The Indigenous History of the United States–A Summary

The many histories of America’s Indigenous peoples are long and fascinating. From advanced horticulture to complex societies, from resisting foreign aggression to adapting to new opportunities, from asserting their humanity to moving boldly into the future, join me on a journey of over 20,000 years of history.
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Resources for MMIWG issues
Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA – https://www.amnesty.org/fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AMR510352007ENGLISH.pdf
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center – https://www.niwrc.org/
Native Women’s Collective – https://www.nativewomenscollective.org/
Rising Hearts – https://www.risinghearts.org/
Sovereign Bodies Institute – https://www.sovereign-bodies.org/
Urban Indian Health Institute – https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women – https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/
1978 US House report on Native child removals – https://www.narf.org/nill/documents/icwa/federal/lh/hr1386.pdf
Aztlan Historian has a great 3-part series covering the topic of disease in the Americas – https://youtu.be/T5fgoQdL84A?si=P1nei41kVSd3wlVl
Sources and suggested reading
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America – Pekka Hämäläinen
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources – M Kat Anderson
1491: Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus – Charles Mann
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power – Pekka Hämäläinen
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present – David Treuer
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America – Carrie Gibson
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations – Charles Wilkinson
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing Over Place – Coll Thrush
Handbook of North American Indians – Smithsonian Institution
My notes from college
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:51 Naming terminology
06:50 First habitation of the Americas
10:08 The development of agriculture
12:07 Silviculture or tending the land
14:41 Pre-contact population and trade
16:16 Wheels
18:30 The first mound builder societies
21:17 Pre-contact metallurgy
22:24 Hopewell and Mississippian societies
24:06 Cities of the Southwest and Great Plains
25:43 The Northeast
27:05 The Southeast
27:51 The Great Plains
29:43 The Southwest
32:15 Indigenous migrations
33:06 The Great Basin
34:05 The Plateau
35:05 California
36:17 The Pacific Northwest Coast
37:26 The Alaskan Subarctic
38:23 The Alaskan Arctic
39:55 European contact and disease
46:35 Middle grounds and French colonialism
52:32 Spanish colonialism, Pueblo resistance, and Horses
57:07 Firearms, the Beaver Wars, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
01:01:26 Settler colonialism
01:06:35 English colonialism, settler violence, and Native resistance
01:09:57 250 years of colonialism
01:11:29 The Trans-Appalachian West and the US way of war
01:15:04 Deportations and the laws that made them
01:20:17 California missions
01:24:40 Texas and the Comanche
01:26:28 The Pacific Northwest fur trade and Russian colonialism
01:27:57 Westward expansion and violence
01:29:39 Extermination of the bison
01:31:17 The Dawes Act and allotment
01:33:44 Indian boarding schools
01:38:09 The Indian New Deal
01:41:09 Termination and relocation
01:44:33 Removal of Native children and ICWA
01:50:30 Sterilization of Native women
01:53:48 Red Power
01:56:54 Alaska Natives and ANCSA
01:59:27 Modern Indigenous sovereignty
02:00:57 Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
02:02:55 Conclusion
@martinrutley-wk5ds
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Ain't nobody got time for dis!
@ChillWill2050
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
AFRICANS peopled the Americas before any Asian migration!!! Stop mayo babbling lies
@cheesydawg371
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
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).
@cheesydawg371
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
The "Red Power" section of the video was a nice moment to breathe after the like 30-40 minutes of nonstop depression.
@MichaelFelton_2
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
It has been proven that horses were already here. Then they came from across the ocean later.
@BuckleGeoffrey
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
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@hilohahoma4107
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
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. ❤
@billsadler3
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
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!
@malcomshaw5962
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️🌠
@honestmoneyproductions7533
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
pretty sure it was chemical warfare
@bretcarr98
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Like and comment 👍💁♀️
@tboned70
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
It is Sick wat they are doing to the Native Populous,…..and I mean today as well as yesterday,…….Sad,
@huitzilinf_art
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Man, this is one of my favorite videos on the internet. I will definitely come back to this video just to watch and listen to the whole thing again. Great video, dude!
@krustysurfer
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Bravo! 🙌 Even though you are not indigenous and you cannot know/feel the pain of real indigenous ancestry history without living it, nonetheless you have a done a real fine job of exposing and enlightening people of the scope of atrocities committed against indigenous turtle islanders!
I appreciate you taking a stab at such a complex and diverse tapestry of injustice hatred genocide ethnic cleansing land theft and sorrow left by colonizing forces…
It is much like modern day Palestine and also other parts of the world where big business/corporatists/globalists royal and religious hierarchy appropriates lands people and resources to expand and gain more wealth and power.
They (indigenous turtle islanders) have survived, Palestinians will survive and humanity will survive whats coming for all mankind if we choose love and forgiveness…
These unholy perpetrators will be stopped and their system demolished never to be resurrected.
Justice will occur, tears will dry and rejoicing will take place! A'ho and Halleluyah!
Someday…
@markmorris3947
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Sorry. I had to stop your video. Too much self-righteous blame throwing in the section on disease. Facts are facts and I’m not arguing that, but I feel like your are just a pseudo intellectual , pontificating blame thrower. If you feel that strongly about the plight of indigenous peoples, and you should, then work a current solution and not a worn out blame throwing game. Quite frankly, I just got disgusted with your rant, makes as it was and could not listen to you any longer.
@veroland3768
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Indigena is someone that is indigenous in South America well in ecuador. Indio or India is used in a derogatory form to describe an indigenous person.
@siggetrygger1476
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
This deserves more views
@kiasax2
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Being Indigenous, specifically Aniyunwiya, and taught our language by my grandparents.
I've lost more family than we've replaced over the last 50 years. Though that's just the way it goes. At least, being a guy, I wasn't sterilized like many of my sisters were thanks to IHS. CREEPY F'ING DOCTORS!
I may have more to say later.
@nativeatheist6422
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
They call me Mad Dog…that is all.
@sproutgod1701
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Incredible, Every video there’s more quality to your work! I’m looking forwards to this series and can’t wait to see what becomes of it!
@snakycarnival9119
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
I watched part of this with my grandfather and he talked about how similar the boarding schools were with the schools he went to in Hawaii. That side of our family is native Hawaiian Portuguese.
Amazing video. I learned a lot.
@ocelotlmunoz2799
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Siyo! I'm Cherokee & this video was amazing imho. Got recommended from Ancient Americas channel because I'm always so excited to see in depth material about pretty much anything pre-columbian/native centric.
I think you did a great job presenting everthing accurately and not glossing over the terrible genocidal acts as many often do.
As for future topics, I'm personally biased towards anything to do with mound builder/SECC topics, especially how they morphed into the current tribal cultures we see today. And in a more niche direction; tattoo practices, clothing production/styles, and North/Central California Natives (I'm from Sacramento and the knowledge of Native peoples here is Abysmal sadly).
Looking forward to all the channel brings and thanks so much for your hard work ❤
@BigChap117
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Forced sterilization is such an abominable thing to do. Why not integrate people? Now America finds itself lacking in births. Ironic. Same thing was done in Puerto Rico and other territories.
@blinkrush6101
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
I can’t just use ‘indigenous’ though because I’m from a part of the world with its own indigenous groups, I’d need to add the specifier
@tinyelvenmitten1774
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Thank you so much for this video! I've loved your videos, especially on the North Western Cultures, but I'm looking forward to seeing anything you're going to cover in the future!
…And wow, I have no words as to how horrifying the whole colonial history of the Americas is just so nightmarishly horrible that I don't even have words…. I'm from Finland myself, so I didn't learn anything about this in school….
@joshmcdonald9592
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
new casinos nearer population centers along freeway corridors are putting older casinos out of business in sonoma and mendocino counties with incumbent hard feelings between tribal polities
@commiec0n721
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
America delenda est.
@D4Shahda
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Your a legend for taking the time to put this together for us. We have so much to learn
@stephentripi587
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
That was a very good and thorough video. I greatly appreciate watching it and learning so much from it.
@tactlacker
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
This presentation is invaluable and I am grateful this video was recommended to me
@EGSBiographies-om1wb
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
WOW Indigenous peoples where practicing conntrolled burning. California liberals need to know this.
@EGSBiographies-om1wb
September 27, 2024 at 2:09 pm
30th