The Indigenous History of the United States–A Summary

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   @hiera1917

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   1:50:08 — good. it should. white filth are not entitled to indigenous bodies

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   @hiera1917

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   1:12:42 — reliance on irregular, paramilitary forces to aid in deportation and colonial occupation to bolster the security of the u.s. state apparatus… plus ça change… (🧊🧊🧊)

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   @discivilized

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   This has been my first look into the history of indigenous culture in this country. To say that I am nonplussed and appalled would be a COLOSSAL understatement.
   I am also filled with rage.
   I mean, what the actual fu$*k?!
   How much more evil can you get?
   The boarding schools?
   The slaughter of bison, women and children, just….omfg, theres too much to list.
   I WILL NEVER BE A PATRIOT OF THIS SHIT COUNTRY AGAIN.
   That said, I don’t feel guilty.
   White guilt solves nothing.
   It only makes matters worse (if thats possible).
   I didn’t do any of that atrocious, heinous shit, and neither did you.
   I can’t speak for you but, I have nothing but reverence for indigenous peoples.
   And, in fact, I think they are “better” human beings than us. We should be working to be more LIKE THEM.
   If we did, it might, maybe, (probably not) save us from extinction—which is a cliff we are RAPIDLY approaching with alarming speed.

   Thanks for the education man…..✌🏻👊🏻

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   @Upcominglearner

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   Love the work you’re doing, keep it up!

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   @wolnylach7194

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   The history of the First Nations in the Americas sadly does seem like a textbook example of a genocidal ethnic cleaning carried out to its conclusion.

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   @LetxiaC

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   @1:48:12 it is NOT a significant improvement! This happened to me! I am disconnected from my community entirely 💔

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   @LetxiaC

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   Question: aren't these earthen Mounds then the OLDEST KNOWN MAN MADE STRUCTURES… IN THE WORLD??? I googled other structures but they're dated 3500 BCE. Why is that?

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   @BOSSKADAFI

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   2 million year old modern human skeleton was found in California.

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   @UmQasaann

   March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

   The unwashed settlers occupying so-called "America" will soon be a minority in 2052. Lol white boys claim to be the most attractive bruh can't even save their own race!

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    @thetobyntr9540

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Good video, I just disagree with your conclusion that humans weren't what drove the megafauna extinct. I get that it wasnt necessarily anyone's fault, and we can't blame modern people for the actions of their ancestors, but this is a big thing among less scientifically literate people. If someone like an average american who hated science class hears that we didn't kill the mammoths they can easily lump it in with the stuff saying we dont need to worry about how we affect the environment. Also people believing that we certainly didn't do it will start saying it more to people who already say "the indians weren't better since they drove things extinct too" and this just aggrivates the issue to confuse people and start inflammatory arguments. It's unlikely among viewers of this channel, but as people talk about it someone will hear it wrong easily, and then run with it.
    I admit that we really don't know, that's actually the most important part that people need to get to understand science, but we're pretty sure they made it through a whole bunch of "ice ages". The last deglaciation was a relatively normal one, and the same kind of extinctions happened in totally different landmasses following human introduction. It doesn't need to be immediate to be caused or driven by us. Life is generally more persistent with each exposure to the same pressure assuming a genetically diverse population, so they should have survived. The pressure of climate change was a main factor, but that alone couldn't do it, it had to be a reduction in population by some other means that made sure their numbers weren't maintained.
    It's most likely that bull mammoths were often alone, and being bigger made them the prime choice for calories when surviving the winter as a human. Mammoths were just big hairy aisan elephants, and all modern elephants live in herds of females that raise the young while males will be expelled or leave as they grow up. They mostly just interact with females to mate. Sometimes the males group together, but a lot of time they're on their own, and in the past they could deal with predators easy because of their size, but humans are different, and the only elephants to survive to modern times were the ones that evolved with denser human populations near the tropics for like 3 million years and werent geographically isolated. This is the first time apes with advanced tools first became common. Seperation in time between human arrival and extinction fits the idea that hunting removes genetic diversity, since the effects of inbreeding stack over time. It generally it takes a harsh pressure on a few fronts to erase a population of anything once established, and below a certain population density there's just not enough diversity to adapt and survive long term without help. Being less likely to find a mate hinders adaptation, and this is big when they already reproduce slowly. The fact that you REALLY need calories in the winter will reault in much more reliance on hunting, that takes out genetic diversity, settlements and farms are direct competition for resources and space, and all that on top of climate change leads to a situation almost exactly like what's driving up extinction rates today. They could survive in less populated areas longer, and humans might stop specifically going after them once they become so uncommon that few people have experience with them, but wrangel island was still cleard by people from mammothless places. Humans are smart enough to take advantage of a situation when we need to survive, and everyone does that. The whole mammoth was so useful that it'd be dumb not to take an easy hunt at any time of year even, and one can feed a small group of people for months. As humans advance in population size they become smarter, and figure out new things faster, and it just snowballs until hitting some limit on population size, at least until we figure a way around it.
    We got better at hunting roughly continuously, and we would have had the easiest time hunting their healthiest members who serve the role of spreading genetic diversity from herd to herd since they were alone most often, and we weren't too scared about spooking herds into traps. If you do that to any population without stopping then it will collapse. There just wasn't much they could do except slowly shrink in number everywhere that didn't have ample food or space.
    Mammoths today can communicate verbally in some way, and you don't even need that for them to generally be aggressive to humans, and survivors of human attacks would probably not allow any humans it sees to live, just imagine if rats did that to your friends and family, or imagine being one of the last of your kind and seeing that happen, what would you do to the rats? An eliphant is at least as smart as a 4 to 8 year old human, this isn't overanthropomorphizing, we have very similar instincts and we both rely on others for survival. Humans would definitely be better at getting revenge though.
    Theres no reason to say the humans at the time didn't respect the sacrifice of the animal's life when hunting to survive, and mammoths did survive in the Americas much longer than other places, but that's probably because the americas took longer to reach the same population densities, although they probably didn't have any idea that they could go extinct.
    After the initial extinctions from human expansion we cause ecological disturbance that mimics the role of those megafauna we drove extinct, and the extinction rate went down a bit where humans had been a while, until european contact.

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    @DougtheFir

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    YOOOO WE FINALLY GOT THE CGP GREY RESERVATIONS PART 1!!!

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    @splashwellington29

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Absolutely incredible video!!

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    @martinrutley-wk5ds

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Ain't nobody got time for dis!

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    @ChillWill2050

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    AFRICANS peopled the Americas before any Asian migration!!! Stop mayo babbling lies

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    @cheesydawg371

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Sooooo much valuable information in this video I love it! Well love in a sense of how well you made it, less so for the emotions I felt (mostly red hot rage). My favorite parts were your real examples of land being given back and everything pre-American expansion (at most in school I can remember the mention of indigenous "Hunter gatherer societies" and a few tribe name drops).

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    @cheesydawg371

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    The "Red Power" section of the video was a nice moment to breathe after the like 30-40 minutes of nonstop depression.

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    @MichaelFelton_2

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    It has been proven that horses were already here. Then they came from across the ocean later.

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    @BuckleGeoffrey

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Williams Larry Robinson Sandra Young Timothy

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    @hilohahoma4107

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Overall, with the exception of several ommisions and misnomers in regards to the stories attributes and other cultural points I look at this compilation of our peoples horrific experience with foreign intervention as pretty concise. I would imagine that to attempt to cover the whole story of us original Turtle Islanders experiences against euro encroachment is a very daunting task. Thank you for attempting to tell this story. ❤

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    @billsadler3

    March 14, 2026 at 5:57 am

    Terms: Primal Peoples of the North American Continent will cover all the names listed. Indigenous Eco-Terran Hominid might also pass. What is most important, as you mentioned, is check with the recipient. Me, I just call people by their first name, friend, and nowadays with the subject matter, Hey Cousin!

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