The Cultural Genocide of Native Americans

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"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
Mr. Beat looks at the Assimilation Period of Native American history. Yeah, it's depressing...but you should watch the whole video, anyway. Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. This was produced by Matt Beat and filmed by Matt and Shannon Beat. Drone footage by Shannon Beat. Music by Kwon, Jimena Contreras, Zachariah Hickman, and Doug Maxwell and Media Right Productions. Creative Commons credits: Ken Lund, Bjoertvedt, rossograph, and Tony the Marine.
Sources/further reading:
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era by Tom Holm
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And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo
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Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report: www.bia.gov/si...
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Phan, Loan T. (2018). "Ten Stages of American Indian Genocide". Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
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[@iammrbeat]

What other similar historical trends in American history would you like to see me cover on this channel? Sponsorship information: Stop data brokers from exposing your information. Go to my sponsor aura.com/mrbeat to get a 14-day free trial and see if your personal information has been compromised.

[@ali_da_one]

Well I have two topics you should discuss about hopefully: 1. Income inequality in the United States and it's impact. 2. Why Teachers aren't as respected oftenly in the United States and why they should be due to the significant impact they have on our education.

[@man_myth_nerd]

Have you done the similarities between jfk and Abraham Lincoln

[@jacklazzaro9820]

@@man_myth_nerdHe did that already

[@ethanfrank9915]

can you do a video about native American history before colonization? I have always been curious about the cultures and society's of pre-colonial America, please and thank you.

[@assafrotbach8459]

The effect of loosening the restrictions on who could vote on the outcome of the election and becoming more democratic and less for the aristocracy

[@yolooo5081]

Living in Hawaii, and realize the Hawaiian language can be extinguish within 2 to 3 generations is INSANE.

[@АртемийГалков-ш7п]

So... what is the issue with it? If language doesn't have any proper use what is the point of its survival?

[@jdotoz]

You take a small population using it and combine it with an overwhelmingly dominant other language in common use, and I don't know what you expected.

[@beecat5733]

@@АртемийГалков-ш7п wdym no use? It’s a whole culture you westerners love and fetishize on your vacation. Plus Hawaii has the most biodiversity, preserving indigenous language is preserving culture, which also means preserving that environment.

[@beecat5733]

@@jdotozHawaiian population wasn’t small before, it was about half a million. But duh thanks for noticing colonization and genocide.

[@kzm-cb5mr]

@@АртемийГалков-ш7п That's downright insensitive. Languages do not only exist for practical purposes, to many people, it's an integral part of their identity. It's not like they wanted it to decline, they were forced to do it.

[@subaiya]

Shout out to faith spotted eagle, the first native to ever receive electoral votes for president.

[@iammrbeat]

Heck yeah

[@oscardean8962]

But I thought we hated the electoral college here

[@BlastedBS]

@@oscardean8962we do

[@Ursi_]

@@oscardean8962 We do.

[@TheSignofJonah777]

@@oscardean8962 I don't hate it, it allows for a rural population to be represented.

[@genericfabricrefresher3163]

My stepmothers father was forcibly removed from his family , brainwashed, and abused. THIS WAS NOT A LONG TIME AGO!!!!!

[@decemberkat]

@@genericfabricrefresher3163 happened to us in the US until 1990s

[@kiaheat1920]

I hope he’s okay

[@bruhm4571]

​@@MRB0US3R The cultures and history of the Natives have dated back thousands of years ever since they came to this land, built up over time based on their beliefs and their environment. Your cultures and history is just a watered down version of what the natives of your land had, only to be watered down by the Spanish.

[@diablobloy2689]

@@MRB0US3R Big mouth for a Latinx

[@Cynsham]

@@MRB0US3R you suck at trolling

[@addabad4276]

As a descendant of mormon settlers, it's insane how whitewashed the "settlement" of the west is. As recent as the late 70s, my mom had an "adopted Indian sister" for a short period.

[@iammrbeat]

Wait "adopted Indian sister?" What does that even mean? I'm sorry for my ignorance here.

[@addabad4276]

@@iammrbeat No problem! I actually got clarification, we think it was the school year from 1980-81, that the LDS Indian Placement Program had Julia live with my mom's family. My mom actually got to meet up with her again for the first time earlier this year.

[@iammrbeat]

@@addabad4276 Wow. Well thanks for clarifying that!

[@domdomdom02123]

@@iammrbeat This was a pretty common practice up until the 80s or 90s. The federal government would go into tribal lands, say that Indian families were too poor to raise their children, then take them and give them to typically white, typically Christian households to raise. My grandfather was one of those kids. Fortunately, his adoptive family was ethnically Native (but also the product of similar Americanization programs) and knew to keep contact with his birth family.

[@thecommunityactionhub2703]

@@domdomdom02123 same thing happened in Australia. The stolen generations. Last missionary was closed in 1969 but the impact will continue for generation. Last year we had a referendum to include an indigenous council into our system of government to handle First Nations issues but it was shot down by Australians :(

[@billytompkins6633]

Not tonight babe. Mr Beat has dropped a 30 minute essay exploring the dark side of american society

[@iammrbeat]

lol

[@CJ_Walks]

So real

[@thearmchairpsychic]

American *colonization

[@mason11198]

Rest assured there is a Canadian side

[@pinkleWeenkies]

most sides of american society are dark, not everyone in it is, but the way i hear it a lot of america is built from some pretty heinous stuff, but im pretty ignorant still

[@magma7155]

The fact that many americans STILL think the indigenous people deserved to be "Conquered" is just absolutely insane and cruel to me.

[@inovakovsky]

That is to justify benefiting from genocidal land theft. Israelis think the same about Palestinians.

[@EddieHenderson92]

Leave if you feel guilty.

[@magma7155]

@@EddieHenderson92 I don't feel guilty, and I'm not saying anyone should. The crimes of your ancestors aren't inherited. I just simply think indigenous people didn't deserve to have their land and culture stolen and destroyed. Ig I'm a villain and should leave the country for bringing shame to my whole family idk, you decide 🤷‍♀️

[@EddieHenderson92]

@@magma7155 Guess what buddy boy, the redskins killed each other over land and the Indians lost. Oh well, enjoy your American privilege and stop whining.

[@EddieHenderson92]

@@magma7155 Indians lost and they were savages. Move on.

[@deleted-something]

the fact that many people just take as a fact that so much of the Native American identity and land was destroyed, and take it as “inevitable”, when it never was.

[@terezacarvalho3392]

I would like to agree. The more I study history, the more I conclude that the difference between ancient empires and current ones comes down to their destructive technology.

[@bearhunter197]

It was inevitable, as soon as Europeans set foot in the new world the Indians were pretty much screwed if the english hadn't done it then somone else would've the Indians didn't have the technology or numbers to resist successfully

[@f0rdgamer]

@@terezacarvalho3392 yeah it’s pretty sobering to realize that no human problem has been solved in > 2000 years

[@areafurrynone1913]

Yeah, especially when if feels almost as if they’re… bragging.

[@jeffslote9671]

It was inevitable. Stone Age people are always going to lose to the technological superior group

[@aguyfromaplaceinmontana.8324]

For my undergraduate thesis, I wrote a research paper on Native American stereotypes in Montana during the 1880s. I immensely appreciate you addressing this topic, and thank you for continuing to inspire your fellow Social Studies teachers

[@iammrbeat]

That's really cool. You should make that paper public!

[@night6724]

@@iammrbeatIt’s probably a garbage paper because 90% of undergraduate thesis are garbage

[@samberger8595]

@@night6724 hey buddy, I don't think we should be disparaging any academic exploration of history (excepting blatantly hateful nonsense). Not everyone is gifted in skills valuable to historical analysis, this is true, and many inexperienced students make common mistakes. However, why should we not encourage the open exploration and discussion of these works? How would it hurt our species, and specifically, how would it hurt you?

[@night6724]

@@samberger8595 I’m just being honest as someone who graduated last year and is in a masters program for history. Nobody is going to publish your work

[@samberger8595]

@@night6724 well, projecting your experience onto other people is ONE way to understand the world I suppose :). It simply isn't helpful to be rude in a comment section. I'm sorry you seem burnt out and upset by the way things are, but we can only get through this as a species my friend.

[@Whipcream133]

The first time I heard of this was back in the sixth grade. My sixth grade English teacher read us the book “two roads” and we saw pictures of the before and after effects of multiple Native American children who went to those boarding schools. It was extremely saddening.

[@iammrbeat]

Good on your sixth grade teacher.

[@Ponferrada22]

Did you read about native Americans slaughtering women and children in your class?

[@kiek3kfnfn]

i remember learning about this as well.

[@ooscaritotheoosc]

I live in Canada. They teach you stuff like this in grade 1. They never stop.

[@shyguyhi_Lie]

@@Ponferrada22I hate how hateful you are for justifying the killing and raping of peaceful tribes, sure some fit the stereotype savage Indian but that does not justify killing and abusing a whole race

[@Blodreina45]

Native Americans are the minority everyone forgets about. Most minorities can be found in the everyday towns and cities but most natives are on the reservations and it’s not easy to leave them from a financial standpoint. I got lucky and grew up in a regular city but most of my family is still stuck on the reservation and are slowly trying to get off of it.

[@Mystiik_XVII]

It depends because I grew up on a rez in Utah and now live in a city in Arizona. City life creates comfort, laziness, reliant on technology and surrounded by modern, weird people. From my observation, living rural is the best way to live. Away from the city and just be with nature. Once I save enough money, I'm moving back on the rez. ...to think living in a city, your more likely to get angry because someone at Starbucks got your order wrong 🤣 or natives assimilate into the whole rainbow cult crap 🤣

[@curtislowe195]

They should be celebrating diversity,which is a strength

[@Saturnia2014]

@@Mystiik_XVII There's plenty of your people who are part of the "rainbow cult" too, you know

[@alexdoll4258]

Maybe because the other "minorities" are not really minorities.

[@lokimiguel2452]

​@Mystiik_XVII you are absolute rat clown

[@broondjongen]

White Supremacists: “We are being replaced!!!” Native Americans: “Heh… thats cute”

[@IbnRushd-mv3fp]

You gotta admit it's mass migration that's the issue tho

[@RobertCaesar-f5p]

White lives matter

[@TheDanEdwards]

@@IbnRushd-mv3fp Are you afraid of brown people?

[@CoadyShay]

​@@RobertCaesar-f5p Not yours.

[@jeffslote9671]

@@TheDanEdwards. So you’re saying that the native population shouldn’t have a say who lives in its country?

[@Yuuzas_Ei]

The thumbnail itself made my heart break. Thankfully, many tribes survived and are now beginning to thrive again. The Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts recently brought back their language and have been teaching it to tribal children in public school.

[@princessthyemis]

That's great! And I agree about the thumbnail!!

[@risingpower3658]

That's not in Canada.

[@The_Symphony.of.Mindss]

@@risingpower3658 ? Okay? Who said anything about Canada man

[@vladivosdog]

@@risingpower3658 what

[@johnIII8211]

“It’s not stolen land, it’s conquered land.” This statement/sentiment proves a lot of points American Indians make about the rest of America.

[@sekaiyoru01]

No it doesn't because they were doing the same thing

[@johnIII8211]

@@sekaiyoru01 Yes it does because Europeans were doing the same thing and denied it. Acting like it was God’s will and everything.

[@Blodreina45]

The moment someone uses that line it legit tells me everything I need to know about their morality and political alignment.

[@sekaiyoru01]

@@Blodreina45 Can say the same for you, Toro.

[@Cryptosporidium140]

But you do realize American Indians conquered each other right? If I'm understanding your point. They weren't under all one banner and a united people. They were killing and conquering well before Europe arrived.

[@ECole-le7we]

Thank you so much, Mr. Beat, for telling this truth. So very powerful. As an African American and a retired public school educator, I wish we had more teachers who were able to tell the truth about our history without fear of being fired. We have been talking a lot about freedom; but we often leave out academic freedom in those kinds of discussions. It is so important to face and teach the facts. As George Santayana wrote in, The Life of Reason, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

[@iammrbeat]

I appreciate the supportive words. I can't be fired anymore, fortunately, so I am trying to tell these stories more and more

[@jeffslote9671]

We do talk about this. In fact we talk about this and similar topics too much

[@andrelopezespinoza5558]

@@jeffslote9671no we don’t this isn’t broadly taught in school! Stop defending the non existence of these atrocities

[@jeffslote9671]

@@andrelopezespinoza5558 It was definitely taught in the 80’s when I was in school. It’s definitely being taught now. The problem is we teach it to much. Guilt over the pass is actually making things worse in America.

[@natejablonski]

​@@jeffslote9671it's okay to speak from your own experience, but curriculums can be different from school to school and state to state. My local public school, for one, barely mentioned Native American history at all other than forcing them off their land. Considering how much time was spent inadequately covering a similar (admittedly more devastating) event in 1940s Europe, I'd have liked just one class session inadequately covering this subject that occurred on American soil.

[@eliseleonard3477]

Mr. Beat, it’s wonderful that this video will reach your huge audience. When I first started working as a child psychiatrist in 1990, my job was on an Indian Reservation as part of a med school scholarship payback. Mid-fall that year a lot of kids were referred by the BIE boarding school for depression. I spoke to a staff member from the dorm where kids as young as 6 were housed. They told me, “Well, they all cry for the first month, but when they’re still crying in October they need help”. I have worked for the Indian Health Service for most of the years since then. There are still reservations so remote that the ONLY option for attending high school is to attend a boarding school. Today.

[@BlokHeadAnim]

I'm Cherokee Nation and my family is mixed, my great, great, great grandmother was a Lakota woman. We don't know what her real name was. Whatever they put her through at the boarding school she was sent to, it was so terrible and she was so traumatized that she lost the ability to speak. Once they were done with her, she was married off to a white guy who if I remember correctly off the top of my head was an immigrant from Scotland. He just chose a name and started referring to her as that. I think about her a lot.

[@ilovesanimalsjamming2636]

@@BlokHeadAnim that’s horrific I’m so sorry

[@Robespierre-lI]

A similar thing transpired in Australia. The irony is that many of the people who promoted the boarding schools idea actually thought they were helping native people. In present day politics, they would be the well-meaning white liberals. The whole thing is bizarre and obscene in retrospect - and incredibly difficult to understand.

[@Auntkekebaby]

@@BlokHeadAnim Horrible

[@epaminon6196]

Bringing civilization to the wilderness isn't always a neat and tidy undertaking.

[@tomgu2285]

​@@epaminon6196 yes her grandma experienced some of the "civilization 😂😂😂😂😂 you cant be for real littel guy

[@Ntv768]

Ahéhee' thank you for the video. Videos like this are needed and appreciated. I am a Diné woman who is doing my best to keep my culture alive and passed on to my children. My mother and grandmother were sent to these schools and the trauma is still there. Two years ago I decided to join the many academics in my family and will be getting my degree in American Indian studies to keep the fight going. I come from a long line of activists and I am ready to do my part because the fight is not over. Thank you for covering this topic.

[@sabrenacochran777]

Your mother and grandmother were sent there?? I’m so sorry! That means it couldn’t have been that long ago. I feel like we forget about Natives often and fight for freedom for African Americans but Natives deserve freedom as well. I hope we all join together to do what we can and celebrate you all and your beautiful traditions and give the freedom that we should’ve never taken. It hurts my heart to think about the kind of evil that would cause people to do such things. I’m so sorry.

[@Opinionated_Stranger]

Bro it was more than a cultural genocide. It was a text book full on genocide.

[@irtakus]

It goes without saying, but I really don't think he was arguing anything different. The focus of this video layed on the period of cultural genocide that came after the displacements and so on.

[@ericktellez7632]

He is describing the cultural perspective not denying the at large genocide, you people are the types that go “so you hate chocolate” when someone says they like vanilla

[@EddieHenderson92]

Oh well

[@mfc111]

90% of native Americans died of smallpox, flu, and measles according to pbs’ website.

[@thehuman2cs715]

The percentage of native Americans that died from disease is still contested to this day, but what isn't is that some of the disease spread was intentional by the colonizers and that they displaced and massacred massice populations at several points.

[@Verelkia]

I'd also like to add something that really bugs me when when people try to deflect the U.S. governments oppression of Native people. The defense that "Natives went to war with one another" like yes, there were wars between different tribes. But if two people are fighting, does a third person have the right too shoot them both?

[@steviechubbs5238]

That's not exactly what that means, it's more like saying "You guys went to war with one another, but we can't go to war with you too?" The Lakota and Aztecs especially are remembered for their brutal conquests and cruel treatment of neighboring peoples, but few native rights activists will admit that the natives were not saints, and often did to one another what the US did to them in the end. It's a sad reality, but history is a revolving door of warring, cruelty and brutality.

[@jeffslote9671]

@@steviechubbs5238. The Lakota claim that the Black Hills should belong to them for example. Except that they hadn’t controlled them for very long when the USA came to them.

[@Verelkia]

@@steviechubbs5238 I am aware of that yes. History if complicated, and Native American nations (like everyone else) did go to war with another another, and I'm aware of the brutality the Aztecs and Lakota nations committed. As for the second part of your comment, I think it's because the unity of tribes and native nations all over the US is crucial for achieving activism and remembering history of Native Americans. Basically, there's strength in numbers.

[@Cryptosporidium140]

I mean... When is there a "right" concerning war? To simplify it I play alot of Risk and when 2 colors engage each other of course I'm gonna go into their weak spots.

[@lmvr127]

Yes

[@tayzonday]

This is a great video. I feel like KZbin would NEVER allow me to upload content with a title/topic like this without it being severely algorithmically demoted and getting, like, 1500 views.

[@randomperson-xo3qm]

Never knew you were this based

[@sumlatinkid]

@@tayzonday more like 332 views...

[@Jason-hg1pc]

@@sumlatinkid More like 265,000 views...

[@Jason-hg1pc]

@@randomperson-xo3qm Never knew you were this illiterate and biased.

[@drownedcactus5618]

Needs to taught in schools, desperately.

[@Manticorn]

@@drownedcactus5618 Some do, some don't. They all need to. Treating Native Americans as an extinct other species is disgusting.

[@markwilliams2620]

Republicans will ban it. I live in Floriduh and see it happen every year.

[@drownedcactus5618]

Just in the news this week a native American non-verbal child had their haircut without any permission. Disgraceful

[@EddieHenderson92]

LOL

[@lesliejohnson4339]

In Montana, teaching this topic and the culture of our tribal nations is required by the state constitution!

[@AdamGregory04]

Canadian here. This story reminds me of something…

[@TheYeeter7]

Does it remind you of the mass crave hoax that incited people to burn down historical churches?

[@pckrichards7980]

yeah...North American history kinda rhymes

[@pckrichards7980]

probably South American too, to an extent.

[@Someone45356]

@@pckrichards7980 Just like how in the US we’re taught really badly the history regarding native americans in this part of north america, the same thing happens with regards to hispanoamerica and the spanish but in a different way. The thing is that the spanish empire lasted in the americas for 300+ years. If there was systematic or constant abuse like what we see the US has done, but in such a long timespan + the fact that native culture and demographics largely still exist everywhere in current hispanoamerica means these two places went through the last thing from rhyming. If anything the republican period for hispanoamerica would probably be the closest equivalent given the standardization of much more spanish culture being put onto everyone, as well as certain french and german ideologies seeping into the elites like in the US. As far as anything before then though, I really suggest anyone interested to actually dive deeper into this because its a huge rabbit hole, but for example. One of the many, many, indigenous protectionist laws by the spanish “las leyes de indias”, actually banned children from being sent to forced mine labor (whether it be the mita or cuatequil), centuries before england or other places in europe even thought about the concept. Another such law also made it so the indigenous people couldn’t be tried for the inquisition, meaning that what we’re taught regarding the spanish inquisition is a complete lie (in peru for example only 2 criollos were ever tried for said inquisition, with the rest being european foreigners). Another interesting fact is that actually the mines of potosi and guanajuato in the early 19th century had better salaries than western europe during the same time period, only behind Philadelphia then. Something interesting facts even regarding the US southwestern native americans, is that a lot of them were historically both fluent in spanish and also catholic. That’s how a lot of the settlers found them, and its curiously the first part of the US that first got the reservations in the first place. The famous native indian “Geronimo”, was a spanish speaker. Yet despite this they were never fully assimilated like what the US did to them later on, why would that be right? But basically to put it short its a completely different story with different circumstances in different time periods even, and its 300 years worth of history to look into.

[@pckrichards7980]

@@Someone45356 that was really helpful, thanks!

[@GlennJackson-d8e]

Thank you. I had known much of this but some also filled in gaps. When I was a kid back in the fifties (1950s not 1850s), I watched westerns on TV. I was always on the Indian's side, but many of the cowboy heroes of the time were portrayed as being friends to the Indians as well. I've retained a lot of my appreciation and admiration of Indian culture. It has saddened me during my life that my country has treated the Indians so badly and wasted the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from them. I sit here at 75 thinking how great the world seemed at 8 years old.

[@christopherkopke7593]

OK boomer

[@unknowngod8221]

@@christopherkopke7593 wait you dismiss a good boomer comment? what the hell this isn't even shiczo comment moment this is a comment about how this person realize that people even today and back in his days is racist

[@blue0tter]

It’s so telling when a KZbinr makes an insightful and well researched video like this and the racists can’t help but comment in their ignorance.

[@eshaanreza832]

Mhm

[@Jason-hg1pc]

Now they TYPE with forked fingers.

[@idkanymore_yeah]

I can’t beat the members 😭 but I can still be one of Mr Beat’s biggest fans. Also can I request a Mr Beat video on the reconstruction era?

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks for your support and the suggestion!

[@senan9287]

@@iammrbeat Please do one on reconstruction I'm doing an essay on it for my college :) thank you Mr Beat love the videos!

[@idkanymore_yeah]

@@senan9287 read eric foner’s stuff on reconstruction, it’s good 👍

[@Eugene-tm8fm]

⁠@@iammrbeat I’d also like to kindly ask if you can make a video on sharecropping one day

[@BeezerGutlr]

When I was growing up in school, there was a surprising amount of kids, who thought that colonization was a good thing. There was some who even thought that Indigenous people deserved what happened to them, since they viewed them as more brutal and less mannerly than settlers. When in human history, has a war not been brutal?

[@curtislowe195]

Colonization?.... Are you a xenophobic Indian supremacist?...I forgot that it's not racist or xenophobic for non-whites to claim land and have borders and resist diversity, which I'm told is a strength by non-cultiat democrats

[@Rosemary46840]

It's the white supremacy teachings from both the school and the parents!! Same thing happened with me with me learning in school that slavery was okay because they treated the slaves well and all that nonsense

[@shyguyhi_Lie]

That’s sad man

[@mustang8206]

Well tbf many Natives were scalping people and committing human sacrifices

[@shyguyhi_Lie]

@@mustang8206 Scalping was mainly done by the Apache they only did it when the government made bounties for their scalps first. Also the human sacrifice part was not all native Americans a lot of them down south but most did not

[@dodogyun]

Wow, thank you so much Mr. Beat for this video. This is such an important topic that impacts so many people to this day, but is not talked about enough

[@iammrbeat]

I appreciate the supportive comment!

[@Fleetwoodmeow]

12:20 Crazy how he had the idea of "Americanization" in mind when American land was the Native's long before our ancestors stepped foot there

[@54032Zepol]

Natives Americans don't have concept of border or private land, that's why they would raid and war against one another for better lands

[@iammrbeat]

ikr??

[@austinroberts7546]

Natives shouldn't have been conquered if they wanted to keep their land

[@saucevc8353]

@@austinroberts7546 “Murder isn’t wrong, if people didn’t want to be murdered they should just not die”

[@Oilerator_]

Conquest was happening for thousands of years before the Europenas came to the Americas. Yes, if they wanted to keep "their" land then the tribes should have spent more of their time working together to advance their societies, rather than fighting wars with each other constantly until a superior power arrived that actually treated them far better than some other historical empires would have.

[@aubreypressley1450]

I think what bothers me the most is how much I see people on videos similar to this will be like "Yeah that's what happens" or "if they stopped being savages it would have" or "genocide has happened throughout history" Because none of it erases things. None of it fixes the very real lasting impacts or addresses the actual issues. Thanks Mr.Beat for caring about Native American history

[@sekaiyoru01]

Yeah thanks Mr Beat for being a pitiful white savior

[@november666]

I think if it weren’t for the genocide, forced assimilation, and cultural genocide of the Native Americans, that they would’ve ended up having a much larger impact on broader American culture, not unlike the ways in which Black, Chicano, Italian, and Jewish culture, to name a few, have in large part made American culture what we know it as today. Not only were the Native Americans completely fucked over by the federal government through genocide and forced assimilation later on, but everyone else also missed out on the rich cultural impact all the tribes could’ve ended up having.

[@ArienDH11]

@@november666 as a Georgian I ponder this often and wonder how different my state and the culture would have been impacted if the Cherokee, Apalachee, and Timucua weren’t forced out and mostly killed before reaching Oklahoma. Fuck the trail of tears and fuck Andrew Jackson, most of all.

[@allycsram]

I think you just may be ignorant of some contributions of Indigenous people. many provided initial knowledge to grow now worldwide food and other crops native to the americas, such as corn, the common bean, tobacco; you could also count the potato, vanilla, chocolate, from the far south etc. some of the U.S. transportation network is based off of old Indigenous roads and trails; many Indigenous peoples also made contributions to modern medicine; it could be argued the Iriquois confederacy influenced the U.S. structure of government; and a lot of places out west have histories that are closely associated with local Indigenous groups, while also Indigenous people worldwide conserve over 80% of the planet's biodiversity.

[@november666]

@@allycsram to be clear, I completely agree that indigenous peoples all across the world have made many many significant contributions to society in general. But I’m talking about the extent of the influence they’ve had on American culture. If we’re considering stuff like music, language, food, art, and customs, I am unfortunately not aware of that much of an influence-at least certainly not comparable to that of Black Americans, Italians, American Jews, and other groups. And I think that’s a bit sad in a way. I don’t know much about any of the numerous indigenous tribes in the US, but I think we missed out on what could’ve been much more if it weren’t for the forced assimilation and cultural genocide of the Native Americans.

[@allycsram]

@@november666 wasnt trying to imply otherwise sorry if it came off that way, but if you haven't you should check out the hulu show reservation dogs! it has an all Indigenous cast and it was pretty authentic imo

[@psyraxx39]

@@allycsram so they basically completely 1984'd away those contributions? Damn

[@kieranhughes4535]

I am British but i for some reason love watching Mr beats videos on American history and modern American society, Keep it up!

[@StudioHannah]

I mean, I'm American and I love watching histories and stories from Britain, etc. :) It's just fun to learn about other countries!

[@hunterwaters6580]

​@@StudioHannahi mean, america is just "hey what if we sent people that were too crazy to live even in england at the time to run themselves" american history is brittish history lmao

[@joebowman8436]

Thank you so much for talking about my culture and history Mr. Beat! I’m working towards one day being a Dr. of history! Thank you for being my go to everyday!

[@CynicalHistorian]

This was fantastic and on such a difficult topic. It feels like we (as a country) have finally begun to deal with this legacy only in the last few years. When I started teaching college in the spring of 2020 (terrible timing) my 4th lecture covered this and the discussion that week was tense, to say the least. Many students had never even heard of anything outside of warfare (the lecture covered post-1865 Indian Wars, assimilation, termination, and recent activism - which is woefully overburdened by too much coverage), even when I pointed out the mural down the street from campus that clearly says, "Free Peltier." Fall of 2022, most had heard of assimilation and some of the activism. They are no longer shocked to learn about these events, instead students are shocked that we have so far to go - showing that they intend to learn and do more outside the classroom. I think social media (especially videos like this one) was key to that growing awareness. With such exposure, we may see important and necessary conciliation policies that will finally lift tribes out of poverty.

[@jeffslote9671]

American Indians don’t want to get out of poverty. It’s clear you have never met any of them

[@CynicalHistorian]

@@jeffslote9671 okay racist

[@lexwuzliving]

At my college at least it is required to take a class on either the history of the Pacific Northwest or a class on Tribal Sovereignty & Washington State History before you can get your teaching degree (we’re in Washington State). Both of these classes cover many aspects of the genocide of Washington Natives and the legacies of what has been done to these tribes. As someone who plans on getting their masters degree in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, it’s incredible that more people and more institutions are emphasizing the importance of acknowledging genocide in our own home and listening to the victims and their descendants. Thank you for making this video, it’s so important to remember every aspect of genocides so we can identify them for what they are and hopefully prevent them from happening again. We’re not doing a very good job, but we must continue to educate ourselves and others to have hope for our future.

[@risingpower3658]

You have been brainwashed. These extra course are meant to indoctrinate you into 'woke' education.

[@malafunkshun8086]

As always with your vids, Beat, this one was comprehensively and thoughtfully produced, a valuable educational resource for anyone who wants to learn about this important - and often overlooked - chapter in American history. Aloha 😊🤙🏼👏🏼

[@iammrbeat]

I appreciate the kind and supportive words. Seriously. This is fuel for me. Thanks for watching and thanks for your kindness.

[@JaMorantfan420]

They barely teach your people either it’s all poor me for the black woke community but never wanna talk about the Polynesian and Native American genocides. Black ppl are getting hand me downs acting like they’re the only ethic group to have bad shit happen but is no where close to indigenous people.

[@Prauwlet213]

It's honestly depressing to see what america did to the native americans. Every time I learn about it, it's just so damn sad. And then white americans have the nerve to defend what they did to the native americans, then turn around and say 'we can't let foreign people into america'.

[@aguspuig6615]

And then they also have the nerve to talk about the Spanish inquisition and empire like they were the prequel to the nazis when they actually, youknow, didnt erradicate the cultures of the places they went to

[@bearhunter197]

It's sad but it was always going to happen if Europeans came to the new world one of the nation's who came would've conquered them

[@whilrybird67]

@@aguspuig6615they literally did though. three codices remain from the mayans because the spanish tried to destroy every single one so they wouldn’t revert back to there religion. There are also dozens if not hundreds of examples of spanish brutality against Native Americans and Africans. Along with trying to strip away the identity that made them Native American or African.

[@54032Zepol]

The European Union should pay reparations for enslaving the natives

[@iammrbeat]

I get angry learning about this stuff, not depressed. And that's ok to get angry about this. We don't have to blame anyone, but at least care enough to not let this happen again.

[@AncientAmericas]

So glad to see you cover this topic!

[@LunarWingCloud]

At this point in my time subscribing to the channel, I am excited to learn about anything Mr. Beat makes a video on

[@iammrbeat]

Please never leave this stage of your life. hahaha

[@Fleetwoodmeow]

ENTER THE MR. BEAT VIDEO GRIND 🫵

[@LunarWingCloud]

​@@iammrbeat I always want to learn new things from respectable sources! I yearn for knowledge

[@GynxShinx]

I'm all for individualism when it comes to personal rights, but "mandatory individualism" is just a worse form of collectivism that includes isolation and alienation.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

when ever you force something on some one even when it is objectively beneficial onto some one they will resent, lash out and fight back...because no human likes being forced to do anything and all humans will fight against that which is forcing them.

[@unknowngod8221]

@@guilhermecastro9893 yes

[@Jason-hg1pc]

@@guilhermecastro9893 Whenever is one word.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

@@Jason-hg1pc i dont care you got what i said didnt you

[@Jason-hg1pc]

@@guilhermecastro9893 I got this,.!..

[@mangyfossa]

What's most disturbing to me was how many boarding schools were in Oklahoma, yet as a recent OK high school graduate, learning about Wounded Knee was lucky. Even in my college class, Indigenous American lessons were few and far between. That is just unacceptable. There are zero excuses or acceptable reasons for not teaching their history, but I feel that is especially true for Oklahoma. I enjoy whenever you cover Native history, hope to see more. Thank you for such an important video. I hope the US is at least able to amend the way we teach this

[@EddieHenderson92]

Boo Hoo

[@hunterwaters6580]

​@@EddieHenderson92weirdo lmao

[@EddieHenderson92]

@@hunterwaters6580 LOL tissue cupcake?

[@hunterwaters6580]

@@EddieHenderson92 ahhh just rage baiting, I hope yo dick got hard from the human interaction buddy lmao

[@Haroldthecheeseman]

i read the navajo code talkers, and damn, even the native Americans were still willing to fight for the US. These native Americans really deserve their credit for going through this hell

[@lexus8018]

The grimmest part of all this is how it effectively became the blueprint of Hitler's lebensraum initiative

[@XavierXEDO]

Thanks for not shying away from the dark chapters in our history. Nothing is more patriotic than self reflection. Nothing guarantees a path forward like understanding and recognizing the past. Only by facing history we become free of it. Ideologies that center around avoiding the uncomfortable parts of history are destined to be forever cursed by them.

[@MFMegaZeroX7]

I'm a professor at Dickinson College which was associated the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and we now have a lot of archives about the time and the school online for people that want to read about it. We also made a documentary a few years ago called "Home from School: The Children of Carlisle"

[@sparkyo.g3639]

God bless those that have been mistreated by our ancestors, of every ethnicity, and all genders. May we learn from our ancestors mistakes and try to love each other better. We need each other, we may look different, but deep down we are all the same. I’m ashamed in our ancestors for their racism and ignorance, but our generation can defy such nastiness, i don’t know who you are, but I’ve always had love for you whenever you had it for me. Mr. Beat, I have been viewing your videos for a long while and i must say you’re a real one, and KZbin is blessed to have you, as well as the algorithm that brought me here. May your channel continue to grow, and may everyone have a wonderful life.🙏🏻

[@DarthRaptor22]

The sad thing is, if this was properly taught in school, it would be labeled as "woke" or some form of "CRT," and the right-wing reactionaries would have a field day

[@freaky_rawk_lobstuh]

Fr

[@terdragontra8900]

I was taught this in school, and it wasn’t called that. It wasn’t very *emphasized*, but I don’t know how you determined what level of emphasis is “”proper””

[@DarthRaptor22]

@terdragontra8900 it needs to be emphasized. That would be proper

[@terdragontra8900]

@@DarthRaptor22 but like… do you have a formula for the percentage of class time that ought to spent on it? my point is there isn’t one, and people just choose based on their gut

[@Cryptosporidium140]

Isn't this taught under American history wing down there? I live in Canada and as far as I know there wasn't a separate class for this. Just history and tried to cover everything.

[@analysissel]

This was a necessary video. I'm glad a big name like you is choosing to talk about it, Mr. Beat. Very overlooked piece of American history.

[@rudetuesday]

Another solid video that's helped fill in some gaps in my education. Thanks especially for including current images and video. The people are still here!

[@syndrfox]

My mom & all her siblings were forced to attend a reservation school. They were abused from 5-15 years old. Not just plain physical abuse, but all the boys in that school were sexually abused too. They’d get to see their parents for 1.5 months during summer every other year. Their dad (my grandpa) fought hard to have them released the time they were- soon after a classmate had mysteriously died. When they got out they had almost completely forgotten their language. They’d all become depressed alcoholics by adulthood, stuck in the past of the childhood that was robbed from them. Growing up I saw my mom drink herself to sleep crying everyday. My mom is 70 years old today- still has a beer or two everyday, but at least she can smile now.

[@HistoryDose]

Nice video. If the intentional destruction of indigenous society and traditions was ever in doubt, one only needs to read the accounts of its perpetrators. US presidents, generals, and officials were very clear about their intentions. ~Chris

[@niall_sanderson]

@@HistoryDose Same thing up here in Canada. As just one example, in 1882 Sir John A. MacDonald, our first Prime Minister, outright said that Indian Affairs agents were deliberately starving First Nations people, which caused Opposition MPs criticized him… for not going far enough in committing genocide against them (though that specific word wasn’t coined until much later). Just like with the US civil war being about slavery, there’s absolutely no ambiguity whatsoever as to what the intentions of the US and Canada’s leaders were with regards to the genocides of indigenous peoples.

[@RoseTheRealest]

Miscegenation

[@xeno-j8437]

What I find craziest is that half of us today are trying to forget these things, the past wrongdoings of our nation, and want to stop teaching about them. That sets a very dangerous precedent. I applaud you and others who take time to remember and teach others of events such as this. We make a point to remember the faults of other nations, but many with intense patriotism will turn a blind eye to our own.

[@Silva-kb2lu]

Thank you so much for making this video. I’m from a Coast Salish tribe in Washington State and even in the 1970s the state was trying too deny tribes their treaty rights to fish and it makes me confused that in the 20th century native people were being arrested and harassed for practicing their traditions that the U.S government guaranteed them in the medicine creek treaty but the more i look into native history all over the continent i see now that treaties are broken far more often than not.

[@heartsofiron4ever]

In German public schools, we learn about this exact phrase and the treatment of Indians by America, sad that many American schools do not teach this. (Before angry Americans start commenting, we started learning about Nazism and the holocaust in 3rd grade all the way through 12th grade)

[@franciscoacevedo3036]

@heartsofiron4ever 😂😂sooo Germany did achieve it's Lebensraum although in another continent

[@tempforever]

As an American the only part of this which should make us angry is the fact that we are not properly educated about dark spots in our past

[@thatoneguy7470]

@@heartsofiron4ever we did learn about this, at least in my school. We knew about Native Americans from kindergarten, and by high school, we learned about most of what happened. This school was a very important lesson, we learned about wounded knee, and we learned about native wars from before this period

[@jamesduduit2069]

I've seen many Germans (not all of course) will dress up in sacred clothing used by different tribes for rituals or celebrations. Do you think that since Germans are so removed from Native Amerindians that they don't think about the damaging look of them using this? It's just interesting that it's learned so early, but is still treated lightly by *some* adults. We see a similar thing here to in the states sometimes too, so I'm not calling Germany out for being especially bad. I've just always found that interesting

[@jeffslote9671]

We do teach it. In fact we teach it too much.

[@indeterminableentertainmen2327]

White Supremacists: “We are being replaced!!!” Native Americans: “Heh… thats cute” Armenians, Assyrians and Georgians: "That's nothing"

[@sekaiyoru01]

How brown are you?

[@ArtemioMendezHernandez]

​@@sekaiyoru01Better yet, how white are you?

[@johanmikkael6903]

​@@sekaiyoru01I'm willing to bet that you're South East Asian and not even *pure* WHAITE like me 😂

[@eshaanreza832]

​@@sekaiyoru01How does that have anything to do with Being Brown?

[@sekaiyoru01]

@@johanmikkael6903 Not even close lol

[@EamonCoyle]

Was just reading about a recent sculpture unveiling in Oklahoma in respect of the donation of money from the Choctaw tribe to a community in Ireland during the famine. My immense respect and thanks for that act of kindness, you will always have friends and communal lands in Ireland !!

[@jeffslote9671]

The Choctaw’s money came from slave plantation labor. They were no more noble than anyone else in the south

[@forbiddensnack2917]

@@EamonCoyle Nan I Hullo yvt Nittak Nana Issa He Kiyo! That means love never fails in Chahta anumpa. 💜

[@hrolfthestrange]

I appreciate that you included that in the minds of some of the actors they weren't just trying to 'be evil and racist' but rather thought of themselves as helping but turned out due to a total lack of cultural knowledge or consideration and lack of ability to see past 'what they thought was best' they ended up doing a lot of harm. It really shows the nuance well and is probably more important for a modern audience to understand that terrible things can come from policy and views that might not be explicitly hardcore hateful but just an almost unconscious practice of placing your values above others + unintended consequences of legislative policy.

[@marooned_space_princess]

This is why it infuriates me when you hear accounts of history that say "oh, the Natives were violent, they were killing white people"...would you not fight violently if your way of life was being attacked and erased and you were pushed out of your ancestral lands? Would you not fight by any means necessary?

[@tbirds5313]

I just finished reading Path Lit by Lightning, Jim Thorpe’s biography. Really gives a lot of good insight into the boarding schools and how kids would run away back to their tribe and somehow the school would come find them and take them back. It was nearly impossible to escape once you were in, and hoped you wouldn’t catch TB in the school… unreal

[@iammrbeat]

I need to read that! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

[@stevie2pants]

Some families, including Jim Thorpe's, were specifically trying to find a place their kid couldn't escape from. But as Thorpe demonstrated, the schools weren't that effective at preventing it. Jim's family originally sent him to the nearby Sac and Fox Indian Agency school, but Jim kept coming home. So his dad sent him to Haskell (where this video was filmed), specifically to prevent him from running away. Jim proceeded to run away to go work at a horse ranch. When he was sixteen he came back home and this time his dad sent him to Carlisle. Jim quickly left Carlisle, and only returned 4 years later to finish his schooling. A neat primary source is the letter Thorpe's dad wrote to the Sac and Fox agent (well he dictated it to his wife because Jim's dad was never taught to read and write). I think the whole letter is included in Path Lit by Lightning, but here it is: "Dear Sir- I have a boy I wish you would make rangements to Send of to School Some Ware Carlyle or Hampton I don't Care ware. He went to Haskill but I Think it better one of the former plases so he Cannot run away- he is 14 years old [weirdly, he was 16 at the time] and I Cannot do any thing with him So plese at your Earliest Convence atend to this for he is getting worse every day- and I want him to go and make something of him Self for he cannot do it hear."

[@stevie2pants]

@@iammrbeat I've been constantly surprised at how much the primary sources (stories from actual students) differ from discussions of the boarding schools in popular culture. For example, Albert "Ex" Exendine was probably the best football player before Jim Thorpe (he actually spent some time coaching Thorpe in football and track and field events when Thorpe was just starting off). Ex was born in 1884, but he lived long enough to give a wonderfully thorough interview in 1972, and you can listen to the whole thing here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6qVZH6AbdmHZtE In the interview Exendine talks about how his buddy went to Carlisle Indian Industrial and let him know what a wonderful school it was, so Ex begged his dad to sign the papers and let him go to. That highlights a common misconception I've heard, that any kid attending a boarding school was "kidnapped." My understanding is that over the 150 year history of the schools there were only a couple years (1891 to 1893) that US policy was to remove native kids to boarding schools without parental consent. Now there were still truancy policies that required kids to go to some sort of school. That famously led to a situation in 1919 when it was discovered that less than a quarter Navajo children were attending school, and a couple thousand kids were transported to boarding schools in other parts of the Southwest (regardless of their parent's wishes) while new on-reservation day-schools could be built to accommodate everyone. There were other issues with some communities that were too small to support their own local school, but in general, families had to choose to send their children off-reservation. At times, spots at these schools were even highly sought after. It's also interesting to hear Exendine heap praise on Pratt (who Exendine interacted with personally while a student) and say that shutting down the boarding schools was horrible and set Native Americans back "a hundred years." It's possible that Exendine just went to one of the good boarding schools and he was totally ignorant of the conditions in the others. But given Exendine was a well-traveled accomplished lawyer that stayed active in his community his whole life, I think it's more complicated than that. I don't blame you for not including those student voices in the video. It's just super hard to discuss the popular opinions among graduates of some of the boarding schools without sounding like you are glossing over the abuse experienced by other students and the larger context of segregation and white supremacy of the era.

[@RottingTaylor]

As someone who is a descendant of a native American tribe It's nice to see someone talk about this, it's often briefly brushed over yet it's something that should be spoken of more

[@KDG702]

Mr. Beat, you are a top class journalist. Congrats on a million. It's been awesome watching your channel grow, I look forward to your future videos!

[@casstippit766]

I knew I was gonna cry through a majority of this video and you didn’t disappoint. Way to spread some knowledge about this atrocity and hopefully open a few eyes. Respectfully done and great job as always Mr Beat.

[@EddieHenderson92]

I laughed.

[@letitiajeavons6333]

Native Americans are amazing farmers. They bred teosinte into modern corn (Zea maize) Indigenous Americans also invented Tomatoes and potatoes from nightshades.

[@ericktellez7632]

Those are all from mesoamericans (except potatoes those are South American) people in English read “native Americans” and assume indigenous people from the United States, what you are describing is all cultural elements from mesoamericans in Central America and southern Mexico, and while the struggle is what binds them they are actually entirely different ethnicities, is like claiming an Iraqi and a Cambodian are all the same because they are both Asians.

[@letitiajeavons6333]

@@ericktellez7632 perhaps I should have pointed out squash and pumpkins or cranberries and wild rice.

[@Ponferrada22]

Well no

[@toasterowens8916]

@@ericktellez7632 they literally all came from the same place and resided in the Americas which includes both north and south America. it really does not matter

[@jokemon9547]

@@toasterowens8916 It does matter quite a bit, because the natives of what is now the United States were completely different from the natives going south technologically, societally, linguistically and culturally. It's like equating Roman achievements with those of the Germanic tribes.

[@MrPotatoe661]

This channel is probably the best or not in the top 5 best channels on KZbin in my opinion. Keep up the amazing work

[@iammrbeat]

Holy crap. Thanks so much!!

[@MrPotatoe661]

@@iammrbeat Oh my god I never thought I'd get a reply from you I'm fanboying right now lol

[@XOguitargurlOX]

Just cracked open the book Strange Empire. Thank you for covering this info so respectfully with your platform ❤

[@eliasbriggs497]

Hey Mr beat! I was recently at an archaeological site and met a lady who does K9 work with the boarding schools to find children. The treatment in these boarding schools needs to be more well known. Keep up the videos! - love from Washington

[@OMJ_the_Show]

As an Indigenous American (Pueblo-Tewa), I appreciate this video, Mr. Beat. And everything you do!

[@knequestrian93]

I have a question, are there any tribes open to the public? And not as a spectacle. I was watching a show where the guests were invited to stay with a native tribe in Kenya. I just thought that was the coolest thing. And it wasn't so much as to flaunt what we have, it was to really gain an appreciation for them and their contributions to the world, not society. And no, I will not take US-owned museums haha. I want the tribes to know that they are seen for what and who they are culturally, not beasts needing to be tamed

[@iammrbeat]

As far as I can tell, ALL of them are not only open to visitors, but they welcome visitors with open arms.

[@kingkayfabe5358]

Tribes refusing to change is the reason my country south Africa is in the mess it is currently. So maybe that's not such a good thing

[@JennyRoses1975]

I live in CA and drove across country and back earlier this year. I was surprised on how many reservations I drove through taking the 40 through TN up to New england and the 90 back through WI, MN, SD, MT, etc. the poverty was alarming, but the people were kind and welcoming when I stopped for gas, lunch, shopping... best way to see our massive country is to drive across it

[@Silva-kb2lu]

My reservation is literally on the city of tacoma Washington due to the allotment act(The Dawes Act) which allowed white people to buy reservation land for dirt cheap from natives that were already poor but also facing near extinction at the time in the 1880s

[@ruviklychee4308]

@@iammrbeat Yeah them casinos welcome everyone

[@ianfitzpatrick2230]

One of my best friends is a Yomba Indian which is a northern Nevada Piaute/shoshone peoples. Their tribe wasn’t included until after world war 2 and my friends grandma went to the local Stewart indian school out here. His uncles and several family members are involved in native rights and other forms of activism, which has helped shape my own future. I grew up in an extremely reactionary, fundamentalist, home with slight racial tendencies. Having friends who are of such a unique heritage as Native American is truly a blessing. While my fathers side is all Western European I share Puerto Rican heritage through my mothers father. Having a toe in other cultures aside from European makes me feel more connected not devalued in the least bit

[@njb1126]

Thank you mister beat for posting your sources. It's a great sign that you do some serious study. Thank you also for bringing more attention to native history.

[@ericmoore2236]

I am completely disgusted by the way our government allowed the treatment of Native Americans . Our history as a country has some things to be proud of but still so much to be disgraced and sickened by.😢

[@ismael_561]

What a video! This is one the best vidoes I have ever watched on this channel. Keep up the good work Mr. Beat!

[@HennyBangs]

I love the Native American content. It’s good someone is shining a light on the people who have been left in the dark for a while. You should do a video on the Osage Murders and Killers of the Flower Moon

[@TuxLinuxOfficial]

This is really informative! Stuff like this deserves way more views

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks for watching!

[@LaPXL8R]

Mr Beat you are actually the goat. You are what a Social Studies teacher should be.

[@Seraphina-b3h]

I feel we really need to discuss about this more in schools. Yes, we do talk about it but I feel we spend so much more time on issues surrounding slavery. That’s not a bad thing, but a lot of the misconceptions about the history behind the U.S. and Native Americans is due to it largely being oversimplified and not delved into. I always was interested in this part of U.S. history it was a completing different genocide than others I heard about in the world or at least ones discussed often. If we are to fix the problems surrounding the misinformation about the genocide and assimilations of Natives we need to spend more time on it in school. We can’t just say “yeah, that happened and it was bad.” When I learn about slavery in school it is taught in a much different manner and I know that there’s only so much to teach in schools but this I think is big enough to teach more of.

[@burnin8orable]

As a Jew, I empathize a lot with the plight of native Americans being forcibly assimilated. In places like Portugal, Jews were forced to culturally assimilate, giving up our language, religion, culture, and way of life.

[@w4dester]

But assimilating Arabs is fine.

[@Euro.Patriot]

@@w4dester Jews are Semites, Semites are Arabs.

[@AssyriacUnitarian]

​@Euro.Patriot I think bro meant the euro-jews colonizing the Levants

[@Euro.Patriot]

@@AssyriacUnitarian There's no genetic difference. They were recolonising because they were there first.

[@AssyriacUnitarian]

@@Euro.Patriot there's no genetic difference is wild💀

[@Giaayokaats]

7:42 - 7:54 Indigenous agriculture was widespread, especially in the eastern woodlands where Washington and Jefferson were writing from. Even as far west as Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Manitoba, Indigenous agriculture was widespread as early as the 1200s. Even areas of eastern Montana, Saskatchewan, and Southern Alberta have evidence of some communities practicing by the 1700s (which in these areas was prior to European contact). The introduction of horses led to a decline in agriculture on the Western Plains, but on the eastern plains and eastern woodlands, it continued apace throughout the contact period. The notion that Indigenous peoples didn’t farm is a function of the imaginary Indian, which is a white construct and foil against which dominant society defines itself. White people define themselves as settled and farmers. Thus, the “Indian” cannot be either. Otherwise Indians might be people using the land they live on. This would undercut the colonial justification for dispossession and displacement. So Indigenous peoples are defined as inherently unsettled within the white imaginary. As for me, I have records of my Saulteaux ancestors farming corn, beans and squash in Manitoba along the Red River of the North as early as the 1790. So I reject the premise that we weren’t farmers. We were. That fact was just inconvenient for white people

[@psyraxx39]

☝️

[@jacobstratton1140]

I’m glad you are using your platform to teach about some of these topics.

[@danielgomez9056]

Hey Mr. Beat, I'd love to see a video from you covering the many different indigenous peoples of Mexico, and their history both pre and post european colonization. I find it fascinafing how the vast majority of Mexico's current population has at least some, or in a lesser case all, native blood in them, meanwhile the USA has a comparitively musch smaller native population.

[@iammrbeat]

This is a great suggestion!

[@mari89146]

I second this as a Mexican myself. And from what I know, the reason why Mexico's indigenous population is larger than the U.S's, is because Mexico was an extraction colony for the most part. While the U.S was a settler colony.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

indian problem sounds dangerously similar to the jewish question of nazi germany

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Hitler actually cited the treatment of native Americans.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

@@PlatinumAltaria oh i know he based is nuremberg laws on the exclusion acts of president roosevelt (FDR that is not theadore roosevelt), actually he wrote a letter to one of the founders of the american eugenics association stating that, The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant (a eugenics textbook kinda) was his bible, madison was a eugenicist

[@EddieHenderson92]

@@PlatinumAltaria Everyone born in America is a Native American.

[@ryderwilson7955]

@@guilhermecastro9893 not really, Jews were assimilating in very fast rates and were successfully doing so too, that is why Hitler was afraid of them. People didn’t really care when Jews were just treated as outsiders with no equal rights..

[@goingrey9529]

Thank you for being a speaker for the people.. I cant at all.. nor do I want to just talk.... so I let calmer head's prevail..thanks again..

[@Silva-kb2lu]

Have a wonderful day Mr Beat i’d just like to say that it isn’t all bad on the reservation i live on, many of my peers are gonna be going to colleges soon all over the PNW to get degrees that can help our community like teaching or fisheries management and your videos have helped me find what i really want to do which is to hopefully be a history teacher one day

[@Jason-hg1pc]

Check out the Institute of American Indian Arts, the library is a fantastic resource for annotated historical context and can be researched online. I'm an Alaskan in B'ham and a graduate.

[@leonardo.diCATio]

I was just having to research this for my college US History class, the very picture in the thumbnail was in my textbook! Thank you for sharing this video, it was really helpful!

[@Ralphbros24]

I love your content Mr Beat

[@iammrbeat]

I appreciate you watching!

[@ossiejcurtis]

Goddamn this is a great video. Cheers from Choctaw Nation

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Yes ! We salute you Choctaw Nation !

[@greenhawk6839]

Kia ora Mr Beat, thank you for your efforts to make this history better known. As someone from a country that has its own story of interactions between indigenous people and settlers (Aotearoa New Zealand) I believe that telling history in its fullness, including parts that are difficult, shameful, and uncomfortable, is the only way to really understand the present and enable reconciliation and some measure of healing to take place. It is a prerequisite for having productive conversations about how to deal with harms that continue to the present and it opens up new possibilities beyond the simplistic binary of oppressed and oppressor, colonised and coloniser. Instead, we're better equipped to understand why we sometimes disagree and treat each other with respect and humanity all the same. We still have a long way to go on the road to reconciliation but our progress in acknowledging and attempting to remedy the ills of the past is what gives me pride in my country. I hope this video will contribute towards better understanding between settler Americans and Native Americans in the United States and help pave the way for healing the wounds of this sad history.

[@cjimmersive6955]

If the United States lifted that 25% of native americans out of poverty, by my calculations it would cost about 2% of the federal budget. Native americans as a whole make up 2.9% of the population. I think a direct payment would be controversial, so it could be investments in infrastructure, a trust fund, or job creation with assistance for basic needs. Free tuition at public universities could be offered, like they do at the University of Minnesota. Just some food for thought...

[@jeffslote9671]

Or people could actually try to better themselves. Instead they prefer to play victim

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

​​​​@@jeffslote9671Systemic issues work to keep the poor, well, poor. There is no such thing as "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps". It is a corporate myth/slogan designed to keep any amount of blame off of corporations and billionaires while pushing all that blame onto the poor, who often suffer from circumstances outside their control (being abused, disabled, mentally ill, etc.). Individualism, at least to the degree espoused by Americans (Westerners in general, really), is horrifically at odds with most of humanity and, as shown by this video, a mindset responsible for outright genocide, cultural and literal. How is a suicidally depressed man supposed to contribute to society? How is an uneducated and ignorant man supposed to be of use to their community? How might a disabled person find meaning despite their lack of capabilities? Poverty and other issues stifle our country, stifle our families, causes stagnation and regression, etc. The system will likely implode upon itself if our extreme income inequality continues. That's assuming the climate doesn't kill us first (and no, I'm not just talking about the climate itself. Climate refugees will FLOOD into this country once their homes become uninhabitable).

[@cjimmersive6955]

@@jeffslote9671 It’s funny that bettering one’s self in your eyes is what, making money, being self-reliant, lifting one’s self out of poverty despite historic pressures that are against you? What about bettering one’s self by living a virtuous life, working towards a more just world and acting with compassion?

[@sirhenrymorgan1187]

Systemic issues work to keep the poor, well, poor. There is no such thing as "pulling yourself up by the bootstraps". It is a corporate myth/slogan designed to keep any amount of blame off of corporations and billionaires while pushing all that blame onto the poor, who often suffer from circumstances outside their control (being abused, disabled, mentally ill, etc.). Individualism, at least to the degree espoused by Americans (Westerners in general, really), is horrifically at odds with most of humanity and, as shown by this video, a mindset responsible for outright genocide, cultural and literal.

[@jeffslote9671]

@@cjimmersive6955 One can do both but sitting around crying isn’t going to fix anything

[@AnnoyingSonic789]

Early for the BEAT

[@iammrbeat]

Thanks for being here early!

[@lucyhunter8313]

This is such good timing for this video, I’m writing my history dissertation on assimilation at the moment. This is such an interesting video too!!

[@MissingNumb]

The assimilation period occured much earlier for our people's of the West (California). Those who didn't "Assimilate" during the initial Spanish colonization, were deemed inferior slaves by law once America pushed out west. Those holdouts didn't even get the "courtesy" of Assimilating, and were given bounties for their extermination...

[@ericktellez7632]

The Spanish cope is always so hilarious because they bring out the fact how they stopped using indigenous people as slaves early on in the mid 1500s but they hide that fact that it was because most indigenous people had died from their European disease and the fact that the Spanish were now using black people to replace the natives for slave labour.

[@donaldlawson1334]

“Hmm, how can I rebut this video… I got it, Marxism…”-conservatives

[@mrmoment6061]

every time too

[@kylelapointe2289]

@@donaldlawson1334 well, losers tend to be friendly with other losers.

[@MonsterTaming420]

My grandma has been traumatized for years, only recently has she talked about her time in a Canadian residential school, it's so heartbreaking to hear her mention it.

[@bonesawmcgraw9728]

This same thing happened in Canada and Australia.

[@corey2232]

I've seen a lot of people from outside the US, especially Europeans, criticize the US for how it took Native land & killed Indian populations. But where do you think these people learned that from? European writings from that era constantly describe indigenous peoples of non-white countries as "savages," less than human, inferior beings. They talk about colonization of their countries as a charity they're doing... Helping "civilize" barbaric Africans, Indians, or Native Americans. They believed their cultures to be irrelevant, un-godly, and pointless, and that they were doing them a favor by exterminating it. Whether it was slavery, forced-relocation, forced-assimilation, genocide, religious conversion, etc. these colonizers always spoke about these populations as if they deserved to be ruled over by white Europeans. So go figure that Europeans who settled in North & Central America also felt the same way... Just because the British outlawed slavery 30 years before the US, doesn't mean they suddenly became super egalitarian & ended prejudice. All you need is to look at when they finally gave up certain colonial territories like India. The US (and even Canada) just continued the legacy of poor treatment & cruetly towards native peoples.

[@ElliotKeaton]

Every country did this. Even the Native Americans did this. Hell, Europe was colonized by Asians and Arabs _before_ Europe colonized the Americas.

[@bert4999]

The Right-wing will look at this and just say that their culture is inferior and that they need to work harder

[@Marchingthroughhistory-p7t]

LOL so true

[@АртемийГалков-ш7п]

and were would they be wrong? If there is an objectively superior civilization (militarily, economically, scientifically etc) it is natural for it to assimilate less developed civilizations. It happened always and everywhere (Roma assimilating all the Mediterranean, China assimilating everyone it could reach, Anglosaxons being assimilated by then more developed French and many many more examples). It is just the way this world works and will always work.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

@@АртемийГалков-ш7п were to start lets see: 1. different sets of values show that different cultures view "valueable things" differently, to you a diamond might be valueble but in the desert water is worth more then any diamon. 2. the weakness of a military has no bearing on what constitutes a great culture, militaries are not a cultural institution they are a government institution. 3. to believe you are superior is to judge your fellow humans which has lead to several genocides and massacres across history. 4. the romans did not always assimilated everything and even if they did that doesnt make it right, china does not assimilate anything, china out right murders any culture they deem inferior or dangerous like the uyghur muslims. 5. just so you know its this same mentality that lead to the holocaust, to rwandan genocide, darfur, armenia, bosnia...its neither good nor productive to view culture as superior or inferior, all cultures have down sides and all cultures have benefits.

[@jeffslote9671]

That’s a correct take.

[@Stormtiger1089]

@@АртемийГалков-ш7п: Cultural assimilation is one thing. Yes, some individuals die in the process but this was genocide. They were segregated from the dominant culture and legislation writen to continue the genocide. Genetically, we see new cultures come in and absorb the old culture but the old culture only has around half the genetic material from the new culture if not less.

[@DARKWHISPERER-ze8lo]

America has been a country that says people have rights, that there's freedom of speech, religion. But when you look at it's history it's been the opposite. You got things like the Dawes act, slavery, the Japanese prison camps, segregation. Does that sound like freedom?

[@cheesydawg371]

All animals are free, but some animals are more free than others

[@DARKWHISPERER-ze8lo]

@@cheesydawg371 sounds like Animal Farm

[@DiamondKingStudios]

While we always professed these ideals, we have never applied them to their proper extent. Whether or not we decide to apply them universally going forward is what will make the difference.

[@cheesydawg371]

@@DARKWHISPERER-ze8lo It is. I just replaced "equal" with "free" to show how the capitalist criticisms of Socialism can be applied to itself as well.

[@christopherkopke7593]

What exactly is your point?

[@claudespeed277]

As a natuve amercan, i really appreciate the existence of this video to educate people. Dont know many times people responded to me saying whites stole our land with "well it wasnt yalls land anyway". Argued with a coworker who claims america taking our land wasnt wrong like other examples of imperialism. I love my country, but man were us native americans done pretty dirty. Can Still remember the conditions of the reservations i lived on for awhile as a kid.

[@Jason-hg1pc]

Check out the Institute of American Indian Arts (SF,NM). They have historical resources that are connected to the regrowth of the broad variety of Native cultures that survived Manifest Destiny, and current examples of the creative element of their living descendants, and it's open to all people.

[@saraashking5763]

Remember kids, this happened in Canada and Australia and more as well

[@sosked78]

Mr. Beat, I wish you would've mentioned the implications of massacres such as the Sand Creek Massacre (imaged at 10:11) on the "War Period", how it reflected public opinions at the time, and the impact on Native response/resistance to Americans.