The Story Of The Indigenous Metis And The Highland Scots | Nations At War | Timeline

In 1885, Louis Riel and rebel Metis would stun the upstart Canadian government with a violent uprising. Dismissed and dispossessed, the Metis would fight to secure a place in their own homeland.
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[@ItsMe-cz1pi]

As a metis, thank you for this. I only heard these stories from my grandfather. His father moved them Batoche to Northern Alberta.

[@joannasunday]

@its Me - i love your name. It's Metis in a word jumble. You do fantastic work on the channel. Thank you!

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

@Proudly White, and your a snow roach, whitey

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

@Proudly White, be less white, and be more melanated

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

@Proudly White, imagine calling us nappyheaded yet yalls hair be looking like seaweed

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

@Proudly White, yall be approaching 30 and be lookin like tales from the crypt so i can see why your mad🤣🤡🖕🏼

[@christopherstube9473]

A few years back, i googled for Montana Indigenous Art and discovered the Metis who created a fusion of European and Indian art and an interesting take on violin music. I also discovered the whole saga of Louis Riel and his life's work as a great politician and leader of the Metis. I think it was in the Wolsley expedition that the fort Garry was militarily attacked by Ottawa and the attack repulsed which resulted in Louis Riel forming a provisional government for the Northwest Company's lands which he could have kept as a Metis homeland, but he was a loyal supporter of the Regency and he left before the governor arrived to surrender the lands to the governor Archibald. He went to live in the canebrakes of the Missouri in Montana and was well thought of as a local schoolteacher until he was recalled by Dumont to lead the Metis in a further conflict. They still celebrate a day for him in Choteau Montana. When i was growing up in Montana, they never told me a word about the Metis culture and so i was pretty surprised to find such a rich history with such colorful figures who had ethics and family and defended their way of life.

[@fromtherivertothesea333]

You’re speaking in past tense. We’re still here fighting for our survival and rights!!

[@christopherstube9473]

@@fromtherivertothesea333 I did not doubt it and hence the infinity symbol. Also i notice that Charlie Russell, a very consequential artist in Montana was a proponent of the Metis and wore the Metis red sash. The Metis notion of cultural fusion was a much better way of getting along with people and has resulted in a lot of cooperation in Montana and the Dakotas. We need to give people like G A Custer back to the Kansans and Libby his wife.

[@williamortiz4872]

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[@joshtkatchuk7685]

Dumont* Gabriel Dumont

[@doilooklikeicare337]

were still here louis riels wife wouldve been my auntie if i was born back then the metis are still surviving and fighting

[@alexandreasmith44]

So sad Canadian agents told immigrants “come practice your religion and speak your languages” but, they tried to kill indigenous culture and languages.

[@Alex462047]

Yeah, well, it is pretty clear what the agenda was. Destroy local culture and heritage by means of importing different cultural groups and encouraging them to "be themselves". The exact same process has been engaged in under the slightly fruitier title of "multiculturalism" in more recent times. The goal is the same. Destroy traditions entrenched in the local people and land that would oppose the will of a government hungry for power and influence, one of the oldest political tricks in the book.

[@christal2641]

And the Crown was still literally beating Celtic languages out of the Welsh and Irish 100 years ago. If the conquered peoples of the "British Isles" had refused to help the Crown oppress the other peoples, England could NEVER have held control.

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

yall lucky yall even have a culture, mestizos weren't even allowed to practice anything, we had to assimulate as hispanic or else we would get executed

[@jadzia2098]

In a way, the church did put indian children in their schools and the children and parentschad no rights. Speaking their native language and not allowed to practice their religion. I know, I know but to me the natives and metis are intertwine and how many killed themselves or died of broken hearts??

[@lawrencefox563]

@@jadzia2098 Turn them into square pegs wage slaves duplicating economy of Europe.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

Similarities between highland Scottish clan culture & that of the Natives is pretty alike. I'm so proud to be Canadian, but i don't love my gov't.

[@christopherfisher128]

That is a familiar feeling in the world these days.

[@rebeccaherschman1635]

I feel the same way about being American. Very interesting doc I've always been interested in Canada because my grandparents spent the summers up there because the loved it so much

[@pinkiesue849]

were some of the First Nations Scots originally?

[@iconcanvas2303]

Compare the old music you will hear it

[@pinkiesue849]

@@iconcanvas2303 why would the crown want to wipe out their own people over here? doesn't them being here extend the crown claim to this continent?

[@emom358]

Growing up in the USA, I barely heard anything past how the Hudson Bay Company open the wilderness. Thank you for this.

[@jeanettenfreeland1408]

Do you have a The Hudson Bay in the USA

[@emom358]

@@jeanettenfreeland1408 the store? Yes.

[@jeanettenfreeland1408]

@@emom358 really how is it doing??

[@emom358]

@@jeanettenfreeland1408 haven't a clue, not sure what you want to know.

[@lemr88]

Americans are not taught about our history. We are inundated with it. *edit I meant we are inundated with American history here in Canada

[@judypritchard4670]

My great grandfather was born in 1862 in York Factory which was part of the HBC. His father was from the Orkney Islands , Scotland and worked for HBC, his mother was native but don’t know much about her.

[@dinkster1729]

A huge percentage of the employees of the HBC were from Orkney. My husband's great-great-grandfather was from Stromness. He started homesteading in 1821 near Madoc, Ontario after working for the HBC as did his father before him.. 1821? Isn't that the year the HBC & the NWC merged causing massive employment? I wonder if the lack of employment was why our immigrant ancestor left the HBC and emigrated to S.E. Ontario.

[@rc59191]

Makes me happy seeing Dan follow in his dad's footsteps. Some of my happiest memories were getting up early on the weekends to see him and his dad doing their shows 20th Century Battlefields on the Military Channel.

[@SuperZiggy82]

But seeing Dan before every video for more then 1,5yr is tiresome

[@julierobertson9397]

Thank you for providing an examination of Canadian history that I (going to school in the US) was never made aware of. Timeline is a great source of information about important history, obscure or well known. Keep up the good work.

[@quetzaliramirez1942]

THIS CHANNEL IS AMAZING!

[@igitha..._]

The narrator has such a powerful voice! He could totally play a superhero in a movie for sure

[@ironcrapprgaming]

He was in twilight i believe 😂

[@kellybliss6163]

I'm so happy to see the history of my province highlighted. The Louis Riel Resistance (formally known as a rebellion) is a very important piece of Canadian history that has been overlooked.

[@dinkster1729]

Not really overlooked, but in English-Canada, the Métis are painted as people being against progress, not as resisters to settler-colonialism from Upper Canada. In the interests of national unity, of course, we want downplay the idea of any conflict between the founding peoples of Canada, right? We are especially against talking about warfare between Upper Canadians, the British, English-speaking and Protestant on one side and Métis, French-speaking Roman Catholic on the other. As wars go, these struggles weren't much--nothing like the American War of Independence or the American Civil War, for example, but very important to the foundation of Canada.

[@michelebriere9569]

One of my 3rd great grandmothers was Catherine Riel, great aunt of Louis.

[@dawnslight676]

my 3x great grandfather was Christopher Reil.

[@michelebriere9569]

@@dawnslight676 cousin!

[@dawnslight676]

@@michelebriere9569 Yes, we are!

[@bethbartlett5692]

I appreciate learning from this and encourage Historians to go the extra mile to validate History Stories rather than repeating what Mainstream Academics approve. Oral Histories are far more accurate than most written histories. The Victors and the Power Influences have edited them to fit their objectives. Beth Sociology, Journalism, History (my degrees and they remain areas of interest, in Studies and Research.) Tennessee, USA

[@steveljub1]

Very true Beth. At one time we had nothing but oral history - and sadly much of it is unrecorded. Like today's media, much of written history is "sponsored" in some way or another. Rigour in reliability and validity is as important in Social Sciences (I am a Psychologist) as it is in any natural science.

[@joyceanderson3165]

Mainstream academia as you call it can't teach everything. If we are interested in a particular subject we must study it ourselves or get a PhD in the subject if available.

[@chucknorris277]

Oral history accurate lmao. Here is an experiment for your highly educated intellect. Get 8 friends and play the child game telephone.... sociology and journalism lmao. How bout common sense

[@XSNRGB--N-]

Well done. Much appreciated ♾️

[@MisteriosGloriosos922]

Wonderful to see. Liked & Subcribed!!!

[@Morgan2XL]

They don't call the Highland clearances by name, where the highland villages were cleared of people by sword and fire and confined to coastal villages with poor fishing or sent to Glasgow slums. These victims of ethnic cleansing ( and historically part of standing clan armies with inter clan rivalries)were somewhat different clans to the last 150 years of Orkadian/norse and Hebridean Gallic speaker HBC employees. There may have been a clan collision as well as Scots Metis problem. Ie Lords of the Isles Hebridean McDonalds ( plus Camerons McLeans, Mckinnons, McLeods, McNeils) vs Chattan clans. As well as the HBC NWC divide. In any event the clans were never shy about killing each other. Just saying that conflicts are never simple.

[@pinkiesue849]

Why did the authorities do that? "cleared of people"

[@Morgan2XL]

@@pinkiesue849 the liards or clan chiefs tried to survive (and save their closest relatives) by introducing english breeds of sheep and red deer hunting preserves (for english gentry) to the highlands and eliminating the indigenous crofters with their 2 cows and a couple of highland sheep (look more like goats). Many of the liards associated with being on the losing side in the battle of Culloden were also executed and their lands confiscated and turned over to English lords. This should sound like a familiar modus operandi, or pattern of crime. At least some of the bronze age inhabitants of the UK were dark skinned with dark hair and brown eyes - possibly the root of the term Black Welsh. History does repeat itself.

[@pinkiesue849]

@@Morgan2XL wow, yes it does sound familiar. No wonder some Scotland-ers want to separate even today. Maybe some of them Left long ago for the Americas. I believe the Europeans knew about these lands all along, even tho we have been told otherwise.

[@christal2641]

The "Scots Irish" from whom I descend, were troublesome Scots from the border between England and Scotland. The British Crown also wanted to control Irish lands, but few British bluebloods wanted to settle in Ireland, even to become landed gentry (Anglo-Irish). In the 17th century, the British Crown offered some Scots land in Ulster (Northern Ireland), on the condition that they kill or drive out the "excess population" of Irish who lived there. The Ulster Scots were expected to pay taxes on the land to the crown. These people were known as Scots Irish or Ulster Irish. These holdings were the first PLANTATIONS. Native Irish who survived invasion were made into indentured servants for crimes like speaking their own language. Many survivors were forced to become share-croppers on their ancestral land, and had fewer rights than medieval serfs. "Transportation" to the colonies was a public policy to "reduce the excess population" of poor and/or criminal English, Scots (and many more Irish). Some paid their own way, others were sentenced (for the crime of being poor) to serve for years as indentured servants, sold to the ship's captain, and resold as indentured servants in the colonies. In the Southern colonies of America, many English colonists Scots-Irish (a.k.a. Ulster Irish) Scots-Irish who could afford it, recreated the plantation system, but quickly found it more profitable to buy SLAVES, instead of using the Irish. After the Revolution, many well-to-do Tories (some English, others Scots Irish) fled to Canada with what they could afford to take with them. For their loyalty, the Crown offered them a little poor farmland, a rake, and a hoe.

[@christal2641]

@@pinkiesue849 The preferred term is "Scots," not "Scotlanders."

[@darkisland04]

Chapters of history that, I must admit, I'd never heard of before. Quite fascinating and colorful.

[@michellemunn7959]

My three times great father was Ambrose Lepine who worked with Louis Riel

[@Yeoman7]

Louis Riel was a traitor.

[@TFBx]

@@Yeoman7 😂😂 relax

[@jerryhunter4663]

AKA Hermes Trismegistus

[@DaysofNotty]

Oh yeah, my 7th great grampa was Cuthbert Grant

[@sandranatali1260]

My favorite narrator! He makes you keep your interest in the video.

[@amys2650]

I am a direct descendant from the Huron-Wendat Nation that married French settlers back in the 17th century way before the huge sale of Canadian territory.

[@nickiewilson6985]

Just going through my history left to me 20 yrs ago & see all three of my GGGrandfathers were Master Mariner's, 1st two from PEI. My middle one opened up Fort Langley with Sir Douglas in his Steamships the SSBEAVER & OTTER. Captain James Douglas Warren opened up the Trade Routes around Vancouver Island to the Haida Gwaii. Where he married Tossimitsa Edenshaw a Chief's daughter. She survived Kuper Island to be the oldest Native to die on Vancouver Island in 1931 at 104. My Aunt Sarah Warren a Matriarch of the Songhees( King Freezies G.Grandaughter) was interned to Sardis, B.C. She was the FIRST PERSON to WIN Back the RIGHT'S FOR The Traditional Mask Dance in 1950. Her Grandaughter Myrna Elliot. gifted her Handmade Blanket to Mr Hall( New President of University of Victoria) two months ago, in HONOUR of TRUTH & RECONCILIATION.

[@squadiodatamj5998]

What a rich history to have come to learn and to watch, still in the making (Blanket to Mr.Hall). Thanks for sharing these bits of it here.

[@christal2641]

You have a wonderful heritage.

[@D_Scott_Sutherland]

The fort they used to film this episode is actually Fort Langley. Although it's in British Columbia, I guess they figured it was the best representation of an HBC trading post. There's nothing left of Fort Douglas and the remains of Fort Garry in Winnipeg is now more of a museum than replica fur-trade era fort.

[@songwolf108]

Wonder if we have a family connection, my family is around B.C. & northern U.S. with the name Warren. Just wondering…cause there’s a lot I don’t know about my family:(

[@carmencolon8012]

I understand that the Cherokee tribe if the eastern USA also intermarried with the my scotch irish cousins, as they were similar culturally. Born and raised in the Caribbean, I am of Spanish gaélico origins

[@Mehetabelable]

I am so proud to be a metis of Duck Lake

[@rudolfyakich6653]

There is a old Catholic Church in the corner of Cascade county, Montana. I was told this had to do with Mr. Riel's self exile.

[@TUSK1157]

This is a great story. As a U.S. citizen, this is a history we are never taught. We're taught our BS form of history about How the West was Won. Without ever knowing that our neighbors to the north had their own history of expansion. A little constructive criticism. The story would have flowed together a little better had the 2 episodes been shown in opposite order.

[@paulmacmillan4459]

As a Canadian citizen some of us like to boast that Canada happens to be the only country in the world that beat the USA at war on their own turf. I know we have to stretch things a little but some of you Americans think we live in igloos. I was in Florida and befriended a guy from New York and he wouldn't believe it took me the same amount in hours to get to Florida as him, living right close to Detroit we are further south than Northern California. The most southern part of Canada, Point Pelee, southern Ontario.

[@patjohn775]

@@paulmacmillan4459 it’s so cold in the D.

[@dinkster1729]

@@paulmacmillan4459 Camping on Wellesley Island, we met an American father who was going up to Canada for a hockey tournament. He couldn't believe that our son, a Canadian didn't play hockey. He did play basketball at school a fair bit, but that was invented by a Canadian as well, right? He did play pick up games on an outdoor rink near his school.

[@ignitetheinferno1858]

Good doc, wished they had arraigned it chronologically instead of doing this Scots HBC War after the defeat of the Métis which would allow us to completely see their fall from beginning to end.

[@dinkster1729]

Yeah! Why were events of the time of the War of 1812 through to 1821 placed after the 2 Riel rebellions, 1870 & 1885 respectively? The 15 years when Riel was not in western Canada are not described either. There's an excellent book on Louis Riel by Maggie Siggins published a few years ago. The conflict between the "half-breds" (English-speaking, Protestants of Scottish and native descent) ahd the "Métis is not fully fleshed out either. It's important not to think there was only 1 mixed race group called the Métis even though, of course, in modern Canada, we don't use the term "Half-breed" any more.

[@et76039]

The ties between Scotsmen and native tribes mentioned in the origin of the Metis has interesting counterparts in the southeastern United States. Traveling Scottish merchants married Creek women; the famous Creek chief Alexander McGillivray came from such a union. One Euchee chief invited a group of displaced Highlanders living in Georgia to come live near his people in Florida. Many of these mixed-blood people remained after the Removals, and well into the 20th century maintained customs which were clearly not European. They rarely considered themselves as Mestee, though.

[@katiethebonelady]

"married" native women, often these women were sold or traded by their fathers, only some chose to marry colonizers

[@Morgan2XL]

@@katiethebonelady Kirkwall in Orkney has a high indigenous / Orkadian population and the most thorough HBC museum that I've seen outside of Winnepeg. The HBC supply ships picked up Hebrideans and Orkadians on the way to Canada and some brought their families back. They didnt use English because they weren't hardy enough to survive.

[@christal2641]

The cherokee, being settled farmers BEFORE Contact, often intermarried with settlers. Genetic tests now indicate that many of the people who claimed a Cherokee grandmother had instead a Cherokee great-great grandmother and more African than Indian genes.

[@dinkster1729]

@@Morgan2XLI imagine even though the HBC was an English company, it wanted men lacking in employment to sign 5 year contracts to work in remote Hudson's Bay region. Stromness was where my husband's great-great grandfather was from. How do you know these people are Métis in Kirkwall? Their DNA? Family tradition? or what? A family genealogist has wondered what origin Wm Inkster, the founder of the Inkster line in S.E. Ontario has. His mother is Rebecca Marion. Marion is not an Orcadian name. It is found in the Winnipeg region, but also the Glasgow region. The first name of the mother of Wm Inkster and the wife of John , his father is Rebecca. Another unusual name for a Scottish ancestor. Christian names in the New World, though, were often from the New Testament Was this Rebecca Marion from the New World, specifically, HBC territory?

[@Morgan2XL]

@@dinkster1729 oral Genealogy family history is a thing in many older UK families that weren't cleared. This is what I heard on an Orkney tour and read in a half day at the Orkney museum.( Sort of a sport on my non scots family to see how many times they are related to themselves 1000 years ago.) Probably verifiable by DNA. At the great great grand parent level you should be able to spot 4rth cousins showing up with 8 to 20 cM of common DNA scattered across the world and make reasonable hunches. It is not uncommon o get 5000 cousins at that level, then you can get into some math and prove some of the hunches ( beyond me though). Glasgow is just a big genetic mix. It had a small population prior to 1746, after the slums were built 1780ish everyone from all over the highlands arrived. The west highland clans stuck together in sub communities. However now rhey are thoroughly intermixed to the extent that cousins from my mother's paternal and maternal great grandfather's families have had offspring. The English were not preferred by HBC because they often didn't survive the conditions (lacking knowledge, physcal and genetic stamina). Some knowledge of Scots Gallic/ Gàidhlig (not Gaelic) language sometimes gives hints at how a name can be anglicized Rebecca could have started out as Beathag ; the masculine is Beathan. Or she could have just taken an everyday English name the same way Chinese immigrants do today. Marion seems to have some members in Scotland and Breton (Brithonic speakers in France pre Roman ) which wouldnt be unexpected given links between Scotland and France or Norman forces mixing into Scotland.

[@markgarin6355]

Interesting video. Nice sheet metal barreled rifles.

[@reflectreflex7612]

Any good source on Acadiana who fled Canada and settled in current louisiana? I am a cajun and I am looking for the best story with most detailed on the Acadiana. Thanks

[@bobbilaval6171]

Acadians didn’t flee so much as they were forcefully removed by the British. Spain was more than happy to accept them in Louisiana to help consolidate their hold on New Orleans.

[@reflectreflex7612]

@@bobbilaval6171 yeah I worded it wrong. They spoke a French that wasn't accepted. Our language is banned from being taught in any school in America too. People just don't like cajun French speakers lol

[@katherinecollins4685]

Very good

[@Johnnyohhh1952]

Great doc

[@fleadoggreen9062]

They don’t talk about Canada and indigenous peoples enough

[@dinkster1729]

Who's "they"? I'm surprised this fight for the Canadian west made it into Timeline. Canada usually gets passed over.

[@sirisaacbrock798]

I have a very interesting family history. I’m of both Métis descent and Scottish descent (from highland clans), and I have many notables on both the Métis and Scottish sides. For Métis I am cousins with Louis Riel and have several connections to him, and for my Scottish ancestry I am descended from many notable Scottish kings, including Robert the Bruce. Does anyone have any opinions on wearing both a sash (Métis) and a Buchanan tartan great kilt (Scottish)?

[@DaysofNotty]

Whooooaaa wait.. Sister???? I am Scotish on the Clan Buchanan and Metis descendant of Cuthbert Grant

[@maplecrew8991]

​@@DaysofNottyaye cousins. My great great great uncle was Gabriel dumont. Been checking ancestry and my great grandma's side is related to him. Out here in Turtle Mountain rez

[@DaysofNotty]

Buchanan?? Thats my family also... wow

[@dinkster1729]

You can wear an Assumption sash, a tartan, a hijab, a turban, or a Jewish head covering in the Ontario legislature, but not, according to the Speaker, that pesky Arab scarf.

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

I really believe that as more and more people marry outside of their own race having children of mixed bloodlines the world will settle down. Its rather difficult to have racial hatred once everyone is of mixed bloodlines. My son is one such person, of mixed race and so is his son. So now my grandson is English, Scottish, Welsh, Chinese, Illicano Filipino, Danish, Norwegian, and Native American. I believe these children of mixed race truly rob the gene pool and are superior to all of us that come from one or two bloodlines. They are more intelligent, have better athletic abilities, and mostly more attractive as well. They will rule the world some day lol

[@lindiharris-axon8167]

While i have no problem with intermarriage between races, I disagree with your conclusions about superiority. I don't see in in biology/genetics. I think people are people. All groups have strong, intelligent and attractive people along with some who aren't strong, intelligent, attractive or athletic. Some cultures discourage certain aspects and encourage other aspects, which can make them occur more often, but people are people. I don't disbelieve that your children have those qualities - I just disagree that they are racially determined. Racial predetermination in another form is why people somehow convinced themselves it was okay to displace Native peoples and enslave blacks. I don't approve or agree with it in any form.

[@paulmacmillan4459]

I think if you talk to anyone that has had a DNA test done they will tell you they have about 10 different bloodlines. There are no true races anymore, that's a fact. People may not have 10 but we all will have several. I always thought I was 100% Scottish, not so. Maybe you might find some that are close to pure in oh say the middle of China, living in the middle of a rice paddy with the whole clan for 2 or 3 thousand years.

[@edwardlobb931]

Nearly all of the historic B&W portraits of major players were chopped in very abrupt cuts, in favor of arty atmospherics. However, generally this is a high quality documentary.

[@josorr]

No, not well done.

[@steveljub1]

I enjoy learning about the history of North America. A lot of sympathy has to be with the natives. It is overly simplistic to think that it was British & Natives v French & American settlers, but when you consider the Spanish possessions and other groupings like the Metis that I was not aware of it becomes even more fascinating. I believe the religious aspects are possibly used as justification when the real underlying causes seem to be about profit for corporations and just plain survival for most of the people.

[@dinkster1729]

Well, it's called settler-colonialism. The natives and Métis just were not seen as people with human rights. They are seen as an impediment to civilization.

[@m.pearce3273]

Louis Riel is the only Founding Father to never appear on money or a limited released stamp in Canada , some recognition….

[@Yeoman7]

It because he was a traitor

[@grumpyparrotphotography]

The Canadian post office issued a commemorative stamp to Louis Riel on 19 June, 1970.

[@dinkster1729]

He was recently named as the first Premier of Manitoba though by the first native Premier of Manitoba.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Wow, 1885... I think I was like...3? Metis was my granddad.

[@randyb726]

Love you man keep the bloodline alive

[@vicsomeone]

@@randyb726 He'd be 139 years old if he was 3 in 1885. Did you miss that?? 😂

[@igitha..._]

If you're 139 years old how old is your grandfather?

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

my grandmother was indigenous and my grandfather's dad is spaniard so that is in 1940

[@Jivanmuktishu]

In the list of HBC trading goods, they do not mention Firewater, a concoction of rum and other substances. Braided tobacco was also a common trade.

[@ramthianthomson601]

Thank you.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Scot was NOT ethnically Irish, he was from a family of British occupiers in Ireland.

[@lairdofdunstan1093]

The Celtic tribe known as the Scotti original!y came from the North of Ireland and western Scotland ,they have their name to Scotland

[@brucecollins4729]

@@lairdofdunstan1093 there is no such tribe as the scotti, a made up tale by medieval irish monks to give ireland some sort of identity.

[@daniellerawlins3887]

Yes we're still here

[@thehistoadian]

Sadly there is quite a bit of innacurate information in this documentary. They also failed to mention anything about the Wolseley Expedition (during the Red River Rebellion) they also didn't even mention several other battles and sieges during the Northwest Rebellion.

[@corners3755]

what was wrong though

[@thehistoadian]

@@corners3755 Well one example is that for the Battle of Fish Creek the ambush actually failed to what Dumont was wanting, the Canadian soldiers spotted some of the rebels outside of the Coulee which meant the Militia knew the enemy were there before entering into the Coulee where the rebels were planning on doing the ambush and hoping to massacre the column. Instead the Militia for the most part stayed on top of the Coulee (except for a few advances into the Coulee). Many of the Metis even fled during the battle which angered their Native allies which led to a Smaller presence of natives at Batoche. They also failed to mention anything about the hostages that the Metis took which were being starved and kept in a small cellar under one of the houses in Batoche. They also didn't mention several other large battles such at Cut knife, Loon Lake, Siege of Fort Pitt, etc. At the beginning they also make it sound as if the Europeans were the leading cause of the Bison disappearing when in reality there are numerous accounts of the Natives and Metis often killing way too many bison then they needed and often didn't even use anything from them or they would take a piece from one bison and other piece from another. I recall one account where a group of around 50 Metis killed around 150-200 Bison leaving the majority to rot.

[@karenabrams8986]

Make a vid

[@Cacodominus6969]

@@thehistoadian not mentioning something is very different than including inaccurate information 😂 how long of a video did you expect this to be if you don't mind me asking?

[@charlesfiddler7138]

@@thehistoadian .....think you need to reread history on Fish Creek. the Metis coulda wiped out the English....if not for Reil

[@philb7851]

Maybe switch the 2 parts seems part 2 happened before part 1. great doc

[@dinkster1729]

I was a little puzzled by that as well.

[@jamiebizness1]

More on canada please

[@marvwatkins7029]

Good docs but in reverse. Meanwhile ... METIS FOREVER!!!

[@suemcdermott2947]

I suppose history is according to which side one was on. We all have different options. Its sad that indigenous ppl were so badly robbed in every country

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

Mestiza forever, snow roaches are mad we season our food lmao🤣

[@MrAyla]

This took place close to my home. Gabriel Dumont’s ferry crossing is where my mother’s friend author Maria Campbell lives. I’ve visited several times

[@FresnoJoe2]

Amen~!

[@DavidBain-mh1oz]

Wow, I'm Scottish and this is fascinating

[@robertgalloway3771]

My family and self lived in Winnipeg for 4 years and then returned to Scotland. The French and Metis stayed mainly in St Boniface. A friend whom I worked with Danny Massey was half Highlander and Cree married to Dutch/Swedish. HOT in summer very cold in winter!! A girlfriend of mine her father Metis her mother Scots! ROB GALLOWAY.Raibeart Ghallgaidhealaibh

[@pinkiesue849]

someone please explain what we are seeing @ 11;29

[@rudolfyakich6653]

Please remind me the name of the voyageur artist. A lady named Francis ?

[@levisvarela3735]

well that explain a few things

[@jwh0122]

4:47 Red River Rebellion 9:54 North-West Rebellion

[@Mythical.History]

🔥👍

[@jasonolson5630]

Who is the host of this episode?

[@jaysongibson]

@eMom - did you watch this show about Canada?

[@jeromebarry1741]

There was so much fact wrong and missing from another Timeline - World History Documentary that I wonder why you guys bother calling it a "Documentary"?

[@offwiththefairiesforever2373]

Must we always be at war ? Because we fight over resourses and ideals.....

[@Cacodominus6969]

It's the nature of life itself to fight off the weak in order to propagate strength .. even little fish that cling to sharks eat the creatures that annoying the predators to remain in thier symbiotic relationship lol utopia is a fallacy created in order to keep poor stupid people from rising up

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

as a mestiza, i know that the spanish had colonized and enslaved our native ancestors and my great grandfather's family were colonizers, its sad alot of our indigenous culture was taken from us and instead have to assimulate to becoming hispanic

[@shawnnewell4541]

As an American I find your Indian wars very interesting.

[@lengould9262]

I have difficulty seeing any comparison in scale.

[@coltonross5414]

@@lengould9262 well Canada generally avoided Indian wars and oftentimes allied with them. The birth of the RCMP was also due to Canada seeing how the USA handled settling the west and decided they would try a more peaceful method. Of course it didn't always work out.

[@lengould9262]

@@coltonross5414 Agreed. Canada did ALMOST everything right, except the racism.

[@coltonross5414]

@@lengould9262 yeah the racism part is kind of unavoidable for pre 1960s though.

[@pinkiesue849]

@@coltonross5414 Is this true? the RCMP would travel to the reserves and forceably take the children to boarding schools, where the death rate was 50 %

[@matthewmann8969]

Yeah First Nations have had various relationships with Metis, Inuits, And Europeans and much of them were not pleasant, happy, exiting, or great yeah

[@christopherfisher128]

Sucks being caught in the middle.

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

Mestiza power, proud to be tan

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

@Proudly White, nobody cares, chalk demon

[@christopherfisher128]

@@angelicadayanafernandez1525 Born to be beige! lol :)

[@cob9834]

This video claimed that timber replace furs for the most important Industry for Canada, yet how about the gold rush of the Yukon?

[@stephaniequerel8402]

My 3x great grandfather was one of the people on the firing squad for Thomas Scott

[@magneticqubzian6902]

Devils selling someone's else's Land😄

[@josorr]

Not well done.

[@karmayt8956]

A 10 yr old Nez Perce boy told a white woman teacher that deer mate in the fall and have babies in spring. They imprisoned him for 2 yrs solitary with little food and never let him bath. The immigrants never made a promise to natives they didn’t break. Same today. Same around the world.

[@bronctobreakfast377]

Same among all people of the world.

[@pinkiesue849]

what was wrong with what the child said

[@emmanuelquiros3952]

wow just like Mexico

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

si

[@angelicadayanafernandez1525]

@Proudly White, let me guess, your jealous of us cuz we tan and yall uglies be looking like the et

[@Drukestreams]

Where we going today boss

[@fieroboom]

"These are nations at WAAAAAR..."

[@andrewbrown6522]

Yeaaa...... little biased but not bad.

[@williamslinn5245]

Music or dialogue, not both together!

[@markomaitz7685]

something very strange with the intonation of the narrator going on ....

[@shambleslongplay3566]

1:13 cgi bs started.. and thats when i stopped the video.

[@darcybissonpullen7125]

Oh and the crown still owed the land the English are Anglican in the Hudson Bay

[@darcybissonpullen7125]

Bye the way the Scots r not Anglo the Anglos are a tribes name but they are know as anglo irsh

[@dinkster1729]

Yeah! 85% of the HBC employees were Orcadian. My husband's great--great-grandfather like his father before him had worked for the HBC. His father, John Inkster's contract has come to light. He worked in what is now the Quebec area of Hudson's Bay. My husband's great-great-grandfather moved to Madoc area of S.E. Ontario in 1821, when the HBC & NWC merged. A lot of unemployment in the fur trade was created by that merger so, I guess, that's why William Inkster moved to Eastern Ontario.

[@darcybissonpullen7125]

@dinkster1729 my great aunt was in Moosonee she would be over 110

[@alastairdalgleish7844]

Good answer !We forget that war leads to war ,pushing populations onto the next one and so on .There are many deserted remains of villages here about in Aberdeenshire.Mostly created by the clans Lairds preferring the more profitable sheep to their own folk

[@adelehorn2055]

Jesus why so dramatic? Can't watch this

[@cliphound80]

Of Highland Scottish decent. Family driven off Highland estate which was confiscated by the British as Jacobite property during the Highland Clearances after the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and for supporting Bonnie Prince Charlie to keep Scotland free of British rule.Yes they were rebels to the British. Family fled to North America.Many others probably died as cannon fodder for the mighty British Empire.They fled with nothing but the clothes on their back and no probably settled in Nefoundland and other places in Canada.Many Scottish and French men wanted to take on First Nations women as wives, helping to create the Metis in Canada.

[@lunettasuziejewel2080]

If only the Metis and the Highlanders had joined forces against the predatory trading companies and the British government :/

[@justinfendelet8675]

I was told as kid you killed all the Buffalo/Bison when I got older I realized Bison doesn't have a passport and the starve out by US military on First Nations all the way from Arizona to NWT ...

[@briansouth9325]

Direct descendant of Christopher Gist who was the father of Sequoyah

[@josorr]

Not impressed.

[@pinkiesue849]

thankful

[@John77Doe]

What's a Metis?? 😃😃😃

[@view1st]

I'm given to understand that it's the name given to a First Nations/Native American tribe living in Canada during the 19th century.

[@John77Doe]

@@view1st Yes, very confusing because the video then goes on to talk about Black Feet and other North American tribes whose territory stretch between Canada and the Northern United States. 😄😄😄😄

[@chiomer9327]

@@John77Doe Manitoban here! The Metis nation is both a cultural and ethnic group in the same way Jewish people are. There are people who are culturally Metis ( French and Indigenous Manitobans ) but the word is also used by multiracial indigenous people who do not have French heritage. Manitoba still has serious issues surrounding racism towards indigenous peoples and they have the highest rates of poverty in the country, which is ironic since basically every settler family here is either related or is close to Metis\ Indigenous people's. But we are trying to right the wrongs of the past

[@John77Doe]

@@chiomer9327 Good to know. The video made it sound that Metis were a particular tribe like Huron or Blackfoot. But you can have several different tribes, like the twelve tribes of Israel. 😃😃😃😃

[@joshtkatchuk7685]

We are a distinct group of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.

[@robertbest4398]

Did they all Canadian at that time the language would they speak

[@dinkster1729]

Canadians in Upper Canada, after Confederation in 1867 spoke mostly English. They were the ones in favour of taking over the southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia because it meant more taxes so the Upper Canadians could build a railway out to British Columbia shortly after Confederation and take over lands owned by the Hudson Bay Company. The people in Lower Canada and northern part of New Brunswick spoke mostly French and were Roman Catholic. Many powerful people, though, in Quebec and in New Brunswick spoke English and very few of them spoke French. In the West around Fort Garry (Winnipeg) there were half-breed families and Métis families. These families moved throughout the West including in the American West. These people might speak English or French or a native language or 2 or 3. Louis Riel spoke French and English. The Métis and half breeds considered themselves superior to the natives who still lived a nomadic life on the Prairie. The documentary skipped over Riel's ties with Quebec. He also tried to interest the American government in his cause, but it wasn't biting.

[@traumedoutmusic]

THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOT METIS

[@maplecrew8991]

How?

[@DaysofNotty]

I am a descendant of Cuthbert Grant the Warden of the Plains 7th great Grandfather. and Clan Buchanan Grandfather from Scotland.I will not forget whom i am. Me Lol.

[@hojoinhisarcher]

Like my wall says %) crazy :) insane! Then there is the cup dimensions to consider as well,so its appropriate.Dec 5 2021 and whew. And yet this again.I spurn thee! Got 10 more steins to do now I am about to pull 13 handles.I spurn thee!This is retirement of a sort. As I would spurn a rabid dog!Have to see how it goes.The real bad thing is the diet on top of it all.Still a garrulous expedient of stasis each morning.The issue!

[@prairiegirl1782]

Middleton planned battle of batoche in my front yard.

[@pinkiesue849]

Any relation to Kate?

[@prairiegirl1782]

@@pinkiesue849 Good question. He was British. I hope for Kate's sake there is no connection. History says Middleton was not a nice guy.

[@daniellerawlins3887]

On our moms side is choctaw 1st nations people and Scottish blood same as my dad's side was full blooded Scott's by I hope that there's.metes people who are still around the full bloods left especially what happened to the full bloods thre is a saying started by Russell means of the Oglala Sioux people said were still here aho

[@darcybissonpullen7125]

Look there r so much miss information I wish u would have not put the miss information on here this part of the past is bad enough with out it who had most of the residential schools oh and there are Anglo Catholic and are Anglican I only seen one protestan ress school Wich was Baptist Church oh born again Christian r Protestant the king and queens are Anglican

[@hamelagocotano6719]

Paret

[@sarahhoward9081]

Pemmican was made from deer. Not buffalo.

[@shadowrealm8014]

Cute pic

[@juniperholden7653]

Flat out wrong. Pemmican is made traditionally from Bison and Buffalo, but moose, caribou, deer, or beef can be used as well.

[@juniperabbott2614]

@@juniperholden7653 hey- another Juniper!! Hello!

[@sledgehammer9739]

The narrator is way over the top. It's obvious he is reading a cue card. When you try and make it so black and white you only show your own prejudice and bigotry. Why you can't just give facts and let the viewer decide is beyond reason.

[@Cacodominus6969]

Prejudice and bigotry?? Jesus 😂😂 I would hate to have your delusion addled mind

[@1noduncle]

Indigenous garb almost looks like Nepalese. Evidence of pre flood global civilization?

[@lengould9262]

Evidence of simple logic.

[@view1st]

I was thinking Indian subcontinent, Persia.

[@daves5443]

This isn't a success story. Look at what manitoba is now, and tell me if THIS is what they had in mind

[@GeoffsSousChef]

this host is far too intense 🙄😞 given he's probably an actor, it's pretty silly

[@vaquero4495]

That and the other guys eye stye are way too distracting!

[@civroger]

The Infinity flag? Where is Thanos?

[@cathtf7957]

Cockadoody

[@hamelagocotano6719]

Uwu