I went to a Indian boarding school and I remember the history books we used only had two pages about the history of natives, I got most of my knowledge from family. I'm still finding things out about our history here in Arizona. What I knew from a young age was that the government can't be trusted.
Please can you and your family publish in a book your own history books or at least put it on the internet so the more history is out there from your families perspective, the better because at least it's the truth
@@Taylor086I would be in a state of pure happiness writing history. Im going to start writing and give it a go. May I ask if you can suggest any websites or platforms that I can use to begin?
True and I always get white people trying to educate me about my own culture. American ignorance is on par and worse than that of nazis. Actually I think nazis were inspired by American genocides. ✌
I’m Tlingit and Haida from Alaska, and less than 60 years ago the white church took two of my great grandmothers children away because they said she had too many. We just found them last year after they had both passed away. Their daughters were able to go back out our home in South East Alaska and meet their family. They had no idea they were Tlingit.
The largest nuclear disaster in US history which happened on the Navajo Nation, growing up we were never taught what happened a few miles from us in school, we never new that our land was contaminated with uranium and not one mention was ever placed in school books
Yep. The only reference to any human suffering I ever saw was the cancer John Wayne got from shooting movies there (of course, it took his life). No mention Ever of Any Native problems, as if there was no effect at all
Yeah, my grandma grew up in that area-not in the Navajo Nation tho. She’s been battling really bad skin cancer most of her life, so I can only imagine what it’s been like for those closer to the epicenter. Colonialism just keeps on taking. I hope to visit the Navajo Nation in the future, if I’d be welcomed. I’ve actually had this dream to walk down from where I’m at (it’s like 500 miles).
The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 is thought to be the worst nuclear disaster in American history, but the Church Rock uranium mill spill in New Mexico, which occurred just four months later, actually released even more radioactive material into the environment. To say that the spill was cleaned up would be a major overstatement.
@@standdown4929 that makes me think of Marshall Islands. That’s a big toxic mess we left there. They were talking about cleaning it up in 2019, but I don’t think they actually did. They had apparently tried to clean it up multiple times before. They had sent some guys out in the 70’s without appropriate gear and they got sick. Just like the u.s.,add it to the long list.
I'm very thankful for a honest history teacher in high school. She often told us there was more to the history than what was in our books and to remember that history is always written by the winners/ those in power. So it is biased
So explain how we know about Carthage if the Romans were the ones writing the history. Let's not forget the Southern perspective regarding the Civil War, because, as we all know they lost so we shouldn't be hearing from them. That whole "history is written by the victors" is such a blatantly false claim. History is written by the survivors, and in many cases the losers. Japan lost WW2 harder than anyone ever lost a war and yet they have absolutely no hesitation to paint themselves as the righteous warriors trying to free their Asian brethren from the horrible European overlords, ignoring that they did it by cutting off their heads and testing biological warfare against those very Asians.
@@nobodyspecial4702 my pt is they write history in their pv. They can choose to add, remove or adjust things. Doesn't necessarily mean they will lie. Just look at history book from other nations.
"His" story is the winners story and supposedly the truth. Lots of pomp and circumstance to whitewash the dark and degrading things done in the name of I want it and I want it NOW.
History is not written by victors, they are written by the country you’re reading it from and looking at political propaganda you’d know they are easily lying to you. In reality history is not something you read in school on a book, history is what you learn from your grandparents, your community elders, etc. people telling you historical events through their own perspectives and you piecing the causes of events but you’re not allowed to make any judgments.
History books need to be reviewed, corrected, and redistributed. It’s sad that history is only documented by those who have power. They wrote their own history to teach us what they wanted us to only know, which kept us ignorant of the real facts, and I’m glad we have the open communication by the web.
They taught us it was a bunch of explorers and adventures that came to find their fortune. They painted it like a movie. It was really a bunch of greedy murderers who where ruthless in obtaining their prize
@@andrewhernandez2188 that what they taught you about the gold rush? I doubt it, the rush to California is actually pretty well known by now to be a huge land grab full of horrible outcome for the indigenous inhabitants. I don't remember any classroom teaching the gold rush was about explorers especially when California had already been "discovered" by other Europeans.
@@ezralbs5157 i was taught that it was all about hitting the "jackpot". In 4th grade they dont teach you about genocide. We took a field trip to Jamestown to go panning for gold. But then again this was like 25 years ago
I am a college senior, studying to be an elementary school teacher. I came across this video while making an earth science lesson plan about classifying minerals. I wanted to connect The Gold Rush to differentiating between pyrite (fools gold) and gold. After watching this video, I can say that the lesson will be taking on a completely different form. I have lived in the US my whole life and was taught about the gold rush in school, yet this is all new information to me. I am continually disappointed and frustrated in the way that the education system fails to tell young, impressionable children the complete story and glorifies white people regardless of their actions. Thank you for making this resource. Thank you for sharing information. Your stories deserve to be heard.
Watch "The last of his tribe " and if possible read "genocide at roundvalley" for more of the truth you will have a hard time finding in any schoolbook about the 49rs.
Do yourself a favor, and don't fall for the claim that a video showing the opinions of only 2 people is in way something you should incorporate into any lesson plan. It's no different than the very claim that these producers made that the recorded history completely false. The opinion of a woman and her child, with no substantiation at all other than "well, we were told" doesn't prove or disprove anything. For all anyone knows, these two heard of something then just went to town creating their own viewpoint without ever learning anything at all. The "the mass graves are estimated to contain between 10 and 800 bodies" is a pretty glaring lack of clarity. There's a considerable difference in the size of a mass grave that contains 10 people and one that contains up to 800. Any halfway decent archeologist would never use a wildly inaccurate number like that.
@@nobodyspecial4702 are you also discounting the author’s 10 years of research? At some point Truth have to trump “race loyalty”. What those people did isn’t your blame to wear. You can denounce it as a decent human being.
@@DosesOfDarkness I have no idea how you decided that I must be claiming that never happened, because nothing in my comment even remotely gives that impression. What I did point out was that a "documentary" which provides only two opinions, one of which is entirely hearsay as I pointed out, isn't something anyone in college should cite as a source. It's called "giving good advice" to students instead of having anything to do with race or history.
I'm a native Californian. I even have a history degree from a CalState. I didn't know this. Isn't it kind of like a German not knowing there were death camps?
I'm not sure what kind of correlation youre going for here but assuming you are referring to the Nazi concentration camps during WWII, then no, it is not even remotely similar to a German not being aware of "death camps." Those atrocities were widely documented, in particular by many other countries, and the German government not only acknowledges what happened but it's part of their mandatory education. Which is the exact opposite of what is included in American education. Which is the point of this video.
@Accidental Colors Right. I guess my rhetorical device fell flat. Of course every German knows about the camps because--ironically--the US mandated it. We didn't make similar demands on the Japanese, maybe because they weren't as thoroughly occupied and defeated as the Germans, their culture seemed more alien and incorrigible, and finally--we just needed them more in the Cold War calculation. It was logically taken for granted that the Germans wouldn't willingly turn Soviet. I had known that official bounties were put on Califonia Indian heads, but it's nothing I got from school. I guess my basic point is that California's worst atrocity isn't even common knowledge. But to rehabilitate my initial point, Hitler studied, admired, and emulated US policy towards Indians in his march East. Difference is Hitler lost, and Californians won.
When the internet was created , the government said it would be used to equalize education in all schools. It is so very much bigger than schools . Videos like this one speak a powerful truth that was denied in schools , now the truth is unstoppable . thank you for making this.
Jayden Lim is one intelligent, brave beautiful soul. She is proud of her heritage and she is willing to fight to be heard! Love people like her who doesn’t care of government actions as long as she is heard and her point taken. Much respect for you Jayden Lim I have your back
My jaw dropped as I learn, mega genocide of indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native Americans population is 15 million, while European population, in Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'ONE BILLION'! A sad truth. I agree, about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return to rightful owners indigenous Native American people. True, notorious global cardinal crimes Anglo West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why is notorious Colonization still lingering on, which makes sense.
@@imlovely6522 It's a jaw dropping mega genocide. For instance, 200 years ago here in the USA, around 3 million Germans came, and now there are 65 millions German-Americans; while 150 years ago, around 2 millions Irish came, and now there are 45 million Irish-Americans. While 500 years ago there were estimated to be 5 to 6 millions indigenous Native Americans in the USA, before Christopher Columbus arrived, today there are only around 2 million indigenous Native Americans survived. Imagine this scenario, if Native American people cross the Atlantic, invade and Colonize Europe, and slaughter most Europeans, and put the remaining populations in tiny reservations, for 500 long years. How would Europeans feel about it? Think about it. All they need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for generations. Besides, indigenous Native Americans in Colonized lands of Anglo British, Spaniard and others are more of the same. Kill the indigenous Natives and whoever is left, marginalize them and create artificial poverty, once that poverty becomes crime and drinking, the media points to the poor and blames them to continue to stigmatize the 'other' community, scumbags, etc. Amazing fact that Indigenous Natives had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from the scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for ten of thousand of years. In other words, they actually are great and proud people. Imagine what it would be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? The answer is they would still have their own beloved motherlands, plus their population comparable to that of European population.
@@olefella7561 "We're still here.., we are not going anywhere." - Native Americans May I ask, why don't they all have a family reunion on their very own land of jolly old Europe, and return the looted land to the original rightful owner, indigenous Native American people? Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization are evil things done, and benefited by evildoers. All they, indigenous Native people need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for tens of thousands of years. Remember, notorious centuries-long global cardinal crimes that the West had committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? Why not let Native Americans have Europe, since Europeans have had both North & South America Continents; a fair deal? Remember the saying, "A Man's Got To Do, What A Man's Got To Do".
@@arthurmorgan8217 Genocide in History What about Genocide happening today in Xinjiang and Burma?? Left wing media ignore Genocide happening today but take great interest into Genocide happened century ago!!
@@charliegladfelter1157 you have to learn about the past to keep these things from happening. Also most of the people who I have heard talk about the genocide are the more left leaning.
When my daughter watched this, she was so shocked and upset. She was writing about the gold rush, and decided to use this information in her book. She thanks you for sharing this and is furious at the white settlers.
I hope she went and found sources instead of quoting this leftist rag. I would hope you're a better parent than that although the fact you showed her this video says otherwise.
@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 I stop watching this after story of guns and weapons to kill native Americans such of BS, even in this days without gun nobody can walk even three streets if everyone around know he is gold miner maybe with sack full of gold, where is gold there is robbery, where is robbery there are weapons to protect gold, good luck to digging gold in middle of nowhere without gun and knife.
Thank you for creating and sharing this content on the history that's been hidden. Cleaning out the skeletons is part of the healing and reconciliation process.
@Don Smith Custer was a coward and deserved what he got, he wasn't the great fighter that settlers think he is, he attacked in the middle of the night or very early hours of the day, once Native people figured him out, they destroyed his ass gutless ass, just for your comment, I think I'll wear my "Custer wore arrow shirts" today.
Native Americans owned black slaves the same as white people and treated them Jaír as bad. They also treated each other horribly and fought each other for resources, so I don’t know why you think they’re the “nicest”. If anything that’s a stereotype.
Yeah, today. 150 years ago, when a native tribe went to war with another tribe for land, the losing tribe was exterminated. Be happy the white people didn't wage war the way the natives did or there wouldn't be any natives left at all.
*"Families starved on the meager rations they provided, only four cups of wheat a day for a family. When one young man asked for more wheat for his sick mother, Stone reportedly killed him."* Those two murderers were cold hearted and sick in the head!
When I was in High School...RENO High School...we had a new History teacher. And when we came to the "Indian Wars" chapter, I opened my book and on the very first page of the chapter it stated that Sitting Bull led the attack on Custer. I stood up in class and threw my book on the floor, then told the teacher this book was a bunch of crap. The teacher came over to me and very diplomatically said "What makes you think that?" I angrily told her that Sitting Bull wasnt even in that battle because he was up on a mountain top somewhere praying for the warriors at Little Big Horn to be victorious. She surprisingly said to me "Can you bring in something that can collaborate what you are saying??" I said sure I can, I will bring in a copy of the book .'BURY MY HEART at WOUNDED KNEE. So I did. And that teacher ended up giving me an A- for that class and didnt even punish me for vandalizing the textbook. Ofcourse everyone else in my class was angry that I didnt get punished for my actions...Reno High back then was about 97% white. I was so proud of that A-, and I will never forget that teacher either. The only open minded teacher at that school. I sincerely hope our HISTORY books will FINALLY get completely revised so they can contain the authentic history of our country. But I doubt it. The wise old saying..."He who tells the Story...RULES THE WORLD! An absolute FACT.
I had no idea this happened in California and I'm currently in college currently taking US history. It's insane how many Indians died in this short period. People always downplay all these crimes by making excuses like "oh it was mostly diseases that killed them" or "well natives were enslaving and killing each other forever, it wasn't that bad". But this is truly sick, there's no excuse for it.
@@AsiaMinor12 These aren’t really excuses because it’s true that Natuves brutalized each other, but it still was pretty bad, but I wouldn’t say it was more bad because as I mentioned pretty much everyone was being bad in this time period. Admitting the natives were also and doesn’t take away from their hardships. When looking at history you have to tell the full story.
Thank you for sharing this story on such a large media source. Despite growing up attending California public schools I only learned about the bloody island massacre when I moved to Lake county and got curious about the plaque at the side of the road that I kept driving past. It's a grave injustice that this is not more prominent in historical curriculum.
I had no clue this happened in my great state. It's about TIME the state of California ACKNOWLEDGE the atrocities, locate the remains, and provide proper burials for those who suffered.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Don’t even try to downplay Native Americans like that. Sure they fought each other, but at least the men didn’t come over and r*pe every woman like the white men did, killed almost ever man, r*ped and killed children, took land that wasn’t theirs, lied, stole, and the list can go on and on. Native Americans also didn’t use African-American slaves teeth, mass lynchings, Jim Crow laws, segregation and like I said I can go on and on. Have some respect for the land your standing on and the people that have been here for centuries because we were the first of this land, colonizer.
@@kupidrosalindavateri3965 You are so misinformed. Do you honestly think the tribes that exist today are the only ones who existed 500 years ago? Hardly. You didn't hear from the losers of the Indian wars because they ceased to exist. Europeans were into relocation, Natives were into extermination.
Didn't you listen? Your state is not great. You benefit from this atrocity. You should be ashamed for even considering your state to be great. How dare you.
It’s crazy how this sounds exactly like the suffering of Palestinians … no wonder why the government supports the occupiers of Palestine because they’re doing what they did to the Natives in the past
After the Pulse Nightclub shooting, it was being described as the "Worst mass shooting in US History". I wrote to the NPR Ombudsman that was not true, and listed a link, I believe from Wikipedia, listing the massacres of Native Americans over United States history. I eliminated every one that there was even a remote possibility of it being a military conflict, and was a slaughter of typically an entire village so it would have over 50 killings. I cannot remember how many there were, it was substantial. In two days, evidently enough of us wrote that they inserted the term "modern", as in the worst mass shooting in modern US history. BBC changed their language to match that a day later. So slowly our children are learning about this history. I learned because I was am an avid History reader, and found about the Sand Creek Massacre during the Civil War. It was a WTF moment, and I started reconsidering and researching everything I had not been taught, even in College History. King Philips War, or maybe it should be renamed the New England Genocide Campaign against the Seneca, should be taught in every High School US History. They have now found records of the sales of Native Americans taken "captive" during that conflict to the notoriously brutal Spanish Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean, where the New England slave merchants selling them complain the Spanish give the low prices, because the Spanish state the Indians die too quickly as slaves. My kids have both learned to have a very critical view of history, and my daughter was offended about how none of the grade school Social Studies mentioned anything except a very sanitized version of US interactions with First Nations. They had a Thanksgiving stage show that was profoundly disturbing, with a "Good Indian" narrative. It is changing, though, as my 5th grade son actually has a teacher who has covered about how New England Colonial/First Nations interactions started deteriorating very quickly. I remember when I was first reconsidering the typical "US Nationalism" history, and looked at all of the reservations in the US as a starting location. The history of the ethnic cleansing East of the Mississippi was well documented, but I was puzzled about the lack of them in California. Then I looked at the census data, and realized, just like the Nazis, there were a whole lot of people who simply "disappeared" during and after the Gold Rush. it's a sobering thought. I'm happy to see this video here providing a testament to that shameful period of US History.
I know that at wounded knee there was more killed then at pulse night club. I've heard people try to flip that and say that the natives were armed so it isn't the same as a mass shooting. Apples and oranges?? Idk, I do know the United States would love to forget what happened at wounded knee
It’s definitely covered up. It’s well documented, but not well taught, that the literal orders against Native Peoples was “total surrender or total annihilation.”
It's absolutely not the same thing. Of course massacres in which there were dozens or hundreds of perpetrators will have more victims. The point is the Pulse shooter was one guy, who managed to kill so many.
1675 King Phillips War; Indian women and children were servants to whites, Indian men had had enough and war broke out all over New England, a planned attack by Indians against the whites.... Interesting that that war is called "King Phillips War." "King Phillip was an Indian man called "King Phillip" by the whites either because of the way he carried himself and/or the clothing he wore. Yes, many wars on Indian villages, have not been reported and never will be becuse so mny Indians died of disease, were killed, or fled. Millions of voices censored...but their spirits live on.
@Penderyn yeah true. I’ve always been into history. Got to college and learned so much I knew was either a full lie or wasn’t the whole story. Made me love history so much more that I minored in it
@@pHixiq I love history to because it has two perspective from both sides which both become true when find the middle. It also male my proud of my Colonial and settler ancestors even more despite them killing Native Americans or enslaving black Americans because they were the ones who made this great nation. And now it's being ruined by people triggered by dark parts of our history or rather stay in that part of history and destroy this Nation we built. I'm against that. That is why I love history and especially the history of the United States.
@@pHixiq Also people need to realize that. Ative Americans were not peaceful people either. People keep bringing up the encounter of Columbus with the Taino or with Jamestown with the Padwan tribes bringing food and helping settlers means they were peaceful people isn't accurate. Sure Columbus took advantage at there curiosity towards Columbus and his men for having there guard down but obviously they were also kn constant conflict with other tribes in the island with them. The same with Pocohantas tribe and the Cherokee and other smaller tribes belonging to there respecti e nations.
As a Black person, this video was sad. This made me mad. Some white people complain about freedom. Blacks brown and American Native Indians is still fighting for their freedom. I am glad this video was made. It is good to know about history bad or good. I will be showing this to my grandchildren. Please make more. I just subscribed to your channel. Thank you
When you compare what native Americans went through modern day blacks don’t have much to complain about. Civil rights happened almost 50 years ago ! No reason for 4 generations of people to stay in the projects. If my mom can get out after one generation so can they! Not to mention I’m Italian American and my family was treated like TRASH when we came over here in the early 1900s AFTER slavery. So the constant speculation that ALL “wypipo” come from slave masters is just as ludicrous as saying all black people come from slaves. It’s just NOT true!
@@tula1433 Blacks have every right to complain. These people have land and money and sit around doing drugs and drinking all day on the reservation still complaining about land they lost over 400 years ago. They have nothing to complain about this want their land originally as they came from Siberia they were compensated Blacks weren’t.
You are not fighting for your freedom if you're a black American you're just as free as anyone else. And the modern day slave trade was started by black Muslim Africans in North Africa who were taught by Muslims that God allows Muslims to enslave non Muslims. That's how the modern antebellum slave trade was started, by black Muslims in North Africa.
As a white person, it's uncomfortable to think of people who looked like me, committing such atrocities but it's true. We have to teach history _as it happened,_ not as we would like to _think_ it happened.
@@Atamanxxxvii Oh? Such interesting assumptions! Well then... please, articulate for me what my grasp on history is. I need you, kind internet stranger, to tell me what I do and don't know. Additionally, would you mind telling me who it is I'm criticizing? I'm going to need to know that, too. Thanks!!
@EpsilonGoods First, I am a married, middle-aged white woman, mother of three, and an elementary schoolteacher (don't let my Coolio pic fool you, it's a play on words). But, you don't have to believe me; I don't really care. Second, did I say I felt responsible? Where did I say that? I'll save you the trouble of looking for it - I never said I felt responsible, because I'm not responsible for anyone's actions but my own. You just projected that very stale trope on to my statement. That doesn't mean I can't feel sad or compassionate.
@AGDinCA: We can further the process of healing and continue to expand our understanding of our American history properly by renaming the San Francisco 49ers.
I myself am a very active gold miner and have been since my native american step grandfather taught me how to "wash gravel" at 8 or 9 years of age. Im surprised that he never mentioned anything about these shameful acts as he was huge on history. I have always been fascinated with native american culture solely because of him. Its no wonder he was always in trouble in his younger years, cant avoid it when its basically illegal just to be an Indian.
When you watch a report that only includes the opinions of two people, you should question just how accurate it is. Sure, anyone can claim that a massacre took place but when they tell you if the dead numbered between 10 to 800, that's a pretty good indicator that they don't really know what they're talking about.
I think many of the people who suffered through all of this didn’t talk about it because it was painful. Also, I think there was some level of fear about talking about it. It’s the same for the people who came out of slavery. Some may have, certainly, but a lot of people seem to have just shut it out according to their descendants.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Even 10 people killed in an irrationally formed act of vengeance against an entire community is still incredibly noteworthy. Should they not mention it at all just because the perpetrators were not careful enough to record the death count? Later in the video, they literally said militia records show that the officially recorded death tolls in altercations were given rarely a number, and instead used descriptions like "an entire village, except a few children". Is it really not worth mentioning because the lives taken weren't considered valuable enough to be quantified?
@@ellep.6204 Are these two admitting to the people that were killed by Native Americans during the gold rush? Nope. Only the Natives killed matter to them. History from only one side is called "propaganda." Good propaganda provides enough information that it sounds believable, while bad propaganda leaves everything up to your imagination. Nobody disputes that Natives were killed but nobody disputes Natives did their share of killing too. Well, nobody except the producers of this video.
@@nobodyspecial4702natives never enacted systemic genocide, and more often than not aided the survival of settlers. I mean hell, 70% or more of the global food supply is based on native foods (90% beans, and literally every culture features potatoes in some capacity). Don’t fret, your genocide apologist perspective is alive and well.
This is in all American History taught in the school systems. I am a Puerto Rican-American and I hear the very lies that are sprouted about the island culture and too knew the Truth made me sad and wished Christopher Columbus never stepped foot on The Island. Yes that is the second place. That famous phrase "The Indians" was coined on that very island.
I was spoon fed those lies as well. Like I was in middle school when I found out Christopher Columbus was horrible. Like we got statues and places names after him. But he didn’t even set foot in the US. The only one was I think another European explorer who landed in present day florida
British did the same to us in Nigeria. Belgium did the same to our brothers and sister in the Congo, the list goes on and on . . . This is their nature. Unfortunately for them, it will come back to them
I hate that the school district doesn’t teach kids about this there always cover it up if it’s not a white person they don’t care to put it in text books . but this is how people need to see it they can’t cut out parts of the story because it’s “inappropriate content” native Americans are so important to American teaching today .
Just like Thanksgiving I was all for it back in the day thinking pilgrims and "Indians" (the coined term I used to use) were all happily eating together more like bs
Native Americans should fight harder for their rights. I hate what was done to them. And I didn't know the conditions of those reservations until recently. It's awful.
@@elsikpych well, technically no, I can’t leave. I know that I am on Ute, Goshute, Paiute, and Shoshone land, so when I leave this territory, I’ll be able to leave a payment with those Tribes for my time here. If there’s anything that I can do in the meantime, they will let me know. Sorry I can’t leave, for your sake and my own. Unfortunately, the colonialist government owns me and my child (conceived without my consent, As I’m asexual), and they won’t let me or them go. maybe my baby will be brainwashed and never come home to me, but I would have taught them differently. I cannot leave, but you can let it all out on me. I hear your pain, and it is valid. I wish I could leave, and I always think of what the land used to be, and what it would still be without colonialism bringing all of its death. Even when I try to work with nature in the garden, they hate it-she gives me so many beautiful things, then the colonialists just raze it, and charge me for it (I eat most of what grows). Im always standing up against the colonialists because I see who they are and what they’ve done/still do (I’m sorry that you think I’m one of them, but I’m wearing a skin that isn’t my own). I’m sorry for your pain, and what has happened to your people. since it’s all that I can do, I am giving everything than I can to stand with The Rebuilders. I’ll be slightly more free after my baby turns 18, and we will see where I’ll go-either to help Native People with the rebuilding and stand against our shared abuser, or if my labor is not needed, I’ll go to the mountains where I belong. For now I’m just trying to educate myself, support native creators and businesses, and amplify the voices of my Native friends. I am curious how you feel about the descendants of slaves being here? Since they were brought by force. I am and will be working for reparations as well. It’s a 2-part thing. After that, I will be able to leave. 🌻 🌻 🌻
For way too long the truth of our people has been hidden white settlers and the Mexican Spanish settlers is a shameful story. As hard as it is to listen to it needs to be spoken. My ancestors are still weeping their story needs to come out to the open so we can begin to heal as a people that is my prayer
We sadly had to go through both colonizations of Spain and the French/British. Displacements all over and It’s very sad for some of our people to not even fully know our true cultures and what tribes they came from. They need to put the true story in every book and change up how the Americas were “ founded” by such colonizers, we have been here for centuries.
I am here listening. I weep for your ancestors, and for the land. As a guest on this land, I am humble to those who were here before. I live on Ute, Goshute, Shoshone, and Paiute Land. I hope to earn my place as a Native ally 💜
I’ve always wondered where the Native Americans went in California. There are so many places named after tribes or settlers. The word “settlers” makes it sound like it was justified. That’s pretty sad.
They barely Surviving in a region that has destroyed their natural diet as in fish and plants that has been polluted with lead and silver ore in Clear Lake some still eat the fish but at a cost that's shortening their life expectancy from Cancers and other illness from European pollution so Genocide is still happening to this day i lived there and seen first hand what's still happening plus I'm a product of Slavery so we share the same endurance in the struggle in America while Hollyweird glorifies everything bad like genocide cowboys and miner's in my America 🦍✌️
The 2 per cent is white that the government counted. They didn't count the whole native population because they weren't white and 2 per cent don't recognize them.
My cousins are Miwok. They are from Tuolumne County Calif. The miners often murdered natives to steal native land to dig for gold, and for sport.😪 The state of California owes their native tribes big time. The state of California owes natives huge tracts of land and money for museums and education to all Native descendants.
It is sad that some people in this country want to deny all these atrocities happened. They don't want to learn from history. They just don't want to "feel guilty" so their solution is to bury the truth.
Who is denying atrocities happened? and who is guilty? Should I feel guilty? or is that how you would like me to feel? Your last name would indicate that you have Spanish ancestors.. if so.... YOU guys were here first and didn't even mine most of the gold you came for, you guys just stole it from the natives... Man, how many natives did you all kill off? That really was atrocious!!! you should feel guilty and ashamed...😜
There’s nothing for me to feel guilty for. Being born in America as a white person doesn’t make me guilty of anything. The American government that keeps these things hidden is to blame and it’s safe to say most Americans hate the American government.
@@grimlygrim672 You have a very mature perspective about history. No one alive now should have to feel guilty about the atrocities our ancestors did. Those events should be taught in history so that we can learn from other people's mistakes.
@@derekeimer7758 Of course you shouldn't feel guilty. You had nothing to do with it. As a society we can learn fron the mistakes of the past. That's why the events presented in this video should not be deleted from the history books.
@@Nicksolo2369 no one alive now should feel guilty? Excuse you, but there are still people who grew up in racist households, there are still people alive today that literally went to segregated schools. The white settlers should have shame written on their grave tomb, and the children that carry on the hate should be exposed. Don't try to sweep it under the rug like all of this happened 1,000 years ago. No. Many of this happened 40 years ago where some states "didn't" allow for blacks/ or "others" to marry whites. Don't you dare sweep this under the rug as "well we can learn from it." No, do something about it. It's important that these voices get heard.
Going to school, my teachers always said... "check your sources, who's writing this, what's their background?" Now as an adult, I should have fact checked the elementary/middle school/ high school history books. Internet can be mean, but videos like this make the internet worth it. RIP Natives of Cali Thank you ro sharing this eye-opening stuff. Also gonna check out the book.
Be sure to apply that same logic to this video. I’m scratching my head in wonder at how only two men were able to enslave 100 men and however many women.
They skip the part of where all people who lose wars complain about how and what. The gold rush era was still considered a time when army was at war with natives. Ask the black people...they complain too. Along with south America, Asian countries...etc. this is normal behavior for anyone who loses in wars. Look at Ukraine today and how they complain about Russia...lol. the survivors are just angry snowflakes.
@Dennis The Golden God Reynolds I have read all about the Pilgrims and thereafter the soldier blue story. I feel they started the brutality in the first place, they were the invaders encroaching into someone else's home and territory, after which, there is bound to be retaliation on the same lines, and sometimes even harsh. I would say, what one sows is what one reaps...in short and bitter, whatever happened to both was acutely sad, and an ultimate shame in our human history! The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History by Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages The ”peaceful” Pilgrims massacred the Pequots and destroyed their fort near Stonington, Connecticut, in 1637. A 19th-century wood engraving depicts the slaughter. (The Granger Collection, NYC)
"The misconceptions about Native people in dominant White society, always say more about White society itself than they do about Native peoples." (INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2015 🖐☯🖑
I truly appreciate native Americans pursuit of the re-education of the American public to these atrocities. You’re bringing honor to those pour souls. Thank you! There are so many of us who really want to know! I pray enough survived to pass on your traditions and for the love of God, rename that damn town. Disgusting.
This is crazy because I live in Saudi Arabia and my mom and sister always told me that America took land that was not theirs to build on what you see now
It’s funny you say this because if you look at your history you’d see Muslims did this as well. Multiple racial groups have done this through out history as well, so keep the same energy for yourself and them.
These same stories were told to me by my father and told to him by his grandparents we owned land from Mexico Texas and California and our families were killed for greed of land and resources now I only have some stories when I’am gone the next generation will not remember and that’s what our government wants
We can't learn to do better if we don't address how and why we ever want wrong. Schools cannot be the end of our history lessons. This US is so young, yet so little is actually learned about it in school.
It’s crazy how these white settlers ran away from prosecution from their homeland just to come to California and do the exact same thing. it makes me happy our history is being shared but it just makes my blood boil everytime I hear what happened to our people.
"White settlers" ???? The person narrating this video, obviously hasn't understood the assignment. Try using a more accurate description like: "Violent European immigrants" or "European Terrorists" Using the term for history's original US "white settlers" is like saying Hitler's German settlers or Taliban Settlers, or more currently saying "Russians settlers" in the Ukraine. There's NOTHING settling about any of those "settlers".
Yeah I learned about this incident by randomly reading stuff on Wikipedia. I did not learn this in school. Of course we all knew that White settlers killed Natives but we rarely went into much detail about the specific massacres. We didn’t learn about California’s laws intended to reduce the Native population. I understand when people say you shouldn’t blame people today for historical events but you shouldn’t glorify people who committed those atrocities and name towns after them. It is also completely fine to teach children about things that actually happened in the place they live. No that is not “making them feel guilty” that’s just educating them.
I’m Brown&Proud From The BayAREA And This Is The Reason I Never Liked The 18-49ers Because Deep Down I Knew That Team Represented A Dark History To Our Brown People. Thank You For The Knowledge, -$tay Brown 💪🏽😎
Texas was making new history textbooks about the civil war. Seems normal until they never mention any of the atrocities that the south did to African Americans. Like they are leaving out slavery, white supremacy, KKK. Stuff like that. And yea I’ll admit it was a horrible time but we have to learn from the past to become better in the future. We shouldn’t cover up something because “we don’t like it”.
@@havocbrotatochip8142 Yeah Texas is the worst. I live in Texas...but I make sure my daughter knows these things whether she's taught about it in school or not.
Thank you for educating me. I never heard about the massacre at Clear Lake, CA. I should have known the atrocities committed against Native Americans would have been committed here as well.
I DEFINITELY want to see more from this program (Whitewashed). I'm taking a uni class on First People's Health & Practice here in Australia, and the similarities are horrifying. They nearly succeeded, colonisers. We can't let this legacy of suffering and tragedy go unpaid for, or forgotten.
So, when it's paid for and the next generation learns about it like you are doing now, who pays them? And then when the generation that comes after, they will feel the same way, who pays them? And on, and on, and on, and on, and on. Are you really going to say OH nevermind that's been paid for already? Or should we just teach every generation to fixate on the past and expect payment for it so that everyone is forever indebted to everything that ever happened in the past? When 10 generations from now that generation realizes you decided to pay generations off to feel better about the past, they will feel like a victim of you unfairly leaving them nothing and then they will be a victim of your decisions. Since it's in the past, who will pay them for your decisions? And then the generation that follows. And on, and on, and on. How about we just leave the past in the past and stop pretending like anyone alive right now had anything to do with it. And just be good people right now.
@@jadesea562 my knowledge wasn't paid for it was from my grandparents and other family members who was directly related to them (proof by BIA a genealogical records of genocide).
@@jadesea562 alo we native Americans never forget our past becouseif you forget your past then who are you? Who was your ancestors? You'd be a ghost with nothing and no one to remember you. Thats the difference.
I’d love more of this series from different stories, groups etc. Do you know why they stopped the series after this one story? It’s very compelling and important
A very high percentage of miners came from mexico, many Chinese, Africans, phillipinos, from all over the world. There are many books written on this event. One of my favorites is " in search of eldorado". Written in 1850 by a young east coast journalist. And of course the local tribes were abused, people were shot, claims were jumped. When you gather a mass of humanity and throw in gold there will be conflict.
True that. Check out the history of the building of the Panama Canal. Chinese traveled all that way just to die of malaria never seen by family again.sad.
And don't forget the vast majority Californians were previous inhabitants thus mostly hispanic. New incoming peoples were Sonoran, from Mexico Actually a small percentage of participants were from the east coast. The Spanish Jesuit missions were in decay, and the "aborigines" were very well aware of the "newcomers" ....
The whites passed a law that none whites had to pay a $75.00 license fee to mine. That was a lot of money then and made it impossible to mine for the men who arrived from China, Italy, Spain, Mexico, South America etc. A resourcefull group, the Chinese, had trading skills like bookeeping. They found other ways to make a living by starting businesses like laundries and restaurants . Whites terrorised the minorities and even passed a law barring Chinese women from immigrating. Chinese men without women then, frequented bars and brothels which reinforced the white propaganda that Chinese they were not moral people. We still have people who profess yyo be Christian, moral people yet spread lies and propose evil on refugees and immigrants they don't respect.
@@artlovervictoria all this time I thought the men came over to get the basics like a stable home,income & then they sent for the women. Come to find out the woman were barred. Never too old to learn. 61
This is the primary reason I truly do not understand todays vehement European angst about Hitler and his legacy of killing so many Jews in WW2. Agreed: it was a horrible slaughter but it pales in comparison to what Europeans did to the Native Americans. My grandfather was Cherokee. I was taught about the Trail of Tears and the Cherokee being "forced" out of Georgia when gold was discovered there. I guess Hitler and the Nazi movement is just still too fresh in the minds of most Europeans for them to breathe a mention of it aloud while what the Europeans did to the Native Americans is ancient history to them. Of course, out of sight, out of mind....the fact that the slaughter of Jews happened on European soil while the slaughter of American Indians occurred long ago in a distant land might have something to do with the memory block. Wrong is still wrong no matter where or when it occurs.
Thank you for sharing. I knew about the genocide, I'm not suprised the govt took part in the atrocity, and the history books still not updated. So sad.
Thank you for sharing this!! I grew up my whole life believe i was INDIAN but I just found out 2yrs ago age 50 that I have no trace of INDIAN in me. I cried 😭😭 when I found out because I was always so PROUD to be INDIAN. Well anyways thank you for more history of INDIAN people. Broke my heart ❤ 💔 😢
Being Native American is not blood quantum. It’s how you were raised, white, black and other races have been taken in by various tribes. Personally my extended family is very mixed as well as my tribe.
@@X2LR8 please don’t get all pc on me ok a devil is a devil the acts committed by those Europeans was evil add the d and you get devil point blank period
Native Americans way of life posed a direct threat to the exploitative & empirical intentions of the settlers. So much blood,just to live the lives of meaningless work & toil we live today.
I knew historically the federal government tried to exterminate the plains Indians but had no idea it was this extensive in Calif. I live in Mariposa county and have known a lot of the local Miwok Indians but this part of their history I never heard. In high school history the local costal Indians were brought up in passing and my instructor was not very well versed in the local history or the people of the region. I'll never forget what he had to say about them.
How about we make a true story about how he admitted being in the shootout but denied actually hitting anyone he shot at. That's...pretty much grounds for keeping him in prison. Should an attempted murderer be granted clemency because he sucks at aiming?
The educational system would rather teach kids about gender and pronoun bullshit instead of history, this generation is doomed if parents don’t step up
History taught in schools, left leaning institutions, only teach things to push a political agenda. Demonizing people of european descent, people alive today who never had anything to do with things of the past. While ignoring violence between other races. Of corse these activist groups make excuses so they can push the anti European agenda.
Thank you for giving us the real history. I will never get use to hearing the word rape, but its literally great to have such raw information. If we dont know how these people were treated just because of greedy white settlers we will never learn
dont be a victim the past is full of human sin and ugliness , its not just america . this new generation of americans are so focused on looking for the negatives of this great nation and not so much about how it made great improvments in human existence. more positives than negatives i would say.
It's the same reason why America isn't taught about the tusla race race massacre or the reason y we aren't taught about the thousands of black people lynched in the US after "slavery ended". Or the same reason y we aren't taught how slavery never really ended and how freemen were turned into another form of a slave.or why we aren't taught about the massacre that happened in San Francisco with the Chinese immigrants . There are many things we are not taught in American schools that should be taught.
Wow Its crazy I have traveled California having grew up on Russian river , being native American myself I took great interest in native ppl of California and I imagine what it must have been like for the bay area costal tribes and ppl of the interior when the missionary's came , I can't help feeling that there are places in California where ppl should not live because of the violence that took place there , native ppl dwelling in cazadaro and fort Ross area where much better off . I always wondered how our government could condemn the atrocities of the Nazis when they did far worse to not just the California Indiana but all native ppls of this country .we are all earth and the California Indians understood that and we're care takers of the land , ofunga bless there souls.
If your from the Russian river area (most likely yuki or wailaki) then you know what happened at "lake" mendocino and how t was our peoples village and they was killed by the dam that they originally had.
4:00 The discovery of the precious metal at Sutter's Mill in January 1848 was a turning point in global history. The rush for gold redirected the technologies of communication and transportation and accelerated and expanded the reach of the American and British Empires. Source: Oxford Faculty of History - University of Oxford
Life sucked in the past for almost everybody. Very, very few people didn’t suffer back then and everyone’s family has had to deal with violence in the past.
As I studied the history of African American history it was heartbreaking. Then I learned what was done to my Indian brothers and sisters and I had to withdraw from learning anymore about either people. I was crushed my soul hurt. I almost didn’t watch this but I have to keep learning so I could share this truth sure. Thank you.
I kept on studying and a question came to mind why would a person living in Arizona native to that land need to wear sunblock? Another question came to mind why would entities native to the planet need to block the Sun? Okay I'm going scuba diving don't I need scuba gear an oxygen tank? Do I have gills? Do I have Longs instead? Can I breathe underwater without this gear?
Bloodthirsty and greedy was the name of the game in the new white America. The push for it continues in factions today. I watched a documentary of the West by Ken Burns, which led me here, wanting to know more. Thank you.
Thank you two beautiful native woman for begging gifts the healing for your ancestors! 🙏🏽 so grateful for the opportunity to teach out new generations the truth. Proud Family of White Mountain Apache Tribe ❤️
We never learned this in my school in so much detail in 4th grade we learned about the gold rush and Chinese discrimination and the explotation of immagrants but not that much about the native Americans and in 8th grade we learned about the mainfest destiny and how it was irradiating the native Americans.
and in what grade did you learn about the moors that would conquer and enslave entire white nations settlement as far as Ireland along the ocean were abandoned due to raiding parties by the time slavery ended in America there were still over a million white slaves in the old Moorish kingdoms, and they were treated even worse than the slaves here but no on covers this
@@joejacko1587 u are right..people should cover this…but at the same time the American slave trade was big and harshh with more slaves and they were treated harshly every place has a problem with slavery…we should come together and address this together and agree for this to never happen again!
We are taught about this for the same reason we aren't taught about the past and co tinued atrocities against blacks in the US. Unfortunately, White supremacy is ove and well in the US.
Now I feel disrespected. My racist white teacher always called me Pocahontas or India. I had no idea I was native back then cuz my parents raised me in a white town. I remember going to a field trip based on the gold rush. My teacher kept scolding me to keep panning for gold but she was nice to the other kids that are white. They didn’t even have to pan for gold. My dad noticed so he took me away from that group and told me I can get anything I want from the gift shop. It made my day. I got a bunch of fools gold and bookmarks and other stuff. The kids were hating cuz my dad splurged on me. That’s what they get those racist colonizers 😂
Sorry that happened to you, that's not right. What that teacher did if what you say is true is unacceptable. But also calling whites colonizers, people who had nothing to do with the founding of America is also unacceptable either. Even if their racists, it's still not right.
I’m from watts California 78 they did not teach us this in elementary school, nor in junior high, nor in high school in California mentioned about this and I graduated in 96 This is the first I’m hearing about this and I am 44 now
I went to a Indian boarding school and I remember the history books we used only had two pages about the history of natives, I got most of my knowledge from family. I'm still finding things out about our history here in Arizona. What I knew from a young age was that the government can't be trusted.
Please can you and your family publish in a book your own history books or at least put it on the internet so the more history is out there from your families perspective, the better because at least it's the truth
Yeah mon, ebook or whatever we will read it. History repeats itself.
@@Taylor086I would be in a state of pure happiness writing history. Im going to start writing and give it a go. May I ask if you can suggest any websites or platforms that I can use to begin?
True and I always get white people trying to educate me about my own culture. American ignorance is on par and worse than that of nazis. Actually I think nazis were inspired by American genocides. ✌
And they want to “white wash” history books.
I’m Tlingit and Haida from Alaska, and less than 60 years ago the white church took two of my great grandmothers children away because they said she had too many. We just found them last year after they had both passed away. Their daughters were able to go back out our home in South East Alaska and meet their family. They had no idea they were Tlingit.
Soor uanga ateqapunga miki
I’m so sorry that some bad Christians did that to you but I’m here to say Jesus loves you and Jesus will never hurt you God blesd
Yeah right
@@r.i.petika829 I rebuke you demon child of Satan in the name of the Lord Christ
@@r.i.petika829 is u Muslim
thank you for telling parts of history that aren't normally taught in schools..
And as we go further… are even less likely to be taught in schools…
Why would the devil expose his evil. Much better to cover it up and make himself look like the good guy. Sounds like Donald Trump.
@@thunderbolt1359 what trump has to do with this ?
all of HIstory is a lie
@@HiThisIsMine well they had to make room for CRT what do you expect...
The largest nuclear disaster in US history which happened on the Navajo Nation, growing up we were never taught what happened a few miles from us in school, we never new that our land was contaminated with uranium and not one mention was ever placed in school books
Yep. The only reference to any human suffering I ever saw was the cancer John Wayne got from shooting movies there (of course, it took his life). No mention Ever of Any Native problems, as if there was no effect at all
Yeah, my grandma grew up in that area-not in the Navajo Nation tho. She’s been battling really bad skin cancer most of her life, so I can only imagine what it’s been like for those closer to the epicenter. Colonialism just keeps on taking.
I hope to visit the Navajo Nation in the future, if I’d be welcomed. I’ve actually had this dream to walk down from where I’m at (it’s like 500 miles).
@@abbynormal3068 John Wayne was a jerk towards Native People tho.
The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 is thought to be the worst nuclear disaster in American history, but the Church Rock uranium mill spill in New Mexico, which occurred just four months later, actually released even more radioactive material into the environment. To say that the spill was cleaned up would be a major overstatement.
@@standdown4929 that makes me think of Marshall Islands. That’s a big toxic mess we left there. They were talking about cleaning it up in 2019, but I don’t think they actually did. They had apparently tried to clean it up multiple times before. They had sent some guys out in the 70’s without appropriate gear and they got sick. Just like the u.s.,add it to the long list.
I'm very thankful for a honest history teacher in high school. She often told us there was more to the history than what was in our books and to remember that history is always written by the winners/ those in power. So it is biased
How wonderful!
So explain how we know about Carthage if the Romans were the ones writing the history. Let's not forget the Southern perspective regarding the Civil War, because, as we all know they lost so we shouldn't be hearing from them. That whole "history is written by the victors" is such a blatantly false claim. History is written by the survivors, and in many cases the losers. Japan lost WW2 harder than anyone ever lost a war and yet they have absolutely no hesitation to paint themselves as the righteous warriors trying to free their Asian brethren from the horrible European overlords, ignoring that they did it by cutting off their heads and testing biological warfare against those very Asians.
@@nobodyspecial4702 my pt is they write history in their pv. They can choose to add, remove or adjust things. Doesn't necessarily mean they will lie. Just look at history book from other nations.
"His" story is the winners story and supposedly the truth. Lots of pomp and circumstance to whitewash the dark and degrading things done in the name of I want it and I want it NOW.
History is not written by victors, they are written by the country you’re reading it from and looking at political propaganda you’d know they are easily lying to you. In reality history is not something you read in school on a book, history is what you learn from your grandparents, your community elders, etc. people telling you historical events through their own perspectives and you piecing the causes of events but you’re not allowed to make any judgments.
History books need to be reviewed, corrected, and redistributed. It’s sad that history is only documented by those who have power. They wrote their own history to teach us what they wanted us to only know, which kept us ignorant of the real facts, and I’m glad we have the open communication by the web.
They taught us it was a bunch of explorers and adventures that came to find their fortune. They painted it like a movie. It was really a bunch of greedy murderers who where ruthless in obtaining their prize
Luckily, my teacher added California Genocide in the list of genocides we’re researching right now
There's plenty of room for new history to be written
@@andrewhernandez2188 that what they taught you about the gold rush? I doubt it, the rush to California is actually pretty well known by now to be a huge land grab full of horrible outcome for the indigenous inhabitants. I don't remember any classroom teaching the gold rush was about explorers especially when California had already been "discovered" by other Europeans.
@@ezralbs5157 i was taught that it was all about hitting the "jackpot". In 4th grade they dont teach you about genocide. We took a field trip to Jamestown to go panning for gold. But then again this was like 25 years ago
I am a college senior, studying to be an elementary school teacher. I came across this video while making an earth science lesson plan about classifying minerals. I wanted to connect The Gold Rush to differentiating between pyrite (fools gold) and gold. After watching this video, I can say that the lesson will be taking on a completely different form. I have lived in the US my whole life and was taught about the gold rush in school, yet this is all new information to me. I am continually disappointed and frustrated in the way that the education system fails to tell young, impressionable children the complete story and glorifies white people regardless of their actions. Thank you for making this resource. Thank you for sharing information. Your stories deserve to be heard.
Watch "The last of his tribe " and if possible read "genocide at roundvalley" for more of the truth you will have a hard time finding in any schoolbook about the 49rs.
Do yourself a favor, and don't fall for the claim that a video showing the opinions of only 2 people is in way something you should incorporate into any lesson plan. It's no different than the very claim that these producers made that the recorded history completely false. The opinion of a woman and her child, with no substantiation at all other than "well, we were told" doesn't prove or disprove anything. For all anyone knows, these two heard of something then just went to town creating their own viewpoint without ever learning anything at all. The "the mass graves are estimated to contain between 10 and 800 bodies" is a pretty glaring lack of clarity. There's a considerable difference in the size of a mass grave that contains 10 people and one that contains up to 800. Any halfway decent archeologist would never use a wildly inaccurate number like that.
@@nobodyspecial4702 😂yo denial is amusing. just own up to your ancestors dirty deeds.
white man from town.
@@nobodyspecial4702 are you also discounting the author’s 10 years of research? At some point Truth have to trump “race loyalty”. What those people did isn’t your blame to wear. You can denounce it as a decent human being.
@@DosesOfDarkness I have no idea how you decided that I must be claiming that never happened, because nothing in my comment even remotely gives that impression. What I did point out was that a "documentary" which provides only two opinions, one of which is entirely hearsay as I pointed out, isn't something anyone in college should cite as a source. It's called "giving good advice" to students instead of having anything to do with race or history.
I'm a native Californian. I even have a history degree from a CalState. I didn't know this. Isn't it kind of like a German not knowing there were death camps?
Yes politicians and those in power doesn't teach the younger generation. It's almost like vanished history
I'm not sure what kind of correlation youre going for here but assuming you are referring to the Nazi concentration camps during WWII, then no, it is not even remotely similar to a German not being aware of "death camps." Those atrocities were widely documented, in particular by many other countries, and the German government not only acknowledges what happened but it's part of their mandatory education. Which is the exact opposite of what is included in American education. Which is the point of this video.
Person with history degree: “I didn’t know this history, the person telling me must be telling the truth”
@@primaryone3468 and also similar case with British education
@Accidental Colors Right. I guess my rhetorical device fell flat. Of course every German knows about the camps because--ironically--the US mandated it. We didn't make similar demands on the Japanese, maybe because they weren't as thoroughly occupied and defeated as the Germans, their culture seemed more alien and incorrigible, and finally--we just needed them more in the Cold War calculation. It was logically taken for granted that the Germans wouldn't willingly turn Soviet. I had known that official bounties were put on Califonia Indian heads, but it's nothing I got from school. I guess my basic point is that California's worst atrocity isn't even common knowledge. But to rehabilitate my initial point, Hitler studied, admired, and emulated US policy towards Indians in his march East. Difference is Hitler lost, and Californians won.
When the internet was created , the government said it would be used to equalize education in all schools. It is so very much bigger than schools . Videos like this one speak a powerful truth that was denied in schools , now the truth is unstoppable . thank you for making this.
Jayden Lim is one intelligent, brave beautiful soul. She is proud of her heritage and she is willing to fight to be heard! Love people like her who doesn’t care of government actions as long as she is heard and her point taken. Much respect for you Jayden Lim I have your back
Ok you are over compensating, ease your white guilt
@@skipfluck4299 It's interesting that they only mentioned the younger woman, and not her "almost-white" mother..
They never taught this at my school. Funny since our school’s mascot at the time were the “Indians”.
It was never taught because this is Propaganda
My school mascot was the Dons.
My jaw dropped as I learn, mega genocide of indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions.
Today, Native Americans population is 15 million, while European population, in Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'ONE BILLION'! A sad truth.
I agree, about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return to rightful owners indigenous Native American people.
True, notorious global cardinal crimes Anglo West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why is notorious Colonization still lingering on, which makes sense.
@@imlovely6522 It's a jaw dropping mega genocide. For instance, 200 years ago here in the USA, around 3 million Germans came, and now there are 65 millions German-Americans; while 150 years ago, around 2 millions Irish came, and now there are 45 million Irish-Americans. While 500 years ago there were estimated to be 5 to 6 millions indigenous Native Americans in the USA, before Christopher Columbus arrived, today there are only around 2 million indigenous Native Americans survived.
Imagine this scenario, if Native American people cross the Atlantic, invade and Colonize Europe, and slaughter most Europeans, and put the remaining populations in tiny reservations, for 500 long years. How would Europeans feel about it? Think about it.
All they need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for generations.
Besides, indigenous Native Americans in Colonized lands of Anglo British, Spaniard and others are more of the same. Kill the indigenous Natives and whoever is left, marginalize them and create artificial poverty, once that poverty becomes crime and drinking, the media points to the poor and blames them to continue to stigmatize the 'other' community, scumbags, etc.
Amazing fact that Indigenous Natives had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from the scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for ten of thousand of years. In other words, they actually are great and proud people.
Imagine what it would be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? The answer is they would still have their own beloved motherlands, plus their population comparable to that of European population.
@@olefella7561 "We're still here.., we are not going anywhere." - Native Americans
May I ask, why don't they all have a family reunion on their very own land of jolly old Europe, and return the looted land to the original rightful owner, indigenous Native American people?
Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization are evil things done, and benefited by evildoers.
All they, indigenous Native people need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for tens of thousands of years.
Remember, notorious centuries-long global cardinal crimes that the West had committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask?
Why not let Native Americans have Europe, since Europeans have had both North & South America Continents; a fair deal?
Remember the saying, "A Man's Got To Do, What A Man's Got To Do".
Sadly, history is written by those in power
This is why we now have critical race theory being taught in school to wake people up
@@arthurmorgan8217 Genocide in History
What about Genocide happening today in Xinjiang and Burma??
Left wing media ignore Genocide happening today but take great interest into Genocide happened century ago!!
@@matpk its easier to complain about the past, then to actually try to make a difference for people in the present 🤷♂️
@@matpk exactly, the left are so hypocritical
@@charliegladfelter1157 you have to learn about the past to keep these things from happening. Also most of the people who I have heard talk about the genocide are the more left leaning.
When my daughter watched this, she was so shocked and upset. She was writing about the gold rush, and decided to use this information in her book. She thanks you for sharing this and is furious at the white settlers.
I hope she went and found sources instead of quoting this leftist rag.
I would hope you're a better parent than that although the fact you showed her this video says otherwise.
@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 I stop watching this after story of guns and weapons to kill native Americans such of BS, even in this days without gun nobody can walk even three streets if everyone around know he is gold miner maybe with sack full of gold, where is gold there is robbery, where is robbery there are weapons to protect gold, good luck to digging gold in middle of nowhere without gun and knife.
I'm shocked like your daughter and i'm also using this to a writing about natives.
Congratulations. You've brainwashed your child with communist propaganda.
That’s racist
Thank you for creating and sharing this content on the history that's been hidden. Cleaning out the skeletons is part of the healing and reconciliation process.
Natives are the most kindest people, and It hurts knowing how much pain and suffering they've been through. And its all been covered up.
@Don Smith Custer was a coward and deserved what he got, he wasn't the great fighter that settlers think he is, he attacked in the middle of the night or very early hours of the day, once Native people figured him out, they destroyed his ass gutless ass, just for your comment, I think I'll wear my "Custer wore arrow shirts" today.
That is such a broad generalization.
Native Americans owned black slaves the same as white people and treated them Jaír as bad. They also treated each other horribly and fought each other for resources, so I don’t know why you think they’re the “nicest”. If anything that’s a stereotype.
Go be friends with the natives in Pakistan.
Because natives are always nice.
Your racism and lack of education is shining thru loser.
Yeah, today. 150 years ago, when a native tribe went to war with another tribe for land, the losing tribe was exterminated. Be happy the white people didn't wage war the way the natives did or there wouldn't be any natives left at all.
*"Families starved on the meager rations they provided, only four cups of wheat a day for a family. When one young man asked for more wheat for his sick mother, Stone reportedly killed him."*
Those two murderers were cold hearted and sick in the head!
Look up "genocide at round valley " or watch "the last of his tribe".
When I was in High School...RENO High School...we had a new History teacher. And when we came to the "Indian Wars" chapter, I opened my book and on the very first page of the chapter it stated that Sitting Bull led the attack on Custer. I stood up in class and threw my book on the floor, then told the teacher this book was a bunch of crap. The teacher came over to me and very diplomatically said "What makes you think that?" I angrily told her that Sitting Bull wasnt even in that battle because he was up on a mountain top somewhere praying for the warriors at Little Big Horn to be victorious. She surprisingly said to me "Can you bring in something that can collaborate what you are saying??"
I said sure I can, I will bring in a copy of the book .'BURY MY HEART at WOUNDED KNEE. So I did. And that teacher ended up giving me an A- for that class and didnt even punish me for vandalizing the textbook. Ofcourse everyone else in my class was angry that I didnt get punished for my actions...Reno High back then was about 97% white. I was so proud of that A-, and I will never forget that teacher either. The only open minded teacher at that school.
I sincerely hope our HISTORY books will FINALLY get completely revised so they can contain the authentic history of our country.
But I doubt it.
The wise old saying..."He who tells the Story...RULES THE WORLD!
An absolute FACT.
I had no idea this happened in California and I'm currently in college currently taking US history. It's insane how many Indians died in this short period. People always downplay all these crimes by making excuses like "oh it was mostly diseases that killed them" or "well natives were enslaving and killing each other forever, it wasn't that bad". But this is truly sick, there's no excuse for it.
@@AsiaMinor12 These aren’t really excuses because it’s true that Natuves brutalized each other, but it still was pretty bad, but I wouldn’t say it was more bad because as I mentioned pretty much everyone was being bad in this time period. Admitting the natives were also and doesn’t take away from their hardships. When looking at history you have to tell the full story.
Thank you for sharing this story on such a large media source.
Despite growing up attending California public schools I only learned about the bloody island massacre when I moved to Lake county and got curious about the plaque at the side of the road that I kept driving past. It's a grave injustice that this is not more prominent in historical curriculum.
im sitting here thinking the same thing..
You can find more truths by watching a movie put together by the Smithsonian called "the last of his tribe" and it shows the truth of what happened.
The Smithsonian is satanic
I have dozens more including a preceding event 'the Temescal massacre'
I had no clue this happened in my great state. It's about TIME the state of California ACKNOWLEDGE the atrocities, locate the remains, and provide proper burials for those who suffered.
Sure, as soon as the natives admit to the genocides they carried out against other tribes. Nobody here was an angel.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Don’t even try to downplay Native Americans like that. Sure they fought each other, but at least the men didn’t come over and r*pe every woman like the white men did, killed almost ever man, r*ped and killed children, took land that wasn’t theirs, lied, stole, and the list can go on and on. Native Americans also didn’t use African-American slaves teeth, mass lynchings, Jim Crow laws, segregation and like I said I can go on and on. Have some respect for the land your standing on and the people that have been here for centuries because we were the first of this land, colonizer.
@@nobodyspecial4702 they never committed genocide the way European colonizers did. Historically no one has committed as much genocide as Europeans.
@@kupidrosalindavateri3965 You are so misinformed. Do you honestly think the tribes that exist today are the only ones who existed 500 years ago? Hardly. You didn't hear from the losers of the Indian wars because they ceased to exist. Europeans were into relocation, Natives were into extermination.
Didn't you listen?
Your state is not great. You benefit from this atrocity. You should be ashamed for even considering your state to be great.
How dare you.
It’s crazy how this sounds exactly like the suffering of Palestinians … no wonder why the government supports the occupiers of Palestine because they’re doing what they did to the Natives in the past
RIP fellow Brothers and Sister.
Heavy pans to all!
One of the saddest events in the history of our great country. Unfortunately men love gold more than each other.
Some men. Not all. Don't be so bleak.
@Penderyn What county are you from then? Or do you live in the United States.
After the Pulse Nightclub shooting, it was being described as the "Worst mass shooting in US History". I wrote to the NPR Ombudsman that was not true, and listed a link, I believe from Wikipedia, listing the massacres of Native Americans over United States history. I eliminated every one that there was even a remote possibility of it being a military conflict, and was a slaughter of typically an entire village so it would have over 50 killings. I cannot remember how many there were, it was substantial.
In two days, evidently enough of us wrote that they inserted the term "modern", as in the worst mass shooting in modern US history. BBC changed their language to match that a day later. So slowly our children are learning about this history. I learned because I was am an avid History reader, and found about the Sand Creek Massacre during the Civil War. It was a WTF moment, and I started reconsidering and researching everything I had not been taught, even in College History.
King Philips War, or maybe it should be renamed the New England Genocide Campaign against the Seneca, should be taught in every High School US History. They have now found records of the sales of Native Americans taken "captive" during that conflict to the notoriously brutal Spanish Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean, where the New England slave merchants selling them complain the Spanish give the low prices, because the Spanish state the Indians die too quickly as slaves.
My kids have both learned to have a very critical view of history, and my daughter was offended about how none of the grade school Social Studies mentioned anything except a very sanitized version of US interactions with First Nations. They had a Thanksgiving stage show that was profoundly disturbing, with a "Good Indian" narrative. It is changing, though, as my 5th grade son actually has a teacher who has covered about how New England Colonial/First Nations interactions started deteriorating very quickly.
I remember when I was first reconsidering the typical "US Nationalism" history, and looked at all of the reservations in the US as a starting location. The history of the ethnic cleansing East of the Mississippi was well documented, but I was puzzled about the lack of them in California. Then I looked at the census data, and realized, just like the Nazis, there were a whole lot of people who simply "disappeared" during and after the Gold Rush. it's a sobering thought. I'm happy to see this video here providing a testament to that shameful period of US History.
I know that at wounded knee there was more killed then at pulse night club. I've heard people try to flip that and say that the natives were armed so it isn't the same as a mass shooting. Apples and oranges?? Idk, I do know the United States would love to forget what happened at wounded knee
100%
It’s definitely covered up. It’s well documented, but not well taught, that the literal orders against Native Peoples was “total surrender or total annihilation.”
It's absolutely not the same thing. Of course massacres in which there were dozens or hundreds of perpetrators will have more victims. The point is the Pulse shooter was one guy, who managed to kill so many.
1675 King Phillips War; Indian women and children were servants to whites, Indian men had had enough and war broke out all over New England, a planned attack by Indians against the whites.... Interesting that that war is called "King Phillips War." "King Phillip was an Indian man called "King Phillip" by the whites either because of the way he carried himself and/or the clothing he wore.
Yes, many wars on Indian villages, have not been reported and never will be becuse so mny Indians died of disease, were killed, or fled. Millions of voices censored...but their spirits live on.
Stuff you’d never learn unless you attended university with a good professor or happened to stumble upon it yourself
@Penderyn yeah true. I’ve always been into history. Got to college and learned so much I knew was either a full lie or wasn’t the whole story. Made me love history so much more that I minored in it
@@pHixiq I love history to because it has two perspective from both sides which both become true when find the middle. It also male my proud of my Colonial and settler ancestors even more despite them killing Native Americans or enslaving black Americans because they were the ones who made this great nation. And now it's being ruined by people triggered by dark parts of our history or rather stay in that part of history and destroy this Nation we built. I'm against that. That is why I love history and especially the history of the United States.
@@brittanyhayes1043 wish none of that had to happen almost at all. But from a non bias, history standpoint, understandable.
@@pHixiq Also people need to realize that. Ative Americans were not peaceful people either. People keep bringing up the encounter of Columbus with the Taino or with Jamestown with the Padwan tribes bringing food and helping settlers means they were peaceful people isn't accurate. Sure Columbus took advantage at there curiosity towards Columbus and his men for having there guard down but obviously they were also kn constant conflict with other tribes in the island with them. The same with Pocohantas tribe and the Cherokee and other smaller tribes belonging to there respecti e nations.
@@pHixiq there really no way if changing it.
As a Black person, this video was sad. This made me mad. Some white people complain about freedom. Blacks brown and American Native Indians is still fighting for their freedom. I am glad this video was made. It is good to know about history bad or good. I will be showing this to my grandchildren. Please make more. I just subscribed to your channel. Thank you
Same.
When you compare what native Americans went through modern day blacks don’t have much to complain about. Civil rights happened almost 50 years ago ! No reason for 4 generations of people to stay in the projects. If my mom can get out after one generation so can they! Not to mention I’m Italian American and my family was treated like TRASH when we came over here in the early 1900s AFTER slavery. So the constant speculation that ALL “wypipo” come from slave masters is just as ludicrous as saying all black people come from slaves. It’s just NOT true!
Yep, this is why you can't trust trumpies, they will cry out in pain as they punch you in the face
@@tula1433 Blacks have every right to complain. These people have land and money and sit around doing drugs and drinking all day on the reservation still complaining about land they lost over 400 years ago. They have nothing to complain about this want their land originally as they came from Siberia they were compensated Blacks weren’t.
You are not fighting for your freedom if you're a black American you're just as free as anyone else.
And the modern day slave trade was started by black Muslim Africans in North Africa who were taught by Muslims that God allows Muslims to enslave non Muslims.
That's how the modern antebellum slave trade was started, by black Muslims in North Africa.
As a white person, it's uncomfortable to think of people who looked like me, committing such atrocities but it's true. We have to teach history _as it happened,_ not as we would like to _think_ it happened.
I guarantee your grasp on history is worse than the people you're criticising
@@Atamanxxxvii Oh? Such interesting assumptions! Well then... please, articulate for me what my grasp on history is. I need you, kind internet stranger, to tell me what I do and don't know.
Additionally, would you mind telling me who it is I'm criticizing? I'm going to need to know that, too.
Thanks!!
@EpsilonGoods First, I am a married, middle-aged white woman, mother of three, and an elementary schoolteacher (don't let my Coolio pic fool you, it's a play on words). But, you don't have to believe me; I don't really care.
Second, did I say I felt responsible? Where did I say that? I'll save you the trouble of looking for it - I never said I felt responsible, because I'm not responsible for anyone's actions but my own. You just projected that very stale trope on to my statement. That doesn't mean I can't feel sad or compassionate.
@EpsilonGoods: So, why are you defending white supremacy?
@AGDinCA: We can further the process of healing and continue to expand our understanding of our American history properly by renaming the San Francisco 49ers.
I myself am a very active gold miner and have been since my native american step grandfather taught me how to "wash gravel" at 8 or 9 years of age. Im surprised that he never mentioned anything about these shameful acts as he was huge on history. I have always been fascinated with native american culture solely because of him. Its no wonder he was always in trouble in his younger years, cant avoid it when its basically illegal just to be an Indian.
When you watch a report that only includes the opinions of two people, you should question just how accurate it is. Sure, anyone can claim that a massacre took place but when they tell you if the dead numbered between 10 to 800, that's a pretty good indicator that they don't really know what they're talking about.
I think many of the people who suffered through all of this didn’t talk about it because it was painful. Also, I think there was some level of fear about talking about it. It’s the same for the people who came out of slavery. Some may have, certainly, but a lot of people seem to have just shut it out according to their descendants.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Even 10 people killed in an irrationally formed act of vengeance against an entire community is still incredibly noteworthy. Should they not mention it at all just because the perpetrators were not careful enough to record the death count? Later in the video, they literally said militia records show that the officially recorded death tolls in altercations were given rarely a number, and instead used descriptions like "an entire village, except a few children". Is it really not worth mentioning because the lives taken weren't considered valuable enough to be quantified?
@@ellep.6204 Are these two admitting to the people that were killed by Native Americans during the gold rush? Nope. Only the Natives killed matter to them. History from only one side is called "propaganda." Good propaganda provides enough information that it sounds believable, while bad propaganda leaves everything up to your imagination. Nobody disputes that Natives were killed but nobody disputes Natives did their share of killing too. Well, nobody except the producers of this video.
@@nobodyspecial4702natives never enacted systemic genocide, and more often than not aided the survival of settlers. I mean hell, 70% or more of the global food supply is based on native foods (90% beans, and literally every culture features potatoes in some capacity). Don’t fret, your genocide apologist perspective is alive and well.
This is in all American History taught in the school systems. I am a Puerto Rican-American and I hear the very lies that are sprouted about the island culture and too knew the Truth made me sad and wished Christopher Columbus never stepped foot on The Island. Yes that is the second place. That famous phrase "The Indians" was coined on that very island.
I was spoon fed those lies as well. Like I was in middle school when I found out Christopher Columbus was horrible. Like we got statues and places names after him. But he didn’t even set foot in the US. The only one was I think another European explorer who landed in present day florida
Tainos, baby!
Christopher Columbus arriving in america was the best thing to happen to humans
@@summittrading3258 😂💀
@@Nasamusa that’s what Neil degrass Tyson said
British did the same to us in Nigeria. Belgium did the same to our brothers and sister in the Congo, the list goes on and on . . . This is their nature. Unfortunately for them, it will come back to them
"The last stage of genocide is denial."
If it was so horrible and genocidal... why did this family intermarry with the very people who did it? I mean, that's a pretty bizarre thing to do..
I hate that the school district doesn’t teach kids about this there always cover it up if it’s not a white person they don’t care to put it in text books . but this is how people need to see it they can’t cut out parts of the story because it’s “inappropriate content” native Americans are so important to American teaching today .
It’s neat to have be able to see that old footage they used of the miners using a rocker box
Just like Thanksgiving I was all for it back in the day thinking pilgrims and "Indians" (the coined term I used to use) were all happily eating together more like bs
@@globby4396 and the Moon landing!
They do. This is taught in American colleges around country.
Native Americans should fight harder for their rights. I hate what was done to them. And I didn't know the conditions of those reservations until recently. It's awful.
This is heartbreaking. Once an injustice or a trauma can be acknowledged, then healing can begin
Couldn’t agree more.
@@ellanina801 can you leave then so I can heal or no?
@@elsikpych well, technically no, I can’t leave. I know that I am on Ute, Goshute, Paiute, and Shoshone land, so when I leave this territory, I’ll be able to leave a payment with those Tribes for my time here. If there’s anything that I can do in the meantime, they will let me know.
Sorry I can’t leave, for your sake and my own. Unfortunately, the colonialist government owns me and my child (conceived without my consent, As I’m asexual), and they won’t let me or them go. maybe my baby will be brainwashed and never come home to me, but I would have taught them differently.
I cannot leave, but you can let it all out on me. I hear your pain, and it is valid. I wish I could leave, and I always think of what the land used to be, and what it would still be without colonialism bringing all of its death. Even when I try to work with nature in the garden, they hate it-she gives me so many beautiful things, then the colonialists just raze it, and charge me for it (I eat most of what grows). Im always standing up against the colonialists because I see who they are and what they’ve done/still do (I’m sorry that you think I’m one of them, but I’m wearing a skin that isn’t my own).
I’m sorry for your pain, and what has happened to your people. since it’s all that I can do, I am giving everything than I can to stand with The Rebuilders. I’ll be slightly more free after my baby turns 18, and we will see where I’ll go-either to help Native People with the rebuilding and stand against our shared abuser, or if my labor is not needed, I’ll go to the mountains where I belong. For now I’m just trying to educate myself, support native creators and businesses, and amplify the voices of my Native friends.
I am curious how you feel about the descendants of slaves being here? Since they were brought by force. I am and will be working for reparations as well. It’s a 2-part thing.
After that, I will be able to leave. 🌻 🌻 🌻
For way too long the truth of our people has been hidden white settlers and the Mexican Spanish settlers is a shameful story. As hard as it is to listen to it needs to be spoken. My ancestors are still weeping their story needs to come out to the open so we can begin to heal as a people that is my prayer
Yes it has to be told the truth will set the nation free spiritually
We sadly had to go through both colonizations of Spain and the French/British. Displacements all over and It’s very sad for some of our people to not even fully know our true cultures and what tribes they came from. They need to put the true story in every book and change up how the Americas were “ founded” by such colonizers, we have been here for centuries.
I am here listening. I weep for your ancestors, and for the land. As a guest on this land, I am humble to those who were here before. I live on Ute, Goshute, Shoshone, and Paiute Land. I hope to earn my place as a Native ally 💜
Your ancestors were very violent, they were no victims. They just lost
Surprised there’s been no push to boycott the 49ers football team
Shameful. Sad purposely overlooked chapter in California history! Thank you for bringing this information to light.
I’ve always wondered where the Native Americans went in California. There are so many places named after tribes or settlers. The word “settlers” makes it sound like it was justified. That’s pretty sad.
You could just say colonizers. It’d be more appropriate.
It is justified because they made California
@@brittanyhayes1043 Ah, so you'd agree with Hitler. Ok 👌
@@kupidrosalindavateri3965 Some might call them invaders. Like how Americans hate on Mexicans.
@@KombuchaBuzzed Not really. But without the 49ers your still would nit have California.
Although this was terrible it is amazing that the indigenous people survived
They barely Surviving in a region that has destroyed their natural diet as in fish and plants that has been polluted with lead and silver ore in Clear Lake some still eat the fish but at a cost that's shortening their life expectancy from Cancers and other illness from European pollution so Genocide is still happening to this day i lived there and seen first hand what's still happening plus I'm a product of Slavery so we share the same endurance in the struggle in America while Hollyweird glorifies everything bad like genocide cowboys and miner's in my America 🦍✌️
Less than 2percent! Sad😭
@@LVH1972 more than 2 %.
The 2 per cent is white that the government counted. They didn't count the whole native population because they weren't white and 2 per cent don't recognize them.
My cousins are Miwok. They are from Tuolumne County Calif. The miners often murdered natives to steal native land to dig for gold, and for sport.😪 The state of California owes their native tribes big time. The state of California owes natives huge tracts of land and money for museums and education to all Native descendants.
It is sad that some people in this country want to deny all these atrocities happened. They don't want to learn from history. They just don't want to "feel guilty" so their solution is to bury the truth.
Who is denying atrocities happened? and who is guilty? Should I feel guilty? or is that how you would like me to feel? Your last name would indicate that you have Spanish ancestors.. if so.... YOU guys were here first and didn't even mine most of the gold you came for, you guys just stole it from the natives... Man, how many natives did you all kill off? That really was atrocious!!! you should feel guilty and ashamed...😜
There’s nothing for me to feel guilty for. Being born in America as a white person doesn’t make me guilty of anything. The American government that keeps these things hidden is to blame and it’s safe to say most Americans hate the American government.
@@grimlygrim672 You have a very mature perspective about history. No one alive now should have to feel guilty about the atrocities our ancestors did. Those events should be taught in history so that we can learn from other people's mistakes.
@@derekeimer7758 Of course you shouldn't feel guilty. You had nothing to do with it. As a society we can learn fron the mistakes of the past. That's why the events presented in this video should not be deleted from the history books.
@@Nicksolo2369 no one alive now should feel guilty? Excuse you, but there are still people who grew up in racist households, there are still people alive today that literally went to segregated schools. The white settlers should have shame written on their grave tomb, and the children that carry on the hate should be exposed. Don't try to sweep it under the rug like all of this happened 1,000 years ago. No. Many of this happened 40 years ago where some states "didn't" allow for blacks/ or "others" to marry whites. Don't you dare sweep this under the rug as "well we can learn from it." No, do something about it. It's important that these voices get heard.
Going to school, my teachers always said... "check your sources, who's writing this, what's their background?" Now as an adult, I should have fact checked the elementary/middle school/ high school history books. Internet can be mean, but videos like this make the internet worth it. RIP Natives of Cali
Thank you ro sharing this eye-opening stuff. Also gonna check out the book.
Be sure to apply that same logic to this video. I’m scratching my head in wonder at how only two men were able to enslave 100 men and however many women.
They skip the part of where all people who lose wars complain about how and what. The gold rush era was still considered a time when army was at war with natives.
Ask the black people...they complain too. Along with south America, Asian countries...etc. this is normal behavior for anyone who loses in wars. Look at Ukraine today and how they complain about Russia...lol. the survivors are just angry snowflakes.
Extremely disturbing! An egregious act of Inhuman behaviour, and inhumane mentality, to the core!!
@EpsilonGoods QAnon!
@Dennis The Golden God Reynolds I have read all about the Pilgrims and thereafter the soldier blue story. I feel they started the brutality in the first place, they were the invaders encroaching into someone else's home and territory, after which, there is bound to be retaliation on the same lines, and sometimes even harsh. I would say, what one sows is what one reaps...in short and bitter, whatever happened to both was acutely sad, and an ultimate shame in our human history! The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History by Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages
The ”peaceful” Pilgrims massacred the Pequots and destroyed their fort near Stonington, Connecticut, in 1637. A 19th-century wood engraving depicts the slaughter. (The Granger Collection, NYC)
Humans had always been like that just till recently, Up to this point they just act well like humans had always been for centuries
I can give you a tons of prove of human acting in such or even worse way in the past
@@yonathanrakau1783 so? What is the logic behind it??
"The misconceptions about Native people in dominant White society, always say more about White society itself than they do about Native peoples."
(INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES) Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2015 🖐☯🖑
Whites only outnumbered natives because natives did not have immunity to small pox
I truly appreciate native Americans pursuit of the re-education of the American public to these atrocities. You’re bringing honor to those pour souls. Thank you! There are so many of us who really want to know! I pray enough survived to pass on your traditions and for the love of God, rename that damn town. Disgusting.
As a woman of color with partial native heritage this video has me aching however I’m grateful that these stories are coming out into the light
Rest in peace great warriors. You will never be forgotten.
What made them great?
@@skipfluck4299 are you being sarcastic or is it a genuine question?
The Light In The Forest was a mandatory read in my American school in Taiwan.
Very sorry to hear more accounts of deaths of Native Americans.
This is crazy because I live in Saudi Arabia and my mom and sister always told me that America took land that was not theirs to build on what you see now
Very true..
@Short Spoon yes it is “like that”
I’m Mexican America, your min is absolutely right
It’s funny you say this because if you look at your history you’d see Muslims did this as well. Multiple racial groups have done this through out history as well, so keep the same energy for yourself and them.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Muslim isn't a racial group but yes humanity has done genocide and it is wrong.
These same stories were told to me by my father and told to him by his grandparents we owned land from Mexico Texas and California and our families were killed for greed of land and resources now I only have some stories when I’am gone the next generation will not remember and that’s what our government wants
That’s why there is a movement of Rebuilders.
We can't learn to do better if we don't address how and why we ever want wrong. Schools cannot be the end of our history lessons. This US is so young, yet so little is actually learned about it in school.
Time to acknowledge our history, not by the definition of the United States.
It’s crazy how these white settlers ran away from prosecution from their homeland just to come to California and do the exact same thing. it makes me happy our history is being shared but it just makes my blood boil everytime I hear what happened to our people.
I’m from California and I never knew this. Wow. So tragic. Rip
Native Americans were fighting each other also.
"White settlers" ???? The person narrating this video, obviously hasn't understood the assignment.
Try using a more accurate description like:
"Violent European immigrants" or
"European Terrorists"
Using the term for history's original US "white settlers" is like saying Hitler's German settlers or Taliban Settlers, or more currently saying "Russians settlers" in the Ukraine. There's NOTHING settling about any of those "settlers".
Relax 🤣
they were settlers and white
@@napalmsf unrelax
I Love my beautiful Native People ❤️✊🏽
Killing and raping is the history. Just terrible 😞 😢😭
Christian demons
Well.....
Something else I didn’t learn in school. What a surprise.
Yeah I learned about this incident by randomly reading stuff on Wikipedia. I did not learn this in school. Of course we all knew that White settlers killed Natives but we rarely went into much detail about the specific massacres. We didn’t learn about California’s laws intended to reduce the Native population. I understand when people say you shouldn’t blame people today for historical events but you shouldn’t glorify people who committed those atrocities and name towns after them. It is also completely fine to teach children about things that actually happened in the place they live. No that is not “making them feel guilty” that’s just educating them.
Really'' the last stage of genocide is denial''
I’m Brown&Proud From The BayAREA And This Is The Reason I Never Liked The 18-49ers Because Deep Down I Knew That Team Represented A Dark History To Our Brown People. Thank You For The Knowledge,
-$tay Brown 💪🏽😎
Feel the same!
Mining culture!? Yikes!!
This is a disgusting, shameful part of our American history
We need more videos like this so we can know the real history of America. Our school books are full of lies.
Texas was making new history textbooks about the civil war. Seems normal until they never mention any of the atrocities that the south did to African Americans. Like they are leaving out slavery, white supremacy, KKK. Stuff like that. And yea I’ll admit it was a horrible time but we have to learn from the past to become better in the future. We shouldn’t cover up something because “we don’t like it”.
@@havocbrotatochip8142 - We should learn from the mistakes our ancestors made as we keep moving forward.
Quran is the answer
Like we’ve heard history is filled with liars
@@havocbrotatochip8142 Yeah Texas is the worst. I live in Texas...but I make sure my daughter knows these things whether she's taught about it in school or not.
Thank you for educating me. I never heard about the massacre at Clear Lake, CA. I should have known the atrocities committed against Native Americans would have been committed here as well.
I DEFINITELY want to see more from this program (Whitewashed). I'm taking a uni class on First People's Health & Practice here in Australia, and the similarities are horrifying. They nearly succeeded, colonisers. We can't let this legacy of suffering and tragedy go unpaid for, or forgotten.
Look up "genocide at round valley "
So, when it's paid for and the next generation learns about it like you are doing now, who pays them? And then when the generation that comes after, they will feel the same way, who pays them? And on, and on, and on, and on, and on. Are you really going to say OH nevermind that's been paid for already? Or should we just teach every generation to fixate on the past and expect payment for it so that everyone is forever indebted to everything that ever happened in the past? When 10 generations from now that generation realizes you decided to pay generations off to feel better about the past, they will feel like a victim of you unfairly leaving them nothing and then they will be a victim of your decisions. Since it's in the past, who will pay them for your decisions? And then the generation that follows. And on, and on, and on. How about we just leave the past in the past and stop pretending like anyone alive right now had anything to do with it. And just be good people right now.
@@jadesea562 my knowledge wasn't paid for it was from my grandparents and other family members who was directly related to them (proof by BIA a genealogical records of genocide).
@@jadesea562 alo we native Americans never forget our past becouseif you forget your past then who are you? Who was your ancestors? You'd be a ghost with nothing and no one to remember you. Thats the difference.
@@jadesea562 we need to stop current occupation financed by former occupiers.
I’d love more of this series from different stories, groups etc. Do you know why they stopped the series after this one story? It’s very compelling and important
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A very high percentage of miners came from mexico, many Chinese, Africans, phillipinos, from all over the world. There are many books written on this event. One of my favorites is " in search of eldorado". Written in 1850 by a young east coast journalist. And of course the local tribes were abused, people were shot, claims were jumped. When you gather a mass of humanity and throw in gold there will be conflict.
True that. Check out the history of the building of the Panama Canal. Chinese traveled all that way just to die of malaria never seen by family again.sad.
And don't forget the vast majority Californians were previous inhabitants thus mostly hispanic. New incoming peoples were Sonoran, from Mexico
Actually a small percentage of participants were from the east coast. The Spanish Jesuit missions were in decay, and the "aborigines" were very well aware of the "newcomers" ....
The whites passed a law that none whites had to pay a $75.00 license fee to mine. That was a lot of money then and made it impossible to mine for the men who arrived from China, Italy, Spain, Mexico, South America etc. A resourcefull group, the Chinese, had trading skills like bookeeping. They found other ways to make a living by starting businesses like laundries and restaurants . Whites terrorised the minorities and even passed a law barring Chinese women from immigrating. Chinese men without women then, frequented bars and brothels which reinforced the white propaganda that Chinese they were not moral people. We still have people who profess yyo be Christian, moral people yet spread lies and propose evil on refugees and immigrants they don't respect.
@@artlovervictoria source?
@@artlovervictoria all this time I thought the men came over to get the basics like a stable home,income & then they sent for the women. Come to find out the woman were barred. Never too old to learn. 61
This is the primary reason I truly do not understand todays vehement European angst about Hitler and his legacy of killing so many Jews in WW2. Agreed: it was a horrible slaughter but it pales in comparison to what Europeans did to the Native Americans. My grandfather was Cherokee. I was taught about the Trail of Tears and the Cherokee being "forced" out of Georgia when gold was discovered there.
I guess Hitler and the Nazi movement is just still too fresh in the minds of most Europeans for them to breathe a mention of it aloud while what the Europeans did to the Native Americans is ancient history to them. Of course, out of sight, out of mind....the fact that the slaughter of Jews happened on European soil while the slaughter of American Indians occurred long ago in a distant land might have something to do with the memory block.
Wrong is still wrong no matter where or when it occurs.
Thank you for sharing. I knew about the genocide, I'm not suprised the govt took part in the atrocity, and the history books still not updated. So sad.
Thank you for sharing this!! I grew up my whole life believe i was INDIAN but I just found out 2yrs ago age 50 that I have no trace of INDIAN in me. I cried 😭😭 when I found out because I was always so PROUD to be INDIAN. Well anyways thank you for more history of INDIAN people. Broke my heart ❤ 💔 😢
Look to the census not dna testing. DNA testing is the biggest scam.
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but u can always be in ur heart tho.
Being Native American is not blood quantum. It’s how you were raised, white, black and other races have been taken in by various tribes. Personally my extended family is very mixed as well as my tribe.
@@y0gafire very true
@@y0gafire probably best to avoid appropriating native culture and claiming it as your own if you are not
And they wonder why we call them devils
Nobody calls nobody that. That was a thing back in the 1970s but it pretty much stopped in the 1980s
@@X2LR8 please don’t get all pc on me ok a devil is a devil the acts committed by those Europeans was evil add the d and you get devil point blank period
Native Americans way of life posed a direct threat to the exploitative & empirical intentions of the settlers.
So much blood,just to live the lives of meaningless work & toil we live today.
Watch Karen's call this racist against white people
Found the Karen ☝🏻
I knew historically the federal government tried to exterminate the plains Indians but had no idea it was this extensive in Calif. I live in Mariposa county and have known a lot of the local Miwok Indians but this part of their history I never heard. In high school history the local costal Indians were brought up in passing and my instructor was not very well versed in the local history or the people of the region. I'll never forget what he had to say about them.
I am Miwok and Maidu Native American, our history and trauma was never once mentioned at my schools even though I grew up in my Maidu/Miwok territory
Are we gonna talk about how the FBI made a fake story on leonard peltier and he's still in jail?
No
How about we make a true story about how he admitted being in the shootout but denied actually hitting anyone he shot at. That's...pretty much grounds for keeping him in prison. Should an attempted murderer be granted clemency because he sucks at aiming?
The educational system would rather teach kids about gender and pronoun bullshit instead of history, this generation is doomed if parents don’t step up
My great grandparents lived throughout these times. Although I am Native, even local tribes refuse my heritage. Crazy 🤪
Anti-American. Where is the coverage of Tribal Americans supporting and alling with Europeans? Not all tribes got along (even to this day).
The Spanish did more damage to the California Natives; caused more deaths and slavery. They were as much a brutal colony as any in history.
History taught in schools, left leaning institutions, only teach things to push a political agenda. Demonizing people of european descent, people alive today who never had anything to do with things of the past. While ignoring violence between other races. Of corse these activist groups make excuses so they can push the anti European agenda.
Thank you for giving us the real history.
I will never get use to hearing the word rape, but its literally great to have such raw information. If we dont know how these people were treated just because of greedy white settlers we will never learn
Promoting the guilty to hide their sinful deeds. Sounds like something law enforcement still practices today.
Do you believe that these actions of Americans were worse than the treatment by the Spanish in California?
dont be a victim the past is full of human sin and ugliness , its not just america . this new generation of americans are so focused on looking for the negatives of this great nation and not so much about how it made great improvments in human existence. more positives than negatives i would say.
I was just called a Savage in Berkeley Ca because my Ancestors Are Aztec... Sick...!
It's the same reason why America isn't taught about the tusla race race massacre or the reason y we aren't taught about the thousands of black people lynched in the US after "slavery ended". Or the same reason y we aren't taught how slavery never really ended and how freemen were turned into another form of a slave.or why we aren't taught about the massacre that happened in San Francisco with the Chinese immigrants . There are many things we are not taught in American schools that should be taught.
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Literally everyone is taught about this in American schools. You just weren't paying attention in class lmao
Wow Its crazy I have traveled California having grew up on Russian river , being native American myself I took great interest in native ppl of California and I imagine what it must have been like for the bay area costal tribes and ppl of the interior when the missionary's came , I can't help feeling that there are places in California where ppl should not live because of the violence that took place there , native ppl dwelling in cazadaro and fort Ross area where much better off . I always wondered how our government could condemn the atrocities of the Nazis when they did far worse to not just the California Indiana but all native ppls of this country .we are all earth and the California Indians understood that and we're care takers of the land , ofunga bless there souls.
Don' you know how to spell "people" ???
@@rogeeeferrari And that's the depth of your concern -- a typo in comments!
If your from the Russian river area (most likely yuki or wailaki) then you know what happened at "lake" mendocino and how t was our peoples village and they was killed by the dam that they originally had.
@@rogeeeferrari I am willing to bet you are a derelict
Native Americans were fighting each other also.
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The discovery of the precious metal at Sutter's Mill in January 1848 was a turning point in global history. The rush for gold redirected the technologies of communication and transportation and accelerated and expanded the reach of the American and British Empires.
Source: Oxford Faculty of History - University of Oxford
As a 27 year old first generation Mexican American who lives in Alameda Ca, This was tragic to learn about 😔
Life sucked in the past for almost everybody. Very, very few people didn’t suffer back then and everyone’s family has had to deal with violence in the past.
As long as anybody stay on top of the valuable resources, they die.
no their is ever someone that survive for take profit its not robotic
As I studied the history of African American history it was heartbreaking. Then I learned what was done to my Indian brothers and sisters and I had to withdraw from learning anymore about either people. I was crushed my soul hurt. I almost didn’t watch this but I have to keep learning so I could share this truth sure. Thank you.
I kept on studying and a question came to mind why would a person living in Arizona native to that land need to wear sunblock? Another question came to mind why would entities native to the planet need to block the Sun? Okay I'm going scuba diving don't I need scuba gear an oxygen tank? Do I have gills? Do I have Longs instead? Can I breathe underwater without this gear?
Lungs
The Indian tribes .... Idk why we were hated throughout the history
Bloodthirsty and greedy was the name of the game in the new white America. The push for it continues in factions today.
I watched a documentary of the West by Ken Burns, which led me here, wanting to know more. Thank you.
Thank you two beautiful native woman for begging gifts the healing for your ancestors! 🙏🏽 so grateful for the opportunity to teach out new generations the truth. Proud Family of White Mountain Apache Tribe ❤️
We never learned this in my school in so much detail in 4th grade we learned about the gold rush and Chinese discrimination and the explotation of immagrants but not that much about the native Americans and in 8th grade we learned about the mainfest destiny and how it was irradiating the native Americans.
and in what grade did you learn about the moors that would conquer and enslave entire white nations settlement as far as Ireland along the ocean were abandoned due to raiding parties by the time slavery ended in America there were still over a million white slaves in the old Moorish kingdoms, and they were treated even worse than the slaves here but no on covers this
@@joejacko1587 u are right..people should cover this…but at the same time the American slave trade was big and harshh with more slaves and they were treated harshly every place has a problem with slavery…we should come together and address this together and agree for this to never happen again!
Thank you for honoring the truth.
I am so sorry this happened to your people and how it has affected you.
10 months and only 4 like's lol...........figure's.
Please share, spread the knowledge
We are taught about this for the same reason we aren't taught about the past and co tinued atrocities against blacks in the US. Unfortunately, White supremacy is ove and well in the US.
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It is so heartbreaking what happened to the Native people.
God has a way of repaying his people
literally read this history book and still have it in my room. Wow.
I had this same textbook back in middle school. I hope they find and burn every copy of the old ones.
You "literally" read it did you? Jesus Christ
@Jeremy Ramsey People who "literally read books" should be in institutions for the clinically insane.
But they call us SAVAGES smFh
Now I feel disrespected. My racist white teacher always called me Pocahontas or India. I had no idea I was native back then cuz my parents raised me in a white town. I remember going to a field trip based on the gold rush. My teacher kept scolding me to keep panning for gold but she was nice to the other kids that are white. They didn’t even have to pan for gold. My dad noticed so he took me away from that group and told me I can get anything I want from the gift shop. It made my day. I got a bunch of fools gold and bookmarks and other stuff. The kids were hating cuz my dad splurged on me. That’s what they get those racist colonizers 😂
Sorry that happened to you, that's not right. What that teacher did if what you say is true is unacceptable. But also calling whites colonizers, people who had nothing to do with the founding of America is also unacceptable either. Even if their racists, it's still not right.
I’m from watts California 78 they did not teach us this in elementary school, nor in junior high, nor in high school in California mentioned about this and I graduated in 96 This is the first I’m hearing about this and I am 44 now