Been waiting on a new video for a long while and didn't even have the alert set for new stuff. I waa just thinking about these videos of yours the other day and trying to remember the name of your fuckin channel. I scrolled through all my Playlist tonight and was like "Wait holy shit, that's the guy!" Happy to see you making new stuff. I'm native and it have been recently listening to the great courses lecture series on The West. I highly recommend the audiobook "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", which is narrated by Grover Gardner. It's brilliant. Anyway, thanks for this. Incredible stuff as usual.
As a native, this info is such a given in the story that we forget it still shocks those who haven't heard it. 50 million bison down to .5 million. 90 million native Americans down to 1 million (now 6).
Thank you for doing this topic, the bison are such an american icon and more people need to know about this and respect the history that happened in our heartland. Every video this channel does is so awesome.
Something that's never really taught in American schools is how we treated the Native Americans. We massacred their people, took their lands, forced our culture onto them, and now we refuse to take responsibility for our actions. It's nice to see American atrocities getting some attention.
Easily some of the highest quality content on UA-cam. Over the last few months this channel has become my favorite and I am ready for another banger Edit: so it was a bit different than the rest of the content on this channel but it was OK I guess
I never thought about the extinction of the buffalo as a tactical dismantling of native populations, I feel like in school it's a result of moving west and Oregon Trail type hunting. Really great video!
Dad was also a taxidermist over 60 years. And I grew up on a cattle farm that was just up the road from a buffalo farm. I've seen Buffalo alive and during processing. They really are beautiful creatures. Big fuckers too. Even from someone like myself used to dealing with massive cattle... Buffalo are just on another level. They're not that much bigger I guess... Technically... But they sure seem bigger
I actually don't like the sound design. Maybe because i'm 95% deaf (at least my doctors state that), or maybe because i'm in crippling debt. But that's not the point here, pal. The point is i needed a controversial first sentence to keep the attention up for the following:
I haven't been subbed for long but I've been entertained by everything. This is a departure from what I've grown accustomed. I'm not complaining. Thank you for your brand and artistry. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Yikes. I joined this channel from the Norm video, as Norm is my favourite comedian of all time. I thought the video was fantastic. Coincidentally, this is a subject I've heavily researched and know almost everything about, I even wrote a large report on the historical decline of buffalo and it's causes. In it, I also studied, in depth, European settler / Native American relations during the first century of contact. I think it's pretty apparent from the way this source was speaking, referring to the settlers as "the white people" constantly, he is biased to a very inaccurate view of history. We don't refer to ancient Mauritanians as "the blacks" in a historical context, but people in modern America seem to have a white-guilt fetish which skews their view of reality and history. The Buffalo population was already in massive decline before European settlers arrived. The Natives began using extremely wasteful hunting strategies and had already killed off 80-90% of the buffalo before white settlers even began hunting them to. Prior to European contact, Natives did not have guns, so they had a hard time killing a massive herd animal like the buffalo. They learned they could run at them in groups, banging and yelling, to cause them to scurry away. They would do this to the massive herds, and drive them to cliff edges, and the buffalo would walk off them and fall to their death. They would do this and kill hundreds or thousands in the herd, then retrieve what they wanted from the bottom of the cliff. The Natives could only carry so much meat, so they would usually grab the youngest animals and the best cuts, leaving 99% wasted to rot and be fed on by scavengers. This tactic became so widespread and done so often that the Buffalo dying far faster then they could be born. There were so many buffalo that the Natives either didn't know extinction was possible, or just didn't think it through. When European settlers arrived, they traded with Natives and gave them guns, which in turn may have helped the buffalo decline, as they didn't need to rely on such wasteful hunting strategies, but too many tribes continued to use the tactic anyways. When the settlers got into hunting the buffalo, it just made the problem twice as bad, and eventually the buffalo numbers were so obviously low that action was taken to keep them from extinction. Again, this was European settlers doing this, so if they never arrived, the Buffalo would have likely went extinct completely. People don't realize that the Natives were the largest cause of the Buffalo population collapse, because it flys in the face of the myth of the "noble savage" that westerners have romanticized about Native populations centuries after first major contact. You've probably heard this term before, but it is the idea that Natives were peaceful environmentalists who smoked on pipes and only took as little as they needed. This idea is categorically false. Native and settler relation have been misrepresented and mythologized so much, that most people believe complete fabrications about the relationship. You probably heared of the time the European settlers gave the Natives blankets they covered in smallpox in order to kill them, right? This story even has made it's way into some school textbooks. Only problem is it is a complete myth and didn't happen. Not only do we have ZERO evidence of such a thing happening, but germ-theory was not even established at this time and the Europeans did not understand what viruses or bacteria were. Well you might think that the "white people" still killed a bunch of Natives for their land, right? No, not exactly. Most native tribes were waring with each other and extremely violent. Settlers tried to establish peaceful contact many times only to be attacked or murdered. Settlers would try to even establish small colonies away from the tribes, and end up getting invaded and their children murdered or stolen. By and large, these were not "peaceful" people. Almost every battle between Native tribes and European settlers was a defensive one for the Europeans. After suffering many surprise attacks and murders, the Europeans did engage in their own attacks too, but the context of it is largely ignored by people who preach the false idea that "whites killed natives cuz manifest destiny" (they didn't). Now in terms of trade agreements, when the settlers could establish peaceful contact, you COULD argue the Europeans took advantage of the Natives. However, you could say the Natives took advantage of the Europeans, in their eyes. In today's context and frame of reference, the settlers got WAYYYY better deals than the Natives. The settlers asked for acres and acres of gold-rich land, and in return they would give the Natives some weapons and a couple pelts. Of course the Natives were taken advantage of, right? Well, yeah, it seems like it. The Europeans thought so too. However, it wasn't this BS about "the Natives signing agreements they couldn't understand and got swindled", no. The Natives thought they were ripping off the Europeans. The Natives had no use for gold outside of maybe some jewelery, and they would sell land they had no intent of ever using anyways. There was more than enough land for them as is, so selling rights to land they had no use for, in exchange for weapons that appeared like magic which drastically improved their hunting, war strategies and defense was an AMAZING deal in their eyes. Hindsight from today we can say the settlers got a better deal, but at the time it was different. In reality, the sides would barter and know exactly what the terms of the deals were, and overall both sides were very satisfied in their trades until much, much later. Two of my biggest pet peeves: I hate when people misrepresent history, and I hate the larger anti-white/white-guilt trend of the past decade in the west. This combines both into a video that triggered the hell out of me, I'll admit it.
hate to tell you this, but euro cows spreading ticks probably wiped out most of the Bison. Natives moved herds around and had a big impact on where herds would move. If they start settling, with more land defended by ranchers, bison will group up into massive herds ripe for disease. Firsthand accounts show massive fields of dead bison with no evidence of them scattering or being pelted with arrows. This aligns directly with current, ongoing epidemics with ticks in mexico. It's the same situation as smallpox, bison are susceptible to the same diseases that domesticated cattle are resistant to. Introduce the new ticks to the Americas with large ranches, and bison will succumb to arborviruses. The birth rate of bison is sustainable enough for them to be hunted today, within 100 years, so neither guns nor cliffside hunting should be able to account for 80 million dead bison within a decade. Malaria and yellow fever are the largest killers of man over history, there's no reason to disregard arboviruses from introduced cattle ticks if the same shit contributed to the collapse of human populations in America via mosquitos.
That’s really interesting. So much of history seems to be taught in black and white. The truth is obviously way more complicated. For example, I wasn’t taught in school that some tribes had slaves. I guess that would have ruined the narrative that only the Europeans were flawed. Makes you think. What else were we lied to about? What are we being lied to about currently?
Such great content in every video, one of my most favorite documentarians
I did NOT get a notification abt this video, your channel rocks man, keep it up.
Another banger bro you never disappoint.
I just wanted to say how much I respect the originality of your work.
Been waiting on a new video for a long while and didn't even have the alert set for new stuff. I waa just thinking about these videos of yours the other day and trying to remember the name of your fuckin channel. I scrolled through all my Playlist tonight and was like "Wait holy shit, that's the guy!"
Happy to see you making new stuff. I'm native and it have been recently listening to the great courses lecture series on The West. I highly recommend the audiobook "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", which is narrated by Grover Gardner. It's brilliant. Anyway, thanks for this. Incredible stuff as usual.
Awesome! Appreciate your comments man and glad you re-found the channel haha
These type of videos of yours feel timeless almost.
As a native, this info is such a given in the story that we forget it still shocks those who haven't heard it. 50 million bison down to .5 million. 90 million native Americans down to 1 million (now 6).
Thank you for doing this topic, the bison are such an american icon and more people need to know about this and respect the history that happened in our heartland. Every video this channel does is so awesome.
Something that's never really taught in American schools is how we treated the Native Americans. We massacred their people, took their lands, forced our culture onto them, and now we refuse to take responsibility for our actions. It's nice to see American atrocities getting some attention.
and put perpetrators who directly inspired hitler on our money
Wonderful work!
Easily some of the highest quality content on UA-cam. Over the last few months this channel has become my favorite and I am ready for another banger
Edit: so it was a bit different than the rest of the content on this channel but it was OK I guess
I don't really know how to classify this channel, but I know I like it
I never thought about the extinction of the buffalo as a tactical dismantling of native populations, I feel like in school it's a result of moving west and Oregon Trail type hunting. Really great video!
Where have you been? I've had nothing to watch but some videos by a guy named Booby Hoggrinder.
I don't get this channel but I guess I will keep watching...
Whoa! I'm so glad I found this guy. Beo you make some top-notch quality content.
Some of the best on YT.
Big thanks for all you do.
Some people just can’t adapt to change.
some people murder
Some people just want to watch the world bun
From Styrofoam Bonfire to Styrofoam Bonfire Research Group, you've come a short way.
Word.
This is one of the best creators on UA-cam, so glad to see an upload
🤝
12:43 what is the song called?
Wind Has Blown - Danica Dora
@@StyrofoamBonfire thank you👍
Wow that’s a buncha bison
Freeking gold
Great video
9:40 so glad that the non-Euclidian countdown has returned
What the hell is a buffalo? They're extinct in my timeline.
I wonder what Rob Hogwalloper has to say about this.
Wake up, Babe, Styrofoam Bonfire Research Group just uploaded again
Nooo the timer
😭
Great
Cant wait for more great content!
Got My first name from Mr Grant. Funny since I'm from Chattanooga and my dad was a big civil war buff. Glad he didn't name me after a confederate 😂
Dad was also a taxidermist over 60 years. And I grew up on a cattle farm that was just up the road from a buffalo farm. I've seen Buffalo alive and during processing. They really are beautiful creatures. Big fuckers too. Even from someone like myself used to dealing with massive cattle... Buffalo are just on another level. They're not that much bigger I guess... Technically... But they sure seem bigger
Anyone knows what song that's used for that amazing sponsor segment?
Next Contestant Please by Liberty - got it through soundstripe idk if it’s anywhere else
@@StyrofoamBonfire I can find it from there, but thank you!
I actually don't like the sound design. Maybe because i'm 95% deaf (at least my doctors state that), or maybe because i'm in crippling debt. But that's not the point here, pal. The point is i needed a controversial first sentence to keep the attention up for the following:
Incredible stuff again man
I haven't been subbed for long but I've been entertained by everything. This is a departure from what I've grown accustomed. I'm not complaining. Thank you for your brand and artistry. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Nothing short of a masterpiece, once again.
Yikes. I joined this channel from the Norm video, as Norm is my favourite comedian of all time. I thought the video was fantastic. Coincidentally, this is a subject I've heavily researched and know almost everything about, I even wrote a large report on the historical decline of buffalo and it's causes. In it, I also studied, in depth, European settler / Native American relations during the first century of contact. I think it's pretty apparent from the way this source was speaking, referring to the settlers as "the white people" constantly, he is biased to a very inaccurate view of history. We don't refer to ancient Mauritanians as "the blacks" in a historical context, but people in modern America seem to have a white-guilt fetish which skews their view of reality and history.
The Buffalo population was already in massive decline before European settlers arrived. The Natives began using extremely wasteful hunting strategies and had already killed off 80-90% of the buffalo before white settlers even began hunting them to. Prior to European contact, Natives did not have guns, so they had a hard time killing a massive herd animal like the buffalo. They learned they could run at them in groups, banging and yelling, to cause them to scurry away. They would do this to the massive herds, and drive them to cliff edges, and the buffalo would walk off them and fall to their death. They would do this and kill hundreds or thousands in the herd, then retrieve what they wanted from the bottom of the cliff. The Natives could only carry so much meat, so they would usually grab the youngest animals and the best cuts, leaving 99% wasted to rot and be fed on by scavengers. This tactic became so widespread and done so often that the Buffalo dying far faster then they could be born. There were so many buffalo that the Natives either didn't know extinction was possible, or just didn't think it through.
When European settlers arrived, they traded with Natives and gave them guns, which in turn may have helped the buffalo decline, as they didn't need to rely on such wasteful hunting strategies, but too many tribes continued to use the tactic anyways. When the settlers got into hunting the buffalo, it just made the problem twice as bad, and eventually the buffalo numbers were so obviously low that action was taken to keep them from extinction. Again, this was European settlers doing this, so if they never arrived, the Buffalo would have likely went extinct completely.
People don't realize that the Natives were the largest cause of the Buffalo population collapse, because it flys in the face of the myth of the "noble savage" that westerners have romanticized about Native populations centuries after first major contact. You've probably heard this term before, but it is the idea that Natives were peaceful environmentalists who smoked on pipes and only took as little as they needed. This idea is categorically false. Native and settler relation have been misrepresented and mythologized so much, that most people believe complete fabrications about the relationship. You probably heared of the time the European settlers gave the Natives blankets they covered in smallpox in order to kill them, right? This story even has made it's way into some school textbooks. Only problem is it is a complete myth and didn't happen. Not only do we have ZERO evidence of such a thing happening, but germ-theory was not even established at this time and the Europeans did not understand what viruses or bacteria were.
Well you might think that the "white people" still killed a bunch of Natives for their land, right? No, not exactly. Most native tribes were waring with each other and extremely violent. Settlers tried to establish peaceful contact many times only to be attacked or murdered. Settlers would try to even establish small colonies away from the tribes, and end up getting invaded and their children murdered or stolen. By and large, these were not "peaceful" people. Almost every battle between Native tribes and European settlers was a defensive one for the Europeans. After suffering many surprise attacks and murders, the Europeans did engage in their own attacks too, but the context of it is largely ignored by people who preach the false idea that "whites killed natives cuz manifest destiny" (they didn't).
Now in terms of trade agreements, when the settlers could establish peaceful contact, you COULD argue the Europeans took advantage of the Natives. However, you could say the Natives took advantage of the Europeans, in their eyes. In today's context and frame of reference, the settlers got WAYYYY better deals than the Natives. The settlers asked for acres and acres of gold-rich land, and in return they would give the Natives some weapons and a couple pelts. Of course the Natives were taken advantage of, right? Well, yeah, it seems like it. The Europeans thought so too. However, it wasn't this BS about "the Natives signing agreements they couldn't understand and got swindled", no. The Natives thought they were ripping off the Europeans. The Natives had no use for gold outside of maybe some jewelery, and they would sell land they had no intent of ever using anyways. There was more than enough land for them as is, so selling rights to land they had no use for, in exchange for weapons that appeared like magic which drastically improved their hunting, war strategies and defense was an AMAZING deal in their eyes. Hindsight from today we can say the settlers got a better deal, but at the time it was different. In reality, the sides would barter and know exactly what the terms of the deals were, and overall both sides were very satisfied in their trades until much, much later.
Two of my biggest pet peeves: I hate when people misrepresent history, and I hate the larger anti-white/white-guilt trend of the past decade in the west. This combines both into a video that triggered the hell out of me, I'll admit it.
Everybody and every race have done evil. But dude.... us white folks have to be out in front? I would think
hate to tell you this, but euro cows spreading ticks probably wiped out most of the Bison. Natives moved herds around and had a big impact on where herds would move. If they start settling, with more land defended by ranchers, bison will group up into massive herds ripe for disease. Firsthand accounts show massive fields of dead bison with no evidence of them scattering or being pelted with arrows. This aligns directly with current, ongoing epidemics with ticks in mexico.
It's the same situation as smallpox, bison are susceptible to the same diseases that domesticated cattle are resistant to. Introduce the new ticks to the Americas with large ranches, and bison will succumb to arborviruses. The birth rate of bison is sustainable enough for them to be hunted today, within 100 years, so neither guns nor cliffside hunting should be able to account for 80 million dead bison within a decade. Malaria and yellow fever are the largest killers of man over history, there's no reason to disregard arboviruses from introduced cattle ticks if the same shit contributed to the collapse of human populations in America via mosquitos.
That’s really interesting. So much of history seems to be taught in black and white. The truth is obviously way more complicated. For example, I wasn’t taught in school that some tribes had slaves. I guess that would have ruined the narrative that only the Europeans were flawed.
Makes you think. What else were we lied to about? What are we being lied to about currently?
I am the white 👨🏻🦳
A lot of Yellowstone tourists could have been saved if we finished the job...
Totally worth it. Tourists are the worst. Except when it's me
Where's Joe????
We need more *Biden voiceovers* like in the Conan video 😂😂
And longer videos like 50 mins long
Facts
algorithm boost comment
results of 'putting all your eggs in one basket'.
results of murdering