Haida: Indigenous "Vikings" of Canada
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A look at the Haida, the First Nation people of Haida Gwaii in the Pacific Northwest. A powerful seafaring culture, the Haida don wooden armor and trade with and raid distant coastlines, drawing later comparisons to the Vikings. Faced with European and American traders, the Haida mount considerable resistance to colonial incursions in a history that includes American Revolutionaries, King Kamehameha of Hawaii, and more.
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Gough, B. M. (1982). New light on haida chiefship: The case of Edenshaw 1850-1853. Ethnohistory, 29(2), 131-139. doi.org/10.2307/481373. A worthwhile overview of Haida resistance to gold mining, as well as ransoming crews in the 1850s.
Haswell, R., Hoskins, J. B., & Boit, J. (1941). Voyages of the "columbia" to the Northwest Coast 1787-1790 and 1790-1793. (F. W. Howay, Ed.)Archive (Vol. 79). The Massachusetts historical Society. Retrieved 2023, from archive.org/details/massachus.... Journals of fur traders of Kendrick's and his contemporaries' crews, and their accounts of the happenings at Haida Gwaii.
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Hi I'm a native from multiple tribes and I'd like to learn more about my cree side so could you do me that favor? If you could that would be great keep up the great work❣️
What?!?! The tribes took slaves?!?!
@@soonerfrac4611 only pretty women and good hunters and fishermen or art workers. If they did everything well they were treated like high class. It was a honor to be a slave back then. Your basically adopted and treasured
It is fascinating to me when Indians were abducting people,hold slaves,scalping woman and children,commiting genocide on other tribes,they are called brave and fascinating culture. When white christiams did just ONE of thouse things,they are are called opressors and genocidal maniacs.
@@XG916 But by people who killed your kin and friends.
For anyone interested in learning more about Haida culture, there's a film that was released in 2018 called SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna (The Edge of the Knife) that details early 19th century Haida life through the interpretation of the legend of the Gaagiixiid, a man who becomes wild and feral after being ostracised from his village. It was shot in Haida Gwaii by an all-Haida crew, with the dialogue entirely in the Haida language. It's amazing how alien, and yet strangely familiar, the landscape, people, and themes are, and it's a rare look into cinema that is by, for, and about Indigenous Canadians. Well worth checking out if this topic intrigues you!
That movie rules.
written and directed by my cousins.
great movie!
Fantastic movie.
Can you send a link?
The thing that I'm surprised you didn't mention was their pre contact metal use, mostly iron daggers cold worked for meteorites
This ^ it is thought that given enough time they would have been one of the first Alaskan native tribes to ever form true metallurgy and begin working with copper, It's said that they would travel north into Alaska and commence raids on the various riverside native tribes and they were such a dominating force that no other tribes could reasonably fight them off and they had complete superiority over any other combating force.
Source am Alaskan Native
@@ReasonablyscaredCat Haida Guai werent Alaskan...However the T'lingit, my own heritage, are. T'lingit were very similar in look and custom however, they did in fact mine copper on a VERY regular basis, and traded it with southern cousins...ya might want to ask real Alaskan nations who the 'dominating force' of the north truly was, and leave fairy tales written by white men in the kindling pile.
Please share your source that the Haida used meteorite iron because I’m not buying it
@@LoneYukon there's a second group of Haida people who reside in Alaska
I have no concrete source for this but I’ve read several anecdotes online that the Haida in particular would use iron that drifted across the pacific in the form of shipwrecks and debris.
What’s crazy about this is I did a paper on this in college basically the same premise comparing similarities between Kwakiutl and Haida cultures to that of the Norse. Making an argument sort of in favor of environmental determinism.
Ohhh like the fjords and islands you mean?
Thats really interesting! I want to know more
Any chance you have this paper? I’d be very interested in reading more!
Much like how cultures of horse archers like the Comanche and Mongols developed down a similar path. Until repeating firearms were developed there weren't many that could stand up to a Comanche raiding party. I personally believe the Comanche were potentially on their way towards a continental empire much like the Mongolian empire before the US wiped out their main source of food and pushed them onto reservations. It's fascinating how much our environment can effect our culture.
Maoi would add to this id think pretty similar culture just warm and on the other side of the world
As somebody who lives in BC, thank you covering a part of indigenous history that gets no where near as much attention as other cultures get! Haida and Nuu-chah-nulth history is interesting!
How did you access the internet from that era?
@@bricklanzo1484 hahahaha we've got some crappy DSL systems that are pretty ubiquitous anywhere their are phone lines, or Star Link. Some villages on the coast were even used for testing a new fiber optic network!
BC as in British Columbia
I've always been so interested in that area of indigenous history, but couldn't find anything a while back. I completely forgot about my earlier interests and now I'd love to learn with the internet resources available.
Went into your area in 2014. Ventured as far as Bella Bella. From a fellow indigenous (denesuline) from Northern Manitoba
My uncle lived with the Haida People for many, many years. When he came back, he had a pendant carved from argilite, depicting the Great Raven with the Moon in its beak. It was crafted by local artisan G. Moody in 1982 who gave it to my uncle. He eventually gifted it to me - he knew I understood its meaning, its value, and that I would keep it safer than even he could. It's one of my most treasured item and your video just gave even more depth to its meaning. I went to pick it out of its box to look at it just now. Thank you.
He would be very proud of you!
What part of the island did he live at ?
There's a place in Washington called Skull Island, it's a location where the Haida caught up with and massacred a band of Lummi. There were and likely still are human corpses, or rather their remains, on the island today.
I have run into so much excellent Pacific Northwest history lately, and it's about time. The indiginous people here have an incredible history.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
I'm from WA and I never knew that. Coolio
The Haida word for Puget Sound was translatable to 'Slave' given their long history of pillaging Coast Salish peoples to collect slaves. Many of the Puget Sound area tribes would even form large alliances to both repel attacks and to launch punitive expeditions against Haida raiders. For more interesting history, look up the Port Gamble Massacre, the beheading on Captain Ebey, and though not directly related to the Haida, the Battle of Maple Bay.
Very interesting story. Battles have winners and losers such as wars and ultimately History.
I'm Lummi, and I grew up hearing stories from my great grandparents about battles with the "northern raiders"
This channel is amazing. I recently learnt that Ancient peoples like Mongols, Conquistadors and Samurais sometimes clashed and traded. Truely amazing, in my mind all of these factions were years apart and too far away to meet. Your narration is so poetic, it feels like i am watching a movie. keep this up, i love it!
Thanks! Always the goal to give our audience a wide range of subjects to learn about.
@@HistoryDose you're doing a splendid job at that
Great! Next you can learn the past tense of "learn"!
Learned not learnt… not even proper English!
I had a similar feeling recently about the Gokturks. I had no idea they had peace agreements sporadically with both Chinese and Russians.
It’s fascinating, and rather disturbing I daresay, how Canada has been able to fly under the radar for so long, shifting all the focus to its southerly neighbor. I remember when I first stumbled upon “Catholic Residential Schools” by sheer coincidence, on the Internet, 3-4 years ago only. It made me utter the phrase “Reality is stranger than fiction” over and over again. Until my subconscious kept saying “Reality is far more frightening than anything I’ve read in fiction.” The further I kept reading about these schools. 😰😨
@@axelfury3189
To be fair to native Americans though, most other victims of Imperialism got their lands back, but in the Americas the Imperialists never left, they took over totally.
The natives were assimilated and decimated unlike anywhere else.
You should see how we treat them in the modern day. We have thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women, literal thousands. We don't do much about it.
Australia had Japanese internment camps during ww2 that doesn't get mention like the State's either.People find it easier to point fingers at the top instead of the skeletons in their own closet
@@croisaor2308 did they give back the land and territories they won through conquest of other natives americans
Our countries on a whole have been amazing forces for good and for advancing human living standards and overall quality of life.
The fact that these incidents are mourned and almost universally viewed in a negative light is a testament to our strength.
I love Canada, am proud of Canada, and that will never change. No amount of attempts to shame my heritage or my nation will move the needle a bit.
I hope we can continue to end slavery and bondage around the world, from all the human trafficking (Huge problem in Arab nations) to literal slavery (Migrant workers in Africa and Mid-east)
As a Haida. I thank you for this! I enjoyed watching and listening to your narration. I hope that one day, the History Channel makes a series like Vikings :) And I hope that I would get a role in it!
PS the part of the Smallpox Disease and Residential School made me choke up :( My Chinai (Grandpa) Went to a residential school and tried avoid talking about, because it was that bad.. Still he turned into such a gentleman! Well known on the Island and became Chief of our clan, unfortunately he is no more, but there is a Totem Pole raised to honour his Legacy.
Hey! I’m doing a paper on the Haida Nation/Haida Gwaii, and I would love to know more about the Haida’s relationship to the land, land management techniques, uses of plants, cultural traditions, etc.
I’ve gathered a good amount of info (largely from Haida Nation’s websites), but I’m having a harder time finding details about land management techniques. I’ve found more about fishing and relationship to the ocean than I have about land management.
I appreciate any info you’re able to/feel comfortable sharing! I’ve truly enjoyed learning more about the history and culture of the Haida people. Easily one of my favorite things I’ve ever learned about. I’d love to hear more about your grandfather!
Your people are so fascinating to me I love the art and wood carvings keep your culture alive God bless you
You wouldn't want the history channel to make it, the show "vikings" was 90% fiction, it was mostly fantasy, very disappointing actually
Can anyone say they enjoyed school? Unfortunately the situation in Canada has just been seized upon for political reasons.
@@ElGrandoCaymano please say that to any residential school survivor face to face. It wasn’t just a school, it was where children were forcibly made to speak English, had their traditions stripped from them, and were forced to assimilate into Canadian ways of life. It wasn’t your average school, it was cultural genocide conceived by the Canadian government.
The Tlingit, and the Salish did this too.
Yes! We’ll reference them briefly in this. PNW indigenous armor is awesome.
@@HistoryDose ok, wish for future videos about the Gulf War & even Black Hawk Down in the future.
@@HistoryDose it’s refreshing to see Haidas mentioned, most of the attention tends to go to Tlingits for being the dominant tribe in the area, people normally don’t know as much about Haidas or Tsimshian’s. Good video.
I grew up in this region of BC, Haida Gwaii is till an incredible place full of native culture
It’s interesting how deep the parallels go between the Haida and the Norse. Not only did they have the prevalence of raiding, but also a similar model of decentralized authority and the cultural importance of gift giving. Very fascinating all around.
This is pure, uneducated speculation, but I wonder if their respective environments are at all responsible for the many similarities we've come to know. Harsh, cold winters and summers that are often not much better must have had a significant impact on their societal development one way or another. Sparseness of resources tends to drive a culture towards raiding, and I imagine the same can be said of gift giving. When you have so little, giving some away is a sign of a profound care.
@@wellyep790 That's a good theory.
@@wellyep790 their as also external factors that shape society to be more warlike. We know horses first originated in North America but became extinct thousands of years ago. So when the Spanish arrived also returning horses to their homeland. the Comanche who realized the wild horses prospered in their area and that horses are the greatest war asset they have against other tribes with guns the Comanche changed their society focusing on horse raiding.
And the Raven
Thank you for covering a Canadian First Nation tribe 🇨🇦💪 I’m Anishinaabek First Nation, frm here Canada. This was rlly fun and interesting to watch. Love the videos. miigwech🙏 (thank you In Ojibwe)
Aanii!
@@tim.a.k.mertens miigwech my brother 💪
Your tribe was featured in the video game, neo scavenger
Aanii cousin, Odawa here
Anin nichi. Chi miigwetch.
I may be saying this wrong but..
Kina idanawa maganok. (All my relations)
I really thought the you guys would have your first First Nations video about the Chilcotin War or the Louis Riel Rebellion 😂
This is too fascinating. As someone from around Vancouver we cover the history and legends of the Squamish, Tsleil-waututh, and Musqueam Nations.
There’s a story of how the Haida and Squamish were once at war with one another. A Squamish Siyam (Chief) was hosting a coming of age potlatch for his twin daughters. His daughters invited the Haida for the potlatch. The Haida traveled down the coast and had such a wonderful time they sued for peace. When the sisters were passing the Xaays (Sky) brothers came down and transformed them into the mountains to be a sign of everlasting peace. These sisters became Ch'ich'iyúy Elxwíkn (Twin Sister Mountains)
(There are a variety of versions of this story)
When the British settlers came by they started calling them The Lions because the mountains reminded them of the lion statues in Trafalgar Square in London. Hence why Lions/ Lions Gate Bridge/ Lions Gate Hospital/ Lions Bay.
Sorry for the extra history just love sharing. Always wanting to learn more First Nation history.
I am not First Nation if I spelled anything wrong but I’m learning everyday. 😅
That's incredible! Never be sorry for sharing more information, you have every right to be confident here!
My great grandfather was a drummer boy at Batoche, then served WWI in his 40s ... his family were settlers in Northern Alberta and dirt poor.
Gigachad throws such a ballin birthday that peace is the only option
It’s was the North West Resistance not a rebellion.
That story is definitely cooler than “it was looking like London”. Thank you
How did you know I needed to learn more about Indigenous Canadians? ;) This will be good. Also beautiful and striking artwork, well done artist brother!
Born in Seattle. Non native but grew up on tales and legends of NW Nations.
can't wait.
If your born in Seattle than you are a Native
@@everettatwater2939 a native. but not indigenous
@@Andres-uw2kf yes, exactly.
This one was so beautifully done. This is my first time of ever hearing the story of Haida, and it's so much of a triumphant introduction to their legacy.
So many important things to get done today... Good thing I learned this cool technique called "procrastination" that allows me to watch this video instead.
I fully support reorganizing your schedule to get your History Dose fix
This was awesome. So much history of coastal indigenous tribes get erased because of violence and other factors. Just imagine seeing those totem poles on the coastline. Amazing.
Absolutely fascinating and very well presented. The Haidas were like a fusion of American Indian, Polynesion and Norse😆
I think he is more suitable to be said as a cousin from Japan, not from Norse, Polynesia. Possibility can be said as a northerner (American)
This looks really cool
I have seen anything from this channel before and this video was recommended to me by TH-cam and I am amazed at how this was produced. The narration, the art and the audio effects are top notch. I am going to look forward to what you guys are going to put out in the future, good luck.
“the bones of their forebearers have been laid to rest upon these islands for 10,000s of years “
your storytelling ability is unmatched. I am just as riveted and engaged with just the audio
I’m happy your finally covering them, yet they don’t get any representation in any other media. Imagine movies and shows based off these peoples.
This 10 minute video is about all that is needed
@@Jason-gg4lm Nah there is a lot more.
@@arkinyte13 Yawn☻☻☻☻😅😅😅😅
@@Jason-gg4lm whatever.
Check out a movie called Edge of a Knife - It was filmed in Haida Gwaii, and made entirely in the Haida language. That's precious in itself - that's a language which was for a long time dying out
I also recommend Story as Sharp as a Knife, a book. So basically this one explorer had the foresight to transcribe some oral stories phonetically from some old masters of the craft, during the period where Haida Gawaii was collapsing due to disease. Then, those stories were re-translated into English with a much better understanding of the language, and analyzed as poetry.
the artwork for this is on point. very well done to the artist! the editing is superb as well. what a first rate video!
🤙🏼The fact that some of us have been here since the channel had little subs to where it has come, shows a lot!
History Dose is growing & can’t wait until they get a full team behind them cause their team is small!
They will grow and will be able to post weekly!
So thank you & can’t wait to see on the other side History Dose! Only way is UP !
Lads, you are both doing a fantastic job at this! This has quickly become one of my favorite channels on youtube and I follow A LOT of channels. You're doing a wonderful job and I'm sure everyone here will with agree with me that we hope you keep it up for a very long time!
Your kind of videos are exactly why TH-cam is my favorite place for history content. The editing, sound effects, music, narration and artwork are all spot on! Bravo!
Another GREAT! video. I love the style, the pictures and the pacing. Really well done!
Wow this hits close to home. I've been hearing about the Haida all my life here in BC. Never in a million years did I imagine history from my home would be told on this channel.
Can't stress how great these vids are. The writing, the art, etc. This video alone is better than all the content from the last 20 years of the History Channel.
Your narration never ceases to amaze me. And I never knew that the Hadia had thrived in Haida Gwaii for over 12,500 years. So much history and culture, simply wiped but some hope remains still. Please continue to shine more light on small, disregarded civilizations!
And to think they fired at a British ship with captured cannons. They’re pretty resourceful.
@@adamcheklat7387yes we are
The BC provincial museum is now returning artifacts to the first nations across the province that have been taken since colonization, first step to Reconciliation
So when are u going back to Europe and returning their lands? Edit: I was being sarcastic, humanity in general has been fighting itself over land, resources, wealth, etc, since Cain and Abel. To the the victor go the spoils I'm with that pretty much up until humanity agreed we have to do better which is in the last century or so, and even then realistically if u lose a fight u'll have to make concessions to regain some form of independence. U can return the artifacts as a form of goodwill but u don't have to u won those artifacts became part of ur historical victory there part of the conquerers history as well as trophies.
@@scottcontreras4569 no, why should I? The artifacts weren't bought, they were taken, give them back, make reparations and supply support to those impacted from residential schools (to start) if you learn how Canadian confederation was done with respect to first nations, lots of mistakes were made, that need to be rectified.
Those artifacts wouldn't have survived if not for the colonial museums.
@@scottcontreras4569 Natives conquered each others land often, what difference does it make if Europeans are the ones doing the conquering?
@@KnightOfFaith possibly, but its about Reconciliation and returning what was stolen.
The writing, the artwork and the music. Yet another beautiful and thrilling telling of history. Thank you
Never stop doing videos on the underrated parts of History, they are just too good!
This man never ceases to cinematically capture history through superb storytelling while still remaining accurate, I feel like I’m being told the story from a seasoned old man who lived through these events and is able to capture the scene in all its colors and details. History channels on TH-cam are normally incredibly boring and they just make videos as if they are just speaking line by line from a Wikipedia article and that really dulls the subject, you sir are incredible also where did you get those war drums soundtrack.
The art adds so much to these videos
Amazing content, so well made and i always learn a lot. Great work and please never stop!
Thanks for doing this video, I’m Haida and it’s always very exciting to learn something new about my culture.
The Haida are very unique and interesting. Quite a bit different than most native peoples in Canada.
Fantastic job on this :) As someone living in Vancouver this is a culture that figures prominently in BC. Thanks for making this and providing others with insight into their amazing culture.
Your videos are so well made. Such an underrated channel.
Thanks!
I assist history and archaeology channels (and do writeup)s on Mesoamerica primarily, but Haida, Tlingit etc art and armor are so cool it makes me want to branch out more into the PNW. I had a similar experience where I was doing photography at a Prehispanic art exhibit and the Andean ceramics and metalwork left even more of an impression on me then the Mesoamerican pieces I had gone to go see to begin with! One day hopefully I'll get a chance to take photos of PNW pieces and do some in depth research! Actually, speaking of Mesoamerica, the document at 4:00 really reminds me of the Aztec Codex Mendoza, especially Folio 65R. Is that an actual manuscript on the Haida, or is it custom art piece for the video that's using the Mendoza as part of the composition?
Hope the question there doesn't come off as accusatory or anything, even if it is the latter, I actually think it's pretty creative idea! i'm just curious as if it is a actual separate document on the Haida, i'd be interested in looking it up. And if you do ever cover Mesoamerica or other Prehispanic stuff, feel free to reach out, and i'd be down to help or hook you up with other Precolumbian people if the scheduling works out! I'm Majora__Z on twiwtteir
The art that haida follow is called Formline. There's strict rules to it. You are either correct or wrong when drawing. Our art is better and more complex than any acient art of it's time. The Chilkat Robes you see are also from Tsimshian. We invented alot of the tactics and art that haida use. Tsimshian were the dominant force of BC area. Any art or armor you see that looks similar around the world is probably a branch off of Tsimshian. We traded with Japanese, Mexicans, Chinese, Hawaii, etc
The armor displayed were exclusive to the Tlingit. The Haida did not wear armor.
@@HeavenlyKnightAK wasn't just exclusive to Lingit. Tsimshian wore armor and you guys àlso got Chilkat blankets from us
Solid watch, friend sent this to me as my family's from Old Masset, Haida Gwaii.
Hearing about my cultures history gives me goosebumps
Glad you liked it! The capture of one of those gold-rush ships happened at Masset!
Thank you so much for making this, alot of people are unaware of this.
I freaking love how the story is written. One of my favorite channels
Great stuff! I'd only heard about the Haida in an old RTS game, American Conquest where they did have the badass armoured, dagger wielding warriors.
I know you've tackled Pirates, but I'd love to see a vid about the precursors, the Buccaneers. Theres some amazing (true) stories, like Bartholomew Sharp and his Buccaneers fighting in the Jungle (the 'Pacific Adventure') and rescuing a native chief's daughter from fortified Spanish territory. They give the latter, Golden Age pirates a run for their money.
Haidas build was too stocky. The armor displayed were exclusive to the Tlingit people.
Oh, interesting. I've just learned about the Tlingit people not long ago myself. I'm looking forward to the video!
Edit: So, I left my comment when it was just the preview image (and I think the name Haida wasn't yet in the title, I may be wrong). I was a bit off with my guess, but you can see the Tlingit marked on the map at 2:01 to the North of Haida. They were using similar armour.
The armor displayed was only worn by tlingit. The Haidas did not wear armor
Magnificent. Your narratives are very succinct and your graphics are sublime. I love the illustrations as much if not more than the narrative.
As always brother thanks for the great content ✊🏾🤙🏾
As someone who grew up just north of this area but still in the First Nation (southeast AK) I’ve always marveled at the Haida and Tlingit civilizations.
There is a resemblance in the raiding practices of Northwest Cultures “not just Haida” and the “Vikings,” however Vikings themselves were just one part of the Norse, a vastly more complex culture beyond just what modern society views as violent raiders when they think of “Vikings.”
I understand why used that comparison, but just like the Norse, Haida, Tlingit, and other Pacific Northwest cultures had broader more complex cultures, raiding was only one aspect of it.
I am glad you made this video as even that aspect, our history of war and enslavement has come under attack by those who would wish to erase our culture to fit a more comfortable and progressive narrative. Our history is part of our identity, whatever lens and scrutiny may come it is our past and to change it to fit a narrative is destructive cultural anniliation.
On the same note though I would have liked it if you had mentioned more detailed aspects of our culture and history besides that we raided and had slaves. That isn’t unique to Pacific Northwest cultures but in our modern age it’s easy to blindly vilify just like the “Vikings” are today.
Haida, Tlingit, and other Pacific Northwest cultures did engage in raiding and enslavement much like so many other cultures across the globe, Haida and Tlingit were also matrilineal societies with complex structures that fished the coasts and rivers for shellfish, crustaceans, salmon, halibut, seaweed, etc. We raised different breeds of dogs for different purposes, some were used as drought animals, others were hunting dogs, others were raised for their coats.
Cultures used the hair of these dogs as well as wild goat hair to create textiles such as Chilkat and Ravens Tail weave blankets, leggings, aprons, and a number of other things. We made water tight baskets and hats from roots and cedar bark. We made sea worthy vessels, we engaged in metallurgy working copper and we created daggers and tools from meteorites. We were governed by strong laws overseen by elders. There’s so much about our cultures that isn’t shown in depth here, don’t judge our entire people on one aspect alone.
Is there a decent book I would love to read more about the P.N tribes?
Yes! I would give you links but TH-cam doesn’t allow that in the comments but there is:
Smithsonian, Handbook of North American Indians Volume 7, Northwest Coast, which is a decent encyclopedic summary.
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (Volume 173) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
There are more specific in depth books about individual cultures, like for the Haida this is a good one:
Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of Loon to the Time of the Iron People (Pacific Rim Archaeology
Then there’s the work of the Dauenhauer‘s, their work tends to be more focused on Tlingit culture, they’ve pretty much devoted their lives to research and preservation of Tlingit culture and language.
I'm so excited this is one of my favourite topics. Much love from Ontario, Canada
Need more indigenous stories, so much history that is never covered, or at least never covered well, in school. Great vid
If you ever release a book collection of Joe’s artwork I will buy every single one of them.
Superb stuff, as ever.
Thank you!!
Beautiful! I was always fascinated by the Haida people and the other Pacific North West indigenous peoples and thankfully I had the luck and pleasure to study their history at University.
Also literally the best less talked about history channel in the existence of TH-cam
The northern neighbors of the Haida, The Tlingit were a tribe with a similar warrior culture to which the Europeans could not even trade with until their numbers were significantly reduced by small pocks
If I recall- Tlingit was the only tribe who used armor the way they have it depicted in this video.
@@HeavenlyKnightAK Tsimshian also, I believe. Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian all are in Southeast Alaska, where I live :)
I find it very interesting how the Haida adapted so well to the coming of colonizers. They didn't rely on old war tactics instead using the strategies that were being used against them to repel settlers. Very sad to see them go as so many other tribes did, to disease and being outnumbered.
Wasn't just the Haida. Took maybe 10 years for Eastern North American Indians like the Iroquois to totally change how they did warfare, after firearms showed up. No more wooden armor or spear-and-shield lines, instead doing ambush raids..
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Horses were adapted really fast as well by natives on the great plains. Notable example is Comanche People.
Superb video sir. I look forward to each of your splendid videos.
Fantastic writing, graphics, music and narration. Amazing channel.
Have never heard of the haida in my entire life. Thank you history dose!
This style of video is great, the way you present them, your skill with linguistics, and your voice are all perfect. I’ve been watching for two years now I think, and I hope to be watching new videos from you for many more to come!
I hate that indigenous history and culture isn't as widely taught but part of me does love getting to learn this stuff now as it feels like an entire world I know nothing about and gets me excited to read and learn, but also sad at what was done to them and the incredible loss of their cultures and peoples to the world, and for themselves. I'll be subscribing, great work.
Yes I agreed. We need to teach how horrific slavers the Haida were and that it was the British you put a stop to this
@@gerhardschulzy amen
You mean the part where the British stopped them from enslaving each other and brought a better world forward. School doesn’t have time to teach the history of every random Indian tribe
@@gerhardschulzy considering that most of the Haidas existence post contact coincided with the African slave trade, focusing on how the "British put a stop to it" feels like a really weird thing to focus on here but okay.
@Stone Alexander why is it weird ? It's history. Haida were horrific slavers, should be taught in Canada and should be taught why they stopped. The British. We learn about the west African Slave trade but very few people in Canada learn about the slavery done here by indigenous people.
some of the art in this video is actually goosebump-inducing
You are doing gods work history dose. I love your channel please keep them coming.
This channel is great but I don't know if they're doing God's work
A video on the acadian deportation and Beausoleil Broussard’s guerrilla warfare and maybe the battle of Restigouche would be amazing! You guys rock!
What is battle of the restigouche, I live in New Brunswick
Not thorough enough.
I am Kwatkiutl family member. Residential schools are a terrible wound on Canadian history. The last residential school in Canada was only closed in 1996. There are only a handful of family that can speak language of our tribe. Your talk about west cost indiginous is something that very rarely ever happens. Thank you very much!
Those schools were terrible! And hold a great stain on Canada and the native peoples.
I would recommend you don’t list that 1996 number in the future however as those schools were run by the bands after the 1960-70s I believe. Just let’s people down playing it damage your message.
Kwatkiuti were known to throw kid slaves off cliffs in front of their parents.
Another spellbinding production 😳...
Thank you for casting light into history's dark areas (in every sense)
Going to have to research this more..this was great Info
Dude cool video thanks for it btw I’m Haida
Also we made it to new Zealand and the natives on Hawaii call us cuisines and we made it to Russia we traded songs food and pelts
God, I love listening to your stories! I could sit by a fire and listen to you tell stories all night.
This is one of my favourite videos now. I like how this one has far less going on than the others and is so much easier to follow. When watching the others I'm often lost as to who anyone is and what is going on and why
I love these! I hope we can get something on the Aztec empire or Mexican Revolution.
Question, what tribes and peoples made up the Aztec empire?
love the videos man keep making them
Super fascinating never heard of these people before. Awesome video the art is amazing as always too.
I think the future of history is going to be telling the lesser known truths and audiences will flock to know histories of Indigenous people that has been almost nearly completely repressed.
Amen brother
This is racist, indigenous people lived in a peaceful utopia before Europeans arrived.
True. They held hands with grizzly bears, sang kumbaya, and floated on rainbows.
and the streets were paved with gold
Beautiful work as always.
You guys are my favourite! Awesome job, as always.
Would you consider covering Afonso de Albuquerque's travels from 1500's Portuguese ventrues in the indian ocean? He sure fits the standard for an amazing video! Tks! Much love.
There's no indigenous Canadians. The people you're referring to, are Asiatic people's who migrated to Canada.
By that argument, no one outside Africa is indiginous.
Haida Gwaii is a very fascinating place, use to live there and the best way to describe it is majestic. The old villages are cool to see too, old poles and imprints of the long houses that used to stand there. Gwaii Haanas has an old village that you can see with a tour, but there is another village off the beaten path called Chaatal that can be accessed through Skidegate narrows. I remember a single pole standing there when I was last there but it is so overgrown that you couldn’t even tell there was a village there previously.
Glad to see the last video got some traction, hoping this one does the same, this channel is incredible
Geez, I'm Canadian and I've never heard of fully armored indigenous people. Pretty badass look and probably terrifying in a real fight. In the comfort of home though unaffected by adrenaline and actual danger, can't help but think those helmets are really impractical lol.
They have similar openings to European metal Sallets. Having worn them, the medieval armor that is, and sparred in it, it's uncomfortable but not impossible.
Yeah they should have gone in guns blazing and wiped them out that armor would have been useless lol
Ha good luck trying to get through a helmet like that without an iron axe or mace. Given the weapons they typically faced they look very practical to me.
@@WhatIsSanity It's not the protection that's the problem lol it's its unwieldiness. dont tell me that thing isnt wobbling around your head while you're trying to run, as if the vision wasn't obscured enough. it'd be very easy to optimize the design with the same protection, just remove the ridiculous aesthetic elements.
@@swagikuro Unless you have seen a suit yourself, I wouldn't pass judgement or spring to outlandish conclusions about its quality.
Soldiers use what works. People think that the equipment used by knights was unwieldy, stupid and slow, when this equipment was *lighter* than modern kit and extremely flexible. We are primed to see ancient people as stupid, but it's better to see them as people from a different world.
This people were as serious about war as anyone else. This should make us a question ( how it worked, why it did, how protective was it, what was it like to wear?) Instead of pretending we know more about their business than they did.
I have never heard of the Haida before. Thank you.
Yes Haida Gwaii is a truly magical place, I've lived here all my life and gone to some potlaches and it's fun here
Excellent work as usual!
Perfect inspiration for my Upcoming Haida Eu4 Playthrough
Your channel is a gem 💎
I have never heard much about the Haida and I appreciate the research and the art work. I also appreciate the connection with the Native people of Hawaii and how they were similarly hoodwinked as were the Haida on Haida Guay.
If I had a nickel for every time a chain of islands in the Pacific with a name starting with "Ha-" and ending in "-waii" was visited by that one explorer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice
Finally, a history documentary about Haida!
Something about your voice is just so perfect for telling dark and mysterious stories of the past.
Nice work Bro
This channel is amazing!
I am both Tlinget and Haida, I grew up going to school in Ketchikan Ak and every summer I would take a 3 hr ferry ride sometimes a float plane ride Prince of Wales, a big island N.w. of Ketchikan and learn to fish and hunt and gather from my Uncles and Aunties, we'd have what we call fish camp in July/August where we'd put up fish for the winter to feed our families. I'm super excited to finally see content on our Alaskan tribes especially The Tlinget and Haidas, for the longest time I couldn't find any except for the Lower 48/plains Imdians which is ample so I really appreciate that you've done these great videos!!!
If you could you should do a video doc on the Tlinget tribe also from s.e. Alaska
This could be a TV show but TH-cam videos just hit better then anything
Beautiful as always
Beautiful stories, beautiful art, beautiful history.