I have lived 57 years just about where that second P is on that map and the only time I was gone was to join the Army.but when my time was up I got back in these mountains,and the only plans I ever have on leaving again is when The Good LORD calls me Home.
I've been all over this earth and I always end up comming back here. I am not ashamed of being from here and I know if it wasn't for my background. I would of never seen the rest of the world. I don't have no debt, enemies, nor regrets. I don't listen unto the rest of the world. It got itself in a big damn hurry and forgot how to live.
I'm Celtic too . I can't figure out how to put a picture on here...of me. I tried and don't see how.. it doesn't have a prompt...... Show me what you do to phot up.
My grandmother told me that Appalachia is the heart of the World. I believe that to this day. Just come here and meet the people that live here. You'll not find a better people on this Earth. If you are destitute and alone you'll not be when you come here. VA and WVA hold the highest caliber of human decency and tolerance.
We have our own dialect, our own music that beats like nothing else, we are the people that started this country. The power and wealth has raped and exploited this area and culture. The government does owe us believe it or not.
Shawn Hamlin no. Your not owed a damn. Like blacks today. No business was done w you thats owed..and no black today was enslaved who feels owed. We make our own beds these days. Try n get back on point.
@PS 400 there is many wonderful places on earth. i am glad you like yours. i still want to know why you say bullshit about mine is all. are you strong enough to be real. time will tell
Hunting deep in the East Tennessee Mountains for weeks at a time we moved deep into the hills , One time we ran into a Cherokee hunting camp so far back in the hills we knew we where the first to see this place in hundreds of years . A deep fire pit was still in the clearing they had cut out with three skin stand's still standing , Arrow heads where all over the grounds . We camped in the site with the utmost respect and the next morning leaving it just as we found it , Each one of us took one arrow head out of hundreds laying all over the place , It took us almost a year to decide if we should tell the Forest service or not plotting it on our map . We never did ! Burning the plotted map it was on one night drinking talking about it ,Now there are just three of us that know of this location along with the Cherokee spirit that we all felt that night that allowed us to enter. I think of this spot almost every night when going to bed . It effected me that much . I bet in one thousand years we could never find the place again . It was like a gift allowing us to witness one time and one time only . We still look at maps wondering if we could find it again when we planning our next hunting trips . We know it will never be seen again , Not by us anyways . Seeing this Video made me spill the beans so to say . Just something I couldn't hold back I thought someone else should hear about
thank you for your story..im from northeast Tennessee,almost the very tip..my grandfather (papaw) had a similar story about a rock & all around it were arrow heads that were broken or not exactly right..he said that they were over knee deep..he guessed that was where they made them at & the ones there were cast offs..im proud to be from these mountains..thanks again for your story..i love to hear stuff like that..you have made my day
This is beautiful/ thank you for sharing! I recently found out that my missing father’s grandmother was full Cherokee. In my heart, the kind of person I am, I relate to this! My grandmother used to take me to collect arrowheads - of course in a different part of the country. Still, it is this connection to Earth spirit that we all share. :)
If u ever remember never tell anyone it will be destroyed. I found a place like this in south west Virginia I've never told a sole how to get there. I still go from time to time when I need a break from life so peaceful. I might take my son one day when he's responsible enough on the other hand that day may never come and I'll take it to the grave.
This four-part series is really insightful and comprehensive, and it addresses the meeting and merging of disparate cultures ("the middle ground" or "the common ground") of Appalachia, i.e. how we came to be who we are. It is especially good in portraying the predominance of Cherokee on the east coast at the time of first contact. You will recognize many of narrators.
Just watched this. I am 1/2 German and 1/5 Swede. I grew up in WV and eventually enlisted in the AF. I served 6 of 21 years in the UK. My wife and I celebrated the new year in Ireland in 2001. I am a die hard Minnesota Viking fan and always wear a Viking cap. When we arrived in Ireland everybody kept saying "viking!" I thought they were Vikings fans not realizing the history of the Vikings in Ireland. Here's the weird part ... we secured a pub for the New Year celebration. When the clock dropped midnight ... guess the first song the Irish folks played in the pub? John Denver's Country Roads. I cried ...
Appalachia IS the heartbeat of what this country came to become, IN A GOOD WAY! Not in the underhanded way that politics has made this country to become.
There are many good people born in this part of the U.S. and if they like you and you are kind and real with them you got a REAL friend, they will help you and share their last piece of food with you.
I live in the mountians of tennessee born and raised hear ,and would not have it no other way, Let every thing shout down and me and my family will still trucking right a long.
Ms. Nurse, I have enjoyed your videos very much. I'm stuck in Raleigh, North Carolina where my family is from, but my heart is in the mountains to be sure. I've lived in the Boone area, around Deep Gap and Piney Grove, also in Gilmer County, West Virginia which is really in the hills (though it feels like the mountains). I have to admit that I am from the flatlands, but I feel like that was somehow a big mistake. Now I'm on a government disability and they feed me with a tiny spoon, dispute having worked all my life and now in my sixty's I have a couple of pretty significant health issues and can't see my way to getting out of this part of the country. It really sucks! Politically you and I are on the same page and I wonder, myself how long it'll be before the led starts to flyin', this country being in the shape it's in and a city like this is the last place I want to be if (when) that starts. I came up on a tobacco farm not too far from where I am now and living in the middle of a big city doesn't even feel natural to me. I live in a 37 ft. motor home now built in 1987 (the exact one as was in the series "Breaking Bad") and I'm in a parking lot three years now that I have no permission to be in. It's a huge place and the business that owns it doesn't care one way or another so I feel like I'm pretty safe for the moment, but one day I know I'll have to move and who knows where I'll end up. I'd like that place to be in the southern mountains of North Carolina, perhaps around Franklin or Murphy. It would be a pretty good fit for me. I blacksmithed most of my adult life, I play old time fiddle, plain living suits me best and I'm politically conservative, and I'd say in that regard I'd call myself a constitutionalist so I'd most likely have more then a few things in common with my neighbors if I could just get up there. Sadly, at this late date that doesn't seem like it'll ever happen so l suppose I'll have to continue to watch these Appalachian mountain related videos and derive what contentment I can from them and be as happy as I can be with that. Just wanted you to know that I agree with the things I've heard you talk about and I like the videos. I hope you'll keep them coming. Thanks!
buds for you making Popcorn feel like he needed to leave this earth, many, many people made money of his plain old lifestyle, shame on em. We now have over 1000 legal stills, wow, Popcorn I miss your big old blue eyes and the way you could buck dance. Moonshine cherries from the cherrie trees in your yard, canned jelly’s from your wonderful wife.
I went to Washington DC to accept an award from my job in the early 90s. While waiting and wanting to get some history about this part of the country, my brother and I took advantage of our time, traveling through Virginia and West Virginia. What amazingly beautiful country, an amazing part of America. We spent a lot of time visiting many of the recreated Native American villages occupied by actors who lived as these tribes and peoples lived. Interesting and intelligent hard working people. It was one of the most interesting trips about that part of America I ever had to experience many of the tools and artifacts from that time gave me a greater appreciation of the difficult times our ancestors and the native peoples faced, giving also a greater love for nature and the natural beauty of our country and the hardships and courage of our ancestors. I wish archeologists would spend more time with the history of our Country. Although we certainly must be considered blessed to live in America in such prosperous and great times we also have an awesome history to explore with much to learn about and good reason to each back and learn from terrible mistakes that are affecting us all in great but troublesome times.
Thanks for sharing this background information on Appalachia. My family traces its roots through this area and eventually on to Texas. When I look back on this fascinating area I am enraged by the acts of Andrew Jackson who used The Trail of Tears to expel the Cherokee and others from their homeland.
Many Appalachian Mountain folk also moved west and settled the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains Of Arkansas,Missouri,& Eastern Oklahoma. My ancestors came from Northern Georgia before coming to Arkansas.
Some gr grandfather of mine came from Wales and married a Cherokee lady; my gr grandma. People of mixed ancestry in E. and S. Kentucky are common. My sister married a man who was also mixed. lol, we always rooted for the Indians on cowboy movies.
The narrator failed to mention the fact that northern Alabama & Georgia are also part of Appalachia. I live on Sand Mountain in NE AL, an area of Appalachia known as the Cumberland Plateau. For some reason, conditions are perfect for spawning tornadoes here. They're studying this right now. In 1908, a possible F5 tornado destroyed half of my hometown of Albertville AL, killing 35 people just in Albertville alone. Anyway, I'm proud to be a hillbilly. We're extremely resilient because we've had to be.
My Great , great Grandmother was a Cherokee. My Great great grandfather was from Ireland. Appalachia is the only place we can make a connection with them. Story has it that he found our grandmother with a rope around her neck at a trading post. He traded a horse for her. I wish we could find out anything about this. My mother is 83 yrs old and the remaining member of her generation. If anyone knows any stories of the family I would appreciate it. His name was J. W. O'Connor. I assume the name was probably Joseph William. As all of our family is catholic and most of the men were named Joseph, William, Or Patrick. A lot of middle names includes Henry. Mom cannot remember her name as she was always called "Granny" by all. I grew up listening to GRANDPA all his brothers and sisters, cousins playing mountain music. There was not an instrument that wasn't played by one or the other. Grandpa played the harmonica. If ANYONE out there can offer any info, or knows anyone who can, I am on FB . Brenda Sullivan - Worthville/ Carrollton ky. Thank you and Blessings to all.
I thank God every day for my scotts-irish and Cherokee nation we are strong in spirit and hard too keep down !@ we won't give up. My pappy married a beautiful woman a Cherokee woman.
Me too! I was born in Prestonsburg, KY where my father was from. My dad married my mom when he was stationed in Korea, brought us back home. They divorced when I was 9, we moved to Chicago. This video blessed my heritage. I always wondered how was I Cherokee, Scottish/Irish. ❤️
Imagine buying a big piece of land and start a clan the cherokee way, still have jobs and live a modern life, but doing it in cherokee spirit, that would be awesome
I take offense to that, Cherokee Scott's Irish here,. I would like to know if you know why that is so. ... I'd bet 2 bucks you don't know much of anything.
My family is from a town called “big stone gap” believe it’s right in the area you’re all speaking of. I could be wrong, I’m an Indiana native born and raised. My grandparents moved here for work in the 90’s
@@User-1543 Big Stone Gap is in Virginia but it's right on the line of Southern West Virginia. I spent the night in jail there over a bar fight, lol, back in my wilder days.I grew up in Boone County WV.
I am from the Hanging Dog Creek section of Cherokee County , North Carolina, but now live in the Philippines. We were poor people , but we never knew it. I still miss hearing cow bells, and going to a spring for a bucket of water.
To hell with banks and landlords. I'm a-headed for the hills for these crazy times to live in the woods to live in the woods in parts unknown, where no banks are owed and people leve you alne
I wish someone would talk about north Georgia .i live in blue ridge ga. I will always love these mountains. I will die here .people call us hillbillies that is something I am proud of.
Daniel Cruse this maybe because Ga doesn't belong to the Appalachia chain of mountains, for this is a story about the Appalachian area. Hillbillys all over the land but not appalachian people. That's what makes us different.
Emily jennings I grew up the hard way .if u did not have a garden u went hungry.we were so poor one Christmas all we had to eat was water gravy no milk. I came from a big family there was seven kids .my dad would not work so mom went to work to privode what she could for us.people these days don't know what hard times are.i learned to cook when I was seven years old had to to eat.
Daniel Cruse I'm sorry. I understand I grew up in East Tennessee and we grew a garden to because mom fed us veggies during summer. We grew cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, corn, beans, just to name a few. I'm only 27, and we struggled very hard in the apps. So I understand where you come from. I'm from the Cumberland gap and we have a high amount of Molungin DNA you should check it out. A group of secret people no one can find where they come from but one thing they know is they have native American dna and African dna the rest is uncertain. Some sag Spanish or Portuguese. Very interesting when you think about this documentary. Be good to thy neighbor.
Emily jennings I will always be good to my neighbors because they are good to me.what I don't understand is people moving here from Florida ,and Atlanta and want to change things like where they moved from.
Daniel Cruse I hear ya!!! Some of my family moved from Dekalb Co. in extreme NE AL to Rome in NW GA. We get neglected a lot in documentaries about Appalachia, but we're still part of it.
On my mama's side there are Gibson's, Stewart's, MacRae's all intermarried with Cherokee, On my dad's side it's fully old Irish: Magauran, Maguire, O'Cannon, O'Gallagher, O'Carroll. The clans all get along famously. My mom's side are all southern Baptist preachers, and my dad's side are all Catholic.The music keeps everyone together.
I say have the faith means your have meany blessing then gold or any money anyone could buy. I feel rich knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. He gives me the most happiness and one could ever want.Peace of mind and love to all.
My family is from the northern Appalachians. All coal miners. Most died of coal-dust related diseases before the age of 50 and left families behind. Tell me again how terrible socialism is and how mine owners had every right to exploit these people to death and invest absolutely nothing in their communities. I am so tired of people from this region so brainwashed that they unproblematically celebrate the near-slavery of their ancestors and genuflect at the altar of predatory capitalism. Thank God we has the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania and managed to show at least a little backbone.
All the coal miners agreed to work in the coal mines knowing what the dangers were so don't go around blaming the coal companies for the bad choices you and your family made! The coal companies are in business to make money just like any other company, and if they were not there what would you and your family do? You would have found another way to make a living, so you did have other choices. I am tired of people always claiming to be a victim of someone else and always blaming others for their shitty life! Grow up and get over yourself!!!
@@robertanthony9674 ive nevef been to the southern states but neither have you. Sick of people like you who blame victims when you have no concept of what they live thru... Just another trump bully
Embrace the rich history which intertwined the lives of many. This Appalachian culture still thrives in society at the foothills of those Appalachian Mountains.
My name is Sullivan I have always been drawn to the mountains of north Carolina and Tennessee it seems that I have a kinship with the people l know some of my ancestors married Indian women I always feel at peace when I am there I hope the mountains and people never change
@@stanley8441 My dad told my sister that his fami;y that were Cherokee took white names because all the Cherokees were being killed . When he was born in 1913 he wasnt a citizen untill 1923 .
Born and raised in the hills of Kentucky, I be here till death … and leave a little of my spirt in the hollows of the farm.. I never was ashamed of where I came from, my family work hard and play harder..but it has been a good life, a little hard at times and wasn’t for sure if we eat tomorrow.. but I wouldn’t trade my life for any other… I got a good education and stay here… while most of my family move away…but this is my home and this where I work at…. The hills will always be home for me…
im a yankee and moved down here almost ten yrs ago.. but i grew up in the woods and once people here got to know me, they call me piney now, i guess thats what i was raised.. and the first song on this vid was one of the first songs i learned on guitar. my family lived up north but our town had no cops, everybody used to make liquor jam out and hunt.. i hate the fkn rat race up north, n rather eat shit than live in a city
Just as the Cherokee, here in Maine the lower Numbegan Micmac accepted others into our family groups, you did not need to marry in, just agree to live in peace and exchange ideas and skills respectful of our ideas and skills.
@@jameshutchins6077 I wish I knew more about her but she died of tuberculosis along with her new baby leaving 3 children and her husband behind. I just felt a sense of connection to that side of the tree because of some stories I was told about her. She was an orphan raised in a Catholic orphanage and married a man of French descent. I saw a picture of her and was told I resembled her since I have a darker complexion. I do believe in living simple and being respectful of our earth and other people but have failed in many areas. I hope I can learn from my faults to be compassionate and tender hearted to others as God is to me in my journey. Thanks for responding to me! I wonder if we're related? My great grandmother came from Vermont. I know the Abenaki tribe is widespread up in New England and some in Canada.
Michelle Behr right now I am semi-retired living in Korat, Thailand. As soon as my wife gets her green card we will travel to the states. Write me at James_hutchins@icloud.com and I will certainly respond. I write stories as a pastime and very willing to share. I have several readers around the world.
Saw a documentary that said the hardest part of the trek west in the early days of the nation was not the Rocky mountains but the Appalachia mountains. The reason is the straight up and down grade you have to traverse.
@Sheridan Isashitstain Yeah, Johnny's name was told in the Part 2 :) I recognized the voice, though not the man by his looks in his old age. This footage is not long before his death, I watched the video Hurt, where he looks pretty much like this.
Educational Films - an American Classic ! Back in the day, they were actual films, and it was always a challenge for teachers to get the machine working! Clicking and clacking, hopefully it didn't jam or rip the film strip. I wonder if anyone wants to digitize the old Slides too ? Loading up a spool of slide pictures, and playing the audio on cassette tapes, with a 'beep!' or silent beep that advanced the pictures. I would love to see all those old collections preserved for History, digitized and uploaded to the internet.
Where do I come to I ready hate the city love the country I am from the south and spent a lot of my childhood in the country and now I am stuck in this pitiful western desert allways wanted a place there but dont no anyone
I've never felt closer to being complete than when I was at a family function with a hillbilly family. They will love you and help heal you in any way they can. But purposely hurt one and your outcome isn't going to be pretty.
my First Sargent heard me talking one day while we was out in the Desert near New Mexico and he asked me where bouts I was from? when I told him that I was born in a little Town called Bluefield WVA .he said he thought I had got off the boat with Davy Crockett.lol
Sad story, the same sad story happened to the place I left behind. Some rich people came to my village, cut all the trees, dig all the golds and copper and leave the people in poverty.
The mountain people are much like our Newfoundlanders long days back breaking work. Pants patched worn boots and faces old before their time. Villages separated by miles of sea.
same here in the Adirondacks in NY, and the mountains from here through VT, NH, and up to Maine but people ignore us so that works fine. The state parks contained within the mtn ranges are great in preventing devastation, but still towns have suffered when paper mills , granite, garnet, and rock mines, and logging jobs have decreased. Many towns have one tiny school and lunches come from a local restaurant. The mountains all the way up were settled by Indians, and Scots married into the tribes, as in my family. One thing that is ignored is that inbreeding is a serious problem still in some areas. My husband has Cherokee ancesters. Cherokee had black slaves, and as far as who can be Cherokee, if the surname is not on the old roles from the Eastern Band from those who went into the small rez in NC or the Dawes roles of the Western Band from the Trail of Tears out to Oklahoma, then you have no claim to tribal membership. My husband's relatives escaped the Trail of Tears and hid in the mtns in NC and refused to go into the rez, therefore have no tribal recognition but they know who they are and do just fine, particularly since they were not slaveholders like the rest of the tribe. Over the past few years the Western Band reclaimed tribal land they had been forced to give their slaves after the Civil War. (they brought them out in The Trail of Tears, a part of African American history that few have any knowledge of) .The slaves families had lived there and intermarried into the tribe but slaves were property and not on the Dawes roles, so they were pulled off the land as having no claim.
We have remnants of this type of culture in remote rural Australia, though it is not the USA, obviously. We even ding and play some of the same music.... Must be the common roots all these types of settlers to places like Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand etc all originated from. Here, the traditional culture was taught in schools in the Bush, sometimes over the radio or passed down through generations who taught the young people how to do the dances, song the songs etc. I came from a European background but they could relate to this culture readily and enjoy and adopt it, even though they often had language communication problems. They would just jump in and try to dance the dances, play the music etc, sometimes getting it wrong, which then added an interesting new interpretation to it, which became absorbed into the original version. So, the cultures of the existing people blended with those of newcomers wanting to fit into it very naturally and easily. Though some European kids felt very embarrassed watching European parents trying to dance these dances and getting them not quite as they ought to be done.
My Dads folks hail frm Asheville Appalachia, Eastern Cherokee. Proud of this Heritage.
I have lived 57 years just about where that second P is on that map and the only time I was gone was to join the Army.but when my time was up I got back in these mountains,and the only plans I ever have on leaving again is when The Good LORD calls me Home.
I've been all over this earth and I always end up comming back here. I am not ashamed of being from here and I know if it wasn't for my background. I would of never seen the rest of the world. I don't have no debt, enemies, nor regrets. I don't listen unto the rest of the world. It got itself in a big damn hurry and forgot how to live.
I'm Celtic too .
I can't figure out how to put a picture on here...of me. I tried and don't see how.. it doesn't have a prompt......
Show me what you do to phot up.
I live just fine and I speak English without the use of double-negatives. Also, it's to and not unto.
Ralph yes, it’s a stereotype that we mountain folk are uneducated
You must have engaged in creative acitivities as a kid to grow Into such a mature person, im guessing you were a fiction reader
I live in south Florida, but I originally came from the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. Very proud of my heritage.
Gilliam Lewis I also like in Florida and am proud too.
:) my grandma was born there as well
My blood flows in the mountains and hills of the Appalachian my heart crys to go home,
I love that they brought their music from Ireland Scotland Germany and made it there own.
My grandmother told me that Appalachia is the heart of the World. I believe that to this day. Just come here and meet the people that live here. You'll not find a better people on this Earth. If you are destitute and alone you'll not be when you come here. VA and WVA hold the highest caliber of human decency and tolerance.
God bless. Appalachian. People
I’m from West Virginia, thanks for the kind words.
We have our own dialect, our own music that beats like nothing else, we are the people that started this country. The power and wealth has raped and exploited this area and culture. The government does owe us believe it or not.
Shawn Hamlin no. Your not owed a damn. Like blacks today. No business was done w you thats owed..and no black today was enslaved who feels owed. We make our own beds these days. Try n get back on point.
"This is the story a land shaped by the people and a people shaped by the land" . Isn'it marvellous and so poetic!!!!!!
I want to thank you for posting this documentary. I am really enjoying it. Thanks 😊 again.
Appalachian people are more rich than a millionaire. Their hearts & souls are rich that lived off the land self sufficiently.
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been all over world and none compare and i am glad most are scared of us. see there is two above me here wishing they could enjoy it.
@@simpleton8554 why?
@PS 400 why? tell us where you learned this
@PS 400 there is many wonderful places on earth. i am glad you like yours. i still want to know why you say bullshit about mine is all. are you strong enough to be real. time will tell
My family has been here since the very early 1800’s. Proud Appalachian Mountain family.
Hunting deep in the East Tennessee Mountains for weeks at a time we moved deep into the hills , One time we ran into a Cherokee hunting camp so far back in the hills we knew we where the first to see this place in hundreds of years . A deep fire pit was still in the clearing they had cut out with three skin stand's still standing , Arrow heads where all over the grounds . We camped in the site with the utmost respect and the next morning leaving it just as we found it , Each one of us took one arrow head out of hundreds laying all over the place , It took us almost a year to decide if we should tell the Forest service or not plotting it on our map . We never did ! Burning the plotted map it was on one night drinking talking about it ,Now there are just three of us that know of this location along with the Cherokee spirit that we all felt that night that allowed us to enter. I think of this spot almost every night when going to bed . It effected me that much . I bet in one thousand years we could never find the place again . It was like a gift allowing us to witness one time and one time only . We still look at maps wondering if we could find it again when we planning our next hunting trips . We know it will never be seen again , Not by us anyways . Seeing this Video made me spill the beans so to say . Just something I couldn't hold back I thought someone else should hear about
thank you for your story..im from northeast Tennessee,almost the very tip..my grandfather (papaw) had a similar story about a rock & all around it were arrow heads that were broken or not exactly right..he said that they were over knee deep..he guessed that was where they made them at & the ones there were cast offs..im proud to be from these mountains..thanks again for your story..i love to hear stuff like that..you have made my day
This is beautiful/ thank you for sharing! I recently found out that my missing father’s grandmother was full Cherokee. In my heart, the kind of person I am, I relate to this! My grandmother used to take me to collect arrowheads - of course in a different part of the country. Still, it is this connection to Earth spirit that we all share. :)
If u ever remember never tell anyone it will be destroyed. I found a place like this in south west Virginia I've never told a sole how to get there. I still go from time to time when I need a break from life so peaceful. I might take my son one day when he's responsible enough on the other hand that day may never come and I'll take it to the grave.
bloodyBill I call bull$#!+.
@@theoriginaljoeschmoe5987 take your ass out in the woods sometime explore there every where u just have to go looking ant gonna find it watching tv
These people are far from stupid as stereotypes would have us believe. Wisdom comes in many forms.
Survivors!
That’s the difference between intelligence and smarts.....I’d take smarts every time.
This four-part series is really insightful and comprehensive, and it addresses the meeting and merging of disparate cultures ("the middle ground" or "the common ground") of Appalachia, i.e. how we came to be who we are. It is especially good in portraying the predominance of Cherokee on the east coast at the time of first contact. You will recognize many of narrators.
Just watched this. I am 1/2 German and 1/5 Swede. I grew up in WV and eventually enlisted in the AF. I served 6 of 21 years in the UK. My wife and I celebrated the new year in Ireland in 2001. I am a die hard Minnesota Viking fan and always wear a Viking cap. When we arrived in Ireland everybody kept saying "viking!" I thought they were Vikings fans not realizing the history of the Vikings in Ireland. Here's the weird part ... we secured a pub for the New Year celebration. When the clock dropped midnight ... guess the first song the Irish folks played in the pub? John Denver's Country Roads. I cried ...
I am so proud and honored my ancestry and bloodline runs through Kentucky and Eastern Appalachia.
Appalachia IS the heartbeat of what this country came to become, IN A GOOD WAY! Not in the underhanded way that politics has made this country to become.
Don't forget the Seneca tribe. They are a part of the Iroquois nation and lived in the Alleghenies!
What about the Abenaki?
The Cherokee and Melungun as well.
My uncle was from w Virginia,my aunt Italian, what awesome home made wine , they made 😎✌️🇺🇸
Appalachian American I am proud to be.
Knew a bunch of kids named Gearheart growing up in Roanoke VA. My mother was from Floyd county Virginia.
If an Appalachian is your friend they will be your friend for life. If you ever betray this friendship you will regret it.
Chump Johnson yep, I agree. A friend for life or if betrayed, I wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire. Lol
Then they dab on you?
How's that? 😕will they Beat me up? 😩😩🙎🙎🙎🙎🐇🐇🐇👐👐👐
@@captainamericaamerica8090 Bless your heart. Lots of things dissapear in these mountains
@@g24thinf just make sure you bring your beer cans down with you. Don't want to leave anything behind. 😉
How wonderful to see my land and my people represented in this way.
Linda Fields jjjj
There are many good people born in this part of the U.S. and if they like you and you are kind and real with them you got a REAL friend, they will help you and share their last piece of food with you.
I live in the mountians of tennessee born and raised hear ,and would not have it no other way, Let every thing shout down and me and my family will still trucking right a long.
middle tennessee hills here. you right no other place i'd rather be....
Grace Catz Southwestern West Virginia here. There isn't anywhere as great as living in the mountains.
@@johnyoung468 we indeed live in the best places.
East Tn mtns here and so very proud.
North Alabama hillbilly here...rock on brother
Ms. Nurse, I have enjoyed your videos very much. I'm stuck in Raleigh, North Carolina where my family is from, but my heart is in the mountains to be sure. I've lived in the Boone area, around Deep Gap and Piney Grove, also in Gilmer County, West Virginia which is really in the hills (though it feels like the mountains). I have to admit that I am from the flatlands, but I feel like that was somehow a big mistake. Now I'm on a government disability and they feed me with a tiny spoon, dispute having worked all my life and now in my sixty's I have a couple of pretty significant health issues and can't see my way to getting out of this part of the country. It really sucks! Politically you and I are on the same page and I wonder, myself how long it'll be before the led starts to flyin', this country being in the shape it's in and a city like this is the last place I want to be if (when) that starts. I came up on a tobacco farm not too far from where I am now and living in the middle of a big city doesn't even feel natural to me. I live in a 37 ft. motor home now built in 1987 (the exact one as was in the series "Breaking Bad") and I'm in a parking lot three years now that I have no permission to be in. It's a huge place and the business that owns it doesn't care one way or another so I feel like I'm pretty safe for the moment, but one day I know I'll have to move and who knows where I'll end up. I'd like that place to be in the southern mountains of North Carolina, perhaps around Franklin or Murphy. It would be a pretty good fit for me. I blacksmithed most of my adult life, I play old time fiddle, plain living suits me best and I'm politically conservative, and I'd say in that regard I'd call myself a constitutionalist so I'd most likely have more then a few things in common with my neighbors if I could just get up there. Sadly, at this late date that doesn't seem like it'll ever happen so l suppose I'll have to continue to watch these Appalachian mountain related videos and derive what contentment I can from them and be as happy as I can be with that. Just wanted you to know that I agree with the things I've heard you talk about and I like the videos. I hope you'll keep them coming. Thanks!
Start taking black seed oil or silver water. It will all ur problems. Terry
Two things ruined my stomping grounds. Railways and tourists.
buds for you making Popcorn feel like he needed to leave this earth, many, many people made money of his plain old lifestyle, shame on em. We now have over 1000 legal stills, wow, Popcorn I miss your big old blue eyes and the way you could buck dance. Moonshine cherries from the cherrie trees in your yard, canned jelly’s from your wonderful wife.
@@normam.atchley9856 Norma, what on earth are you trying to say?
@@Chloe_xoxo_123 she says she knew "Popcorn" Willie Sutton on a personal level. If you dont know who he was just Google his name.
I live at the upper end of The Appalachians in New Brunswick, Canada.
so glad i grew up in the mountains of southwest Pennsylvania. I love these mountains and the people
I went to Washington DC to accept an award from my job in the early 90s. While waiting and wanting to get some history about this part of the country, my
brother and I took advantage of our time, traveling through Virginia and West Virginia. What amazingly beautiful country, an amazing part of America. We spent a lot of time visiting many of the recreated Native American villages occupied by actors who lived as these tribes and peoples lived. Interesting and intelligent hard working people. It was one of the most interesting trips about that part of America I ever had to experience many of the tools and artifacts from that time gave me a greater appreciation of the difficult times our ancestors and the native peoples
faced, giving also a greater love for nature and the natural beauty of our country and the hardships and courage of our ancestors. I wish archeologists would spend more time with the history of our Country. Although we certainly must be considered blessed to live in America in such prosperous and great times we also have an awesome history to explore with much to learn about and good reason to each back and learn from terrible mistakes that are affecting us all in great but troublesome times.
Thanks for sharing this background information on Appalachia. My family traces its roots through this area and eventually on to Texas. When I look back on this fascinating area I am enraged by the acts of Andrew Jackson who used The Trail of Tears to expel the Cherokee and others from their homeland.
Thank you for putting this out there.
Many Appalachian Mountain folk also moved west and settled the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains Of Arkansas,Missouri,& Eastern Oklahoma. My ancestors came from Northern Georgia before coming to Arkansas.
Some gr grandfather of mine came from Wales and married a Cherokee lady; my gr grandma.
People of mixed ancestry in E. and S. Kentucky are common. My sister married a man who was also mixed.
lol, we always rooted for the Indians on cowboy movies.
Jenny Lee they were always goin to lose buddy
Irish, Cherokee and Pammunkey right here
Scott's irish and Cherokee here !! West Virginia born and raised just like all my generations before me !!
Same here all the down in N. Carolina, Georgia mountains!
My Harris ancestors were Welsh. :)
I purchased this total video program to show my appreciation for it's superb quality.
The narrator failed to mention the fact that northern Alabama & Georgia are also part of Appalachia. I live on Sand Mountain in NE AL, an area of Appalachia known as the Cumberland Plateau. For some reason, conditions are perfect for spawning tornadoes here. They're studying this right now. In 1908, a possible F5 tornado destroyed half of my hometown of Albertville AL, killing 35 people just in Albertville alone. Anyway, I'm proud to be a hillbilly. We're extremely resilient because we've had to be.
Rebel Yell from Scots-Irish in London. Derry to Virginia via Glasgow. God bless Patrick Cleburne.
My Great , great Grandmother was a Cherokee. My Great great grandfather was from Ireland. Appalachia is the only place we can make a connection with them. Story has it that he found our grandmother with a rope around her neck at a trading post. He traded a horse for her. I wish we could find out anything about this. My mother is 83 yrs old and the remaining member of her generation. If anyone knows any stories of the family I would appreciate it. His name was J. W. O'Connor. I assume the name was probably Joseph William. As all of our family is catholic and most of the men were named Joseph, William, Or Patrick. A lot of middle names includes Henry. Mom cannot remember her name as she was always called "Granny" by all. I grew up listening to GRANDPA all his brothers and sisters, cousins playing mountain music. There was not an instrument that wasn't played by one or the other. Grandpa played the harmonica. If ANYONE out there can offer any info, or knows anyone who can, I am on FB . Brenda Sullivan - Worthville/ Carrollton ky. Thank you and Blessings to all.
I thank God every day for my scotts-irish and Cherokee nation we are strong in spirit and hard too keep down !@ we won't give up. My pappy married a beautiful woman a Cherokee woman.
Me too! I was born in Prestonsburg, KY where my father was from. My dad married my mom when he was stationed in Korea, brought us back home. They divorced when I was 9, we moved to Chicago. This video blessed my heritage. I always wondered how was I Cherokee, Scottish/Irish. ❤️
Though I’m thousands of miles away the music brings me home.
Imagine buying a big piece of land and start a clan the cherokee way, still have jobs and live a modern life, but doing it in cherokee spirit, that would be awesome
I take offense to that, Cherokee Scott's Irish here,. I would like to know if you know why that is so. ... I'd bet 2 bucks you don't know much of anything.
@@crowsister1 imagine being offended by mere words. You ma'am, are not the brightest kitten in the microwave.
I grew up in West Virginia I'm guessing that I'm a very lucky man to grew up in West Virginia a Hillbilly proud but not stupid
I grew up in southern WV, right on the Ky Va line. I’m glad I was blessed to grow up here.
Todd Browning... Same here buddy.. Grew up in a little place called Turkey Creek, Ky right on the Tug Fork River across the river from Crum, W.V.
My family is from a town called “big stone gap” believe it’s right in the area you’re all speaking of. I could be wrong, I’m an Indiana native born and raised. My grandparents moved here for work in the 90’s
@@User-1543 Big Stone Gap is in Virginia but it's right on the line of Southern West Virginia. I spent the night in jail there over a bar fight, lol, back in my wilder days.I grew up in Boone County WV.
I don't know if y'all still around but ain't that part of the world Hatfield and McCoy country?
very interesting, a part of american construction, our ancestors were there, we are europeen, we are american; god bless us all Love,Jéhan
Saw a prize bumper sticker that suits me just fine " At least I'm not a flatlander!" =)
my parents moved from Appalachia to ohio.l moved back there when l was old enough.still here and aint moving nowhere else.
I grew up just across the the mountain from you
Still kept your internet access though.
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I am from the Hanging Dog Creek section of Cherokee County , North Carolina, but now live in the Philippines. We were poor people , but we never knew it. I still miss hearing cow bells, and going to a spring for a bucket of water.
Appalachian life was just fine, until the greedy Corporatists took advantage.
Fracking is destroying it all.
Thank god for my hillbilly roots poor but free
They aint "POOR" theys FREE!!! and at PEACE....Doggone hard ta be at peace or FREE when them Dang bankers breathing down yer neck.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Me too...
. . . and inspired by the likes of the stanley bros.
To hell with banks and landlords. I'm a-headed for the hills for these crazy times to live in the woods to live in the woods in parts unknown, where no banks are owed and people leve you alne
william wells I Agree 100 percent ! They were the best. They still can't be beat.
Im talking about the Stanley Brothers.
The Appalachian people and their way of life I would imagine this is what heaven is like
Lee Bailey it’s as close as you will get in this life!
I hope not .these people had really hard lives
Hunger and poverty lack of education and generations of drug and alcohol abuse is a hard life. No way of getting out less by luck
I live in southern wv and life is what you make it ❤
More like what hell is like. There is nothing easy or good about Appalachian life. It's short, hard, poor, and miserable.
Love the Appalachia people ...i live outside of Lexington Kentucky
I get madder than hell when people talk about my home then I smile they don't know what's good and pure in life
I’m so proud to have just a little bit of Scots blood in me.
I wish someone would talk about north Georgia .i live in blue ridge ga. I will always love these mountains. I will die here .people call us hillbillies that is something I am proud of.
Daniel Cruse this maybe because Ga doesn't belong to the Appalachia chain of mountains, for this is a story about the Appalachian area. Hillbillys all over the land but not appalachian people. That's what makes us different.
Emily jennings I grew up the hard way .if u did not have a garden u went hungry.we were so poor one Christmas all we had to eat was water gravy no milk. I came from a big family there was seven kids .my dad would not work so mom went to work to privode what she could for us.people these days don't know what hard times are.i learned to cook when I was seven years old had to to eat.
Daniel Cruse I'm sorry. I understand I grew up in East Tennessee and we grew a garden to because mom fed us veggies during summer. We grew cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, corn, beans, just to name a few. I'm only 27, and we struggled very hard in the apps. So I understand where you come from. I'm from the Cumberland gap and we have a high amount of Molungin DNA you should check it out. A group of secret people no one can find where they come from but one thing they know is they have native American dna and African dna the rest is uncertain. Some sag Spanish or Portuguese. Very interesting when you think about this documentary. Be good to thy neighbor.
Emily jennings I will always be good to my neighbors because they are good to me.what I don't understand is people moving here from Florida ,and Atlanta and want to change things like where they moved from.
Daniel Cruse I hear ya!!! Some of my family moved from Dekalb Co. in extreme NE AL to Rome in NW GA. We get neglected a lot in documentaries about Appalachia, but we're still part of it.
Checking in from Sand Mountain......love God and country, hunting, fishing and blue grass music.
On my mama's side there are Gibson's, Stewart's, MacRae's all intermarried with Cherokee, On my dad's side it's fully old Irish: Magauran, Maguire, O'Cannon, O'Gallagher, O'Carroll. The clans all get along famously. My mom's side are all southern Baptist preachers, and my dad's side are all Catholic.The music keeps everyone together.
I say have the faith means your have meany blessing then gold or any money anyone could buy. I feel rich knowing the Lord Jesus Christ. He gives me the most happiness and one could ever want.Peace of mind and love to all.
Snowpink6663 Fine Amen and again I say Amen brothers and sisters mine.
Well said Amen Sister!
I have so enjoyed this. Thank you so much!
My family is from the northern Appalachians. All coal miners. Most died of coal-dust related diseases before the age of 50 and left families behind. Tell me again how terrible socialism is and how mine owners had every right to exploit these people to death and invest absolutely nothing in their communities. I am so tired of people from this region so brainwashed that they unproblematically celebrate the near-slavery of their ancestors and genuflect at the altar of predatory capitalism. Thank God we has the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania and managed to show at least a little backbone.
Ruadh MacBradaigh yeah, no socialism sucks. No nazis or commies. That’s just unAmerican. I’m of Irish descent. Thanks.
All the coal miners agreed to work in the coal mines knowing what the dangers were so don't go around blaming the coal companies for the bad choices you and your family made!
The coal companies are in business to make money just like any other company, and if they were not there what would you and your family do? You would have found another way to make a living, so you did have other choices.
I am tired of people always claiming to be a victim of someone else and always blaming others for their shitty life! Grow up and get over yourself!!!
But...jobs!
@@robertanthony9674 Wow, you are one ignorant piece of dirt.
@@robertanthony9674 ive nevef been to the southern states but neither have you. Sick of people like you who blame victims when you have no concept of what they live thru... Just another trump bully
ps: Canadian "East Appalachia" as it comes out of Maine, turns into lower mountains covered in pines. It's extremely foggy up there.
Do anyone know the song at the very beginning of this video? I mean at 0:00. It's awesome!
Embrace the rich history which intertwined the lives of many. This Appalachian culture still thrives in society at the foothills of those Appalachian Mountains.
There's much left .every one l now loves your music.including hard brokers .they all
Ways wind up dancen and talk in
My name is Sullivan I have always been drawn to the mountains of north Carolina and Tennessee it seems that I have a kinship with the people l know some of my ancestors married Indian women I always feel at peace when I am there I hope the mountains and people never change
My Great grandfather was Scott Irish my great grandmother Cherokee my mom irish
What was the other side of the family?
Mine too!
i asked a Kentuckian what is your nationality, he said "American'
And the Kentuckian was correct.
I dont get it
@@stanley8441 Ye ain't from 'round here are ye?
He's a DEPLORABLE.
@@stanley8441 My dad told my sister that his fami;y that were Cherokee took white names because all the Cherokees
were being killed . When he was born in 1913 he wasnt a
citizen untill 1923 .
ASHEVILLE NORTH,CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA WHERE I GREW UP BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND BEAUTIFUL PLACE
Born and raised in the hills of Kentucky, I be here till death … and leave a little of my spirt in the hollows of the farm.. I never was ashamed of where I came from, my family work hard and play harder..but it has been a good life, a little hard at times and wasn’t for sure if we eat tomorrow.. but I wouldn’t trade my life for any other… I got a good education and stay here… while most of my family move away…but this is my home and this where I work at…. The hills will always be home for me…
Ky is my home born and raised and when the good lord comes to get me I'll be put in the ground where the blue grass grow.s
im a yankee and moved down here almost ten yrs ago.. but i grew up in the woods and once people here got to know me, they call me piney now, i guess thats what i was raised.. and the first song on this vid was one of the first songs i learned on guitar. my family lived up north but our town had no cops, everybody used to make liquor jam out and hunt.. i hate the fkn rat race up north, n rather eat shit than live in a city
I like this very much. Interessting. And the nature so amazing. Wisch i was born there
My very favourite place in the world is a small farm owned by old friends outside Asheville. I miss it.
I'm from beech mtn North Carolina where I still live today I didn't know we was considered different because we was raised to treat everyone the same
I’m from Tn back in the sticks and we’re tough and can survive bout anything one way or the other
Just as the Cherokee, here in Maine the lower Numbegan Micmac accepted others into our family groups, you did not need to marry in, just agree to live in peace and exchange ideas and skills respectful of our ideas and skills.
Susan Jenssen as part of my heritage is Abenaki, I was raised to respect the land, sky, rivers and those that live by those things.
@@jameshutchins6077 My dad's grandmother was from the Abenaki tribe!
Michelle Behr so we have common beliefs I believe.
@@jameshutchins6077 I wish I knew more about her but she died of tuberculosis along with her new baby leaving 3 children and her husband behind. I just felt a sense of connection to that side of the tree because of some stories I was told about her. She was an orphan raised in a Catholic orphanage and married a man of French descent. I saw a picture of her and was told I resembled her since I have a darker complexion. I do believe in living simple and being respectful of our earth and other people but have failed in many areas. I hope I can learn from my faults to be compassionate and tender hearted to others as God is to me in my journey. Thanks for responding to me! I wonder if we're related? My great grandmother came from Vermont. I know the Abenaki tribe is widespread up in New England and some in Canada.
Michelle Behr right now I am semi-retired living in Korat, Thailand. As soon as my wife gets her green card we will travel to the states. Write me at James_hutchins@icloud.com and I will certainly respond. I write stories as a pastime and very willing to share. I have several readers around the world.
Johnny Cash ♥
Fantastic. Video
I live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains my mother's Cherokee
Lots of rich people here talking about how great it is to be poor.
It's good to hear Appalachia pronounced right! My family has lived in Northeast Tennessee for 10 generations. 🖋
The Native American...Cherokee, Africans Americans and English are part of my heritage.
Animals in the deep woods. Got any. Current video ?
My great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee .
CK Stone so she was mixed. Got it.
Saw a documentary that said the hardest part of the trek west in the early days of the nation was not the Rocky mountains but the Appalachia mountains. The reason is the straight up and down grade you have to traverse.
1:57 Is that Johnny Cash? The voice is so similar.
@Sheridan Isashitstain Yeah, Johnny's name was told in the Part 2 :) I recognized the voice, though not the man by his looks in his old age. This footage is not long before his death, I watched the video Hurt, where he looks pretty much like this.
My great great granny was full blooded Cherokee Indian and I’m proud of it to
Educational Films - an American Classic ! Back in the day, they were actual films, and it was always a challenge for teachers to get the machine working! Clicking and clacking, hopefully it didn't jam or rip the film strip.
I wonder if anyone wants to digitize the old Slides too ? Loading up a spool of slide pictures, and playing the audio on cassette tapes, with a 'beep!' or silent beep that advanced the pictures.
I would love to see all those old collections preserved for History, digitized and uploaded to the internet.
Where do I come to I ready hate the city love the country I am from the south and spent a lot of my childhood in the country and now I am stuck in this pitiful western desert allways wanted a place there but dont no anyone
Hayesville NC born and raised our family goes bk generations here in clay county wouldn't trade these mountains for anything
I've never felt closer to being complete than when I was at a family function with a hillbilly family. They will love you and help heal you in any way they can. But purposely hurt one and your outcome isn't going to be pretty.
Straight from the hollers of WV!!! I Wouldn't change a thing
My mother was from South east Tennessee and my father was from Kentucky. I was yankee born, but hillbilly bred and proud of it.
Southern West Virginia born, southern West Virginia I'll die!
my First Sargent heard me talking one day while we was out in the Desert near New Mexico and he asked me where bouts I was from? when I told him that I was born in a little Town called Bluefield WVA .he said he thought I had got off the boat with Davy Crockett.lol
Southern west Virginia here too ❤
Logan county!!!
Me too, Mingo
I respect these people.
Sad story, the same sad story happened to the place I left behind. Some rich people came to my village, cut all the trees, dig all the golds and copper and leave the people in poverty.
The mountain people are much like our Newfoundlanders long days back breaking work. Pants patched worn boots and faces old before their time. Villages separated by miles of sea.
love the heritage, love the people
at 2:10 seconds.... Isn't that Doolittle Lynn ??
same here in the Adirondacks in NY, and the mountains from here through VT, NH, and up to Maine but people ignore us so that works fine. The state parks contained within the mtn ranges are great in preventing devastation, but still towns have suffered when paper mills , granite, garnet, and rock mines, and logging jobs have decreased. Many towns have one tiny school and lunches come from a local restaurant. The mountains all the way up were settled by Indians, and Scots married into the tribes, as in my family. One thing that is ignored is that inbreeding is a serious problem still in some areas. My husband has Cherokee ancesters. Cherokee had black slaves, and as far as who can be Cherokee, if the surname is not on the old roles from the Eastern Band from those who went into the small rez in NC or the Dawes roles of the Western Band from the Trail of Tears out to Oklahoma, then you have no claim to tribal membership. My husband's relatives escaped the Trail of Tears and hid in the mtns in NC and refused to go into the rez, therefore have no tribal recognition but they know who they are and do just fine, particularly since they were not slaveholders like the rest of the tribe. Over the past few years the Western Band reclaimed tribal land they had been forced to give their slaves after the Civil War. (they brought them out in The Trail of Tears, a part of African American history that few have any knowledge of) .The slaves families had lived there and intermarried into the tribe but slaves were property and not on the Dawes roles, so they were pulled off the land as having no claim.
"Apuhlaysha"...where's that?
I spect you'll never know....
TessaMakes it doesn't exist
antipeesea i throw a Appalachia if you say Appa-lay-sha
We have remnants of this type of culture in remote rural Australia, though it is not the USA, obviously. We even ding and play some of the same music.... Must be the common roots all these types of settlers to places like Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand etc all originated from. Here, the traditional culture was taught in schools in the Bush, sometimes over the radio or passed down through generations who taught the young people how to do the dances, song the songs etc. I came from a European background but they could relate to this culture readily and enjoy and adopt it, even though they often had language communication problems. They would just jump in and try to dance the dances, play the music etc, sometimes getting it wrong, which then added an interesting new interpretation to it, which became absorbed into the original version. So, the cultures of the existing people blended with those of newcomers wanting to fit into it very naturally and easily. Though some European kids felt very embarrassed watching European parents trying to dance these dances and getting them not quite as they ought to be done.