This does right by the Native Dakota of Minnesota. What a fabulous documentary. This should be mandatory viewing in all schools. We NEED more of this kind of quality and holistic education about indigenous people & culture. Minnesota Ojibwe here, this video made me sob by how well it was done. Thank you for giving the Dakota this platform and voice. I would love to see more Minnesota tribal history!!!
I disagree with you, my comment is below, debate me on it if you can. My main point is the first photo are the Dakota men, the chiefs are wearing Garments made from Afican American slaves' labour in the South and the Islands. This conflict is the same time as the Civil war, in fact they were moved after the Civil War had begun. So, my argument, these people had for decades been enjoying the hard and often deadlly forced labour of other men. By time the mid 1850's rolled around, with high production in the south cotton, sugar, fruit, the demand for more came from the West and North. Why did the Dakots people choose to enjoy goods made from known slave labor, also they took captured wives from all over the country, why? Second, why didn't the Dakota take up arms to free these very enslaved southern blacks after hearing the news from Active Dakota Congressmen in 1861, start of the Civil War , the year before the Dakota US conflict?
The Dakota should not have to thank anyone. It should have always been part of American history and not tried to wipe it off the pages of history. In Texas we slaughtered the Buffalo in an effort to move Native American to other areas. We have not forgotten this, it is part of our history.
@@cb6816 So what is your take on the slaves in China? Is your house full of Chinese products? We are still a slave nation, we just changed the geography of where the slaves are located. It is still slavery and God will not be happy with us. He will not be happy with the enslavement of women who are used as sex slaves but the demand still grows! Think about it.
@C B Your level of ignorance is astonishingly stellar it deserves an award The whole idea of male 'chiefs' was a European coating to cover up & diminish & in effect destroy a traditionally matriarchal society. The Europeans were afraid to negotiate with the Traditional Hereditary Chiefs Council which was female: Elder Grandmother Clan. Europeans lack of interest in negotiating with women is due to their LACK of knowledge & ability to do so-- due to their patriarchal programming- a convenient cover-up over their insecurity & ignorance based inadequacy & mentality. Dressing up a proud people under oppression in clown's clothing is just more of the insecure European control freaks need to cover up their idiocy. Natives and African slaves were manipulated-exploited & used for frontline infantry. The oppressor's attitude is: They're good enough to use as disposable shields in war but they can't vote nor participate in the white man's "civil" society
@Birgi p.m. Stop thinking all Natives were the same. Some were female lead for advice, many were male lead for warfare. Usually both. Also there wasn't 'European' even as a concept yet, there were the French, and that even split between French Merchants, the French Crown and those under The Holy Roman Empire and the Pope. Later the British and then America-not the same people at ALL. Also many native tribes wanted and abused African Slaves. It's hard to acknowledge historical truth I know, such a challenge to deeply digest and analyze basic human history. Good debate I like these interactions. If you can reach past that Academic Democrat Party KKK Propaganda and respond with something even arguably interesting I'll be happy to reply again. I'm Yucatanian Native on my mother's Great grandmother's side. And she was a leader sort of because of being female. But in Mexico for Natives, your role depended on the stars you were born under. I actually wonder how Northern Natives related to astrological leadership. I especially like these debates because I want to open native trade routes back from MY ancestral lands in Mexico to the North. But you people tend to be very prejudice and ignorant of other Natives who disagree and present other FACTS.
This is why it's best to do our own history deep dive outside school. It's better and a lot more fun to do because you explore more then what your teachers curriculum is allowed in its limitations. Learning history outside if the curriculum gives us more leeway and better way if finding the middle line of the the full truth.
@@valor101arise Why wouldn't you trust this? I learned this in college and I've seen it with my own eyes visiting family. History is not always pretty. Far from it.
@@JennyJeong425 Who writes history? Who decides what is taught in schools? Who writes the news? The daily news is history. When the news and history is canceled or deleted it is a crime. Now the war is who controls the news and cancels history.
There really is a group of so called Americans who think they can ignore the history of this land. I don't leave it to school to teach my son because I do not trust it. He will teach his son. He tells me that I dwell on sad stories but I tell him the history of this land is sad. I am sorry our world does not yet value all people. Thank you for sharing and teaching.
"So called??" I am a native American. I was born in America. I refused to be punished or looked down on because of things that people with my skin color did before my ancestors came here about 50 years ago. I have sympathy for the plight of others, but that DOES NOT make me RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
@@deathwrenchcustom I'm talking about the "Americans" who came as immigrants who tell indigenous people to go back where they came from. They don't teach any native culture in school and I live in AZ.
@@deathwrenchcustom you may not be responsible for it, but every one of you benefit from what your forefathers did to indians, and black people....still to this day....so yes that makes you guilty
Once again I'm thankful for TPT and another wonderful documentary that should be mandatory in our educational system. I've been shocked by the lack of real history I was taught growing up in Minnesota, but it's also opened my eyes to so many atrocities within our culture. It's so important we acknowledge our past and become stewards of peace and reconciliation for future generations.
@@brittanyhayes1043 Please go back and read real history, not the white narrative that has been taught intentionally wrong for decades. They were purposefully starving the Dakota, after signing a treaty that included food they were harvesting and storing in exchange for land. What's shameful today is that anyone would deny the truth and call what they did an atrocity to feed their people. They fought once challenged upon breaking into food silo's. They did not initiate violence on the settlers first.
We say the same about us, the Crimean Tatars of the illegally Russian occupied peninsula. I hope with all my heart that you multiply and keep your language alive. Language is identity.
These stories and emotions for this quest... Really need to be shared. I spent a lot of time in Arizona and Oklahoma, but, I grew up with the native populations of Northern Minnesota. These stories aren't just about the descendants of the tribes. These lessons are necessary for ALL of us!
This was very informative and heart warming. I myself am Native American part Lumbee and part Cherokee from Lumberton NC. Our people still struggle to this day. We need more Documentaries like this to keep our ancestors spirits alive and respect all they went through. We are a dying breed but I’d love to see that change. Godbless
I grew up in a very comfortable home. My father was from Minnesota, and his father was Ojibwe. I visited Minnesota and South Dakota with him in 1996, and I was shocked and heartbroken to see the reservations there. The conditions are despicable. How the Natives were (and are still) treated is inexcusable.
What about the dead, massacured white settlers? What about them? Are you going to be respectful and put flowers int here graves or give them a pass to pay victim?
I grew up in Mankato 1953-1972. I remember seeing the historical monument of the 38 Indians who were hanged. Someone threw red paint on it if memory serves, and it was eventually moved. I didn’t know the history until I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
@@sasquatch4745 The Trail of Tears runs through here in Huntsville, Alabama to Tulsa, Oklahoma where my sister lives. Sad! There is a historical marker in Missouri on the Missouri River that states the Indians were giving their children to White people so they wouldn’t starve to death.
My ×5 grandfather dowansa tenazepa the singer. On a ancestral journey. Am studying my family history. It breaks my heart. I hope to give a voice to the issues the dakota and indegenous people still face today. I thank my grandma goldie's spirit for sending me on this path. 🙏 ❤💛🖤🤍
Well I gave too the Dakota tribes for years OHIOANS FOLK'S found out I am mixed with 4 tribes told I was A black girl because of my yarney hair. I took ancestors DNA molecules testing and found out spainish native American Indian 4 tribes we picked tobacco up here in the north with west African slaves and we mixed our blood line they 🤙😎🎁 call us Trinidad Cuban's we migrated too America in the 1600 hundreds our tribes are out of Cuba the Saint Ana's and several of different traditions cities our 🏝️ island country goes from Florida too Mexico too little past Mexico going towards the west California was the destination. Well God bless you.
The documentary starts out saying that people say they didn't learn about the Dakota Conflict and I am in that group. This video is very informative and I am glad to have watched it. I learned a lot the Dakota and the the history of Minnesota. This is a great educational tool.
American History has a very dark history that is conveniently left out of school books. We ravaged not just Dakotas, but *all* native Indians. Just look up the story of the Osage, and the crazy part is, it continues to happen to this very day.
The Indians were killing each other long before Europeans every stood on whats now America. Why do people think this was a utopia until Europeans. A culture without the wheel and beasts of burden would never of come close to the greatness America is today, a greatness all the world benefits from
I think it depends on the elective history classes people took. From 6th to 12th grade I went to school in Oklahoma. I took glasses that did teach all of this. I was also taught more of the Eastern conflicts in younger grades while living in South Carolina. So, I think people didn't take the classes this was taught at least those older or you just don't remember. Probably slept through classes finding it boring as a teen.
@@proudofyourboy352 I don’t ever blame all the European just the English they also did the same thing to their own people with their “work house’s” just for the love of money .
It's just race baiting. No one currently alive has ever been abused. These people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get to work, just like the rest of us Americans. Everybody wants to blame somebody else for their problems, but refuse to open up to the problems they cause themselves. The woe to me generation ( anyone born after 1960 )
It's so important that these young people preserve and understand everything about their artifacts and culture. Like in any religious ceremony it's the small gestures built over a very long time that carry the most meaning and reverence. One day someone will want to do something ceremonial but all the knowledge will be gone on how to do any of it. Or why you wear the head dress and what the different parts mean. Young native Americans you are all that's left!!
Why ? Do you wander around in a Coonskin cap hunting wolves and building log cabins to keep your Culture alive ? Do you speak an 18 th century French or English dialect in order to keep it alive ?
Just as a side note, the Plains tribes tipi is the most beautiful, livable shelter one could have in that environment. Before all the conflict, they were meticulously crafted out of buffalo hide, later...settler cloth. “The Indian Tipi” by the Laubins . Excellent book, with plans for making your own. Beautiful with the 18’ lodge pole pine supports, streamers flying off the tips. Comfortable even in the toughest winters with an inside fire pit and smoke flaps. Also, the book goes into a lot of detail on the culture / lifestyle as the Laubins spent a great deal of time among those who knew the old ways.
@@albanymtnlife And for some reason I said that the support poles were 18’. They started out being 23’ - 24’. When they moved they constructed a travois out of the poles. They used dogs early on, and later horses to pull the travois. The tips of the poles would eventually wear down until they were too short and would need replacing. The interior diameter was 18’ so maybe that’s what I was thinking.
@@albanymtnlife Also, the rain would indeed run down the poles but they had a couple of tricks to have it run all the way down the poles to the outer edge where it didn’t hurt anything.
I love actual knowledge of the history of the native peoples of the earth and I love the fact of what this record is still represented in a rational and respectful manner. Thank you for sharing true history.
A riveting documentary. What you see is the graciousness of the native people speaking of having been erased and they are so beautifully resilient that it takes your breath away. My own personal experience is that it took most of my life to find out any of my connections to the culture. This was so meticulously and lovingly done it took me by surprise. And I so appreciate the way you delivered it. You have every reason to be proud of this masterpiece.
They did this on PURPOSE in order to erase our REAL history and replace it with their version of what they wanted ALL of us to believe!!! What they have done to the Native Americans is beyond comprehension for most people, because they do NOT understand why they did this. The TRUTH about what they did to these people and why will be revealed, because EVERYTHING done in the darkness will ALWAYS eventually be brought to the light. The darkness cannot create on its own. Therefore, it must take what is created by light and twist, warp and invert it, in order to make it their own. In order to create their Orwellian society, they MUST first destroy ALL people who know the TRUTH!! The Native Americans were people of light. They killed the adults that had all of their sacred tribal information and then stole native children and sent them to reprogramming schools, where they were stripped of their names, culture and language and forced to live lives that were NOT their own!! They tried to INTENTIONALLY wipe out ALL native people and their teachings from not only America, but ALL other countries as well. These people obviously had valuable knowledge about our past and the world in which we live, that they did NOT want the rest of society to know!! You cannot indoctrinate the people with the history that you want for people to believe, if there are people alive that know the TRUTH!!! Imho
@@JohnSmith-yh5bd 'FATHER, forgive them, for they know not what they do." This was JESUS WHO willingly went onto the Cross for over 6 1/2 hours, to make sure that all men, women, children's sins were all paid for; ever since JESUS Created Adam and Eve, our very first Grandparents that HE Created out of dust, then HE Breathed life into them, which includes all of mankind. to the last man when JESUS COMES WITH A SHOUT FROM THE EAST, ON A CLOUD, TAKES HIS TRUE CHILDREN HOME IN HEAVEN, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE!!! Over 50 years ago, I had the deep,black hatred of hell for the man who raped and then murdered our Mom, after I became A Child Of GOD Over 40+ years ago, I prayed about it, asked JESUS to give me this chance, led him to The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, then later on he passed away, met jesus in Heaven, then also met our MOM, and I had given ALL GLORY, PRAISE, AND HONOUR TO LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!! And yes, JESUS set me free from alcohol, smoking, and drugs, completely!!! A Native 76+ year Elder, In JESUS' SWEET AND POWERFUL NAME!!! AMEN AND AMEN. GO WITH GOD.
a lot of ppl might not watch this but i had to watch it for school and coming to this video thinking it was all fun and adventure i now see how deep it was.
They go on a wild murderous rampage killing and mutilating 800 completely innocent men women and children...bashing little babies' brains out...and torturing innocent farmers they encounter along the way?!?
This is an amazing and eye opening , emotion invoking, thought provoking thing I have had the luck to stumble across. Tears , anger , pride , shame , all of the emotional rollercoaster ride , I've felt . I'm not an Indian or first people of this country . Yet the Pride I feel towards your people all of the tribes has and continues to be elevated by the determination and nobility shown in the efforts to have acknowledged all that is your GOD'S given rights to your heritage and sacred places ! My mother was from Pipestone and shared with her nine children her love and admiration of those indian children she had known while growing up . I have myself been to Pipestone , to the quarry, one of my mother's favorite places . May the GOD'S THAT BE smile down on you and yours , help your people in all was . Keep you safe . Guide your journey in this life with kindness and understanding until you stand with your ancestors again ! ✌️🙈🙊🙉👍
🌎: ".....the blood of the animals birds fish humans insects coagulated there; they call it Pipestone......origins-homelands.....; the softer red stone is carved into the pipe for the messages, prayers, words that are needed......
@@JohnSmith-yh5bd Why are you making so many comments to people who arent even saying anything remotely related to what your reply rants about? Is it because you know that your comment will be lost in the sea of non-insane sounding comments? lol No one is crying about anything besides people like you. The education we all got in the US and other places LIED about our experiences with native people in the americas. The issue is continuing that same fucking lie. Do you like being lied to? You were lied to by educators. That is upsetting. And so is war and so is imperialism. But ill say it once again. You are bothered by this whole thing for a few select reasons. You do not understand that emotions can exist genuinely, you believe emotions are fake & are only used by individuals in order to deceive others. So this commenter talking about their emotions? You take offense to it because you believe theyre trying to manipulate. Your thought process isnt normal. Another reason is that youre probably envious of that fact that some natives receive money through casinos. BIg old checks. Its no different than you inheriting your parents property when they die(see the issue there? Natives lost the inheritance in numerous different capacities. That damage continues on but we shouldnt deal with the past anymore like you claim.....Then how do you feel about paying veteran pensioners? We still pay people who had ancestors who had service in the civil war, and up. That should bother you as well but it wont. Because youre a hypocrite. Its all in your head, dude. Youre not as logical as you believe you are(yes im well aware that you absolutely love how logical you believe your brain is. It isnt. Get over it.)
Great documentary. Regrettably it also shines a light on how people who are stuck in the past have trouble living in the present and will never have a future.
Dear deafeningAvenueDog 👋🏽 I have to agree, I now see how being “black sheep” has been a true blessing. Rejected by native family because of my parents choices. I learned racism & prejudice from relatives who referred to me as the white female 🐩, apple, not real, I kicked rocks real quick @15 grew up quick, never let the color of my skin deny me a damn thing. I have had many opportunities to make my own 🇺🇸 dream. I think for myself and many relatives despise me because I am not progressive. I learned my history without family and better from other tribal nations. How is another native going to tell me I am not Indian enough?
@@Wop-a-hoe I'm sorry you were rejected by your so called family. You sound like a very strong willed n intelligent woman. Carry on with your bad self 😊😊😊❤
What can we do now, to get to where we want to be in 20 years?" This is awesome and the kind of thinking into action that will get you there ❤ I loved this documentary! Bring me more and more and more! I am planning my next pow wow 🙏
My great-great grandmother was Emily Prescott. My great grandmother was Mary Cantley Dunsmoore Rose. My grandfather Adelbert Russell Rose. He was one of 13 children born to Mary Cantley and Chester Rose. Many of my grandfather’s siblings (surnames Morris and Rose) were school at Santee Normal School. It shouldn’t be so difficult to trace my grandfather‘s people. The stories told from my mother and her sisters were that my grandfather’s family we are well known in their community of Two-Harbors, Minnesota. One goal I have now that I am retired, is to follow up on genealogy that I started well over 20 years ago to research my grandfathers people. We are Santee Sue. We are very proud family. It is unfortunate that tracing our heritage is proving to be very difficult. Any assistance, suggestions, recommendations, contacts, would be greatly appreciated.
Contact the Nation. They should be able to point you in the right direction. Also the school may have old records. I didn't go to one of the schools but the Indian School in Anadarko and Ada Oklahoma helped me when I was younger because they still had records of past family members.
There is a Santee Tribe northeast of Niobrara, Nebraska .. a small reservation .. my Grandmother, Mildred Stewart, who grew up in Niobrara, back in the 1920s and 1930s, used to ride out there from her parent's farm in Niobrara [ they ran a restaurant in Niobrara back before they moved the town in the 1970s ] and taught the Santee children for many years .. you may find some ancestral links with the Santee of Niobrara .. about 500 miles from Two Harbors ..
I worked at Fort Boonesbough, in Ky. And the old ladies that had worked there for 20+ yrs would call the Indians savages. So being young and knowing that my mothers family was of the Cherokee tribe that didn't sit well with me so, I spoke up and said well if someone stole your homes and land and starved your family to death wouldn't that make you act a little savage to. Especially seeing your children crying from hunger!! They spoke up and said that didn't matter because they were like animals, I said well my grt-grandparents were Indians and they weren't like animals because, we would go see them before they died and they acted civilized just like you and me!!! I worked there for 2 seasons and quit because I didn't like all the things I didn't like!!!
The Indians are hardly blameless they stole the land from their fellow Indians there's a whole history of this just about all Indian tribes or war base societies who stole the land of their fellow Indians so don't point the finger at just the whites you did it all yourself too nobody is blameless here
The word savage didn’t just come from arrogant people. It came from witnessing natives do really wicked and violent things. No race is without sin. Stop worshipping the victim religion.
My great great grandfather settled in Minnesota. it was so cold back then, he said the thing he wanted the most was an electric heater, which he never got. sad.
Thank you Twin Cites PBS for thus enlightening and educational piece! All Minnesota schools should show this video. Knowledge is power. Respect for our indigenous peoples🙏🥰
I am glad to see European Americans waking up to their Tribes and Family Crests from the homeland in Europe. We were told to forget our past but we as Europeans must remember the servitude and religious persecution that was left behind in Europe. We came here seeking freedom and opportunity . . . And PEACE. 🙏💯
@35:50 - This EXACT same situation happened during the Irish "Famine", Reason for Quotes is because there was NO food Famine in Mid 1840's in Ireland - it was a Potato Crop failure (Potato Blight) which unfortunately the majority of the poor population existed on this Single Crop harvest.. However like in this Native American Docu there was also enormous Wharehouses hoarding All other type of foods and crops which were being Exported via Britain to the Continent.. In the Major Port Cities like Dublin, Cork, Belfast etc., all the Foodstuffs were Wharehoused and loaded on Ships bound for Britain and beyond however the silly Irish never captured or even tried overtaking these Towns or Areas like these Brave Native Lakota did, very strange.. I'm sure the British sent over enough Redcoats to protect Cities and the Rich Landlords and their properties..
Absolutly. Hundreds of thousands of Red Coats. They didn't like the sight of blood as it scared the women and children. They wouldn't be sending any planters would they. When I write 'They' I mean the Irish along with Brits, English, Scots and Welsh. As the Irish did have parliamentary representation. After the Irish mass murder of the agricultural planters they could be sure the Goverment would not be sending more. You can talk about biting the hand that feeds you. But the Irish Catholics murdered the hands which fed them. If you kill all the slaves who will have to do the labouring. If you kill all the hired help who will have to do all the help themselves. If you kill all the agricultural planters who will plant the crops? If all the agricultural planters are murdered and crops are not planted then when one crop fails what will replace it? If there was no crop to replace it. Who will feed the starving? Those bloody Red Coats?
I just "found" this channel, and I'm already hooked on your videos. Thank you, sir, for your interesting content and brilliant presentation of said content.
I was lucky enough to spend alot of my youth on three different reservations. It helped me to grow up with a completely different outlook. Many of my Native friends in the 70s, had relatives who were only a few generations in the past, and who were killed strictly because they were Native.
I'm mixed heritage, but really only know my grandfather came from either Switzerland or Netherlands, I ascribe to love one another, forgive often, and hold individuals accountable for thier behaviors. I hold deep sorrow for all persons who have experienced trauma and oppression at the hands of tyrannical , greedy, deceptive, murderous persons of any ethnicity or backgrounds. I hope we can learn to stop warring and lift each other up in love and respect our individual cultures while at the same time realizing we are one race....human. Wishing harmony and healing for us all.
@1:15:30 - How would she now that for a fact? ( that no settlers’ body snatched remains were ever used in an experiment or study 📚)I believe she let her emotions get the best of her at this point…
I actively hear people of an obvious political leaning that I know personally, say things like they wish they lived in a time without law so they could do whatever they want like punish people without courts/due process, and to fix all the other issues they claim exist. Mainly dealing with race and class. And this is just what they were willing to share with me and that im willing to talk about(such as their desire to rape women.) These people exist and they are dangerous especially now that theyre clearly wanting a civil war in the US. Church and Government were created specifically to curtail these crazies and provide a basis for morals. However Any likely problem you have with a government is due to these types corrupting it. Literally every genuinely debilitating flaw in the US today is caused by these people and them alone.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 The majority of people do have morals and values.The problem is not the concept of church or government but a small group of hypocrites drunk on power and greed that are leading these institutions.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 a person can believe anything based on what they think they hear. There are good and bad in all peoples. I don't think anybody that u r referring to wants to do away with laws and gov so they can go around raping women. Which side is it robbing and stealing and murdering each other on a daily basis?
Lincoln took the first step. He pardoned over 300 of the Santee Sioux. Thats why only 39 were hung. Don't buy into the evil white man narrative. There were plenty of bad deeds done on the Sioux side as well.
The settlers were taking their land without any true compensation what-so-ever. The government lied and cheated the Natives to get what they wanted.and they were finally squeezed to a breaking point. @@roostercogburn1943
There was a painting of the attack on New Ulm by Anton Gag which used to be displayed in the state capital - it was removed in 2016 as it was apparently too controversial...
This was your land, your place. No one had any right to take it from you. You speak perfectly and intelligently. I feel for what you have all gone through. My heart goes out to you. Bless you all.
Land was traded for in many early cases. So land sold or traded for whilst being taken is not land stolen as it was acquired with agreedment. I think it was a common Indian joke to say when will White Men learn you can not own the land'. Many Natives were migrational tribes people living in mobile Teepees. So had very little intrest in land owership and would readily trade a valley for some thing they could carry with them as they were perpetually leaving the land. They did not forsee the arrival of a hundred million plus.
Please try to think clearly ! Every modern day Nation was brought into being at some point by use of force . Native Americans massacred and enslaved other tribes in order to take their lands. We are ALL guilty ! Stop being paralysed by White Guilt about things that happened hundreds of years ago. We are where we are !!
I have shed tears watching and listening to this for another time and even though it is not the first time it always makes me cry profusely to learn about this Native American Indian Holocaust it is a tragedy and evil which should never have happened by Racism and the Fear of the Settlers who were greedy and just took and wanted it all for themselves and cast out the very people who had nurtured and protected that land for generations. Lessons need to be learned and Reparation made and Restoration and land returned or and compensation to its original people and that early LAW REMOVED as it removed 99% of its people from the face of the earth. GOD BLESS and PROTECT the DAKOTA PEOPLE
Imagine some foreign SOB who has a deed for what was once yours telling you that if you and your tribe are starving to eat grass or move on down the trail. That would make anybody fighting mad.
get ready. its coming to your town soon. when no food is found, no fuel, no work, they will come and treat you just like they did the indigenous people
This has been told to starving people's before and since. Kim Jun Il told his own people this during the 90s where between 1-6 million people starved to death.
I am a non Dakota, and it galls me to this very day that none of the history we learned in school covered this war, and what history we did have was strictly from the non Dakota viewpoint. I hale from NE Wyoming just a few miles South from the Greasy Grass/Little Big Horn River & what they call today Little Big Horn Battlefield. Also just a few miles North of the Wagon Box Fight, Fort Phil Kearney, and the Fetterman massacre. It angers me, and always has, that the Native peoples were always blamed for everything bad that happened. The whites were invading their home, and we blamed them for trying to protect their families and their homelands. The white men in those days were wrong and a good many were evil. I cried along with the people in this documentary because I'm ashamed of what my race did to all the Native Peoples from day one. The tears were also ones of happiness, for the fact that history is being patched with love and acceptance.
You have white guilt. Continue to hate being white and hate your white ancestors. As well as endless apologies to Native Indians for your race. Your new name is White Woke.😁😁😁
You might want to watch it with the "we" there. My state's curriculum taught us all kinds of History and the corresponding events too difficult for some americans to learn about apparently..... from grapes of wraith/californian migrant labor camps to Little Big Horn to Harpers Ferry then all the way back around the WWII internment camps in the US(in fact, you have an internment camp right there in wyoming at a place called Heart Mountain.) The issue is a local one. Id say its a conservative issue to boot, personally. You dont see this in states where college educated progressives live & vote. I cant name one local "bad" event we werent taught here in California, Im sure we missed some of the less known events elsewhere though. Also its wise to keep in mind that k-12 is a pretty limited scope in regards to education.
what they keep repeating about the cut hairs and long hairs is a cultural thing.. most tribes only cut their hair for an offering at a funeral..when they cut our hair at the school we thought we were going to die..sadly a lot of us did.we weren't citizens till 1954 .we couldn't vote till the early 60's in order to vote we had to sign a contract that said weren't native anymore..north american history is never to become a common knowledge...they were sterilizing native women and some blacks till the early 70's against their will and knowledge..
They sterilized people from all different races and cultures. Even whites. Anyone that they deemed beneath them, had a criminal record, diffrence physical and mental illnesses, poor people period. This was part of the elitist Eugenics agenda.
History is almost exclusively told by the point of view of those who "triumphed" over their opposition. The '"official narrative" has replaced the factual accounts of all involved as told by opposing p.o.v.. Given enough time and effort, the truth gets glossed over if not utterly lost, then replaced by an "offical narrative". I urge you to continue speaking up and speaking out on the subject, addressing/educating quite literally anyone and everyone until there is no other narrative but for the TRUTH.
What will learning do to fix these millions of murders? Learning will lead you into who the real Native "Indians" really are, the so called "African Americans." The Trail of Tears is all the proof one needs, but most were murdered so the lighter complexion people can come in and intercept those millions of dollars that come in through casino revenue. This is a wicked people that's behind these atrocities..
Who are WE? When words turn into DEEDS that's meets NEEDS...Change happens when there's accountability, atonement, restoration and restitution short of those deeds; wish in a glass,... In a glass. Which one is fulfilled fastest?
Tears 😢and Praying🙏 to God for what was done- as I watch this TRUTH of Americans history. WE must never forget what wrong was done, however FORGIVING each other is the key to future fortitude.
I thought US history in both junior high as well as high school. There is very little information in the history textbooks regarding native American history however I was very surprised when questions pertaining to native American history ended up on the state tests! When the history books just note about the trail of tears that’s not a complete truth about Native American culture.
Thought? Or taught? Only commented because this gives a whole other path since your claiming to be a teacher. Not trying to offend or troll or anything. Just caught my 👁️.
Is this recent of in the past? Because I was taught most of this in school. I'm 51 years old. I am of both people native and European but was raised in the white world, went to regular public schools.
What exactly do you think should be taught and to what depth? eventually the scope of what should be taught will exceed the scope of what can be taught. I recall learning about american history from a timeline perspective. Only so much can be included that way but I distinctly remember tribes, dishonest dealings & warfare being discussed. What I believe failed more to be taught was the mexican american war. It is a far bigger blind spot in this country and many do not even grasp that there is a huge amount of resentment over it.
I grew up in a large family in Redwood Falls in the 1960s, and it was a traumatic experience because we were ostracized and bullied. We were called “filthy Indians”, screamed at, chased, had rocks that thrown at us, our car was egged, etc. As a child, I used to wonder what was wrong with us, because I couldn’t understand why people hated us. When I grew up, I realized that there was still animosity and racism in Redwood Falls towards anyone who was thought to be Indian because of the 1862 war that happened over a hundred years earlier. We did not even live on the reservation, were not part of any tribe, and may not even have any native ancestors at all….haven’t found any in the family tree or DNA. Imagine how much worse it was for actual Native Americans growing up there.
The death of the massacure white settlers and their surviving descendants after the Dakota War is deep. If you famiky killed one if the many 600+families or was apart if Little Crows band I woukd not blame them for showing such hate.
I have registration numbers I have names as well as family trees that I can provide. In watching this documentary a lot of names are very familiar so I know that they are distant relatives still active in the Sioux community and in my grandfather’s family.
Free Lenard Peltier. The FBI lied and we died. Long live the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota. The Black Hills belong to us by Treaty. We are still here. Hitler took many off his horrendous ideas from the First Nation/American wars. History is written by the winner! I never forget it. I go by oral history from my great grandparents. They are gone but not forgotten. R.I.P. all my ancestors!
How do you feel about modern native tribes deliberately crushing other tribes economically & legally in order to gain more capital & wealth? Also there is enough cases to claim that certain tribes are targeting tribes they believe were collaborators with old world immigrants&settlers.
I agree but you have to make sure that the corruption stays out of the reservations by their own people. Families can be bought out by the governments money, were few prosper and the rest suffer.
Of course NOTHING is more reliable than oral traditions. That’s why kids play the game “telephone line” in elementary school: you can barely get a couple words around a circle of 15-20 kids standing side by side and holding hands without someone messing up the words within a minute or two. Oral traditions are extremely important-true. Oral tradition is more accurate than written traditions-false.
As a black man im definitely feeling this doc. Before Learning some of the history of the 1st nations people We played this game you know cowboys and the 1st nations people I always chose 1st nations and then I learned the history of my people in this country then I understood why.
@Kay Richards so do we after all thats how most whites are still existing today off the land and slavery of american aborigines...govt giving away millions of dollars in my ancestors land and land grants and now being paid not to farm..id say you got it already
@Kay Richards war's between tribes is not an excuse to take someone's land and make them slaves or assets to an corporate entity not does it make it right to take what's not yours... if someone took your job and your house and said well i won you'd be happy they did right and that makes you a loser because only losers go around taking what's not their.. even if it happened between tribes the other tribe would revenge and take it back...47 million blacks is a problem...
As I watch this documentary my heart cries and tears stream down my face. As a Metis Woman from Manitoba knowing my own people's history with the Government and how they stole our ancestors land including the horrendous abuse my ancestors withstood, "take the Indian out of the Child" this breaks my heart to the depths of my Soul. Hearing that Chief Little Crow's scalp was tossed in the trash and remains on display, a strong, powerful man who only wanted to protect his family and community is a despicable thing to hear. I had to stop the video, tears would not stop. Such brutalities. If Truth and Reconciliation can enable ALL Humans to understand the atrocities committed, on both sides, and the reasons behind those atrocities, then perhaps we can all heal. Education is a powerful tool, history books, school books will NEVER tell the real story, it is time to rewrite history books, this will help unite us as Humans. It is because of documentaries like this will the truth come out. I am grateful to see that the Dakota People, and my own Family, are taking steps to honour our ancestors, our culture, and our traditions. I also grieve for the Families of the Settlers who had to pay a heavy price because of their Government's decisions. Peace and Love to all that read this. Please be kind. Megwetch, Hiy Hiy
Thing is you got white peope that are proud of this history and don't care that it was wrong. If blacks did this to whites they wouldn't let us live it down or forget. They would let us know how bad we was. But blacks are told its in the past and move on. Whites wouldn't see it that way. Look how some whites act when shown the darkness they done.
AS A HUMAN BEING,,,HAVING THE SPIRIT WITHIN ME ,,,,I SEE THE ATROSITIES THAT ARE COMITTED AGAINST OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS,,,,IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN UNTIL THE ALMOGHTY SPIRIT AND FINALLY INTERVINES TO PUT AN END TO THIS EVIL THAT IS SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD.
I'd be honored to learn and have access to the Dakota language . Where do I go to begin my journey ? Thank you for any help with this endeavor, and again for this enlightening documentary ! 🖖🙉🙊🙈✌️
Hi! We don't have anything on Dakota language, but we have created documentaries about preserving Indigenous languages. You can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/RooWZc4lLok/v-deo.html
Contact the Nation and see if they can help you. Idk if you could afford to pay one of the few speakers to teach you but they may have made a curriculum that can help teach you the starting basics for now.
When people connect one-on-one, friendship and helpfulness can abound. It isn't until the powers-that-be, outside a community, who make decisions that destroy a community.
I've lost my connections to my ancestors too. One of my grandparents was German. His parents by coming here missed out on the world wars that decimated Germany. My Finnish great grandpa was a general in the Finnish Russian war. Pretty sure that's why the next generation of theirs immigrated to US. They saw the potential of Russia overtaking countries all over. Millions of common people, farmers etc were murdered in Russia. They were decimated. There's a terrible history in every country. In my lifetime I got trapped in a horrible cult at age 11. Only way I can describe it is what native children went thru being stolen from their families. I still had my family and went to public schools but nobody knew I was basically kidnapped from my rightful path. This person who preyed on my mother and fooled her into some crazy indoctrination by taking our free will away is no different than anyone who blindly follows suit with what the government and media tells us. There's pain in everyone's lineage. The key in my opinion is we all need to listen and hear each other. We all have to quit falling for the gov lies. We were all pawns doing their bidding in created wars and turning one group of humans against another. In early America for the most part white man and natives respected each other. Along comes the militaries doing the govs bidding. Everyone then got brainwashed and forced to do horrible things to each other. I think any human who knew the truth of things and were truly free living in peace connected to the earth had to be eradicated bc the controllers needed people to be dumb in order to be controllable. It just takes one lie to spread like wildfire and everyone is brainwashed. We're quite pliable and gullible creatures when we've never known the whole truth from the beginning. Even the native Americans many have lost that connection to their language and ways of life. Many have no interest in learning. It's all because of running from traumas. It's too painful to look back or inwards for most. If we all realize we all are in the same boat ....that we've been duped....then healing can begin. There will always be psychopaths trying to manipulate everything but we gotta be wise and quite running from truths and emotions.
And yet Id bet good money that you've never been fucked over by the US government besides not being provided universal healthcare, adequate laws to protect workers presumably such as yourself, and the continued effect of misappropriated funds for an absurd war machine. How do you honestly continue to not grasp the hypocrisy that we in all likelihood teach about the country your family came from and the atrocities that occurred there, if not much more. Yet all of the atrocities in the US that many of us had great great grandparents who personally experienced directly or indirectly the very history we are discussing & watching docs about. Including the atrocities and the amazing industrial revolution and every pile of shit in between. Including the impression they left on who they raised... Regardless Don't even try to deny that many americans are completely fucked in the head when it comes to discussing racism and other issues in the US.They are doing basically the same shit that Turks are doing with the Armenian genocide in regards to not maintaining factual history & a refusal to analyze any part of our past while simultaneously denying that the same type of hatred exists to this day. Maybe all races are guilty of it but guess what? It doesnt matter, I can only represent my own race and from a numerically remarkable amount of other whites I have met in my life, the second they're alone with other whites....The racist shit comes spewing out. Dont deny that you havent seen this shit, if you have its your duty to shut that shit down, or otherwise youre complicit to their cowardice. That is the ONLY point of this video: standing up for what is right. Something I know that you rarely do(especially cause I know for fact that you didnt even watch this doc. You skipped through it & got hurt feelings then immediately left a comment to whine and whine and whine. Is that all you do? Seriously, how'd you wind up here?)
I really like Dallas Goldtooth. I followed his live video feeds during that Standing Rock stand. I went there too and camped for the night. There was a full moon that night illuminating all the teepees that had their camp fire smoke coming up and making the camp smell so good. I imagined I was back in a time where these camps were living and breathing the native life. There were kids whooping their happy sounds on their horses galloping past my tent. I had so many different emotions that day, night and following day. I got to see what it was like for many nations of people coming together yet I felt the palpable wounds hanging in the air. I felt good that I could be there yet felt a deep sadness that I don't know my own ancestral connections. I felt I was welcome yet felt I wasn't by some bc of the wounds some hang tight to. I got to experience a prayer session yet I was educated by a kind elder telling me I have to be on the outer perimeter bc I had my dog with me. I felt happy he was kind enough to let me know but embarrassed that I didn't know their customs. I felt I should know more but was I intruding if I asked and would they tell me just the outer surface and never give me the truths for fear of outsiders judging or corrupting their ways. I was humbled on a new deeper level even when I thought I was already a humble person. I spent that whole trip to standing rock, then to the black hills and on through the bad lands all the while imagining what this beautiful land looked and felt like pre white man settlers coming here. It was a very uplifting road trip yet deeply saddening mixed with joy. I camped at the black hills. I was sad that the gov hijacked that area. Yet happy that I was able to be there. As I closed my eyes laying in my tent that night I had literal visions of people in the spirit world coming to me welcoming me and joyous I could see them and happy I had taken that soul journey. All the ancestors that have passed on are only joyous when we look into the truths. They aren't angry and trying to make us feel guilty and terrible for not understanding things. They just want us to heal and come together. To reach out to those even if they hold resentment in their hearts. To just pray if that's all we know to do. That's what I did up on the hill at Standing Rock. I just prayed the way I knew how. We are as a people figuring this out. It's really mostly healing your soul. A healed person recognizes another healed soul. You don't know how you will affect someone by just healing your own shit.
It reminds me of Cain and Abel. The Indians are living in harmony with the land, in tune with our Creator who had blessed them in turn and along comes Cain the man from GOD who lacked understanding and became jealous and murdered his brother. So the Earth opened her mouth and took in his blood. Cain is still confused and believes the Earth belongs to him and says GOD sent him here to claim it. I was born to parents of Irish blood but growing up I had friends who had a white father and a Tewa mother. She told me she was my other Mother and not to worry about what all those other people say we know who we are. I've never forgotten that.
No...the Native Americans were never "living in harmony with the land"!!! Have you ever heard of "Buffalo Jumps"? The natives would kill every single buffalo they could...only taking the choice parts and leaving the rest to rot on the plains!!!
Hau Mitakuyape. Mitakuye Oyasin. Dakota, Lakota, Nakota. Pte oyate. My people. My tiyonspae , my extended family. Oceti Sahkowin. People of the Seven Council Fires. May the Great spirit Wakang Tanka , Creator of All Life, whose name is Yehovah bless us all, now and forever! Amen.
The best book I have ever read that deals with the Native Americans and the good , bad and ugly that happened to them was written by Dee Brown . “ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee “ is the history from Columbus too Wounded Knee and the end of the Indian wars .
History is not boiled down from second hand stories. It is intentionally constructed by the victors to give the purview that they desire. I identify as white, but have Siksika and Creole heritage from my Mother's side of the family. I would love to participate in the annual 150 mile walk. "Necessity knows no law." Some things never change.
I think it takes heart, energy and courage to step far enough from the trauma to even look back and identify it let alone the depth of character to bear it. For the truly dedicated...I would love to hear the words in their language. Hope please, on we go. : :
New thought- Give it HECK- Heart, Energy, Courage, Kindness. I think that boils down to Active Grace(social grease), not a bad elixir for the soul. I like making keys.🙂
I'm not a native American person, I believe you have a good soul and you are blessed with the outside knowledge of the primitive and godliness rules of the blessed one.I hope you have the best life 🧬 and continue to bless your family
You act like Indians are only peoples terrorized by the cabal of criminals who controls the (((British Empire))). Every white person you see who isn’t British ancestors had worse done to them than what happened to the immigrants to America after Stone Age Europeans came to America, aka natives or Indians. Not native to America.
Look at these people now their ancestors would be proud of them as they are right to be proud of their ancestors who went through so much! Made to look like the bad guys as you get older you realise they were not but were fighting for survival so shame on our European ancestors of the time! God bless us all!
Thank you for this video" Absolutly love it.. Its about time Racism DIED" 100%.. We are all one! 1..One people under the Great Spirit. Thank you again" beautiful"
Allowing people to starve particularly in the reality food is available but being withheld is unconscionable. Period. In my mind there is no ambiguity regarding starvation. I well understand the process of starvation not for a day, a week, a month, a year. When there is no hope for relief one has nothing to loose. It’s horrible. Shame on those who were so without conscience they could allow other human beings to experience such profound deprivation. Despicable.
My ancestor, Capt A.M. Collins was there. He was part of the Militia. He left the story of the build up to the New Ulm massacre and the resulting trial and the largest mass hanging in US history. His story in a nutshell: the Indians were starving and cold and the Indian agent was a crook who refused to deliver their supplies, selling to others, or if the suppies were delivered they were moldy, moth eaten, worthless food and blankets. The tensions increased, lands were stolen repeatedly from the Indians by the government and politicians and speculators and settlers all. The massacre happened. The Indians (1400) were tracked and arrested. 300 were charged. 40 were sentanced to death. One was pardoned and one died so 38 were hung. I have the story in our oral family history passed down through 5 generations to me. I had internet so was able to investigate the Massacre, the Dakota Trials, and the surrounding history, including the Mankato Citizen Soldiers and drawings of the scaffold. There are a number of reasons I believe the family history. 1. My ancestor was in the Militia and later in the US army Union as a Lieutenent for the last year. 2. He was a Carpenter, and wheelwright and blacksmith, both in and out of the military. 3. He stated he was the Carpenter in charge of building the scaffold that was used to hang the Indians found guilty. 4. He was later a Court Bailiff for the Grand Jury, Mayor, City Council member, Justice of the Peace. 5. He built 2 more scaffolds during his lifetime, one was used, the other was not as the man was acquitted. And finally, 6: He seemed proud of being a soldier and doing his duty but said that " it ( the hangings or the whole situation?) was not well done by those in charge", but this only was stated years after the fact and possibly had bothered him for years. My appreciation of and respect for the Sioux suffering during that time was solely due to my family history and later personal research. Being white caused me to do even more history research into the genocides and abuses of our indigenous population.
Great film. Next historian saying Powerful Sad Events. Maybe this History .. PoWer 📜 don't rely on the Government Promises.😮 LOVE for western Minnesota today
It’s long past time that the truth comes out of the dark and put under a giant spotlight. The way all native Americans were treated by our government was horrific. The native tribes tried to live in peace with people who just wanted to come into their home land and take everything for themselves. The native tribes had every right to fight for their homes, families and for their lives!! Everyone should be taught the truth about all the wrongs that were committed against all the tribes!!
I certainly never learned about this in NYC public schools. In fact, we were taught next to nothing about native Americans except the myth of the Pilgrims and Indians being friends at the first Thanksgiving.
No offense but are you sure about that? You graduated HS, right? Around what year? I specifically recall learning about specific tribes & the various massacres of either whites and natives, in various history classes & i didnt have any advanced classes. I did read textbooks with interest though not simply as assignments.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 I graduated in 97 and grew up in Oregon near a reservation and the wars between whites and natives in our school books were referred to as “conflicts” over land disputes but there was never details or full truth taught regarding the massacres that took place between white settlers and Indians. I’m not saying this to deny the bad history that happened, I’m just explaining that not all schools taught the full truth of our American history. In fact some countries think Indians are extinct in America and believe whites exterminated them during the settlement.
My Mohawk ancestory is what I cherish most. It connects me to Father Sky Mother Earth. In the summer of 1994 I was living in what at one time was Indian Land (Lincoln Park) in Somerville, Massachusetts. The spirits of those betrayed souls came alive...a most powerful time in my life. I was always a medium...something I came to realize in my life. People are fearful of it...they feel it around me, but don't know what it is, or why.
You're not a "medium". There are no "spirits talking to you". This is called being a schizo and you need help. People are probably fearful of you because they can see you are mentally ill.
This does right by the Native Dakota of Minnesota. What a fabulous documentary. This should be mandatory viewing in all schools. We NEED more of this kind of quality and holistic education about indigenous people & culture. Minnesota Ojibwe here, this video made me sob by how well it was done. Thank you for giving the Dakota this platform and voice. I would love to see more Minnesota tribal history!!!
I disagree with you, my comment is below, debate me on it if you can. My main point is the first photo are the Dakota men, the chiefs are wearing Garments made from Afican American slaves' labour in the South and the Islands. This conflict is the same time as the Civil war, in fact they were moved after the Civil War had begun. So, my argument, these people had for decades been enjoying the hard and often deadlly forced labour of other men. By time the mid 1850's rolled around, with high production in the south cotton, sugar, fruit, the demand for more came from the West and North.
Why did the Dakots people choose to enjoy goods made from known slave labor, also they took captured wives from all over the country, why?
Second, why didn't the Dakota take up arms to free these very enslaved southern blacks after hearing the news from Active Dakota Congressmen in 1861, start of the Civil War , the year before the Dakota US conflict?
The Dakota should not have to thank anyone. It should have always been part of American history and not tried to wipe it off the pages of history. In Texas we slaughtered the Buffalo in an effort to move Native American to other areas. We have not forgotten this, it is part of our history.
@@cb6816 So what is your take on the slaves in China? Is your house full of Chinese products? We are still a slave nation, we just changed the geography of where the slaves are located. It is still slavery and God will not be happy with us. He will not be happy with the enslavement of women who are used as sex slaves but the demand still grows!
Think about it.
@C B
Your level of ignorance is astonishingly stellar it deserves an award
The whole idea of male 'chiefs' was a European coating to cover up & diminish & in effect destroy a traditionally matriarchal society.
The Europeans were afraid to negotiate with the Traditional Hereditary Chiefs Council which was female: Elder Grandmother Clan.
Europeans lack of interest in negotiating with women is due to their LACK of knowledge & ability to do so-- due to their patriarchal programming- a convenient cover-up over their insecurity & ignorance based inadequacy & mentality.
Dressing up a proud people under oppression in clown's clothing is just more of the insecure European control freaks need to cover up their idiocy.
Natives and African slaves were manipulated-exploited & used for frontline infantry.
The oppressor's attitude is: They're good enough to use as disposable shields in war but they can't vote nor participate in the white man's "civil" society
@Birgi p.m. Stop thinking all Natives were the same. Some were female lead for advice, many were male lead for warfare. Usually both. Also there wasn't 'European' even as a concept yet, there were the French, and that even split between French Merchants, the French Crown and those under The Holy Roman Empire and the Pope. Later the British and then America-not the same people at ALL. Also many native tribes wanted and abused African Slaves. It's hard to acknowledge historical truth I know, such a challenge to deeply digest and analyze basic human history. Good debate I like these interactions. If you can reach past that Academic Democrat Party KKK Propaganda and respond with something even arguably interesting I'll be happy to reply again. I'm Yucatanian Native on my mother's Great grandmother's side. And she was a leader sort of because of being female. But in Mexico for Natives, your role depended on the stars you were born under. I actually wonder how Northern Natives related to astrological leadership. I especially like these debates because I want to open native trade routes back from MY ancestral lands in Mexico to the North. But you people tend to be very prejudice and ignorant of other Natives who disagree and present other FACTS.
It amazes me How much you learn on these documentaries compared to what I learned in school!
Dont trust everything
This is why it's best to do our own history deep dive outside school. It's better and a lot more fun to do because you explore more then what your teachers curriculum is allowed in its limitations. Learning history outside if the curriculum gives us more leeway and better way if finding the middle line of the the full truth.
Government controls what schools teach. They can't exact paint themselves in a good light if they actually taught the truth.
@@valor101arise Why wouldn't you trust this? I learned this in college and I've seen it with my own eyes visiting family. History is not always pretty. Far from it.
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Who writes history? Who decides what is taught in schools?
Who writes the news? The daily news is history.
When the news and history is canceled or deleted it is a crime.
Now the war is who controls the news and cancels history.
There really is a group of so called Americans who think they can ignore the history of this land. I don't leave it to school to teach my son because I do not trust it. He will teach his son. He tells me that I dwell on sad stories but I tell him the history of this land is sad. I am sorry our world does not yet value all people. Thank you for sharing and teaching.
"So called??" I am a native American. I was born in America. I refused to be punished or looked down on because of things that people with my skin color did before my ancestors came here about 50 years ago. I have sympathy for the plight of others, but that DOES NOT make me RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
@@deathwrenchcustom I'm talking about the "Americans" who came as immigrants who tell indigenous people to go back where they came from. They don't teach any native culture in school and I live in AZ.
@@deathwrenchcustom Amen! So sick of the constant "victim" mentality fron people who have never experienced anything.
Teaching someone to only focus on the bad creates bad people
@@deathwrenchcustom you may not be responsible for it, but every one of you benefit from what your forefathers did to indians, and black people....still to this day....so yes that makes you guilty
Once again I'm thankful for TPT and another wonderful documentary that should be mandatory in our educational system. I've been shocked by the lack of real history I was taught growing up in Minnesota, but it's also opened my eyes to so many atrocities within our culture. It's so important we acknowledge our past and become stewards of peace and reconciliation for future generations.
The Dakota made a consequence of there own actions. The atrocity was the dead white settlers murdered in cold blood by the Dakota.
@@brittanyhayes1043 Please go back and read real history, not the white narrative that has been taught intentionally wrong for decades. They were purposefully starving the Dakota, after signing a treaty that included food they were harvesting and storing in exchange for land. What's shameful today is that anyone would deny the truth and call what they did an atrocity to feed their people. They fought once challenged upon breaking into food silo's. They did not initiate violence on the settlers first.
@@brittanyhayes1043obviously you're a racist! Only seeing one side.
“They tried to bury us but didn’t know we were seeds”.❤️
John 12:24 Hallelujah
We say the same about us, the Crimean Tatars of the illegally Russian occupied peninsula. I hope with all my heart that you multiply and keep your language alive. Language is identity.
You killed the white settler families and didn't expect the might of consequence to come.
@monicdavis6150 are you gonna move back to Africa since you hate America so much or are you going to continue to swerk on so called "stolen land"?
That is beautiful n soo damn true! Spirit lake Dakotah/LCO Ojibwe ❤
These stories and emotions for this quest... Really need to be shared. I spent a lot of time in Arizona and Oklahoma, but, I grew up with the native populations of Northern Minnesota. These stories aren't just about the descendants of the tribes. These lessons are necessary for ALL of us!
This was very informative and heart warming. I myself am Native American part Lumbee and part Cherokee from Lumberton NC. Our people still struggle to this day. We need more Documentaries like this to keep our ancestors spirits alive and respect all they went through. We are a dying breed but I’d love to see that change. Godbless
I grew up in a very comfortable home. My father was from Minnesota, and his father was Ojibwe. I visited Minnesota and South Dakota with him in 1996, and I was shocked and heartbroken to see the reservations there. The conditions are despicable. How the Natives were (and are still) treated is inexcusable.
why cant yall have ten kids?
@@Nathanjr311 I don't want one kid, let alone ten. Good Lord.
What about the dead, massacured white settlers? What about them? Are you going to be respectful and put flowers int here graves or give them a pass to pay victim?
A very moving and educational documentary. I’m 77, Caucasian and grew up in Mpls. Thank you for this video.
I grew up in Mankato 1953-1972. I remember seeing the historical monument of the 38 Indians who were hanged. Someone threw red paint on it if memory serves, and it was eventually moved. I didn’t know the history until I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
I have that book"
First book i read as a boy living in England..
I also read the trail of tears" not long after...
@@sasquatch4745 The Trail of Tears runs through here in Huntsville, Alabama to Tulsa, Oklahoma where my sister lives. Sad! There is a historical marker in Missouri on the Missouri River that states the Indians were giving their children to White people so they wouldn’t starve to death.
Good read.
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My ×5 grandfather dowansa tenazepa the singer. On a ancestral journey. Am studying my family history. It breaks my heart. I hope to give a voice to the issues the dakota and indegenous people still face today. I thank my grandma goldie's spirit for sending me on this path. 🙏 ❤💛🖤🤍
Well I gave too the Dakota tribes for years OHIOANS FOLK'S found out I am mixed with 4 tribes told I was A black girl because of my yarney hair. I took ancestors DNA molecules testing and found out spainish native American Indian 4 tribes we picked tobacco up here in the north with west African slaves and we mixed our blood line they 🤙😎🎁 call us Trinidad Cuban's we migrated too America in the 1600 hundreds our tribes are out of Cuba the Saint Ana's and several of different traditions cities our 🏝️ island country goes from Florida too Mexico too little past Mexico going towards the west California was the destination. Well God bless you.
@@demisialockett8437 that's interesting did not know that! Learn more everyday!
Amen AAMAAN Ameen Shaloam hallelujah mercy.
The documentary starts out saying that people say they didn't learn about the Dakota Conflict and I am in that group. This video is very informative and I am glad to have watched it. I learned a lot the Dakota and the the history of Minnesota. This is a great educational tool.
American History has a very dark history that is conveniently left out of school books. We ravaged not just Dakotas, but *all* native Indians. Just look up the story of the Osage, and the crazy part is, it continues to happen to this very day.
@@LynxStarAuto Yes!
The Indians were killing each other long before Europeans every stood on whats now America. Why do people think this was a utopia until Europeans. A culture without the wheel and beasts of burden would never of come close to the greatness America is today, a greatness all the world benefits from
I think it depends on the elective history classes people took. From 6th to 12th grade I went to school in Oklahoma. I took glasses that did teach all of this. I was also taught more of the Eastern conflicts in younger grades while living in South Carolina. So, I think people didn't take the classes this was taught at least those older or you just don't remember. Probably slept through classes finding it boring as a teen.
@@proudofyourboy352 I don’t ever blame all the European just the English they also did the same thing to their own people with their “work house’s” just for the love of money .
Thank you, TC PBS, for this outstanding documentary! So many dignified human beings all around who have dealt with so much pain.
Except for the so called class of the rich whom never even have to answer for polluting our earth...wtf is wrong with people?!
It's just race baiting. No one currently alive has ever been abused. These people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get to work, just like the rest of us Americans.
Everybody wants to blame somebody else for their problems, but refuse to open up to the problems they cause themselves. The woe to me generation ( anyone born after 1960 )
It's so important that these young people preserve and understand everything about their artifacts and culture. Like in any religious ceremony it's the small gestures built over a very long time that carry the most meaning and reverence. One day someone will want to do something ceremonial but all the knowledge will be gone on how to do any of it. Or why you wear the head dress and what the different parts mean. Young native Americans you are all that's left!!
Why though?
Why ? Do you wander around in a Coonskin cap hunting wolves and
building log cabins to keep your
Culture alive ? Do you speak an
18 th century French or English dialect in order to keep it alive ?
Kindness is the only thread that can weave us together. Peace to the peoples of Earth.
Just as a side note, the Plains tribes tipi is the most beautiful, livable shelter one could have in that environment. Before all the conflict, they were meticulously crafted out of buffalo hide, later...settler cloth. “The Indian Tipi” by the Laubins . Excellent book, with plans for making your own. Beautiful with the 18’ lodge pole pine supports, streamers flying off the tips. Comfortable even in the toughest winters with an inside fire pit and smoke flaps.
Also, the book goes into a lot of detail on the culture / lifestyle as the Laubins spent a great deal of time among those who knew the old ways.
It is curious how the tipi was designed, but how did the opening in the top prevent snow or rain from coming in?
@@albanymtnlife It had smoke flaps that could be closed (or adjusted) using two poles on the exterior.
@@albanymtnlife And for some reason I said that the support poles were 18’. They started out being 23’ - 24’. When they moved they constructed a travois out of the poles. They used dogs early on, and later horses to pull the travois. The tips of the poles would eventually wear down until they were too short and would need replacing.
The interior diameter was 18’ so maybe that’s what I was thinking.
@@albanymtnlife Also, the rain would indeed run down the poles but they had a couple of tricks to have it run all the way down the poles to the outer edge where it didn’t hurt anything.
@@twocyclediesel1280 interesting!
I love actual knowledge of the history of the native peoples of the earth and I love the fact of what this record is still represented in a rational and respectful manner. Thank you for sharing true history.
A riveting documentary. What you see is the graciousness of the native people speaking of having been erased and they are so beautifully resilient that it takes your breath away. My own personal experience is that it took most of my life to find out any of my connections to the culture.
This was so meticulously and lovingly done it took me by surprise. And I so appreciate the way you delivered it. You have every reason to be proud of this masterpiece.
They did this on PURPOSE in order to erase our REAL history and replace it with their version of what they wanted ALL of us to believe!!!
What they have done to the Native Americans is beyond comprehension for most people, because they do NOT understand why they did this.
The TRUTH about what they did to these people and why will be revealed, because EVERYTHING done in the darkness will ALWAYS eventually be brought to the light.
The darkness cannot create on its own. Therefore, it must take what is created by light and twist, warp and invert it, in order to make it their own.
In order to create their Orwellian society, they MUST first destroy ALL people who know the TRUTH!!
The Native Americans were people of light. They killed the adults that had all of their sacred tribal information and then stole native children and sent them to reprogramming schools, where they were stripped of their names, culture and language and forced to live lives that were NOT their own!!
They tried to INTENTIONALLY wipe out ALL native people and their teachings from not only America, but ALL other countries as well.
These people obviously had valuable knowledge about our past and the world in which we live, that they did NOT want the rest of society to know!! You cannot indoctrinate the people with the history that you want for people to believe, if there are people alive that know the TRUTH!!! Imho
We better stop letting China buy our wonderful farmland, that should never ever be allowed happen. But it is.
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@@JohnSmith-yh5bd I wonder who introduced alcohol to them?
@@JohnSmith-yh5bd 'FATHER, forgive them, for they know not what they do." This was JESUS WHO willingly went onto the Cross for over 6 1/2 hours, to make sure that all men, women, children's sins were all paid for; ever since JESUS Created Adam and Eve, our very first Grandparents that HE Created out of dust, then HE Breathed life into them, which includes all of mankind. to the last man when JESUS COMES WITH A SHOUT FROM THE EAST, ON A CLOUD, TAKES HIS TRUE CHILDREN HOME IN HEAVEN, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE!!! Over 50 years ago, I had the deep,black hatred of hell for the man who raped and then murdered our Mom, after I became A Child Of GOD Over 40+ years ago, I prayed about it, asked JESUS to give me this chance, led him to The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, then later on he passed away, met jesus in Heaven, then also met our MOM, and I had given ALL GLORY, PRAISE, AND HONOUR TO LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!! And yes, JESUS set me free from alcohol, smoking, and drugs, completely!!! A Native 76+ year Elder, In JESUS' SWEET AND POWERFUL NAME!!! AMEN AND AMEN. GO WITH GOD.
a lot of ppl might not watch this but i had to watch it for school and coming to this video thinking it was all fun and adventure i now see how deep it was.
Man! What happens when you don't help those who are starving. Just feed the hungry. Excellent video, btw.
They go on a wild murderous rampage killing and mutilating 800 completely innocent men women and children...bashing little babies' brains out...and torturing innocent farmers they encounter along the way?!?
Thanks! I always support places that give a voice to indigenous peoples anywhere.
Thank you!
This is an amazing and eye opening , emotion invoking, thought provoking thing I have had the luck to stumble across. Tears , anger , pride , shame , all of the emotional rollercoaster ride , I've felt . I'm not an Indian or first people of this country . Yet the Pride I feel towards your people all of the tribes has and continues to be elevated by the determination and nobility shown in the efforts to have acknowledged all that is your GOD'S given rights to your heritage and sacred places ! My mother was from Pipestone and shared with her nine children her love and admiration of those indian children she had known while growing up . I have myself been to Pipestone , to the quarry, one of my mother's favorite places .
May the GOD'S THAT BE smile down on you and yours , help your people in all was . Keep you safe . Guide your journey in this life with kindness and understanding until you stand with your ancestors again ! ✌️🙈🙊🙉👍
🌎: ".....the blood of the animals birds fish humans insects coagulated there; they call it Pipestone......origins-homelands.....; the softer red stone is carved into the pipe for the messages, prayers, words that are needed......
....Mni-water
sho-blue tint color
Ota-numbering system as in hundreds, thousands and more.......
@Donnell Okafor good for you ...
This was tragic and appalling!
@@JohnSmith-yh5bd Why are you making so many comments to people who arent even saying anything remotely related to what your reply rants about? Is it because you know that your comment will be lost in the sea of non-insane sounding comments? lol
No one is crying about anything besides people like you. The education we all got in the US and other places LIED about our experiences with native people in the americas. The issue is continuing that same fucking lie. Do you like being lied to? You were lied to by educators. That is upsetting. And so is war and so is imperialism. But ill say it once again. You are bothered by this whole thing for a few select reasons. You do not understand that emotions can exist genuinely, you believe emotions are fake & are only used by individuals in order to deceive others. So this commenter talking about their emotions? You take offense to it because you believe theyre trying to manipulate. Your thought process isnt normal. Another reason is that youre probably envious of that fact that some natives receive money through casinos. BIg old checks. Its no different than you inheriting your parents property when they die(see the issue there? Natives lost the inheritance in numerous different capacities. That damage continues on but we shouldnt deal with the past anymore like you claim.....Then how do you feel about paying veteran pensioners? We still pay people who had ancestors who had service in the civil war, and up. That should bother you as well but it wont. Because youre a hypocrite.
Its all in your head, dude. Youre not as logical as you believe you are(yes im well aware that you absolutely love how logical you believe your brain is. It isnt. Get over it.)
Great documentary. Regrettably it also shines a light on how people who are stuck in the past have trouble living in the present and will never have a future.
.just be talking about them blue and na so freaks who are gonna do it again to all of us
Dear deafeningAvenueDog 👋🏽 I have to agree, I now see how being “black sheep” has been a true blessing. Rejected by native family because of my parents choices. I learned racism & prejudice from relatives who referred to me as the white female 🐩, apple, not real, I kicked rocks real quick @15 grew up quick, never let the color of my skin deny me a damn thing. I have had many opportunities to make my own 🇺🇸 dream. I think for myself and many relatives despise me because I am not progressive. I learned my history without family and better from other tribal nations. How is another native going to tell me I am not Indian enough?
@@Wop-a-hoe I'm sorry you were rejected by your so called family. You sound like a very strong willed n intelligent woman. Carry on with your bad self 😊😊😊❤
This has moved and inspired me deeply . As you can see in my comments here . Humbled by the true dignity and honor . ✌️🙈🙊🙉❤️
Really good documentary, thank you so much to all the people who put their time and effort into it.
What can we do now, to get to where we want to be in 20 years?" This is awesome and the kind of thinking into action that will get you there ❤ I loved this documentary! Bring me more and more and more! I am planning my next pow wow 🙏
It will never end and never be enough.
My great-great grandmother was Emily Prescott. My great grandmother was Mary Cantley Dunsmoore Rose. My grandfather Adelbert Russell Rose. He was one of 13 children born to Mary Cantley and Chester Rose. Many of my grandfather’s siblings (surnames Morris and Rose) were school at Santee Normal School. It shouldn’t be so difficult to trace my grandfather‘s people. The stories told from my mother and her sisters were that my grandfather’s family we are well known in their community of Two-Harbors, Minnesota. One goal I have now that I am retired, is to follow up on genealogy that I started well over 20 years ago to research my grandfathers people. We are Santee Sue. We are very proud family. It is unfortunate that tracing our heritage is proving to be very difficult. Any assistance, suggestions, recommendations, contacts, would be greatly appreciated.
Hello, you are Santee Sioux. Sioux is the name given by other tribes meaning "snake eaters".
Contact the Nation. They should be able to point you in the right direction. Also the school may have old records. I didn't go to one of the schools but the Indian School in Anadarko and Ada Oklahoma helped me when I was younger because they still had records of past family members.
There is a Santee Tribe northeast of Niobrara, Nebraska .. a small reservation .. my Grandmother, Mildred Stewart, who grew up in Niobrara, back in the 1920s and 1930s, used to ride out there from her parent's farm in Niobrara [ they ran a restaurant in Niobrara back before they moved the town in the 1970s ] and taught the Santee children for many years .. you may find some ancestral links with the Santee of Niobrara .. about 500 miles from Two Harbors ..
I’ve got a Mary rose two of them actually I wonder
I worked at Fort Boonesbough, in Ky. And the old ladies that had worked there for 20+ yrs would call the Indians savages. So being young and knowing that my mothers family was of the Cherokee tribe that didn't sit well with me so, I spoke up and said well if someone stole your homes and land and starved your family to death wouldn't that make you act a little savage to. Especially seeing your children crying from hunger!! They spoke up and said that didn't matter because they were like animals, I said well my grt-grandparents were Indians and they weren't like animals because, we would go see them before they died and they acted civilized just like you and me!!! I worked there for 2 seasons and quit because I didn't like all the things I didn't like!!!
It was one of the forts that was close to the trail of tears, its where Daniel Boone was at for awhile.
The Indians are hardly blameless they stole the land from their fellow Indians there's a whole history of this just about all Indian tribes or war base societies who stole the land of their fellow Indians so don't point the finger at just the whites you did it all yourself too nobody is blameless here
The word savage didn’t just come from arrogant people. It came from witnessing natives do really wicked and violent things. No race is without sin. Stop worshipping the victim religion.
@@zz424 totally agree zz.
I didnt like all the things i didnt like. You must be very young.
This was so amazing to watch and to learn actual history this was beautiful and at the same time heart breaking 💕
Let this info out and place in America's history books everyone should know this !!
@billyrayjackson414 Yes, everyone should know about how the Dakota murdered innocent white settlers minding there own business.
Minnesota history without Dakota history isnt history is such a true statement. Very educational piece
I like him saying bitterness does not solve any problems. It’s too bad not everybody sees it that way nowadays
My great great grandfather settled in Minnesota. it was so cold back then, he said the thing he wanted the most was an electric heater, which he never got. sad.
Thank you Twin Cites PBS for thus enlightening and educational piece! All Minnesota schools should show this video. Knowledge is power. Respect for our indigenous peoples🙏🥰
Sorry but what about the 600+ innocent settlers?
I am glad to see European Americans waking up to their Tribes and Family Crests from the homeland in Europe.
We were told to forget our past but we as Europeans must remember the servitude and religious persecution that was left behind in Europe. We came here seeking freedom and opportunity . . . And PEACE. 🙏💯
@35:50 - This EXACT same situation happened during the Irish "Famine", Reason for Quotes is because there was NO food Famine in Mid 1840's in Ireland - it was a Potato Crop failure (Potato Blight) which unfortunately the majority of the poor population existed on this Single Crop harvest.. However like in this Native American Docu there was also enormous Wharehouses hoarding All other type of foods and crops which were being Exported via Britain to the Continent.. In the Major Port Cities like Dublin, Cork, Belfast etc., all the Foodstuffs were Wharehoused and loaded on Ships bound for Britain and beyond however the silly Irish never captured or even tried overtaking these Towns or Areas like these Brave Native Lakota did, very strange.. I'm sure the British sent over enough Redcoats to protect Cities and the Rich Landlords and their properties..
Absolutly. Hundreds of thousands of Red Coats. They didn't like the sight of blood as it scared the women and children. They wouldn't be sending any planters would they. When I write 'They' I mean the Irish along with Brits, English, Scots and Welsh. As the Irish did have parliamentary representation. After the Irish mass murder of the agricultural planters they could be sure the Goverment would not be sending more. You can talk about biting the hand that feeds you. But the Irish Catholics murdered the hands which fed them.
If you kill all the slaves who will have to do the labouring.
If you kill all the hired help who will have to do all the help themselves. If you kill all the agricultural planters who will plant the crops? If all the agricultural planters are murdered and crops are not planted then when one crop fails what will replace it?
If there was no crop to replace it. Who will feed the starving? Those bloody Red Coats?
I just "found" this channel, and I'm already hooked on your videos. Thank you, sir, for your interesting content and brilliant presentation of said content.
I was lucky enough to spend alot of my youth on three different reservations. It helped me to grow up with a completely different outlook. Many of my Native friends in the 70s, had relatives who were only a few generations in the past, and who were killed strictly because they were Native.
All schools should show this video. SHARE WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
I grew up in Redwood. We talked about it. City boy?
I appreciate you sharing because I have always been curious about my history and this really answered a lot of my questions.
I'm mixed heritage, but really only know my grandfather came from either Switzerland or Netherlands, I ascribe to love one another, forgive often, and hold individuals accountable for thier behaviors. I hold deep sorrow for all persons who have experienced trauma and oppression at the hands of tyrannical , greedy, deceptive, murderous persons of any ethnicity or backgrounds. I hope we can learn to stop warring and lift each other up in love and respect our individual cultures while at the same time realizing we are one race....human. Wishing harmony and healing for us all.
What separates humans is not race but ideologies. Thats what happens when intelligence comes into the picture.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 You're correct....I agree completely
I just feel worse for the dead white settlers masscured by the Dakota.
An amazing people with an unique Culture and History to share. Thanks for sharing ❣️🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
@ 25:30 - What a well spoken lady… Such a tragedy… so many things were done wrong in all of, “our past..” ✌🏼
@1:07:02 - 😂 The woman on the left was so happy with her hair twirl..! 😃✌🏼
@1:15:30 - How would she now that for a fact? ( that no settlers’ body snatched remains were ever used in an experiment or study 📚)I believe she let her emotions get the best of her at this point…
Thank you for all of these facts they don't tell you in school.❤️
Fascinating . These great people have endured so much cruelty and discrimination.
A perfect example of what happens when people rely on government to solve problems. They only seem to leave a trail of bodies in their wake.
I'd like the city to fill in the pothole down the street. I've asked them several times perhaps I should fill it myself. Govt. scary. Grrr
@@12rwoodyFolks in my town put up signs beside each pothole and gave it a name 😂
I actively hear people of an obvious political leaning that I know personally, say things like they wish they lived in a time without law so they could do whatever they want like punish people without courts/due process, and to fix all the other issues they claim exist. Mainly dealing with race and class. And this is just what they were willing to share with me and that im willing to talk about(such as their desire to rape women.)
These people exist and they are dangerous especially now that theyre clearly wanting a civil war in the US.
Church and Government were created specifically to curtail these crazies and provide a basis for morals. However Any likely problem you have with a government is due to these types corrupting it. Literally every genuinely debilitating flaw in the US today is caused by these people and them alone.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 The majority of people do have morals and values.The problem is not the concept of church or government but a small group of hypocrites drunk on power and greed that are leading these institutions.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 a person can believe anything based on what they think they hear. There are good and bad in all peoples.
I don't think anybody that u r referring to wants to do away with laws and gov so they can go around raping women.
Which side is it robbing and stealing and murdering each other on a daily basis?
I’m glad to see the steps of reconciliation are finally being taken.
Lincoln took the first step. He pardoned over 300 of the Santee Sioux. Thats why only 39 were hung. Don't buy into the evil white man narrative. There were plenty of bad deeds done on the Sioux side as well.
I want an apology for all of the settlers they killed.
@@roostercogburn1943SAME!
The settlers were taking their land without any true compensation what-so-ever. The government lied and cheated the Natives to get what they wanted.and they were finally squeezed to a breaking point. @@roostercogburn1943
The Dekoda children are so beautiful. Love see the Dekoda culture. This is a supper video.
@Eli kinder got any A1😆
It’s about time!!! Now the hidden historians can expose and reveal many things❤
About how Natives had no written language?
This makes me wonder what the history Books will say about the horrendous withdrawal from Afganistan in the future!
There was a painting of the attack on New Ulm by Anton Gag which used to be displayed in the state capital - it was removed in 2016 as it was apparently too controversial...
This was your land, your place. No one had any right to take it from you. You speak perfectly and intelligently. I feel for what you have all gone through. My heart goes out to you. Bless you all.
Land was traded for in many early cases. So land sold or traded for whilst being taken is not land stolen as it was acquired with agreedment. I think it was a common Indian joke to say when will White Men learn you can not own the land'. Many Natives were migrational tribes people living in mobile Teepees. So had very little intrest in land owership and would readily trade a valley for some thing they could carry with them as they were perpetually leaving the land. They did not forsee the arrival of a hundred million plus.
Please try to think clearly !
Every modern day Nation was brought into being at some point by use of force . Native Americans
massacred and enslaved other tribes in order to take their lands.
We are ALL guilty ! Stop being paralysed by White Guilt about things that happened hundreds of years ago. We are where we are !!
@@MikeGreenwood51 broken treaties.
Do you live in the United States?
@@brittanyhayes1043 No I don’t, but I empathise greatly. 🌹
It doesn't matter what part of the world you come from, in human history, where people begin to starve, the wrath of hunger will fight to live!
Tell it🎉😢❤😊
We need more documentaries like this.
No we don't !
I have shed tears watching and listening to this for another time and even though it is not the first time it always makes me cry profusely to learn about this Native American Indian Holocaust it is a tragedy and evil which should never have happened by Racism and the Fear of the Settlers who were greedy and just took and wanted it all for themselves and cast out the very people who had nurtured and protected that land for generations. Lessons need to be learned and Reparation made and Restoration and land returned or and compensation to its original people and that early LAW REMOVED as it removed 99% of its people from the face of the earth. GOD BLESS and PROTECT the DAKOTA PEOPLE
Imagine some foreign SOB who has a deed for what was once yours telling you that if you and your tribe are starving to eat grass or move on down the trail. That would make anybody fighting mad.
get ready. its coming to your town soon. when no food is found, no fuel, no work, they will come and treat you just like they did the indigenous people
@@bustinnutsinslutsbutts
I have much better weapons and lots of ammo and I'll be damned that I have to eat grass!
@@brianolson1098 that's exactly why the indians lost
Killing Mad 😠‼️
This has been told to starving people's before and since. Kim Jun Il told his own people this during the 90s where between 1-6 million people starved to death.
I am a non Dakota, and it galls me to this very day that none of the history we learned in school covered this war, and what history we did have was strictly from the non Dakota viewpoint. I hale from NE Wyoming just a few miles South from the Greasy Grass/Little Big Horn River & what they call today Little Big Horn Battlefield. Also just a few miles North of the Wagon Box Fight, Fort Phil Kearney, and the Fetterman massacre. It angers me, and always has, that the Native peoples were always blamed for everything bad that happened. The whites were invading their home, and we blamed them for trying to protect their families and their homelands. The white men in those days were wrong and a good many were evil. I cried along with the people in this documentary because I'm ashamed of what my race did to all the Native Peoples from day one. The tears were also ones of happiness, for the fact that history is being patched with love and acceptance.
You have white guilt. Continue to hate being white and hate your white ancestors. As well as endless apologies to Native Indians for your race. Your new name is White Woke.😁😁😁
You might want to watch it with the "we" there. My state's curriculum taught us all kinds of History and the corresponding events too difficult for some americans to learn about apparently..... from grapes of wraith/californian migrant labor camps to Little Big Horn to Harpers Ferry then all the way back around the WWII internment camps in the US(in fact, you have an internment camp right there in wyoming at a place called Heart Mountain.)
The issue is a local one. Id say its a conservative issue to boot, personally. You dont see this in states where college educated progressives live & vote.
I cant name one local "bad" event we werent taught here in California, Im sure we missed some of the less known events elsewhere though. Also its wise to keep in mind that k-12 is a pretty limited scope in regards to education.
I'm the opposite. I'm proud of my Settler ancestors whike denouncing there wrongs.
what they keep repeating about the cut hairs and long hairs is a cultural thing.. most tribes only cut their hair for an offering at a funeral..when they cut our hair at the school we thought we were going to die..sadly a lot of us did.we weren't citizens till 1954 .we couldn't vote till the early 60's in order to vote we had to sign a contract that said weren't native anymore..north american history is never to become a common knowledge...they were sterilizing native women and some blacks till the early 70's against their will and knowledge..
They sterilized people from all different races and cultures. Even whites. Anyone that they deemed beneath them, had a criminal record, diffrence physical and mental illnesses, poor people period. This was part of the elitist Eugenics agenda.
They still do it in 2022
Yes it's called ugenics and most of us will fall I will die a Slave to no man
History is almost exclusively told by the point of view of those who "triumphed" over their opposition. The '"official narrative" has replaced the factual accounts of all involved as told by opposing p.o.v.. Given enough time and effort, the truth gets glossed over if not utterly lost, then replaced by an "offical narrative". I urge you to continue speaking up and speaking out on the subject, addressing/educating quite literally anyone and everyone until there is no other narrative but for the TRUTH.
they should never ever sterilize anyone against their wishes, especially a native American.
This made me laugh, and cry. It's horrible how poorly these folks were treated. Hopefully we can all do better, learn from this history. 💙✌👣
What will learning do to fix these millions of murders? Learning will lead you into who the real Native "Indians" really are, the so called "African Americans." The Trail of Tears is all the proof one needs, but most were murdered so the lighter complexion people can come in and intercept those millions of dollars that come in through casino revenue. This is a wicked people that's behind these atrocities..
It's been 200+ years and hoping and wishing have not made a difference yet! SMH. Hope. Wish. Dream. Dare. Try. Do!!!
Who are WE? When words turn into DEEDS that's meets NEEDS...Change happens when there's accountability, atonement, restoration and restitution short of those deeds; wish in a glass,... In a glass. Which one is fulfilled fastest?
@DrDeADETV We don't need to hold anyone accountable for the past. Just move on and don't tell white people to feel shame
Tears 😢and Praying🙏 to God for what was done- as I watch this TRUTH of Americans history. WE must never forget what wrong was done, however FORGIVING each other is the key to future fortitude.
I don't see any Dakota forgiving
Thankyou for this, our kids need to be taught and cultured about this kinda stuff....tiktok isn't an education!!
Agreed
This was great!! Stay on them to change Law's We R 1 with you ✌🏿✌🏿
Too heartbreaking for words.
I thought US history in both junior high as well as high school. There is very little information in the history textbooks regarding native American history however I was very surprised when questions pertaining to native American history ended up on the state tests! When the history books just note about the trail of tears that’s not a complete truth about Native American culture.
Thought?
Or taught?
Only commented because this gives a whole other path since your claiming to be a teacher.
Not trying to offend or troll or anything. Just caught my 👁️.
Is this recent of in the past? Because I was taught most of this in school. I'm 51 years old. I am of both people native and European but was raised in the white world, went to regular public schools.
What exactly do you think should be taught and to what depth? eventually the scope of what should be taught will exceed the scope of what can be taught. I recall learning about american history from a timeline perspective. Only so much can be included that way but I distinctly remember tribes, dishonest dealings & warfare being discussed.
What I believe failed more to be taught was the mexican american war. It is a far bigger blind spot in this country and many do not even grasp that there is a huge amount of resentment over it.
Where did you teach? Sounds like you and your students were the victim of your local school council
May All Hearts Heal.
May We All Stand Hand in Hand.
May We All Share Kindness and Compassion.
May All Hearts Heal.
Bless Us All
Shut up racist!!! That's not the type of comment that gets a red heart on this channel!!!
I grew up in a large family in Redwood Falls in the 1960s, and it was a traumatic experience because we were ostracized and bullied. We were called “filthy Indians”, screamed at, chased, had rocks that thrown at us, our car was egged, etc. As a child, I used to wonder what was wrong with us, because I couldn’t understand why people hated us. When I grew up, I realized that there was still animosity and racism in Redwood Falls towards anyone who was thought to be Indian because of the 1862 war that happened over a hundred years earlier. We did not even live on the reservation, were not part of any tribe, and may not even have any native ancestors at all….haven’t found any in the family tree or DNA. Imagine how much worse it was for actual Native Americans growing up there.
Can't believe the hate they had in their hearts.
The death of the massacure white settlers and their surviving descendants after the Dakota War is deep. If you famiky killed one if the many 600+families or was apart if Little Crows band I woukd not blame them for showing such hate.
@@brittanyhayes1043Most of the Dakota and Minnesota tribes were not involved in the massacres.
@@FieldMarshalYT 600+ settlers died.
@@urpapi4206 The hate towards the innocent white settlers I hope you mean.
I have registration numbers I have names as well as family trees that I can provide. In watching this documentary a lot of names are very familiar so I know that they are distant relatives still active in the Sioux community and in my grandfather’s family.
Looking for the Redwing tree here. If you are able to provide, myself and my family would be forever greatful!!
Thank you from Ireland to the Choctaw people
Free Lenard Peltier. The FBI lied and we died. Long live the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota. The Black Hills belong to us by Treaty. We are still here. Hitler took many off his horrendous ideas from the First Nation/American wars. History is written by the winner! I never forget it. I go by oral history from my great grandparents. They are gone but not forgotten. R.I.P. all my ancestors!
How do you feel about modern native tribes deliberately crushing other tribes economically & legally in order to gain more capital & wealth? Also there is enough cases to claim that certain tribes are targeting tribes they believe were collaborators with old world immigrants&settlers.
I agree but you have to make sure that the corruption stays out of the reservations by their own people. Families can be bought out by the governments money, were few prosper and the rest suffer.
Ya.....maybe he'll kill some bamanazi FBI.
Of course NOTHING is more reliable than oral traditions. That’s why kids play the game “telephone line” in elementary school: you can barely get a couple words around a circle of 15-20 kids standing side by side and holding hands without someone messing up the words within a minute or two. Oral traditions are extremely important-true. Oral tradition is more accurate than written traditions-false.
Lol
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
As a black man im definitely feeling this doc. Before Learning some of the history of the 1st nations people We played this game you know cowboys and the 1st nations people I always chose 1st nations and then I learned the history of my people in this country then I understood why.
You are aborigine not this Asian mongols... dane Calloway tells it all.. and got primary documents to back it all
@Kay Richards well want in one hand and shxt in the other and see which one fills up the fastest😝
@Kay Richards from the way you text sounds like you been on welfare a long time😝lol
@Kay Richards so do we after all thats how most whites are still existing today off the land and slavery of american aborigines...govt giving away millions of dollars in my ancestors land and land grants and now being paid not to farm..id say you got it already
@Kay Richards war's between tribes is not an excuse to take someone's land and make them slaves or assets to an corporate entity not does it make it right to take what's not yours... if someone took your job and your house and said well i won you'd be happy they did right and that makes you a loser because only losers go around taking what's not their.. even if it happened between tribes the other tribe would revenge and take it back...47 million blacks is a problem...
It's sad when honorable people suffer at the hands of terrible people
You mean honorable people as in the white settlers right? Not the Dakota.
It was the white settlers who are victims here. The Dakota drew first blood in them.
As I watch this documentary my heart cries and tears stream down my face. As a Metis Woman from Manitoba knowing my own people's history with the Government and how they stole our ancestors land including the horrendous abuse my ancestors withstood, "take the Indian out of the Child" this breaks my heart to the depths of my Soul. Hearing that Chief Little Crow's scalp was tossed in the trash and remains on display, a strong, powerful man who only wanted to protect his family and community is a despicable thing to hear. I had to stop the video, tears would not stop. Such brutalities. If Truth and Reconciliation can enable ALL Humans to understand the atrocities committed, on both sides, and the reasons behind those atrocities, then perhaps we can all heal. Education is a powerful tool, history books, school books will NEVER tell the real story, it is time to rewrite history books, this will help unite us as Humans. It is because of documentaries like this will the truth come out. I am grateful to see that the Dakota People, and my own Family, are taking steps to honour our ancestors, our culture, and our traditions. I also grieve for the Families of the Settlers who had to pay a heavy price because of their Government's decisions. Peace and Love to all that read this. Please be kind. Megwetch, Hiy Hiy
Thing is you got white peope that are proud of this history and don't care that it was wrong.
If blacks did this to whites they wouldn't let us live it down or forget. They would let us know how bad we was. But blacks are told its in the past and move on.
Whites wouldn't see it that way. Look how some whites act when shown the darkness they done.
Aho.....from Alaska ❤️
YOU LITERALLY SKIPED THE PART WHERE LITTLE CROW AND HIS BAND MURDERED INNOCENT WHITE SETTLERS!
Most interesting that we talk about protecting plants and bees while we are still blasting pesticides all over everything.
Exactly 💯
A nice documentary!
AS A HUMAN BEING,,,HAVING THE SPIRIT WITHIN ME ,,,,I SEE THE ATROSITIES THAT ARE COMITTED AGAINST OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS,,,,IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN UNTIL THE ALMOGHTY SPIRIT AND FINALLY INTERVINES TO PUT AN END TO THIS EVIL THAT IS SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD.
I'd be honored to learn and have access to the Dakota language . Where do I go to begin my journey ? Thank you for any help with this endeavor, and again for this enlightening documentary ! 🖖🙉🙊🙈✌️
Hi! We don't have anything on Dakota language, but we have created documentaries about preserving Indigenous languages. You can find it here: ua-cam.com/video/RooWZc4lLok/v-deo.html
Contact the Nation and see if they can help you. Idk if you could afford to pay one of the few speakers to teach you but they may have made a curriculum that can help teach you the starting basics for now.
When people connect one-on-one, friendship and helpfulness can abound. It isn't until the powers-that-be, outside a community, who make decisions that destroy a community.
I've lost my connections to my ancestors too. One of my grandparents was German. His parents by coming here missed out on the world wars that decimated Germany. My Finnish great grandpa was a general in the Finnish Russian war. Pretty sure that's why the next generation of theirs immigrated to US. They saw the potential of Russia overtaking countries all over. Millions of common people, farmers etc were murdered in Russia. They were decimated. There's a terrible history in every country. In my lifetime I got trapped in a horrible cult at age 11. Only way I can describe it is what native children went thru being stolen from their families. I still had my family and went to public schools but nobody knew I was basically kidnapped from my rightful path. This person who preyed on my mother and fooled her into some crazy indoctrination by taking our free will away is no different than anyone who blindly follows suit with what the government and media tells us. There's pain in everyone's lineage. The key in my opinion is we all need to listen and hear each other. We all have to quit falling for the gov lies. We were all pawns doing their bidding in created wars and turning one group of humans against another. In early America for the most part white man and natives respected each other. Along comes the militaries doing the govs bidding. Everyone then got brainwashed and forced to do horrible things to each other. I think any human who knew the truth of things and were truly free living in peace connected to the earth had to be eradicated bc the controllers needed people to be dumb in order to be controllable. It just takes one lie to spread like wildfire and everyone is brainwashed. We're quite pliable and gullible creatures when we've never known the whole truth from the beginning. Even the native Americans many have lost that connection to their language and ways of life. Many have no interest in learning. It's all because of running from traumas. It's too painful to look back or inwards for most. If we all realize we all are in the same boat ....that we've been duped....then healing can begin. There will always be psychopaths trying to manipulate everything but we gotta be wise and quite running from truths and emotions.
And yet Id bet good money that you've never been fucked over by the US government besides not being provided universal healthcare, adequate laws to protect workers presumably such as yourself, and the continued effect of misappropriated funds for an absurd war machine.
How do you honestly continue to not grasp the hypocrisy that we in all likelihood teach about the country your family came from and the atrocities that occurred there, if not much more.
Yet all of the atrocities in the US that many of us had great great grandparents who personally experienced directly or indirectly the very history we are discussing & watching docs about. Including the atrocities and the amazing industrial revolution and every pile of shit in between. Including the impression they left on who they raised...
Regardless Don't even try to deny that many americans are completely fucked in the head when it comes to discussing racism and other issues in the US.They are doing basically the same shit that Turks are doing with the Armenian genocide in regards to not maintaining factual history & a refusal to analyze any part of our past while simultaneously denying that the same type of hatred exists to this day. Maybe all races are guilty of it but guess what? It doesnt matter, I can only represent my own race and from a numerically remarkable amount of other whites I have met in my life, the second they're alone with other whites....The racist shit comes spewing out. Dont deny that you havent seen this shit, if you have its your duty to shut that shit down, or otherwise youre complicit to their cowardice. That is the ONLY point of this video: standing up for what is right. Something I know that you rarely do(especially cause I know for fact that you didnt even watch this doc. You skipped through it & got hurt feelings then immediately left a comment to whine and whine and whine. Is that all you do? Seriously, how'd you wind up here?)
I really like Dallas Goldtooth. I followed his live video feeds during that Standing Rock stand. I went there too and camped for the night. There was a full moon that night illuminating all the teepees that had their camp fire smoke coming up and making the camp smell so good. I imagined I was back in a time where these camps were living and breathing the native life. There were kids whooping their happy sounds on their horses galloping past my tent. I had so many different emotions that day, night and following day. I got to see what it was like for many nations of people coming together yet I felt the palpable wounds hanging in the air. I felt good that I could be there yet felt a deep sadness that I don't know my own ancestral connections. I felt I was welcome yet felt I wasn't by some bc of the wounds some hang tight to. I got to experience a prayer session yet I was educated by a kind elder telling me I have to be on the outer perimeter bc I had my dog with me. I felt happy he was kind enough to let me know but embarrassed that I didn't know their customs. I felt I should know more but was I intruding if I asked and would they tell me just the outer surface and never give me the truths for fear of outsiders judging or corrupting their ways. I was humbled on a new deeper level even when I thought I was already a humble person. I spent that whole trip to standing rock, then to the black hills and on through the bad lands all the while imagining what this beautiful land looked and felt like pre white man settlers coming here. It was a very uplifting road trip yet deeply saddening mixed with joy. I camped at the black hills. I was sad that the gov hijacked that area. Yet happy that I was able to be there. As I closed my eyes laying in my tent that night I had literal visions of people in the spirit world coming to me welcoming me and joyous I could see them and happy I had taken that soul journey. All the ancestors that have passed on are only joyous when we look into the truths. They aren't angry and trying to make us feel guilty and terrible for not understanding things. They just want us to heal and come together. To reach out to those even if they hold resentment in their hearts. To just pray if that's all we know to do. That's what I did up on the hill at Standing Rock. I just prayed the way I knew how. We are as a people figuring this out. It's really mostly healing your soul. A healed person recognizes another healed soul. You don't know how you will affect someone by just healing your own shit.
Exactly 💯
It reminds me of Cain and Abel. The Indians are living in harmony with the land, in tune with our Creator who had blessed them in turn and along comes Cain the man from GOD who lacked understanding and became jealous and murdered his brother. So the Earth opened her mouth and took in his blood. Cain is still confused and believes the Earth belongs to him and says GOD sent him here to claim it. I was born to parents of Irish blood but growing up I had friends who had a white father and a Tewa mother. She told me she was my other Mother and not to worry about what all those other people say we know who we are. I've never forgotten that.
No...the Native Americans were never "living in harmony with the land"!!! Have you ever heard of "Buffalo Jumps"? The natives would kill every single buffalo they could...only taking the choice parts and leaving the rest to rot on the plains!!!
A beautiful mother 💖
Hau Mitakuyape. Mitakuye Oyasin. Dakota, Lakota, Nakota. Pte oyate. My people. My tiyonspae , my extended family. Oceti Sahkowin. People of the Seven Council Fires. May the Great spirit Wakang Tanka , Creator of All Life, whose name is Yehovah bless us all, now and forever! Amen.
The best book I have ever read that deals with the Native Americans and the good , bad and ugly that happened to them was written by Dee Brown . “ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee “ is the history from Columbus too Wounded Knee and the end of the Indian wars .
History is not boiled down from second hand stories. It is intentionally constructed by the victors to give the purview that they desire. I identify as white, but have Siksika and Creole heritage from my Mother's side of the family. I would love to participate in the annual 150 mile walk. "Necessity knows no law." Some things never change.
I think it takes heart, energy and courage to step far enough from the trauma to even look back and identify it let alone the depth of character to bear it. For the truly dedicated...I would love to hear the words in their language. Hope please, on we go.
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New thought- Give it HECK- Heart, Energy, Courage, Kindness. I think that boils down to Active Grace(social grease), not a bad elixir for the soul. I like making keys.🙂
We forget who was here first.
I'm not a native American person, I believe you have a good soul and you are blessed with the outside knowledge of the primitive and godliness rules of the blessed one.I hope you have the best life 🧬 and continue to bless your family
What trauma??? No one alive lived through any of this…
You act like Indians are only peoples terrorized by the cabal of criminals who controls the (((British Empire))). Every white person you see who isn’t British ancestors had worse done to them than what happened to the immigrants to America after Stone Age Europeans came to America, aka natives or Indians. Not native to America.
This certainly should have been taught in our schools where we were growing up at least in Minnesota. What a travesty it wasn’t.
It was, you must have skipped school that month
the education system believes in indoctrinating children rather than teaching them. it is so sad .
Thanks Lynn that was amazing as always ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Look at these people now their ancestors would be proud of them as they are right to be proud of their ancestors who went through so much! Made to look like the bad guys as you get older you realise they were not but were fighting for survival so shame on our European ancestors of the time! God bless us all!
Beautiful people thank you for sharing 💞 much love from Aotearoa New Zealand
Thank you for this video"
Absolutly love it..
Its about time Racism DIED" 100%..
We are all one! 1..One people under the Great Spirit. Thank you again" beautiful"
Allowing people to starve particularly in the reality food is available but being withheld is unconscionable. Period. In my mind there is no ambiguity regarding starvation. I well understand the process of starvation not for a day, a week, a month, a year. When there is no hope for relief one has nothing to loose. It’s horrible.
Shame on those who were so without conscience they could allow other human beings to experience such profound deprivation. Despicable.
My ancestor, Capt A.M. Collins was there. He was part of the Militia. He left the story of the build up to the New Ulm massacre and the resulting trial and the largest mass hanging in US history. His story in a nutshell: the Indians were starving and cold and the Indian agent was a crook who refused to deliver their supplies, selling to others, or if the suppies were delivered they were moldy, moth eaten, worthless food and blankets. The tensions increased, lands were stolen repeatedly from the Indians by the government and politicians and speculators and settlers all. The massacre happened. The Indians (1400) were tracked and arrested. 300 were charged.
40 were sentanced to death. One was pardoned and one died so 38 were hung. I have the story in our oral family history passed down through 5 generations to me. I had internet so was able to investigate the Massacre, the Dakota Trials, and the surrounding history, including the Mankato Citizen Soldiers and drawings of the scaffold. There are a number of reasons I believe the family history.
1. My ancestor was in the Militia and later in the US army Union as a Lieutenent for the last year.
2. He was a Carpenter, and wheelwright and blacksmith, both in and out of the military.
3. He stated he was the Carpenter in charge of building the scaffold that was used to hang the Indians found guilty.
4. He was later a Court Bailiff for the Grand Jury, Mayor, City Council member, Justice of the Peace.
5. He built 2 more scaffolds during his lifetime, one was used, the other was not as the man was acquitted.
And finally, 6: He seemed proud of being a soldier and doing his duty but said that " it ( the hangings or the whole situation?) was not well done by those in charge", but this only was stated years after the fact and possibly had bothered him for years.
My appreciation of and respect for the Sioux suffering during that time was solely due to my family history and later personal research. Being white caused me to do even more history research into the genocides and abuses of our indigenous population.
Great film. Next historian saying Powerful Sad Events.
Maybe this History .. PoWer 📜 don't rely on the Government Promises.😮 LOVE for western Minnesota today
In old photos,you can see the pain in the eyes of their ancestors.i don't think I've ever seen a picture where people were smiling.
Educational. Heartwarming. THOUGHT provoking. Forgiveness.
Im from Oklahoma, I get it. People wanna forget history......WE CANT LET THEM!!!!!!
FREE PALESTINE!!!!!!!
It’s long past time that the truth comes out of the dark and put under a giant spotlight. The way all native Americans were treated by our government was horrific. The native tribes tried to live in peace with people who just wanted to come into their home land and take everything for themselves. The native tribes had every right to fight for their homes, families and for their lives!! Everyone should be taught the truth about all the wrongs that were committed against all the tribes!!
The natives were to bussy killing eachother. Lets not pretend these people were not warlike.
I certainly never learned about this in NYC public schools. In fact, we were taught next to nothing about native Americans except the myth of the Pilgrims and Indians being friends at the first Thanksgiving.
No offense but are you sure about that? You graduated HS, right? Around what year? I specifically recall learning about specific tribes & the various massacres of either whites and natives, in various history classes & i didnt have any advanced classes. I did read textbooks with interest though not simply as assignments.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 I graduated in 97 and grew up in Oregon near a reservation and the wars between whites and natives in our school books were referred to as “conflicts” over land disputes but there was never details or full truth taught regarding the massacres that took place between white settlers and Indians. I’m not saying this to deny the bad history that happened, I’m just explaining that not all schools taught the full truth of our American history. In fact some countries think Indians are extinct in America and believe whites exterminated them during the settlement.
Please do more of these documentaries.
How can there be a process of healing when Sioux land is still occupied by non-Dakotas in what is now the US State of Minnesota?
It's not "Sioux land"...they sold it!!!
Brilliant insight @ 31:00 and 33:00.
My Mohawk ancestory is what I cherish most. It connects me to Father Sky Mother Earth. In the summer of 1994 I was living in what at one time was Indian Land (Lincoln Park) in Somerville, Massachusetts. The spirits of those betrayed souls came alive...a most powerful time in my life. I was always a medium...something I came to realize in my life. People are fearful of it...they feel it around me, but don't know what it is, or why.
You're not a "medium". There are no "spirits talking to you". This is called being a schizo and you need help. People are probably fearful of you because they can see you are mentally ill.
Thank you Twin Cities PBS.