Damn!!! You really didn't mince words. I love it. I had to subscribe when I heard you giving the traditional names for the places. I'm Coast Salish, from the Penelakut tribe, so these people are my relatives! They have a beautiful home and a beautiful language.
My Father was a Penaluket member,so is my neighbor here in Naniamo K.Johnson,I'm only 1/4 even though my GGGRAM Tutsumutsa Edenshaw aka Mary Warren Williams was the oldest native to die on Vancouver Island in 1931 at 104. My G.G.Grandfather Captain James Douglas Warren came from P.E.I in 1858,he opened up the Trade Routes here to the Haida Gwaii. My G.Gramps Captain Fredrick Warren was taken to Seattle after J.D.divorced her fir audutry. He had many Steamships and Shipwrecks including the famous S.S.Beaver, it sunk at Prospect Point in 1888.❤ My Aunt Sarah Warren was a Matriarch of the Songhees, the first person to win back the Right's for The Traditional Mask Dance in 1950. My Ancestors are King and Queen Freezy. ❤❤ I grewup in Port Alberni during the 60's scoop,with Chief Judith Sayers that told Trudeau off on the news for flying to Tofino on Truth and Reconciliation Day. ❤
@nickiewilson9134 he must've been quite the man....he had three wives and married his second only five years after marrying the first. Makes me wonder if they didn't have a wife in every port. 😂 Even James Douglas had two wives, but I'm not sure if it was simultaneously. Times were different then. Is your GGGgram Williams related to the Williams in Skidegate, by any chance?
@@Mystic_Light Who invented the "1-wife" philosophy anyways? Is that a Christan rule? What if you are not a Christan, should a athiest be held to Christian standards? That's why I try not to force people into my own belief system. I believe animals should not be eaten, but I don't force others not to eat whatever they want.
Thanks for all the info. I am a Seattlite and always interested in this place When I was kid their were a fair number of indigenous people living in downtown Seattle but they have all gone. Seattle has been gentrified by the Tech Businesses. A lot of the working class roots of this town have been painted over. The homeless of Seattle were created by the destruction of low income housing, and single resident rooming houses to make way for $2k a month apartments.
Absolutely love this video series, no one else comes close to putting so much detailed, succinct information that needs to be heard in a well thought out, easy to understand format. My only criticism is Chinook is pronounced with a hard TCH, like chin, not the soft SH.
REEEEDOOOOO THE WHOLE THIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!! 🥴 👉 👉 As a Vashon Island resident (...native?), this is my backyard. Thank you for the on- location reporting. It's an interesting take, artistically, in a world of infographic-derivative cartoons, or Burns clones chock full of manipulative music and pan/scan of maps after map after map. Your editing is thoughtful and you are clearly passionate for your subject. Personally, I've also really enjoyed seeing all the local (for me) areas. Cheers.
My great-grandmother Bessie Stevens lived on the waterfront in Bangor for the Navy. Took it away in 45 prior to all that she used to hang out with princess Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle Chief Sealth And they would come up in their long boats upon our beach and visit with her
I moved here six years ago and it has driven me crazy how spotty the history i've been able to find is, and how absent the native side of things obviously was in what i did find; so this video is amazing. thank you.
I lived in Squamish for 9 years. This is really interesting and well done. I miss taking walks down to Agate Pass. It's a beautiful little beech with a lot of history.
I haven't finish the vide yet but I just want to say that the quote at 17:12, and the whole part about cultural intermixing is fascinating. I'm glad I've found this channel.
This is so good. I live on the historical Puyallup land. Thank you for making the indigenous names prominent in this historical accounting. I will be sending this to pretty much everyone I know.
This is the best one yet. The channel is really growing the beard, no pun intended. For real though, the videos really help and we appreciate them on many levels. Thank you for doing this. I promise I'll be a patron soon. Rough year.
I was sitting with the Elders (my first time), next to Cecile Hanson at the All Tribes Pow Wow the day she learned the Federal Government had revoked her peoples' tribal recognition status. How could some bureaucrat, paid to rubber-stamp out and deny The People's history--act so easily? Chief Seattle was egalitarian, magnanamous, and hospitable to foreigners from different lands, languages and cultures, inviting them to partake in the abundance of the northewst. The People embodied stewardship, ensuring the water, the land, creaures in the air, all plants and living things would remain for all the future generations. I was born and partly raised on Duamish land, and heard some of the shameful history of how The People were burned out of their houses. My Kootenai-Salish grandmother told me the white men wanted the land. She and my Assinaboine grandfather lived in a black neighborhood in Tacoma, because they wanted to live in peace, and they were dark skinned people. All My Relations
I've put a lot of time & energy (though not nearly enough) into learning local indigenous history, and this was still almost entirely info I have never heard before. Thank you so much for putting this together! I plan to use this as a teaching resource as well; this video is an awesome primer for students in any subject area to start their learning grounded in the history & present of the place they're learning in.
thank you for such a wonderful video documenting indigenous history. i can tell how much research you have done, and even things like giving indigenous names for locations shows you’re well informed and care about the history you’re sharing. keep up the great work, indigenous history like this needs to be a required part of institutional education!
Hey hello! As a someone born and raised in Seattle this video has to be the best video I have seen on it, maybe ever. This video has really sparked my interest on the topic. Out of curiosity do you have a place where you have your sources, so I can read through them myself? Anyway thanks for the video!
I am So looking forward to this documentary. Ty. I’m a NE native, and visited the NW. My experiences during the month is spent in Seattle, exploring the city, viewing native art and taking in the new but deeply familiar topography. I had what some would call an out of body experience, that friends tell me made me invisible to the eye while in the same room. It’s not a stretch to tell you that I wasn’t as surprised by that report as a person commonly would be. While I was having the experience, the only thought that connecting me to that present time was the hopes someone would not disturb me physically and cause a premature end. The experience was deeply rooted within me and was remembered while studying some native art. Luckily, something, whatever, prevented that from happening. Can’t wait to deeper dive the area, as well as return. ❤
I'm over in Kitsap, so I find this very interesting to learn that Chief Seattle was mixed with the Suquamish tribe that I see locally. I really like how you frame the history, without idolizing either side, but describing the cultural battle that took place. It is a shame to see how much we lose in the name of progress. I want to learn more, Instant sub for more native history, thanks.
There's a book "Totem Tales of Old Seattle" where the author relates some stories of Chief Seattle, including where he "put down" a medicine man who was killing a lot of his patients via his incompetence and where he planned and executed an ambush on a Muckleshoot raiding party that had come to prey on the Duwamish. There was also a story about a speech he gave where he shared the stage with a (governor? mayor? I can't recall) some important government guy and due to the height difference the Chief kept resting his hand on the head of the government guy while he spoke, like he was the podium.
A great video presentation. Incredibly educational. Thank you for the time and effort it must have taken to not only put this together but also the time itself must have taken you to have learned all of this history.
i needed this content so much. thank you for doing this important work to educate those who benefit from land theft and genocide, should the ever choose to see and hear.
Thank you this was so illuminating and as a lifelong Seattlelite whose parents immigrated here from Asia I had little idea about this history, save for a few brushes with artifacts in Tilikum Village and visits to the totem pole near Alki Beach. Of course we never learned the true history of Seattle in school, and I am ashamed to have been part of such a racist, colonial school system and city. More recently, as a full-fledged adult I have attended pow wows, events at Daybreak Star, and the indigenous food symposium at the UW Intellectual House. I am doing my best to educate myself on the true history of the land on which I live, and it feels good to know the truth and stand in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the world. Also, I am curious whether/what tribe you are from? You are so knowledgeable and in depth with your research :)
I really enjoyed learning from you! This is very well done. Thank you for all of the effort you put into making this and sharing these important elements of our history!
You have helped to educate me. I am from Northern Indiana where there are very many Amish and I have Amish ancestors, so when I heard you keep saying the word: "Duwamish" I kept mostly just hearing the word "Amish" so I had to stop your video and look up the word "Duwamish". And then I came back to this video. I have never heard of this tribe, but you have done a great job of telling the history. I like your style. My Indengious-American tribes are from out here in the east, but my heart still sympathizes with other tribes and the horrible genocide and extreme abuses they received. I live in Miami Chief Little Turtle's area where he and Shawnee Chief Tecumseh worked together to fight off the stealing of their lands. It is sickening to understand that this crap against the Indegeneous peoples of this country all had to go through this stuff. Within my blood flows the people on both sides like millions of other Americans. Those Duwamish women that got put into working in cat-houses, that is so sad that their culture became so annihilated that they had to do that for money to survive. I am so sorry, so very sorry that the Duwamish and all the other Indegeneous people had to endure such abuse and extreme disrespect. 💔
Wow! That was so incredibly Insightful and I hope your video continues to enlighten those that don’t know this part of PNW history. Subscribed and look forward to future videos and I’ll be sharing this one! Good work, you’re a super talented story teller and thanks for sharing that talent with the world!
Over an hour of really interesting history that almost seems lost to time. It’s awesome coming from West Seattle and hearing about where old villages used to be respective to what’s there today.
Hey! I found your channel recently and have been making my through the content, which I'm loving so far. Incredibly informative and rich analysis. Plus he visual artefacts (paintings, photos, etc.) are a fascinating accompaniment. I do, however, have one small gripe. It may be just me and my speakers, and if so, fair enough -- but would it be possible to increase your microphone volume for future videos? Sometimes, especially if I'm cooking, cleaning, or otherwise making noise while listening to your videos, the volume seems quite low (even at max volume and even if I'm wearing headphones). Keep up the good work! Conor from Ireland, now living in Vancouver :)
Yeah, the volume’s been a persistent problem. For some reason it’ll be a good level on speakers, and then really low on headphones. I think I finally have it figured out though.
There will always be jealousy presided amongst certain things. We should accumulate focus on those who deserve mercy. Sadly this is a modern progression. Love your work
I have lived in Washington state my whole life, but I know little about any of this. I will be watching your other videos as this is fascinating to me.
Great job! Very interesting to observe the old photos, how they had electric polls and street lights, sky scrapers sticking out the ground when the were supposedly clearing the hills. Seattle is definitely a major mud flood city and is older then said!
I love this!! I hope to remember to come back here and go through what you got. The area is not familiar for me. I visited twice. 🙋 Cali and Colorado. Great video/knowledge.
My grandmother alinda stewart was born in idaho blackfoot tribe ripped from her family and reservation @age 2 had her souverign rights stripped and adopted into white family. Would love to learn more
I’m sorry that happened to your family. I’ll eventually have a whole video about the 60s scoop and related subjects, but I’ll also be touching on that history in my next video. It’s currently in editing so stay tuned.
Theres was 1000's little clans and bigger tribes in Pacific Northwest and Washington state had coastal peoples and numbers of other peoples or what Pacific Northwest 9th grade history teaches you focusing on one or few tribes then relying the vastness of peoples of my beloved Washington but luv Chief Seattle and that majorly explains alot like the name for earlier Sea-town thanks for covering the historical information of being Washingtonian person.
Serious question. If we should give back the land, does that mean ownership and now I’d become a renter or something? Or would we change who we pay land taxes to? Or are we supposed to move back to where our ancestors came from? And if we do that are we supposed to make the people that live there but aren’t of the indigenous race leave? Essentially it seems like we’re only supposed to live on the continent our ancestors came from, is that the idea?
That’s not what land back is about. That’s a common misconception, largely because that’s the way Euro-American colonialism has interacted with land ownership and possession, but it’s not what Indigenous people are advocating for. There’s a great discussion on r/IndianCountry titled “at its core, what is landback?” that I highly suggest you look at. Here’s also a good article with links to further resources if you want some concrete details about what a land back world might look like: 4rsyouth.ca/land-back-what-do-we-mean/
That is not at all what it says. It does mention giving Native nations a greater say than currently in land management and governance, but stewardship and ownership are two different things.
@@IndigenousHistoryNow you are refusing to actually answer the question. It’s either because you don’t own land yourself and don’t understand what all that means or you are lying. So I own a house I rent to someone and then I live on my family’s farm. Some of our farm is agriculture and some is forested. Are you talking about making people like me give up our property, change who we pay taxes to or allow tribes to harvest timber on our land instead of us? Or at your talking about letting tribes harvest timber on land owned by the bureau of land management. And if tribes were allowed to harvest timber but not everyone else, that would cause huge problems. Just like the falls in Oregon City, it looks like crap now
You are correct that the issue of land back has a lot of details and moving parts to consider, which is why I’m not directly answering your question-it’s too big of a discussion for a UA-cam comments section to do it justice. That’s why I’m directing you to some other resources that are more appropriate.
And you my friend, have earned a subscriber! I love history, and I had no idea, that Seattle had a cultural intermixing at first. Think the ex-Confederates after the civil war moving to the PNW had anything to do with it?
Well researched! Portlander, but went to 5th and 6th grades in Georgetown (always a working class neighborhood). I learned a lot about the early history of Seattle from this. I don't remember much local history in grade school at the time there. Family heritage on my mother's mother's side includes field work on the farms around Snohomish and north by my aunts and uncles and cousins during the 1930s. The governments official recognition policy is horrendous. It ends up pitting tribe against tribe. Witness also the issues of the Chinooks on the lower Columbia. They helped our white asses (pardon the expression) arrive and assume unceded land all up and down the lower Columbia. But due to an unsigned treaty and no reservation they officially do not exist. I have a cousin who married one, so seems to me they exist. Their struggle also continues. Keep up the great work on these. Let's hope some of us become somewhat more educated about the existing Indigenous peoples,
Thank you so much for this video! I'm a white Seattleite and I've been thinking a lot lately about Seattle's indigenous history (thanks to reading the excellent memoir Red Paint by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe), so this came at a perfect time for me to learn more :)
Ive lived near the Salish Sea my entire life, and Ive heard many indigenous people over the years explain the "correct" pronunciation, a few even expressing their disappointment when people continue to say it "wrong". Its something that has stuck with me, so whenever I hear it, I say something. I just looked up Salishan and as you said, its pronounced both ways, and it appears Salish is Say-lish. Fascinating nuance. Im curious so Ill follow up with my indigenous friends. Nice chatting with you.
The duwamish tribe is not the only tribe still fighting to get Federal recognition around the entire country. I'm just stating that it's a larger problem than it appears.
Thank you for a revealing look at Seattle's Indigenous history before and after colonization by the whites. I am white and I was born and grew up on Vancouver Island. It too has a related indigenous history of cultural appropriation by whites. It is heartwarming to see the current revival of First Nation's culture here, and in your homeland.
Thanks for the great video! You do a great job presenting and speaking. Looking forward to your UA-cam rise. May I ask what motivates your in-depth work on the subject?
I just think Indigenous history is an important and fascinating part of this continent’s story that everyone who lives here should know more about. Unfortunately we don’t get near the education we should on the topic in school.
Great video! I learned so much about the place I've made my home. I went to the Powwow this year at Daybreak Star Indian Center, and I had no idea the site was originally an occupied decommissioned military base! The center and Discovery Park seen like a pretty cool outcome, esp considering how things things ended with the Indian occupation of Alcatraz. I support the Duwamish tribe too and have made a few attempts to learn Lushootseed (though it's very tricky for my tongue!)
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You missed a lot of information in my opinion
Have you read the book titled: ESTHER ROSS Stillaquamish Champion?
Valuable knowledge right here. Accurate reporting of history is a sacred thing.
Damn!!! You really didn't mince words. I love it. I had to subscribe when I heard you giving the traditional names for the places.
I'm Coast Salish, from the Penelakut tribe, so these people are my relatives! They have a beautiful home and a beautiful language.
My Father was a Penaluket member,so is my neighbor here in Naniamo K.Johnson,I'm only 1/4 even though my GGGRAM Tutsumutsa Edenshaw aka Mary Warren Williams was the oldest native to die on Vancouver Island in 1931 at 104. My G.G.Grandfather Captain James Douglas Warren came from P.E.I in 1858,he opened up the Trade Routes here to the Haida Gwaii. My G.Gramps Captain Fredrick Warren was taken to Seattle after J.D.divorced her fir audutry. He had many Steamships and Shipwrecks including the famous S.S.Beaver, it sunk at Prospect Point in 1888.❤ My Aunt Sarah Warren was a Matriarch of the Songhees, the first person to win back the Right's for The Traditional Mask Dance in 1950. My Ancestors are King and Queen Freezy. ❤❤ I grewup in Port Alberni during the 60's scoop,with Chief Judith Sayers that told Trudeau off on the news for flying to Tofino on Truth and Reconciliation Day. ❤
@nickiewilson9134 he must've been quite the man....he had three wives and married his second only five years after marrying the first. Makes me wonder if they didn't have a wife in every port. 😂 Even James Douglas had two wives, but I'm not sure if it was simultaneously. Times were different then. Is your GGGgram Williams related to the Williams in Skidegate, by any chance?
@@Mystic_Light Who invented the "1-wife" philosophy anyways? Is that a Christan rule? What if you are not a Christan, should a athiest be held to Christian standards? That's why I try not to force people into my own belief system. I believe animals should not be eaten, but I don't force others not to eat whatever they want.
Over one hour of indigenous history? Hold on. Gotta pause so I can get comfy in my wingback, light my pipe and pour a glass of sherry.
Ooh someone knows how to have a good time
Omg I’m such a big fan 😮
@@Demivrge I'm a big fan of IHN.
I'm a big fan of IHN and AncientAmericas! I would love to see your work in our local schools.
I'm smoking weed, but I feel your vibe.
Thank you for this history presentation. Let us incorporate these lessons in our future.
I took three quarters of southern lushootseed at UW with professor Tami Hohn, and your pronunciation is really good!
I learned from Tami and her wife Nancy. I was going to their Lushootseed language table before it was made into a full class
I was taught by them too! I worked with them for a few years to become a teacher here in the Muckleshoot community
Thanks for all the info. I am a Seattlite and always interested in this place When I was kid their were a fair number of indigenous people living in downtown Seattle but they have all gone. Seattle has been gentrified by the Tech Businesses. A lot of the working class roots of this town have been painted over. The homeless of Seattle were created by the destruction of low income housing, and single resident rooming houses to make way for $2k a month apartments.
Yes! My home states native peoples! Thank you for spreading the history and knowledge of the native people ❤️
Thank you so much!! Excellent information!❤
As a white man adopted in a Puyallup family I really wish I could have visited Seattle before this time and the mixed time.
I grew up in Puyallup. Share the same sentiment. Maybe we lived there in another life hence the discontent and wish to return it to a better condition
Rip to to California's moving here in droves.making everything worse and more crowded
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@@UserName-gj1xsya I grew up here and your right California has been a virus to this state
They would have enslaved you.
Absolutely love this video series, no one else comes close to putting so much detailed, succinct information that needs to be heard in a well thought out, easy to understand format.
My only criticism is Chinook is pronounced with a hard TCH, like chin, not the soft SH.
Thank you for the correction, I’ll keep that in mind for future
REEEEDOOOOO THE WHOLE THIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
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As a Vashon Island resident (...native?), this is my backyard. Thank you for the on- location reporting. It's an interesting take, artistically, in a world of infographic-derivative cartoons, or Burns clones chock full of manipulative music and pan/scan of maps after map after map.
Your editing is thoughtful and you are clearly passionate for your subject. Personally, I've also really enjoyed seeing all the local (for me) areas.
Cheers.
growing up in washington, this history is very close to my heart and that of my family and friends. thank you for the video!
My great-grandmother Bessie Stevens lived on the waterfront in Bangor for the Navy. Took it away in 45 prior to all that she used to hang out with princess Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle Chief Sealth And they would come up in their long boats upon our beach and visit with her
I start my PNW history course in 2 weeks at WSU. This looks like a fun documentary to watch to get myself ready!
Hope it’s going well at wazzu, best of luck with your continued studies!
I moved here six years ago and it has driven me crazy how spotty the history i've been able to find is, and how absent the native side of things obviously was in what i did find; so this video is amazing. thank you.
I lived in Squamish for 9 years. This is really interesting and well done. I miss taking walks down to Agate Pass. It's a beautiful little beech with a lot of history.
Becareful, they still got a fair amount of savages there. We couldn't tame them all.
I haven't finish the vide yet but I just want to say that the quote at 17:12, and the whole part about cultural intermixing is fascinating. I'm glad I've found this channel.
This is so good. I live on the historical Puyallup land. Thank you for making the indigenous names prominent in this historical accounting. I will be sending this to pretty much everyone I know.
This was fascinating and sad. I'm sharing with all my friends in Seattle.
This is the best one yet. The channel is really growing the beard, no pun intended. For real though, the videos really help and we appreciate them on many levels. Thank you for doing this. I promise I'll be a patron soon. Rough year.
best video I've watched on youtube in forever, thank you so much for making this. So happy this popped up on my feed
like fr, this should be shown in every school
I was sitting with the Elders (my first time), next to Cecile Hanson at the All Tribes Pow Wow the day she learned the Federal Government had revoked her peoples' tribal recognition status. How could some bureaucrat, paid to rubber-stamp out and deny The People's history--act so easily? Chief Seattle was egalitarian, magnanamous, and hospitable to foreigners from different lands, languages and cultures, inviting them to partake in the abundance of the northewst. The People embodied stewardship, ensuring the water, the land, creaures in the air, all plants and living things would remain for all the future generations.
I was born and partly raised on Duamish land, and heard some of the shameful history of how The People were burned out of their houses. My Kootenai-Salish grandmother told me the white men wanted the land. She and my Assinaboine grandfather lived in a black neighborhood in Tacoma, because they wanted to live in peace, and they were dark skinned people.
All My Relations
that North Wind vs Storm wind story is interesting I dont remember hearing Graham Hancock or Randall Carlson talking about that one. thats a gem.
I've put a lot of time & energy (though not nearly enough) into learning local indigenous history, and this was still almost entirely info I have never heard before. Thank you so much for putting this together! I plan to use this as a teaching resource as well; this video is an awesome primer for students in any subject area to start their learning grounded in the history & present of the place they're learning in.
thank you for such a wonderful video documenting indigenous history. i can tell how much research you have done, and even things like giving indigenous names for locations shows you’re well informed and care about the history you’re sharing. keep up the great work, indigenous history like this needs to be a required part of institutional education!
Hey hello! As a someone born and raised in Seattle this video has to be the best video I have seen on it, maybe ever.
This video has really sparked my interest on the topic. Out of curiosity do you have a place where you have your sources, so I can read through them myself?
Anyway thanks for the video!
nvm I saw your other replies. Thank you
just got the book from my school library. It's amazing ❤
I love your documentary so much! You are really good at your job. You need to do every single area in the world!
They need to teach these things in state history
I am So looking forward to this documentary. Ty. I’m a NE native, and visited the NW. My experiences during the month is spent in Seattle, exploring the city, viewing native art and taking in the new but deeply familiar topography. I had what some would call an out of body experience, that friends tell me made me invisible to the eye while in the same room. It’s not a stretch to tell you that I wasn’t as surprised by that report as a person commonly would be. While I was having the experience, the only thought that connecting me to that present time was the hopes someone would not disturb me physically and cause a premature end. The experience was deeply rooted within me and was remembered while studying some native art. Luckily, something, whatever, prevented that from happening. Can’t wait to deeper dive the area, as well as return. ❤
WOW! Detailed, well researched, full of fascinating facts as well as great analysis and commentary. Terrific! Thanks for your efforts.
44:25 this reminds me of a quote that went something like “white people love everything about black culture but actual black people”
Black guy here✌🏿😅, just wanted to say your statement is very true.
White guy here, just wanted to say your statement is complete racist horses*it.
REALLY appreciate this video. THANK YOU for the hours of work that went into compiling info/ scripting/ filming! Very well done!
I'm over in Kitsap, so I find this very interesting to learn that Chief Seattle was mixed with the Suquamish tribe that I see locally. I really like how you frame the history, without idolizing either side, but describing the cultural battle that took place. It is a shame to see how much we lose in the name of progress. I want to learn more, Instant sub for more native history, thanks.
this was incredibly enlightening. thank you for your work ❤
Great stuff! I spent my summers in Seattle as a kid and never knew any of this. Also well presented.
I haven't been to Seattle yet, but perhaps some day.
Be careful out here...
We visited about 13 years ago and ended up staying lol
There's a book "Totem Tales of Old Seattle" where the author relates some stories of Chief Seattle, including where he "put down" a medicine man who was killing a lot of his patients via his incompetence and where he planned and executed an ambush on a Muckleshoot raiding party that had come to prey on the Duwamish. There was also a story about a speech he gave where he shared the stage with a (governor? mayor? I can't recall) some important government guy and due to the height difference the Chief kept resting his hand on the head of the government guy while he spoke, like he was the podium.
Took me a sec to find this comment again. 🙌
Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens at the Point Elliott Treaty signing was the person you’re referring to.
This info is so important, more now than ever! Amazing work on the pronunciations!
Great job you did a fantastic job on this video!
1:33 that use to be my smoke spot😂
This is very well done and informative. You worked hard on this. Thank you.
A great video presentation. Incredibly educational. Thank you for the time and effort it must have taken to not only put this together but also the time itself must have taken you to have learned all of this history.
Glad to be living here.
i needed this content so much. thank you for doing this important work to educate those who benefit from land theft and genocide, should the ever choose to see and hear.
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Thank you this was so illuminating and as a lifelong Seattlelite whose parents immigrated here from Asia I had little idea about this history, save for a few brushes with artifacts in Tilikum Village and visits to the totem pole near Alki Beach. Of course we never learned the true history of Seattle in school, and I am ashamed to have been part of such a racist, colonial school system and city. More recently, as a full-fledged adult I have attended pow wows, events at Daybreak Star, and the indigenous food symposium at the UW Intellectual House. I am doing my best to educate myself on the true history of the land on which I live, and it feels good to know the truth and stand in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the world.
Also, I am curious whether/what tribe you are from? You are so knowledgeable and in depth with your research :)
I really enjoyed learning from you! This is very well done. Thank you for all of the effort you put into making this and sharing these important elements of our history!
Super awesome, thank you for your work in making this!
You have helped to educate me. I am from Northern Indiana where there are very many Amish and I have Amish ancestors, so when I heard you keep saying the word: "Duwamish"
I kept mostly just hearing the word "Amish" so I had to stop your video and look up the word "Duwamish". And then I came back to this video.
I have never heard of this tribe, but you have done a great job of telling the history. I like your style.
My Indengious-American tribes are from out here in the east, but my heart still sympathizes with other tribes and the horrible genocide and extreme abuses they received.
I live in Miami Chief Little Turtle's area where he and Shawnee Chief Tecumseh worked together to fight off the stealing of their lands.
It is sickening to understand that this crap against the Indegeneous peoples of this country all had to go through this stuff. Within my blood flows the people on both sides like millions of other Americans.
Those Duwamish women that got put into working in cat-houses, that is so sad that their culture became so annihilated that they had to do that for money to survive.
I am so sorry, so very sorry that the Duwamish and all the other Indegeneous people had to endure such abuse and extreme disrespect. 💔
Wow! Amazing work, I’ve lived in the south sound my whole life and was unaware of a lot of this history. I appreciate you making this video
Great coverage! I'm a Denverite (though partially raised in Eugene, OR), but I love the PNW. I'm a big fan of Coll Thrush too!
Wow! That was so incredibly Insightful and I hope your video continues to enlighten those that don’t know this part of PNW history. Subscribed and look forward to future videos and I’ll be sharing this one! Good work, you’re a super talented story teller and thanks for sharing that talent with the world!
I appreciate your details of context 🙌
Over an hour of really interesting history that almost seems lost to time. It’s awesome coming from West Seattle and hearing about where old villages used to be respective to what’s there today.
Hey! I found your channel recently and have been making my through the content, which I'm loving so far. Incredibly informative and rich analysis. Plus he visual artefacts (paintings, photos, etc.) are a fascinating accompaniment. I do, however, have one small gripe. It may be just me and my speakers, and if so, fair enough -- but would it be possible to increase your microphone volume for future videos? Sometimes, especially if I'm cooking, cleaning, or otherwise making noise while listening to your videos, the volume seems quite low (even at max volume and even if I'm wearing headphones). Keep up the good work! Conor from Ireland, now living in Vancouver :)
Yeah, the volume’s been a persistent problem. For some reason it’ll be a good level on speakers, and then really low on headphones. I think I finally have it figured out though.
Great video! I was born in Seattle, but moved away when I was a toddler, so I never learned anything about the history.
I also moved away when I was 2 and have always been curious.
Wow! Your knowledge and education is incomparable. Thank you.
Did anybody notice the fish jump in the background at 2:48? Very awesome!
There will always be jealousy presided amongst certain things. We should accumulate focus on those who deserve mercy. Sadly this is a modern progression. Love your work
Awesome video. Showing some maps while describing these places
Enhances the knowledge
Really well done. I learned a lot. Thank you.
Thank you for such a comprehensive and informative video!
This is so good. Thank you for making this and sharing it.
Fantastic video.
This is fantastic! Can I get a bibliography by chance? I'm trying to up my historic literacy about the area
Pretty much all the research for this video came from the book Native Seattle by Coll Thrush
@@IndigenousHistoryNow thank you!
@another4673 thank you!
Awesome video!
There are so many cool habits and traditions of ancient cultures, like they did what a lot of us cant without our phones.
Been looking for a video on this topic for a while. Thank you!
Same. I ended up having to go to the library to do my research
I have lived in Washington state my whole life, but I know little about any of this. I will be watching your other videos as this is fascinating to me.
This was a great documentary! Good job
Fantastic! Thank you!
wow! what a great video, i learned alot! thank you
Thanks for the information 😊
I learned allot, thank you 🙏
Very well done and thank you!
Great job! Very interesting to observe the old photos, how they had electric polls and street lights, sky scrapers sticking out the ground when the were supposedly clearing the hills. Seattle is definitely a major mud flood city and is older then said!
I love this!! I hope to remember to come back here and go through what you got. The area is not familiar for me. I visited twice. 🙋 Cali and Colorado. Great video/knowledge.
Excellent video, thank you.
Excellent work. Thank you ❤
Great narration ❤
as someone born in washington and lived in washington my whole life, it was interesting to learn the history of my home :)
Well done. Much appreciated. 🦅
I think Ramona Bennett was my grandmother's sister. My grandmother was Helen Val.
My grandmother alinda stewart was born in idaho blackfoot tribe ripped from her family and reservation @age 2 had her souverign rights stripped and adopted into white family. Would love to learn more
I’m sorry that happened to your family. I’ll eventually have a whole video about the 60s scoop and related subjects, but I’ll also be touching on that history in my next video. It’s currently in editing so stay tuned.
Wow respect to you brother
I’m not even from Washington but this makes me happy because I can tell this is accurate
Theres was 1000's little clans and bigger tribes in Pacific Northwest and Washington state had coastal peoples and numbers of other peoples or what Pacific Northwest 9th grade history teaches you focusing on one or few tribes then relying the vastness of peoples of my beloved Washington but luv Chief Seattle and that majorly explains alot like the name for earlier Sea-town thanks for covering the historical information of being Washingtonian person.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel. I've wanted to learn about indigenous histories, especially the ones from my home state.
Serious question. If we should give back the land, does that mean ownership and now I’d become a renter or something? Or would we change who we pay land taxes to? Or are we supposed to move back to where our ancestors came from? And if we do that are we supposed to make the people that live there but aren’t of the indigenous race leave?
Essentially it seems like we’re only supposed to live on the continent our ancestors came from, is that the idea?
That’s not what land back is about. That’s a common misconception, largely because that’s the way Euro-American colonialism has interacted with land ownership and possession, but it’s not what Indigenous people are advocating for. There’s a great discussion on r/IndianCountry titled “at its core, what is landback?” that I highly suggest you look at. Here’s also a good article with links to further resources if you want some concrete details about what a land back world might look like: 4rsyouth.ca/land-back-what-do-we-mean/
@@IndigenousHistoryNow this article literally says it’s about giving ownership of the land back and paying reparations. Fuck all that.
That is not at all what it says. It does mention giving Native nations a greater say than currently in land management and governance, but stewardship and ownership are two different things.
@@IndigenousHistoryNow you are refusing to actually answer the question. It’s either because you don’t own land yourself and don’t understand what all that means or you are lying.
So I own a house I rent to someone and then I live on my family’s farm. Some of our farm is agriculture and some is forested. Are you talking about making people like me give up our property, change who we pay taxes to or allow tribes to harvest timber on our land instead of us?
Or at your talking about letting tribes harvest timber on land owned by the bureau of land management. And if tribes were allowed to harvest timber but not everyone else, that would cause huge problems. Just like the falls in Oregon City, it looks like crap now
You are correct that the issue of land back has a lot of details and moving parts to consider, which is why I’m not directly answering your question-it’s too big of a discussion for a UA-cam comments section to do it justice. That’s why I’m directing you to some other resources that are more appropriate.
And you my friend, have earned a subscriber! I love history, and I had no idea, that Seattle had a cultural intermixing at first. Think the ex-Confederates after the civil war moving to the PNW had anything to do with it?
With the establishment of the cultural intermixing or the breakdown of it?
Well researched! Portlander, but went to 5th and 6th grades in Georgetown (always a working class neighborhood). I learned a lot about the early history of Seattle from this. I don't remember much local history in grade school at the time there. Family heritage on my mother's mother's side includes field work on the farms around Snohomish and north by my aunts and uncles and cousins during the 1930s. The governments official recognition policy is horrendous. It ends up pitting tribe against tribe. Witness also the issues of the Chinooks on the lower Columbia. They helped our white asses (pardon the expression) arrive and assume unceded land all up and down the lower Columbia. But due to an unsigned treaty and no reservation they officially do not exist. I have a cousin who married one, so seems to me they exist. Their struggle also continues. Keep up the great work on these. Let's hope some of us become somewhat more educated about the existing Indigenous peoples,
I always love your comments!
Beg my pardon but didn't william Clark say that the chinook charged high prices for everything? Hardly as a good a people as the nez perce
@@adamhauskins6407 or just shrewd traders
Thank you so much for this video! I'm a white Seattleite and I've been thinking a lot lately about Seattle's indigenous history (thanks to reading the excellent memoir Red Paint by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe), so this came at a perfect time for me to learn more :)
Great video
I thought you may be interested to know that Salish is pronounced say-lish not sal-ish.
That’s how I pronounce Salish, but some people (myself included) pronounce Salishan differently.
Ive lived near the Salish Sea my entire life, and Ive heard many indigenous people over the years explain the "correct" pronunciation, a few even expressing their disappointment when people continue to say it "wrong". Its something that has stuck with me, so whenever I hear it, I say something. I just looked up Salishan and as you said, its pronounced both ways, and it appears Salish is Say-lish. Fascinating nuance. Im curious so Ill follow up with my indigenous friends. Nice chatting with you.
The duwamish tribe is not the only tribe still fighting to get Federal recognition around the entire country. I'm just stating that it's a larger problem than it appears.
Thank you for a revealing look at Seattle's Indigenous history before and after colonization by the whites. I am white and I was born and grew up on Vancouver Island. It too has a related indigenous history of cultural appropriation by whites. It is heartwarming to see the current revival of First Nation's culture here, and in your homeland.
Thanks for the great video! You do a great job presenting and speaking. Looking forward to your UA-cam rise. May I ask what motivates your in-depth work on the subject?
I just think Indigenous history is an important and fascinating part of this continent’s story that everyone who lives here should know more about. Unfortunately we don’t get near the education we should on the topic in school.
Living in Interbay and I love love love learning about who was here before the rest of us showed up. Gonna start calling Ballard Shilsole
Would like to hear the native version of the story
Great video! I learned so much about the place I've made my home. I went to the Powwow this year at Daybreak Star Indian Center, and I had no idea the site was originally an occupied decommissioned military base! The center and Discovery Park seen like a pretty cool outcome, esp considering how things things ended with the Indian occupation of Alcatraz. I support the Duwamish tribe too and have made a few attempts to learn Lushootseed (though it's very tricky for my tongue!)
It’s definitely easier if you find a mentor to learn the sounds of Lushootseed from, that’s for sure
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The fact that any outsider ever thought there was an " Indian problem" is still discussing to me!