I just posted a new video on my new channel, Extremities. It's about why and how people live on Kerguelen--one of the world's most remote islands with human settlement. So make sure to go watch that video next here: ua-cam.com/video/vglBkQb_x9Q/v-deo.html
In fact these are countries, really. The international term is "vassal states" which sounds ugly so the U.S. government refers to the nations as "domestic dependant nations". To be "a country" (a State, i.e. a sovereign) under international law you require 1. Definite territory 2. Permanent population 3. Recognition by other states And the various Indian nations do in fact have all that.
The USA has a tendency to take international law terms, which are often in Latin, and then translate them into an equivalent English term under U.S. domestic law. Non-citizen Indians do not have to pay federal taxes. These days Indians are accorded birth-right federal citizenship, but that wasn't always the case and Indians are not and legally cannot be forced to accept U.S. citizenship. Satrap is another international law term for what in domestic U.S. law is termed "domestic dependant nation". You probably never heard of "satrap" or "vassal state" e.g.
Especially when you consider Arizona doesn't have Day Light Savings, but the Navajo Nation does, but the Hopi Nation doesn't, but the part of the Navajo nation inside the Hopi reservation does.
Lived in Tuba City for three years. Across the road is Moenkopi, a Hopi village, which of course does not do DST. But even weirder is the fact that not all of Tuba observes DST. Many of the businesses geared towards the tourist trade stay on MST in order to stay in sync with the rest of Arizona. So when making appoints, you not only had to set a time, but also state whether that was “Tuba time” or “Flag time” (that’s short for Flagstaff).
This is probably a graphic design problem but the ‘hole’ in the middle of the Navajo reservation is actually another reservation, the Hopi reservation, but it isn’t colored like a reservation in the map.
If this wasn't mentioned in the video, the funniest thing about the Navajo Nation, in my opinion, is that it's the only part of Arizona that recognizes Daylight Savings Time.
@@bcubed72 That isn't it. Arizona is hot during the Summer. Sending workers home an hour earlier would mean increasing air conditioner usage an hour earlier. That means the "Saves power" rationale never made sense.
@@E4439Qv5 because the Navajo are split between multiple US states. It wouldn't make sense for them to have multiple time zones. Why does Arizona not follow DST? Because it gets super hot here, and is people were leaving work an hour earlier then electric use would spike and put even more pressure on our already stressed grid
@@bcubed72 Hawaii also doesn't recognize it, yet I doubt that it's much of a farmer's state. Plus, so many other farming states probably weren't holdouts.
Have an Army buddy who is from the Navajo Nation, and moved back there after he got out. Got to hear all sorts of cool things about his people and he showed me a picture of the traditional Hogan he lives in. Bless you my Navajo friends!
I have driven all over the Navajo Nation many times in a semi. Words can't express how bad the situation is. Most of the land is not not useful for anything. There are a bunch of abandoned mines from uranium and other materials. You see scattered shacks or trailers that have actual outhouses behind them. There is no water, electricity or even cell phone service on many areas. Not being able to mortgage property or have personal ownership means they can't upgrade anything and make payments. They just have to do without. Even doing business with people or companies in the US is so risky it is rarely done and even rarer to end well. There is no effective means to enforce contract law. Either side can just decide not to perform as agreed with no consequences. The glass walkway over the Grand Canyon is a recent reminder of the risk. The US provides tribes with very limited support, but it is provided by non tribal members in buildings built by and for the US to remind them of what they don't have. There are many people that somehow have incredible drive to improve the situation though. Many literally hitchhiker 150-200 miles to get to low paying jobs to at least have the dignity of working. Alcoholism is an ongoing crises on there areas along with the domestic violence that alcohol brings. Oh, and many of these familiar have served honorably with the US in every military conflict since the American Revolution. But we put them on some rocky land with the scars from mining and the destruction of testing nuclear weapons. Put of site out of mind. I'm glad Sam did this video. I really wish every American would be forced to actually understand the situation so close to home that is literally worse than third world countries.
Much love and respect to the Navajo People. When I lived in Arizona many of my friends and coworkers were Navajo, and they were all lovely Human beings.
Honestly it’s so frustrating because Wendover is one of the best creators of content like this on the site, and this is honestly one of the best videos on the reservation system on here as a quick teaching tool, but even here we see the plague of folks talking about Native American issues making hilariously silly mistakes that could have been fixed with a one minute google search. As a proud “Cher’ohkee,” it’s certainly a mood.
@@akorn9943 agreed! I love Wendover videos, but seems he is getting a bit sloppy in some of his research and not investigating proper pronunciations. This isn’t the only case, but he did do a very good job at telling a mostly accurate story.
Small correction at 8:15 : the US federal government absolutely taxes on residency in addition to citizenship. Foreigners living in the US, whether they are on immigrant or non-immigrant visa or green cards, are required to pay US federal taxes too.
I was wondering about this. I was thinking that surely immigrants who are resident would be subject to taxes, otherwise I'm going to try and reside myself in the US. 😂 Thanks for confirming.
Non-immigrant visas only pay income tax if they spend at least a certain amount of time in the US throughout the year. It depends on their tax residency status.
What he was trying to get at, and this is One More legal mis-statement in his video (there are several) is that the USA taxes its citizens on their world-wide income, no matter where said citizen resides, nor the source of that income. No other country on earth does this. None. Why? Because we run the world's financial system, that's why. Why? Because we can. You can try to expatriate if you like, but expatriation for tax avoidance of natural-born citizens is generally not permitted, at least for tax purposes. I love it, but i also can understand why others might hate it. I drink their tears. It's all U.S. dollars, their are just some different coloured ration coupons for it.
Unfortunately, the 30 million plus illegals mostly don't pay and leech of our system. Actually quite a few of them do get social security numbers and pay, despite being illegal.
Not true, you can build your house but you got to get something called a homesite lease where you have to apply and pay the tribe to build your house on public land. Not all of us live in NHA housing or Mobile homes most of us live in homes we build ourselves on homesite leased land
I guess the point he was making is that the process is more difficult to develop land when banks can't secure loans against the land. We have a similar issue in Aotearoa New Zealand
I spent an entire summer in the Navajo Nation. It is such an interesting area, the Nation is truly incredible in history. They fought in WW2 as code talkers, they weren't fighting for the government, they were fighting for what was right
Navajo people and their amazing culture and history interest all of us Australians; this is even more cooler to think they fought alongside us in helping defeat the Axis powers!
I could understand someone mispronouncing the name of a relatively obscure or unknown native tribe, but the Cherokee are arguably one of the most well known of all American tribes. They’re right up there with the Navajo.
As a truck driver who travels across the Navajo once a week, I am saddened by the poverty I see, if you could see what some of these people call homes and places they live, it would probably bring a tear to your eye.
@Wendoverproductions is absolutely right. On the reservation, it’s called government trust land. You can drill a water well, get electric, or start a business. It’s not that we’re poor. It’s the government doesn’t allow it.
As someone who's traveled pretty widely within the US, the level of poverty in several regions is just sad. The area I'm from has significant issues and is often seen as unsafe, but the realities that many people (including the Diné) live with is so, so much worse. It's hard to imagine the wealth disparity between the richest and poorest parts of America unless you've seen it personally. I've seen neighborhoods where a relatively "small" home would cost well over $2,000,000, and neighborhoods where people were squatting in the burned out husks of *originally* substandard housing. The US has a lot of problems that it needs to fix, but that should be at the top of the list. It's so obviously not a sustainable situation. That kind of inequality is what completely destroys a country in the long run.
@@anthonymartinez8488i genuinely wonder if it’s on purpose because if you can’t be self sufficient, you have to rely on someone else. it’s scary and i’m so sorry about this shit yall go though.
@@reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee No, it's because if the land were freely allowed to be bought and sold, the government and tribe were worried that both "natives wouldn't understand property rights and get taken advantage of" and "impure blood would eventually enter the reservation lands". The whole point was to maintain purity and preserve the tribal entity as the one managing the land, and it has turned out horribly. Most natives are incentivized to stay because they get tons of free services and distributions from the tribe.
One of my good friends and old roommates grew up in the Navajo Nation and I’ve had the chance to stay with her family there too. Learning about their history and seeing the conditions myself was so eye opening and sad. Our government (and partially the tribal government) makes it so difficult for them to do anything and everything there.
"Partially tribal government?" When they became a nation, the tribal government took on the responsibility of providing for their nation, including the possiblity of prosperity. I live in Alaska and have seen how tribal governments pick and choose. I don't think they have the well being of their people as their priority. If they did they would be doing a lot more to combat their alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, poverty and suicide problems in Alaskan villages. Did you know the suicide rate amongst Alaskan Natives is nearly 4 times that of non natives? I think if they did more for the first 4 problems the 5th would reduce because of it.
@@deeziebaby They were self relian until the government forced them into the situation they are in now. THEY ARE STILL MORE SELF RELINT THEN people IN A REMOTE, arid dessert could be expected to be.
@@neilgordon3078 TON reservation doesn’t span into Mexico. It cuts off at the border. However, the tribes traditional territory does. Our desert relatives can live in Mexico but they are not living on a reservation and they are not enrolled members of the tribe. But they can be member of the tribe, just not federally recognized.
I’ve been to the Navajo Nation on several occasions to attend ceremonies me and my brother were invited to. Wonderful people and community we were with. Got to do a lot of site seeing and hiking. The land I saw was beautiful.
@@crestofhonor2349 about 241,700 square miles, representing about 6.3% of the total land mass of Canada over about 3,100 reservations. The largest one, in Alberta, is about 546 square miles.
@@crestofhonor2349 First Nations (mainly Inuit) also make up a majority of the population in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Although the total population of the province is only about 35,000 people.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to accept I’m a Navajo. I want to feel good about it but then I realize how flimsy our foundation is. I hate pride and feeling bad for myself but ... they’re my people and I want them to soar. However, there’s just so many variables and problems that make it impossible to see a future here.
Same as with me. I want to feel proud to be Navajo, but what Ive learned from living on the reservation is how badly my relatives (who are all navajo of course) here have treated me. Now its made me believe that Navajo people are bad, which I should know isnt true.
I've been thinking about food forests, ways to help everyone First I'd need to find someone who's asking for help so I'm not intruding Im a citizen of America, so I might be seen as being rude, I . . . I want to make the familys home better than it ever was Like a giant food forest, educational systems Due to citizenship, I may have different levers I can move the world with, to help
Please respect what we have, our tribe, language, culture, everything that is a part of us. It's who we are as people. Yes, our lives are hard but that's what makes us strong Diné
Something I almost always see avoided in these videos (probably because of it's complexity and just generally obscurity) is the existence of the IHS, 'indian' health services. Basically a free health care system run for members of native American tribes both on tribal land and in select locations (I know phoenix AZ has an IHS hospital) my understanding is that ihs is run by tribal governments but mostly funded by the federal government. Insanely interesting stuff.
Would recommend looking up Public law 93-638 Indian Self Determination. Many IHS hospitals are still fully federally operated with Federal Employees, some are operated jointly with the Tribe with a 638 Contract, only a few are fully operated by tribes on Compacts where the feds hand over all the money for operation and let Tribes decide how to spend it. BIE and Tribal Schools have similar operation Schemes. Most Federal programs can be contracted to be run by the Tribe like Roads, EPA, Cultural Preservation, Courts, Police, Game Fish, and Parks, Land Operation (Managing Tribal Land leases) Among other things.
@@ryansshane the tribes can also purchase land off the reservation in a suitable location for gambling and have the interior department put the land in trust so the tribe can put a casino on it. New Mexico, Arizona and California have many of tribal casinos right off the interstate far from the reservation.
During the Great Famine here in Ireland the Choctow people sent 175$ to the people of Ireland to help even though they had just suffered the trail of tears, this act of kindess has never been forgotten and during Covid when the Navajo Nation was been very badly effected a go fund me page went viral in Ireland with people sending millions of euros back.
By accident on way back from Flagstaff to Vegas we stopped off at some town and went into only bar in town. It was a Indian bar. Felt out of place, but when they discovered we were English they warmed and started chatting. They looked a sorry lot. All beer belled getting drunk. They said people call them Navajo, but were Hupa or sounded like Hupili. He said they were treated lowest of the low, even below the black man. They seemed very bitter. Land of the free...they laughed. Reminded me of Australian aboringines.
I was in Navajo nation not long ago, 3 weeks maybe. They want you masked up everywhere (which makes sense) and a lot of places are still closed. A random, scruffy dog wandered into the road and my gf wanted to help it so she beckoned it over. A Navajo man (he told us he was) walked over to explain it was his dog and that he was in the Marines in Afghanistan and so was the dog. Explained why the dog looked scruffy. The man showed me his scars on his torso which definitely left an impression on me. Then he asked for a cigarette which I didn't have and then I was on my way.
Yeah, we get alot of 'out of towners' feeding the stray dogs, dont feed them. Your just contributing to the problem. Also they are covered in fleas and ticks.
The reservation was one of the worst affected by covid because of the lack of resources, let alone transportation. Many families and parts of the place still don't have running water.
I picked up a dude on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere in monument valley... He was beat to shit....and just as drunk Girlfriends brothers apparently.... Gave him a ride home.
Great video. Spent six years on the Navajo Rez, very interesting legal logistics. In Tuba City, due to the presence of Hopi Tribal land, state land, federal, and Navajo land in close proximity, the time zones were insane whenever parts of the country (federal and Navajo) when on Daylight Savings Time and others (state, Hopi) did not. For half the year, we had to know who had land sovereignty to know what time it was :)
Chickasaw here! It was awesome to learn about how my nation was the first to open up a DC office. Edit: The Winstar World Casino is owned and operated by the Chickasaw, not the Chippewa. Source: The casino paid for like half of my tuition.
As someone who is near the NE OK casino area, I'm sure the casinos are profitable, but honestly, many nations would be much better served by expanding their options of economic development...maybe casinos are the entry method to funding, but so many options exist to diversify their income.
@@justinhaase8825 Chickasaw Nation has already been doing this for 35 years now - they have a diversified ownership portfolio, from a chocolate factory to a military manufacturer.
Mistake? What they realized is that Navajo land wasn't land that they could use, so they gave it back. Walking the Enemy around until they drop dead was standard practice by then. And putting in the quantum system so that tribes either in-breed themselves slowly to death or out-breed themselves out of existence. It's still genocide, just really slow. And you realize every young person they lose (the Pine Ridge Sioux) is that much less DNA they have to work with.
I find it appaling that the Nazi death walks from concentration camps after the invasions is considered part of the holocaust genocide, but forcing the "long walk", a similarily horrific act (and in a desert climate, not the temperate European climate) after colonisation and widespread destruction of the natives is called a "mistake". It's genocide, no matter who you destroy.
Thank God! I thought that it was 2nd syllable, but this guy is pronouncing it the other way. Glad to read that I am right despite only reading the word (in several different spellings).
" So... yes. the Indians in these parts got sold a very raw deal. This is the Heartlands we're going to, good farming and grazing country, they lost it all. Stolen clean away from them it was, every blade of grass. Killed or herded up to the reservations in the middle of nowhere. "
Except the Indians would never have developed in the quasi-industrial way that modern agriculture exists today. I've never quite gotten whether they want to live as they did traditionally, or be a modern society. If they want to never modernise then $8,000 per year, electricity and occasional running water is a wild step up.If they do want to be modern then embrace all that America and capitalism has to offer. Countries like Estonia in the 90s are a good example of how a country can rapidly modernise from rural backwater to proper western country.
@@konglight4070 My point is that they have two options: 1) Embrace the modern American lifestyle. They don't like it. 2) Live off the land, living in huts. Nobody does this though I totally understand long standing historical grievances (I'm from Scotland) but at a certain point you need to define who you are and what you want. If they want thousands of square miles of land returned, they cannot also expect that it comes with highways and electricity and Wallmart included as standard. My experience is that they don't want an agrarian society or undeveloped land, they just want free money. There's a strong argument to be made that they are entitled to shares in western businesses but it screams of hypocrisy, given how strongly they've fought against those business' existence
@@zackkelley2940 why do states get representation in the Congress but indigenous nations don't? Would love to hear the lovers of electoral college now change the position once it'll become indigenous led! Why aren't they at least shown on maps, when de facto they're not a part of the state and more autonomous than the state?
Here in Finland plenty of homes are built on public lands, the process requires there to be strong well defined lease agreement on the land with buyout clauses etc, but it is possible to make such an arrangement work.
Fantastic video, I’m a Rosebud Oglala Sioux from South Dakota (PineRidge Indian Reservation) and it’s unbelievable the decades of “red tape” Natives have to go through to approve anything. Which is probably why (and other reasons) my Rez is poorest in the nation. Can’t believe how badly we Natives have continued to be treated. It’s sad 😪💘
@@forumquorum8156 statics shows a majority of natives live off reservation and just because they leave the rez doesn't mean there aren't options to improve the rez so worry about the western world while we Navajos have to balance 2 world perspectives
8:25 Correction: TRIBAL MEMBERS PAY STATE TAXES!! ONLY Tribal members who live AND derive their income from their own federally recognized reservations lands are exempt from paying state income and property taxes. Obviously another government can’t force another government to pay its taxes. The state of Utah isn’t going to force Arizona to pay its taxes much like Arizona can’t force the Navajo Nation to pay taxes. ALL OTHER TRIBAL MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO PAY THE SAME TAXES AS ANY OTHER ARIZONA CITIZEN! Over half our Navajo tribal population currently DO NOT live on the reservation and that’s over 150,000 of Navajos WHO PAY STATE TAXES wherever they are! Do your due diligence and produce authentic information. With 3 million subscribers, you’re contributing to the false narrative that Tribal citizens don’t pay state taxes when we do. We are citizens of 3 governments and have contributed financially to the state of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico for GENERATIONS! Do better Wendover Productions!!!
This video really glossed over taxation. I agree that when so little is understood about tribal governments and systems by the general non-native population, it is dangerous to forgo nuance. I’m wondering if all members still pay federal taxes that fund programs like social security? Also, they didn’t get into the ihs which seems like an important and complicated system??
The map of Reservations at the beginning should've included the Reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Since the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision last summer, those boundaries are rather significant when talking about Indian Country. Prior to that, the only Reservation that existed in Oklahoma is the Osage Reservation, and that is for purposes of mineral rights in Osage County.
I pretty sure CGPGrey stopped because he’s entered too much controversial water and made some people mad because of the Part 0 American Indian Naming video and political correctness. Instead he decided to cover stupid hexagons and shark art instead.
Wait... your ad pitch is "when I was done working, I was too tired to make food.. so I ordered out! But now everything is sorted out because Hello Fresh sends you ingrediences." Don't you still have to make the food? And isn't that what you were too tired to do? So it's no help at all, it's just same status quo
I went to a high school graduation for my friend in Navajo Mountain, Utah. Lots of hope in the room then but the hope was for the next generation to go out and bring back prosperity, or to simply go out and build a better life. Life there is so different than suburban folk in Utah and Arizona could ever imagine. Driving a four wheeler an hour to get to school, or seeing many wild stray dogs roaming. The land is so beautiful though, endless red plateaus going off into the sunset, and some people seemed very happy to live there.
Nice! I'm from Navajo Mountain. My family has been living on the Eltsosie ranch or that area since before the Navajo Nation was cut into the Rez & before the United States was the United States.
as someone who likes different cultures in the world, including Native Americans where it's hard to find interesting and easy to understand videos, saaaaaame giiiiirl!
Your video is one of many that should be made about the history that’s not talked at all about in our history classes. A genocide of indigenous people that occurred over centuries as a result of european colonization. It’s important to talk about this, because hiding traumatic events and allowing time to pass will never erase the wounds. Only educating people in the present about the past can cause people to reflect and do better
Slight correction: the cherokee natiom does not simply "believe" it is entitled to representarion via a non voting delegate to congress, it is the supreme law of the land that entitles us to recignition. The treaty of New Echota, which grants us this representarion, is the same treaty that facilitated our forced removal from our original homelands. We fulfilled our end of the agreement, it is long past time for congress to uphold theirs
Thanks Sam for making the video that CGP Grey has been teasing for years! IMO this is the best comprehensive video on the topic of Indian Reservatios to date
As a network systems engineer I used to contract with the US Dept of Interior's BIE or Bureau of Indian education. I would design deploy all tele/data systems at all the schools in the nation. I got to know so many great people there which took YEARS for them to get comfortable with me. Most still see us a terrorists and rightly so. I would take home 78,000 a month but worked 80 to 90 hours a week. It was hard to step away due to the people and money but after five years it was too much. I do miss it.
@@barrypark1881 No, I meant 1 hour from Sedona, 35 minutes from Winslow, and 1.5 hours to Snowflake. Never heard of Flagstaff. I think you meant Falstaff, the Shakespeare character.
This video brought up an interesting linguistic difference between the US and the rest of the world. Generally, being an independent UN-recognised 'country' is referred to outside the US as being a 'state'. This is legally clearer and less ambiguous than 'country' - which could apply for example to Scotland and Wales, which are not independent states. The problem in the US is I guess that people will hear 'state' and think of something like California or Colorado, which are a dependent part of the United States (which is a UN-recognised state).
What does Diné mean in their/your language? I mean, Uruguay, for example, my country's name, means "river of the tinted birds" in Guaraní, I think, which is the language spoken around here when the Spanish showed up. Does Diné have any meaning like that?
Damn at 14:16 its straight up is showing the yard I grew up in. Damn I guess I really did live in poverty. Well glad I have come a long ways from it, glad to be out of Tuba though.
I ran a cross country race in high school that was hosted at Tuba City. It was November, cold and windy. Let's just say that was the fastest 5k I ever ran because I just wanted back in the warm van.
March 29th, 2020, we went as we do to Las Vegas to stock our ice cream truck. There was a small group of Navajos buying all of the ice cream they could source. They bought well over 10k in ice cream that day for the reservation. Never let it be said that they did not try to isolate and quarantine. The horrific death toll that devastated the reservation was foreseen by their village elders, they tried to keep to themselves. Our hearts go out to our near neighbors.
Really disappointed that you didn't manage to get in touch from the nation as you had with all the other villages on this channel. Indigenous people are the best source for indigenous stories.
I’ve always interpreted it as the Navajo Nation exists alongside of the United States. It implies that the United States is the one imposing on native land. In French there’s more of a difference between the words nation (nation) and country (pays). A nation is a group of people of a similar culture. A country is an imaginary entity.
The world, two years ago: looking patiently at CGP Grey The world, last year: still looking at CGP Grey The world, today: STILL looking at CGP Grey Wendover: Fine, I'LL do it.
I pretty sure he stopped because he’s entering too much controversial water because of the Part 0 American Indian Naming video. Instead he decided to cover stupid hexagons and shark art instead.
I sure do like when Sam mentions the UP. In fact, it might be fun to do some content on States that attempted to become the 51st state, like the UP when they tried to become Superior.
As someone from New York, but in a part of the state that's just about as far away as you can get from that city with the same name, I feel a certain kinship with the Yoopers.
The statistics at 14:12 are quite tragic 🥲 Last year I wanted to visit the Big 5 and drive through the Navajo Nation from CA. I was really keen on visiting Monument Valley. Unfortunately the Navajo nation had closed their roads and hence I scraped my plans. Good for them to prioritize their needs. Cheers
Growing up in the Navajo reservation is extremely stressful. Our president isn't liked as much by the people since he doesn't really care about anyone besides the money. Just recently we've gotten a Hardship check from the government which is very helpful, however the president was considering not accepting the Hardship whatsoever. Overall, the Navajo reservation is a beautiful sight to see and go to one day. But just be warned about the Díne people there and also please be careful as well while traveling.
I learned about the long walk and the way the oil companies kept pushing them off the land from TinTin. it is only about a page in the comic, but it taught me as a young child how cruel capitalism can be.
As someone who isn't from USA I didn't even know the reservations are something that are still present. I thought they were something from the past. Very insightful and interesting video again.
Well, their more like independently managed substates that natives can work in. Much better than the ones we have in Canada. Canadian reserves are pure dogshit. Americans atleast seem to have functional societies and good structure.
@Cynical Frenchface well when there’s such a simple answer as just leave the reservation, people aren’t really going to invest much energy into solving any actual issues in there
Want to put it out there that Cherokee is pronounced more like Chair-uh-key than Chur-oh-key. I absolutely love your content and the information it has is more than half as interesting as what I was doing earlier.
I thought he was going to talk about Lesotho, a recognised country within a country, or various parts of India and Pakistan in Kashmir, but oh I forget this is America, I must be tripping.
@@SCRedstone The video is about the Diné, not the Dene He still pronounced it wrong, but that eye roll emoji is so annoying especially when you make such a mistake in your comment.
A couple of things; Horse and sheep didn't exist in the Americas until the Spaniards brought them over The Hopi are the original inhabitants of what is now the Navajo Nation ; the Navajo are the Invaders Lack of electricity and /or running water on the Rez is a sign of cultural preference ; not poverty
Living in Washington, I hear people screw up over half of our native names here(we have allot) and it's refreshing to hear it correct for once. Puyallup is one of the most common mispronounced ones. It's not only a tribe here but, a large city as well. It's pronounced pew-al-up but, people say it some crazy ways.
He also mispronounced Cherokee. He said it more like "che-ROW-kee" when it should be "CHAIR-oh-kee." Which is especially surprising since I'd say they are probably the 3rd or 4th most well known tribe in the country.
A great way to learn about the Dine' culture is to read the mystery novels of Tony Hillerman. While a white man, he afforded so much respect to the Navajo that they named a high school after him! And they are great reads!
Do a video on the Mohawk Nation in Canada, it’ll definitely show the contrast between trying to gain foothold in representation (i.e., the Navajo Nation) and trying to distance the tribe from any federal politics whatsoever (Mohawk Nation). We fought many gunfights and shed a lot of blood to make sure we don’t have any colonial hands meddling in our affairs.
@@forumquorum8156 our reserves’ healthcare facilities operate independently and autonomously from the provincial and federal healthcare systems. Our healthcare has been free for centuries, it is the colonizers that mocked that idea and then copied it.
@@SideWays8Productions colonizers?. People have been "conquering" for 100,000 years, but now these whites are the "colonizers" huh? well then i guess you better include the ojibwe, who colonized the lakota areas of canada, minnesota, and wisconsin, forcing them out and into the plains, where the lakota became the "sioux" to over half a dozen tribes, because they "colonized" the plains, slaughtering and forcing all of those tribes out of their lands, like the navajo did to the hopi, and on and on and on. In fact, a recent archeology dig in the dakotas found a pre-columbian mass grave of hundreds of men/women/children in it, i wonder what happened to them? dont worry, everyone falls, and as you can see, western civ is currently in that process, and after their dissolution im sure everyone will again be in peace and harmony, with flower garlands on their heads and skipping and singing all the while, so hang in there!
I just posted a new video on my new channel, Extremities. It's about why and how people live on Kerguelen--one of the world's most remote islands with human settlement. So make sure to go watch that video next here: ua-cam.com/video/vglBkQb_x9Q/v-deo.html
we’ll watch it
:) and it's great. thank you to all the people who make those videos possible :D
In fact these are countries, really. The international term is "vassal states" which sounds ugly so the U.S. government refers to the nations as "domestic dependant nations".
To be "a country" (a State, i.e. a sovereign) under international law you require
1. Definite territory
2. Permanent population
3. Recognition by other states
And the various Indian nations do in fact have all that.
The USA has a tendency to take international law terms, which are often in Latin, and then translate them into an equivalent English term under U.S. domestic law.
Non-citizen Indians do not have to pay federal taxes.
These days Indians are accorded birth-right federal citizenship, but that wasn't always the case and Indians are not and legally cannot be forced to accept U.S. citizenship.
Satrap is another international law term for what in domestic U.S. law is termed "domestic dependant nation".
You probably never heard of "satrap" or "vassal state" e.g.
Looks like you don't need a wife to make your meals for you.
And even stranger is the Hopi nation INSIDE the Navajo nation.
Especially when you consider Arizona doesn't have Day Light Savings, but the Navajo Nation does, but the Hopi Nation doesn't, but the part of the Navajo nation inside the Hopi reservation does.
Lived in Tuba City for three years. Across the road is Moenkopi, a Hopi village, which of course does not do DST. But even weirder is the fact that not all of Tuba observes DST. Many of the businesses geared towards the tourist trade stay on MST in order to stay in sync with the rest of Arizona. So when making appoints, you not only had to set a time, but also state whether that was “Tuba time” or “Flag time” (that’s short for Flagstaff).
@@Droidman1231 Yeah we all watched that video
the Hopi and Navajo are both proud and sovereign nations! May their people prosper.
@@kralle98 I didn't watch it. Thanks Droidman1231, I would never have known this handy fact were it not for you.
Sam got tired of waiting for CGP Grey so he decided to make this video himself.
I was thinking the exact same thing
@Ibnu Who is Gura?
@@Marquis-Sade Shark Vtuber
@@tonydai782 Ok
"No! It's a story for NOW!" - Sam
This is probably a graphic design problem but the ‘hole’ in the middle of the Navajo reservation is actually another reservation, the Hopi reservation, but it isn’t colored like a reservation in the map.
and thats becaise the hopi nation is the only nation that didnt sighn a us treaty
@@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod i thought the seminoles of florida didnt either?
Ah yes our cousins, if you know then you know
@@terrancenasafotiesr.9601 y’all didn’t engaged war with the us government 🤨the Hopis already lost the war before it even begin?
@@terrancenasafotiesr.9601 Beast
The INSANE logistics of the Navajo Nation
Navajo nation's geography problem.
The INSANE logistics of the Trail of Tears.
@@cerdon4076 lmao 🤣
Same video brought me here
Airplanes (except it's actually the Navajo Nation)
If this wasn't mentioned in the video, the funniest thing about the Navajo Nation, in my opinion, is that it's the only part of Arizona that recognizes Daylight Savings Time.
I... _why tho?_
Farmers don't like DST for some reason. Arizona and (most of) Indiana were the two hold-outs, but I hear IN has caved in.
@@bcubed72 That isn't it. Arizona is hot during the Summer. Sending workers home an hour earlier would mean increasing air conditioner usage an hour earlier. That means the "Saves power" rationale never made sense.
@@E4439Qv5 because the Navajo are split between multiple US states. It wouldn't make sense for them to have multiple time zones.
Why does Arizona not follow DST? Because it gets super hot here, and is people were leaving work an hour earlier then electric use would spike and put even more pressure on our already stressed grid
@@bcubed72 Hawaii also doesn't recognize it, yet I doubt that it's much of a farmer's state. Plus, so many other farming states probably weren't holdouts.
Have an Army buddy who is from the Navajo Nation, and moved back there after he got out. Got to hear all sorts of cool things about his people and he showed me a picture of the traditional Hogan he lives in. Bless you my Navajo friends!
I have driven all over the Navajo Nation many times in a semi. Words can't express how bad the situation is.
Most of the land is not not useful for anything. There are a bunch of abandoned mines from uranium and other materials. You see scattered shacks or trailers that have actual outhouses behind them. There is no water, electricity or even cell phone service on many areas.
Not being able to mortgage property or have personal ownership means they can't upgrade anything and make payments. They just have to do without. Even doing business with people or companies in the US is so risky it is rarely done and even rarer to end well. There is no effective means to enforce contract law. Either side can just decide not to perform as agreed with no consequences. The glass walkway over the Grand Canyon is a recent reminder of the risk.
The US provides tribes with very limited support, but it is provided by non tribal members in buildings built by and for the US to remind them of what they don't have.
There are many people that somehow have incredible drive to improve the situation though. Many literally hitchhiker 150-200 miles to get to low paying jobs to at least have the dignity of working.
Alcoholism is an ongoing crises on there areas along with the domestic violence that alcohol brings.
Oh, and many of these familiar have served honorably with the US in every military conflict since the American Revolution.
But we put them on some rocky land with the scars from mining and the destruction of testing nuclear weapons. Put of site out of mind.
I'm glad Sam did this video. I really wish every American would be forced to actually understand the situation so close to home that is literally worse than third world countries.
Foreal. People think it’s nice out there. Shit is gutter
Much love and respect to the Navajo People. When I lived in Arizona many of my friends and coworkers were Navajo, and they were all lovely Human beings.
meow.
@@klakkinkittykat meow
@@SomeXintK meow
Small correction: WinStar World Casino is owned and operated by the Chickasaw Nation, not the Chippewa Tribe. Love your videos!
Chokma! That bothered me a bit too.
Honestly it’s so frustrating because Wendover is one of the best creators of content like this on the site, and this is honestly one of the best videos on the reservation system on here as a quick teaching tool, but even here we see the plague of folks talking about Native American issues making hilariously silly mistakes that could have been fixed with a one minute google search. As a proud “Cher’ohkee,” it’s certainly a mood.
@@williamc5370 Chinchokma. Me also.
correct, the chippewa, or ojibwe, own and run the st croix casino.
@@akorn9943 agreed! I love Wendover videos, but seems he is getting a bit sloppy in some of his research and not investigating proper pronunciations. This isn’t the only case, but he did do a very good job at telling a mostly accurate story.
Small correction at 8:15 : the US federal government absolutely taxes on residency in addition to citizenship. Foreigners living in the US, whether they are on immigrant or non-immigrant visa or green cards, are required to pay US federal taxes too.
I was wondering about this. I was thinking that surely immigrants who are resident would be subject to taxes, otherwise I'm going to try and reside myself in the US. 😂 Thanks for confirming.
Non-immigrant visas only pay income tax if they spend at least a certain amount of time in the US throughout the year. It depends on their tax residency status.
@@taoliu3949 Correct
What he was trying to get at, and this is One More legal mis-statement in his video (there are several) is that the USA taxes its citizens on their world-wide income, no matter where said citizen resides, nor the source of that income.
No other country on earth does this. None.
Why? Because we run the world's financial system, that's why. Why? Because we can.
You can try to expatriate if you like, but expatriation for tax avoidance of natural-born citizens is generally not permitted, at least for tax purposes.
I love it, but i also can understand why others might hate it. I drink their tears.
It's all U.S. dollars, their are just some different coloured ration coupons for it.
Unfortunately, the 30 million plus illegals mostly don't pay and leech of our system. Actually quite a few of them do get social security numbers and pay, despite being illegal.
I was expecting CGPGrey to do this earlier :(
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I think he couldn't do any in-the-field research after the pandemic started. He also got distracted by hexagons and minecraft
ahhhh......... the reservations.....
@@elinewllms +×÷=/
CGPGrey is a wanna be brit.
Not true, you can build your house but you got to get something called a homesite lease where you have to apply and pay the tribe to build your house on public land. Not all of us live in NHA housing or Mobile homes most of us live in homes we build ourselves on homesite leased land
I guess the point he was making is that the process is more difficult to develop land when banks can't secure loans against the land. We have a similar issue in Aotearoa New Zealand
Like a Hogan
aoo this right here
@@thp8485 sad thing is it isn't that they can't, but that they won't just because there is a bit more Paperwork
Mikal Gene if you build your own house on tribal land, then what happens to it when you die? Will it go to your children?
I spent an entire summer in the Navajo Nation. It is such an interesting area, the Nation is truly incredible in history. They fought in WW2 as code talkers, they weren't fighting for the government, they were fighting for what was right
Navajo people and their amazing culture and history interest all of us Australians; this is even more cooler to think they fought alongside us in helping defeat the Axis powers!
@@alexforagen5208 help your aborigines first 🤣
@@multatuli1 911, I want to report a murder
@@matteodotdpsatgmaildotcom2451 Lots of dead aborigines everywhere
@@multatuli1 they get more than enough help you ignoramus. Billions spent per year
How do you say "Jeep Grand Cherokee"? I've never heard someone struggle so much with pronouncing "Cherokee".
And Dine is Den-ay..... Bashas' is Bash-uh's....
And Bashas, and a few others I heard too.
I could understand someone mispronouncing the name of a relatively obscure or unknown native tribe, but the Cherokee are arguably one of the most well known of all American tribes. They’re right up there with the Navajo.
Also, "Chip-EH-wah"? No, "Chip-uh-WAH".
cherry-oh-kee
As a truck driver who travels across the Navajo once a week, I am saddened by the poverty I see, if you could see what some of these people call homes and places they live, it would probably bring a tear to your eye.
Arizona resident here, and it is truly sad to see what the Navajo have to deal with.
@Wendoverproductions is absolutely right. On the reservation, it’s called government trust land. You can drill a water well, get electric, or start a business. It’s not that we’re poor. It’s the government doesn’t allow it.
As someone who's traveled pretty widely within the US, the level of poverty in several regions is just sad. The area I'm from has significant issues and is often seen as unsafe, but the realities that many people (including the Diné) live with is so, so much worse.
It's hard to imagine the wealth disparity between the richest and poorest parts of America unless you've seen it personally. I've seen neighborhoods where a relatively "small" home would cost well over $2,000,000, and neighborhoods where people were squatting in the burned out husks of *originally* substandard housing.
The US has a lot of problems that it needs to fix, but that should be at the top of the list. It's so obviously not a sustainable situation. That kind of inequality is what completely destroys a country in the long run.
@@anthonymartinez8488i genuinely wonder if it’s on purpose because if you can’t be self sufficient, you have to rely on someone else. it’s scary and i’m so sorry about this shit yall go though.
@@reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee No, it's because if the land were freely allowed to be bought and sold, the government and tribe were worried that both "natives wouldn't understand property rights and get taken advantage of" and "impure blood would eventually enter the reservation lands". The whole point was to maintain purity and preserve the tribal entity as the one managing the land, and it has turned out horribly. Most natives are incentivized to stay because they get tons of free services and distributions from the tribe.
One of my good friends and old roommates grew up in the Navajo Nation and I’ve had the chance to stay with her family there too. Learning about their history and seeing the conditions myself was so eye opening and sad. Our government (and partially the tribal government) makes it so difficult for them to do anything and everything there.
meow.
I see the first mistake. Relying on government
"Partially tribal government?" When they became a nation, the tribal government took on the responsibility of providing for their nation, including the possiblity of prosperity. I live in Alaska and have seen how tribal governments pick and choose. I don't think they have the well being of their people as their priority. If they did they would be doing a lot more to combat their alcoholism, domestic violence, child abuse, poverty and suicide problems in Alaskan villages. Did you know the suicide rate amongst Alaskan Natives is nearly 4 times that of non natives? I think if they did more for the first 4 problems the 5th would reduce because of it.
@@deeziebaby They were self relian until the government forced them into the situation they are in now. THEY ARE STILL MORE SELF RELINT THEN people IN A REMOTE, arid dessert could be expected to be.
@@deeziebaby Braindead take
Sam, I'd love if you could continue this story into Akwesasne - the reservation that spans an international border.
Interesting, also Tohono O'odam
Akwesasne is super interesting! Definitely second this as a topic. It also spans two provinces, Ontario and Quebec, who have very different laws.
I'm sure Sam would love to mispronounce the name of their tribe as well.
@@neilgordon3078 TON reservation doesn’t span into Mexico. It cuts off at the border. However, the tribes traditional territory does. Our desert relatives can live in Mexico but they are not living on a reservation and they are not enrolled members of the tribe. But they can be member of the tribe, just not federally recognized.
@@neilgordon3078 , he'll probably butcher that name: TAH-no OAT-um, which used to be PA-pa-go.
I’ve been to the Navajo Nation on several occasions to attend ceremonies me and my brother were invited to. Wonderful people and community we were with. Got to do a lot of site seeing and hiking. The land I saw was beautiful.
Great video. It’s a fairly similar system in Canada. Also, my tribe has oral history that remembers the Diné as relatives.
How much area in Canada do they take up? Is it bigger or smaller than the US’s designated areas?
@@crestofhonor2349 about 241,700 square miles, representing about 6.3% of the total land mass of Canada over about 3,100 reservations. The largest one, in Alberta, is about 546 square miles.
@@crestofhonor2349 First Nations (mainly Inuit) also make up a majority of the population in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Although the total population of the province is only about 35,000 people.
Wow that last bit is actually really cool
Please tell me more. I am Diné and would very much like to hear this
When Wendover talks about reservations more than CPG Grey
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toe nails... NEVER! I am the feet UA-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear ul
Whatever happened to that series, did he ever do any more episodes?
@@T0T4LG4MER5 I think he just did the one "introduction" video
And a bunch of "talk about it later" statements in other videos
@@TriumvirSajaki but that’s a story for another time
Sometimes it’s hard for me to accept I’m a Navajo. I want to feel good about it but then I realize how flimsy our foundation is. I hate pride and feeling bad for myself but ... they’re my people and I want them to soar. However, there’s just so many variables and problems that make it impossible to see a future here.
Any bad situation can be turned around
Right dude just gotta keep a head up and keep pushing forward strive for better future for our people
@Rita 25 y.o - check my vidéó more like a autonomous region
Same as with me. I want to feel proud to be Navajo, but what Ive learned from living on the reservation is how badly my relatives (who are all navajo of course) here have treated me. Now its made me believe that Navajo people are bad, which I should know isnt true.
I've been thinking about food forests, ways to help everyone
First I'd need to find someone who's asking for help so I'm not intruding
Im a citizen of America, so I might be seen as being rude, I . . . I want to make the familys home better than it ever was
Like a giant food forest, educational systems
Due to citizenship, I may have different levers I can move the world with, to help
Thanks for the shoutout to the Snoqualmie Tribe! FYI, they also own the land around Snoqualmie falls, though it is not part of the reservation.
The Great Northern hotel?
Please respect what we have, our tribe, language, culture, everything that is a part of us. It's who we are as people.
Yes, our lives are hard but that's what makes us strong Diné
Okey bradley
Ok Bradley
NO,you will eat the burgers and have democracy.
We won ! Why should we provide u with land u people should leave United States at once 😤💪🏼🇺🇸🖕🏼
We won ! Why should we provide u with land u people should leave United States at once 😤💪🏼🇺🇸🖕🏼
Something I almost always see avoided in these videos (probably because of it's complexity and just generally obscurity) is the existence of the IHS, 'indian' health services. Basically a free health care system run for members of native American tribes both on tribal land and in select locations (I know phoenix AZ has an IHS hospital) my understanding is that ihs is run by tribal governments but mostly funded by the federal government. Insanely interesting stuff.
Would recommend looking up Public law 93-638 Indian Self Determination. Many IHS hospitals are still fully federally operated with Federal Employees, some are operated jointly with the Tribe with a 638 Contract, only a few are fully operated by tribes on Compacts where the feds hand over all the money for operation and let Tribes decide how to spend it.
BIE and Tribal Schools have similar operation Schemes.
Most Federal programs can be contracted to be run by the Tribe like Roads, EPA, Cultural Preservation, Courts, Police, Game Fish, and Parks, Land Operation (Managing Tribal Land leases) Among other things.
The US should follow their native people and also implement free healthcare everywhere tbh
Albuquerque has one two
Educating Ricky
IHS isn't free anymore.
All members of the sovereign nation are required to have medical insurance, or be billed.
1:37 "Is almost entirely comprised of the tribes casino"
I did not expect that
a lot of tribes have casinos because they can set their own gambling laws and in states with strict gambling laws it can be a huge cash source
@@ryansshane and this is why you don't allow them to do that.
blame Washington State's gambling laws
I totally expected that to be honest.
@@ryansshane the tribes can also purchase land off the reservation in a suitable location for gambling and have the interior department put the land in trust so the tribe can put a casino on it.
New Mexico, Arizona and California have many of tribal casinos right off the interstate far from the reservation.
During the Great Famine here in Ireland the Choctow people sent 175$ to the people of Ireland to help even though they had just suffered the trail of tears, this act of kindess has never been forgotten and during Covid when the Navajo Nation was been very badly effected a go fund me page went viral in Ireland with people sending millions of euros back.
So finally someone got so impatient with Grey’s reservation project and said “fuck it, I’ll do it myself”
By accident on way back from Flagstaff to Vegas we stopped off at some town and went into only bar in town. It was a Indian bar. Felt out of place, but when they discovered we were English they warmed and started chatting. They looked a sorry lot. All beer belled getting drunk. They said people call them Navajo, but were Hupa or sounded like Hupili. He said they were treated lowest of the low, even below the black man. They seemed very bitter. Land of the free...they laughed. Reminded me of Australian aboringines.
Havasupai. Yeah, that tribe gets messed over a lot because of their location in/next to Grand Canyon
its funny an English guy commenting on how the Us treats non-whites with Britains track record lol
I was in Navajo nation not long ago, 3 weeks maybe. They want you masked up everywhere (which makes sense) and a lot of places are still closed.
A random, scruffy dog wandered into the road and my gf wanted to help it so she beckoned it over. A Navajo man (he told us he was) walked over to explain it was his dog and that he was in the Marines in Afghanistan and so was the dog. Explained why the dog looked scruffy. The man showed me his scars on his torso which definitely left an impression on me. Then he asked for a cigarette which I didn't have and then I was on my way.
Yeah, we get alot of 'out of towners' feeding the stray dogs, dont feed them. Your just contributing to the problem. Also they are covered in fleas and ticks.
Oh, so you got the full experience!!
All jokes aside, we have an issue with people doing that. Especially the ones who claim to be a veteran
The reservation was one of the worst affected by covid because of the lack of resources, let alone transportation. Many families and parts of the place still don't have running water.
I it doesn’t make sense
I picked up a dude on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere in monument valley...
He was beat to shit....and just as drunk Girlfriends brothers apparently....
Gave him a ride home.
Respect to my friends in Quinault, Rochester, Neah Bay, and across the Southwest!
@hv a gooday prayers have no remetent
If you mean rochester, NY then cool, live right near there. the reservations in the area are super chill places
an oddly specific list.
Much respect, from forks 🤙
@@Charles37400 He meant the Chehalis. While Neah Bay is a place and the locals there are the Makah.
0:15 “This map displays the internally recognized borders of the United States,”
Alaska: 🥶
👁👄💧👁
Hawaiian and Puerto Rico:Hold My Island.
As an Alaskan I’m used to it by now, we just chill up in our own place 😂
alaska belong to russia. 😂
Great video. Spent six years on the Navajo Rez, very interesting legal logistics. In Tuba City, due to the presence of Hopi Tribal land, state land, federal, and Navajo land in close proximity, the time zones were insane whenever parts of the country (federal and Navajo) when on Daylight Savings Time and others (state, Hopi) did not. For half the year, we had to know who had land sovereignty to know what time it was :)
oh man i though of that i bet they did that to mess with us.
Time Traveling to Dennys is a gosh darn tradition!
“You WILL copy my homework. And you will like it.” - the US government.
-Rome too. Mongols... just follow a few steps, but keep everything else (except for women and treasure)
@@NCRonradok but Rome's homework is dope af
@@oqo3310 kind of lackluster in a lot of ways. But it’s what the Muslims preserved for the rest of Eurasians to gawk at so I get you
@@NCRonrad ...what?
@@DukeofTxtspeak the Islamic world saved a lot of history the other crazy devotees of the other sects of Abraham were hung ho to destroy
Chickasaw here! It was awesome to learn about how my nation was the first to open up a DC office.
Edit: The Winstar World Casino is owned and operated by the Chickasaw, not the Chippewa. Source: The casino paid for like half of my tuition.
my oldest friend is a member of the Osage Nation. The nation's investments paid for half of his children's college tuition.
As someone who is near the NE OK casino area, I'm sure the casinos are profitable, but honestly, many nations would be much better served by expanding their options of economic development...maybe casinos are the entry method to funding, but so many options exist to diversify their income.
@@justinhaase8825 Chickasaw Nation has already been doing this for 35 years now - they have a diversified ownership portfolio, from a chocolate factory to a military manufacturer.
@@Emeries40
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Yeah, the Chippewa live predominantly close to the border with Canada, nowhere near Dallas.
"After few years though, the govt realized they had made a mistake" Calling the long walk a mistake is an understatement
Mistake? What they realized is that Navajo land wasn't land that they could use, so they gave it back. Walking the Enemy around until they drop dead was standard practice by then. And putting in the quantum system so that tribes either in-breed themselves slowly to death or out-breed themselves out of existence. It's still genocide, just really slow. And you realize every young person they lose (the Pine Ridge Sioux) is that much less DNA they have to work with.
They realized it was a bit of an oopsie-daisy
@@mboaz4730 Yeah this. The government realized it was a mistake because the land was considered useless, not because of any moral concerns
I find it appaling that the Nazi death walks from concentration camps after the invasions is considered part of the holocaust genocide, but forcing the "long walk", a similarily horrific act (and in a desert climate, not the temperate European climate) after colonisation and widespread destruction of the natives is called a "mistake". It's genocide, no matter who you destroy.
So is calling a death march a "long walk"
The emphasis is on the second syllable in Diné, it's dih-NAY, not DEE-nay.
Kinda painful
Yes someone said it.....the mispronunciation was bothering the me lol
Not Navajo or even Indian, but I kinda assumed that was the case, just because of the accent.
Thank God! I thought that it was 2nd syllable, but this guy is pronouncing it the other way. Glad to read that I am right despite only reading the word (in several different spellings).
isn't it Dih-NEH, not -NAY?
Idea for a video.
The logistics of the Tour de France.
Step 1, ban cardboard signs.
@@InspectorGadget923 yea, that gal is the most hated woman in France since Marie Antoinette
@@kiel_3222 She hated because she liked baguette, no cap
Step 2 : Ban bicycles
Step 3: Ban humans
This was very interesting and enlightening. Thank you for bringing attention to the difficulty the native nations are dealing with.
" So... yes. the Indians in these parts got sold a very raw deal. This is the Heartlands we're going to, good farming and grazing country, they lost it all. Stolen clean away from them it was, every blade of grass. Killed or herded up to the reservations in the middle of nowhere. "
RIP Hosea
RIP indigenuous people
Except the Indians would never have developed in the quasi-industrial way that modern agriculture exists today. I've never quite gotten whether they want to live as they did traditionally, or be a modern society. If they want to never modernise then $8,000 per year, electricity and occasional running water is a wild step up.If they do want to be modern then embrace all that America and capitalism has to offer. Countries like Estonia in the 90s are a good example of how a country can rapidly modernise from rural backwater to proper western country.
@@CalvinsWorldNews If they wanted to live like they have been for several thousands of years, how is being a second class citizen a "wild step up"?
@@konglight4070 My point is that they have two options:
1) Embrace the modern American lifestyle. They don't like it.
2) Live off the land, living in huts. Nobody does this though
I totally understand long standing historical grievances (I'm from Scotland) but at a certain point you need to define who you are and what you want. If they want thousands of square miles of land returned, they cannot also expect that it comes with highways and electricity and Wallmart included as standard.
My experience is that they don't want an agrarian society or undeveloped land, they just want free money. There's a strong argument to be made that they are entitled to shares in western businesses but it screams of hypocrisy, given how strongly they've fought against those business' existence
semi-autonomous vassal state, seems pretty straight forward to me.
Then what are states and territories?
@@chaosXP3RT same thing... but they don't get to pretend they're sovereign^^
Like Hong-Kong
Without the random bombings
@@zackkelley2940 why do states get representation in the Congress but indigenous nations don't? Would love to hear the lovers of electoral college now change the position once it'll become indigenous led! Why aren't they at least shown on maps, when de facto they're not a part of the state and more autonomous than the state?
If anyone's curious, Cherokee is pronounced: "Chair-oh-key"
Even the singer of the band, Europe, pronounces it correctly.
As a okie this bothered me
That's exactly how he pronounced it though, so why is everyone complaining about it?
@@milesrout Ehh, Wendover was pronouncing it more like Churro-Key. Wasnt far off but there was a slight difference
@@milesrout it shows poor research. Also there are two automobiles that use the name.
As a member of the Cherokee tribe, i have never heard anyone in my life struggle this hard with the proper pronunciation
Here in Finland plenty of homes are built on public lands, the process requires there to be strong well defined lease agreement on the land with buyout clauses etc, but it is possible to make such an arrangement work.
There's no leasehold / freehold distinction in the US which might help matters.
Thanks
Cherokee: “Chair-oh-key” NOT “churro-key” lol
Yeah I thought that was a given? Even “Chair-uh-key” is more common
Also BOS-keh Redondo not Bosk Redondo
I do like Churros however. In Panama, they sell them with caramel in the middle and it's addictive as crack.
Let's go Cherokees!! Won term at Kanakuk
Well that's what you get for not having a phonemic script.🤷♂️
Fantastic video, I’m a Rosebud Oglala Sioux from South Dakota (PineRidge Indian Reservation) and it’s unbelievable the decades of “red tape” Natives have to go through to approve anything. Which is probably why (and other reasons) my Rez is poorest in the nation. Can’t believe how badly we Natives have continued to be treated. It’s sad 😪💘
Yes.
Doesn’t help that you’re crazy horses band. That historical victory at little big horn never sat well with the anglos
last i checked, no one is being forced to say at a reservation, they can join the real world and work their tail off like the rest of us have to do.
@@forumquorum8156 Braindead comment
@@forumquorum8156 statics shows a majority of natives live off reservation and just because they leave the rez doesn't mean there aren't options to improve the rez so worry about the western world while we Navajos have to balance 2 world perspectives
8:25 Correction: TRIBAL MEMBERS PAY STATE TAXES!!
ONLY Tribal members who live AND derive their income from their own federally recognized reservations lands are exempt from paying state income and property taxes. Obviously another government can’t force another government to pay its taxes. The state of Utah isn’t going to force Arizona to pay its taxes much like Arizona can’t force the Navajo Nation to pay taxes.
ALL OTHER TRIBAL MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO PAY THE SAME TAXES AS ANY OTHER ARIZONA CITIZEN!
Over half our Navajo tribal population currently DO NOT live on the reservation and that’s over 150,000 of Navajos WHO PAY STATE TAXES wherever they are!
Do your due diligence and produce authentic information. With 3 million subscribers, you’re contributing to the false narrative that Tribal citizens don’t pay state taxes when we do. We are citizens of 3 governments and have contributed financially to the state of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico for GENERATIONS!
Do better Wendover Productions!!!
Nizhoniyé. Biligaana do’zhó’beeyałtyídáh
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This video really glossed over taxation. I agree that when so little is understood about tribal governments and systems by the general non-native population, it is dangerous to forgo nuance. I’m wondering if all members still pay federal taxes that fund programs like social security? Also, they didn’t get into the ihs which seems like an important and complicated system??
Biligaana do what Biliganna do…
The map of Reservations at the beginning should've included the Reservations of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Since the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision last summer, those boundaries are rather significant when talking about Indian Country. Prior to that, the only Reservation that existed in Oklahoma is the Osage Reservation, and that is for purposes of mineral rights in Osage County.
It was a little irritating that he couldn't pronounce Cherokee...
Nothing is ever enough for you people is it?
@@da3musceteers the law you mean? You have a problem with the law.
Respect to the Navajo. I own several pieces of Navajo silver turquoise jewelry.
Nice job, Wendover Productions! Concise, accurate, and sensitive to important issues.
I just LOVE how the comments reflect the intersection of Wendover and CGP Grey viewers
We just watch Wendover while we're waiting for the next CGP Grey video.
I pretty sure CGPGrey stopped because he’s entered too much controversial water and made some people mad because of the Part 0 American Indian Naming video and political correctness. Instead he decided to cover stupid hexagons and shark art instead.
@@Labyrinth6000hahahahahaha
Wait... your ad pitch is "when I was done working, I was too tired to make food.. so I ordered out! But now everything is sorted out because Hello Fresh sends you ingrediences."
Don't you still have to make the food? And isn't that what you were too tired to do?
So it's no help at all, it's just same status quo
Pay restaurant prices but still do all the labor yourself.
I liked the idea, but unfortunately they don't cover my area
Sponsor block bro, it auto skips these garbage shilling in video ads.
@@Kuryux It's garbage people that were sponsored by them got tired of overpaying for ingredients and having to make mediocre food.
@@fohex40 yeah, without adblock and sponsor block I would not even bother to open UA-cam anymore.
I went to a high school graduation for my friend in Navajo Mountain, Utah. Lots of hope in the room then but the hope was for the next generation to go out and bring back prosperity, or to simply go out and build a better life.
Life there is so different than suburban folk in Utah and Arizona could ever imagine. Driving a four wheeler an hour to get to school, or seeing many wild stray dogs roaming. The land is so beautiful though, endless red plateaus going off into the sunset, and some people seemed very happy to live there.
Nice! I'm from Navajo Mountain. My family has been living on the Eltsosie ranch or that area since before the Navajo Nation was cut into the Rez & before the United States was the United States.
As someone with Navajo ancestry, I couldn't of clicked faster! Thank you for covering this subject🙌🙌🙌
as someone who likes different cultures in the world, including Native Americans where it's hard to find interesting and easy to understand videos, saaaaaame giiiiirl!
Your video is one of many that should be made about the history that’s not talked at all about in our history classes. A genocide of indigenous people that occurred over centuries as a result of european colonization.
It’s important to talk about this, because hiding traumatic events and allowing time to pass will never erase the wounds. Only educating people in the present about the past can cause people to reflect and do better
Slight correction: the cherokee natiom does not simply "believe" it is entitled to representarion via a non voting delegate to congress, it is the supreme law of the land that entitles us to recignition. The treaty of New Echota, which grants us this representarion, is the same treaty that facilitated our forced removal from our original homelands. We fulfilled our end of the agreement, it is long past time for congress to uphold theirs
And it wasn’t even a real agreement. The Cherokee who signed the treaty were not the Cherokee government.
Thanks Sam for making the video that CGP Grey has been teasing for years!
IMO this is the best comprehensive video on the topic of Indian Reservatios to date
As a Navajo, I liked this vid. Short but I formative. And yeah it’s complex here but it’s home.
As a network systems engineer I used to contract with the US Dept of Interior's BIE or Bureau of Indian education. I would design deploy all tele/data systems at all the schools in the nation. I got to know so many great people there which took YEARS for them to get comfortable with me. Most still see us a terrorists and rightly so. I would take home 78,000 a month but worked 80 to 90 hours a week. It was hard to step away due to the people and money but after five years it was too much. I do miss it.
so weird watching this, as a Filipino who lived in Window Rock for 2/3 years
i mean filipinos and navajo look similer so ¯\(ツ)/¯
Hey u watch F1?
The Navajo Nation does have at least one casino called Twin Arrows. It is about 2.5 hours north of Phoenix.
They have some in New Mexico as well.
You mean 15 mins from flagstaff
@@barrypark1881 No, I meant 1 hour from Sedona, 35 minutes from Winslow, and 1.5 hours to Snowflake. Never heard of Flagstaff. I think you meant Falstaff, the Shakespeare character.
Did I say flagstaff I meant 5 minutes from Winona xD
3 casinos in NM, Hogback, Fruitland, and Churchrock, and and 1 in AZ.
This video brought up an interesting linguistic difference between the US and the rest of the world. Generally, being an independent UN-recognised 'country' is referred to outside the US as being a 'state'. This is legally clearer and less ambiguous than 'country' - which could apply for example to Scotland and Wales, which are not independent states. The problem in the US is I guess that people will hear 'state' and think of something like California or Colorado, which are a dependent part of the United States (which is a UN-recognised state).
I appreciate doing a video on my people, although you were mispronouncing the term dine, I do appreciate you using the proper term instead of Navajo.
can you explain the difference? genuinely curious
@@livewellwitheds6885 Navajo, Apache are Spanish terms for Diné people. Also neighboring tribes may have named us Navajo
What does Diné mean in their/your language? I mean, Uruguay, for example, my country's name, means "river of the tinted birds" in Guaraní, I think, which is the language spoken around here when the Spanish showed up. Does Diné have any meaning like that?
@@nahuelma97 Diné- the people
Dude don't try to church it up, we're Indians. I'm a navajo Indian and you're a navajo Indian.
Damn at 14:16 its straight up is showing the yard I grew up in. Damn I guess I really did live in poverty. Well glad I have come a long ways from it, glad to be out of Tuba though.
I ran a cross country race in high school that was hosted at Tuba City. It was November, cold and windy. Let's just say that was the fastest 5k I ever ran because I just wanted back in the warm van.
March 29th, 2020, we went as we do to Las Vegas to stock our ice cream truck. There was a small group of Navajos buying all of the ice cream they could source. They bought well over 10k in ice cream that day for the reservation. Never let it be said that they did not try to isolate and quarantine. The horrific death toll that devastated the reservation was foreseen by their village elders, they tried to keep to themselves. Our hearts go out to our near neighbors.
FINALLY SOMEONE MAKES A VIDEO EXPLAINING THIS
One of my favorite spots to visit is a Six Nations reserve in Ontario.
shout out from the Port Gamble S'klallam Reservation. been studying tribal history for almost 10 years now, glad to see this video on UA-cam
dee- nay. Chair -oh -key
Yeah the pronunciation was bothering me.
For real. Diné even has a handy little accent to help out.
At least he didn't pronounce it "dyne."
Nick Ger
I can't believe there's people that haven't heard how to pronounce Cherokee
Snoqualmie was right! (That’s my pic)
Dinè was wrong. (Reverse emphasis)
Simple, live outside the US. I hadn't heard of the people till this video
@@livinglitchfield6917 same, im also not north-american so i didnt know any of those names too
Jeep Cherokee
@@livinglitchfield6917 Really? I've definitely heard of the Cherokee loads of times and I don't even live in North America
Really disappointed that you didn't manage to get in touch from the nation as you had with all the other villages on this channel. Indigenous people are the best source for indigenous stories.
This channel just uses wikipedia excerpts. Much better channels out there if you want an actual original work product to watch.
I would truly love to see a video like this about Canadian reserves as well, and I would share it with my friends for sure !!
I’ve always interpreted it as the Navajo Nation exists alongside of the United States. It implies that the United States is the one imposing on native land.
In French there’s more of a difference between the words nation (nation) and country (pays).
A nation is a group of people of a similar culture.
A country is an imaginary entity.
Very nice way to put it
I just moved to the Southwest and this helped me get a better handle on how this is structured. Thanks!
The world, two years ago: looking patiently at CGP Grey
The world, last year: still looking at CGP Grey
The world, today: STILL looking at CGP Grey
Wendover: Fine, I'LL do it.
I pretty sure he stopped because he’s entering too much controversial water because of the Part 0 American Indian Naming video. Instead he decided to cover stupid hexagons and shark art instead.
@@Labyrinth6000 I don't even watch half of his videos anymore. They stopped being interesting or on serious topics for a while now.
Hello 👋, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there 👉 hope everything is okay 👍?
I sure do like when Sam mentions the UP. In fact, it might be fun to do some content on States that attempted to become the 51st state, like the UP when they tried to become Superior.
As someone from New York, but in a part of the state that's just about as far away as you can get from that city with the same name, I feel a certain kinship with the Yoopers.
Perfect timing for the algorithm to recommend this. I was just reading about the Navajo Nation.
The pronunciation of Cherokee is (Chair-uh-key) by the way
Instantly clicked on the notification. I only just realised this isn't a GCP grey video
I’m not subscribed to CGPGrey, so I wouldn’t know how this could be confused with one of his videos.
@@E1craZ4life He’s been teasing a reservations video/video series for years now.
i have not really understood how they work and I have always wanted to. Thank you!
Canadian native here and this video was very informative I've been wondering how the cousins across the border are doing
Love when you say: “Therefore…(pause)”
The statistics at 14:12 are quite tragic 🥲
Last year I wanted to visit the Big 5 and drive through the Navajo Nation from CA. I was really keen on visiting Monument Valley. Unfortunately the Navajo nation had closed their roads and hence I scraped my plans. Good for them to prioritize their needs. Cheers
Named product ‘Hello Fresh’.
Missed opportunity to name it ‘HELLA FRESH’.
Growing up in the Navajo reservation is extremely stressful. Our president isn't liked as much by the people since he doesn't really care about anyone besides the money. Just recently we've gotten a Hardship check from the government which is very helpful, however the president was considering not accepting the Hardship whatsoever.
Overall, the Navajo reservation is a beautiful sight to see and go to one day. But just be warned about the Díne people there and also please be careful as well while traveling.
Did not expect my tribe to be acknowledged in this video! Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe! Aho!
I learned about the long walk and the way the oil companies kept pushing them off the land from TinTin. it is only about a page in the comic, but it taught me as a young child how cruel capitalism can be.
Love that the casinos make so much money but most people on the Rez don’t have access to running water etc💅🏾
This is why the concept private land ownership is important and revolutionary. No one will invest much into something that doesn't belong to them.
As someone who isn't from USA I didn't even know the reservations are something that are still present. I thought they were something from the past. Very insightful and interesting video again.
Well, their more like independently managed substates that natives can work in. Much better than the ones we have in Canada. Canadian reserves are pure dogshit. Americans atleast seem to have functional societies and good structure.
@Cynical Frenchface well when there’s such a simple answer as just leave the reservation, people aren’t really going to invest much energy into solving any actual issues in there
@@honkhonk8009 yep. And even then a decent number of them are still shit. And a decent number move to the cities.
@@honkhonk8009 except for Nunavut, an entire province controlled by indigenous people
Want to put it out there that Cherokee is pronounced more like Chair-uh-key than Chur-oh-key. I absolutely love your content and the information it has is more than half as interesting as what I was doing earlier.
Sam pronouncing the names of tribes is so funny to me
I thought he was going to talk about Lesotho, a recognised country within a country, or various parts of India and Pakistan in Kashmir, but oh I forget this is America, I must be tripping.
Growing up in Missouri I always thought Cherokee was pronounced chair-o-key.
It is, he just got it wrong
he also keeps mispronouncing Dene (DEH-nay) as dee-nay 🙄
@SCRedstone Diné is not the same as Dene, and is actually pronounced “d-NEH”
@@SCRedstone The video is about the Diné, not the Dene
He still pronounced it wrong, but that eye roll emoji is so annoying especially when you make such a mistake in your comment.
@Dwayne Smith As someone from Toronto, I definitely agree with that.
A couple of things;
Horse and sheep didn't exist in the Americas until the Spaniards brought them over
The Hopi are the original inhabitants of what is now the Navajo Nation ; the Navajo are the Invaders
Lack of electricity and /or running water on the Rez is a sign of cultural preference ; not poverty
Dude, dude, you actually said Snoqualmie correct. Good job!
He got Ontonagon wrong though :(
Living in Washington, I hear people screw up over half of our native names here(we have allot) and it's refreshing to hear it correct for once. Puyallup is one of the most common mispronounced ones. It's not only a tribe here but, a large city as well. It's pronounced pew-al-up but, people say it some crazy ways.
He also mispronounced Cherokee. He said it more like "che-ROW-kee" when it should be "CHAIR-oh-kee." Which is especially surprising since I'd say they are probably the 3rd or 4th most well known tribe in the country.
A great way to learn about the Dine' culture is to read the mystery novels of Tony Hillerman. While a white man, he afforded so much respect to the Navajo that they named a high school after him! And they are great reads!
I love the way he says Basha's, it's not right, but I love it.
Do a video on the Mohawk Nation in Canada, it’ll definitely show the contrast between trying to gain foothold in representation (i.e., the Navajo Nation) and trying to distance the tribe from any federal politics whatsoever (Mohawk Nation). We fought many gunfights and shed a lot of blood to make sure we don’t have any colonial hands meddling in our affairs.
well then i hope you also refused that free healthcare, otherwise you would be hypocrites right?
@@forumquorum8156 our reserves’ healthcare facilities operate independently and autonomously from the provincial and federal healthcare systems. Our healthcare has been free for centuries, it is the colonizers that mocked that idea and then copied it.
@@SideWays8Productions colonizers?. People have been "conquering" for 100,000 years, but now these whites are the "colonizers" huh? well then i guess you better include the ojibwe, who colonized the lakota areas of canada, minnesota, and wisconsin, forcing them out and into the plains, where the lakota became the "sioux" to over half a dozen tribes, because they "colonized" the plains, slaughtering and forcing all of those tribes out of their lands, like the navajo did to the hopi, and on and on and on. In fact, a recent archeology dig in the dakotas found a pre-columbian mass grave of hundreds of men/women/children in it, i wonder what happened to them? dont worry, everyone falls, and as you can see, western civ is currently in that process, and after their dissolution im sure everyone will again be in peace and harmony, with flower garlands on their heads and skipping and singing all the while, so hang in there!