I'm loving in the Maori account that laughter was a point of relation between them. Something about laughter being a universal human communication tool to me is interesting
The Maori story was absolutely mind-blowing for me. That's awesome to know that first encounters could happened with so much mutual comprehension/respect despite the language barrier
@@brianmarshall1762 Yes. I have read Tasman's account. I am fairly certain that every European explorer to New Zealand was attacked. I think the Maori were giving a very clear message: "Fuck off and don't come back".
Fast forward a few hundred years and now they're almost all thieves. They're even going through a phase of what is referred to as ram raids in NZ. Where 14 year old natives steal a car crash it into a shop and ransack and steal goods from the store. They hit about 5 stores a week like this.
I like that they saw their beards and came to the conclusion that their heads were on backwards 🤣 Related to them understanding each other’s lack of ill intent: i was recently played CoD mobile’s Battle Royale mode and got a random teammate assigned that started talking about making friends with the other teams… (this sounded ludicrous to me as the only way to win is to kill all of them) he explained that if you repeatedly got into position to kill them, then just got their attention and didn’t shoot at them, that about 60% of the players approached would get that you weren’t a threat and they’d join up with you to steamroll the other teams or just enjoy the novelty of the situation… then at the end of the match the allied teams would just sort of chill out as “the storm” (wall of death) closed in and the last man to die would win. It was absolutely mind blowing to hear that he was doing this and so we got into 2 jeeps with mounted machine gun torrents on top and drove off to give this insanity a try… the first group we approached shot a heat seeking missile at or car and wouldn’t stop shooting at our cars so we ran them over and killed them, but the next group had smaller guns and so when we drove circles around them honking our horns but not shooting they eventually stopped shooting at us and just stood there by a rock waiting for what came next, we had all turned our comms on to speak to everybody but they apparently didn’t have theirs turned on to hear us so their was no communication but our impromptu leader got out and started dancing 🕺🏻 and everyone joined in… it was amazing to do something soo human in an environment i had only ever killed every other person i’d met in. After a few seconds some jerk on a hill started shooting at us so we all returned fire and killed him… THEN WE ALL CLIMBED INTO THE 2 TRUCKS AND A MOTORCYCLE and went over to raid that jerks stuff… towards the end of the round we got attacked by 2 other teams that both attacked at once and my team got wiped out in an airstrike that detonated our vehicles but it was a pretty amazing experience
I couldn't imagine being that southern Greenland native who had only heard remote legends of how his people descended from peoples to the north, to then be a guide on an expedition to the north and then find the peoples up there and exclaim: "These are the eskimos. These are our fathers!" That just hit me. It's like an orphan finding his his long-lost parents.
What is also fascinating that it is also probably correct; if you look at the lines of human migration in America; they all derived from the northern landbridge between Russia and Alaska.
So interesting to hear the Maori encounters. And I really find it admirable that both sides settles the theft without turning the whole island into a graveyard. Interesting to see they had similar beliefs on the thief, though he was one of them, he was in the wrong and didn't hold it against the explorers. Beautiful story telling
Nor did the explorers seek to abuse the obvious advantage of their walking sticks to conquer or subjugate the people. I think about this and its stark differences to Cortez and his betrayal of Montezuma. History is fascinating
@@toomeyeh1 Cortez was in a completely different situation. The Maori generally sounded peaceful and friendly as far as the British could tell from these first few interactions. Cortez and his men were confronted with horrific human sacrifice and had to make plans for the sake of self-preservation. It's a very different situation to be fair to Cortez.
@@JoneThePwn different, sure. There's some pretty cool first hand accounts of the betrayal of Montezuma on this very channel. They saw gold and an exploitable people, and that's all they needed to see. However evil their human sacrifice was, Cortez and his men acted just as horribly as the evils he claimed he had to save the Old World from. We should be able look at both actors and call out the good and bad in order to learn from history.
There's a good one on this channel from Aztecs who first met Cortez. "We killed 2 of our slaves and sprinkled their blood onto the bread and offered it to the Europeans. But they were disgusted, as if the blood had already turned rotten."
We Māori have thousands of them still to this day - in scholarly books, articles and in the kōrero (stories) of our old people as well, both in Māori and Pākehā (English). Kia ora :)
@@piripibaker5151 that’s amazing. Can you recommend any place foreigners can find such records online? I know google is a thing but you don’t always know it’s reliable 😅
Fascinating. The Easter Island account is really cool. They mentioned an almost full body statue, but until recently the modern understanding of the Easter Island heads didn't think of the statues as being most of the body until they were further dug up. Another example of the many little things lost or forgotten to history's unending march onward.
Mmm. Most curious that account is, largely because the description of the statues does not tally with the fact that the maoi are made of stone - they are quarried, some remain in those quarries. Most bizarre, it makes me wonder if the author was making it up in order not to describe the natives as having superior stone working skills. Mmm. Slightly curious too is the fact that he does however mention them lighting fires in front of them - fire was, I believe, their main quarrying method ~ fire-setting. Mmm. However, since his description of the 'statues' construction appears to be fabricated, it's hard to know if any of it is true.
@@eliecerquintero2646 Hmm. I don't actually know what the stone is they were using... Though, if I remember rightly, the 'baskets' on their heads were a different stone from the figures themselves and, as I recall, was often red and bubbly... Which may have been a volcanic tuff. ...Now I think of it, there did appear quite a bit of variation in the stone they used in the images I've looked at. Heat from fire acts rapidly on silica in stone so it would follow that a volcanic tuff would be suitable for the operation I have in mind... Anyhow, bit too speculative there as I've only done passing research into the works on Easter island.
I love the description of a musket as "a magical walking stick that creates thunder to drop things dead" Gunpowder on first sight must have been like magic... if you weren't on the receiving end that is.
Imagine you have only seen fire, ocean, weather, wood/stone weapons, wildlife, stars, etc. Explosions(aka gunshots) and small projectiles would be unbelievable. I wish we had time machines, I would love to witness when cultures first began to mingle. As dangerous as it may have been, that would be an amazing time to experience. I try to think of how I myself would make it clear that i was there peacefully if I was in a group that was exploring and meeting new groups of people. Human history is so strange
I found the Maori encounter the most fascinating. Not only was the fact that they believed the Europeans were goblins interesting, but i have never really thought about how strange a gun would be to someone who only knows primitive methods of killing. It’s a long stick that goes “bang” and kills anything in its way, it would have blown their minds (hopefully not literally). I wonder if they would have eventually figured out that it is indeed a projectile weapon, or if they had some other explanation, like it was magical or something. So interesting
the Maori did indeed figure guns out quite quickly, a big part of colonial NZ history were the Musket Wars where Maori tribes decimated each other with British imported guns
@JustDev No i mean, hypothetically, if they only had the body to go off of, it would be interesting for them to figure out that it wasn’t actually a magic boom-stick, to watch it. I was having a discussion about this with some mates and we brought up what you could do if you took a pistol and nothing else to North Sentinel Island, the only island left in the world that has yet to be explored much at all and which still has a population of “untouched” natives living there in tribalism. A gun would be absolutely stunning to them and would at first make them obviously fearful of the wielder, but i think in time they would piece together the way it works and then the power would be gone from the wielder.
@@o.n.e-onlinenaturaleducati5597 They have bows so I'm sure they would get the idea. The people's on that island have seen boats, planes, helicopters and all sorts of stuff so honestly a gun would be one of the least wild things they've seen. Already they have some metal from wreckage and have been seen using it in arrow/spear heads...really all they're missing is gunpowder.
The Maori and English/Goblin encounter is truly a proud moment of our history. I can assure you -to anyone reading this - that laughter is still our #1 characteristic. It makes so proud to be Maori/Irish/English and also to hear a truthful piece of history, straight from our people.
The Maori account is fascinating, especially the fact that they called them "goblins". Apparently goblins exist in Maori mythology as Ponaturi, fish creatures that live under the sea by day and come on shore at night. I wonder how they squared that with the naval technology of their boat, since they kept calling them goblins.
It might be a catch-all term for non-Maori people, like the Greek term "barbarian" for non-Greeks. It would be interesting to know if they encountered the Australian aboriginals and called them "goblins" too, since they were also non Maori, and would have been the only other non Maori people they would have likely encountered.
The Celts were in New Zealand at least 1000 years prior to the Maoris. They have also found Chinese ships there embedded in mountains. Maori elders have currently closed off this topic until about 2053. I believe because it means someone else has claim to the land. There are no such thing as natives. Just peoples who have been when you are longer or longer than we cared to or were permitted to remember.
@@yingyangorca4124 Natives are whoever is living there when you went there. If i went to USA today, lets say Boston, the natives wouldnt be indians, they'd be a mixed group of many different peoples, many of european ancestry. At least from my perspective. Nativity is relative.
@@briaormead4239 I understand your view. My point is as a people. Human race. We act like there's somewhere else to go. And because we cross land we are somehow different. We mate a baby is born. We are the same. Hence there are no natives. Just past lives. It's just us and time. And even that is questionable. But I get you. It societal economic terms.
The goblins of Maori people are people that live under the ocean similar to Atlantis. You are confusing white culture's version of goblins which are grotesque, monsters, thieves etc.
These stories makes me feel nostalgic about an era I've never lived in. What a wonderful world where every place and every culture is still to be discovered.
Being the proud owner of a copy of "The Vinland Sagas," I'd be thrilled to see stories like the very first one interspersed into a future edition of the book.
These type of UA-cam Channels are amazing. These people really do hard work in getting all of this information. Narrate and show relevant pictures when needed. Appreciate the hard work man fr 🙏🏽
Favorite video of yours. First contact with isolated peoples are my favorite things to learn. Rarely do we get to hear about it from the other point of view. The laughing being the only mutual communication makes me think about other accounts I’ve read between first contact with South American and New Guinea tribes. Where after the curiosity and or fear passes, hugs and laughter are what the natives resorted to. The Maori giving rocks and sticks to the goblins is also super interesting. I think it was Father Zegwaard who on meeting the Asmat gave them strips of red cloth, and years and years later the red cloth was still an item of incredible status and value and was used in paying bride prices by the elites of the village.
The Māori account further strengthens the want for mutual ties between Māori and the colonials; apart from the first encounter with James Cook where his men mistakenly shot 9 warriors giving an official welcome where cultural differences got in the way. In the end what started as mutual benefit and goodwill turned sour when more settlers came to aotearoa and started building on land that was not agreed upon to be theirs. If they had kept to what was afforded to the settlers perhaps NZs history would have looked much different
I could say that about the pilgrims and the natives, or the British and the Irish or Mexico and the United States the list goes on. Moral of the story : when you are a guest in a place foreign to you ACT LIKE A GUEST, it’s not your home you are being welcomed, don’t get mad and try to take my home when you are no longer welcome.
@@tarakelly8640 That is how empire's work, they accumulate land and resource's to the point they become beyond reproach. NZ was claimed by the British Empire, the largest in history, and was not answerable to anyone. As they say, "all property is theft", which is especially true in regards to the way Maori conducted themselves at that time.
@@funtimesatbeaverfalls Yup, the Maori history tells of a strange blonde race that was already in NZ when they arrived! As does many American tribe speak of red headed giants, the wheel turns..
Greenland is a desolate icy dystopia when upon first settled. Iceland is filled with verdant meadows. With that in mind, the fact that they sought intimate relationships with that which they feared makes sense to me. Can you imagine finding a hostile location and figuring, "Oh yeh, dis home right here boi. ;D"
Amazing how mysterious and inaccessible the world was only a few hundred years ago while now, you can go to almost any corner of the globe by plane or see it virtually on the computer. I wish I had lived during those times.
People who romanticizes the prior 19ty century... I really and truly do not think you grasp how hard life itself was back then. . . We are very fortunate to be in the time we are. Even our poorest to some degree are richer than even the common person of old age.
@@lahavmorris9919 Yes, there a billions of stars and planets out there to be explored. The problem is reaching them. Our fastest space probe now would take 18,000 years just to reach the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. And time is running out for humanity given how quickly this planet is being destroyed.
@@jonhall2274 Oh I am absolutely aware of how brutal life was back then and how easy we have it today. But I think its gone too far in the other direction now. We have become TOO civilized and TOO developed, rapidly destroying the natural world and threatening our own existence in the process.
13:19 made me laugh so hard. "Yes, it is so - these people are GOBLINS." Great delivery. And of course, deeply fascinating to hear about that meeting between such vastly different cultures and those little human moments of laughter and curiosity that go with it.
That was wild. The Maori account by far the most riveting. Interesting to note that in spite of the differences the incident of the thief that was killed, both sides felt morally just.
Being a native speaker of Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) I must commend your pronunciation throughout the first story, about the native Greenlanders and the Vikings. Although not perfect, it was very understandable!
I was lucky enough to visit Easter Island in 2018 and it is an absolutely magical, mysterious, and beautiful place. Even today, you can still feel the incredible energy of the Moai: I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like when the native population was at its peak
@@evilg6499 It was the most special place I’ve visited, and I’ve been to some pretty amazing places! I even got the symbol for Manutara tattooed on my forearm while I was there to commemorate my time on Rapa Nui 🗿
“There is an almighty God, my friend.” Eskimo: “Oh really? Where does he live?” “He is all around us!” Eskimo: “Oh cool haha” *starts sweating and looking around nervously*
That part struck me too! Lol. I think that poor Eskimo (Inuit) was a little overwhelmed by what they were saying. By the time they got to telling him that this person was everywhere and all around, he was like; “Ok I don’t necessarily believe this sh@t, but you’re starting to freak me out a little! I need to get out here.”
Imagine beggin someone 100 times more skilled than you to a contest that staked your literal life…..like yeah bruh, you definitely deserved it….prolly had his whole town in a constant state of confusion 😂
It's very interesting hearing first contact stories from the indigenous perspective, and their reaction to and description of the many things which they have never seen or heard of before, like the musket.
You should check out Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness. It’s a medieval narrative of an Arab traveling north until he meets the Rūs and it’s pretty incredible. It’s also one of the only primary sources on traditional viking funerals.
@@ryanmarlin2974 Only the first couple chapters. The part where Ibn leaves his own group to join Wulfgar on his hunt for the Grendel was chrighten weaving his own tale. Not one of his better books.
@@BallisticCoefficient Pakeha does not mean goblin 😂 it means white person or foreigner same as in Papa'a in cook isllkands keʻokeʻo in hawaiian Go back to school
There's a song about a maori warchief bringing guns to his people and brought destruction against his foes. Alien Weaponry's Kai Tangata. An NZ metal band singing in the Maori language. Pretty cool music video as well.
I find it just a little frustrating that the whereabouts of each story is not stated before they begin... The location of kach-hoo-lat is not exactly common knowledge, Greenland is mentioned but... It would be good to have the different tribes introduced before the accounts begin as it's a bit hard to imagine what's being described otherwise.
There's so much focus on genocide by Europeans, it's nice to hear the other side of real history, the part where people find ways to get along and don't start a war at the drop of a hat. Yes, sailors accustomed to being isolated from help and interacting with foreigners for the purpose of trade and exploration wanted to trade with live people, sometimes!
Maori: Bruh Cheif! One of our men stole dog skin and tried to screw with the Goblins he's been shot!!! Cheif: Was it Swiper??? Maori: Yeah? Cheif: Lol rekt serves him right
I loved the idea of the Vikings and native Greenlanders becoming friends and playing sports together 😄. We could use more of that in the world. Thank you for another super fascinating video guys. Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends 😊.
@@robinlundh3962 Hello! I don't really know a great deal about Norse history and the Greenland settlements in particular. Could you send me a link to the information to which you're referring?
I’m sorry. It comes from books and a long interest of northen history and people migrations in the world. But I am sure internet can shed some light if searched. The first northen settlement was established at 900. The Inuites originated from Alaska started gradualy enter Greenland through Canada around 1300. Anyway. Right after 1100 first diocese was established. Mid 1200 Greenland joined the Norwegian kingdom and christianity started taking form. The bishop fled in late 1300. At the beginning of 1400 inuites destroyed churches and norse people taken as prisoners. Some intermarried. The last norse christians died out in starvation. The Inuite was considered dirty, foul and untrustworthy by the bishop/church and was not to be trading with. And the food they ate was unclean. This angered the Inuites who needed the tools and weapons vikings previously made, trading meet, furr etc. So the early good relations turned bad thanx to christianity and the only real loosers where the christians. Hope you got something out of this. Regards. Robin
@@robinlundh3962 Hello again Robin. I've read a little bit about the Greenland colonies in the last couple of days, and it is fascinating! Thank you for the initial information! I'm going to have to learn more about this and other Norse settlements soon. Having said that, I don't think I found any information about Christians discouraging trade and contact with the Inuits in Greenland. Do you have any links for that?
This was phenomenal. I would buy a movie ticket for 160 minutes of a video like this. Make a run on Hollywood, my friend. Someone’s got to. I would, but I have the voice of a Mongolian throat singer on helium going through puberty. And a Louisiana accent.
I recently discovered your channel I just want to say I’m really impressed. The quality of the narration, the graphics, etc are all very well done and always interesting. Keep up the great work!
Great stuff! As a youth I would laught at the faces made during the Haka, however, upon witnessing it in person I've never seen anything more terrifying! Imagine standing opposite those absolute units! I wonder if there's any native accounts of the " Storming of the gates of Pa"? Those boys could SCRAP! ( And still can)
Well said bro the Maori have proven to the world as to how formidable a fighting force they were and still are,from the ingenious Stone Age fortifications like Gate Pa,Ruapeka the bats nest,Rangariri etc to the brilliant,cunning stoic,brave tactics of Maori warfare,who at the time were one of the most formidable and feared native race the British ever encountered.During WW1 and WW2 and the Gallipoli campaign the Maori battalion also showed the same fighting spirit as their earlier ancestors.The moral of the other soldiers,from the British to the Aussies were all lifted when they knew the Maori battalion were with them and as for the Germans,the Turks and the Italians,well they were absolutely terrified of the Maori,rightfully so,and there’was only 300,000 thousand of us around WW1 as a total population world wide,yet the Maori battalion made a massive difference to all the wars so far tumeke
Thank you for the post. Company H" by Sam Watkins is a very unique first hand accounting of an army privates life in the army of the confederacy in the US Civil War. Definitely worth the read. I marvel at his accounting of their starvation and hardships. (8 men split 1 rat and eating oats out of horse manure)
Those traitors deserved those hardships. Secession is treason and treason is death. William Tecumseh Sherman tried to warn his friends in the south, especially Louisiana where he ran the state military academ,, of this and the futility of secession and civil war, but treason, hatred and the easy life and arrogant superiority of slavery had infected their hearts and their minds. These hardships were their just deserts and the necessary antidote they needed to ween themselves off the hatred and arrogance that brought them to such lows, and the lesson remained learned by that element of American society for over 150 years. Sadly though, today that lesson has been forgotten by the modern counterparts of the secessionists of those days of civil war and such suffering, and it seems more likely every day that our nation may once again be afflicted by such horrors. May this day never come.
@@andrewbrown6522 lol, I have mislead you sir. Sam has a fantastic humor. He will have you laughing out loud one page and in wonder the next. One thing I've doubted was when he said it was so cold one night he went to relieve the man on guard and found him frozen to death standing upright with his gun in his hands. I kind of doubted that could be true but since then I've seen 2 UA-cam videos of wild animals and livestock frozen to death standing upright in their fields. I think Sam wasn't spinning a yarn. He will bring a tear to your eye as well.
@@imout671 We had a fellow die on his feet in a local mountain pass but i always assumed he was in deep snow. I have heard of it but like you, almost seems impossible.
@@H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N you can respect and honor the temper and courage of men who endured great hardship even your enemies. You can not judge sam fairly or accurately because you're nearly 2 centuries removed from that time, its not wise or fair. You have a 1 dimensional view at best. Like the good book says "even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgement on them from the lord."
The Maori encountered Europeans before, it was the Dutch who discovered New Zealand, not the British. The first contact between the Dutch and the Maori went quite violent due to misunderstandings so the Dutch left them alone.
Many tribes in many different places in New Zealand had contact with Dutch but probably also Portuguese and Spanish secret trips. Every tribe will have their own anecdotes of first contact
Main reason the Dutch did not return is the Maori had nothing worth stealing. Had the Dutch found Maori wearing ornaments made of gold, silver, or even copper, they would have come back.
@@shanemcdowall at that point western powers were exploring only. Each piece of land has gold and silver to mine. Making maps and going first for the land were the people were ready to trade stuff, maoríes were not. Also remember Dutch were traders not colonizers so occupation of land to bring people was not their ting. Their population is tiny, they only trade. You are not receiving them with trade mentality then it is now worth the time when in Asia there were welcomed.
That first story gave me flash backs. I think i'd heard it before & am racking my brain to know where. These stories are amazing btw. The Eskimo's were particularly fascinating. Can you imagine your world as a world of ice, your whole universe is ice. If you think life sucks now, just imagine living in a hut in the middle of a breathable ice planet. I wonder what the first Eskimo to see a temperate climate was thinking then.
I’m more wondering how they even got their or why they stayed or why they have never been the biggest population but yet still survive and are descended until today.
@@tarakelly8640 Yes I was also wondering this! If you believe that the biblical flood happened, then it could explain it. I know when I said "biblical" you think of the myth or "fairytale". But there is actually worldwide legends of a great deluge, every culture on earth has a flood story.
@@youtubecansukkadik That's just because floods happen pretty much everywhere. People need water so they usually live around places where there's water and those sources of water occasionally flood.
These stories and your narration of them are beautiful. Thank you for making this video and others like it. It is so important to remember history and these videos help really embody the storytelling power of history, especially personal accounts.
8:00 That remark of Roggeven is kinda ironic seeing how the construction and transport of the moai (and their steadily increasing size) is now thought to be one of the reasons why easter island was (and still is) so barren of trees when he arrived. Archeologists know exactly how they were made because the quarry they were produced in still contains hundreds of unfinished statues in various stages of progress (including an absolutely humongous one that would have been 21 meters tall), likely abandoned because the islanders ran out of wood and also fucked up their food supply in the process.
Oh, there still is. We simply can't access them anymore. Too far underground, lost to the ocean. Secrets of antiquity burnt to ashes. We're still uncovering new archaeological discoveries so, don't lose hope, friend. There's always more to learn and discover. We're human, it's innate in us
Fun fact: the Vikings actually settled Greenland before the Inuit ancestors, the Thule people. So you could say that the Norse were the actual native Greenlanders in that scenario.
@@htoodoh5770 The Thule or proto-Inuit arrived in northern Greenland around the 13th/14th centuries assimilating the previous Dorset culture in the area. They later spread from there to other areas of Greenland and Thule groups in northern Canada spread into remaining Dorset areas as well which resulted in the Dorset culture to die out.
One thing that stands out is the honesty and innocence of both people, the Europeans and the Natives. Even though they did not speak the same language, fairness in trade and curiosity ruled the day.
11:43 "When told he was everywhere he became much alarmed" Yeah I bet if strange people arrived in a strange craft and told me there was an invisible man everywhere I would be much alarmed as well lol
13:45 This painting is Cook landing at Botany Bay, by E. Phillip Fox, 1902, held at the National Gallery of Victoria. It is a very famous picture in Australia, with a portion of the work depicted on a stamp issued for the bicentennial of Cook's landing in 1970, as part of a series of 5c stamps, and in full in 1979 for the Australia Day 20c issue. Australia and New Zealand aren't interchangeable ... we notice this stuff :)
Funny how the only of these peoples left that we are relatively friendly to are the Eskimos, as the land they own has nothing to offer. The best of friendship is without things.
I love this one. Goblins. I almost loved the bit where the highland Eskimo are asked if they know of a supreme being and the pay are like “wtf no?! Man your are weirding me out. Stop. Anyway the sun is a source of light.”
I'm loving in the Maori account that laughter was a point of relation between them. Something about laughter being a universal human communication tool to me is interesting
Levity is the cure to anxiety or a sympton but it sure works doesnt it! Lol
Astute remark!
It sounds so One Piece like
Emotions are the universal language not only between human groups and cultures, but also of all mammals.
It's magical. Similar to music
@@miguelplaza6433 Not all mammals - if anything but a human shows you its teeth, it means it wants your blood.
The Maori story was absolutely mind-blowing for me. That's awesome to know that first encounters could happened with so much mutual comprehension/respect despite the language barrier
I’ve read about Captain Cook and his crew and they seemed to have been strong believers in the ‘enlightenment values’ championed at the time.
Even more mind-blowing is that the Dutch reached New Zealand in 1642. Cook was not the first.
@@shanemcdowall it didn’t go too well for the Dutch. They left without landing on shore.
@@brianmarshall1762 Yes. I have read Tasman's account. I am fairly certain that every European explorer to New Zealand was attacked. I think the Maori were giving a very clear message: "Fuck off and don't come back".
"Maori"
Maori child: One of us was killed today.
Oh no here we go again!
Maori child: He was a filthy thief. He got what he deserved.
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@@BringDHouseDown natives are always based
Fast forward a few hundred years and now they're almost all thieves. They're even going through a phase of what is referred to as ram raids in NZ. Where 14 year old natives steal a car crash it into a shop and ransack and steal goods from the store. They hit about 5 stores a week like this.
Maori thief: *gets killed by goblins*
Other Maoris: "and nothing of value was lost"
"Oh no! Anyways"
🤣
“He played himself.”
Somehow I imagine they probably didn’t him either
I like that they saw their beards and came to the conclusion that their heads were on backwards 🤣
Related to them understanding each other’s lack of ill intent: i was recently played CoD mobile’s Battle Royale mode and got a random teammate assigned that started talking about making friends with the other teams… (this sounded ludicrous to me as the only way to win is to kill all of them) he explained that if you repeatedly got into position to kill them, then just got their attention and didn’t shoot at them, that about 60% of the players approached would get that you weren’t a threat and they’d join up with you to steamroll the other teams or just enjoy the novelty of the situation… then at the end of the match the allied teams would just sort of chill out as “the storm” (wall of death) closed in and the last man to die would win. It was absolutely mind blowing to hear that he was doing this and so we got into 2 jeeps with mounted machine gun torrents on top and drove off to give this insanity a try… the first group we approached shot a heat seeking missile at or car and wouldn’t stop shooting at our cars so we ran them over and killed them, but the next group had smaller guns and so when we drove circles around them honking our horns but not shooting they eventually stopped shooting at us and just stood there by a rock waiting for what came next, we had all turned our comms on to speak to everybody but they apparently didn’t have theirs turned on to hear us so their was no communication but our impromptu leader got out and started dancing 🕺🏻 and everyone joined in… it was amazing to do something soo human in an environment i had only ever killed every other person i’d met in. After a few seconds some jerk on a hill started shooting at us so we all returned fire and killed him… THEN WE ALL CLIMBED INTO THE 2 TRUCKS AND A MOTORCYCLE and went over to raid that jerks stuff… towards the end of the round we got attacked by 2 other teams that both attacked at once and my team got wiped out in an airstrike that detonated our vehicles but it was a pretty amazing experience
I couldn't imagine being that southern Greenland native who had only heard remote legends of how his people descended from peoples to the north, to then be a guide on an expedition to the north and then find the peoples up there and exclaim: "These are the eskimos. These are our fathers!"
That just hit me. It's like an orphan finding his his long-lost parents.
What is also fascinating that it is also probably correct; if you look at the lines of human migration in America; they all derived from the northern landbridge between Russia and Alaska.
He trained for that moment his entire life.
"What is the sun for?"
"To give light."
To me this is one of the best answers ever given to a question in Human history.
A 4 year old could’ve said that answer😂
@@lVloney Children see some things better than adults.
It is a really deep answer understanding its meaning as an older person is quite the challenge.
@@quiquemarquez3211 Indeed!
@@quiquemarquez3211 indubitably *stroking fancy mustache*
So interesting to hear the Maori encounters. And I really find it admirable that both sides settles the theft without turning the whole island into a graveyard. Interesting to see they had similar beliefs on the thief, though he was one of them, he was in the wrong and didn't hold it against the explorers. Beautiful story telling
Nor did the explorers seek to abuse the obvious advantage of their walking sticks to conquer or subjugate the people. I think about this and its stark differences to Cortez and his betrayal of Montezuma. History is fascinating
Plus the elders would not want to start a war with a strange race of goblins
The islands did turn into a graveyard after
@@toomeyeh1 Cortez was in a completely different situation. The Maori generally sounded peaceful and friendly as far as the British could tell from these first few interactions. Cortez and his men were confronted with horrific human sacrifice and had to make plans for the sake of self-preservation. It's a very different situation to be fair to Cortez.
@@JoneThePwn different, sure. There's some pretty cool first hand accounts of the betrayal of Montezuma on this very channel. They saw gold and an exploitable people, and that's all they needed to see. However evil their human sacrifice was, Cortez and his men acted just as horribly as the evils he claimed he had to save the Old World from. We should be able look at both actors and call out the good and bad in order to learn from history.
Moral of the Maori story: Don't steal from goblins with magical walking sticks.
And when the goblins returned after a long break, they used their magical walking sticks to kill all our people
@@saloneman3768 The Maori eventually got their own magical walking sticks and killed each other in brutal tribal warfare called the Musket Wars
@@saloneman3768 you sound like a learned student of history sir 🙇♂️
as someone who's 8 volumes into the wandering inn, I feel like someone's going to suffer that lesson soon
@@saloneman3768
Yeap, every last one, that is why there are no more Maori anymore right?
I loved the Maori one. Its so rare that you get a recorded account of first contact from a native's perspective.
Yeah that blew my mind.
There's a good one on this channel from Aztecs who first met Cortez. "We killed 2 of our slaves and sprinkled their blood onto the bread and offered it to the Europeans. But they were disgusted, as if the blood had already turned rotten."
we laughed
and these goblins also laughed
so we were pleased
We Māori have thousands of them still to this day - in scholarly books, articles and in the kōrero (stories) of our old people as well, both in Māori and Pākehā (English). Kia ora :)
@@piripibaker5151 that’s amazing. Can you recommend any place foreigners can find such records online? I know google is a thing but you don’t always know it’s reliable 😅
"the thief was responsible for his own death" based Maori
Why can’t we be more like the Maori lol
The goblins didnt kill him. he chose to be killed. that was his choice.
Don't fuck with the goblins, they won't bap ya with their mystical boom sticks. Easy as that.
That made you so happy didn't it ?
@@mmsibi I wouldn't expect sympathy for a thief.
Fascinating.
The Easter Island account is really cool.
They mentioned an almost full body statue, but until recently the modern understanding of the Easter Island heads didn't think of the statues as being most of the body until they were further dug up.
Another example of the many little things lost or forgotten to history's unending march onward.
Mmm. Most curious that account is, largely because the description of the statues does not tally with the fact that the maoi are made of stone - they are quarried, some remain in those quarries. Most bizarre, it makes me wonder if the author was making it up in order not to describe the natives as having superior stone working skills. Mmm.
Slightly curious too is the fact that he does however mention them lighting fires in front of them - fire was, I believe, their main quarrying method ~ fire-setting. Mmm. However, since his description of the 'statues' construction appears to be fabricated, it's hard to know if any of it is true.
@@JesseP.Watson I thought they were made using volcanic tuff
@@eliecerquintero2646 Hmm. I don't actually know what the stone is they were using... Though, if I remember rightly, the 'baskets' on their heads were a different stone from the figures themselves and, as I recall, was often red and bubbly... Which may have been a volcanic tuff. ...Now I think of it, there did appear quite a bit of variation in the stone they used in the images I've looked at. Heat from fire acts rapidly on silica in stone so it would follow that a volcanic tuff would be suitable for the operation I have in mind... Anyhow, bit too speculative there as I've only done passing research into the works on Easter island.
They are made from volcanic rock. I am from Chile, the country to whom Easter island belongs to, and I have been there and touch them.
There is no way that the Moai were made by the polynesians.
Good friends often throw each other down cliffs to their death
Back in those days you had to take your fun where you could find it...
Ahh children acting like children with no phone or screen in sight.
How else would they expresse thier friendship?
Vikings never claimed that being friends with them was easy xD
Well it WAS his own idea..
I love the description of a musket as "a magical walking stick that creates thunder to drop things dead"
Gunpowder on first sight must have been like magic... if you weren't on the receiving end that is.
Imagine you have only seen fire, ocean, weather, wood/stone weapons, wildlife, stars, etc. Explosions(aka gunshots) and small projectiles would be unbelievable.
I wish we had time machines, I would love to witness when cultures first began to mingle. As dangerous as it may have been, that would be an amazing time to experience. I try to think of how I myself would make it clear that i was there peacefully if I was in a group that was exploring and meeting new groups of people. Human history is so strange
@@ext93 All you needed to show you were there peacefully is something to barter with or a gift. A gift instantly shows peaceful intent.
I found the Maori encounter the most fascinating. Not only was the fact that they believed the Europeans were goblins interesting, but i have never really thought about how strange a gun would be to someone who only knows primitive methods of killing. It’s a long stick that goes “bang” and kills anything in its way, it would have blown their minds (hopefully not literally). I wonder if they would have eventually figured out that it is indeed a projectile weapon, or if they had some other explanation, like it was magical or something. So interesting
the Maori did indeed figure guns out quite quickly, a big part of colonial NZ history were the Musket Wars where Maori tribes decimated each other with British imported guns
@JustDev No i mean, hypothetically, if they only had the body to go off of, it would be interesting for them to figure out that it wasn’t actually a magic boom-stick, to watch it. I was having a discussion about this with some mates and we brought up what you could do if you took a pistol and nothing else to North Sentinel Island, the only island left in the world that has yet to be explored much at all and which still has a population of “untouched” natives living there in tribalism. A gun would be absolutely stunning to them and would at first make them obviously fearful of the wielder, but i think in time they would piece together the way it works and then the power would be gone from the wielder.
@JustDev Probably the first time they see a little ball go down the front.
Great point. Always fascinated me too. 😊
@@o.n.e-onlinenaturaleducati5597 They have bows so I'm sure they would get the idea. The people's on that island have seen boats, planes, helicopters and all sorts of stuff so honestly a gun would be one of the least wild things they've seen. Already they have some metal from wreckage and have been seen using it in arrow/spear heads...really all they're missing is gunpowder.
The Maori and English/Goblin encounter is truly a proud moment of our history. I can assure you -to anyone reading this - that laughter is still our #1 characteristic. It makes so proud to be Maori/Irish/English and also to hear a truthful piece of history, straight from our people.
Hey! Can I ask what the word ka pai means? Its at 16:20
@dreamfire9661 it basically means "good job" so if someone does something well youd say "ka pai bro" in nz 😂
The Maori account is fascinating, especially the fact that they called them "goblins". Apparently goblins exist in Maori mythology as Ponaturi, fish creatures that live under the sea by day and come on shore at night. I wonder how they squared that with the naval technology of their boat, since they kept calling them goblins.
I think we are getting a childs narrative there. The subject says "We and the women" and "We the children" so thats probably why if you ask me.
It might be a catch-all term for non-Maori people, like the Greek term "barbarian" for non-Greeks. It would be interesting to know if they encountered the Australian aboriginals and called them "goblins" too, since they were also non Maori, and would have been the only other non Maori people they would have likely encountered.
The Celts were in New Zealand at least 1000 years prior to the Maoris. They have also found Chinese ships there embedded in mountains.
Maori elders have currently closed off this topic until about 2053.
I believe because it means someone else has claim to the land.
There are no such thing as natives. Just peoples who have been when you are longer or longer than we cared to or were permitted to remember.
@@yingyangorca4124
Natives are whoever is living there when you went there. If i went to USA today, lets say Boston, the natives wouldnt be indians, they'd be a mixed group of many different peoples, many of european ancestry. At least from my perspective. Nativity is relative.
@@briaormead4239 I understand your view.
My point is as a people. Human race. We act like there's somewhere else to go. And because we cross land we are somehow different.
We mate a baby is born. We are the same.
Hence there are no natives. Just past lives.
It's just us and time. And even that is questionable.
But I get you. It societal economic terms.
"Perhaps they will believe we are some kind of Gods"
"They are goblins"
The goblins of Maori people are people that live under the ocean similar to Atlantis. You are confusing white culture's version of goblins which are grotesque, monsters, thieves etc.
@@entireglxy4338cmon man, it's just some good fun
These stories makes me feel nostalgic about an era I've never lived in.
What a wonderful world where every place and every culture is still to be discovered.
Yeah it’s pretty nice but it’s all romanticized. The eras before this would be unlivable for us.
There was still wonder in the world, and maps uncharted. And no one knew they were floating in a blue sphere on space, surrounded by nothingness.
True, that’s probably why it was romanticized as there was so much mystery.
@@clayvertmarjani6939 not unlivable, just would fucking suck lmao
@@joshshirley9488 They just gotta add "some of". Hands down the Kardashians would _not_ make it.
Being the proud owner of a copy of "The Vinland Sagas," I'd be thrilled to see stories like the very first one interspersed into a future edition of the book.
The way that Greenland story was told was so confusing. The names, who is calling who a foreigner. Confused AF haha
Yeah I was wondering that too. I'm not sure which were the Vikings and which were the Greenlanders.
yeah i had to give it a second listen to figure out who lost the archery thing
Glad it wasnt just me
@Ian Taylor Good deal thanks!
Why was the viking drawn as an asian?
this historical first contact stuff is exactly what I like. and people complaining about petty things.
These type of UA-cam Channels are amazing. These people really do hard work in getting all of this information. Narrate and show relevant pictures when needed. Appreciate the hard work man fr 🙏🏽
Favorite video of yours. First contact with isolated peoples are my favorite things to learn. Rarely do we get to hear about it from the other point of view. The laughing being the only mutual communication makes me think about other accounts I’ve read between first contact with South American and New Guinea tribes. Where after the curiosity and or fear passes, hugs and laughter are what the natives resorted to. The Maori giving rocks and sticks to the goblins is also super interesting. I think it was Father Zegwaard who on meeting the Asmat gave them strips of red cloth, and years and years later the red cloth was still an item of incredible status and value and was used in paying bride prices by the elites of the village.
Nothing good came of it for the natives.
"these creatures were not goblins" - proceeds to call them goblins anyway
The Māori account further strengthens the want for mutual ties between Māori and the colonials; apart from the first encounter with James Cook where his men mistakenly shot 9 warriors giving an official welcome where cultural differences got in the way. In the end what started as mutual benefit and goodwill turned sour when more settlers came to aotearoa and started building on land that was not agreed upon to be theirs. If they had kept to what was afforded to the settlers perhaps NZs history would have looked much different
I could say that about the pilgrims and the natives, or the British and the Irish or Mexico and the United States the list goes on. Moral of the story : when you are a guest in a place foreign to you ACT LIKE A GUEST, it’s not your home you are being welcomed, don’t get mad and try to take my home when you are no longer welcome.
@@tarakelly8640 That is how empire's work, they accumulate land and resource's to the point they become beyond reproach. NZ was claimed by the British Empire, the largest in history, and was not answerable to anyone. As they say, "all property is theft", which is especially true in regards to the way Maori conducted themselves at that time.
@@funtimesatbeaverfalls Yup, the Maori history tells of a strange blonde race that was already in NZ when they arrived! As does many American tribe speak of red headed giants, the wheel turns..
@@funtimesatbeaverfalls heres an interesting documentary covering this about NZ ua-cam.com/video/rf_inGOubEg/v-deo.html
@@Raven-qj8xk Ngati Hotu are the most well know in regard to this m.ua-cam.com/video/Yr9UAFvgBa0/v-deo.html
“The Greenlanders feared them and made for their boats. When they returned, they began to have intercourse with them.”
Well that escalated quickly 😅
Lol
Greenland is a desolate icy dystopia when upon first settled. Iceland is filled with verdant meadows.
With that in mind, the fact that they sought intimate relationships with that which they feared makes sense to me. Can you imagine finding a hostile location and figuring, "Oh yeh, dis home right here boi. ;D"
Intercourse means talking back then
now you know why a life at sea held so much appeal for some.
@@jakemisskelley they were sailore though; if they cant fight you they'll f*ck you. Its like their version of the "fight or flight response".
I love that when the Eskimos were asked what the sun was for they said to give light
I would said it’s “a great big ball of has, burning millions of miles away”
@@philiptucker7590 👏
Good one. That Eskimo account is some fascinating, fine, old-timey ethno anthropology.
Umm.. i believe thats spelled Oral History.
@@andrewbrown6522 I think the comment more refers to the British point of view of it.
honestly I love that sort of thing
Amazing how mysterious and inaccessible the world was only a few hundred years ago while now, you can go to almost any corner of the globe by plane or see it virtually on the computer. I wish I had lived during those times.
No more real exploring is left on earth except for the oceans, and personally I believe most of Earth's secrets are submerged
Luckily space is far from fully explored
People who romanticizes the prior 19ty century... I really and truly do not think you grasp how hard life itself was back then. . . We are very fortunate to be in the time we are. Even our poorest to some degree are richer than even the common person of old age.
@@lahavmorris9919 Yes, there a billions of stars and planets out there to be explored. The problem is reaching them. Our fastest space probe now would take 18,000 years just to reach the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. And time is running out for humanity given how quickly this planet is being destroyed.
@@jonhall2274 Oh I am absolutely aware of how brutal life was back then and how easy we have it today. But I think its gone too far in the other direction now. We have become TOO civilized and TOO developed, rapidly destroying the natural world and threatening our own existence in the process.
Really loved the Māori story in New Zealand at the end. Your pronunciation was unexpectedly good too 🙏
13:19 made me laugh so hard. "Yes, it is so - these people are GOBLINS." Great delivery. And of course, deeply fascinating to hear about that meeting between such vastly different cultures and those little human moments of laughter and curiosity that go with it.
Oh man, I love how they just yeeted the dude down a mountain and went on with their usual business.
That was wild. The Maori account by far the most riveting. Interesting to note that in spite of the differences the incident of the thief that was killed, both sides felt morally just.
Being a native speaker of Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) I must commend your pronunciation throughout the first story, about the native Greenlanders and the Vikings. Although not perfect, it was very understandable!
I was lucky enough to visit Easter Island in 2018 and it is an absolutely magical, mysterious, and beautiful place. Even today, you can still feel the incredible energy of the Moai: I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like when the native population was at its peak
Glad u liked it my mother from there glad u enjoyed it
@@evilg6499 It was the most special place I’ve visited, and I’ve been to some pretty amazing places! I even got the symbol for Manutara tattooed on my forearm while I was there to commemorate my time on Rapa Nui 🗿
That story about the norseman and the native becoming bros was pretty heartwarming until it suddenly wasn't.
"Bro, let's play a death game"
It's fascinating how laughter is such a universal language...
“There is an almighty God, my friend.”
Eskimo: “Oh really? Where does he live?”
“He is all around us!”
Eskimo: “Oh cool haha” *starts sweating and looking around nervously*
Had he been Mormon he would have said 'He lives on the planet Kolob with thousands of goddess wives.'
Relatable.
That part struck me too! Lol. I think that poor Eskimo (Inuit) was a little overwhelmed by what they were saying.
By the time they got to telling him that this person was everywhere and all around, he was like;
“Ok I don’t necessarily believe this sh@t, but you’re starting to freak me out a little! I need to get out here.”
I think the eskimo one was amazing, imagine thinking the whole earth is ice and you are alone, then going to a jungle or something
The Greenland story was hilarious. 'He then threw himself off the precipice' and the people were basically like eh fuck him he was talkin shit.
Lmao
He must have been a reckless teenager smh
Imagine beggin someone 100 times more skilled than you to a contest that staked your literal life…..like yeah bruh, you definitely deserved it….prolly had his whole town in a constant state of confusion 😂
hmm, so Magellan is still sponsoring this channel while Curiosity Stream is sponsoring history of the earth.
always smart to play both sides
It's very interesting hearing first contact stories from the indigenous perspective, and their reaction to and description of the many things which they have never seen or heard of before, like the musket.
You should check out Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness. It’s a medieval narrative of an Arab traveling north until he meets the Rūs and it’s pretty incredible. It’s also one of the only primary sources on traditional viking funerals.
Good one! Did it in 2019 - check it out.
Could this have inspired the movie The 13th Warrior??
@AVXS the 13th Warrior is based on ibn fadlan's account, yes.
@@ryanmarlin2974
Only the first couple chapters. The part where Ibn leaves his own group to join Wulfgar on his hunt for the Grendel was chrighten weaving his own tale.
Not one of his better books.
@Dio-xo9rv ibn fadlan’s account is the only account of a Viking funeral we have.
Weird to hear humans being called goblins. Thank you. Great work
That might interest you: ua-cam.com/video/rf_inGOubEg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PeterMarsh
@@jessecerasus9621 I've seen that documentary before. Really interesting.
@@nanoglitch6693 Yes it is very very interesting and quite professionnal for such an ''forbidden'' subject.
They still call us in NZ Goblins. The word Maoris use for whites is 'Pakeha", which means goblin. Pretty cool as far a racial slurs go.
@@BallisticCoefficient Pakeha does not mean goblin 😂 it means white person or foreigner same as in
Papa'a in cook isllkands
keʻokeʻo in hawaiian
Go back to school
There's a song about a maori warchief bringing guns to his people and brought destruction against his foes. Alien Weaponry's Kai Tangata. An NZ metal band singing in the Maori language. Pretty cool music video as well.
My theory is that the shaman from the video is having a vision of the future, and it's the video we see for the song
Ohh good catch. Yep that's how I'll view it as well haha
@devious1 Which hapu?
The part where the Maorie and the explorers fail to communicate and just laugh and he says "And we were pleased" was just so satisfying to me xD
While I don't much care for being referred to as a goblin, that last account was a surprisingly beautiful one.
lol you shouldnt take any offense to that. all groups of people have trouble describing others when they come upon them for the first time ever
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
The truth hurts. Next time don't intercourse all the people you discover. XD
@@MaximusAwesomus2 Especially the dutch lol
@@MaximusAwesomus2 Tbf its not really a culture but a failed attempt to understand or describe what they are seeing.
I find it just a little frustrating that the whereabouts of each story is not stated before they begin... The location of kach-hoo-lat is not exactly common knowledge, Greenland is mentioned but... It would be good to have the different tribes introduced before the accounts begin as it's a bit hard to imagine what's being described otherwise.
I burst out laughing every time he said “goblin”. “ they’re eating fish, so perhaps they’re not goblins”…next sentence “ so the goblins….” 🤣
These are some of the most fascinating and captivating stories and experiences I have ever heard of.
That dude straight up sniped a thief with a smooth-bore musket.
@@Maschine_Elf just imagine this story if he hit the wrong person.
There's so much focus on genocide by Europeans, it's nice to hear the other side of real history, the part where people find ways to get along and don't start a war at the drop of a hat. Yes, sailors accustomed to being isolated from help and interacting with foreigners for the purpose of trade and exploration wanted to trade with live people, sometimes!
Yes. Much of history is told from the perspective that anything Western or "Christian" is bad.
Maori: Bruh Cheif! One of our men stole dog skin and tried to screw with the Goblins he's been shot!!!
Cheif: Was it Swiper???
Maori: Yeah?
Cheif: Lol rekt serves him right
so happy i’ve just stumbled across this account by chance, it’s exactly what i’ve been looking for for such a long time.
So glad I found this fascinating video!! These sort of history accounts feed my soul and imagination.
Thank you. Please do more!
This is the most under-rated series on YT... but for a lucky few , a favorite
I absolutely love this channel, first hand accounts thru history 🤯, everyone should watch these
Wow, what a find this channel is. Utterly absorbing storytelling. Hats off to those who produced the content.
I loved the idea of the Vikings and native Greenlanders becoming friends and playing sports together 😄. We could use more of that in the world. Thank you for another super fascinating video guys.
Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends 😊.
Yes. The northerners where good at that untill christianity. The church forbid them to socialize with the Inuites. 🤷🏼♂️
But i agree with your point.
@@robinlundh3962 Hello! I don't really know a great deal about Norse history and the Greenland settlements in particular. Could you send me a link to the information to which you're referring?
I’m sorry. It comes from books and a long interest of northen history and people migrations in the world. But I am sure internet can shed some light if searched.
The first northen settlement was established at 900. The Inuites originated from Alaska started gradualy enter Greenland through Canada around 1300.
Anyway. Right after 1100 first diocese was established. Mid 1200 Greenland joined the Norwegian kingdom and christianity started taking form.
The bishop fled in late 1300. At the beginning of 1400 inuites destroyed churches and norse people taken as prisoners. Some intermarried.
The last norse christians died out in starvation.
The Inuite was considered dirty, foul and untrustworthy by the bishop/church and was not to be trading with. And the food they ate was unclean.
This angered the Inuites who needed the tools and weapons vikings previously made, trading meet, furr etc.
So the early good relations turned bad thanx to christianity and the only real loosers where the christians.
Hope you got something out of this.
Regards.
Robin
@@robinlundh3962 Hello again Robin. I've read a little bit about the Greenland colonies in the last couple of days, and it is fascinating! Thank you for the initial information! I'm going to have to learn more about this and other Norse settlements soon. Having said that, I don't think I found any information about Christians discouraging trade and contact with the Inuits in Greenland. Do you have any links for that?
@@robinlundh3962no source no proof
I love the idea of two people just sitting in silence in awe of each other. wow.
This was phenomenal. I would buy a movie ticket for 160 minutes of a video like this. Make a run on Hollywood, my friend. Someone’s got to. I would, but I have the voice of a Mongolian throat singer on helium going through puberty. And a Louisiana accent.
I love the stories where first contact goes well.
The Eskimo account is interesting. They don't know where they came from or how they got there, so they didn't imagine a creator story.
Your voice is perfect for narrating these historical accounts. Thank you so much ❤
I recently discovered your channel I just want to say I’m really impressed. The quality of the narration, the graphics, etc are all very well done and always interesting. Keep up the great work!
Ah man. I love Ancient Architects but can't listen to the voice for too long. This channel is perfect
I can relate to finding forms of basic communication despite a language barrier. I work in fast food and the line cooks only speak Spanish
You should do a video on Marcus Berg, a swede who was taken as a slave by moroccans in the 17th century!
It's really fascinating how inquisitive people are. These interactions are just fascinating
Great stuff! As a youth I would laught at the faces made during the Haka, however, upon witnessing it in person I've never seen anything more terrifying! Imagine standing opposite those absolute units! I wonder if there's any native accounts of the " Storming of the gates of Pa"? Those boys could SCRAP! ( And still can)
Well said bro the Maori have proven to the world as to how formidable a fighting force they were and still are,from the ingenious Stone Age fortifications like Gate Pa,Ruapeka the bats nest,Rangariri etc to the brilliant,cunning stoic,brave tactics of Maori warfare,who at the time were one of the most formidable and feared native race the British ever encountered.During WW1 and WW2 and the Gallipoli campaign the Maori battalion also showed the same fighting spirit as their earlier ancestors.The moral of the other soldiers,from the British to the Aussies were all lifted when they knew the Maori battalion were with them and as for the Germans,the Turks and the Italians,well they were absolutely terrified of the Maori,rightfully so,and there’was only 300,000 thousand of us around WW1 as a total population world wide,yet the Maori battalion made a massive difference to all the wars so far tumeke
Now we're training Ukrainians to fight orcs
The giants of Easter island! How these people moved these sculptures vast distances is amazing!
Thank you for the post.
Company H" by Sam Watkins is a very unique first hand accounting of an army privates life in the army of the confederacy in the US Civil War. Definitely worth the read. I marvel at his accounting of their starvation and hardships. (8 men split 1 rat and eating oats out of horse manure)
I haven't read something that bleak in a long time. So of course i had to be eating when i did. Lol
Those traitors deserved those hardships. Secession is treason and treason is death. William Tecumseh Sherman tried to warn his friends in the south, especially Louisiana where he ran the state military academ,, of this and the futility of secession and civil war, but treason, hatred and the easy life and arrogant superiority of slavery had infected their hearts and their minds. These hardships were their just deserts and the necessary antidote they needed to ween themselves off the hatred and arrogance that brought them to such lows, and the lesson remained learned by that element of American society for over 150 years. Sadly though, today that lesson has been forgotten by the modern counterparts of the secessionists of those days of civil war and such suffering, and it seems more likely every day that our nation may once again be afflicted by such horrors. May this day never come.
@@andrewbrown6522 lol, I have mislead you sir. Sam has a fantastic humor. He will have you laughing out loud one page and in wonder the next. One thing I've doubted was when he said it was so cold one night he went to relieve the man on guard and found him frozen to death standing upright with his gun in his hands. I kind of doubted that could be true but since then I've seen 2 UA-cam videos of wild animals and livestock frozen to death standing upright in their fields. I think Sam wasn't spinning a yarn. He will bring a tear to your eye as well.
@@imout671 We had a fellow die on his feet in a local mountain pass but i always assumed he was in deep snow. I have heard of it but like you, almost seems impossible.
@@H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N you can respect and honor the temper and courage of men who endured great hardship even your enemies. You can not judge sam fairly or accurately because you're nearly 2 centuries removed from that time, its not wise or fair. You have a 1 dimensional view at best. Like the good book says "even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgement on them from the lord."
This was my absolute favorite Voices of the Past video, so entertaining
The Maori encountered Europeans before, it was the Dutch who discovered New Zealand, not the British. The first contact between the Dutch and the Maori went quite violent due to misunderstandings so the Dutch left them alone.
@devious1 The maori one was written by the natives. What are you talking about?
@devious1 Proof?
Many tribes in many different places in New Zealand had contact with Dutch but probably also Portuguese and Spanish secret trips. Every tribe will have their own anecdotes of first contact
Main reason the Dutch did not return is the Maori had nothing worth stealing. Had the Dutch found Maori wearing ornaments made of gold, silver, or even copper, they would have come back.
@@shanemcdowall at that point western powers were exploring only. Each piece of land has gold and silver to mine. Making maps and going first for the land were the people were ready to trade stuff, maoríes were not. Also remember Dutch were traders not colonizers so occupation of land to bring people was not their ting. Their population is tiny, they only trade. You are not receiving them with trade mentality then it is now worth the time when in Asia there were welcomed.
Fascinating. I have my father's Folio Society old books newly printed about these early first contacts and loved them even as a teenager.
That first story gave me flash backs. I think i'd heard it before & am racking my brain to know where. These stories are amazing btw. The Eskimo's were particularly fascinating. Can you imagine your world as a world of ice, your whole universe is ice. If you think life sucks now, just imagine living in a hut in the middle of a breathable ice planet. I wonder what the first Eskimo to see a temperate climate was thinking then.
I’m more wondering how they even got their or why they stayed or why they have never been the biggest population but yet still survive and are descended until today.
@@tarakelly8640 Yes I was also wondering this! If you believe that the biblical flood happened, then it could explain it. I know when I said "biblical" you think of the myth or "fairytale". But there is actually worldwide legends of a great deluge, every culture on earth has a flood story.
I have always wondered why people would settle in this place in the first place
@@youtubecansukkadik That's just because floods happen pretty much everywhere. People need water so they usually live around places where there's water and those sources of water occasionally flood.
@@Greksallad You don't say.
These stories and your narration of them are beautiful. Thank you for making this video and others like it. It is so important to remember history and these videos help really embody the storytelling power of history, especially personal accounts.
8:00 That remark of Roggeven is kinda ironic seeing how the construction and transport of the moai (and their steadily increasing size) is now thought to be one of the reasons why easter island was (and still is) so barren of trees when he arrived. Archeologists know exactly how they were made because the quarry they were produced in still contains hundreds of unfinished statues in various stages of progress (including an absolutely humongous one that would have been 21 meters tall), likely abandoned because the islanders ran out of wood and also fucked up their food supply in the process.
Imagine living in a time when there was still anything new to discovery in the world...
Oh, there still is. We simply can't access them anymore. Too far underground, lost to the ocean. Secrets of antiquity burnt to ashes. We're still uncovering new archaeological discoveries so, don't lose hope, friend. There's always more to learn and discover. We're human, it's innate in us
Fun fact: the Vikings actually settled Greenland before the Inuit ancestors, the Thule people. So you could say that the Norse were the actual native Greenlanders in that scenario.
When did the Thule arrived?
@@htoodoh5770 The Thule or proto-Inuit arrived in northern Greenland around the 13th/14th centuries assimilating the previous Dorset culture in the area. They later spread from there to other areas of Greenland and Thule groups in northern Canada spread into remaining Dorset areas as well which resulted in the Dorset culture to die out.
@@jokemon9547 faintly remembered that the Norse were 1st but had no details. Thanks for the info.
fuck no.
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Thank you so much for sharing these stories!
I love how the Maori just agreed the thief had it coming and shrugged it off.
I love this. I'm always searching out these types of accounts and only find it in passing mentions
ka pai in Maori simply means "Good"
Extraordinary accounts, really enriched, with incredible narration - thank you!
One thing that stands out is the honesty and innocence of both people, the Europeans and the Natives. Even though they did not speak the same language, fairness in trade and curiosity ruled the day.
Honest Europeans? Really?
@@rasheed12th38 yup.
@@craydussy Well I guess unicorns are real.
@@rasheed12th38 racist clown
@@rasheed12th38 That's pretty racist of you.
Great video, I love all your channels, Thank you!
11:43
"When told he was everywhere he became much alarmed"
Yeah I bet if strange people arrived in a strange craft and told me there was an invisible man everywhere I would be much alarmed as well lol
I find this a necessity to assist me home schooling my children. They enjoy it.
Your videos are just wonderful 👍
Thank you...
This was really fascinating. Enjoyed it immensely, hungry for more !!
13:45 This painting is Cook landing at Botany Bay, by E. Phillip Fox, 1902, held at the National Gallery of Victoria. It is a very famous picture in Australia, with a portion of the work depicted on a stamp issued for the bicentennial of Cook's landing in 1970, as part of a series of 5c stamps, and in full in 1979 for the Australia Day 20c issue. Australia and New Zealand aren't interchangeable ... we notice this stuff :)
I always thought New Zealanders were just fancier dressed up less British Ozzies? 🤔
Very well done! I think I’ve finally curated the UA-cam algorithm to recommend fire history content
Best crossovers of all time.
What a great channel, could not think of out id rather watch.Thanks brother
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the mirror thing was interesting. there are no placid lakes or anything of the sort on easter island so maybe duder never actually saw his reflection.
Can't believe I've never heard about this channel before when searching for stuff in the same vein as Lemmino.
Awesome stuff :)
Funny how the only of these peoples left that we are relatively friendly to are the Eskimos, as the land they own has nothing to offer. The best of friendship is without things.
These are so fascinating. I want to hear more. All of them are just mind blowing
Wow, over 500k? I knew you guys would grow fast. Such a great idea for a channel. I swear last year you were at 150k subs! 👏👏👏👏🤩
I love this one.
Goblins.
I almost loved the bit where the highland Eskimo are asked if they know of a supreme being and the pay are like “wtf no?! Man your are weirding me out. Stop. Anyway the sun is a source of light.”