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- If you were hoping the answer was as easy as say, Navajo, or Cherokee, you might be surprised.
In the United States there are 5 and a half million people who identify as having some
The largest of those tribes is Navajo, which has about 340 000 members.
Next is Cherokee with around 290,000, followed by Chippewa, Sioux, Choctaw and Apache.
However, the first settlers into North America likely arrived long before any of these tribes existed.
A 2-Minute History of Human Migration into the Americas
We don't know for sure when and how people first migrated into North America, and there are several theories on how this happened.
North and South America were the last continents to be inhabited by humans, at least 17,000 years ago, but possibly much earlier.
The most common theory is that Nomadic people from Asia moved across the Bering strait into Alaska and settled there.
At the end of the last ice age, Asia and North America were joined by a land bridge called Beringia. This was because sea levels were much lower then.
Humans settled in Alaska, but couldn't go further south because North America was covered in an ice sheet.
When the ice started to melt, a single group of people moved south through a gap in the ice.
Some believe that all Native Americans, both in North and South America, were descendants of this single group.
So using this theory, Native Americans first settled in north-western Alaska.
Some people have suggested that humans could have arrived by boat, traveling close to the shores down the west coast of the continent.
At first it was thought that people arrived about 13000 years ago. This was because of the discovery of a civilization that was called the Clovis.
For many years the Clovis were thought to be the first Native Americans, but over the last 30 years or so, this has been debunked as older discoveries were made.
Here's a crash course in what we've discovered:
1. Folsom New Mexico - 1908 - 10,000 year old remains of an extinct bison were found with spear marks.
2. Bluefish Caves, Yukon - 1994 - 24,000 year old animal bones discovered with human markings.
3. Santa Rosa Island, California - 1969 - 13,000-year-old human bones discovered, suggesting the use of boats.
4. Monte Verde, Chile - 1997 - 14,000 year old human settlement discovered
5. Hoyo Negro, Yucatán, Mexico - 12,000 year old human skeleton discovered in an underwater cave
6. Paisley Oregon - 2008 - 15,000 year old fossilized human feces discovered in a cave.
7. Friedkin site - Texas - 2011 - 15,000 year old human settlement discovered
8. Anzick, Montana - 2014 - 12,500 year old remains of an infant discovered, believed to be of the Clovis culture.
In fact DNA shows that the infant was closely related to Native North Americans of today.
And we believe the Clovis people are the direct ancestors of 80% of all living Native Americans in North and South America.
Which Native American Tribe is the Oldest?
None of these early tribe still exists. Civilizations rise and fall and the human landscape is always changing. So a 'tribe', as we know it is highly unlikely to remain for thousands of years.
You could ask, which of the current Native American tribes is the oldest? But this question isn't any easier.
Before Europeans arrived, we only have oral records to rely on, and these tends to change over generations.
Legends do tell the story of a great migration, including the crossing of a river, possibly the Mississippi.
Origin stories are an important part of Native American culture, but they don't help us to date Native American tribe.
For example, Cherokee tribal history says they have existed since time immemorial.
The Hopi are known among Native Americans as the 'oldest of tribes'.
We do know that the Hopi village of Oraibi in Arizona could be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the United States, at nearly a thousand years old.
We can also use language to trace the movement of Native Americans. Navajo and Apache are part of the Na-Dené language family, and the first Na-Dene speaking peoples entered North American around 10,000 years ago.
But, the question 'which is the oldest Native American tribe' is complex, and it may never have an answer.
Native American origin stories and ancestry are a important part of their culture.
At the same the science and history is constantly evolving and new discoveries will no doubt challenge what we believe today.
Maybe a better question is how do we keep discovering, while at the same time respecting the culture and history of the Native Americans who live here today.
Shout out from Canada. My mother is Saulteux and my father is cree. My family travelled down to the states to show support and follow the pow wow trail.
I live in Iowa, in the American Midwest. I often reflect on French Trappers and Traders who came into the Great Lakes and sometimes married Native Women. Some of them canoed down the Mississippi all the way to what is now New Orleans. I have blood family in BC. Greetings and Friendship to you and yours.
@@brucewilson1958 my Scottish great great grandfather came to Nova Scotia and married my great great grandmother who was a Mi'kmaq
@@jhtsurvival Hi. I'm Caucasian, whatever that means. A white man. But I was the first non-Native allowed to dance the Sun Dance in the home town of Sitting Bull, Little Eagle, SD.
Done many sweats. They really helped me.
I'm an Indian love to all my brown brothers from Asia to the America's
I am white but have attended pow-wows for Algonquin in Ontario Canada. These events help connect us to the Great Spirit and to the People.
I was born and raised in Blackfoot, and Stoney territory even though I myself am Tla-o-qui-aht which is pronounced: klaw-oh-kwee-awt.
Most plains tribes (not going to say all because I only know what I was taught) lived in Tipis and could/would move camp multiple times a year, so its going to be hard to know how old a certain nation or tribe is simply by "a village"
Also on a different note one Nation can have many separate Tribes or Clans, for example I'm from the Tla-o-qui-aht tribe of Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, which is one of 15 tribes. This part doesn't have to do with the video really just thought this needs to be added to my comment is all.
P.S this i what I was taught by the people who raised me, which were the Blackfeet, Cree, and Ojibwe people throughout my childhood, it might not go with everyone's individual or personal teachings.
Probably more accurate than this video. Thank you for sharing. I'm part Shoshone, though I don't know much more other than that. My Grandmother was my last link to that world, since she passed I have no way to find out more.
My two oldest children's father is Cherokee and Irish...I am Italian and Irish. It is interesting getting to know his Native American ancestry, though he said he doesn't know much.
Blackfoot Cali. Cal. Fam bam yahawa
Yes my people were Blackfeet & Cherokee
Did they tell you the bad stuff they did as well?
There is over 500 Native American Indian tribes and if I were from Indian heritage I would be so proud
God Bless all American Indian tribes ❤🇺🇲❤
Thanks, god bless you too
@Autor: We will never know for sure because the British and Usakians devastated all the tribes they could and armed others to destroy their neighbors, but probably the oldest are those of Alaska, the ones that were already accustomed to the ice through which they all arrived from Asia. Luckily they all had refuge in Hispanoamerica, including many from northern Spain, if not all of them disappear.
Makes you wonder how much history has been intentionally erased by those who were victors in War. There's probably so much history we are unaware of because it was intentionally erased from existence by victors.
you can't erase archeology Indian wars for hundreds of years before our ancestors came
well saltine, history is written by the victors. I dont know anyone that has been successful, not rich people as success today is living a life comfortable not in comfort, and people today are trying to erase, and re write what is known,so imagine if it wasnt told correctly then will nos history be told true in the future or be tainted by the winners?
@@JuanGonzalez-cg8fk history of evil in man is written in Bible by God himself that casst out native pagans false gods
@@darrelljohnson1319 I am a roman catholic. And I hope Good would hurry up just a teeny bit before the devilbidenharris will destroy our country if we let them
@@JuanGonzalez-cg8fk my dear don't worry pretty head Pope is with Biden he leads war against Christians and God by claiming he is God read up on antichrist and pope false prophet as pope prays to Caligula in center of Vatican
The Mayan people have definitely been proven to have been around for thousands of years and are still found in their ancient homeland.
Mayans were building tents
@barney flint The Mayans are no different than the Navajo or Cherokee tribe etc...And if u really think that the Mayan Calendar was created by them..Give me some of that goog sht u 🚬.
@@marcossealey8612 why don't they challenge the lands to be ruled nowadays by fights to the death without guns?It is then how men will really know who this lands belong to!!!
@SEBASTIEN WYSZNIEWSKI To be ABLE to Map the SKY and Constellations U would have to STUDY the NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SKY..ONLY in Africa where U can Study all 4 hemispheres...North...South...East...West..Now the Roman calendar was off 100 odd days.WHY? cuzz the Romans never came into the SOUTHERN part of Africa..Commom senselook at the building symmetric with the blocks in Olmec land and compare to the buildings in Egypt SAME..Not to bust ur bubble but MODERN EUROPEANS IS ONLY 7000THOUSAND YRS OLD..Not Ancient in fact we are closer to the Greeks and Roman history than Egypt.
A lot of Native American tribes have been around for thousands of years too. And are still here. It’s unfortunate though that the Mayans as being a tribe (civilization is a political term) no longer exists as a unity and descendants are now broken up and spread throughout differing regions. I would have loved for them to still be banded together.
My own answer came with all I needed to know.shortly before my aunt died ,she told my mother & I all the tribes that traveled from across the country to come to her wedding . it was very helpful. It was the Cherokee, the Wyandotte, the Powhatan& the Kiowa. I was very glad to get this . She was Blackfoot .. Please everyone , seek out the knowledge of the old ones before its too late .
Im patawomeck, hi cousin
My great grandma was Shawnee
Blackfeet - not Blackfoot.
@@butterflycatyt5917 My great grandpa was Mohawk
@@Jane-Roe1126 That's so cool!!
Interesting theory: Native Americans are descended from more than one migration from different places and migrating at different times.
Interestingly, that is not true. Essentially the same dna came from pretty much the same place in two waves. Maybe 3. Nice tey though.
Tohono O'odham tribal member here! Of Arizona. 🏹 respect and love to all my Natives!
Was in Arizona,was seeking my people, when is powwow?🏹
Cherokee oral migration story says we left an island, travelled north then went east toward the sun. It says we crossed the Mississippi and came across the mound builders and became one with them but rebelled after sacrificing us. It is said we have spoken 4 languages. Modern Cherokee being the last
What are the mound builders?
Navajo belief and ceremonies are based on legend of our origin. Our begining starts from a void world; no sun, no moon, and no stars. We then moved up through the first layer of sky to the second world that had light and early animals occupied the second world; the animals and Navajos didn't get along thus, Navajos migrated to the third world. This third world had more of today's animal kingdom all speaking Navajos and more land like we have today...rivers, mountains and trees. Mush went on, including separation of sex, all because men and women folks argued as to which sex is more important. The men said they were and the women rebutted and said they were. To settle the argument all the men moved across a large river and the women folks stayed.
This separation went on for several years till both sides experienced loneliness and eventually made peace with one another and the men crossed the river back to be together again.
Eventually there was a great flood and water started to cover the entire earth. A wise medicineman created a reef that was large and grew tall; the holy man advised all who want to be saved should get on that reef, so all the Navajo people and animals got on that reef. The water continue to rise. Turkey was the last to get on the reef and as the water continues to it created a white form and that form was touching the turkey's feathers...that's why when you see a turkey today they all have color white at the end of their feathers.
When they reached the ceiling of the sky, the created a hole in the sky ceiling and discovered a ruler of water on the present world. They negotiated an agreement to allow the water to recede and the new land dried in four days.
This emergence was NW of present day Durango; the Sierra Peak. Over many centuries all areas south of Sierra peak was developed for Dineh people. This included the four sacred mountains and all present day rivers. The sun, the moon, and the stars were all created in the third world. That's very, very short summary of where our spirits and eventually our present day bodies came from...as to who created the present day Navajo.
@@thor8765Those were two Eastern Woodlands cultures (Hopewell and Mississippian) that constructed earthen mounds for religious ceremonies, dwelling platforms and burial mounds.
Just here to put my indigenous Northern Ute tribe of Utah on the map 👌🤝
@barney flint Natives were here before spanish, whites, and blacks
@@sandimurray3385
You are really not, we got more natives in Mexico than all of the tribes in the US combined, we got about 10 million native americans in Mexico. Also, WE are actually important part of history of the Americas, the aztecs, mayans and olmecs were the first civilizations on north america and all of them started in the center of Mexico. If it werent for the spaniard, the aztecs were probably going to use your “ute” people as sacrifice for the sun god since the were an actual empire with 100k citizens at the time.
@@ericktellez7632 Natives are natives why is it a competition to you? You sound extremely uneducated. Take pride in your heritage and let others do the same, it isnt a competition, and with that ignorance you make our Mexica people look bad. We are all one big family stop hating. Also if you knew anything you would know Utes share roots from the Mexica.
Big thanks to your fathers for being friendly to the LDS pioneers.
@@iPhantom287
Thats what I mean, in all media they focus only on the US and barely mention on the empires and history on natives in latin america, only US always
In Nevada, the land used to be covered in water. The natives would live on the modern mountains as they were islands. You can find drawing from the old lakes, and caves by where the shores would of been. The lake was thousands of years ago, it really gives you a perspective of how quickly Europeans changed thousands of years of history.
That is TRUE. The planet was once warmer and colder and NEVADA , Utah. parts of Northern California etc was under water. Ancient Lake Lahontan. ThePyramid Lake cuuthroat trout the pikes peak strain are remnants of that once lake covering much of the eastern sierra basin the . The cutts used to migrate from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid via the Truckee River (modern times 1800-1900's). They are coming back as they found the genetically pure Pikes Peak in a little creek and are reintroducing them. GooGle up Pikes Peak cuttROAT TROUT. Very interesting stuff. I fish the reservation regularly. we are getting fish in the 20 pound range and will break 30 pound fish soon as once there were fish in the 30-40 range.
@@freesoul3371 I'm glad the cutthroat trout is getting reintroduced. Especially with the mining chemical poisioning and the mercury issues. Maybe one day the great fish can return to its natural lakes and rivers.
Changed? You mean destroyed
@@kathymitchell2822 What are you talking about?
@@firewarrior9999 Mining had absolutely no impact on lahnontan cutthroat trout population decline.
There were a number of facts left out of this video. First Some tribes DID have written/printed History. Both the Aztecs and Mayans did. Secondly as far as the Origins of American Indians goes look no further than YAKUTSK! They even have "totem" poles there that the "Yellow Russians" Dance around.
Greetings & positive vibes from Croatan ( north carolina)....# weareone
As a Sioux/Cherokee child, I can confirm that nowadays barely anybody remembers Native American traditions, and some glorify it a bit too much. I don't get to go to pow wows, no ceremonies, heck, we barely know where to go now. I just want to know my roots, and people either look for some glory story or make fun of me for it. No respect for natives at all anymore...
Facts where are you from
@@jerryrice6096 I was born in Idaho, my mom was in the South. Dad didn't care much for the state he was born in, so he didn't say.
How old are you don't mind me asking I'm 30 percent commache
@@jerryrice6096 15, and that's cool!
@@jerryrice6096 The Commanche murdered my tribe, the Tonkawa here in Central Texas.
Raped our women,
Killed our men,
Stole our children, and moved on,
The Texas Rangers caught up with them and killed them, except a few of them.
The survivors complained on hoe they were treated.
Among many tribes of the Northeastern United States, there is a belief that the tribe now called the Delawares ( also known by the name Lenni Lenape ) were the ancestors of the Iroquois, the Powhatten , and many others. They were apparently held in high regard, and the name given to them in various tribal languages translates to The Grandfathers.
This has not been established as fact, although their origin story does seem to describe a journey across the continent to the East Coast.
This idea was widespread enough that in the 19th century, an American who had worked extensively with Native Americans claimed to have found written accounts of this in a pictographic
language which he called "The Red Record" .that he subsequently published. It has not been scientifically confirmed, and there are some doubts as to its authenticity.
My great grandfather was mohawk (Iroquois)
Aho cuz
we lenape started in the east then most went west while some stayed , it’s spoken of within the tribe as being the first people and we had the first contract with the united states govt trading furs , but till recently they didn’t honor our name , so we have just been recognized smh it’s unfortunate
Per my history detective aunt. My 4x grandmother on my mom's side was a Susquahnnock. Story has it she met a Union Soldier, an Irishman who was wounded in a church being used as a hospital. She was a nun? This was in a town called Columbia Pa. She saved his life and they fell in love. They had 7 kids and lived in York Pa.
I enjoy history no matter who it concerns it adds to my overall knowledge and I treat all races religion with the utmost respect they deserve as we all do!!!!
Tell the truth. Do not l ie
Yáh'áh'téh that means hello in Navajo greetings from the Navajo Nation USA
How many natives here
Oseyo, Many more than are even aware of their heritage. The 5 million figure quoted is probably off by at least a factor of x2. The great pandemic plagues of the 1500's-1700's were the fastest most horrific loss of human lives ever. It is why the land had vast empty areas, when the European's arrived. The tribes of the east that everyone thinks died off, by and large still have descendants living in the same areas. Advances in DNA are proving the previous statement correct. Everyone talks to much of themselves but it is what I know as factual: Mother's grandmothers both were of the southeastern tribes, knew it, and especially in later life made sure to tell the old stories to their grand and great grand children, Father's grandmother knew her heritage but hid it until very late in life when one of her great grandchildren was put upon for being a dirty #$$&*#&4$ etc. Shocking her grandchildren with where her ancestry roots were planted. anyway long story even longer but quickly concluded- My DNA shows more Native American ancestry from my Fathers side of the blanket than my Mothers. We are still here where we have lived for a thousand?//thousands of years.
I hail from the East coast Nanticoke.
@@Tbird2191 hello there
I wish I knew. 😢 I’ve only seen pictures of my Father and grandFather...
My Mother was 16 when she left my Father and she hasn’t seen or heard from him since.I’ve tried to contact my fathers side for years with no response.
I only know they live in Wyoming but I guess I may never know exactly who I am. I wonder if DNA testing can help me see where I come from?
@@SKSillSKSill keep trying and you will find them
Can you imagine being the first people into North America ? That’s so much land . Just finding a beautiful area and being able to stay there with no problems
Remember N.A.s walked on ice Bcuz they came when it was still the ice ages.
As my elders say" we have always been here!"
Hey Randolph please check out the Bible with all my research that I've done you probably originate from the tribe of Dan in the Bible and yes you always have been here but read the Bible there's 12 tribes that's where you get all the different nationalities etc in addition please research from the Bible Samson he was first Nations he was given mighty power through his long hair in which he got with a white woman who cuts his hair and lost his power in which father God the creator of heaven and Earth distinctly told him not to mix with unbelievers so check it out I'm on your side God bless you in Jesus name once again that's Dan and also check out Samson in the Bible the Holy Bible share your knowledge with your people God bless you in Jesus name
Land bridge?
No proof is ever given with that
@@miss.l.c.minister The Bible was written by humans, not God.
@@miss.l.c.minister No....leave the Bible out of it
My parents,back in the 80's, traveled in Finland. They went to a museum where it showed a certain native tribe lived there. That's fascinating to know.
Yeah the Sami still live there. You can go and herd reindeer with them still. Good people, strong tribe.
Scandinavian Vikings
@@origineeman6421 No, reindeer herders from the steppes. Their ancestors traveled all the way from Siberia along the glaciers & ended up in Russia, eastern Europe, and eventually Scandinavia. They are seperate and predate the Indo European and Germanic tribes.
@@jwahhadai8257 I honestly think the people of the Asian steps played one of the greatest roles in human migration Native Americans possibly originated from north east Asia and where related to said people the mongols the Turks the Uralic people and so many more it’s really cool to learn about.
@@KingNoLuv Only Native Americans in North East America are related to those people. They are Haplogroups R1 & X. Almost all other native Americans are part of Haplogroup Q. R1 & X are the Y Adam & Mitochondrial Eve of all of these groups of people. R1 is the oldest of these Y haplogroups, the people who traveled West from Siberia are R1a & R1b, meaning they have mutations that occurred later in time, marking them as descendants of the pure R1 group found only in North America. Concurrently the Mitochondrial X dna is found in unison with the R1 haplogroup in America. Outside America it is only found in a small spot in Altay,Mongolia & at higher frequency around the area of modern Greece, Bulgaria, & Turkey. Literally the cradle of civilization. This had let some geneticists to actually surmise that the proposed land bridge between Asia & America worked exactly like all bridges do... meaning at some point in history people were not traveling only from West to East, but some traveled out of the Americas & into Asia. The last time roughly 14000 years ago, Asia could have been a destination, not the origin. It would explain the depletion of this population from the western part of North America, as well as a lack until you reach Mongolia. The fact that the DNA supports this theory (as well as negates the ludicrous idea that people only traveled for roughly 5000 years in only one direction... then turned around for some inexplicable reason & traveled in the opposite direction for another 10-25000) should make it a valid scientific theory. Yet because archeologists (not a science) disagree with the actual science it is still not accepted in America or Europe. As the science disagrees with their preconceived concepts of how the world should work. Imagine here we are in the 21st century denying the advancment of a pure science... just because a group art & humanities practitioner's disagree.
The oldest recorded take here is the first one they were allowed to film. Yrs later ..after viewing..the natives said the Indians played their sacred rites backwards so as not to give the majic away. They performed all that backwards. Amazing
Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you’re fine and staying safe?
Judith Norwood you've spoken very well and mature..I was actually in the comments section when I came across your comment here so I was thrilled to say Hi to you 😊..hope you're fine and staying safe?
I loved this! It just enriched my knowledge. I would have watched for an hour!
I would think that last question posed could be the most important one to answer. How can we learn more about Native cultures while respecting their beliefs. I would say open a free communication and granting those that are left the right to freely be who they are. That might be a good start. Just hope it's not already too late for that.
It is as they are still being held captive & badly done to in their own land! They live in great poverty & are treated badly as far as work or anything else!
@Fred Forbes I have a feeling he was 100% correct. No matter their Origins Human can be extremely cruel to one another. Which is why I think that fighting that natural instinct is what progresses "civilization".
That right respecting the other heritage is the only way not to.replete the sin of the past👍❤️❤️🙏
so we should respect the comanches culture of removing scalps but not the rest of us? mmmm that'll work. Sorry but you dont get to simplify the answers. First of all I have a problem with the names, where they came from WHEN they came, where did they go.
the first Americans were here after independance from the british. So it became not a race, but a country or a continent. Officialy it is a continent, culturally everyone calls US citizens americans. So since America is a continent it starts with alaska and ends in patagonia so all people from this continent when it was named America are Native Americans. We wont go into the story that they came from russia Which enters another spaghetti type labyrinth.
That is just to start. Property then becomes an issue. WHen did anyone buy the land originally? and where did that concept start (property, which would lead to the comment ondian terrotory. really? or is it just where they were?and di they beat another tribe to gain "property" and make indian kands?
I can go on but it would long and boring somewhat. But we have mixtures of races first, then came nationalities and somewhere in between seems like we merged into Americans or US citizens. Seems like everyone wants to be another nationality but do it in the US and refuse t become an AMerican.
@@JuanGonzalez-cg8fk well the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans cut out the hearts of human sacrifices soooo....... Yes we know most tribes names are what their enemies called them not what they called themselves. There is nothing simple about dealing with other human beings. Every culture has things in it's history that none of us are proud of, but we should still respect each other and our cultures.
I have been to San Ignacio Belize and it has been inhabited for 5,000 years. It has awesome pyramids. Also, I live in Oklahoma and a 17,000 year old native site was discovered on Beaver River in the panhandle a few years ago via LIDAR..
Have any idea where in the Beaver River? My family has a ranch just off that river in central Beaver county.
San Ingnacio Belize. Is place.close to Corozal
Everything is lost until a European discover it! Ironic, eh?
The fuck? It was lost because of the europeans, the mayans, aztecs, tainos and the ones in peru had books and written records, once the spaniards arrived a massive amount of burning and destruction of these records ocurred.
And that sums it up
dumdfounded
The word lost is not in this video. No implications on it being Europeans finding anything. Do you think the leading archaeologist in this field are not native American ?
@@ericktellez7632 pĺll07
My paternal grandmother is Choctaw and everyone in my family tells me that I am the one that looks and acts just like her. My mother is Inca and according to CRI Genetics we are a 95% genotype match to the Inca Ice Princess. She was one of the most perfectly preserved mummies ever found. CRI Genetics said that the Ice Princess was part of the ruling family that built Machu Pichu. She had been sacrificed to the sun god.
the Choctows sent money ca 200 dollars in 1847 to the starving Irish..we will never forget.I have sent some money back to help the Covid in your homes...please stay strong ! Benny
That is incredible, part of the Inka tribe. Sorry about her sacrifice. Their rituals was very not humane. That's surprising. I read , that , you may not know this? They had an incredible agriculture history. In fact the potato, Tomato, Grapes, among other was later transfered to North American Nations. Then to Europe. Of course their art and Architecture incredible. You have a lot to be proud off.🎨🎭🇩🇰🇺🇸👀📬🦅
So.. the Princess was your 'mummy'?
@Benny Neff
Wow!
My mom’s family is Choctaw
Amazing
I used to feed the homeless people
HOT meals
I’d spend my own money
and cook the meals for them
in Los Angeles
out of my own pocket
I felt it would be important
for them to have a meal
that someone cooked
expressly for them
it makes you feel better
I learned that
from my Choctaw mother
She would feed the poor Thanksgiving dinner every year
So
I believe you
Thx!
Be with spirit
-Little Chief🦅
The CHoctaw tribe held thousands of black slaves and fought for the confederacy. Choctaw CHief Greenwood LeFlore owned a 15,000 acre plantation in Mississippi called, "MalMaision" where he enslaved over 400 black slaves picking cotton, tobacco and other crops. The Choctaw also sent thousands of men to fight for the confederacy to preserve their enslavement of blacks. Incas also practiced, slavery, human sacrifice and cannibalism.
The Hopi native Americans are descendents of the Anasazi Clif dwellers. The Navajo legends speak of these people already being here when they arrived in Arizona 2000 years ago which is 20 generations ago.
They weren’t riding horses when they arrived 😂
Ben Drollinger, No, they had a penchant for mammoths, followed by mules; the mules increased and multiplied and filled the earth. If you want proof? just look around you.
Nope.They coiuldnt get a horse to stand still on a canoe for the ride.
So... 6.5 minutes to say "I don't know"?
🤦♂️😁
Yes, what's wrong with that??? Not knowing may have a lot of reasons, ranging from plain "I don't care" to "our knowledge is not advanced enough to provide answers" and anything in between.
Your reaction basically says you don't really care, just 6 and a half minutes of your life lost, or am I wrong....?
@@joebar9188 6 minutes is a lot if you're a doer and 6 minutes here, 10 minutes there and soon we're talking real time.
The title is "What is the Oldest Native American Tribe?" Common click bate method used today, implying that the answer is in the video. Surely the maker of the video didn't think it was a real question and I/we had the answer. Interesting video regardless.
@@its-me-here wrong. They don't know the answer. Simply, no one does yet. They did their best to present the facts and provided an entertaining video. I guarantee you watched the whole thing 😂. The title's appropriate given they actually explored it - a strong conclusion isn't necessary, or even appropriate.
If you think that's bad, try looking for the answer to "When did the first true modern human live?"
It's a simple enough question... but the answer is anything but.
P.S. Don't anybody try giving me that "Adam and Eve" bullshit. I know it for the lie that it is.
as a native i find non natives always fumble SOMETHING when handling native issues even if its in history.
This video however is REALLY well done. As it doesnt assume any answers we have today are the correct and it says to keep the question open ended and to focus on how to intersectionally develop a important part of culture and science for two groups of people who have a tough history together. Especially when you said how we devlop the science while respecting the culture
O look! A Comrade! Hey, I’m reading Graeber’s Dawn of Everything rn, about 1/2 finished. It’s got me turned onto learning about indigenous cultures in a non-whitewashed way.. got any resources I can turn to next?
@@matthewsteele5229 it’s sort of hard. You kind of have to go by topic. So decolonialism, histories of individual nations, and so on.
There’s a few great TH-camrs as well like TwinRabbit. They have a fantastic video on writing systems and the myth of indigenous illiteracy.
Stepback History’s series on indigenous peoples (though a bit liberal in that specific one,) as well as his videos on things like the wetsuweten crisis.
Mexie Has a video called “land back” that helps explain that
movement a lot.
One of my favourites is Called Ancient Americas which explain indigenous history outside of recent events all the way back to archaic period and such. There’s a good video that explains why native Americans abandoned metal tools in favour for non metal tools. And others.
However I feel not a lot of stuff captured a lot of issues like the corruption of band council governments and how they’re colonial installed governments and not the ones we actually used. And why poverty and stuff is still so rampant. Why there’s no clean water on reserves or why Indigenous peoples are racialized in American and Canadian Laws. A lot of this stuff you’d have to know someone who’s lived on reserve to know that.
You probably have red hair and blue eyes. It’s alway those with the least connections who cry the loudest about everything like the Red Skins football teams and the Apache Helicopters.
The Chumash and Gabrielino-Tongva peoples were the first human inhabitants of the Channel Islands and Santa Monica Mountains areas. Our peoples are known to have lived here for thousands of years; numerous archaeological sites have been uncovered in the past decade some of which date to 15,000 years.
The Tongva have lineage from the Aztecs
@@pricklypear6384 that's your false narrative!
HAU!As a enrolled tribal member of the Ft.Peck Assinboine and Sioux.i believe
The "footprints" Went the other way.
HOKAHE´ and Semper Fi!
Honestly we don't know how long the human race has been around every time the planet goes through an ice age we have to start over from scratch
So the human race in itself could be millions of years old
Interesting but what about the Cerutti Mastodon Site? The bone fragments, together with cobble stones used to break the bones date back to over 130,000 years ago. Site location in the San Diego area.
thats a debunked site.
@@jaysilverheals4445 of COURSE it is rofl by whom???
@@jaysilverheals4445 I googled it.
Nothing about the site being debunked. Lots of respectful explanation of its importance. Just curious, do you remember where you heard it was "debunked"?
I read about that too.
@@jaysilverheals4445 it has not been “debunked”, please re-read the research, it is still on the “table”, sort of speak. Thank you and goodbye.
They are citizens of these Native American Nations, not members, this is a not a club!!
indeed... sovereign nations
Stfu do yu even know how many fake tribe wh*te ppl have created for government funding
Actually NONE of these white words used have any relevance to who we 1st people here are about. All these questions are infantile and naive when it comes us. We are not or ever were "tribes" that is a racist white mans derogatory term.
@@hilohahoma1547 you are a damn fool , we did have tribes , clans , bands and families , wtf
Are
You talking about 😂😂😂😂
@@hilohahoma1547 just Google BANDS of Algonquin Indians or Iroquois Indians
Fact is that the timeline keeps getting pushed further and further back. We're approaching 30,000 years at this point. And what we seem to forget is that time is a very, very efficient eraser. Civilizations could have arisen and fallen many times over much, much longer timeframes...
Could you PLEASE do a piece on East Coast indigenous peoples. I am 1/4 Nanticoke from the Eastern Shore/Delaware area. East coast natives are hardly ever talked about.
Thank you. My 8th great grandmother was Mary Kittamaquund, of the Piscataway tribe that greeted the first settlers in Maryland. And I know Bollings in Virginia, who are direct descendants of Powhatan and Pocahontas.
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I am Cherokee
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the most talked about Indians
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We come from South Carolina
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Im part lenape myself
Tbird2191, shhh, don't ask. You would't like the answer.
You should look up the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania. I was disappointed that he didn't mention it in his list of early archaeological sites. It's one of the first discoveries of evidence of people here before the Clovis culture. It's estimated I think around 18,000 years old.
Only Almighty God knows this truth. May He reveal this to me in a dream. I give hats off to the Cherokee tribe.
Choctaw not Cherokee, Cherokee indians are originally from Mississippi half were forced from Mississippi to Oklahoma and inherited the name Cherokee from the white man
Native Americans don't really believe God we believe in another person
let me know what he says.. please 😋🙏
beliefs.. no matter who you are or what you look like.. are not science... science is all about measuring the Universe we live in... if you don't see the math, it is not science...
blah blah blah and theory.. are just blah blah blah without the math 🧮
God? You're a joke its creator
Very interesting,thank you 🌹
Hello 👋 Mary Shelly how are you doing? Hope you’re having a wonderful day? I was dropping a comment when I come across your profile.I must say you are a very beautiful woman,I liked what you shared , Although we are not friends on here. .May the lord be with you and your family 🙏🕊🕊
The narrative forgot to include the Kennewick man in the oldest remains found. Also, the Hopi are descendants of the Anasazi which derived from a southern Aztec lineage. Moreover, the Hopi creation story has them arriving through the Kelp Highway. A lot of major gaps in this narrative, and the Navajo would be considered a very new tribe.
Thats because the Kennewick man was Polynesian
The Dineh ( Navajo ) are same language roots as Dene people in Canada. Their tribal memories have story of the Great Flood, the melting of the ancient glaciers that created the big rivers and canyons.
This is how the river confluence in the Grand Canyon became a sacred place.
Long ago, when white men asked about the ancient petroglyphs all over Utah, the Navajo said "the people before the flood made these".
In one petroglyph, a wooly mastodon elephant is drawn.
Yes I'll agree. N Canada the ancestors or descendants of the "language" of the Dine' is or was common. First language, back then. But was carried over , over time. So yes, Navajo language is NOT the first. Pueblos were and is today. (I'm full blooded Navajo and I stand by this)....
Its no longer 'Anasazi'..my ancestors are now known as 'Ancestral Puebloans'.
The Hopi’s have been around since about 500 BC!!! The Aztecs had been barely the 13th AD century 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 everyone wants to make the Aztecs the mother franca of all 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 derps.
What I was taught in college was that the Natives immigrated across the land bridge and waited for the glacier to recede. The corridor allowed them to travel from Alaska south. At this time North America was still uninhabitable so they kept traveling south....through Mexico down into South America. After some time, some of the tribes then migrated back up north, back into North America and from there they then migrated to the east. I also was taught that the Anasazi were the oldest tribe. They found a cave somewhere in the US where they found viable corn from that era, and although it did not look like our domesticated corn......it still was viable and grew. Everyone needs to remember.....The Native Americans are the First Americans.
actually, it was the inuit people who cross the far north, they travel from Russia to Greenland.
native people have been on this land, and so far it was proven wrong on that threoy and found out that native people have been farming on the land before caveman was shown fire.
the native people in the east of Canada and USA have been trading with other tribes.
just because they teach native history, does mean they talked to native people, geological finding shown that native people have been on the land longer than this threoy have been told from immigrants.
besides, painting of dinosaur didn't paint themselves.
if the immigrants didn't kill so many native people, then they would have told you that they have been here this long. but like the Mayan clock, you made this threoy on your own because the people who knew were dead from disease that were brought here and killed the native people who knew the truth
White man's college ? And there is your answer.
*migrated not immigrated
The so called naive Americans today are the first in a America. Black peoples are. 🎯
Imagine having to deal with dire wolves, short faced bears bigger then grizzlies and could out run a horse, saber toothed cats etc. No wonder we didn't suffer over-population back then.
And dysentery as well
As a Choctaw, I will tell you we have always been here.
Chahta Anumpa from Ireland
Halito chia Achukma.
Your solidarity will NEVER be forgotten. I have a book on the Choctaw language and culture which I will learn more about. Gaelic is also under similar pressure. Have faith our cultures WILL resurrect and be RESPECTED again.
PS all Choctaw nation have access to scholarships in Ireland.
Slan go Foill
@@esioanniannaho5939
Halito, I am Neshoba Oyeo clan from the Mississippi Band if Choctaw Indians.
We do infact have a strong Irish influence among the people. I myself am a descendant of an irishman who joined the clan almost 200 years ago. It is very nice to meet you.
Does anybody know what happened to the native Americans of New Hampshire and Massachusetts?
Nice to see you here. My step-father was a wise, brilliant, kind Choctaw.
As a Spanaird I offer you literacy and freedom from pagan practices.
I'm disappointed that he left out the Meadowcroft (Pennsylvania) rock shelter that shows evidence of human activity to about 18,000. It's also one of the first finds to show that there were people here before Clovis culture.
The oldest are of European decent so that doesn’t fit the agenda 🤦♂️
@@anthonybrown2426 But what about the Red Paint people? Ocean currents go north, then east. These people were in Europe before whites moved out of the Middle East.
@@marschlosser4540 Did you mean Red Haired people? The oldest found to date are of European decent in a bog graveyard northern Florida. A stash found in Virginia was also of Europeans but this only matters to those with an agenda that doesn’t seek truth/reality.
@@anthonybrown2426 do you know acid in peat bogs bleaches hair red? Did you know there are millions of blacks with red hair? One rinse or two and their hair turns red. Did ya know Africans were trading in the Americas long before the Vikings showed up?
@@marschlosser4540 You’ll need to explain how acidic conditions changed their DNA and created the same tools found at European sites 😂🤣😂
This is the best video on this topic I’ve seen , impartial and well presented
Excellent video. Need more on this topic❣️
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Misinformation.
@@antisimanticath then give the correct information. Otherwise, keep your uninformed OPINION to yourself.
@Miss Moneypenny I think you have that backwards.
@Miss Moneypenny Just shut up! It has been scientifically proven that we Native Americans did NOT come here from Alaska. The only ones who did are the Dine, that you call Navajo. The Tine that you call Apache and the Islets Pueblo. Their language is Inuit. So stop trying to bully me. It is NOT working, whitey!
History is the most fascinating form of knowledge.
ONLY if it's SPOKEN & TAUGHT in TRUTH. Anything else is CRIMINAL .... So should this liar motivated video.
@@vincentestone5764 agreed🖤💯
Marielle Ladt, Agree. But history ain't what it used to be. For explanation, see 1) 2) and 3 below.
"History" is written by those with the biggest printing press.
longer videos! i appreciate your narration
I wold like to add to the narrative that the first people we call indians in America came from Northern Spain, the Basque area. The ice wall extended down to Spain and across the Atlantic Ocean to America. Hunters, hunting for seal travelled the wall by boat, reached America, saw the plentiful game available, and brought their family's. Thirty thousand years ago. Asian American indians were late comers. They waited for the ice to melt. How Zen of them.
There is no human can sailed through atlantic 😑
@@zairatulumierah9436 They didn't sail, but paddled near the ice wall. Stopping where they camped, hunted for fish and seals, or other aquatic life. I believe they did this because the hunting in Europe was dramatically reduced. they were forced to move. Starvation is a potent driver. It seems the East coast Indian tribes are different looking from most of the other Indians on the continent.
Well that’s cool not very informative but my grandmother who was prejudiced against by her Caucasian neighbors and called a prairie Dog or a prairie (racial slur which I won’t give the ghosts who disrespected her the power or the privilege of typing that word), or even remembering their existence and give them power beyond the grave, my Grandmother told me that the first people who walked upon the land which is the body of Mother Earth encountered other people some from the Heavens and some from other lands seeking refuge after a great catastrophe or cataclysmic event, and she said that in the land there dwelt Spirits of the Earth, some good, some evil, and some that were indifferent to the plight or success of man, and that magic ruled the land in the valleys and the high mountains of the breasts of Mother Earth, and that they lived in harmony with all that dwelt in the land and warred among themselves from time to time but in general they got along as neighbors do until the white man came with his diseases and his death dealing forked tongue lying ways and his evil technology which is how they were able to defeat all the tribes through deception and lies, and that someday the ghost dancers would drive them from the land and that peace would again be upon the land and that we would live in harmony again and that her grandmother would smile down upon her from the Heavens and that she would make her delicious flatbread
I’m a Boone we always got along with the original Americans. My grandfather was Cherokee and loved us and the Earth
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Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics chamber degrees will guide you
I like your comment, way more than the video. And I believe your Grandmother and what she said. In the book, Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk says some of the same stuff your Grandmother said. Black Elk was Sioux. It is a fantastic read if you ever want something to read and confirm your Grandmothers words. The book is famous and considered a document of Black Elk's life. I read it back in the 1970s. I belong to the Cherokee tribe. My Grandmother on my white side grew up and lived among the Cherokees most of her life. She married my Cherokee Granddad, who was on the Dawes Roll. Although she was a white woman, she knew a lot of the folklore, if it was just folklore. She told me things that were supernatural in nature, and a person's Grandmother doesn't lie to their grandchildren. I miss her a lot, and she has been gone since, 1978. I will see her again. I really loved what you wrote.
They we’re already here . We are original people. Our people were already here in what we know as California
, Mississippi, Louisiana,Georgia , Mexico and Canada
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The Chumash are the oldest at over 20k years..
We are from the channel islands, where the oldest human bones were found.
We were here during the last mini ice-age, with mammoth & saber-toothed cat.
@MEXICAN AMERICANS not true..ocean-going groups ie: Polynesians, Hawaiians, Chumash etc, were from a group called Austraileo-Asians originating where Taiwan sits today..
more than 20k ago.
The Confederate Salish and kootenai tribes of the flathead nation have stories dating back to their long journey across an ocean of glaciers and living underground many tens of thousands of years when they first migrated to the land they are on now which they have been on for more than 25,000 plus years above land already which mathematically speaking dates our ancient bloodline back to at least 200,000 thousand years ago around the time the last ice age began to thaw! Making them alive and living before the ice age even began so add another few hundred thousand years to that! Truth is native Americans as a hole were the first living humans on earth. The aboriginals are native to our bloodlines as well as we were divinely divided and separated to spread and seed the world and our species as we know it!
The Cerutti Mastodon site is 130,700years old with tool marks. Also topper in the Carolinas is over 50,000years old
I was waiting on this one.
That's incorrect' Scientists have proven it's nine hundred an sixty year's Old.
@@joeboden8898 do more research its easily verified.
Thank you Sir, comment of the day.
Yeah, they supressed the proof for almost 3 decades but the case for 120,000-140,000 years is locked tight now.
My money is on the Hopi BTW as the oldest tribe. There is a strong oral history not just among the Hopi, but among mamy other tribes as well, that the Hopi are the 'old/first ones'.
Tansi! My mother is from the Piapot Band First Nation Saskatchewan, Canada. She was born off the Reserve there in the 1930's and her mother, also my grandmother too, who is a Saulteaux Cree (Nehiyaw) and her dad who's my grandfather is a Chippewa Cree & he's from the Rocky Boy Reservation, Montana, and his mother originated from the Turtle Mountain Reservation Chippewa (Ojibwe) North Dakota..
Excellent graphics, photos, and videos. The timeline of archaeological discoveries indicating earliest humans in America was valuable and well done. However, your narration was difficult to hear over the background music and the audio from the videos. When you make your next excellent video, please tone down the background noise or increase your voiceover volume. You have a great presentation style, so I will look for more of your videos.
Wrong again, there were very light skinned Indigenous people in Turtle Island, who had both red and blond hair long before Europeans ever showed up
The best approach is to have no music or sound effects where there is narration or any form of talking. It's perfectly fine between segments of narration, but not during narration. It's taken a long time for humans to understand this and, generally speaking, they still don't.
Well said Lelia D...I was actually in the comments section when I came across your comment here so I was thrilled to say Hi to you 😊... How are you doing hope you're fine and staying safe?
Absolutely , Native American history, a Cultural Treasure.🇺🇸🗽🇩🇰👀🦅🙏🌺
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All native Americans, in north and south America dissected from Clovis 12,000 years ago? I think not. Recent discoveries have show sites 25,000- 30,000 years ago in North America. And much older in Mexico and central America. Not to mention the ancient megalithic structures in South America.
There was a program on the PBS stations in California called "California's Gold" among other titles. The show went to Calico, a well-known ghost town. The interviewer interviewed several of the archaeologists there. One thing that was brought out was there was some evidence found in the digging was that stone tools around 100,000 years old found deep down in the trenches.
There are a couple of offensive comments on here about this video. Why the hell did you watch it? Personally, I like these types of video as it tells of the History of the Native American Indian and if you can't respect that then don't watch or if you can't say anything good about it don't say anything. Shame on you.
Near the La Brea tar pits in san Diego they have found 150,000 year old village sites the natives used the pits to hunt animals stuck in the tar, scientists are fighting this find but the evidence is piling up every year they find older and older bones.
Not 150,000 years old.
The Anaszi from Chaco canyon means ¨The Ancient Ones¨ now live in pueblos along the Rio Grande River in Northern New Mexico, but, they remember a time when their ancestors lived in the beautiful, stone villages of Chaco Canyon.
Ancestral Puebloan is a more suitable name for my ancestors. 'Anasazi' is a word given to my ancestors by the Dineh (Dinè) people which means 'Ancient Enemy'. We no longer accept the word (anasazi).
Not sure about that . Here and many Pueblos were contemporaries with them sites at chaco and Mesa Verde . Maybe they were gathering places for certain times of year like solstices and such. They may predate or be the places where the Pueblo people came from but it's not that long before the Pueblos migrated from there. Here there has been people since around 300 till now never relocated most rezs here are very great lands too many people like it at least here but not everyone can afford it ,crazy expensive to get close . We, I will say for most part here do take too much for granted these days. Never had it as bad as some of them tribes , geographic location has kept some very traditional, them black people claiming they the real Indians could be easily debunked but they won't listen they make excuses ,like the Curtis archive that just got released they resort to stuff like " wow they them photographer people were good they took these mongoloid people with them to shoots to use them as props while we the real copper colored stood by and watched wondering wtf was going on!" Only mentioned that because the chaco area is one they take great pride in as one of their great accomplishments.
@@scarletred1497 i was going to say the same thing Dinè the people
Thank you for telling about wonderful and extremely ancient places, but I am afraid that you forgot Florida, which also has several highly ancient and fascinating sites
Correct: "the Windover find"
Yup, and a 15000 year old site in NW Florida, the Thomas Site.
Oh thank you for posing the question and then proceeding for the next 6 min and 21 sec to provide no answer.
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My G-Grand Father was an enrolled member of the Choctaw Tribe now in Oklahoma. I know for a fact that is true. When I had my DNA analysised it told me I had Native American blood of the Guajida Indians on the peninsula between Colombia and Venezuela, and also Native Americans from Peru. Apparently people I am related to migrated to S. America from the American South where the Choctaw were originally from.
If you really want to go back to where you were originally from, that would be Mongolia! I just had to have surgury for my epicanthic folds, aka Mongolian folds. It's a trait most Indians have to this day, despite mixed marriages.
I give the speaker credit for the video, however 90 % is from an Anglo-American Eurocentric World view. I also want to acknowledge that the video mentioned native American language and oral traditions are important. Modern scientists often interpret the fossils , genetics , and other evidence to fit their world view ; then later more of their own findings bring into questions previous 'assumptions' . Just think about 🧐🤔✍🏾
Keep learning and know that an interpretation of a body of evidence 🧾 is not an absolute fact. Best to you.
One of the most honest videos I`ve come across . What a surprise in this age of propaganda social media .Thank you
We Native Americans are also related to the Mongols.
Also other east Asians And polinisians And the native new zealandAnd áll latin american and stay away from turkish they are brothers of the white rasist they only want trick nothi g else. I ám a eskimo..brother
@@mikimikaelsen9240 lol u funny :)
@@hy4295 where are you from
...and some are related to the "Basque Irish", Basque being the orgin of the Irish, post Flood era.
The Iroquois, Navajo, and I'm spacing 3rd tribe.
OR . . . the Mongols are related to "We, Nican Tlaca" (so-called Native Americans)
In CA, USA, children of elementary school age in Simi Valley, Ventura County, are given a brief history of the Chumash tribe. Simi = windy, and along with the Santa Ana (Santana's) winds, it definitely suits the area in the Fall. Most commonly taught is the history of those tribes in AZ or NM, perhaps CO. The rich history of tribes in the mid-west or the East coast is something one has to seek out.
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Dee Lynn you've spoken very well..I was actually in the comments section when I came across your comment here so I was thrilled to say Hi to you 😊 hope you're fine and staying safe?
I work in Simi in the mountains. I have suspicion of pyramid I hope to get to it soon to really be able to see if it is or not.
When my Yuchi ancestors came on a ship, having gotten separated from biblical King Solomon's fleet on their way to get gold to cover the Jerusalem temple in approx 945 BC, they found 3 main Indian groups: Alyeska (Eskimo), Dogon cliff dwellers (from northern Africa), and a group from the time of Egyptian Pharaoh Kienne who ruled in 1700's BC and was called 'ruler of the foreign land's. The Yuchi coined the word Algonquin to represent all non-Yuchi people. (Yuchi were a mixture of Hebrew and either Philistine or Canaanite I forget which, who sailed together on Solomon's ship and started their tribe in America and carried on Hebrew customs and holidays which surprised early pilgrims. They sang and praised God around their campfires and my Grandma from Bell County Oklahoma was a Godly woman. I am so inspired by her memory. And the rest DNA tells you who showed up later. Since the Flood occurred in 3100's BC you can guess it took awhile as people multiplied and when 'Phoenicians' started sailing far in about 2200's BC. You can guess who the Phoenicians were, sailing around the Mediterranean and...near north Africa and Egypt and Middle East, and then off to find what was ancient America from what was known about preFlood people... So there you have it, from myself a studier of all things. God bless you.
I went to a public discovery lecture in BC a decade ago by the Victoria Museum, Federal Parks, and Haida Nation about an encampment that today is BELOW HIGH TIDE in the Queen Charlotte islands. Ten thousand years ago it was grassland, connected to the mainland, not a land of large cedar, and grizzly, not black bears. One mandible of a bear in the Victoria Museum is almost eighteen inches long: that's a BIG BEAR. Obviously most settlements would have been erased by the rise in sea levels. Just try to find them, what remains. almost impossible.
I just found out they were called short faced bears.
Our ancestors were African, Cherokee and Choctaw. Proud of our history.
Eastern European German Viking Hun very proud
Based on sacred oral tradition and science the Lakota have been here pry the longest
Look into the spirit cave and hidden caves of the western Paiute tribe of Nevada. They found a mummy, bows, arrows, spears, baskets, and much much more in these caves. It is the oldest site as of now. It is from a time when Nevada and much of the Great Basin was an inland sea with the mountain ranges being islands. This is why Nevada now is filled with high mountains right next to salt flats from the ancient sea (this is also why Death Valley is below sea level)
The geologic and fossil record suggest that the Western inland sea disappeared many millenia before humans arrived on the scene. But, there was a lake drying up, Bonneville?
No the island sea was around at at the time of humans. It was dried up 5,000years after the first humans
According to the Bible, Noah's flood was worldwide and higher than the mountains. The ark has been located in Turkey. All animal life became extinct, except for those on the ark.
@@Kat-fq4ei How does that relate to Natve American history? Anyway, fictional stories don't carry the weight of the fossil record.
A 10,000 year old ancient native settlement was excavated and explored near here just a few years ago in the Missouri river bottoms. A place near where I am originally from the Mississippi river area a tourist attraction in Clarksville mo. Is no longer in use as ancient native American burial grounds were discovered and it is now closed to the public. Burial grounds are sacred. I never heard what tribe claimed it.
It's my tribe. It's the Caddoan Mississippi people .
Most likely black people since they are the true inhabitants of the land
They show North American natives riding horses. As if they don't know the Spanish didn't start bringing the horses here until the mid 1500s. And they didn't bring very many but they started breeding them here which greatly altered the Eco structure.
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Yukon has the oldest bones! The oldest inhabitants would be those at the southern tip of South America so they got here first moving south for better hunting and resources with newcomers pushing them out!
Since we are all on this planet now, if we could all trace our lineage back far enough we would all belong to the oldest people. The age of our genetics is much older than the age of our various cultures, which come and go over 1,000's of years.
Five and a half million people identify as having some Native American ancestry in the US? I think the number is much higher than that.
God bless the Indians of the world , America and they deserve it! 🙏🇺🇸🌟❣👍
French ethnics tended to get along with them. more than the Spanish and British.
Indians are from India. The word is Indigenous.
@@carlosmante Originally Christopher Columbus thought he had found "India", or rather, islands east of India. Yeah, I like the idea of connecting "Indian" to "indigenous" now, sound enough alike that would work.
Words and phrases can change as we learn more. For example, historians no longer use "A.D." and "B.C." (latin for "in the year of our Lord", and "Before Christ"). Proper use is now C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before the Common Era).
Another example: Chinese sounds don't translate well into English. In my lifetime the capitol of China (in English) has gone from Peking to Peiping to Beijing.
I love factoids! 😉
P.S. Highly recommend "Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus". Science fiction, time travel, to change what Columbus did. Vitally important as his arrival in the "New World" sent all humanity on the track to destruction. People from that future come back to fix things.
Spoiler alert:
Ending:
About 60 years after Columbus "disappeared" on his western voyage, a fleet of 1,000 combined Mayan / Incan ships arrive in Spain. 🤣🤣
P.P.S. Yes, I know, Mayans died out and were replaced by Aztecs. But part of the changes the time travelers made (the time travelers went to several different times to change things) were to keep the Mayans strong so Aztec (sun / blood worshippers) never become dominant. That is, in this scifi book.
P.P.P.S. --- No. I'll stop myself. --- 😁
@@veralenora7368 Columbus was a rapist, kidnapper, murder, torcher, thief, read an unbias book not burned by the Catholica cult and you will agree.
I have commented before, and the narrator mentioned that there are no written records. Most people read and wrote images to give a general idea of events. How well they might be preserved depended on who guarded them and was responsible.
Another problem is that when a tribe settled into a village, it had to be located near running water and with sufficient fish and game to sustain the people. That would indicate a river outlet near the sea. As the glaciers melted, the level of the ocean rose, forcing those people inland. The remains of the original village would have been washed away. Safe to estimate 15K to 20K. But that does not take into consideration the possibility of migration from Europe because there would be land bridges from that part of the world also. They may not have been permanent?
Yes I've seen some excellent documentaries on ice Bridge from Europe to the americas, and then swamplike conditions that were "canoeable".. this was supported by geological finds of foliage and insects in sea rocks. I don't recall who made the films now.
Native American females are the prettiest women on earth.
Good and informative video, Thank You!! Your video provides an outline, a framework, and/or starting point of North and South American Indians people can use to do more or extensive research on their own. There are many great comments here that also provide further information. Thank You to those who did so!! Many shared their American Indian tribe or nation which is wonderful to see as well as the pride they have for their heritage. Thank You one and all for sharing your Indian heritage!! Unfortunately, there are many hateful, racist [overused, I know but unfortunately, true], critical, and judgemental comments as well. Frankly, we all need to learn tolerance and acceptance, learn how to forgive each other for our past sins and mistakes, and remember, America is a nation of immigrants. Our ancestors all came from somewhere else. Some sooner, some later. No, it won't be easy but nothing worth doing ever is. And if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing. Thank You and GOD Bless!!
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We are the aboriginals of the Americas.
We are part of this soil, like the Saguaro. We didn't come from Asia. I Hear that from Elders not from books. . Peace to all.
No your not aboriginal
Does anyone else notice the irony that this post about Native Americans is narrated by a man with a British accent?
What about the mound builders?
We have a lot of undocumented mounds in Ohio deep in the woods
Older still easily comparable to the Megalithic builders.
The Kahokian culture had a big civilization in Mississippi River valley, maybe the melting glaciers flooded them out.
The moundbuilders are much like the temple builders in Central America, and the Inca.
The silver & gold that went back to Spain was when Mexico was Viceroyalty of New Spain.
When Mexico declared Independence in 1821, they stole land from California Indian Tribes, and in 1833, they secularized the California Missions, taking the lands from the Church.
Texas revolted in 1835 ( helped by Indians! ) then the gringo Texans told most of the Indians to leave Texas.
In 1847, gringos got California, Arizona, New Mexico, then kicked-out the Chinese in 1882.
In 1850, the first Governor of California put a bounty for scalps, or heads, of California Indians.
In 1905, Northern California lands were given back to a number of tribes, called "Rancherias" instead of reservations.
So many questions, mysteries, unknowns. Early sites are either washed away or buried deep below us. Someday we may find some answers, but likely just more questions.
@@boostjunkie2320 were you see a hill top we were
You pose a question in the title to this video and in the first few seconds of the video you tell us that no one knows for sure who came first. So what is the purpose of this ridiculous piece of pure speculation?
A good bit about even the vaguely known past is speculative. It becomes murky indeed when one tries to dip into pre-history
You get almost to the end, and it says maybe there will never be an answer! Huh?
Click bait.
Exactly.
@@garyfrancis6193 Exactly.
It is my understanding that the "Sioux" never called themselves that. This was a word that surrounding tribes called them. The two tribes I am aware of among the "Sioux" were the Lakota and Oglala. This was from foggy memory from years ago when I was reading about the REAL cause of the near-extinction of the buffalo (Yeah, I know, but everyone else calls them that.). It was NOT the buffalo hunter. Anyone with a command of grade school arithmetic knows that (estimated population of up to 2 billion buffalo). This would require a skirmish line from Canada to Florida and the output of all the ammo factories for years. It was the White man, but not the buffalo hunter. White man's cattle carried bovine diseases ( e.g., hoof and mouth disease) the buffalo had no resistance to. Pictures of dead buffalo along railroad right-of-way extended well beyond rifle range.
Not only that but a lot of white settlers and army slaughtered many buffalos so the Plains tribes would not hunt for food. And also the whites wanted hides for various things. There is a famous picture of white hunter standing next to many many buffalo skulls and many many piles of buffalo hides. So unfortunate they nearly wiped out the spieces.
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This may explain eradication of local populations of buffalo. Generally, the near-extinction was due to bovine diseases. Simple grade school arithmetic proves this.
@@andybreglia9431 I'm way past simple grade school history. I focus only on current up-to-date research/history on this topic. Don't undermine the effects that early white settlers and US Calvary did to the animal population especially the buffalo and wolves.
@@scarletred1497:
I've seen the picture. How many skulls were gotten by hind hunters and how many were from found dead from bovine diseases? I've seen pictures of dead buffalo along railroad tracks misascribed to shooters with dead far beyond rifle range. A pandemic of bovine diseases accomplished this. Railroad track layers took what they needed to feed the crew, cavalry took what they needed to fill their ladders. Hide hunters took a lot, but nothing near the two billion buffalo.
Here a twist, How about the Natives came from here. Then traveled to Asia and populated it there.
They were the first people who discovered America before Columbus’s discovery to America because he thought he was in India. But I didn’t know I was from Asia
@@tortuha_sol Mormons believe all peoples originated from USA and moved to other countries from there. Don't understand why that theory is never examined. Some Native American's DNA doesn't link to anyone but their own. Wouldn't that make them the 1st? Would love to see the testing reversed and see how many people's of the world DNA link to that population of Native American's.
When I saw that comment, I thought you was talking about what if the Native Americans were the colonialist. Interesting idea I made, though (not it be offensive).
@@tortuha_sol a lot of human DNA comes from Asia.
@@thenamesellen6383 there is évidence of Native Americans in Ancient Egypt,it was customary for some Rulers to have a foriegn treasury dept...as a matter of fact ,tuts treasurer was named Maya,,,,,,and her "vulture" was a little fat,and has something hanging from its beak. Ramses 2, had warriors in his camp with distinctive Native American headdresses,and awar bonnets. The Dogon of West African ,and the Hopi and Navajo has the same creation story,both claim to be from the same star constellation,..and the dogon act out its orbit in the galaxy,science has prove there rendition accurate, soits alot out there,you were not far off.😁
My moshum (grandpa) told me that the Cree were the first Native Heritage
Americans like to over look Canada!
Apache is part of the Athapascan aboriginal language family, so is Cree
My mushom said we all started off as cree but other tribe got mad or something and started naming and making their own tribes
Jordan I'm from Saskatchewan, are you?
@@kerinl.holmstrom1810 yeah
I'm Navajo and I was told, we all migrated back down and splitting off one by one back to where we originally came.
Calling us one wasn't right, but just calling ourselves people was better. That's why we have a family clan system that still exists today.
I'm guessing Pueblo. As they are said to be descendents of the Anasazai.
A question becomes, did people travel south and leave settlers behind, or was it new tribes pushing a tribe further south. The first one means Alaska or Northern Canada would have the oldest tribe, the second mean the oldest ends up further south
We follow the game animals and birds and fond water fish and some clants stay in spots and others move on far and language change has where far apart and it cool fond fruit and berries lives got better so sweet to find out tribes be the longest of all people in colors it great
Inuit?
What if the New World was settled BOTH from north to south -- and also from south to north, by unrelated Old World ethnicities? This is what happened...
3:21 Ahhh, the 15k year old poop dates my people! Glad you showed the photo. People need to see this eternal poop!
Our ancestors have been on these lands for over 15,000 years....
Lack of facial hair was the mark of cain and they were bannished to a far-off land( the Americas). So they have been here much longer than 15000 years!?😂😉😁
@Davontay Hase he said ancestors. Comprehension is key.
@@cwdotson9930 there has never been a reference in regards to the America’s in the old or New Testament 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 how do you know they weren’t banished to Atlantis just before it became non existent? You don’t know shit.
The Hopi started out living around where Washington D.C./ Virginia area. They have a tribal story that is supported by other tribes that Jesus walked with the Hopi for over 300 years. This story put them at odds with the first Christian settlers and the Hopi was forced west to avoid extermination. The tribes along there migration protected them from their pursuers by closing in behind them. This narrative came from a friend of mine who is a full blooded Menomonie Indian which lives in Northern Wisconsin and which is the only tribe to have sent a warrior to every war this country has ever been in dating back to the British and then the US.
American are not the same anymore. they evolved faster than any Nemo.
I only know Hopi from Arizona... I'm part Navajo
Read the book of Mormon
With Jesus residing with the Hopi’s, at least Jesus was proud that peace and love was present. What Jesus was preaching was being lived. Wish other’s could adopt this mentality. The Hopi blanket shows and tells the story of the great flood.
@@michelleisker343 Hopi, and Navajo have been at war for ages. One can blame the other, but this is a fact. Another unpopular fact is when European settlers arrived, it was in the middle of Indian continental war.
This was no Utopia we busted up. Native Americans were savages towards each other in genocide, starvation, slavery.
This video is outdated cause there's been verification of human settlements as old as 48,000 years ago
The Clovis stone points don't match any of the weapons found in Northeastern Asia, but are similar to those found in Western Europe. The theory that some migrated from Europe across the frozen Atlantic was ignored in this video.
Some call that new migration model "Solutrian."
Projectile points found in North Western Europe closely match clovis points
@@celticrose2 If you're interested in world tribes, I strongly recommend "An Outline of History" by H.G. Wells. Yeah, the science fiction writer (Time Machine, War of the Worlds, 20,000 leagues under the sea, etc.) but the "Outline" is a 2 volume nonfiction book. An easy, interesting read as you might expect from the man who also wrote "Time Machine."
Starts with the formation of the Earth! Volume 1 spends a lot of time on historic tribes of Europe and Asia. Wells originally ended at W.W. I. Then he did two updated editions as time passed. It was such a phenomenally important book, scholars continued to update it until 1971. Used copies are still available.
I just finished volume 1, end of the Roman Empire, collapse of Europe, but China is doing just fine. He hasn't mentioned the Western Hemisphere yet. Wells was not a fan of the Romans, lots of criticism. Surprised me!
Retired librarian, MI / US (Descendent of Viking tribes: Danish)
@@celticrose2 You are using misinformation found in the children's book of fairy tales. What did your talking serpent tell you how the man who lived 3 days in the belly of a great fish survived?
@Queen Goddess IQ Please cite your sources. I've never heard this before. Ancient Kush was south of Egypt. That's a lot of travel. No, I have to take that back. The Kushites conquered Egypt for awhile. Is that what you're talking about. Anyhow, a source would be good. Thank you.
Cool history. I like knowing the history as I have different Native blood in my ancestry and interesting to know more about them
obviously that documentary doesnt considered at all the native American on Canadian territory part that's really weird
6 1/2 minutes of a guy explaining that we really don’t know
Thanks, Im out.
Thanks I stopped watching a minute in and never went back
Its written in the Old Testament who where the first people to this land .
2nd book of Esdras chp 13 40-45
@@yourallsinners1336 great precept
@@yourallsinners1336 lol, people were here for millennia before the old testament was written
Common sense would tell us that there wasn't just one migration or method over many millenia of human existence.