My land was CURSED, so I BLESSED the coast with Mausoleum Yields

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Argent was the person who I talked to that got me interested in hearing about Native American experiences from North and South America. Its why I asked for people to send in personal experiences, just so we could hear a little bit of what its like for people in different situations. Sadly, this will probably be the most light hearted personal experience in the series. Argent is also a public person with some socials he was ok with me linking Heritage Center qeschil.org/ instagram.com/qeschil/ Personal Websites www.argentkvasnikoff.com/ instagram.com/argentkvasnikoff/?hl=en

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

I agree dis guy so cool

[@WikiSnapper]

Potato! I sent you a PDF copy of my book! I hope you enjoy it!

[@danielheaton1014]

He missed the most important detail of the Iroquois story. They INVENTED THE SPORT OF LACROSSE and were being barred from competing in the international games.

[@MrSadSmileyFace]

Damn that is fucked up hahahah wtf, they couldn’t even let the fellas who made the game play it..

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

That wasn't really the issue per se, although it certainly added an extra insult emotionally, but what was really heinous about it was that the Iroquois were ranked 3rd in the world at the time and routinely make international playoffs. And even though every other lacrosse playing country in the world, including both the US and Canada who have overlapping modern jurisdictions, recognize the Iroquois, the world body skipped them anyways when they allocated tournament slots based on world rankings, saying they weren't recognized. Technically they were 'right' since they didn't have an organized National Olympic Committee at the time, however they could have easily done the right thing and allowed them time to organize one to fit the requirements in time for the tournaments. When the revolt happened that's what ended up happening anyways, now there is an Iroquois NOC, and that should have been what the world body did from the very beginning.

[@actualturtle2421]

Tbf if there's one guy you don't want to play against, it's the guy who invented the game.

[@jaymanx4life]

@@actualturtle2421 I don't know mate. Basketball was invented by a Canadian. Doesn't always translate I guess. 🤷🏽

[@donkis4227]

@@actualturtle2421 Reminder that England invented footie

[@wolframstahl1263]

I really enjoy these stories! Wouldn't want them in every single game, but every once in a while it's really enriching the experience of watching you play Civ. This seems like an overall positive experience, so I hope you'll do it again some day!

[@seasand6705]

agree

[@AndyBestHP]

Holy S--t, I had a proper look through Argent's site and his work is amazing, evocative and intellectual, while being connected to foundational experiences like language, and connection to environment. It's genius level and my mind was refreshed coming into contact with it for even a moment. What a great connection to make through the series.

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

TY 😎

[@edwardsweeden237]

First time posting, I'm actually from Oklahoma (Indian Territory). I love how hard you try to pronounce the names of the cities (Spiffing Brit had the same problem when doing the EU4 tribes). It's something that people do all the time. I'm actually part native on my dads side but my great grandmother did not want to be logged into a like a charter when the government was putting up reservations, so my family doesn't qualify for the benefits that is usually given to others (medical, school, housing, etc;). I had heard that the Choctaw had donated funds to Ireland but that was something that was not taught at my school even though we were less than a mile from our closest reservation. Its really neat that Ireland and Native Americans share a history and I think those are things that should be taught. Thanks for the vids.

[@Cookee397]

Thanks for sharing

[@Jdomz97]

IIRC from what they taught in school, the tribe that we call the Iroquois called themselves the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) in their native language. The Algonquin tribe called them the Iroquois in their language, and since the European explorers made contact with the Algonquins first, that is the name that the rest of the world learned.

[@logan9900]

if you don't throw your whole empire at getting envoys for Auckland I'm going to cry

[@jbrock98]

Love this comment.

[@logan9900]

it would have made the thumbnail that much better

[@matthewnapoleon125]

I mean you took fishing boat pantheon and you got Auckland that's a gift.

[@FloydRose420]

I’m 10 minutes in and I’m screaming in my head YOU HAVE AUKLAND NOTICE IT !!!

[@rneumann7229]

This, so much this

[@carterb3071]

I think Georgia could be another interesting Civ to tell some stories if you decide to do some more of these kinds of playthroughs in the future. The Caucasus have a long history and don't really get much attention to the history of the region and more specifically the people. It would also be another reason to play a Civ that doesn't really get a lot of play

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

Agreed! Part of our European side comes from Georgia and the Black Sea and they have just as complex of histories as us.

[@gromit2478]

I enjoyed the story. It's a good way to fill gaps when the gameplay is a bit on the slow side, as well as being interesting and informative. I was sat nodding my head in agreement whilst you were talking about how travelling to other places has changed. The exact same thing happens at gigs and festivals. Instead of people being in the moment they spend their time trying to capture it.

[@elisabetk2595]

For like 35 years my spouse and I have called this phenomenon "The map is not the territory".

[@Skycroft1000]

48:44 It's coming from Cleopatra's UA, Mediterranean's Bride. Trade Routes to Egypt give extra food (and extra gold for Egypt).

[@BadVideoWatcher1]

Also Poundmaker's ability, camps at the destination give food to trade routes

[@Justostar9]

"People only travel nowadays to take pictures and not experience things and travel" "Man I want to go to the feathery statue to take pics of it" lmao

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Yet you live in a society, curious

[@graemewebb8126]

Really appreciated your inclusion of these important stories of Indigenous peoples. All too often people think of colonialism as something that happened in the past. However, it is very much an ongoing process. Indeed, coming from Canada, and currently residing in land that was never ceded by the local Syilx people, there are three startling points I wanted to share: last Canadian residential school didn't close until 1997 (the phrase 'killing the Indian in the child' is most often associated with these schools), the South African apartheid system was based on the Canadian Indian Act, and that there are rural Indigenous reserves that have not had access to potable water for 20+ years. Efforts at reconciliation are being made, but all to often Indigenous voices aren't heard or given much weight when making policy (or deciding on whether pipelines should go across their land). Thanks for featuring a few stories in this series and making a positive intervention on your channel, @PotatoMcWhiskey. ALSO, worth noting that the Civ modding community has done some good work bringing many Indigenous peoples into the game.

[@torbertov]

It wouldn't be a potato civ series without one of the videos using mausoleum yields as the thumbnail and title

[@ottovonbass-mark5424]

His Choctaw story reminded me of the African tribe that, when they heard that the US was in the Great Depression, they donated their two best cows to help

[@imranhaziq4956]

It reminds me when the Masai tribe decided to donate 14 cows to the US after the 9/11 attacks. Very wholesome

[@smargio]

I am super enjoying learning about other people's cultures that I would have learned about if you didn't choose to give a spotlight. Awesome and I hope you continue to do this.

[@TeaLobster]

I'm glad that internet people are more and more able to have grown-up conversations about social issues instead of presenting things through a very unga bunga black and white lens.

[@Radgi]

I really like that you are bringing in stories from subscribers. It would be fun to hear/see if you did with more of your civ series. Really enjoyed the video

[@minine6508]

One of the many reasons i love Civ is to expose me to cultures and themes that I could have never learned in school or wouldn't know what to look for. I absolutely love this video. I really would love to see more videos of you going into the history and stories of the civs you play!!

[@seasand6705]

Thank you for taking the time to tell stories of individual experiences. I enjoyed hearing about them.

[@brettmoransgolf]

Waking up and being called Spuddy is the best way to start my weekend. From Australia

[@aapjew18]

I think it's really cool you took this playthough as an opportunity to create a platform for the telling of indigenous stories. The more often we hear the tales of the people on that side of history, the better.

[@Keairan3]

The monument you mentioned is in Midleton's Bailick Park. Cork County, though, so your memory is good!

[@jacobkozelichki4883]

The feather monument that Potato is referencing has another monument in my hometown in America. It looks rad and I love when peoples reach out to help others for no other reason than its the right thing to do.

[@zacharyatwood5263]

Potato: You always want to be looking for cities with mutliples of...(pause) Me: Four Potato: ...one plus three

[@ashvinvaidyanathan7239]

He meant (3n+1). So that means 1,4,7,10 etc. That is not the same as multiples of four.

[@messiahmoose]

I did enjoy story time, thank you. ☺️

[@mjstecyk]

Potato do be flexing his Irish gift of gab. I liked the video, I think you tastefully discussed some frequently distressing topics. I've never thought about the duality between the Irish and Native peoples in the new world.

[@timwhitman3207]

Potato and the Culture Victory, name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.

[@Bobber_The_Wise]

Potato and Mausoleum yields thumbnail is up there 😄

[@bleearg13]

Bro, how could you get to a point where Gilgabro denounces you? He's so chill....

[@Iotacox]

As someone who is more familiar with Indigenous peoples, in my case in Canada, I found some of your commentary was a little bit cringe. But I applaud you for taking the time to reach out and learn more. Indigenous peoples experiences are one of the most overlooked areas of history in education around the world. You are a champion for taking time to listen to stakeholders and to try and learn, and also use your platform to educate others. I hope you continue in this endeavor. With future Civ games I like to hope it will be even more relevant.

[@Rascarn]

this is one of your best series on here - both gameplay and topic-wise

[@Zaimejs]

Great series to combine history and humans with the gameplay. Could do this for any of the leaders.

[@impishDullahan]

My university offers Ojibwe language (can't recall if it's Anishinaabemowin or another dialect) classes. It's framed as a linguistics course (learning about non-Indo-European topology through learning a non-IE language) and not a language and culture course but I had a classmate who said it was really amazing. Really excited to take it next year and engage with and learn about one of the local people groups. I've been interested in learning an Algonquian language (the family to which the Cree dialects also belong) since grade 5, I think, back when my class did a collective culture and history project on the native peoples of Michigan. Really neat to hear about the Irish connections between the Choctaw and Haudenosaunee and just the shared displacement stories in general. I've been learning Irish a couple years now so it's neat to see learning these languages might not be so disparate after all.

[@OutOfMarbles127]

About the situation with travelling and social media you mentioned. This is an actual field of study in sociology of consumerism, it´s connected to something we call "The Manifestation of Ostentatious Idleness". It´s basically a process of manifesting social capital (or trying to) by either presenting yourself as vacant (vacancy = free time = economic value of free time = presents a higher social status), or as having more resources then you actually have in hopes that presenting as having a higher social/econimic status will manifest in you actually becoming of that status (in easy terms)

[@OfficialZushi]

this video is over a year old, but I would definitely love more videos like this. For me, the best part of history is all the personal stories that make up history

[@asomelord]

So where i grew up on my 5 minute daily commute to school I had to pass through a reservation what was a pretty significant historical/archeological site for the micmac people. There was definitely a heavy focus on preserving native culture in our education. We had field trips to a museum on the res, multiple pow wows both at the traditional site and part of school assemblies, micmac language classes (which i didn't take, hence why I'm using the anglicized version of the tribe), the national anthem performed in Micmac at least twice a week, and very detailed education about Residential schools in late elementary school social studies. I occasionally would see hints that this wasn't the case elsewhere. Usually from cousins or distant relatives saying very racist things about the indigenous communities. It wasn't really until college that I realized how uncommon my school experience was, when a friend of mine who lived less than half an hour away and went to a different school was horrified because she had just learned about Residential Schools. I personally would like to think that my school experience gave more opportunities for first nation students by fostering an environment where they can be seen as equal and their culture can be celebrated instead of erased... although the only person I still speak to from high school (native or otherwise) took Art in college so i can't say for certain

[@HarleyMaebry]

I think it’s appropriate that you went for Cross-Cultural Dialogue in the game while engaging in actual cross-cultural dialogue out of game. I found that segment academically interesting, btw. I think we as people of the world need more of that, even if the stories aren’t all fun.

[@mohandasjung]

Why does everyone that talks about we getting together gets murdered?

[@125discipline2]

when you talked about trader being a moveable pops, made me really wish that you can move population in this game

[@seanbutterfield1]

I love the focus on native peoples. The world is fucked, and I think it's so important to make people aware of all the problems and injustices in the world in a way that doesn't necessarily demand an audience to feel an intense guilt or expect them to do anything about it yet.

[@siechamontillado]

It'd be great if a standalone video can be made that showcases these stories - really liked hearing about Cinnamon Beard's story and the Choctaw donation to the Irish people.

[@FroggyBunwich]

When I was alot younger my one relative liked taking me to an annual powwow that took place at our local fair ground. They would have tents that sold knick knacks and such. Every single tent had incense burning. It was unavoidable. So while it did help set the mood at the event, by the end of the day I was ready to barf.

[@DesignsByTRex]

Don't forget about Auckland!!! Especially in this coastal game

[@benjaminmiller8418]

Love the added discussions, please keep them up :)

[@Ascisana]

I know it a little late but that's a nice touch, having a little storytime related to the civ you are playing :)

[@tagesvaterpatrick8780]

I was born in South West Germany, the Romans gave my ancestors the name "Germanians" although the "german" tribes ("excel sheeted" as Franks, Allemans, Saxons, Angles, Frees etc) just like the native american tribes had almost nothing in common except for the enemy that was Rome (or the Celts, Goths, Huns etc). They had different languages, beliefs, cultures or simply: ways of life. I began studying books about native american tribes at the age of 6 and very quickly realized how diverse these cultures have been. Some lived in Huts of wood (like the Iroquis), others in tents (the tribes of the plains like Sioux, Pawnee, Cheyenne) and some even built houses of stone and clay like the tribes in the south (Apache). It is one of the most horrible things in history what happened to those cultures, some were indefinetely extinct. Some might say: that's the way of the world. I can't agree...

[@derekv2353]

Sabaton wrote a song about a Canadian native from world war 1 called a ghost in the trenches. Fun fact

[@l.f.540]

Thank you for the story time, I enjoyed it :)

[@JohnDoe-dr9ff]

Auckland. Auckland! Auckland!!! 😂 Was dying you overlooked that city state given the map.

[@jrm78]

Those desert islands are crying out for future Cree seaside resorts.

[@antipode3141592]

I'm really enjoying listening to the stories. It makes a lot of thematic sense to tell individual stories to bring culture and history to life for a game so heavily inspired by real history (not implying native culture is only historical, just that the game is much more historical than contemporary).

[@webbbaker6872]

The world games is actually happening in my home city this year

[@nevinrichards4787]

I'm loving and really appreciating these types of topics/discussions in your videos! Over time I would love to see a series of games where you roleplay as the civ you're playing and share stories like you are here.

[@travismorton9727]

That's so cool about the Irish famine story! First Nations are awesome.

[@donkis4227]

I'd love to hear more how Potato feels towards his Irishness and Irish history now

[@gamesplayedpoorly8633]

The official website for the Tule River tribe near where I live has a Big Foot story posted on it's page. That's always been interesting to me.

[@andyjabez9780]

Love the story time, especially in a game with such a "historical" themed game

[@jakobraahauge7299]

An odd note on being half Inuit and half Danish - and apparently looking ethnically ambiguous; in the US both Latinos, Asians, and white people kinda just assumed that I was one them! I was addressed in a LOT of different languages "overthere." Inuits - we can literally recognise each other half a kilometer away by a glance! ❤️🤗

[@ericwickens2477]

Really cool stories

[@jesusonaz9897]

It takes serious skill to be denounced by Gilgamesh

[@aljam23]

So glad you raided Spiff. I almost missed it all.

[@marcogutierrez6293]

i honestly love your videos way to much

[@Eric_D_6]

Those stories were very interesting and even relevant to my recent desire to learn about my ancestry. I'm mostly descended from Irish emigrants to the US, but I do have a great great grandma who was Cherokee, a great grandma who we thing was Ojibwe and I also have a vague memory from the last time I looked into my ancestry (back then it was for an elementary school project rather than my own desire) that some other ancestor of mine was Blackfoot, but in recent efforts I haven't been able to verify that or even figure out which ancestor it was that I had thought that was. Hopefully I find time to look into it more.

[@dakotahrussell3375]

I live in “Indian territory” Oklahoma and they teach us about the donation to Ireland. So it’s pretty cool to hear it confirmed (public school info isn’t always reliable)

[@25bruhbruh]

I grew up in the interior of Alaska and was exposed to a lot of the local Athabaskan culture growing up (I’m not Athabaskan). Alaska Native tribes are incorporated and utilize their corporate power to provide free healthcare, education, etc. for shareholders of the corporation (only tribe members allowed essentially). Much better than reservations and helps keep rural Alaska alive.

[@cinnamonbeardstud]

The issue is that Alaska corporations aren't the same as self governing nations, they're private entities created to divest autonomy and democratic governance from tribes and in fact we are all working together to undo that damage in a way. Most of the past few decades since the creation of corporations (early 1970s) and restoration of native sovereignty (1978) have pitted the nations and politically white-friendly corporations against each other, and there is still a major legacy of ill will between the two we are reconciling with. And we don't get free healthcare necessarily, we still have to pay nominal prices and the "free" stuff is limited to specific, basic essentials. Also you can only get access to some of the "free" care in the city of Anchorage, which for most people in tribes is a large travel burden. For myself and my people we generally still try to get private or subsidized insurance because if we don't we just don't get healthcare needs met. There's a lot of misconception about living in Alaska, it's definitely hard, expensive, and nothing is really free 😎

[@mayfield3314]

39:12 I did not expect that inquisition

[@OvidusNaso]

I really enjoyed the Native experience stories. Norway has a quite famous native population but their experiences are rarely explored. Like the Ainu and many other BIPOC they're tokenized and presented as a static culture which only exists in the past

[@MrGhosta5]

I'm actually both Irish and Ojibwa. My dynasty owns a castle in Ireland and my many great grandfather was Chief Buffalo. I can legally harvest wild rice in the lake superior area.

[@azureprophet]

Story time was an excellent idea.

[@parkeranderson1273]

Love the content!!!! Keep it up

[@tronuser8556]

I enjoyed storytime 👍

[@Artie_Fufkin]

Fabricate Scandal can be so powerful when boosted by a World Congress

[@shawnspeigner2835]

I know I'm watching this well after it came out, but the I really appreciate the attention on the Native Americans. I'd love for this to happen more! I do have native heritage and love learning more and more

[@dafyddthomas3193]

ngl, you are very good at what you do and your videos are entertaining. It's partly why I was so invested in Civ for a while, until finally winning on deity for the first and last time. The funny thing is, it didn't feel like an achievement - Civ was so much fun while i was learning, and it became the only thing I thought about, so my life otherwise ceased to progress. It's probably largely to do with my personality, but I can't be alone in being so deeply sucked into a world where you can spend hours playing a game, trying so hard to 'win', and spend any other time watching videos that also concern that game. It's a shame that video games can elicit such pervasive addictions in people, and it can destroy so much individuality. I hope people can see that this is a problem with video games, and it sadly causes much doubt in me that Potato really is dedicating his life to something meaningful.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

Its meaningful to me, its the job I've always wanted to do

[@thegrossmeyer]

Life is what you make of it, and there is plenty of room for people to devote their purpose to entertaining others. That is not addiction.

[@MakeyJu]

did you really come into gamers' space to tell them they are doing harmful meaningless things..?? we are playing games and having fun. if you are getting addicted and somehow losing your individuality it's a YOU problem, not Potato's problem 😆

[@chad3232132]

Crazy fact - Ireland today still has a lower population than it had in 1840, just before the Irish Famine. Around 1 million Irish died in the famine, with another 1 million plus emigrating out of the country during or just after the famine. I'm fairly certain it's the only country on Earth with a population lower than it has 150+ years ago. The world population has grown by nearly 6x in that same span.

[@Matt-ty6ij]

bro you need to get aucklund, its op in coastal games

[@ryanjones_rheios]

Man, I wish I was excited about Path of Exile still. =/ Ooof. Apple, man. Vultures every time. Ironically two of the three tribes that I have ancestry from - but have no membership in or interaction with the culture of (an important part to highlight since, as someone born in the south, people frequently let the "I have X group's blood in my veins" hang without context but its also performative) - are the Cherokee and the Choctaw. (Other one is Chickasaw.) I don't know all the story behind the tribal mixing in my ancestry because it all comes from a great-great grandfather who I never even got to meet, let alone know. Although my grandmother, now also passed since I'm getting old, recounted that he was a quiet, serious man and farmer whose wife was an absolute battleaxe.

[@woodysmith2681]

Ugh, I always check the promotions on Apostles in case I can get extra conversions. If you got the one that gives you 3 extra for moving next to a Natural Wonder, you would have had 3 to take back your cities near Persia AND evangelize a new belief.

[@OutCider937]

A moist nugget of a lets play.

[@Alpenjodler1]

I think the best thing about civ6 is that it's perfectly reasonable to go theocrazy _in_ _order_ _to_ rely on rock bands 😀

[@grantwetzel1660]

In terms of a shipyard paying itself off I think of it more as if I build the shipyard now then the next building/district that I unlock down the road will be quicker to build (stuff that I can't build atm)

[@TheGenxennial]

Doesn't taking a science alliance with Scotland boost his already run-away science lead because he can efficiently trade with you as a neighbor?

[@jeffbonds3850]

great video as always

[@gray_wolf1058]

I love those stories.

[@kunmppari6674]

You gotta play as Germany next so we'll get to hear the rest of Private Ümlaut's story

[@tangodospassos]

Oh boi I can't wait for him to do a Gilgamesh series and share stories from Sumerian people I wonder how life is in Mesopotamia in the Uruk age (joke's aside this is a great idea, specially considering Civilization as a series has a complicated history with the notion of civilization itself, I gave a lecture about this once, it's a long story, but basically I like that with those stories you can get into the more... subtle and complicated aspect of human experiences)

[@rpontonjr]

You used your Apostle to evangelize without levelling it up. If there is a boost to the number of charges, you can use those and then still evangelize / inquisition with 3 charges left.

[@tomhemming9236]

BIPOC Bi POC LMFAO

[@gregegg9380]

Not native but my uncle is. One thing that sucked for him and his kids was that whatever org that decides blood quantum decided that he was only 49% native. This made his kids only 24.5% native thus ineligible for free college tuition.

[@TheLaddercat]

"I'm gonna talk about native experiences, as the gameplay is boring. I'm just exploring and killing. Let's talk native experiences instead." Bruh

[@thegrossmeyer]

Honestly I love the stories. If you decide to shift the focus of your channel on telling the stories of people from various cultures and ethnicities related to the game you are playing, I'm all in and would support you. I think that would be a lovely niche to carve out for yourself.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I don't think we're going to shift that way, its just a once in a while thing I might do

[@thegrossmeyer]

@@PotatoMcWhiskey That's cool. Perhaps have a series called "StoryTime Civs" or something, to highlight when you are going to be adding culture and history into the playthrough.

[@boonap5041]

At first I thought this would be a bit gimmicky, but props to you potato this has really been educational and I am enjoying this. This would make a great series, cheers!

[@MitchellBaird]

Story time good 😊

[@griff327]

Hi! Loving your channel. I feel like this has probably been asked many times before, but how do I get the summary of the in-game Civs that's on the top of your screen? Mine just shows the icon of the leader, and Incamt figure out how to get the additional info. Is it a mod?

[@portland573]

Did I imagine rel units left to die after suboptimal spreads rather than running like the wind to heal?

[@rulers00]

dont forget a trader (at least over land) leaves a road for faster travel as well

[@seanpryor4127]

Is it just me or did Tayto "go broke" and forget to change government to Monarchy at 22:30?

[@marinestrasse]

"Private Heinrich Umlaut" - common generic german Surname 😂

[@johnperry7235]

Big story time fan

[@AgainWhoops]

More stories please

[@chriscw3487]

giant rabbit or one of those little ones ? ....best house pets ever ....the giant ones i mean ...i would'nt know about the little ones

[@butnah]

I have had that tik tok rap song in my head for so long too 😂