Savages Despise A Tear: Massy Harbison Captured By Indians And Claimed As A Squaw, Butler, PA, 1792

[@ropeburnsrussell]

People were tough back then, good Lord! Stories like this explain why the old families of the east coast have no sympathy for the native Americans.

[@kerstinclemmons6962]

People better get tough again and be prepared to fight

[@ropeburnsrussell]

@kerstinclemmons6962 about what?

[@willbass2869]

Those soft hand, feather bed sleeping east coasters can't measure against we Texans. The Comanches (& their Kiowa "cousins") were the finest horsemen on the North American continent and the toughest fighters.......until the Texas Rangers stepped in. Just sayin'

[@ropeburnsrussell]

@willbass2869 well son, we didnt run to the government to save us from Mexico, we kicked King George out ourselves. But that was a long time ago and we're on the same side now,I hope.

[@billysmith6284]

Ikr.. there are thousands and thousands of stories like this.. brutal.. 24/7

[@riancreamer6904]

It's a shame that we don't tell these stories with more reverence. Say what you will about the government ... But these pilgrim souls were tough as old boots and lived bloody hard lives. They are a treasure of, and credit to, the USA's history. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@lockednloaded9867]

I read this book. This woman went through Hell for years at the hands of cold blooded savages, but still made it out and thrived.

[@losthart5577]

These people were looking at Annihilation, what is The Native to do? If you seen your way of life and the people you loved died at the hands of these white Diseased and uneducated people.

[@Nystariii]

Savages? They never did wrong to anybody! All they ever wanted was to pass the peace pipe and make babies and worship their gods...no, don't look into the way they treated one another before the white people came. That's just pRoPaGaNdA oF tHe CoLoNiZeRs!1!!1!!1

[@justjosie0107]

God bless our ancestors who went through so much to make a wilderness into a civilized nation.

[@abelwritesmusic]

Maybe they should've stayed in Europe.

[@lemfarba4827]

@@abelwritesmusic Maybe the savages should have stayed in Siberia.

[@justjosie0107]

@abelwritesmusic If they go back, I am sure you would agree that they should take freedom, modern sanitation & medicine, infrastructure, and all other "evil" European knowledge with them? Can we also send everyone else back? The Indian tribes to Asia? The Turks out of Byzantium? The "new arrivals" back and out of Europe? Perhaps a child such as you should not comment on things you have no grasp upon.

[@abelwritesmusic]

@@justjosie0107 you're justifying how r____ you are. Your birthrates are on the decline and I am glad for that.

[@abelwritesmusic]

@@justjosie0107 your birthrates are declining. We'll see who wins.

[@Bennywindows]

That infant was very lucky to have such a brave mother

[@johnc.6645]

There's very few who could survive what she did. Much attention is placed on the hardships Indians had to endure. How could you go thru what some of these people on the frontier witnessed,and not hate the indians. These were brutal times for the settlers and the Indians. How can fingers be pointed in judgement unless you were living in these times.

[@melidee1479]

There is no excuse for this vile behavior.

[@darrenmcg97]

Just the way it was, So. Called Christ. Ians did not behave much better

[@lmaoyourekiddingme]

​@@darrenmcg97 Shows how ignorant you are.

[@darrenmcg97]

On the contrary shows your ignorance

[@lmaoyourekiddingme]

@darrenmcg97 Really? How about in Europe today with the migrant invasion? Do you suggest the Indigenous Europeans use the same tactics to ward off the foreigners?

[@darrenmcg97]

@lmaoyourekiddingme if you're talking about Putin absolutely categorically

[@davidgingerich2230]

WOW AWESOME STORY.

[@anon2034]

The myth of the noble savage is a myth.

[@wendys390]

I can hardly imagine going through what she went through. They were strong people.

[@kevinbegley836]

Bravo! Another great story!!!

[@AustinB.3322]

I been told many times that to live my life is "worse than death".

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Great channel!

[@d.cypher2920]

Omg!!!? I live, literally .5 mile away from her grave... Community park, Freeport PA, U.S.A. 😊

[@thatguyjoe007]

Yes I believe her dream was a message from the other side, letting her know that soon she would be free.

[@tamaramills-e7x]

A very poignant recollection from a mother.

[@john-or9cf]

Noble savages, huh..guess not

[@timwarcloud]

Protectors of what was theirs.

[@tabathac444]

Hollywood has idealized this group of people. It's the image people take as gospel. Be damned with the truth.

[@john-or9cf]

@ …sure

[@riancreamer6904]

@they'd been doing it to each other for hundreds of years, way before any white man landed on the continent. They were savage. No way around it.

[@willbass2869]

I wake up *EVERY* morning thanking God for sending Hernan Cortez & his few hundred conquistadors into Mexico to stop the Aztec ritual ☠️💀☠️💀 of thousands of captives atop their bl00d soaked pyramids

[@Sandbarfight]

Thank you brother God bless you and your Kin.

[@JohnMack-f3f]

History is always changing.

[@danegunther6621]

Sir James Frazier describes how the Pawnees sacrificed a fourteen or fifteen year-old Sioux girl by roasting her alive on a spit and then shooting her to death with arrows. (The Golden Bough, page 501, Simon and Schuster)

[@SapphirePerspectiveBR]

Wow… the Natives were simply re-enacting traumas that were done to them… and in a circle life goes, on and on… how sad, wow

[@ronniemackechnie7328]

White natives or the Indian natives?

[@SapphirePerspectiveBR]

@ both

[@geneotrexler8246]

Good video 👍🏼

[@janemaas4225]

Excellent real story. Could the women of today survive like Mrs. Massey did? Enjoy your podcasts.

[@majorphenom1]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏿 The will to survive 🕊️ Favorable situations to get out of that jam were necessary ✅ Divine intervention is a possibility from my perspective ✅

[@cindyhale6912]

Some native Americans were ruthless and did sickening tortures

[@cadmanful]

Thanks!

[@mwindanji6714]

The homestead is worth the visit. Copperheads for sure. Not the altitude for rattlers.

[@StDavidpipes]

Wrong, historical fact there were rattles back then. Butler, Beaver, Washington and Greene Counties had their share hundreds of years back.

[@BobF321]

Divine assistance of the mercies of God,great similarities among other western native tribes in the way they tortured,scalped&maltreated white people. Such animosities between both nations,thanks for finding these old books

[@TerriMagoo]

Love history

[@BobbieAtwood-bk7py]

I’m just going to say, that if the idea from the beginning was to leave another country, come across the ocean and then find a place of your own in America, I’m good with that. But to get in a wagon and walk and ride any direction west knowing Indians didn’t want us to squat on their property is preposterous!!! All of us would now live in an EXTREMELY TALL BUILDING on Ellis Island!!!! 🤔😵‍💫😳😖😖😖😖😖😖😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@karney6583]

Brutal

[@kneesusforjesus2879]

I used to be friends with Dave Harbison in wexford

[@timoteo8024]

Never left a comment my friend, but the update of actual human artists is a breath of fresh air. Kudos & thank you.

[@PatrickDonnell-m2l]

Dang!

[@TerriMagoo]

❤❤❤

[@dogparty-tt8qw]

Actual illustration is great! But, I have no problem with AI art. Massy probably did believe that divine intervention actually took place, rather than intentionally embellishing her story, perhaps she was religious. I would hate to second guess one who had suffered the way she did.

[@jimmymoore3151]

❤

[@torrtucker5572]

Are y'all counting the wyt men who took her with the indians as savages? Or are y'all going to act like you didn't hear that part

[@gregweaver9877]

They were probably kidnapped as young children and raised as savages

[@rt3box6tx74]

@@torrtucker5572 Two "wyt" men in a war party of 25 hardly moves the needle - especially since those wyt men were most likely kidnapped survivors of wyt families who'd been slaughtered. True Stockholm Syndrome.

[@riancreamer6904]

No, they we savage; far as I'm concerned. Likelihood though, is that they were once captives, who had likey seen similar horrors as young boys, and had been raised in that culture. It's always, ALWAYS, about culture. Not race!

[@Sandbarfight]

For the algorithm

[@rt3box6tx74]

Anothe example of the wise caretakers of the land, living at one with nature in pursuit of glorious peace. This nation was bought with the blood of European lambs who hadn't a clue that their children would pay for their naivete.

[@timwarcloud]

Then maybe they should have practiced the Christian tenet of "Thou shalt not steal" 🤔

[@rt3box6tx74]

@timwarcloud Steal what?

[@jennifermaldo]

​@@rt3box6tx74😉

[@iiiZokage]

Lambs😂 Explain the trail of tears

[@rt3box6tx74]

@iiiZokage conspiracy theory

[@And-Not-Do-What-I-say]

When speaking of men acting as savages keep in mind that we were trespassing and stealing what wasn't ours.

[@roboutaboutintas5444]

Not an excuse for wanton cruelty, especially against women and children!

[@pedromiguel3227]

Native American tribes were practicing genocide, raping, stealing, and child-murdering, long before the white man arrived. They definitely weren’t playing nice together.

[@rt3box6tx74]

@And-Not-Do-What-I-say Nope! Indigenous people of that era didn't subscribe to the concept of ownership or borders. No European parked their wagon and began subsistence farming in the middle of a tribal encampment. There was loads of vacant land. Why did gather around European forts and outposts. Food was easier to find there than wandering across vast hunting grounds with no guarantee of ample food. Natural survival instincts. It was indigenous tribes who took European settlers assets. Natives owned nothing worth stealing.

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

Considering they didn't have a concept for ownership of the land, was it 'theirs'? Furthermore, does that validate modern indigenous Europeans from expelling or attacking colonizers from the third world today? Indigenous rights correct?

[@rt3box6tx74]

@BaltimoresBerzerker Fuzzy logic much? 😄

[@theschoolsurvivalguide4544]

When you invade people's homes and then play victim.

[@janupczak1643]

I cannot imagine a more horrific example of victimization. This woman survived an experience most of us would not. Yeah...I'd say she was most definitely a victim.

[@theschoolsurvivalguide4544]

@@janupczak1643 Except her descendants are waddling into Walmart by the truckload, still trying to justify this genocide, while the people who cared for the land are gone.

[@RunninQHsRock]

@@theschoolsurvivalguide4544 Do flog yourself before every meal or just once in the morning and the you're good for the day?

[@tabathac444]

I bet you believe the open borders are helping poor immigrants. 😅

[@timwarcloud]

​@@theschoolsurvivalguide4544Not all of us, but the bastards tried.

[@wendys390]

Trying to figure out how anyone could actually complain to you about AI illustrations. SMH

[@wendamaltessee]

Old World Structures in the USA? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZfaZGtpaZdomdE My Lunch Break CHEERS.....................!

[@bluevireo425]

Yes...makes one wonder doesn't it! So much history has to be taken with a grain of salt...Someday we will know as we are known...but Wondering Still.

[@stevenbrown6277]

Great story! Of course there was no 'diving intervention' or vision in a dream that led her to safety. It was a later embellishment that her mind created. I have known people who were in severe circumstances who later created imaginary happenings to cope with the randomness of the situation. There is no supernatural.

[@holysmoke8439]

So she published her own book..in 1789 im sure that was very easy to do😂. Unless their no witnesses or anything. Its possible fiction.....it seem like they always write their own books

[@lemfarba4827]

Indians didn't know how to read and write until the white man taught them. Whites also had to teach indians to stop eating people.

[@justjosie0107]

They would know better than anyone what occurred. Perhaps you would prefer a total stranger who had faced none of the dangers and difficulties to have written it? SMH

[@rt3box6tx74]

Oh, you're one who prefers books written by ghost writers... like the former president with two biographies?

[@Nature_Inna_Box]

Its called a primary source. in history its considered more valuable than a secondary source if there is supporting evidence

[@marie3141]

Whew- what grit! She was pregnant as well?!?

[@janemaas4225]

Excellent real story. Could the women of today survive like Mrs. Massey did? Enjoy your podcasts.