This man is doing a good thing. It is important when you want to do a project that the community wants it done and that THEY can take the lead. It is important that the community feels value in the project. Keep putting the good indigenous videos going.
I love that people are keeping the history alive. Ancient walk ways are being lost all over the world and we need people like this guy to put in the hard yards to make them available once more.
History is always being created but also at the same time it is dying or being destroyed. It seems it is impossible pro protect many historical things. For example, many hate brutalist buildings and seek glass skyscrapers for modernization but this means with any demolishion work we erase historical and cultural heritage.
I may not be Native American, but I can only imagine how heartbreaking and infuriating it was for them to lose their land and the majority of their culture. I'm happy people like Big Story are helping bring these factors from complete extinction.
I am part of Cherokee Nation but have never been to Oklahoma. My grandfather left so my father and I were raised in California. Tahlequah is somewhere I have wanted to move for years now, but my partner is scared of getting hit by tornadoes. Does the northeast of Oklahoma get hit often? Specifically Tahlequah.
@@belaclaen It's beautiful there, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It's not flat and ugly like most of Oklahoma. Definitely visit before moving there, there aren't a lot of good jobs in the area so it can be hard to make a living.
I’m Slavic and I want to help this man find those trails. Heritage means a lot to me and the Native Americans deserve to have things like this preserved. I can’t find out mine easily so I would like to help them have theirs.
After so much has been taken from these people & their families, it's great that someone is finally giving back & helping them to regain themselves & their heritage.
This story really means a lot to my family, we all have Cherokee in our blood and this information is amazing, and it is amazing to know that people still care about their families and want to protect them.
Lunar Sun I see. I guess it doesn’t really count as much, then. You’d really have to do a DNA test to find out your percentages, because there’s a chance you might be more than one tribe.
@@aus-li That's not how it works either. If you have Cherokee ancestry it should be rather easy to find it in your genealogy. We are a thoroughly documented people. And there are no Cherokee reservations. The Cherokee Nation has a jurisdictional area and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (the people in the video) live in the Qualla Boundary, land we purchased ourselves (even though we already owned it).
quidohmi Well, you were kinda vague, so I was assuming, lol. I see. Although, there’s different races mixed with their blood, so nothing is 100%, and I guess it’s why they don’t rely on blood quantum levels.
In northwest indiana and northeast Illinois have old Indian trails we converted into roads. One of them near my house is called Sauk trail. I love driving down it cause it winds through the woods and swamps.
I was literally in Franklin NC Saturday for a wedding. We live in the Pisgah Nation Forest, about a 40 minute drive. It’s nice to be out in an area I’m not used to seeing everyday.
I have traced to my great-grandmother back to the Dawes Roll but have yet been able to find from where she started the long walk, She was only 16 at the time. This video was very soothing to me.
This is amazing what this man is doing! He’s bringing history back to the Cherokee people and they deserve to have their history preserved. He should also get Dr. Albert Lin from NatGeo to come out and use the LIDAR machine to find more trails.
damn it's hard to even know where to start when it comes to reparations for what was done to the natives over here, but this guy is certainly on a good track. I hope his work goes well
Wondering if he knows about Mapillary (crowdsourced street-level) photo mapping platform. Interfaces with OpenStreetMap (crowdsourced mapping platform).
Lamar- have you seen this map? I have an original of it. It has been used in litigating territorial disputes throughout the decades.It was made by George C. Royce who was the leading ethnologist of that time in cooperation with the Simthsonian Institute. Map of the former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee 'Nation of' Indians Exhibiting the Boundaries of the Various Cessions of Land Made by Them to the Colonies and the United States by Treaty Stipulations. From the Beginning of Their Relations with the Whites to the Date of Their Removal West of the Mississippi River. 1884 (dated) 29.25 x 32 in (74.295 x 81.28 cm)
Lot's of Native Americans walked the Appalachian trails. They threw Cherokee indians off the Appalachian mountains because, they were Indian. Real talk!
This man is doing a good thing. It is important when you want to do a project that the community wants it done and that THEY can take the lead. It is important that the community feels value in the project. Keep putting the good indigenous videos going.
I love that people are keeping the history alive. Ancient walk ways are being lost all over the world and we need people like this guy to put in the hard yards to make them available once more.
History is always being created but also at the same time it is dying or being destroyed. It seems it is impossible pro protect many historical things. For example, many hate brutalist buildings and seek glass skyscrapers for modernization but this means with any demolishion work we erase historical and cultural heritage.
I may not be Native American, but I can only imagine how heartbreaking and infuriating it was for them to lose their land and the majority of their culture. I'm happy people like Big Story are helping bring these factors from complete extinction.
Same goes for any other place in the world where indigenous/aboriginals were enslaved.
I'm a Cherokee citizen (from Tahelquah, OK) and I would LOOOOOOVE to see more about this. How 'bout doing a full documentary on this?
ᎥᎥ! There's a website but a full documentary would be great.
I am part of Cherokee Nation but have never been to Oklahoma. My grandfather left so my father and I were raised in California. Tahlequah is somewhere I have wanted to move for years now, but my partner is scared of getting hit by tornadoes. Does the northeast of Oklahoma get hit often? Specifically Tahlequah.
@@belaclaen It's beautiful there, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It's not flat and ugly like most of Oklahoma. Definitely visit before moving there, there aren't a lot of good jobs in the area so it can be hard to make a living.
@@AmandaTheJo ᏩᏙ! Glad to hear its in the hills.
I’m Slavic and I want to help this man find those trails. Heritage means a lot to me and the Native Americans deserve to have things like this preserved. I can’t find out mine easily so I would like to help them have theirs.
After so much has been taken from these people & their families, it's great that someone is finally giving back & helping them to regain themselves & their heritage.
THIS IS BRILLIANT!! SO GLAD to see Great Big Story lend its expertise and insights to stories like this in the US.
awww what a wonderfully sweet man, i could just hug him 💕
Native Americans are the most underrated and underacknowledged people on the North America
I doubt that, I think it goes for everywhere. Also, Canda treats the aboriginals better (education wise) than the natives in the US.
This story really means a lot to my family, we all have Cherokee in our blood and this information is amazing, and it is amazing to know that people still care about their families and want to protect them.
Do you live on a reservation, if I may ask?
@@aus-li no, but my very old ancestors were from cherokee tribes
Lunar Sun I see. I guess it doesn’t really count as much, then. You’d really have to do a DNA test to find out your percentages, because there’s a chance you might be more than one tribe.
@@aus-li That's not how it works either. If you have Cherokee ancestry it should be rather easy to find it in your genealogy. We are a thoroughly documented people.
And there are no Cherokee reservations. The Cherokee Nation has a jurisdictional area and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (the people in the video) live in the Qualla Boundary, land we purchased ourselves (even though we already owned it).
quidohmi Well, you were kinda vague, so I was assuming, lol.
I see. Although, there’s different races mixed with their blood, so nothing is 100%, and I guess it’s why they don’t rely on blood quantum levels.
In northwest indiana and northeast Illinois have old Indian trails we converted into roads. One of them near my house is called Sauk trail. I love driving down it cause it winds through the woods and swamps.
I was literally in Franklin NC Saturday for a wedding. We live in the Pisgah Nation Forest, about a 40 minute drive. It’s nice to be out in an area I’m not used to seeing everyday.
I have traced to my great-grandmother back to the Dawes Roll but have yet been able to find from where she started the long walk, She was only 16 at the time. This video was very soothing to me.
My great grandma was Cherokee! Her name was mahala!
This is amazing what this man is doing! He’s bringing history back to the Cherokee people and they deserve to have their history preserved. He should also get Dr. Albert Lin from NatGeo to come out and use the LIDAR machine to find more trails.
Thanks from 8th American Cherokee Citizen John Robert Bruffett Junior 🇺🇸🇺🇸😎😎🇺🇸🪖🇺🇸🪖🇺🇸🪖🪖🪖🇺🇸!
damn it's hard to even know where to start when it comes to reparations for what was done to the natives over here, but this guy is certainly on a good track. I hope his work goes well
Wondering if he knows about Mapillary (crowdsourced street-level) photo mapping platform. Interfaces with OpenStreetMap (crowdsourced mapping platform).
Wow, thank you GBS very cool
Beautiful, and please let tradition - sadly what ever is left - continue 🇨🇦
Lamar is giving the Cherokee their history back.
So cool!
This is amazing!
How can we get copies of Lamars work? Our family has cherokee lineage in WV and Ohio.
I’m a eastern band Cherokee Indian 😀
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Oh si yo
Osiyo
Lamar- have you seen this map? I have an original of it. It has been used in litigating territorial disputes throughout the decades.It was made by George C. Royce who was the leading ethnologist of that time in cooperation with the Simthsonian Institute.
Map of the former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee 'Nation of' Indians Exhibiting the Boundaries of the Various Cessions of Land Made by Them to the Colonies and the United States by Treaty Stipulations. From the Beginning of Their Relations with the Whites to the Date of Their Removal West of the Mississippi River.
1884 (dated) 29.25 x 32 in (74.295 x 81.28 cm)
We need to preserve these trails mmkay
Is this the Tallahassee Trail
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Lot's of Native Americans walked the Appalachian trails. They threw Cherokee indians off the Appalachian mountains because, they were Indian. Real talk!
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@Josh Stott That was the previous part unfortunately ☹️
Bruh sound effect #2
First one
Ugh
Modern Day W.F. Ganong.
Hey, I don't know what to say, and I'm cringing with these like comments. Hello.
Noice
But why though
Why what?
Well shoot, why stop there.. how about we try and preserve the trails ancient and sacred cave people or dinosaurs took.