British Guy Reacting to How Did Each U.S. State Get Its Name?
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Love how Luka holds full conversations with himself. Cracking himself up and laughing. Funny stuff. 🤣🤣
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I like it but sometimes he starts laughing while reading the comments and I can't understand him.
Native American tribes definitely still exist today. My husband and son are members of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation which is based in Oklahoma now. Greetings from Colorado!
We also have quite a few tribes here in Western Washington including the Lumni Nation and Tulalup tribe :)
My brother and I are registered under the Delaware Nation, and we also live in Oklahoma. Greetings to you in Colorado from Oklahoma, and cheers to you and your family!
We are still here and getting stronger 😂 O-H!
I live about a half hour drive from Fort Hall. The home of the Shoshone Bannock tribe. I’m not Native American by the way I’m just saying.
Fun fact: lots of tribes are located in Montana. I can only think of a few off the top of my head like the Crow, Cheyenne, and Chippewa. There are more and i'm not being specific but still. I thought it was cool.
To answer your question about the tribes, yes we still exist. Some of us are in the area that we originally were, other tribes were forcibly removed to other places.
I live in the Southeastern US. Our tribes were forced to travel west by that dastardly scoundrel President Andrew Jackson in what is referred to today as the Trail of Tears 😢 😿.
@@kimberlyhicks3644 yeah, my tribe was almost moved too, but luckily our chiefs at the time managed to convince the president at the time to let us stay. Jackson was the worst though.
It’s a rough history here in the US. I think it’s deplorable that the feds will to this day treat you natives like garbage. I saw a video the other day of a tribal police officer arresting a county cop for trespassing on tribal land. The dude was whining and crying that they towed his car and made him pay to get it out of impound. He said, “So you’re going to steal my car?” You gotta love the irony.
@@mammothVT he also was the president that originally got the US debt free, by paying off the wars at that time. So, he actually did something good for the US, even though most US residents don’t really knew that the US is in debt.
@@spottedtime who gives a shit about the debt....
The apostrophe in Hawai'i indicates a glottal stop, a pause, between the two i's.
Yes it's called an okina. They only have like seven consonants in their alphabet.
Natives in Hawaii also say the "w" like a "v" sound.
@@brennagallagher2335 ya i lived there it was hava ii
@@brennagallagher2335 I got used to pronouncing it “huh-WHY-ee” when it’s more like “huh-WA-ee”
@@Baka_Oppai no im native people say it like ha va i like they are saying it right but its actually more like ha vai i
Actually Napoleon was in need of money when he sold Louisiana so America got it for SUPER cheap.
Napolean needed the cash to pay for his plan to invade England, but he never got to it.
That, and he knew war with Britain was coming, and he also knew that France's North American Territories were too unpopulated and too remote to be adequately defended, so if he _hadn't_ sold it, then it would have just got annexed by Canada the moment war broke out. The US was already in negotiations to pay $10m for the city of New Orleans, so France offered to just throw in the whole of their North American territories for an extra $5m, mostly just to deny it to the British.
I just did a paper on this. The plan was proposed by a financial adviser and Napoleon was encouraged to make this deal because the ruler he served thought the land was worthless due to the inability to defend it.
The funniest part of the whole situation...
The US borrowed the money to buy Louisiana from England.
So England financed Napoleon. Napoleon had to be Loki.
We got Alaska super cheap from Russia too. Even the southwest part of the country only cost us like $13 million that we paid Mexico after a small war to take that territory. I guess you could say Americans have always been bargain hunters!
In elementary school in Ohio, we learned all the 50 states in alphabetical order with the song Fifty Nifty United States.
Can confirm, lived in Ohio
@@AneriGS True dat
We did the same thing in Illinois
Same in Utah, but that was a long time ago. My kudos to you if you can still pull it off.
Same in Texas, and all my older siblings who went to school in Florida also knew it.
Yes we exist, I'm Oglala Lakota Sioux a part of the Dakota . I have many relatives living on the Pine Ridge Reservation mainly in Porcupine South Dakota.
Really cool to have an actually native from one of the reservations to tell him. How is it on the reservations, I don't hear much about what its like on them?
@@cheeseninja1115 the different reservations for different tribes vary wildly
@@cheeseninja1115 I'm off the Rez, I'm in South Carolina, but Pine Ridge is the poorest area on the USA, has the lowest life expectancy and one of the highest alcohol abuse rates in the country even though you can't buy it on the Rez. No life sucks on Pine Ridge, they even still have us listed by the DOD as an Enemy POW Camp.
@@cheeseninja1115 from what I've heard there's unfortunately quite a high rate of poverty and everything else that comes with that..
@@cheeseninja1115 Do a dive into indigenous people. There are some awesome channels. There are some interesting stories and great artists. If you just want some funny I really like the reaction and meme videos from PatrickIsANavajo . He’s also an awesome native dancer.
Montana is very mountainous. Not sure why he said it wasn't lol.
I agree. I get that the eastern part isn't so mountainous, but it's not like there's just a tiny little hill in the west.
I agree. It has breathtaking mountains.
@JB Um, it definitely is. The half-planes thing also applies to Colorado (it doesn't get mountainous until West of Denver).
@@nncortes It kind of applies to Utah as well. I mean, we have good sized mountain ranges here, but also large stretches of desert
Because most of the state isn't mountainous. Look at a topographic map of the state. Most of the state is a part of the Great Plains. Very flat.
Only the far western parts of Montana are mountainous, however, most of the population _does_ live in this region.
I highly recommend that you watch a video that details the history of Native Americans and their tribes. It will tell you all about what happened to them when the English settlers got here and where they live now, if they survived.
@@laurie7689 Um I’m a descendant of those colonists too. And of course no one has tried to do right by the Native Americans. When the English government was in charge they treated the Native Americans like shit. And after the revolutionary war the American government did the same thing and was actually worse to the Native Americans. And as Americans we don’t need an apology from Britain. What they did didn’t have a lasting impact on us. We are thriving. We are ten times strong than them now. But the Native Americans deserve an apology from the American government. What we did to them was absolutely disgusting and has had a very big and lasting impact on them. They also deserve to be given some of their land back. But that won’t happen. So at the very least the American government needs to stay off the last that they still do have. To this day the American government still treats native Americans like absolute shit. They have been oppressed for hundreds of years and are still being heavily oppressed.
My dad and I have traced our family back to several people on the Mayflower. Last semester in college I took a historical methodology class with a concentration in ethnohistory/Native American history and my heart sank learning (by name) what my ancestors did. However I do like that it is being taught where I go to college (Western New York which originally belonged to the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee). In Maryland we never once learned about the Piscataway who once lived on that land while in Rochester there is such a heavy influence. I actually wrote a research paper last semester about the Iroquois Influence Thesis and will be presenting it at a conference. Really interesting stuff.
Maddie D I’m really glad they’re teaching that stuff at your college. Luckily where I went to high school they taught us the general stuff about how badly Native Americans were treated. We couldn’t get to in depth or specific because we didn’t have enough time to but I’m glad I learned at least a little bit about it. It’s so important and yet so many places don’t teach that stuff. My uncle was also actually able to trace my family back pretty far too. My ancestors weren’t on the Mayflower but he did find the ancestors that came here from England and were settlers in the 1600s.
Yesss thank you! As a Native American ik not a lot of people know what happened to my ancestors and how they were treated and how all of the treaties the us government made with the indigenous people were broken.
Love from the Ohlone Rumsen caramel tribe🤎
@@cassandrarodriguezalmaguer8943 thank you! I cannot even imagine what it was like for your ancestors to go through so many horrific things. I think it is extremely important that all Americans learn about those things. And I hope in the future we are able to change a lot of those broken treaties and try to bring justice for your people. It is seriously the least we could do for people your after everything my ancestors put you through. Sending love to y’all too!
I am from New Jersey and when I tell people that "Jersey is surrounded by water", they laugh and ridicule me because they have absolutely no idea that NJ's namesake is a tiny island called Jersey.
The announcer mispronounces Native American tribes. Everyone I hear pronounce Ojibwa pronounces it with a hard "J" so phonetically Oh-jib-way. As I have always heard it, Sioux is pronounced like "Sue" or "Soo."
To be fair, a lot of Americans get these names wrong too. That's why Arkansas has it part of their legal doctrine as to how the state's name is supposed to be pronounced, as to put an end to the confusion.
The announcer sounds Scandinavian so he is pronouncing them as they usually pronounce those letters there.
He also mispronounced Allegheny. It's supposed to be "al-leg-EY-nee" not "uh-LIG-uh-nee"
@@denisemoreland7726 i'm pretty sure the guy is portuguese, cause he has a portuguese accent while speaking in english and usually pronounces portuguese names and words flawlessly (i'm portuguese and noticed that). however here in portugal we pronounce the letter "j" as in english, so its weird... he probably just go it confused
The guy is Portuguese.
Christopher Columbus was, generally, a celebrated hero in the US until the past couple decades
He was well known early on, then largely forgotten about until the large immigration of Italians and wanting to defuse ethnic tensions. Columbus Day wasn't a federal holiday until 1968.
I don’t know why either, sure he discovered a part of Central America and not even North America but he did a lot of vile and violent things. How was he so celebrated?
@@Baskin20916 bc people didn’t know lmao
@@Baskin20916 Propaganda. Here's what I was taught about Columbus as a young child in the US:
1. He believed the earth was round and that he could reach India by sailing West, rather than East, which would make for an easier trade route.
2. He was mocked as most people at the time believed the earth was flat.
3. Due to this, he was unable to get funding from his native Italy and instead was eventually funded by Spain.
4. He sailed West and discovered the Americas! Thinking he was in India, he named the people he encountered "Indians"
5. Soon more explorers from Europe came to explore this New World and eventually Pilgrims came to establish colonies here.
We learned nothing about his brutality, genocide of native tribes, etc, he was just a mixture of a prescient and bumbling explorer. Pretty much nothing in this story was true, of course, but the real historical narrative was nowhere to be found until the 1990s. I found out more about him in High School and tried to challenge my US History teacher about it but was told I was both a. wrong and b. buying into "PC crap" (basically the 90s equivalent of being called an SJW).
@@dividebyher0 mad how challenging someone with authority and knowledge to tell the full truth got you called an SJW
Well columbus was kind of celebrated up until recently, we even have a holiday for him (Columbus Day) which celebrates the anniversary of his discovery of the Americas on October 12, 1492
Its now indigenous people's day.
@@chesterparish3794 No it's still Columbus day. However some places have chosen to change it.
@@chesterparish3794 It is in certain places not everywhere.
@@razier5299 oh yeah, sorry. I'm from Maine where they have changed.
@@GuzmanLaBelica lol Cesar Chavez day is a completely different day, March 31st. Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day is the second monday in October.
To whom it may concern, just a couple pronunciation corrections that I know of
Ojibwe ( oh-jib-way )
Sioux ( Soo )
He pronounced so many words incorrectly. Allegheny was one for sure.
@@katherinetepper-marsden38 yeah I noticed Iroquois too
Shoshone was another one!
More words wrong than right, if we’re honest
Actually it's Oh-jeeb-way
in america it’s interesting because in elementary school you are taught about the greatness of christopher columbus and in middle school you’re taught about all the horrible things he did, and it flips everyone’s narrative of him
I mean, none of us would be here and arguably the world’s greatest superpower wouldn’t exist without him, but he was also kind of a piece of shit.
theres a sort of misunderstanding around what happened when he founded cuba and puerto rico but no he did not kill half the population of the natives in both of the islands, at least not on purpose, some of the soldiers that were on board had a small pox and it spread fast throughout.
The way I look at it, it's always best to see both sides of the same coin. We are the most informed that way.
@@gokuss15 well every European was like that back then. I have no problem holding Christopher Columbus to the moral standard he is generally held to today, but if we are gonna do that, then we need to hold all the other European historical figures to the same standard, which is something we don’t often do
@@thestach7729 is there anyone who isn't held to that standard?
It is strange to have the states done in this order, going west to east. To my mind, it should either be alphabetical, east to west as that was the direction America grew, or the order of the states as they were added to the country.
Well it’s common in most of the world to read left to right, so it kind of comes naturally
In school (California) we learned “The 50 States that Rhyme” song. It’s basically all 50 states in Alphabetical order with some rhymes thrown in. To this day I can still list all 50 states in Alphabetical order thanks to that song.
ME TOO! Learned it in like 3rd grade (Utah) and can still do it. lol
omg i forgot about that song! i was also taught "Fifty Nifty United States" song which is how I remember them all in alphabetical order 😆
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut do do do Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoooooooming.
S/o to all the minnesotans that learned this too.
"English isn't my strong suit" - Man born, raised, and living in England who speaks only English, 2021
Haha! Great reaction as always bro! Love these videos!
Honestly this is a great example of just ridiculous the English language is to begin with haha.
@@generalx13 I blame the French
@@generalx13 Except that the "English" he was having trouble with, was literally not English anyway, Hawaii is obviously not an English word.
english is a painfully inconsistent language, like french
In Utah I was taught that the name came from the Ute tribe. This is what the Spanish called the tribe, not what they called themselves. I think it also meant “people of the mountains” but I’m not sure.
Yeah im Ute and I thought the same thing
@@damienc6130 I thought the same. Maybe, they got the word Ute from the Apache version of calling Utes, Uta'h. Or Yu-te-hey was a common way of saying Utes from what I remember growing up near and on the Ute reservation
That being said Utah was mostly made up of Utes, so I could see how they referred to that land as Uta'h or Yu-te-he by the native tribes. So using another tribes variation (or the Ute variation) of the peoples in that area led to the name Utah
that's what I always thought, too
The full story is a bit more complicated, but basically yes. Its supposed to mean something close to ' Ute Home' as a way to honor the local people. My family has Journals from influential people around that time. The original name is Uintah, but got rejected by congress btw.
Got this from google... *Today, there are over five million Native Americans in the United States, 78% of whom live outside reservations: California, Arizona and Oklahoma have the largest populations of Native Americans in the United States.*
There are a few hundred federally-recognized tribes, and others not recognized by the federal government but should be, like our local Duwamish from whom Chief Seattle came. They're still around and tend to be advocates for the environment
@@sluggo206 I never knew that, which you can tell cos I literally just copied and pasted this whole thing from Wikipedia
@@sluggo206 And the Blackfoot out near Spokane.
I live in California and I’m from the Ohlone Rumsen Caramel tribe
There used to be over 500 tribes before European settlers in just North America. Many of them did get whipped out from disease and warfare. Lots of them are still around today and many are considered federally recognized. You could do a whole other reaction series on native tribes living in the US today.
Especially out in the southwest. The Navajo and Pueblo reservations are pretty vast
You'd have to include Canada then as a number of the northern tribes exist on both sides of the border.
Yes, definitely!
There are 574 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. and many others who are not recognized.
I'm Choctaw 😁
the apostrophe in between the 'i's in Hawai'i is actually called an okina, and the 'w' is pronounced like 'v'
I am Cherokee and Blackfeet. My reason for commenting is that Washington state is currently trying to split into two states. It’s been voted on for the last two years and continues to gain traction. Eastern Washington is wanting split from western Washington to become Liberty state (a horrible name). We’re actually putting together everything we need to take it before the Supreme Court.
Did you notice the Union Jack in the flag of Hawaii. Captain Cook discovered the island chain he named the islands for the Earl of Sandwich hence the English connection.
But that’s not why the Union Jack is in the flag. The flag was designed as a hybrid between the British and the American flags in the early 1800s to placate both the British and the Americans.
@@baileyalueta9294 Thanks
Tangent on your tangent. None of the biggest fast food chains have ever made the best tasting version of a product.
MTE. Most mass produced does NOT equal best quality.
Rumor is the Colonel Sanders did supposedly make the best chicken, and then KFC bastardized it. There is a lawsuit from KFC against Colonel Sanders for storming into resturants and teaching them to make the chicken correctly...I really want that recipe.
There was a State of Franklin, it was carved out of Tennessee after Tennessee was carved out of the western North Carolina territories. Eventually, the State of Franklin, became part of Tennessee again.
huh, wow! I never knew that. Is it connected to the city of Franklin, TN?
@@dawngw26 no, it is not connected to the City of Franklin.
Is northern California still trying to be Jefferson?
All these videos that mention the shoshone had me questioning my pronunciation, but I looked it up and I WAS right. It is sho-sho-nee, this is two videos he has watched where it was mispronounced
Edit: I just heard him pronounce sioux and almost had an aneurysm
I also heard Allegheny and Atoll wrong. Trying to pronounce native words that are not commonly known if one thing, but to mispronounce more common words is just nuts!
Objiwe was almost completely unrecognizable.
@@R.M.MacFru Yeah, he had trouble with several of the tribe names, but Ojibwe was so off I didn’t recognize it until I read it!
guys, the dude is portuguese, so he is making a whole channel without speaking in his native language. in addiction most of these names may be familiar to americans, but let me tell you as a portuguese guy, that the only thing i've learned about pre-columbus america in school were the maya, aztec and inca empires. i had no idea of any tribe in the US before i looked for it out of curiosity. just remember that what is common to you may not be common to everybody else since there are people living outside the USA (shocking, i know) and english isn't the native language for everybody
@@secolerice maybe those words are common to you, an american, but believe it or not, non-americans exist! and the dude from the video is an example of that: a guy thats not from the US and who isnt a native speaker of english
My family has lived in Arizona for generations and were originally from the Basque Country. Many of my older family members have basque names as well. I could definitely see the name Arizona being basque in origin.
17:43 to answer your question yes there are still native Americans in the US. At my school there are two different Native American tribes that go to the same school with white people (I’m Native American btw).
I’m Apache, I’ve never heard that those states were named for their Apache origins. Interesting. Utah’s name being related to the Apache word for “enemy” is interesting, because the word they used was “Yudah.” The word that we use for the Navajo “Yudaha” could be seen as a word for enemy, as we historically were enemies. Interesting though. I will look into this further!
Apaches: "you guys are assholes."
Settlers: "we claim this territory and shall call it 'asshole' from now on!"
Dave Thomas, the founder of the Wendy's restaurant chain, was a vice president at Kentucky Fried Chicken long, long ago. He advanced the idea of serving boxed meals. Like, a two piece box with two sides. Before that KFC sold an ala cart type menu and most chicken was sold by the bucket. It's said that Mr. Thomas is singlehandedly responsible for the success of the company.
Actually, it was the first fried chicken restaurant to use pressure cooker tech to speed up the cooking time, so instead of having to stop & wait half-an-hour for your fried chicken, it took just over 15 minutes. That was a Col. Sanders idea, but Dave Thomas was an area restaurant-owner who bought into Sanders' franchise concept; he kept buying franchises as the chain expanded across the midwest, then sold his franchises to fund his own chain, Wendy's. He did also have that packaging idea from his earlier restaurant.
"we should name this state Columbia, after the Columbia River"
"No you idiot, they'll get it confused with DC. Let's go with Washington instead, after our first president"
"Genius!"
*proceeds to get it confused with DC even more*
“Nailed it”
I'm seriously amazed no one founded Washington, WA. Even as an April Fools joke
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 That would be hilarious lol
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 There is a George, WA that used to have a Martha Inn.
@@allenlong3690 For real? That's... Cool and creepy at the same time. "I'm staying in George, Washington at the Martha Inn" just sounds like your sleeping with the bones of a dead president and his wife
Wisconsin has First Nation Ho-Chunk reservations in Wisconsin. A lot of northern Wisconsin is ceded territory and the First Nation peoples retain (after many legal fights) their fishing rights and rights to harvest wild rice (which is not a rice).
Same in Minnesota.
Look up a map of Native American reservations in America. They tend to pretty small spread out but a majority of the people who live there will be of Native origin.
good idea
I know that Navajo is a important one
@@ADMICKEY its the biggest one. navajo is also the most spoken indigenous language in the US
Small is pretty relative. They're bigger than some European nations.
“Do these tribes still exist?”
*Andrew Jackson has entered the chat*
If only...
In the US, popularized by cartoons in the 1940's and 1950's, there are two city names that keep showing up over and over again in pop culture because of how weird they look and how you pronounce them. The first of them is Albuquerque (AL-ba-ker-key) out west in New Mexico, and my hometown, Poughkeepsie (puh-KIP-see) in the Mid-Hudson Valley, an hour and a half north of New York City. Poughkeepsie is the last stop on the Hudson Line Metro North commuter rails heading north from Grand Central into Upstate NY. And it has the connotation because of that, at least in the NYC region, as being "East Bum-f**kistan", or the city at the farthest edge of "civilization".
I bring 'Poughkeepsie' up because it's another example of the Native Names hiding in plain sight. The tribes that settled that region were the Wappingers tribe, and they named Poughkeepsie roughly "Upu'ku ipi-sing", meaning "the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place". You wouldn't know it to look at Poughkeepsie's name today, mangled over the centuries by wave after wave of immigrant Western European settlers and colonizers. But for all we like to pretend that the USA has always been this anglo-focused, you only need to scratch the surface a tiny bit to uncover the FIrst Nations and the foundation we built upon. Native names are all over the place, and form an integral part of our heritage... and we stole and butchered just as many European names too!
Only Lav could go off on a tangent about chicken when the state of Kentucky is mentioned. Yup he's got a food thing or.. a thing for food.
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Lol, I just have to tell you. I've been watching your videos for a long time. My daughter fumbles her words all the time.. she gotten to where she just says "okay, I can't word today!" 😂 makes me giggle every time you do it.... she did it at the dr. And the doctor told her its because she's smart and her thoughts are moving faster than mouth. Mind you, she is 16.😁💜
7:14 Sorta, you're really close! The red and yellow rays refer to red and yellow in the Spanish flag/Spain as whole, and there's 13 of them which represent the 13 original colonies, the blue is for the US, and the copper star represents Arizona's copper reserves (it has a shit ton of copper).
More precise Oklahoma mean "home of the red man". Many towns in Oklahoma also have native names many of which are shared with southern states. Like "Okemah" which means "places up high" or "town/village on a hill"
Another thing about Colorado. The Colorado river was not named after the state, it was the other way around. Someone trying to name the state was told that the Colorado river starts from there, so they decided to call it Colorado.
Fun Fact: the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise eatery opened in Salt Lake City, Utah. I mean, it does make sense...you do want salt for your fried chicken 🍗🍗
I was about to comment on this, "Is anyone else going to break Luka's world even further and tell him that Kentucky Fried Chicken actually started in Salt Lake City, Utah in a joint called Harman Cafe?" AKA the only Kentucky thing about KFC is that Sanders was a Kentucky Colonel who was actually born in Illinois. . . . . . so yeah. KFC has little to do with the actual state and more to do with Sander's spirit of being a Kentucky Colonel.
Most tribes still exist. I am part Choctaw myself but do not live on a reservation. I am learning the language and plan to register with our tribe when I move closer to Oklahoma in the next few years.
from what i gather there are around 574 regonized tribes in the us currently and 2-3 million navtive americans give or take depending on whats counted.
The 'Trail of Tears' was one of the many horrible things the US government has done to the Native American people.
Do some research on it, it was one of those necessary evils. The alternatives would be worse.
He skipped over how New York was originally called New Amsterdam.
I think that only applies to the city.
Thats New York City, not the entire state of New York.
Why'd they change it? I can't say.
@@autocosm It used to belong to the Dutch, then war happened and the brits renamed it.
@@MyenaVT I was doing a lyric from a song, but maybe I'm just getting old.
This has to be one of my favorite channels; and the comments are always on point. Love you guys!!!
4 cents an acre??? yeah it’s safe to say we fleeced the french
Almost as much of a steal as Manhattan.
At 6:43 on the map, Upper California almost looks like a mini version of the United States within the United States lol
"How do I get into these rabbit holes?" 😆 Lav, you are either a fox or a bloodhound; you pick up the tiniest scent and off you go! Honestly, we love it. 💜
Arizona's flag has a copper star to represent the importance of the state's copper production. The red and gold alternating rays coming from the star represent the colors of the sunset. The blue and red are (according to Wikipedia) are set as the same color as in the US flag.
Yes Native Indians do still exist. Here from my state of Georgia....the two main tribes were the Creek and Cherokee. Most were sent along the trail of tears upstate north then out west to "reservations". Some stayed in South Carolina and a town (reservation sorta) is named after them. You can learn their history there....beautiful place. My ggg grandmother is cherokee
I remember when I was in “primary” school we had to learn all 50 states and their capitols. No way I could name all the capitol cities today.
I couldn't back then. I remember having multiple tests, & the teacher getting SO frustrated that with each test the class got different State capitols wrong!!
I think she finally gave up.
Prior to around 2010, Columbus was still taught in pretty high regard at the Elementary (Primary) Level. It's only been in the last ten years or so that we have really set Columbus aside and focus more on the Native Americans. Middle School is where you start blasting truths and how dark some of the history is - High School, you delve deeper in.
Columbus did not discover America, the Vikings were here before him, and there is evidence that previous people from Europe and Asia were here before then as well.
Fun fact: Montana is the only state whose state constitution requires Native American studies to be in the public schools. We're required to teach about Native culture, history, and art. A lot of college/university degrees out here also require a Native American Studies course.
Florida was discovered by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon in 1513 and was reported back to Spain as the location of the mythical Fountain of Youth. Pensacola Florida was the first European city founded in North America in 1559 but was abandoned. The oldest continuously inhabited European city in North America is St Augustine and has been occupied since 1565. The first permanent English settlement in North America is Jamestown Virginia named for King James VI of Scotland / I of England and was founded in 1607.
I'm native myself from Alaska, I'm athabascan so I guess my ancestors stayed in Alaska somewhat. But I'm also part Blackfeet which were relocated when colonization happened. Yeah a lot of native tribes still exist. Generally for governmental purposes you have to register for a tribe to get native perks.
I'm oneida nations, turtle clan. In order to live on the reservation they require you to be at least 50% oneida native. My mother is a white polish lady and my dad is 50% native so I don't qualify for any benefits. But I do love visiting the reservation it makes me feel closer to my ancestry and a connection to my roots. I'm even trying to learn my tribal language so the history is carried on with my children.
@@CrystalLynn1988 Yeah, I'm like around or almost 75% native, so I qualify for native perks. Natives are dominant in villages. But there's no reservations. Alaskan Native politics are a lot different than lower-48 natives. I would have no experience with that. Also I have never been to a village. Native culture up here is about partying mostly, just a bunch of people having fun. Keeping our history alive isn't something people do too much. Alaskan Native culture is just standard Alaskan culture that white people also do, just with native foods instead. Maybe some beadwork idk.
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I think he did that and it got blocked
i really like your history examinations, fun to explore history
Thanks for ur positive vids man! Ur a huge breath of fresh air in this world 👍
One channel I think you might be interested in looking into sometime would be Langfocus, which has videos about languages, what makes different languages unique and the similarity between different languages. I find it fun, so I would recommend reacting to any of those videos if any catches your interest
Bro. You’re killing me with your window positioning. The lower left side is the busiest corner. It’s going to cover up important info more often than not. Put your video in the top right corner please!
"Those that have dugout canoes" - followed by an image of a canoe that is not a dugout canoe.
This is really cool. The Basques have a pretty heavy influence in Mexico, so it would make sense if some of their language effected Spanish there and in the west of the US. Many of the Native Tribes were wiped out, but some remain. Some of the remaining Tribes occupy a small area of their original lands, but many were forcibly moved to other areas. Some of their languages are still spoken, but many have been lost. Feelings about Columbus are pretty mixed. He was the first European in that area but, he enslaved all the natives. So... Anyway, Geography King has a good video about Mexico and ThatIsInteresting has some good stuff.
My family is originally from South Dakota from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe but I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The name for Minneapolis used to be called Minnehaha which means in Dakota language: Laughing Waters.
I'm Lakota Sioux so we call it Minné-ota Smokey Waters same thing for the state, Minnesota.
To say Minnesota in Lakota (Lâkôtah - use your throat sound) it's Minné-Otah.
Minné itself means Water.
"English isn't my strong suite." I'm sure we'll get to your strong suite eventually.
Deeply flattered that you're so interested in my country, young man. I'm fairly interested in British history, but you take it to another level.
I just watched this when it came out yesterday, you were quick to react lol
I've known all 50 states and their capitals since I was like 6, I remember because my sisters friends would always be surprised that they could just name a state and I'll just be like, Boise, Helena, Carson City, Pierre.
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Girl from Oklahoma here! He was right about Oklahoma but the reason why we are known as the “red nation” is for two reasons
1. The Native Americans were moved to this area by force and a lot of tribes ended up here on reservations that still exist to this day. You can find out more about this by looking up “The Trail of Tears”.
2. The dirt in OK has a red tint to it so we are also known as “red dirt nation”.
Northeast Tennessee was briefly called the state of Franklin and attempted to be admitted as a full state. There are still lots of roads and areas around here called State of Franklin.
Indiana is named after Mark Indiana, the founder of the state.
Hi George
Columbus is a divisive topic as are many things in the US. So, it depends on who you talk to. Generally the people that have a harsh dislike for him live in more urban areas.
And people that have studied Columbus
Columbus is somewhat celebrated here. Mostly in areas with a large Italian-American population. Like here in the south we don't take time off for Columbus day but I hear in the northeast it's more common to. Apparently the US only started to really celebrate him to tighten the bonds of Italian-Americans to the US. Very few people in the US know what he really did and why he is a bad person and now its becoming a political issue where one side wants to stop celebrating him and the other side thinks he did nothing wrong which is easy to understand because the school system didn't teach any of the atrocities.
The best explanation for Oregon I've seen was presented in George R. Stewart's "Names on the Land" - which is worth reading.
It's also a weird explanation, but Stewart offers proof in the form of two Eighteenth Century maps of North America- a detailed French map, and a hastily made English copy. (This sort of theft of intellectual was common in days before copyright protection. ) The first showed a river west of Lake Michigan, the Ouisconsin, flowing roughly south and west to the Mississippi. The English copy shows a number of errors and misspellings: For example, the engravers running the first two letters of Niagara together, so it looks like Magara.
They erred on the river, rendering Ouisconsin as Oricon-sint. They were tight for space and hyphenated it, with the last syllable placed below the line representing the river. Stewart speculated that anyone asking travlers, fur trappers, or natives about the Oricon River would likely be told that was someplace further west than they'd been. Gradually the name (or its pronunciation) became associated with a place far to the west.
So there it is: Oregon is a misspelling of the French for Wisconsin. (And Stewart presents plates in the book showing both maps. You can see for yourself.)
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Yeah that burned my eyes and I almost immediately discredited the source video :)
We have a holiday called “Columbus Day” for Christopher Columbus, we get this day off for school.. we all know what really went down tho lol... In school they make the guy seem like a hero lol
He accidentally "discovered" the wrong place and never realised his mistake while committing atrocities on the natives.
But....
Would the us have developed as it did without him? Or would everyone else have been satisfied to get to India by sailing around Africa? If the Americas were discovered by Europeans later then they were by how much? and what if any difference would it have made?
You probably spent 10 minutes talking about him once and only in relation to 'discovering America', then never talked about him again.
@@benhickerson6695 Wouldn't have made a difference and besides that, the natives weren't exactly innocent, peace-loving pacifists or anything.
@@MST3Killa surprisingly we had a whole lesson dedicated to him
@@ReinenReacts I have my doubts about that.
your videos are always awesome! I'm going to look for one to suggest !
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Literally every American who passed 4th grade knows the names of all the states.
Who really knows which is Vermont and which is New Hampshire though? 😉
@@AdamPFarnsworth Everyone one who passed 4th Grade.
@@AdamPFarnsworth People from New England. We usually get tripped up on the Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia cluster instead. :)
@@elkins4406 lol, that's understandable
I've always considered Columbus good...
A few month ago I saw a documentary about the chanal island of Jersey. In it was a history part and they mentioned, that Jersey stod loyal to the Royals during the English civil war. After returning on the throne, the King rewarded the Balliwick of Jersey with some land in North America - todays New Jersey.
I lived in Rhode Island for a year, and there I learned it was a specific island that was named Rhode Island, for the Island of Rhodes. That island now has a different name of Aquidneck. Then one if the other settlements being named Providence Plantations.
Day 3 of requesting to react to, “Was Switzerland always neutral,” By Drew Durnil. Drew also has many other good videos but his channel is more of a Reddit channel now.
Could you react to some Canadian history/culture/nature videos? Canada has so much to offer! 🇨🇦
Thank you for Shania Twain. Please take Bieber back.
Oooh yes. He should watch some JJ McCullough
First Nations, the queen, hockey, Tim Hortons, the end.
@@Ojisan642 and Canada geese, the most feared animal in Canada
The apostrophe in Hawai'i is meant to signify a guttural pause. Think of it like pronouncing it like "hawa" and "ee" as separate words (it's not exactly that though)
There's a subtle glottal-stop in Hawaii, and that's sometimes spelled with an apostrophe in English.
My school experience skipped over Columbus as a whole, we got told he discovered the New World but my teachers never made us idolize him. They just went over him as a footnote in elementary school.
Then in middle school my history teacher went: "This may come as a surprise to a few of you, but Christopher Columbus wasn't a good person." Some kids in my class were surprised, but majority of them weren't.
Of course that's just my anecdote.
@@laurie7689 I was mainly doing his beginning statement from memory, so he said that and then began teaching facts. I assume he was saying that for the sake of kids that were told Columbus was a faultless person, but that's just my assumption.
I'd definitely like to see you react to the history of Native American tribes.
As far as Columbus is concerned, most of us gen Xers and older were taught only that Columbus "discovered" America. 🙄 These days people know what he really was and some states have ditched celebrating Columbus Day and some are now calling it Indigenous Peoples' Day.
I can say all 50 states in alphabetical order in about 20 seconds thanks to a childhood song. Haha.
"What comes after a trillion?"
A quadrillion. Then a quintillion, a sextillion, and so on.
I don’t know why general knowledge doesn’t just look up how to pronounce things. He pronounces everything wrong
Traditionally American schools teach Columbus as a hero, but in more recent years there’s been a push to educate people on the reality of him.
Sadly, I live in Illinois, AKA HellAnnoy...we have our bad and good points, but I really appreciate the history of Illinois. The name for Chicago comes from the Native American word for "Skunk", not just because of the proliferation of those animals, but also due to the abundance of wild garlic plants (aka "ramps") which have a very skunky smell. To this day, as soon as spring makes an appearance in HellAnnoy, people begin hunting for ramps to use in their spring recipes.
Yes we are still here. I am Choctaw (chock taw), Seminole, Tsalagi (cherokee), and scots/irish.
Columbus: good v bad depends upon who you ask. Native descendants don’t like him, “woke” people also don’t like him, the average American doesn’t really care, and there are those who are very proud of him.
State shapes come from geographical boundaries (river, mountain, etc.) as well as the latitude / longitude lines.
its mixed feelings about Christopher Columbus over here, but generally people do recognize him as a bad guy now and days. or at the least he inst praised as much as he use to be.
At some point in American history , it was officially decided that all land west of the Mississippi River would be divided into sections of 640 acres or a square mile as straight property lines were easier to sub-divide, hence most of the state boundaries are either straight or defined by non-linear river courses.
Hey - Montana has LOADS of Mountains. Remember its a HUGE state so the chunk that has mountains - yes its less than the other side of the state - but its still very big. You can get lost in those mountains; in fact - you could hide a little city in those mountains.