tears suffered by the Cherokee? I think not.

[@Cisco35Kid]

Feel sad? Exactly what this video is supposed to do. So much “Monday morning quarterbacking” - I think many of those who lived 175 years ago would do things differently now in hind sight. Most of us mere mortals aren’t blessed with 175-year foresight .

[@bethbartlett5692]

Been to Minneapolis/St Paul, it was a beautiful City and the People exceptionally intelligent. Before Laptops and iPhones, "they read alot", probably still do, after all they have a really Long Winter.

[@jessiemorgan4441]

Love this!!

[@daveistrading]

It's not accurate. Cheyenne were chased off their land and the Fench Fur Traders were expert hunters and never needed help from Natives

[@danieljones1981]

West Virginian loving this!!

[@onomatopoeia162003]

I'm sure. born and raised here in MN :)

[@Brough1111]

We hunted the beaver we killed them but we sent smoking incense into the pine woods celebrating the beaver Gods, for we could see the beaver, the white man killed them also but not special like us for we had a deep and profound feeling toward beavers, they weren't our ancestors but they were something so we contemplated the beaver, we praised the beaver, then one day the shaman raised his eyes toward the eclipsed light of the sun and announced, sometimes a beaver is just a beaver, s stupid animal that cuts down trees with his teeth and craps in the water making it unfit to drink.

[@mattdonna9677]

Beaverriffic! They create ponds and small lakes, they help with flood control. If you want to talk about stupid animals it is the humans who are destroying the environment.

[@monkshavano3613]

The beaver is the controller of the waters so the land doesn't flood,all animals are part of the circle

[@monkshavano3613]

The shaman that said that was a idiot,he doesn't know the sacred circle

[@jeffmilroy9345]

It is so.

[@tammygronskei6776]

I was born in Minneapolis.

[@shaunjohnson9407]

Seasons of life when life is flourishing is around this time

[@robertronning7016]

Thank you for believing in US Robert and Sandra running

[@larryd8224]

The introduction of the horse to Central America by the Spainards about 1505 could have been covered in more detail. This had a major impact on the native tribes. Lacking a native beast of burden and without the invention of the wheel in the Americans, horses were adapted for use in North America. Mobility was added to the tribes from what had been lacking prior.

[@bushidobros1671]

What about the dog days? Before horses dogs played a larger role

[@adamibrahimdemirci2588]

Very educational.

[@debbietaylor8150]

People migrated across the Bering strait. They were not there”from the beginning”

[@glenyoungchief5323]

We were always here, take your Bering strait theory back to where you came from…

[@robertgiles9124]

This area "never was a Wilderness..." "The minute the Ice Melted there were people here..." sounds so Scientific!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

that's based on the geography work of William Cronon - see his book "Changes in the Land" for details. "Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England" is a 1983 nonfiction book by historian William Cronon. So Cronon argued that the concept of wilderness needs to be changed. This has been corroborated by the big agricultural ancient cities now discovered in the Amazon rainforest. Essentially there was more like "gardening" in the rainforest. But that kind of polyculture farming respected the diversity of ecology much better than huge Monsanto Cargill soybean "farms."

[@joyful_tanya]

​@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885monSatan and Cargill do not care. They worship money and control. Because now "legally" they can take away your farm because their poison pollen blows on your field. It's in the same league as "lab grown meat". Crosses to achieve a stronger plant is nothing like what they are doing. Inserting "frog DNA"? MonSatan wants us all dead because GMO was never actually studied and it DESTROYS gut health. Avoid all "bioengineered" ingredients. I can't digest most of their crappy "food".

[@jaydee975]

What this documentary really fails to tell us is that the greatest force in the change of the Minnesota landscape was not human but glacial!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

yes unless you ignore the mainstream science that has documented our modern human civilization has created the fastest rate of CO2 equivalent emissions in the history of life on Earth. The arctic is about to go ice free for the first time in 3 million years. Nuclear apocalypse threatens to wipe out the ozone layer that protects Earth from UV radiation. Certainly the "anthropocene Era" of science is too optimistic since biological annhilation is accelerating on to geological destruction as well.

[@VivianDarkbloom1]

4:00-6:00

[@leanordials8008]

18:30, this is so heartbreaking.

[@martinm3474]

This could stand more research, they seem to me to be a lot like the travelers of Eastern Europe. Not tied to the land as peasants but carrying their community with themselves as they lived. I like bison and get upset with the commercial slaughter they went through.

[@Howoldareweanywayyipes]

I drove to St. Paul Minnesota in ten hours from Grand Rapids, Michigan in the middle of a snow storm... two times... true story according to my driving records.

[@mrpeabodythethird]

Actually, my understanding is that the Indians lived on it as long as they could hold it. In other words, there were conquering tribes.

[@cabinvibesebaystore8956]

New sub ! Liked 🚀👍😀😀

[@mr.redneck2715]

Were you there over two million years ago? I thought so.

[@JoyfulRelaxation22]

There seemed to be two philosophies in direct conflict with eachother. This honestly changed the world forever. One philosophy was: We belong to the land. We are a part. And the other was: The land belongs to us. We deserve a part. As you can tell, the second philosophy took major foothold, and, as a consequence, saw no consequences/had no considerations for its greed, just greed for greeds sake. I wonder if this is a part of human nature, as we still see this kind of thought process taking part today, whether that be through war or pollution. This is interesting.

[@therealdesidaru]

Your ancestors lived like American Indians. EVERYONE'S DID.

[@davidlamb7524]

There were always some practices that did not quite fit the "we belong to the land" model. Poisoning rivers, driving herds over cliffs, excessive burnings etc. Humans always seem to have some propensity for destruction. Without the modern technology however, nature mostly got the chance to recover eventually.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Oh My Climate Change 2.3 Million years ago ???

[@MinneapolisSkip]

Hey mike, take your typical rethugulin trolling somewhere else. Nobody thinks your ignorance is cute.

[@jaketm4500]

they could have fixed that by giving piles of money to the govt

[@stephenolson532]

That's Jesse Ventura's great, great, great grandfather in the middle of the thumbnail picture. 🤗

[@verynice5258]

Thank you

[@aqua1082]

Anishinaabe 🎉🎉🎉

[@birhan2006]

It's funny to talk about Minnesota and nature, an arbitrarily defined border of the corner of the earth

[@jdwest34]

Thanks

[@ViolinStimme]

The ignorant cannot learn better ways but, instead, they try to bring others down to their own level. We, western society, are only just learning collectively that respect for nature and the land is vital for health and eventual happiness!

[@jeffreypierce1440]

we always knew this but also knew it had to be tamed and harvested to build civilizations.

[@helenhunter4540]

@@jeffreypierce1440 You're making the big assumption that "it had to be tamed and harvested to build civilizations". No, it didn't. It was men who lusted after wealth and power who decided to destroy the civilizations that were here, murder the inhabitants and steal their land. I'm finding it hard to listen to and watch this, because it's a story of destruction of people and the land. No matter that a lot of us white people now recognize this. We can't undo what earlier whites did. And any mitigation will only come when we whites stop demanding that because we have larger numbers, we get to keep on deciding what happens here. We need to give back part of what earlier white people stole, decision-making power to the first inhabitants. I'm ready to do that. Anyone else?

[@johnjohnon8767]

I believe its a little too late now.

[@overtaxedinmn5913]

Here is the thing, throughout history people are conquered, land is taken, been happening since the beginning of time and is still happening today.

[@TheZeekgeek1]

I hope it never happens to you

[@overtaxedinmn5913]

@@TheZeekgeek1 it is happening from the insane left and rino Republicans who want to control everything we do. The only thing stopping them is unlike the Indians we are heavily armed

[@chucknorris277]

Nobody is special

[@MinneapolisSkip]

You mean, land is stolen, people are murdered, all the animals are slaughtered, and the native plants and animals are changed forever ? I know who the “ignorant savages “ are and they aren’t the original natives.

[@MinneapolisSkip]

@@overtaxedinmn5913 you are willfully ignorant and delusional. That’s all.

[@fasttoys99]

Right at the time Mark 20 minutes. Documentary talks about land ownership. You never hear about the people that lived on the land in Europe before the Romans. It was all conquered land by the strongest. Native American should consider themselves very very lucky that anyone even knows about their culture.

[@bushidobros1671]

Ceazer did the same to the gauls and celts. Destroyed the culture. Nothing's new under the sun

[@cleokey]

Mom was born on the family's homestead in 1910.

[@buzzmessinger4510]

Does the guy, in this photo, frt. Row left, look alot like "Buster Keaton?"

[@Jewls1000]

Poor beavers 😢 and buffalo. Makes me sick.

[@jeffmilroy9345]

You can have my beaver. They are a royal pain.

[@panatypical]

Those Natee, or however you spell it, hunters were some other worldly looking people. That one guy doesn't have any pupils in his eyes!

[@jonwyatt262]

Metis

[@jorgebiboso6074]

One of your congresswoman has nothing to connect with the state of Minnisota. She is from Somalia, who lied about herself on coming to the States.

[@TheBandit7613]

And she hates the USA.

[@timlewis9873]

Great thought.

[@jawariguulet4929]

So, the European peasants who invaded these land, and wiped out the entire Indian natives population of these continent are the only ones connected to the states.what a bias misleading moron are you!!

[@timlewis9873]

@E G Snowturd.

[@michaelfaria5558]

I can't stand her ilhan Omar. And she is part of Congress and still talks bad about America. Ship her back.

[@tranvanhung2546]

Für allen Menschen + Tiere + Früchte + Getreide + Wasser Gesundheit.!

[@jasoncrandall]

If you’re alive in 2021 you aren’t part of the “we” that was living in a teepee hundreds of years ago.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

No shit

[@crackercommisar6043]

thank god. I like indoor plumbing, central air, modern meds, etc. the past was not a paradise. people died during childbirth , and from all kinds of accidents and diseases that are easily cured today.

[@chucknorris277]

Everyone's first mistake. Thinking your special

[@sisterladyadventures3143]

However, if part of his “We” is the blood of his forefathers and forebearers, that courses through his veins-- then, yes- he is “a part of the ‘we’”👍🏽

[@jasoncrandall]

@@sisterladyadventures3143 how so? He wasn’t there.

[@annohalloran6020]

No mention of the Younger Dryass???? Better call Randall Carlson

[@tranvanhung2546]

Was bedeutet Philips & die ganzen Handwerker Österreich dazu.?

[@nightmare_fax_hd4317]

Bro I live there

[@DavidTJohnson-nk8kb]

2:51 we get a glimpse of the I35w bridge that tragically collapsed on 08/01/07

[@Stareingattheson]

One of the ways that “land” was allocated was by brutal raids and war against other clans and tribes.

[@MinneapolisSkip]

That’s total b.s. you have no clue.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

The fur trade on the East Coast of North America started by the French in the early 1600s and the fur trade relied on alcohol and guns to cause the native indigenous people to attack each other. But the main force was the huge masses of white colonists flooding into Minnesota - especially the German land colonialists settling right onto Dakota reservation land. For example the Treaty of 1805 by Pike was not a real treaty - he was not an official treaty maker. He just had 60 kegs of booze and he convinced two Native males to sign on some paper.

[@johnjohnon8767]

Man has the capacity for both good and bad, truth, like it or not.

[@Engelhafen]

We are still fleeing the persecution of Wisconsin 🙈

[@chucknorris277]

The Packers reeeeeerre

[@baburamji1238]

Treaty was unfair

[@alterego157]

Does anyone have more details about the picture used as video thumbnail. Also appears at 19:12 mentioning Métis hunters.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

You could contact the Minnesota Historical Society.

[@katie18261]

I've been watching a lot of documentaries on the American settling of midwest and western territories. Goddamn, westward expansion was absolutely devastating to the indigenous people who had already claimed the land.

[@mikemiller3936]

We didn’t have no illusion that there was no one living in that vast forest it was a war and we won

[@TheBandit7613]

It''s the way life is. Our European ancestors were smelting bronze 6500 years ago. They were clearly more intelligent. Meanwhile much of the earth was still in the stone age. They hadn't even invented the wheel yet.

[@daveistrading]

The French Fur Traders were expert hunters and trappers, they did not need any help from Native Americans. The Ojibway and Dakota arrived 50 years after the French Fur Traders had already established trade with the Cheyenne. The Cheyenne occupied that area long before the Ojibway and Dakota migrated to Minnesota from the Great Lakes. The Objiway and Dakota were running away from the Beaver Wars where the Iriqouis were erasing 6 Native tribes to steal their land. The Ojibway attacked the Cheyenne villages and burned them to steal their land.

[@michaeljoseph3528]

How sad was the suffering of the original people as well as of those who were made to believe they had right to land of others.

[@michaeljoseph3528]

@desli snortum I am lucky to be an impartial Caribbean West Indian native. Thanks, anyway for the chat😀

[@helenhunter4540]

@desli snortum YOU need to dig deeper.. Many of us know Indian tribes fought each other, and that sometimes tribes moved to avoid war with others. That is NOT the situation Europeans and their descendants brought about here, although their were centuries of contact, trading and intermarriage before the U.S. government decided to massacre most Indians and put the rest in reservations to make room for "people like them". You're talking about very different things, no matter what genes you have.

[@SchemeTintFocus]

Vancouver Island drops below the parallel, but Point Roberts is the US.

[@mugnumps7910]

My grandfather was born in robinsale in 1895, I can't guess that he would ever believe current MN demokraps & politics. You have no clue, property then, and to make a living.

[@Molds_s]

I put the new forgis on the jeep

[@thomasschultz7339]

Everybody took on the fragility of life. You wouldn't name your children at least until 6 eh? The tragedy of ignorance on both sides. We all cry..

[@richtomlinson7090]

My late mother had a book about a silversmith that was a peer of many famous early silversmiths like I think Paul Revere. And the book had birth records of these possible ancestors of my mother, because of the shared last name, and for a period they tried to have a daughter named Prudence and the babies given that name always died, and they tried maybe four times and gave up with the name Prudence and they had some daughters survive. About half of the children died before the age of three, because times were tough.

[@williamroland8924]

I was born in Brainerd, lived in Crosslake and went to Pequot High School when in the 5-6th grade. Moved to Florida because of Dad's health. Loved Minnesota, hated Florida till I got older..

[@StephenJelinek]

We were meant to be nomadic.

[@wandajames6234]

I don't see any race as better or worse than others-- including the white race.... natives were nomadic and tribal and fought each other for territory and supremacy, they were interested in having the things the whites brought, hence the fur trading and hunting. If they were the ones coming to a new continent with vast lands and resources, would they not try to possess some of it? Isn't that the HUMAN condition-- the desire to have things, the desire to control? The greedy of all races are usually aggressors and overshadow the good, sharing people within each race. Conquering others is a sad component of human history but it is not a unique feature to any one race and horrible things have been done in the name of acquiring territory. Whites spilling out of Europe were particularly desperate and greedy for new land to call their own. Had natives come out of conditions in Europe with the same history would they not act the same way? Can we ever know the answer to that?

[@deepanshchaudhary5094]

Well it depends on the beliefs of that "group of people" in question... Europeans didn't discover Americas for the love of exploration rather it was for finding out the trade routes. European kingdoms didn't colonize Americas because they just wanted to "settle the land" rather it was for the material gain of growing cash crops like sugar, tobacco and more infamously cotton And eventually Americans didn't go west to "find a new home" but rather exploit the value of the natural resources in the west. And this is in stark contrast with the Native Americans, who didn't aim to exploit the land of "all it's worth" and then expanding further when it has laden bare BUT Rather sustain themselves through the land and MOST IMPORTANTLY not seeing it as "something to own and exploit" but rather live off and sustain themselves "Collectively as a group". Now your western sensibilities might already raising the red flags of communism as you read this but it is an established fact that it was the the way of life for most of the North American Native Indians which had very "communal ideas" about land as compared to their southern American neighbours like Aztecs or Mayans, who were much more heirarchal. So yes I disagree with this "reductionist" and "narrow minded" view of "human condition" as a perpetual victim of its own destructive endless WANT because nowhere in the human history has it been a norm. We survived as human beings for so long, through worst times in history like ice ages because we had a shared vision of common good of the people with whom we inhabit the land we live in.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

You can study our original human culture the San Bushmen for details of how we are supposed to live.

[@billhosko7723]

@@deepanshchaudhary5094 Conflict was a constant among and between most Indian tribes in NA before European tribes arrived... Indians here before Europeans took the land from those before them... today, the primary reason for courts, attys, judges, and biased media... is all because most, humans want dominion over others. No different sadly, than most, humans in the past.

[@johnjohnon8767]

You nailed it. Some people just have to demonize others for their own agendas. And truth dont have a place.

[@jeffreyhickman6787]

THEM PEOPLE WENT TO WORK [ WORK ]

[@kulmedslojd]

Otrolig förstörelse. Man blir ledsen.

[@DataJYdocs]

☯ Once uninhabitable, cleaning-up Era might occure.

[@lisaabramovich7656]

I was wondering if anyone from Minnesota knows of Willis,Verona and a daughter, Bonita Smith.

[@strider5453]

this both saddens and disgusts me. Yet we've learned nothing in our quest to consume. our greed knows no bounds and in the end it will do us in.

[@tranvanhung2546]

Was braucht man ein Velo.?

[@fivethreeone]

PEOPLE IN THE PAST DID NOT HAVE THAT VOICE LOL IM DYING THATS HILARIOUS

[@tranvanhung2546]

Was bedeutet Sie Morgen + Mittag + Abend. ..?

[@shaunjohnson9407]

Light years is maybe one

[@Antipodean33]

All cultures, where it is beneficial to burn the land, did it and some (e.g. Australian aboriginals) still burn. It wasn't about management, it was about survival. You could call it management, in a way it is by the fact they were interfering, but it was purely survival. They weren't managing beaver populations, it was down to there not being that many people and the land was so bountiful, they didn't make much of a dent in it

[@chucknorris277]

What was that incoherent babble lol why did natives have so many battles for territory between the tribes then?

[@richtomlinson7090]

@@chucknorris277 what they are talking about is that the wonderful stories of caring for the environment, had more to do with the experience of mistakes and some of their own people doing things improperly and so if one is to do it correctly, they should learn from the mistakes of their own. The lessons aren't about the Gods telling them that they are perfect and in harmony with the natural world, the lessons are from learned experiences within. Of course all cultures can learn from one another, but sometimes success is just luck that your population isn't large enough to completely mess things up in the biggest way, and now our world population is getting into trouble because we are big enough to destroy the environment that supports us.