Celebrating the Diversity of Indigenous Homes

[@TDREXrx9]

I can’t believe how little Chaco is talked about just the mention gave me goosebumps. Simply one of the most amazing places I have ever been . When me and my mom went we were the only ones there to even more haunting when you can experience the serenity and beautiful of the land

[@pbsvoices]

It's an amazing site and there's so much life within its walls

[@EepyBnnuy]

My mom has ancestry from there… but she was deported and can never visit her ancestral sites inside the US now.

[@kimberlyross6688]

I loved my visit to Chaco. It's beautiful!!!!

[@Erin-S]

Metis person here - MORE OF THIS PLEASE!!! This is soooo important. Chey is an awesome host. We need so many more videos like this. Agriculture, Language, Handtalk, Plant Medicine, Animal Relatives, Sustainable Harvesting, all the things!!!!

[@beth8775]

Yet another reminder of what I *should* have been taught in school...

[@pbsvoices]

Same here, we're all learning together.

[@alyssastewarton8848]

Absolutely** no one needs an entire semester on Old English let's switch to OLD AMERICAN respect the natives

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Indigenous Minecraft is truly a 21st Century innovation. That’s awesome.

[@ToniAllen]

My indigenous daughter needs to know where to find this Indigenous Minecraft.

[@jamescorvus6709]

African Architecture also gets dismissed by the West. It seems that popular western history only counts civilizations in Eurasia

[@danielland3767]

Yup and a "asia" part is complicit even tho they were exploited as well.

[@PMickeyDee]

WaPo just published a very interesting piece on MENA architecture titled "ancient elements of cool." It's insanely long but goes into detail about what we miss when we ignore the brilliance of people who do things differently than we're accustomed to. Definitely recommend reading for anyone interested in architecture

[@jamescorvus6709]

@@PMickeyDee I was mainly talking about the Architecture in Africa South of the Sahara in Tropical and Sahelian Africa in reference that We Black People "had no History, Culture or Architecture". Similar to the thoughts that early Western Scholars had on the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. MENA cultures and architectures were ALWAYS put in high regard in Western Literature and Thought.

[@scottwolf8633]

@@jamescorvus6709" Recovering Signals of Ghost Archaic Introgression in African Populations", peer reviewed, published in a reputable Journal, empiricism, that sequenced the genome of sub saharan africans. You should read the abstract, as the body of the paper, beyond your capability. "Racial Differences in Insular Connectivity and Thickness and Related Cognitive Impairment in Hypertension", published 3 years before the first paper mentioned, elucidates a "Significantly thinner cortex", for the chimera, black, african.

[@ajchapeliere]

There is a strong bias towards "lasting" structures as a marker of culture and advancement. I think it can be easy to forget that the tangible societal fossils we are able to find only tell part of a /much/ more complex story.

[@_drian]

"gentrified adobe mansions for $3 million" 🤯🤬

[@IGNOBLEVOIDPEEKER]

Power, Ometeotl, Healing and Wisdom to our people. Let us not forget our roots, our power our origins and strength. Mexica Tiahui!

[@Sad_Bumper_Sticker]

Thank you for this sociological cultural philosophical breakdown of the western discourse on Indigenous architecture.

[@janaem2282]

I am totally speechless! What a phenomenal video!

[@pbsvoices]

Glad you enjoyed it! More Episodes to come!

[@janaem2282]

@@pbsvoices I will gladly watch, like, and share!

[@elizabethyow1165]

:) same here! 💞

[@BlinkPopShift]

Can you talk about how indigenous knowledge systems integrate innovation over the course of the 7 generations? How do you think about building on and honoring what came before while also adapting to new knowledge?

[@pbsvoices]

Brilliant question, scholars at the Indigenous Planning and Design Institute are accessing how to bring these developments into practice, allowing for multiple generations to be in these conversations. Because what might be innovative for the younger generation, might be a problem for the older generations. In early conversations with our expert we talked about how one community was building homes for older Indigenous people and it ultimately was a coffin because it lacked the lifestyle this generation was accustomed to. Everything was at their fingertip when in turn they liked going out and chopping wood and herding sheep, it kept them active.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Throughout this piece, examples from Ancient Egypt were floating through my mind.

[@nglza]

💯

[@robinriebsomer4607]

Not only have Architects been inspired by Indigenous people. It is my understanding that Indigenous people in the east inspired those who founded our democracy.

[@jasonparrish8670]

Brilliant production and spot on. The development of most western architecture is a response to support for resource extraction, with a history of dead towns and cities when you don't support stripping the nearby environment of resources.

[@tecpaocelotl]

Good video, but I feel like this only covered the surface. I think on this topic alone, you could make 5-10 more videos. History, evolution of some houses, the types of houses, including the Aztec and Maya houses even though you show the temples. Not to mention different materials to build buildings like Igloos, etc...

[@pbsvoices]

Absolutely. There's so much information out there to be explored and we hope this series helps create a different approach to covering these topics.

[@frankomendizabal2348]

Maya & “Aztec” settlements, (more appropriately and broadly mesoamerican) did absolutely alter and degrade their natural environment in a bad way. They cleared huge swaths of tropical rainforest & pine and fir forests. Why? Because they needed the building materials, every 52 years they either destroyed, buried or built on top of previously existing buildings. The lime plaster they used required huge amounts of timber in order to incinerate limestone chunks for creating stucco. They also polluted the ground with heavy metals such as mercury. They diverted the natural flow of rivers because it conflicted with their urban plannings They also built structures on mountain tops, directly imposing their settlements and culture into the natural environment/landscape. They were sophisticated enough to alter and degrade the natural environment they lived in. Just as we do today. Saying that native cultures “respected the land” is just a way of generalizing and romanticizing their lack of sophistication. If they had the technology to degrade their environment, they would have. But people with a victim complex would never understand, or they just choose to ignore it.

[@PogieJoe]

Another excellent video. I'm learning a lot from this series!

[@pbsvoices]

Glad to hear it!

[@primitivejoe553]

Can't wait to see more of these videos.

[@pbsvoices]

We can't wait to make more of these videos

[@bc4198]

Thank you so much for this!!! ❤️

[@jasoncrawford2664]

Now this is what I'm talking about ❤❤❤

[@misersmakeup-nguoihatien2316]

7 generations taking part in building a structure that probably the only last 3 would be able to see the completion of... that part gave me chills!!!! I cannot begin to imagine what it feels like to be someone participating in that construction. I wonder if it has always been a very serious & solemn work site... and I also wonder if there were very human moments of joy for everyone involved... Did they have fun? Or was it often very hard labour? How did they keep up everyone's spirit and maintain their commitment to the project during all of those years? I have so many questions I wish we have answers to! Thank you so much for this video, this story spark so much joy for me and absolutely made my day ❤

[@danielkover7157]

Indigenous history and culture is one of the reasons why the period often called prehistory is so fascinating to me. It draws me in. I wish we could know more about life in the ancient Americas. I'm so curious about the Chacoans and Mississippians and others who lived here. I hope your many cultures make a helluva comeback. 😊

[@kidmohair8151]

europeans used to build generational structures as well. (churches being the most well known) once they came to N America though, the profit motive wiped out that practice. I should point out though, that it is unusual for any culture to build lasting structures for day to day use. the lasting structures are usually built for ulterior, usually spiritual/religious, uses.

[@artlikebread]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@aleenaaleenapearce9892]

That’s amazing! Love shots like this!!!

[@cheyennebaker3149]

So cool seeing someone with the same name be such a badass!!

[@TH-hy9kr]

Loved this video! Hoping to see more Indigenous representation works.

[@pbsvoices]

Thank you! We can't wait to offer more representation.

[@AncientAmericas]

Great stuff!

[@pbsvoices]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m so happy I subscribed because the videos are bangers 🔥

[@paulharvey2396]

very good -- I want this knowledge of injustice to be part of my mature resolution to repair our world with love -- we need a strong green movement world-wide, can the First Nations be in the leadership?

[@neetvillage]

thank you so much!!

[@meander112]

After Noah Caldwell-Gervais pointed it out, I really wish that Cliff Palace had been included in Horizon Zero Dawn, amongst other issues with that game.

[@vvevv88]

I'd love to see more more indigenous stories that aren't buried under 50 layers of sci-fi. I love the creativity of Horizon, Avatar, etc.. but it's largely in the service of translation for a white audience when they could, y'know, just make a game about Native Americans.

[@meander112]

@@vvevv88 Agreed.

[@MrChristianDT]

Well, the robots ate it.

[@jukeboxxgamer]

Commenting here in the hopes this gets spread more :) Edit: If you enjoyed the video too, tell me what you liked about it under the cut vvv

[@celestethabest]

As a second generation immigrant who worked in a gentrifiercore restaurant of my culture's cuisine being repeatedly told that the American chefs there knew more about my culture than me because they went on vacation in my motherland once genuinely passed me off. Anglo-americans and people who successfully integrated into anglo-american culture really do just see other cultures with histories going back thousands of years as decoration devoid of any human partication that they can buy and replace to suit their fancy, huh?

[@AhJodie]

Thank you very much for research and sharing this information to us all! I am sharing too!

[@pbsvoices]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@ventactics]

As a proud Juggera man (an Australian indigenous group) I wonder if having an American centric view here, ignores that this is an experience of global colonisation.

[@windlessoriginals1150]

Thank you

[@purplecouch4767]

Cool buildings, Oh I heard that some people live in literal tree houses which is also cool, Have y'all made a video about all the different houses in all the different ecosystems? Cause there's people who live in the deserts mountains forests islands and plains, And there's houseboats tents igloos and bunkers, Plus lots of other stuff, Ect

[@pbsvoices]

There's so many ideas in just the construction of homes alone, we hope to make some other vides referencing different Indigenous communities in the future.

[@purplecouch4767]

@@pbsvoices Cool

[@mildsoup8978]

Always wondered why so many turn away from history, just because it's hard to hear. Facing it makes you a better person.

[@headlessspaceman5681]

I grew up aware of ancient ruins in Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, and England but didn't learn of the Native American architecture of Chaco Canyon until my late 20's. Why isn't this basic American education?! Never mind the incredible earthen pyramids of the Mississippi Valley, some of the biggest in the world, which were dismantled by early white invaders/farmers. Anyone that is ready to take a deep dive into everything they never taught you about Native American culture, you could start with Jack Weatherford's books Native Roots, and Indian Givers. To add to your discussion of Native homes, as a Southwest resident, occasional guide, and student of archaeology, I really don't like how many old Native homes are called "pit houses." Plenty of white people today build and live in homes which are partially sunk into the ground but NO ONE calls them "pit houses." It's a sunken, or recessed floor which is very practical in the Southwest climate of hot summers and freezing winters and sudden extreme windstorms. They're "bigger on the inside than the outside." But since archaeologists started calling them pit houses 100 years ago, everyone else in the greater white culture does too, but only in reference to Indigenous architecture specifically. One of the Little House On The Prairie books entails the excavation of a sod home dug into a hillside and they NEVER call it a "pit house." It was a decrepit mud hovel that Pa built for his family, okay? Also indigenous rock art is "pecked" but when white people do it, they engrave, carve, chisel, and stipple. Okay.

[@danielland3767]

Indigenous architecture has always outclassed Western/European architecture.

[@Cheche-s7w]

Sure : mud hits vs skyscrapers,

[@pbsvoices]

most definitely, they really knew how to embody the nature around them.

[@danielland3767]

@@Cheche-s7w show me where they hurt you..

[@Jiddy12345]

@@Cheche-s7w touch grass

[@NecromancyForKids]

Did you not know that indigenous Western and European peoples existed?

[@Windds]

In my Art history class we talked about indigenous art, we only had a small chapter. I wanted to know more but we barely learned about anything indigenous people or history.

[@craycray375]

This is informative!

[@ProjectMirai64]

Nice video!

[@medusianAllure]

Now if only decision makers would value, interact with, and bring on Indigenous leadership in designing everything. Maybe there'd be less of a housing crisis if we considered things other than profit. I'm here to shout out Chinese greenhouses. I don’t know which of our traditions influence their construction, but they are highly energy efficient, designed for a family to grow a lot of crops in freezing cold winters.

[@cyphrsphyr]

9:02 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🖖🏾

[@rachgonzales6793]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💯💯💯

[@GOTZ-pe5vl]

My Nation is not nor was never hunters, we were always livestock farmers way before our first contact with any Europeans; we didn't hunt wild game, we trapped pet animals from our own animal pens to be used as an added soup or salad ingredient, sewing tools, weaving tools, and crocheting tools. My nation's territory encompassed such a myriad of completely different biomes that how we lived and what we planted depended on what region of the continent a member of my nation lived. Every family of my nation owned llamas, alpacas, Guinea pigs, vultures, turkeys, and fish for food or textiles in the home terrains given and separated for us by our chiefs. We developed a writing system into which men would crochet 3D knot patterns onto a piece of woolen textile that resembled a sun necklace. My nation of course is the bilingual Spanish Speaking, biracial Spanish-mixed, polyester, wool, and velvet regalia wearing, vulture-worshipping, Inca Nation of South America. We were never culturally influenced by any other European culture that wasn't the Spanish. We are united through the Spanish expanding our nations into one huge one. We didn't swim in rivers and lakes, we controlled water and created our own fish farms, canals, sewers, pipelines, swimming pools and fountains. My nation is of course the Inca Nation of South America. Adios!

[@nichoudha]

great video

[@huitzilinf_art]

Man, nothing but spitting straight facts

[@BFL0W]

Nicely said, sister! -Ben Nez

[@butternutsquash6984]

The relationship between Pueblo, Spanish colonizers, and northern European architecture in places like Santa Fe is worth its own exploration. I've not been back for many years but 3M for a mud floored home seems off, given where the old ones were located. These mentioned must be new build?

[@HgBill]

Damn - Orban saw this video and suddenly he agreed to Sweden's accession to NATO. Simon has become a true international force.

[@octaviusv]

Generally quite true! But there are a few indigenous counterexamples of power in architecture and land misuse - the highly stratified Aztec Empire showed off the power of its elites through its temples and palaces, and the Mayan Collapse was from deforestation. Rich Yurok people usually had better houses with better views of the rest of their village. In some cultures, all the homes opened with the door to the main building (dance house/sweat lodge/etc.), which was sometimes, again depending on the culture, the home of the village's leader. It's a little unfortunate that the necessity of treating all of Turtle Island's peoples at once in a video like this means the diversity, complexity, and even the contradictions get glossed over to present an oversimplified view of Indigenous planning and architecture.

[@pettypossum724]

Yeah, there is much desperation in some of these comments... It doesn't allow for much nuanced discussion.

[@jamesleonard2870]

Awesome =] 🌊🏄‍♂️🪷

[@PokhrajRoy.]

1:35 That’s just The History Channel (lol jk)

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

As someone who went to (Western) architecture colleges, yeah, Western architecture is all about ego and flash. They might throw around terms like "responding to the site/environment/etc", but then turn around and openly express disdain for "vernacular" architecture and local solutions to local conditions and insult anyone who opts to use them. Oh, but this umpteenth glass box in the woods is "SO COOL U GUISE". It's truly broken.

[@ericthompson3982]

I think it's maybe important to understand that there's a good deal of diversity to be found in European cultures and architecture. It's a little reductive to refer to "Europeans" in one sentence. I'm a redhead. People who look like me were really wildly mistreated in some very similar ways for a very long time.

[@GOTZ-pe5vl]

I don't feel you on the ginger thing even though I am a ginger facial haired biracial Native American, no cap! No my beard doesn't match my canopy, my eyebrows, or the drapes; just my arm and leg hair. But I am against dyeing my red facial hair for I find it damaging, at least I can see better in the sun with my maroon-colored eyes. My mother is Native American and my father is British and Ashkenazi Jewish, so I really am a ginger, like I said, no cap! I'm just a ginger poc (person of color), but again, no cap on that too!.

[@ericthompson3982]

@@GOTZ-pe5vl Sigh. Ginger is brown. I'm a redhead.

[@GOTZ-pe5vl]

@@ericthompson3982 Well my facial hair color is bright carrot orange for clarification.

[@ericthompson3982]

@@GOTZ-pe5vl I dig it. Rock on, new friend.

[@MrChristianDT]

Even in the eastern woodlands, I've only just found out what "Spirit Stones" are within the last couple of months & some of those weren't just random rocks stacked up together, but made small buildings, or were sacred monuments stacked on top of older sacred moments from older people's harmoniously until it formed little religious complexes. Definitely made a lot of the stories of people wandering off into the woods or up mountains to "talk to the stones" come across as somewhat less bizarre.

[@TheSuzberry]

👍34 Algorithm!

[@noam65]

The interesting things about Teepee architecture to me were it was a brilliant way for the plains people to follow their resources, in their herd migration patterns, or change from summer locations to winter ones. They learned to tread lightly in their land to let it recover. Secondly, the actual design was genius for environmental control, allowing for indie cooking, pepper ventilation, and communal living. Those who built permanent structures were as advanced or more so than their global contemporaries. Were their books not burnt by the church, our math knowledge and other wisdom may have taken a different turn.

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

Native Architecture is amazing and practical. Now Western Architecture is often impractical and just plain ugly. The public library I worked in is extremely impractical as is the main branch of that system and both are ugly.

[@b43xoit]

The opposite of "Indigenous" would be "settler".

[@franciscopadilla1878]

Mezo america had alot of sacrificing" killing people" in their culture and had slaves build their buildings.

[@preiman7908]

So did the Greeks, Romans and the American South

[@franciscopadilla1878]

@@preiman7908 mezo America is the Americans that had pyramids. The Greeks and Roman's adopted freedom before America, they brought it here.

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

I look more "indigenous" than this woman and I'm glad to not have being born in a "indigenous home". Some things have to be protected and some not. I lived in a non european eco friendly house. We called it poverty.

[@cheyennebearfoot]

​@LuDa-lf1xd Curious: What does being Indigenous look like? 🤔 Last I checked, there's no one-size-fits all appearance. Our whole first episode is on that topic, you may want to check it out!

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

I know very well what does indigenous means. I know that others countries exist with their own idiosyncrasies. People are very much into "White european" bad, and "indigenous people" good. That's racist and averall evil.

[@Halli50]

Being a Nordic country citizen I am sadly lacking in knowledge about actual American Native culture and history. What I KNOW, however, is that the invaders of the American continents tried their damnedest to eradicate the indigenous people everywhere, were partly successful but not entirely - fortunately! What the invaders have been trying to do, in recent centuries, is to eradicate, obfuscate, denigrate and distort the entire history of the native and indigenous people of the Americas that they failed to eradicated. Since they (the invaders) are not capable of feeling shame, it is up to us, citizens of other first-world countries, to keep them from succeeding in their attempted genocide.

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

Maybe you should stop projecting your people culture on the others. I, as a South American and Spanish, know for sure that not every country was like that. I'm mestiza like the vast majority of my american compatriots. Learn a bit of history.

[@MariaGasca-Reyes]

Wow 👏 thank you for your insight yes we've known this for generations.

[@b43xoit]

I'm afraid that my traditional culture is the basis of mainstream society. All people should reject the bad aspects of this culture.

[@knightshade6232]

turns out i have relatives from indigieous backgrounds im asian 🤗

[@scottwolf8633]

H. sapiens sapiens is not, "Indigenous", to the Western Hemisphere.

[@NauerBauer]

Conquistador

[@KateeAngel]

That is not the definition of the word

[@scottwolf8633]

@@KateeAngel in·dig·e·nous /inˈdijənəs/ adjective 1. originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. "coriander is indigenous to southern Europe" Yeah, it is.

[@SpecialSP]

THE MOST racist word I know is ASSIMILATION . full stop . WHY is anyone "expected" to become something that they are not? WHY should anyone give up their culture, language, ideals, faith and so much more, ONLY to STILL NEVER measure up to an invisible criteria? What right does any person have to EXPECT anyone to ASSIMILATE? I was raised white. My skin is "white". And yet, I NEVER fit in, no matter how much I wanted to. As it turns out, my paternal grandmother kept a secret. She was Native American. She was ashamed of this. She had 3 sisters that I never knew because SHE didn't want us to know her secret. HER SHAME denied me my heritage. I cannot forget that … I have family out there that I'll never know.

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

You are being delusional, dude. You need help. Analyse your comment.