She Refused To Be An Indian Wife: Delaware Indians Attack the Bard Family in Pennsylvania, 1758

[@daneboyz1]

These folks are my ancestors. I had no idea any Bards were abused by the Delawares. We still live in Pennsylvania. Thanks Mr History.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@cdcdogs4961]

Ditto! My mother is a traditional dancer, her name is Wandering Star. With that said, I think all humans can be SAVAGES, look at how we treat each other now.😬🤦🏻‍♀️✌🏼😎

[@andrewholdaway813]

You shouldn't be surprised though

[@brianew]

I worked for a man named Bard in the Philly area for about 20 years, a long time ago. I wonder if he is related?

[@GreyAlien11]

⁠@@cdcdogs4961i believe anyone can be forced to do anything when they’re desperate enough? Not necessarily forced by others but just inside themselves x I never think this is a true judgement of character, just a desperation or last resort thing, such an amazing and emotional story x I’d love to hear more, if you all know anymore x ❤

[@spacehonky6315]

If scalps were intended to be war trophies, what exactly was there to brag about when returning from battle with the scalps of children? Pathetic.

[@amysill3815]

This is why we all need Jesus. He redeems us all.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Scalping was started by illegals on Indigenous Lands -COMANCHE NATION

[@DooDoo-f4v]

You'll see this behavior in every tribe taught by Talmud scum. The new world ain't new

[@MySweetHeart-yu9zz]

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.​@@amysill3815

[@dezionlion]

@@amysill3815 Jesus is a pagan name!

[@ytharper66]

So much for the noble savage myth. Humans are just evil to one another.

[@gemjourney5210]

Agreed...Cain vs Abel

[@halfhalf656]

Noble savage is obviously English words, where did it come from?

[@lilymack4028]

I know the Delaware were one of the more violent Nations. Mandan, as well. truth is the awful tortures, scalping & murders were on both sides. We just don't read about Indians doingthem much. Interesting fact is that scalping was started by the "invaders" & Indian scalps were paid for (as bounty). Indians copied this awful act but used their scalps as signs of their prowess as a warrior & displayed ontheir horses & spears.

[@ytharper66]

@@lilymack4028 No, Indians were doing it long before the white man arrived - to each other. They were brutal to one another. In one battle, they took the wounded and threw their bodies in the fire so they could laugh at their creams of pain.

[@halfhalf656]

Who are the invaders?

[@joanbonnet8229]

Thank you for this story. My four times great grandmother was also kidnapped by the Delaware Indians (turtle clan of the Delawares led by chief Killbuck). She was held six years after the Fort Seybert massacre and escaped at Fort Pitt.

[@gemjourney5210]

And she lived to tell about it...not so sure she would have been had she been Lenape captured by the British! Btw...mine ancestors were of the same Turtle Clan that intermarried with the William Penn Quakers...my other People!

[@letsdothis9063]

And we think that we have hard lives. Lol What an amazing person. That would be quite the ordeal.

[@joanbonnet8229]

@@letsdothis9063 yes it was. She saw her father killed by Chief Killbuck as she watched and she fainted. That turned out to be lucky for her as the Lenape believed they could not kill somebody who fainted as that person’s spirit would haunt them. She was spared the fate of the other adults. Sarah had red hair and her brother in law heard of a red headed Indian woman. He dared the Indians to bring her to Fort Pitt. When he saw it was her, they started a commotion and hid her under a stack of hides in a store until the Indians who held her captive gave up and stopped looking for her. The sad part was her daughter had been told she was dead and the daughter refused to see her. Sarah did remarry and had a second family, so I guess there was a happy ending.

[@WarrenDavies-cs6wz]

Native Americans! Wrong continent for Indians

[@sctsh1491]

Wow!!!! Wow...what a story!

[@dancetothenight]

The Delaware or Lenape people were recruited by France to fight the British during the French and Indian War. This was savage combat and the British Military and settlers (they weren’t Americans yet) were not used to this brutal style of attack. France made many false promises, including getting the land back for the tribes. Unfortunately only minimal attention is given to the French and Indian War and its impact on the psyche of early American people. It was fought just before the Revolutionary War of Independence

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

More or less.

[@jjohnsengraciesmom]

Why don't we learn about this?

[@jackiemack8653]

​@@jjohnsengraciesmomIt doesnt fit the narrative of the "victims"

[@GreyAlien11]

Yes 👍 there were many pawns in this war, technically there still are?

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Only Indigenous PEOPLE are American -COMANCHE NATION

[@arribaficationwineho32]

I doubt a woman had a choice as to whether to “agree” to be an Indian wife

[@user-ey4rc5tu4t]

Only European men are narcissistic enough to believe(?) that women had no agency in their own land.

[@legadema3717]

Men of almost ALL CULTURES abuse women. I say ALMOST because I know there are cultures that I am not familiar with & some cultures value and respect women.

[@arribaficationwineho32]

@@legadema3717 of course but there are cultures that arrange marriages as is the custom in India

[@lilymack4028]

I'm sure you're right. Typically captives were slaves & being beaten was part of that life. Depending on the Nation, after a period of time a woman would be married. If she refused she woudl remain a slave of be killed. Pretty easy choice, IMO.

[@georgiayoung9124]

Love this story as one of the few where the guy actually wants his wife back. Most rejected their returned wives.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

That depended on the gentleman in question.

[@Ellen-hs7zb]

@@LindaCooper-i3f Duh

[@jackiemack8653]

​@@LindaCooper-i3fduh

[@lucabrasisleepswiththefish77]

@@LindaCooper-i3f ...Or wife. lol

[@dogparty-tt8qw]

Well on your way to 50k subs!👍 Another great story about people who lived incredibly difficult lives.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Obviously it looks like it no doubt.

[@annabelleb.8096]

The Bards had very eventful lives. They were very strong mentally, emotionally, and physically.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

All of the above.

[@jackiemack8653]

​@@LindaCooper-i3ftroll?

[@katiejon17]

I have three separate Native American tribes as my ancestors, and it makes me sick whenever I hear ignorant people spew how “peaceful” American Indians were. Sure, some where. Some wanted to live in peace with other natives and other whites. But that was only a portion of them. They weren’t called “savages” because they burped at the dinner table and farted around the camp fire. My mother’s ancestors were the Beothuk of Newfoundland - and they were treated horribly by some whites, and treated kindly by other whites. Let us us not lie about history. Let us just learn it as it actually happened.

[@AMcG-hf6yx]

100% it takes maturity to understand that humans are complex creatures filled with both the capacity for good and evil and everything in between. Exists today, existed hundreds of years ago. Do your own research and use your brain by asking questions and considering why people do what they do.

[@AtelierMinuette]

You can tell the truth of history without condoning racist behavior or emitting it yourself. Generalizing all tribes as violent isn't doing anyone any favors and I'm honestly disappointed in comments like that.

[@katiejon17]

@@AtelierMinuette so you claim that in my comment I was “generalizing all tribes as violent”. Basic deduction skills bring us to the conclusion that you are either very low in intellect, or a liar. Not only did I not “generalize all tribes as violent”, but I did the EXACT opposite. Here is the proof in my meager comment of 8 sentences: 1)”sure, some where” - immediately referencing “peaceful” Indians. 2)”Some wanted to live in peace with other natives and other whites” 3)”but that was only a portion of them” (“portion” communicates that the subject is not being “generalized”. People like you cause so much unrest and so much conflict in society. I’m sure you are a white liberal - likely a woman. You are too mentally incompetent to contend with the rest of us. And sadly - you likely have no idea how stupid your comment was. Go trigger off with your own kind.

[@karensback]

*KEEP* *THE* *VIDEOS* *COMING* *I* ❤️ *THEM* this should be taught in school i wonder why it isn't

[@Peachy08]

Because it would make a group of people look bad other than whites. They are only allowed to make whites look bad.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Blame it on the followers of the philosophies of Karl Marx and Lenin.

[@jackiemack8653]

Doesnt fit the victim narrative

[@JonnyDee-uh1eo]

​@@LindaCooper-i3fSmall 🎩

[@michaeldouglas1243]

Excellent content. Loved hearing history from my meck of the woods, near Fort Littleton.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Intriguing.

[@terezka5340]

He is so incredibly courageous. The same his wife refusing to learn the language so that she doesn´t have to commit adultery even after all the horrific torture she witnessed... I would never feel safe after savage attack like this.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

I have ancestors who were on both sides in The French and Indian War, French and English (American). My 5th great grandfather was with the French Army - Quebec.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Same here.

[@markferguson3745]

Most Americans aren't aware that most of the American British loyalists ended up moving to Canada.This is likely a good thing, as they would no doubt like Canadians less.

[@KathiStrunk]

Thank you for another well done history lesson! I appreciate your hard work.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@jude7321]

I live not far from Bardstown and I'm also of Scotch-Irish and Cherokee descent. I love for someone to read me stories, I'm an armchair traveler. Thank you God bless y'all Jude, from Kentucky ✝️🐴🇺🇸⚒️🇺🇸

[@MountainsRCallingMe]

Spent 5 years at Ft Knox. Loved Bardstown and Kentucky ❤

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

So when are you Europeans going home -COMANCHE NATION

[@jude7321]

@@MountainsRCallingMe Kentucky's a beautiful place to live.

[@Christofuzz-hc9xl]

Lol, Cherokee!!!. Its always Cherokee Nation. Every white person with blonde hair and blue eyes claims to be from the Cherokee Nation. It's a running joke. Lol, Cherokee Nation. It never gets old that joke.

[@JonnyDee-uh1eo]

​@Christofuzz-hc9xThese White idiots saying they have savage blood in them are so ridiculous. l

[@BravoCharlie2u]

I was always taught in school to be ashamed of being white and that my ancestors came here as conquerors. Once I really started researching about the Indian wars I learned that I had been lied to on a massive scale. Indians massacred each other and when whites arrived they used the same aggression on them in very brutal ways, which was returned in kind.

[@queenpeach7865]

hence the word Savages

[@joangordoneieio]

throughout history the conquerors/colonizers become the colonized. Aztec Inca Huns Mayan Roman Persian etc etc

[@JonnyDee-uh1eo]

​Yeah, By Force. Now the WhiteEuropeansjust give it away to the heathen for free.@joangordoneieio

[@markmeenaghan934]

My ggggreat grandmother and 5 children were taken in 1792 by Shawnee in virginia.witnessing my ggggr grandfather being killed n scalped in their farmhouse..a posse freed them the next day in a battle. In the posse was Ephraim Hatfield a widower. They later got married and had 5 children together and and became the Hatfield Clan of later feud history..my grandmother was Annie McKinney Musick Hatfield

[@markmeenaghan934]

As a matter of fact 233 yrs ago today Aug 12,1792

[@rt3box6tx74]

Such a peaceful society living at one with nature...

[@swarm6697]

😅😅😅😅

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Possibly.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Maybe.

[@taylie673]

It was literally war times for them. Why would they be peaceful ?

[@TwiztedHumor]

@@taylie673 Stop making excuses for savagery. You're a liar.

[@tracysmith3076]

New subscriber here. I love American and British history. Your channel was a pleasent surprise.

[@TwiztedHumor]

Good job exposing the truth about the peaceful, nature loving society of brave and noble buffalo hunters, who definitely, don't murder children, or rape women, and are definitely not genocidal.

[@nancytestani1470]

Yes.

[@lonniemonroe2714]

Modern day liberal bullshit propaganda

[@michellehankinson3552]

Sarcasm?

[@TwiztedHumor]

@@michellehankinson3552 No, I'm dead serious.

[@Nellsbells79]

Well said. This is what we’ve been spoon fed for decades

[@Meggiebeth19]

They weren’t called savages for nothing.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Apparently not.

[@davidschaadt3460]

They attacked other Indian tribes with equal savagery

[@gemjourney5210]

They are my people and intermarried with the William Penn Quakers who are my other People... Btw...The British were the true "Savages!"

[@gemjourney5210]

They lived along the East Coast of America and owned what is now all of Manhattan NY... eating mostly oysters and were an agricultural tribe... They built long houses and sweat lodges... they mainly used traps and dug pits for hunting and are the oldest tribe of all the Native American tribes...30,000 years+!

[@MichelleMohr-lt1wo]

​@@gemjourney5210how in the world could they have been that old, the earth is not 6000 years old?

[@karenroot450]

I love this history channel. So different than any others. Thanks

[@wingnut71]

I see the Bards came from county Antrim (Northern Ireland). So now i gotta watch. There may still be some records in the parish from which they left.

[@alexisfrancis8562]

Thank you for exposing the truths and hardships suffered to build our nation!

[@eileenmoore5960]

Build your nation? The nation belonged to the native people of America. Colonialists had no right what so ever to take their land. You should be ashamed of your ancestor s, not proud of them and certainly not defensive of them.

[@tragickingdom15]

@@eileenmoore5960 They had no nation, they were more or less warring tribes not doing anything with the land. Yes, I'm proud my ancestors turned this vast wilderness into the most technologically advanced, militarily powerful, freest, and wealthiest country in the history of the world.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

​@@tragickingdom15 You mean Epstien Island is what you people built -COMANCHE NATION

[@eileenmoore5960]

@@tragickingdom15 Your comment here is American narcissism at it's height.

[@tragickingdom15]

@@eileenmoore5960 No, it's the truth.

[@justjosie0107]

Thank you, as always.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Glad to oblige.

[@BrianJohnson-bb2vi]

REALLY like the choice of images to represent the historical figures

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Obviously it looks like it.

[@robynmarler1951]

Quite the eye opener.

[@timmyholland8510]

Woman was one tough person. Definitely, the kind of ladies that helped build a Nation. Unfortunately, both sides were reactions to that Manifest Destiny, that lead to conflict and atrocities on both sides.

[@amysill3815]

There was constant low level warfare in America and genocides among the tribes before European people came.

[@ZephaniahL]

That concept hadn’t yet been developed at this date.

[@EdReed-r8n]

women don't build nations

[@billyedwards6101]

That was a fantastic story thanks for sharing 😊

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@deadhorse1391]

Another great video! I really like these eastern Indian stories, amazingly these Indians come across as even more brutal then the western tribes at times

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

More or less.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

So when are you Europeans going home -COMANCHE NATION

[@n.8140]

A lot of the Californian tribes were peaceful like the Puebloans. Unfortunately despite being peaceful they were subjected to genocide.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

@@deadhorse1391 I've noticed they won't let real Indigenous PEOPLE comment on these videos -COMANCHE NATION

[@deadhorse1391]

@@thechiefwildhorse4651 well I’m a Native American….I was born in New York City

[@erichughes284]

What a.fascinating story .They were so much tougher back then

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Especially in lacking indoor plumbing 🪠 and only to heat the water was over an open fire.

[@dorothypierre754]

​@@LindaCooper-i3f So did the majority Europeans living at the same time, they didn't all have access to the same technologies that the rich Europeans did.

[@PAplowboy]

Great video sir do enjoy stories from my backyard only thing I seen you was you had the wrong Juanita river there's another one out in Bedford county it's the west Branch of the Juanita river especially if he ended up in fort Littleton know them areas pretty good but I'm a lot closer to the beginning of these story and again great video

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

How interesting.

[@saddleridge4364]

New Tripoli , PA still has an old cabin and fort walls from the 1700 Indian attacks. I can never understand why natives were so eager to torture. It's despicably evil.

[@Zionist_Eternal]

Thank you, Sir, from an unworthy listener.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@ClaireCopeland-n6y]

Stories like this is why the people of the 1800s loved Custer

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

And possibly Chivington who perpetrated the Sand Creek massacre?

[@andrewholdaway813]

They loved anyone who would massacre the indigenous population

[@janetrouse5917]

I live near Bardstown, in fact I shop in Bardstown. This is so interesting, thank you for your videos.

[@AMcG-hf6yx]

Human history is complex and full of nuance. It's not black or white filled with angels or demons but mixtures of both within us. Nice job.

[@kabuti2839]

Rough days to say the least.

[@hankhillsnrrwurethra]

Thanks for these, love the old time accounts of history.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Sure.

[@thomasmcloney1437]

Found this episode very interesting. Thanks and cheers from Oz 👍 31:07

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@joangordoneieio]

TY for sharing the incredibly challenging birth of our Nation.

[@DaleAnnHarsh]

The Captives of Abbs Valley is a similar account, written by the son about ancestors of mine.

[@lindasimons691]

Thanks for the video.

[@jimd8008]

Enjoy your episodes. I believe you were referencing Sha m o kin. The town still exists.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Definitely.

[@edwardTisk-ix8nj]

Wuuuuuuuuuuuuutttt..?? Native Americans were the most peaceful people, ever. 😂

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Tell it to the Apache and Shawnee tribes.

[@yankeecitygirl]

I live in the area where the DE indians lived. We were always taught they were so peaceful.

[@jackiemack8653]

​@@yankeecitygirlThats the problem. Real history has been suppressed

[@chrisnieto5547]

…and noble

[@chrisnieto5547]

@@jackiemack8653…and continues to this day

[@jeffwillis2864]

This atory reminds me of the same type of brutal behavior exhibited by the Comanches, Kiowa, and Apache tribes in the west. Its no wonder why Texas concentrated on driving out all tribes from its boundaries. Today there are only 2 or 3 reservations in the entire state.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Obviously.

[@sakuracardcaptor4709]

@@LindaCooper-i3f Well duh.

[@yem3321]

Pretty bad ass story

[@glenngreeno6004]

I am of the Moon family of the Mohawk tribes. This is history that should be preserved. When my white forefathers came to America, my Indian forefathers were at times eating each other. Things got much better after the white men arrived, both French and English…Christians.

[@annabelleb.8096]

Very interesting. Never heard that before.

[@CoastsalishAlaskangrl]

Was going to say the same. We may be speaking about different points, but being First Nations tribal member myself, I've never once heard anyone say that things got better for our ancestors when white men colonized. I guess there are many ways one can perceive life as "better"....maybe this isn't the right channel for My opinion. Interesting video nonetheless

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

It would be nice if maybe you watched the classic William Shatner movie “WHITE COMANCHE” on KZbin? It’s quite an interesting movie to say the least.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Most intriguing.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

The men in the artist renderings would not have sported pompadors, but likely longer hair gathered into short ponytails.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Some artists don’t care too much to draw pictures of men wearing ponytails obviously.

[@spacehonky6315]

This artwork is AI generated. It has a "look" about it that isn't quite right. Programmers have a ways to go. Even then, i suspect AI generated portrait "art" will still be easily detected.

[@bctrissel]

I am amazed Mrs. Bard survived.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Reminds me of the Bataan death march...

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Except for the fact that they were dealing with Delaware Indians, not Japanese soldiers.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

@@LindaCooper-i3f I guess evil is just evil.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

More or less.

[@3810-dj4qz]

Funny how people think the Indians were just sitting around holding hands. They fought each other too. War and conquering was part of life.

[@jophoenix3919]

They came to a land of star forts, think about it.

[@cedricliggins7528]

Shout out to my Lenape/Delaware peeps!

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Only the alleged rattler looks more like a South American Fer-Du-Lance, or Fer-Du-Lac.

[@patsaylor8973]

I am descendent of an Ohio Delaware. This makes me ill. I hope that none of mine was involved in anything like this. But who knows.

[@momof1576]

You aren’t responsible for what your ancestors did and neither am I. Quite frankly the world was very brutal in times past. Everyone was enslaving, murdering, raping, and colonizing everyone else it seems. I’m grateful every day that I’ve been born in North America in the here and now.

[@harmanlesli]

Yes that time period cold be brutal. I get the land steal and migrants enacting their own rules and laws, but those natives didn't separate the people that did them harm from innocents. It was horrible on all sides. Be grateful our present is as peaceful with easy survival.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Only Heaven knows.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Good luck.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Who can tell?

[@patricabevis7478]

Scaloung was furst started by the americans. Indians didnt scalp until the white men taught them to do it

[@michellehankinson3552]

When was scalping done by white men?

[@bryanwilliams847]

​@@michellehankinson3552the French needed proof for payment

[@mairiconnell6282]

Bard is a traditional Scots name.

[@CT-uv8os]

Lowlanders.

[@robobitch12]

I'm a Scottish Bard but there are also Irish Bards

[@grrriallen7192]

Apparently this happened a lot. I found on my family tree an aunt who was taken captive by Naive Americans and my daughter found a cousin on her father’s side who was also captured and held by the Native Americans. A book was written about my cousins experiences.

[@violetraquelgarcia5143]

I'm Appalachian Shawnee an Muncie - Delaware ❤

[@BognaZone]

Read The Winthrop Woman.

[@nancytestani1470]

What’s that.

[@markferguson3745]

TBH, you get a good idea of why experienced Whites didn't have much sympathy or concern about what ultimately happened to the native tribes. My prevailing thought is that there is no helping those unwilling to help themselves,or those with little regaurd for human life, and it was only when native tribes eventually understood that their hostility would inevitably be crushed that they thought to make concessions.By this stage, many on both sides were well beyond caring about what was ultimately just. When you read the early accounts of Conrad, Kipling , or several others, they universally eventually acknowledge those cultural disparities that are unreconciable. Ultimately, someone had to lose everything.

[@lonniemonroe2714]

And historians call Lewis Wetzel brutal. Without ever telling why he did what he did. I don't blame him . Not one bit.

[@ianyoung6706]

Boy, these stories don’t change my respect level for Native Americans (I actually think many were/are fine to be called Indians, but that the “Native American” moniker was pushed by sensitive white liberals: whatever each prefers is fine by me). The impact these stories DO have is that it relieves me from many of the characterizations of British/American settlers that I received in school in the 90’s. To hear public schools tell it, we were just a bunch of marauding abusers who were in constant violent conflict with totally peaceful natives the entire time. I don’t see that either side deserves that charge. It was way more complicated than that.

[@TimothyBaldwin-p9j]

My great great grandmother was Wampanoag through Massasoit

[@georgiayoung9124]

Yeah no surprise that return was a setup. To b fair also, heard brutal stories about French (TYG no French in our ancestry).

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

How puzzling.

[@Nellsbells79]

Even though I’ve heard several stories like this over the years. I’ve realized I started believe all the BS I’ve been told about how peaceful they all were. Some where… looks like most weren’t. Different times can excuse some but hearing how the women were just as violent tells me all I need to know.

[@charliesartsoul7975]

There’s a. school massacre in the 1700s in Fulton county PA

[@naomidimartino6441]

Seriously. You are the only unworthy one here 😂😂😂😂😂

[@stuartewoldt1513]

New subscriber

[@Carolyn-LB]

I thought Cherokee were just in the Carolinas, but Texas was mentioned here

[@paulwillard9687]

It was that war that made the British government decide to tax the colonies for the security against the French which cost a lot , Mr Washington wore a red coat during this war but allied with the French because he couldn’t get a proper commission at Horse guards thus you get the war of independence.

[@audreybaird007]

Very interesting video. Thank you !

[@luigimarra4077]

Reparations for any of the Bard family tree. ?

[@craigramage5022]

This is sad that that happened to the Bard family. I think the native American at that time were so tired of people coming and taking their land and doing mean things to them that he took over and they started to do mean things back to anyone who was not native American. My 8 grandeur was Johann Phillips case. He settled in Flemington New Jersey and it was there that he met his friend chief Tuccamirgan and his wife. Because of the chief taking to my 8th great grandfather and his children and helping them build a home and survive in the wilderness I am here. So many mean horrible things were done to native American. Like the Battle of Sand Creek where they slaughtered old people and children and women. I think if they would have left the native Americans alone and one have forced them off their land they wouldn't have started to hate back and just kill innocent people to. There are two sides to every story. Sincerely Maureen

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

I understand quite thoroughly.

[@sakuracardcaptor4709]

They were busy taking each other's lands so they aren't saints either.

[@amysill3815]

There was constant low level warfare among the Indian tribes and also genocides among them long before Europeans came to America. Brutal violent behavior is not specific to any one race or nationality. It’s also why we all need Jesus.

[@gemjourney5210]

I am a descendant of both Lenape and William Penn Quakers and I approve your message!👍

[@gemjourney5210]

​@@sakuracardcaptor4709 Two wrongs don't make a right!

[@marthamunion1500]

I am part Native American confirmed with DNA. I use to hear stories as a child that were handed down, I know both sides were horrible to each other,

[@violetraquelgarcia5143]

The Delaware Tribe is my People !! ❤

[@raclark2730]

Better no image than AI. Otherwise good presentation.

[@lauracromartie413]

Fort Pitt was a a star fort?!

[@JudithMcPheron-pb9lv]

Never said what became of Mrs. Bard. Does this mean she stayed a captive?

[@amysill3815]

Her husband ransomed her and they went on to have 8 or 9 children. You must have zoned out during that part.

[@Poppycakes-lv5th]

More truthful stories like this must be told. Two close relatives of mine are Native Americans who married Canadian French and Lithuainian/Irish. Astonishinging since America had/has so much land - how they'd kill over nothing. America has so much land, oceans, lakes, rivers.. The brutality of the Indians instead of peace-making must be told. Edited to correct spelling.

[@markbrown375]

Brig. Gen. Stand Watie (CSA) principal Chief Native American Slave Ownership Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole "Five dollar Indian"

[@chichiboypumpi]

This won't be in schools.

[@elsiebrummel8238]

The so called savages learned scalping from the French. The settlers and Indians learned many things from each other. Some good , some not .

[@Sandlin22]

Fact check: False carbon dating shows scalping in the America's far back as 600 AD. Furthermore, the massacre at Crow Creek was in the 1300s, and the French or other Europeans didn't arrive for another 200 years. You are awarded no points.

[@naomidimartino6441]

The son was captured. 😂😂😂 kidnapped??❤😂😂😂😂

[@LukeLovesRose]

Geez, i wonder why these people got a bad name....

[@jannoyes6248]

Okay like she really had a choice back then.

[@FugMan4]

This sounds like AI

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

In what way?

[@almi3767]

Are you Landrum C.?

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Interesting question.

[@oleeb]

Kudos for doing this project but you could improve the recording if you read the piece as though you actually understood what you’re reading and weren’t so stiff in presentation. It’s like what one would expect a good fifth grade reader to do in front of his/her class.

[@Tsonontowan]

What are these indians so mad about 😮?

[@gemjourney5210]

Thievery!

[@CT-uv8os]

Oh my. Bottom line one nation( 5 Nations) sold land to the British Empire that belonged to other tribes. Without those tribes knowing of course. So the British start to settle the area , we'll look at what's going on in Great Britain today and you get the picture.

[@ipomoeaalba936]

Do the genealogy. Find out who they really were.

[@ellendriggers4262]

It's pronounced Sham-o'-kin.

[@BrianJohnson-bb2vi]

Choices.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

More or less.

[@TyLean]

It's pronounced Shuh-moke-in.

[@RGL01]

Delawares sounded like real savages.

[@gemjourney5210]

They are the oldest Tribe of ALL tribes in America...over 30,000 years old...and their worst enemy was the Iroquois who were the true savages!

[@BeckVMH]

Everyone is civilized until circumstances deem it unnecessary.

[@Sandlin22]

Mmmmmmmm no

[@Jyromi]

yeeeeah they were innocent victims🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@DanSnipe-k8o]

They didn't deserve Casinos and reservations.

[@fritzruttimann1517]

Why not ? Some of the casino owning tribes are investing the profits very well and are even buying some old tribal lands back. For reconciliation purposes the Government should even consider to return some federal land to the tribes.

[@justjosie0107]

Agree 100%

[@JeepWrangler1957]

@@fritzruttimann1517 then they should no longer receive government compensation.

[@Wheelchairspeeder]

What govt compensation?? and it's our land we were here first fartknocker...after small pox and the trail of tears and the damn indian schools you think we deserve less than what little we get already?? You can't vilify an entire group of people because of the misbehaviour of some of its members plus we saved your ancestors butt that first thanksgiving and alot of us helped with the french and Indian war and revolutionary war as interpreters and warriors like my ancestor Nancy ward.. also mr.redneck clearly you should study how the us military got some of their combat tactics from native Americans.. I'm truly sorry and sad some of my kin hurt youngsters and women but two wrongs don't make a right and the anglos did their fair share too and alot of us mixed families wouldn't be here if the hillbillies didnt fancy the local women..also English women didn't always have a rough time with native men since some were better looking and treated their ladies better than english men..it takes two to tango geniuses and both sides did alot of lousy things yet still did alot of good...but to say we deserve less is disghusting and not all people who are native American are bad

[@mirrage42]

⁠@@fritzruttimann1517 That would be stupid. And completely undeserving. Any land a person who has tribal heritage owns, uses, occupies should have to pay for it with money earned by hard work, not given to them by a government swayed by bleeding hearts who don’t know history.

[@H.R.H-Amina_Bin_Shafiq-SHAKTI]

There WAS TOOO MUCH EXTRA TALKING THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TITLE!

[@rosa-thorn]

so the indians endured the trail of tears because the white settlers were scared of them. ok

[@cedricliggins7528]

6:39

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Fascinating.