Westward Expansion: Crash Course US History #24

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  • Опубліковано 28 гру 2024

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  • @sigbaconater910
    @sigbaconater910 4 роки тому +1126

    Online clases, exam due tonight at 11:59 PM, time is 10:21 PM I have to write two 750 essays about this. Wish me luck!

  • @aydeflor18
    @aydeflor18 10 років тому +485

    I feel like people completely blow past the channel name "Crash Course." He's not going to discuss every single thing in US History. People are mad because he leaves out important bits of American history that they themselves declare more important than others. I would think it important for him to expand on the Mexicans turned Americans who lived in the West a long time before the country's expansion and their assimilation to the change -- but that's only an opinion! not something turned to true importance to the country's history just because I deem it important. It's also not something that should be brushed aside as unimportant, however understandable why it wouldn't be included in a (what?) crash course! Just enjoy whats given to you for free as a subscriber and stop criticizing. If it bothers you that much, do the work yourself -- make you're own crash course (and I mean that seriously, not as a form of insult).

    • @Slyismylife54321
      @Slyismylife54321 10 років тому +3

      ***** You're name is console peasant, so I know you're PC Master Race.

    • @fuge511
      @fuge511 7 років тому +28

      tell them to read their APUSH textbooks hahaha

  • @hannahl.8635
    @hannahl.8635 11 років тому +545

    "And it was a lot of beef, if you know what I'm talking about. I'm actually talking about beef." I almost spit out my soup.

  • @leahb3384
    @leahb3384 10 років тому +370

    "kill the indian, save the man" my apush teacher would constantly quote a "paraphrase" of that when we got on her nerves and instead say "kill the teenager, save the man"

  • @mackenzie7144
    @mackenzie7144 4 роки тому +679

    *Quarantine squad where you at*

    • @yne_aspekt7249
      @yne_aspekt7249 4 роки тому +1

      Just a Beanut Butter Cup right here🖐

    • @vP3ppy
      @vP3ppy 4 роки тому +1

      Here

    • @ImS0ulidify
      @ImS0ulidify 4 роки тому +1

      I’m here yeet

    • @songmingi3703
      @songmingi3703 4 роки тому +1

      Here

    • @Delta285
      @Delta285 4 роки тому +1

      homeschooling with this as part of my collage coarse. Looks like this is coming to an end.

  • @11thNite
    @11thNite 11 років тому +16

    The best US history teacher I had in high school did not shy away from the sadness, moral degradation and mortal consequences of the westward expansion, but neither she nor I nor any history teacher I have yet met were able to drive home the correlations, causes and momenta that related industrialization to westward expansion. Kudos.

  • @SebastianMuriel
    @SebastianMuriel 11 років тому +174

    I would like to thank Crash Course for being helping me get an A in APUSH this semester. I have my final tomorrow and I'm so ready! You guys are awesome!

  • @ajk9585
    @ajk9585 6 років тому +140

    "Books for putting on your shelf and pretending to have read..."
    Yup, we've all done that XD

  • @Cherry-hu4xm
    @Cherry-hu4xm 4 роки тому +991

    I’m here because the quarantine means no history lessons and I need to pass my exams 😬

    • @neilchintalapudi4184
      @neilchintalapudi4184 4 роки тому +21

      2020 gang!

    • @bethanyreese2937
      @bethanyreese2937 4 роки тому +6

      Same. My teacher said if I dont watch this I wont get my notes😂😣

    • @jorgemarques739
      @jorgemarques739 4 роки тому +4

      What's the situation there in U.S ? I'm from Brazil

    • @codymann2980
      @codymann2980 4 роки тому +4

      Same I have to do this for my U.S. History Class

    • @jaketaubman9607
      @jaketaubman9607 4 роки тому +4

      My teacher sends me these videos.

  • @iheartamerica100
    @iheartamerica100 8 років тому +434

    I am so glad these crash courses exist. My teacher doesn't help me at all. These help a lot. Thaaaaanksss

    • @Groot-yp5hd
      @Groot-yp5hd 6 років тому +1

      i feel you pain

    • @surpriseshotty2383
      @surpriseshotty2383 6 років тому +6

      my teacher helps but these are awesome

    • @n3v3rg01ngback
      @n3v3rg01ngback 6 років тому +5

      highawesomeness Maybe you’re a shitty student.

    • @Rea13434O
      @Rea13434O 5 років тому +26

      Dark Rainbow I doubt they’re taking the initiative to watch history videos if they’re a shitty student

    • @not_obsidian
      @not_obsidian 5 років тому +11

      My teacher throws crash courses at us instead of teaching lmao

  • @kennedygreen-hawkins8999
    @kennedygreen-hawkins8999 7 років тому +509

    "What’s that? It’s going dry. MY GOD THIS IS A DEPRESSING EPISODE"

  • @KellyNaylor
    @KellyNaylor 10 років тому +32

    As depressing as this is, I've studied so much about the history of the Indigenous People of North America that I can say it's not really as depressing as the reality... but mostly because it only scratches the surface of the topic. But thank you, John, for at least shedding more light on the topic than any of the history classes I had from grade school through college.

  • @madisonsappia7124
    @madisonsappia7124 5 років тому +6

    I have been watching Crash Course for about 3 years now, and I just realized that this John Green is the same one that wrote Paper Towns, Fault in our Stars, Looking for Alaska etc. I love this man!!!!

  • @dodgev142
    @dodgev142 8 років тому +412

    If you use closed captioning/subtitles it says SUCK IT STAN SUCK IT after the mystery document even though he didn't actually say that.

  • @samwelltarly6700
    @samwelltarly6700 8 років тому +112

    We welcomed them as brothers, knowing nothing of their greed.
    Born hunters, not the hunted, as the white man hunts for me.
    We are descendants of the animals, we live upon them free.
    Our trail of tears would end, one day at wounded knee.
    When we do the ghost-dance, the buffalo will return
    Paint ourselves for war, let blood and fire burn.
    Great spirit make us strong, take us to the sky
    The Cherokee are brave, we are not afraid to die.
    There has been much killing, there will be much more
    The medicine man is dancing, he's calling us to war.
    Hatchets sing with pride, let the white man die.
    Lyrics from "Spirit Horse of the Cherokee" by Manowar

    • @paris2685
      @paris2685 8 років тому +1

      Samwell Tarly thats deep

    • @katywilbekin3152
      @katywilbekin3152 5 років тому +3

      This is a nice poem with some truth to it; however, no humans are descendants of animals.

  • @crashcourse
    @crashcourse  11 років тому +67

    I think it varies depending on the school, the state, etc. There are a lot of teachers out thee doing a great job. Sometimes they run up against problematic textbooks or mandated curricula, and there are all sorts of other issues. -stan

  • @crashcourse
    @crashcourse  11 років тому +61

    Well, I don't think use of Crash Course should be the metric for good teaching. But I'm glad the show is appearing in classrooms! -stan

  • @bobdull6699
    @bobdull6699 11 років тому +14

    Hey John Green, I know that AP scores have been posted for over a month but I would just like to take a minute to thank you for helping me get a four on my AP US History test. You rock!!

  • @AironExTv
    @AironExTv 11 років тому +25

    Good episode.
    Makes we want to learn more about that period.
    Btw, when I was in school (here in Berlin, Germany), it wasn't up until 12th grade that we learned about the charming horrors of 1933 - 1945 in this country. We were kinda surrounded by history with the Berlin Wall all around us and several divisions of soldiers occupying the city, but the actual history of the first to second world wars was was not taught to us. I learned that from TV documentaries and later books. All pre-web.

  • @TheKenchixx
    @TheKenchixx 8 років тому +257

    uhm my new history teacher is called Mr Green lol

    • @vincentyang7415
      @vincentyang7415 6 років тому +2

      hah

    • @TheNueKid4
      @TheNueKid4 4 роки тому +4

      i had a subsitute teacher name mr green, and he was gae!!! his voice tho it was the funniest thing

    • @zacktessean7921
      @zacktessean7921 4 роки тому

      Kenchixx ahhh you don’t know what it’s like in quarantine

    • @TheNueKid4
      @TheNueKid4 4 роки тому +1

      @@zacktessean7921 yea ur rite

    • @sadgho5t798
      @sadgho5t798 4 роки тому

      Did I ask

  • @elizabethgrace6382
    @elizabethgrace6382 10 років тому +83

    I must say that John is getting significantly less confident in his guessing abilities

  • @moodinfinite
    @moodinfinite 10 років тому +20

    I think most American students experience with U.S. history prior to college is one of disillusionment. So when John doesn't sugarcoat it or is "hating on America" as some people might say, it is very much appreciated and extremely fascinating.

  • @lilliansunshine7499
    @lilliansunshine7499 8 років тому +3

    I was actually really moved when he started showing the pictures of nature and speaking of the atrocities done to Native Americans. That was a good choice, very respectful

    • @dubsy1026
      @dubsy1026 8 років тому +6

      he didn't even cover a fraction of it. have you ever heard of the battle at wounded knee? 400 native Americans were doing the ghost dance, when the 7th cavalry turned up and placed cannons around them. they then confiscated any blade, gun, or even kitchen implements. then, one ONE supposedly resisted, so they started firing indiscriminately into the crowd, killing over 240. 23 Americans were killed by friendly fire. 20 medals of honour were awarded for this and they are STILL valid. this was business as usual for the American army at that point

    • @JJ-pm4ob
      @JJ-pm4ob 8 років тому

      +Dubsy 102 That doesnt sound like a battle to me.

  • @harunsuaidi7349
    @harunsuaidi7349 9 років тому +80

    It was around this time Bioshock Infinite backstory began to took place, right?

  • @kennedygreen-hawkins8999
    @kennedygreen-hawkins8999 7 років тому +82

    "And now let us move from tragedy to tragedy."

  • @frodoswaggins3132
    @frodoswaggins3132 4 роки тому +15

    This was my second correct guessing of the mystery document author.
    I highly recommend reading about Hinmatóowyalaht’quit (Chief Joseph) and the Nez Perce war.

  • @maceym.3162
    @maceym.3162 8 років тому +8

    For those of you who have read the little house books by laura ingalls wilder, I'm pretty sure the ghost dance was the Indian dance in little house on the praire, as it was in the same state as laura was ,and is the same time period if i'm not mistaken.

  • @lindsayzmail
    @lindsayzmail 4 роки тому +13

    You mentioned Australia's policy of removing aboriginal children from families and placing them with white foster families which lasted until the 1970's but that happened in the US and Canada as well. They took children from their mothers in the hospital after they were born and put them in the foster system. That's what happened to my mom, who was born in 1967 and she ended up getting adopted by a white family. Her little brother, who was also adopted, was also taken in this way.

  • @PlainsPup
    @PlainsPup 10 років тому +11

    This has gotta be my favorite Crash Course US History episode.

  • @erraticonteuse
    @erraticonteuse 11 років тому +9

    It's astonishing to me that I didn't learn about allotment until literally the last possible moment in my education-- my final semester in law school when I took the totally elective class of Federal Indian Law. It did always feel like there was a gap in my US History classes, where we just stopped talking about the Natives until the 1970s (if we got that far), but then no one had ever taught me that the tribes had been treated as sovereign nations up until a certain point either.

  • @vel9761
    @vel9761 10 років тому +74

    Haha, if you turn captions on when he guesses the name, you can read a part of the video they edited out XDXD

    • @corscott5
      @corscott5 10 років тому +11

      guys, I don't care where you are in the video, go back/forward to 6:48 and watch with the captions on, it's fucking great

    • @vel9761
      @vel9761 10 років тому +1

      Corey Scott That's what I was talking about lol

    • @LeenaSregneva
      @LeenaSregneva 10 років тому

      haha

    • @vincentyang7415
      @vincentyang7415 6 років тому +3

      um i dont see it

  • @BetweenGraces
    @BetweenGraces 9 років тому +32

    John,
    THANK YOU. I'm a teaching student and I needed something like this for my lesson on friday. You are awesome!

  • @blairn9663
    @blairn9663 9 років тому +7

    Green rules all things HISTORY and HUMOR!

  • @alanmullinax6785
    @alanmullinax6785 7 років тому +1

    I love you all I can not thank you enough for all the work you do. I am a non traditional student and without you all help i would probably fail.

  • @VanRamsey
    @VanRamsey 9 років тому +1

    I GUESSED THE AUTHOR OF THE MYSTERY DOCUMENT!!!
    I'm so damned proud.

  • @WhitDough
    @WhitDough 8 років тому +3

    Watching these with the subtitles on is far more entertaining.

  • @FoundArchive
    @FoundArchive 10 років тому +169

    LMFAOO!!! if you guys put on the closed caption on at 7:00 it reads... "suck it "OH YES YES SUCK IT STAN SUCK IT!" i dont think that was suppose to be in there lol

    • @thomasmoe9145
      @thomasmoe9145 10 років тому +16

      *George Takei Voice* Ooooooooooohhhhh mmmmmmmyyyyyy..........

    • @jacobguerra7690
      @jacobguerra7690 7 років тому +1

      lololo

    • @TheNueKid4
      @TheNueKid4 4 роки тому +11

      It doesn't say that. But i know its like 5 years later

    • @jaketaubman9607
      @jaketaubman9607 4 роки тому +2

      uuuh no it doesnt.

    • @FoundArchive
      @FoundArchive 4 роки тому +9

      Sorry y’all, u missed it

  • @Cheekster15
    @Cheekster15 11 років тому +6

    This was my favorite episode yet. I liked your point of how American's (and indeed all of humanity) is constantly in a myth making business. The world was not always empirically understood as we think it is. Perhaps the greatest goal of history is not to tell what happened, but how it shaped our current identity. KEEP IT REAL John!

  • @mikecronis
    @mikecronis 10 років тому +21

    Oregon Trail Apple II game reference for 1000 points. White man as Mr. Rogers at 06:28 for 200 points.. and you went over all my entire Native American History College Course in 10 minutes. Robot spider at 10:50 from Wild Wild West. Amazing.

  • @jbien-aime9272
    @jbien-aime9272 8 років тому +3

    Watching these videos make me slightly depressed. Luckily, it's John Green.

  • @Kira.D07
    @Kira.D07 4 роки тому +3

    “MY GOD WHAT A DEPRESSING EPISODE!” I almost choked on my water

  • @BifronsCandle
    @BifronsCandle 9 років тому +33

    Surprised there was no mention of Wounded Knee, both a low point and an end for the Indian Wars'.

  • @roking13
    @roking13 10 років тому +15

    John Green, sometimes you make me feel that nothing good ever happened in history...

  • @MsCuteliltaz
    @MsCuteliltaz 9 років тому +2

    I was watching with earbuds blasted cuz ur voice was kinda low....and then the intro music came, I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK. AND IT WAS NIGHT, AND I WAS TRYING TO KEEP IT LOW. xD thank you john u really are the best

  • @doomdtn
    @doomdtn 11 років тому +1

    Why do we even need school? Ive learned more about western expansion in 13 minutes than my entire 4 years of high school.

  • @abrahambestiii2337
    @abrahambestiii2337 4 роки тому +3

    So Canada was using residential schools up until the 1990s. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this.

  • @garland3rader
    @garland3rader 5 років тому +6

    You have provided me lots of help throughout all your videos. Thank you for being detailed and also understandable!

  • @lenanguyen383
    @lenanguyen383 5 років тому +4

    This helped me a lot! I’m in 4th grade and my class is learning about westward expansion!

  • @p1nkpumpkin773
    @p1nkpumpkin773 8 років тому +2

    I'm actually from Arizona and grew up on a farm. A litter of chickens is usually 12 chicks it can varie to 6-8 or even 13-15. A litter is amount of whatever animal that is born at the same time.

  • @savedthroughgracebyfaith
    @savedthroughgracebyfaith 10 років тому +112

    The last Native boarding school was closed in 1991, and there is a problem today with Native children being placed with white families. My mother, 100% Ojibwe, was split from her two siblings, forced off the reservation, and put into a white family. Her mother, my grandmother had died from a drug overdose. My moms grandmother could have adopted her but the government wouldn't let her. As for my father, 100% Blackfoot; his mother who lived on a reservation could not afford to keep him, and she was forced to give him up to a white family. The dis-placement of native children is still happening. 1/3 Indigenous women in the United States will be raped at least once in their lifetime. Natives have the highest rate of AIDs related deaths. We are still struggling. stop acting like we're not

    • @QuietlyCurious
      @QuietlyCurious 10 років тому +15

      :( Sorry to hear that. Native children are still placed with white families? What part of the country are you in?

    • @savedthroughgracebyfaith
      @savedthroughgracebyfaith 10 років тому +11

      Omandita4 It happens on every reservation in America and Canada

    • @sydnaestewart2477
      @sydnaestewart2477 6 років тому +7

      Richy Rich How do you miss a point so spectacularly

    • @JeffDvrx
      @JeffDvrx 6 років тому +6

      sydnae stewart ... The comment section on this video is just SO WRONG it hurts. Either people make a serious statement just to get ridiculous answers like that one, or they make hateful, stereotypical comments that are just absurd and filled with hate. Yeah, i know, that's the internet for you, but still... I don't think I've ever been as sad by reading comments on a youtube video as with this one.

    • @KillingCrusemsPaige
      @KillingCrusemsPaige 6 років тому +1

      I am confused and maybe you can help me with this. I looked a lot into adoption of children, and I was under the belief that most native american children couldn't be adopted by a white person unless allowed to by the chief of what ever tribe the come from.

  • @Rix227
    @Rix227 8 років тому +4

    We watched this in my us history 2 class today. Y'all do some great work over there. Keep doing what you're doing!

  • @ValeAzul
    @ValeAzul 11 років тому +7

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU PEOPLE FROM Crash Course FOR MAKING ME THINK BETTER...really had a romanticised idea of the "Wild" west...because of this episode I can actually feel new sinapsis in my brain...THAAAANKK YOUUUUUUUU...and I´m not even american, but from the good propaganda, soon to be canadian...jejejejeje

  • @naenkota5248
    @naenkota5248 9 років тому +6

    Thank you for putting this up,It really helps me in My 9th grade us history class😊

    • @scarletarmada5637
      @scarletarmada5637 9 років тому +2

      +NaeN Kota What? I learned this in 5th grade. Are educational systems different depending on what state you live in?

    • @bombasticbrian.
      @bombasticbrian. 9 років тому

      +Scarlet Armada yes

    • @scarletarmada5637
      @scarletarmada5637 9 років тому

      Patient Zero Good to know.
      I guess the "American schooling is terrible" argument is unfounded then.

    • @bombasticbrian.
      @bombasticbrian. 9 років тому +1

      +Scarlet Armada my school system sucks. 10th graders have to do freaking ALGEBRA 1! I should be in Precalc!

    • @scarletarmada5637
      @scarletarmada5637 9 років тому

      smh what state/school district do you live in.
      my school district is pretty cool. Lots of good school here

  • @jaspalmer1730
    @jaspalmer1730 11 років тому

    LMAO
    how could it be MORE interesting? Graphics, wit, pretty colors, dynamic storytelling, jokes, irony, and pretty much first class info all in 12 minutes...you're right! Maybe an explosion at the end please?

  • @jaspalmer1730
    @jaspalmer1730 11 років тому +1

    thanks for spitting the history, no matter how depressing. This stuff is important to know and poorly taught, at least it was in my school.

  • @carterlavering2553
    @carterlavering2553 Рік тому +2

    JUSTICE MENTIONED ‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼

  • @reeky8373
    @reeky8373 4 роки тому +25

    I’m here cause of Coronavirus and have no school and this is for my online school.

  • @WhoddaWhaddu
    @WhoddaWhaddu 11 років тому +10

    Can you speak a little more on the ongoing inter-generational trauma caused by the boarding schools and reservations? It felt very rushed and it was pretty rushed in my history class, too (until I asked the teacher if I could personally give a talk to the class on it). I just want the information out there so people can know about what we're still fighting against.

  • @gabrielelias983
    @gabrielelias983 11 років тому +2

    This series is really starting to hit its stride. I'm enjoying the push and pull between myth and reality, especially when played out in political economic arena. Thanks!

  • @marthalindout
    @marthalindout 11 років тому +1

    x) "Putting books on your shelf and pretending to have read." Thanks for that, John. You know my family too well.

  • @kozmo7
    @kozmo7 10 років тому +47

    I have a question. When in history do we all just, get along? :[

  • @DylanKreutzer
    @DylanKreutzer 10 років тому +5

    Oh my god he made an Oregon Trail reference this makes me so happy

  • @sbrandybuck
    @sbrandybuck 11 років тому +3

    "If you know what I'm talking about... I'm actually talking about beef." HAHAHA I LOVE YOU

  • @etherealukiyo894
    @etherealukiyo894 Рік тому +2

    i love watching crash course on 1.75x speed to cram before a test

  • @NidoWeena
    @NidoWeena 7 років тому

    6:58
    What is said, and what is shown in my captions, are two different things. It looks like "YES! YES!" was originally followed by Stan being told to "SUCK IT", but it was edited after the captions were put in, and never edited to fit the new dialogue.

  • @kennedygreen-hawkins8999
    @kennedygreen-hawkins8999 7 років тому +5

    "And it was a lot of beef. You know what I’m talking about. I’m actually talking about beef."

  • @chipo715
    @chipo715 10 років тому +14

    lol, the subtitles are awesome this episode. " Oh - Oh Yes! Yes! Suck it Stan! Suck it! " lol

  • @shaydag8802
    @shaydag8802 11 років тому +4

    The Jesus restoration on the wall at 3:30 !!!!!! hahaha!

  • @CapitalMort
    @CapitalMort 11 років тому

    I'm glad this wasn't sugar coated, too many people are ignorant of the crimes against humanity that the Americans committed, and they are still doing it today in the Middle East.

  • @anchimel
    @anchimel 11 років тому

    The animated machine from Wild, Wild West at the beginning was a nice touch.

  • @southernbeautyblogger
    @southernbeautyblogger 8 років тому +81

    He talks very fast

  • @KarateKidX
    @KarateKidX 11 років тому +6

    Wow, I actually guessed the mystery document before John did.

  • @kathleens3278
    @kathleens3278 8 років тому +4

    random star wars blaster sound at 3:57

  • @ksutubagal
    @ksutubagal 11 років тому +1

    Thanks for mentioning Abilene, KS as part and the end of the Chisholm Cattle Trail for a time. There's a maker outside our post office denoting the end of the trail. Traffic blocking trains are still active in town despite the lack of cattle!

  • @meljac9649
    @meljac9649 11 років тому +1

    Are you going to talk about the navajo long walk? and thank you for truths you tell about my people and the respect you give us. Thank you crash course team!!!!!

  • @Merlmabase
    @Merlmabase 11 років тому +5

    Great episode, and I appreciate the ongoing there-are-no-easy-answers theme in crash course. Keep it up!

  • @jumpmancami5490
    @jumpmancami5490 6 років тому +43

    I'm here bc of red dead redemption 2

  • @trentthegoat3793
    @trentthegoat3793 4 роки тому +4

    nobody:
    Absolutely nobody:
    *John green: **6:58*

  • @kiwivvv
    @kiwivvv 9 років тому +2

    thanks teach for giving only the crash course that isnt related to the questions on my work. great job.

    • @janellestrickler
      @janellestrickler 9 років тому

      do your own work. lololo

    • @kiwivvv
      @kiwivvv 9 років тому

      Janelle J Edwards
      it was an assignment, so hey, i aint cheating

    • @janellestrickler
      @janellestrickler 9 років тому

      just givin you a hard time.

    • @kiwivvv
      @kiwivvv 9 років тому

      Janelle J Edwards
      oh, well okay then. thanks i guess?

    • @kiwivvv
      @kiwivvv 8 років тому

      Regi Zteel and exactly how am i self entitled? please, give me an example and tell me exactly how it works. i'm here from a youtube video given my my teacher to watch and then answer the questions given to me. the person earlier simply teased me, and i replied with a confused, but genuine thank you. now please, with all or no effort, tell me how that makes me self entitled.

  • @adinatovalandon3230
    @adinatovalandon3230 7 років тому

    This episode is so depressing... Strangely enough, it has cheered me up from my dour mood that I've been suffering all day.

  • @gore4651
    @gore4651 11 років тому +24

    at 3:35 hahahah oh you guys are making fun of that poor lady who messed up jesus!! lol

  • @EmzieEvs
    @EmzieEvs 11 років тому +5

    Please do more on the west, also medicine in history :) I absolutely loved crash course English, will you be doing more? If so, please cover some English literature eg. pride and prejudice please :) thank you so much for making this course!!

  • @kimwilliams2023
    @kimwilliams2023 8 років тому +3

    could you do a video on American exceptionalism?

  • @jimmyyang9464
    @jimmyyang9464 4 роки тому +1

    If you’re looking for good reading material, I recommend the memoir Black Elk Speaks. Truly powerful stuff.

  • @fai1t0liv3
    @fai1t0liv3 11 років тому +1

    Dwelling on the past makes us a prisoner to it and feeling ashamed for actions we did not take can't undo them. We can acknowledge the cruelty and ingenuity of our ancestors without getting wrapped up in them. That's all I'm trying to convey. Telling you that you shouldn't feel shame isn't the same as telling you DON't feel shame. I tried to express a different way to view the past, without feeling like you are somehow responsible, but in the end you are free to feel however you want.

  • @jp5morin
    @jp5morin 10 років тому +52

    Thanks for giving that "point" to Canada, but in reality, we don't deserve it. We had our own residential school system (in fact based on the Carlisle School) which continued well in to the 1970s and the last school didn't close till 1996. I'd suggest looking at John Milloy's "National Crime" or J.R. Miller' "Shingwauk's Vision".
    Keep up the great work and I'll be showing this episode to my students!

    • @Stardweller1
      @Stardweller1 10 років тому +2

      Behold: Humanity.
      (This is why I prefer blaming governments to blaming the countries those governments lead).

    • @nathenhutchison6182
      @nathenhutchison6182 6 років тому +2

      As always, the United States can one up you on the shame meter. During the 1960s into the '70s, the "Indian Health Service" in the United States instituted a policy of forced sterilization of Native American women.

    • @Lucy-zi4wh
      @Lucy-zi4wh 6 років тому +2

      Nathen Hutchison yeah unfortunately there was forced sterilization for Canadian indigenous peoples as well. I think it’d be pretty difficult to find something shameful that Canada hasn’t done to its First Peoples.

  • @biggkemo
    @biggkemo 4 роки тому +6

    And all this time I thought that Black people were the only ones victimized by European colonialism. I was so wrong...

  • @andrewthegeek6522
    @andrewthegeek6522 4 роки тому +3

    2:35 in a rpg system known as savage worlds they follow that history and throw in other mythic elements in a setting called the wierd west

  • @bobbyyon1435
    @bobbyyon1435 9 років тому

    2:45
    Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. It’s fun to drive up here in the Hollywood hills. But you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knowledge. In fact, I’m a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold two thousand new books that I bought. It’s like the billionaire Warren Buffett says, “the more you learn, the more you earn.”
    Now maybe you’ve seen my TEDx talk where I talk about how I read a book a day. You know, I read a book a day not to show off it’s again about the knowledge. In fact, the real reason I keep this Lamborghini here is that it’s a reminder. A reminder that dreams are still possible, because it wasn’t that long ago that I was in a little town across the country sleeping on a couch in a mobile home with only forty seven dollars in my bank account. I didn’t have a college degree, I had no opportunities.
    But you know what? Something happened that changed my life. I bumped into a mentor. And another mentor. And a few more mentors. I found five mentors. And they showed me what they did to become multimillionaires. Again, it’s not just about money, it’s about the good life; health, wealth, love and happiness. And so I record a little video, it’s actually on my website, you can click here on this video and it’ll take you to my website where I share three things that they taught me. Three things that you can implement today no matter where you are.
    Now, this isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You know, like they say if things sound too good to be true they are too good to be true. I’m not promising you that tomorrow you’re gonna be able to go out and buy a Lamborghini. But what I am telling you is that it can happen faster than you think if you know the proven steps. So, I record a little two minute video on my website. Like I said, now it’s not the most professional I just shot it here with my iPhone, but it’s real. Nobody can argue, this is my true story. And I’m going to give you the three most important things you can do today. So click the link, go there it’s completely free to watch it it’s just a couple minutes. Invest in yourself. Always be curious. Don’t be a cynic. Okay, people see videos like this and they say “Ah that’s not real that’s for somebody else.”
    Don’t listen, don’t listen. Be an optimist. Like, Conrad Hilton, the man who started Hilton Hotel, he said that he was only fifteen years old when he read a book by Helen Keller, and that book changed his life. Books can change your life. And in that book, Helen Keller said “optimism” so if you’re a cynic, if you’re a pessimist you don’t need to click here. Don’t worry about it, I don’t need to talk to everybody. But if you’re somebody who knows that there’s something better, cause the dream is possible, you know, for some of you watching it’s not necessarily a Lamborghini, maybe it’s a new job, a new opportunity, starting your own company.
    Maybe it’s a new lifestyle without so much stress, traveling the world, doing those things you know you’re destined to do. You can do those unless you understand finances. Money, I don’t call it money anymore, I call it fuel units. You must have enough fuel units to live out your dream and to live out your destiny. So, I’ll see you on my website, it’s a quick video and you’ll see there absolutely free.
    So just click this video and you’ll be taken there in a second, and uh, I’m excited to share this amazing stuff. You’ll see, not because of anything of me but because I’ve been fortunate enough to learn from mentors many years ahead of me. Not just in books like these, although I love books but also real in-person mentors. So let me share with you these three tips that have made all the difference in my life. They’re practical, you can do them today, you can start on them today. All right? See you there on my site.

  • @gracewerkheiser6745
    @gracewerkheiser6745 4 роки тому +1

    What tribal music is the Ghost Dance from? It's good

  • @cursedswordsman
    @cursedswordsman 10 років тому +10

    Oh, I know what you're talking about... juicy angus beef...
    Wait what?

  • @acidlysynth4063
    @acidlysynth4063 5 років тому +3

    10:10
    Me: laughs then completely cuts if off and says "we're all gonna die".

  • @ethant402
    @ethant402 11 років тому +5

    Very good episode. I was considering writing to you guys about the boarding schools because was concerned they would not be covered after I learned about them in Modern American History.
    Instead you guys somewhat hit on the nail but missed some stuff like the abuses that did happen there. Otherwise you read my mind

  • @o76923
    @o76923 10 років тому

    You mentioned the ogallala aquifer being discussed in a video by your brother but I can't seem to find it. Can I get a link to it?

  • @AlanNadeauIII
    @AlanNadeauIII 7 років тому +1

    4-3 in no-shock to shock. Great Job John (GJJ)

  • @mra4521
    @mra4521 10 років тому +15

    Not sure if John mentioned it or if it is in the comments, however the Ainu of Hokkaido Japan also battled Imperialism's genocide and lost in the same horrible ways the vast tribes, nations, and more of the Americas and Oceania did.
    PS this episode proves Cormac McCarthy is kind of a jerk in terms of his "realistic" portrayals of women (of all ethic groups, and non-white ethnic groups) presence in the "Wild West."

  • @ladyfoxy223
    @ladyfoxy223 11 років тому +16

    And it was a lot of beef, if you know what I'm talking about...
    I'm talking about beef.
    Hahaha :)

  • @erraticonteuse
    @erraticonteuse 11 років тому

    In a college history class, my professor asked why we thought the US didn't engage in imperialism in the 1800s like Europe did. After some discussion where no one challenged the question at all, I was just staring at the US map when a lightbulb went off in my head. And I said, "But we did. We took over an entire continent. The people who lived there were nations we conquered." The room was dead silent after that. We're just not taught to think of Indians like that, and it's insulting.

  • @dmeads5663
    @dmeads5663 5 років тому

    My great grandfather was a black foot Indian from eastern PA, to all foreigners watching this, understand that the reservations are voluntary, a Native American doesn’t have to live on one and most of them today live regular lives in American society.

  • @Obstreperous_Octopus
    @Obstreperous_Octopus 11 років тому +5

    "...books for putting on your shelf and pretending to have read"
    *looks over at book shelf.*
    : (
    So true...