He is a very divisive figure. I respect his opinions. It doesn't mean that I have to agree on everything, but that's what makes him awesome. Question your questions...
Thomas Sowell is a treasure, such an amazing man who possesses a wealth of knowledge about several important topics. I think some people find him troublesome because he disrupts their beliefs of history, economic inequalities, etc. I love listening to him speak about history and economics and even the family.
He is a very opinionated intellectual that write/$ells books..he has a devoted following that has contributed to him becoming financially wealthy as they only refer to him as a treasure..I doubt he is even patrioctic🎉
@ehzAxemuzik you should read some of his works. I recommend "black rednecks and white liberals", "basic economics", and "intellectuals and race" to start. He provides citations and bibliography for everything he writes, so I'm not sure where your assessment of "opinionated" comes from. If you wrote a book, you would sell it too. The man succeeded under his own will, put himself through college, and was an admitted Marxist until his mid-twenties before "growing up" and siding with logic and reason rather than idealism and emotion.
An incredible result for a man who began his intellectual life as a Communist. It is a blessing that he had such fortitude and integrity to accept the lessons when he discovered that he was wrong. That is why he's America's premier scholar.
@@yj9032 Not in every case. The Romans were rather tolerant of the people they conquered- up to a point. Their actual earliest foes were other Italic and Latin tribes, the civilized Etruscans and their city-states, Celtic tribes migrating into Italy and so on. The wars of Rome outside of Italy proper got quite ugly.
I have Choctaw on my mom's side and did a lot of reading on the folks from Dancing Rabbit Creek. The Choctaw, generally in 3 separate groups just like today, did this playoff thing with treaties where they played the Spanish, English, French and new Americans off each other. There were 3 main chiefs who would go to whichever group would give them the best deal and then whoever was left out, 3 Choctaw and 4 outsiders, and get them to give them a better deal. So, not only did the new settlers not stand with their treaties, neither did the NA. When I saw that, I better understood why the Choctaw didn't hold their lands and why eventually, the Indian Removal Act came to pass. I believe Jackson believed what he said, that he was preserving the NA nations by moving them instead of allowing them to be swallowed up. Oh, and if you ever wondered why the NAs didn't unify and turn back the Europeans, like I did, read Custer's Fall. It is amazing they won even that conflict. Had Custer not assumed they were running away, they probably wouldn't have.
My birth father’s mom was born and raised on a reservation spanning NY and Canada. I have seen a pic of the family homestead. One of my previous ancestors had an Indian name and a French name. I have no way of knowing if he was full blood Haudenosaunee and forced to take a “Christian” name by the priests and Nuns as a child, like so many others, or if he was part French. He died in his 50s fighting in the civil war, even after being previously wounded. I would like to have learned more of that part of my heritage, but it doesn’t really exist anymore and it would have had to be that my birth mom was Haudenosaunee for me to join the tribe. People join their mothers’ clan not their fathers.’ I have been able to look into my birth mother’s Irish possibly scotch Irish ancestry. Quite an interesting bunch. Celtics have had a rocky past, but a very interesting culture. I met my birth mom and some of my dad’s relatives in my 40s, 20 some years ago. It was nice, but the connections aren’t there like when you are raised with your family and we live far apart from each other. There is no undoing the past. All we can do is move forward and try to do better. Unfortunately, greed and oppression will be with the human race until the Lord returns and sets things right. It is up to us not to allow the past to repeat to the best of our ability. We cannot take our freedoms for granted when they were bought with blood, sweat and tears. War and force is never the answer, except in self defense and defense of our families.
@@cr-iv1el thank you, but I don’t trust that whole thing. Something feels off about it to me. I under stand genetics, but most of science has been taken over today.
The problem with historical writings other than Prof Sowell is that authors tend to write about one or two incidents and made it as something happening all over the country without reviewing what was happening elsewhere.
Thank God for Thomas Sowell. One of few trusted sources left in the world. I’ve come to appreciate British historian Tom Holland as well, however I’ve come to notice that many of Hollands insights were seen by Dr. Sowell decades earlier.
One thing Thomas Sowell taught me that so few people understand is that history is unbelievably complicated. It's definitely not black and white in the slightest sense. Well, maybe you could argue that it's mostly black.
well,after we sickening history about agressors and victims,we might look upon tortures and punishments to get more horrified about what were people doing to each other for centuries.
@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 Tell Norm McDonald that only the good guys leave so many witnesses and take such great interest in their strife. (You can start with the eternal global popularity of Native Americans in contemporary legends and media, and even glance at the number of views on this video alone. Even the children's game "Cowboys and Indians" was never a one-sided affair; and, in fact, making it politically taboo just generationally suppressed non-Indian children's intense curiosity about the different tribes and their ancient lifestyles, if only for the sake of their youthful role-playing; even if it was full of stereotypes, it was still a gateway to buying books on the subject and seeking authentic testimonies as wisdom grows.) Whereas real bad guys know it's tactically best to just finish the job, and quickly, so that there's no one left to complain, let alone recoup and recruit. Then, of course, there's also the fundamental first step, which almost everyone usually skips, of starting off by explaining why "good" and "bad" are even a concern in wars at all in a supposedly indifferent universe. If it wasn't for such strong Christian influence among the settlers, America wouldn't even be mindful to examine the past in this way at all. Not that rationalizing morality is exclusive to Christianity, but Christianity is especially systematic in dissecting the topic and reducing it to its atomic elements, and even rigorously systematic about devotees' aspirations to repair wrongs and reconcile people's relationships. What even IS a "good guy" IF NOT that?! In many Eastern religions, probably any and all of those based on doctrines of unattachment, the victim who can't let go of the past is the one who gets dragged to Hell. 🤔 What a difference THAT would make in this whole retrospective discussion.
Black in the sense of dark , selfish, mean motivations and endless greed and arrogance.Yes I agree. Humankind dwells more often in dark, shallow , miserable sides of its nature.
America is a relatively new country. I think if Americans only ever learn about American history, and not enough about the history of the rest of the world, they lose a sense of how universal the behaviours of man are.
Who says Americans only learn American history? I study history for fun. I’ve spent the past three years studying the history of china. I also just finished reading a book on the Byzantine empire. I’m 71 and I’ve read world history for decades. Please don’t make generalizations about people you don’t know.
Dr Sowell always on point. FYI The gentleman pictured around 16:50 is not an American Indian. He is Ukrainian, possibly a Hutsul man. He is wearing a vishivanka shirt which is a traditional garment worn by men and women in Ukraine.
He took him as a example, but did not haved Ukrainians in that time at hir, with do haved English, French, Polish, Ireland, Scottish, Spaniards, Portuguese.
The only reason Natives in 1980s started earning more money was because of union construction companies giving priority to Natives due to the discrimination my ancestors faced. My dad retired from union and eventually they took away the preference due to racial discrimination not being a problem anymore. Therefore racism in America was fading till obama & Joe Biden brought racism back to North America. We used to be the country with most ethnicities getting along till the world wanted it to be torn apart so their own people will not try to escape to the free lands called America
In my modest experience with Native Americans, they are like anyone else: they respond well to challenges, and in the absence of challenges, they grow lax and lost. IMO, there is a myth of Native Americans suffering generational damage and depression due to loss of culture. What has really hurt them is the guarantee of subsistence living. It's the same with the African Americans. When challenged to perform, people do perform. When a subsistence lifestyle is being offered - like a universal income - then people veg out and make nothing of themselves. I'm not saying we should eliminate welfare, but we can't just guarantee infinite paychecks and call it a day. For many people that functions like an addiction, and they get hooked on it instead of prospering. You can't guide people to prosperity by giving them free money, free food, and a free place to live. They have to be challenged to make something of their lives, and to be helped to do that. What I did, decades ago, was I taught young reservation boys how to play chess. Modest as this may seem, it quickly boosted their self-esteem and critical thinking. It opened their horizons a little bit, because at first they didn't think they could do it, that chess was a game for "smart people." But they learned they could do it easily enough. All it took was the challenge and a little help or encouragement. And that's how you get kids learning physics, and math, and biology, engineering, and so on. It's how you get kids to study on their own, because they can see it starts to fill out their character and make a difference. These days, teaching reservation kids vocational skills is probably a great idea, because so many other jobs - like coding - are going to be replaced by automation.
@clotshot9459change jobs to careers and I would agree with you. But I Mark a major difference between jobs and careers. Jobs check boxes and sometimes provide decent amounts of money while careers provide people goals to meet so they have a future. Sometimes a job is the start of a career but only if you have goals
When I go to Mexico, I avoid Aztec and Mayan sites, especially their pyramids. Institutionalized large scale human sacrifice? How are their temples different from the Nazi camps?
one group believed it was necessary to perpetuate reality, the sun crossing the sky, etc. the others believed it a necessary removal of human parasites, so a less spiritual murder, perhaps? i completely agree that we should condemn it all regardless of why, and excuse no culture that institutionalized murder or slavery. we can understand it sure, and withhold judgement on the individual, but we should see it for what it is
Two completely different scenarios, the Germans did what many countries did before, Egypt, Rome, England, Spain - expelled them from their kingdoms years before, the Germans took it to an extreme. The Mayan/Aztecs on the other hand was doing sacrifice on religious beliefs, they waged war not so much for conquest but for sacrificial victims (the victims themselves believing it was the noblest way to die), according to the celestial movements especially the planet Venus, who as the evening star goes beneath the planet and commits underworld decapitation to be born as the resurrected morning star, these wars were called flower wars. What the Spanish came across was likely a very old version of their own religion. Sorry but I'd call it a shame not to see the pyramids, one of the greatest things I ever did was walk up Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun, the Teotihuacans being a different people that warred with, and influenced the Maya some 1500 years before the Aztecs got down to Mexico. The late Michael D Coe spent over 50 years in Mexico, his books are a great resource as he's regarded as the Godfather of Mayan studies, he has some good videos on the utoob too.
@@freethebirds3578 Because I read? Children were taught there was no greater death than by the obsidian blade, a death by sacrifice you were promised a place in the god Tlaloc's paradise. It's not much different than the Viking Valhalla, or the Muslim's Jihads.
In many ways of thinking and acting, the Nazis just copied the extinction colonialism of the British Empire and the USA. Not against "savage" Natives but against Jews and established eastern "inferior" European Nations. That still is considered the unique crime compared to other "usual" genocides "only" concerning coloured humans. And the Americans and Brits allied with the Sovjets who exterminated by far more Russians, Ukrainians and suspected anticommunist individuals as Nazis and European antisemites murdered Jews ... By the way: modern concentration camps were introduced by the British against the Boers in South Africa. Life conditions in Indian Reservations were similar to German concentration camps. Even the term "underman" was created by an American, Lothorp Stoddard, who wrote a book titled: The Rise of the Underman. It was recommended by US President Harding in the 1920ies ... Considering the extermination- or- subjugation ideology and practice of the crusades and medevial rulers against heretics and pagans (death or baptism): Should one consider to give up Christian religion or not to visit the European medevial cathedrals ? Thousands heretics were burned alive in front of these miraculous buildings. Millions christian believers killed each other in the religious wars of Europe for being either protestant or catholic.
One of many hundreds and thousands of wars and massacres and skirmishes similarly found and recorded with many millions more going unrecorded worldwide since the dawn of humanity.
I’d have to say that it was likely the Native owned Casinos that brought up the income for Native Tribes. It was likely a double edged sword because crime and addictions increase around Casinos.
The low expectations via layers of social programs, that pop culture has for descendants of Natives robs them of the pride that comes from independence. A man with no pride numbs himself to that worse than worthless existence with whatever drug does the job.
No crime and drugs existed and will continue to exist before and after casinos. Poverty does not equal crime . Thats a fallacy of marxism. Ot absolves the people of responsibility for their acts in exchange for support . A cult of self destruction .
In your reference to the general ephemeral nature of most treaties it helps to think about why the treaty between England and Portugal is famous,eight centuries is a spectacular anomaly in a world where so many have not lasted even a single life time.
Being part Chippewa myself, I can only agree with Dr. Sowell's analysis. Now that Stephen Hawking is dead, I believe that Dr. Sowell is the mot intelligent person in America.
Whenever I hear natives claim that the whites stole their land, I always want to ask “where did you get it?” Was it vacant when ‘your people’ laid claim to it? The ancestors of the Inuit (the Thule) were still conquering and eliminating the resident Dorset people of the Canadian arctic when Columbus arrived. The environmental havoc and atrocities of the Aztecs, the unspeakably brutal raiding culture of the Comanches, and so on, has all been well documented. The point is, the noble savage was always a myth, because we’re all basically the same. And the only people that can claim “we were here first” are the descendants of the very first band of hunter-gatherers that arrived in N.A. 15,000 or so years ago. Every other wave of paleo Indian migrants were themselves colonizers, likely committing their own atrocities against the resident populations in their way. None of this excuses what went on, but the people involved on both sides are all long dead. It’s time to move on.
Look at the Black Hills in South Dakota. The Lakota Sioux finished driving out the Kiowa in 1786 and the White man took them over from the Sioux in 1877 yet the Sioux say the Black Hills was always their ancestral lands when in reality they held the land for less than 100 years!
The irony is that "migrants" are cooming over Eropean countries and calling it an invasion and trying hard to conserve their culture, like the Natives trying to defend their land.
@@ibexlodge213 look for videos about the "Real King Arthur" 🤴 or about Aurelius Ambrosious, possibly an ancestor of King Arthur or a source of some of the Myths... Also, look up 43A.D. the Roman Conquest of Britain. The Romans conquered most of the British Isles. They neither annihilated, nor completely assimilated the natives (who included Celtic tribes who invaded from the continent before the Romans). From about 100 A.D. to 500 A.D. a Roman presence, and connections to the markets and cultures of Rome, and the rest of the world. Romano-Britons, some of mixed race, mostly indigenous Britons who adopted Roman culture the way some Gauls did. (Picts or Scots, and other Tribal peoples did not). After 500 A.D. (or 475, etc.) The Roman Empire contracted, and the Romano-Britons, and other peoples of the British Isles were subjected to numerous Invasions by Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Nordic peoples gone "a Viking" also invasions by the Irish and others. This continued for more than 500 Years. Until in 1066 William Duke of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxon King, and took England for himself. Since that time, nearly 1,000 years, no foreign force has conquered England. It took centuries for the Normans (French speaking Norse, settled for some time in Normandy), the Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Cymric, and other peoples, such as the Scots to assimilate ...kind, as regional and cultural differences, including inequalities of wealth continues to this day. Doctor Sowell has several presentations about the Scots Irish in the USA, and their circumstances, such as poverty in Appalachia, to this day. Although some, such as POTUS Andrew Jackson, and others succeeding to the "top 1%"
My own ancestry DNA test shows I have roughly 1% Native American and 1% West African DNA. I don't seek to identify myself as either, as I find it largely folly. I am a human being, and that I identify as.
I lived and worked among the Navajo (on and off the reservation) for 7 years. Much of the unemployment on the reservation comes from government, both US and tribal. It is very difficult to start a business on the rez. Tribal leadership tends to favor nepotism. The federal government holds all the land in trust, so the "owners" can't use the land as collateral for loans. The rez is ringed by towns that have Walmarts, large grocery stores, and libraries that don't exist on the teservation. When we lived on the rez, we would go to one of those towns on Saturday to get the things we couldn't get in Chinle. Unemployment amongst Native Americans is not a result of racism from the citizenry of the US.
@@JulieN-v4r Tribal government limiting businesses on the reservation, and the federal government holding all property "in trust" so it cannot be used as collateral.
@freethebirds3578 All Tribal governments are doing the same?, limiting the prosperity of the reservation members-citizens?. I lived in Arizona in the past and I haved the honor to know and work with members of Navajo, Yaqui in Tucson.
It’s kinda funny to me, but when I was in school I would read the chapter in our Social Studies book, then I would look it up in an encyclopedia and get the more complete version, then I would answer the questions. This is how I did so well in social studies. English was easy because it had rules, but know all the crazy people have changed that! Math is simple if you’re taking a multiple choice test… look at the answers and working from the lowest denominator… look for the changes in the answer, you only need to do the math to that number. I’m half Japanese, German and English. Learn the basics so that you can move up easily.
The Cherokee supposedly broke off from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at some point in history. I haven’t been able to confirm that. If anyone knows I would be interested in the details.
Read the quote of Lame Deer : The Great Spirit abhors (dislikes) persons who are doing the same things all time during the whole day like working 8 hours, look TV afterwards, because every human is intended to be unique by the creator. This explains a lot why not working regulary, refusing education by most Indians staying on the reservation is considered by them as resistance against white supremacy or simply interferences by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They hold the historic colonialism responsible for their difficulties and misery (alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual abuse) to get along in the present. Yet most individuals are not into their traditional cultures, don't try to learn their language. And the white TV is to be heard all day long in the background, kids watching it almost all time after school. But, to be true, most Indians today live off the reservation in big cities and get along quite well. As an European, I lived for 2 years in the 1980years on South Dakota reservations within families. Got also insight on Native life in Montana and Minnesota where mentalities were more relaxed, less poverty and so on.
The difference is that the atrocities were done by “puritans” supposedly Christians with higher morality than Catholics. Catholics a least lived with the Indians, but puritans wiped them out from the 13 colonies. Indians only survived in states that were part of the Spanish empire.
If we had learned American History like this when I was in school, back when the dinosaurs roamed, America would be a much happier and secure place in 2023, for everyone. __"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." Jean-François Revel, How Democracies Perish, Doubleday 1984; cf The Totalitarian Temptation, Doubleday 1978__
The Comanche Empire is a strong counter example. The empire prevailed against the Spanish empire and American settlers for two centuries. But this knowledge has been developed since Dr. Sowell wrote.
It amazes me how Spain Britain, and other European nations get a pass on their treatment of natives in the Americas. Frankly, I think the conquest of the Americas, though unfair and lopsided, was just a slow war that the Indians lost. No land on this planet has never been taken by force (excepting Antarctica).
Your people were the primary guard dogs for the ruling families who thrive on the chaos and the enslavement of the world. Western civilization relies on neo-colonialsim.
Perhaps if the Europeans had cared more about what was going on in Constantinople up to the time the ottoman Turks overthrew it rather than living in their Catholic and newly Protestant utopias, Columbus never would have had to be sent out to find new trade routes to the indies/East Asia. In any event, I hate that the American govt treated the Indian as subhuman. That is unacceptable for a Christian nation. Period.
One technical point, the indigenous people of America had NO sovereignty. Indians did not believe in land ownership, the land owned them. Territory is not land. This makes the Indians 'property' which means they have no rights whatsoever in a court of law related to 'sovereignty'. We can only go by their spoken words because they had no written language (i.e. savages, literally). They lost, the fight is over, "to the victor go the spoils"...until America STOPPED the practice in EVERY war. Our 2nd worst mistake...after DEI.
Just recently in my backyard near Otay Ranch, ancient fossils from the early to middle Miocene Era (between 20 and 13 million years old) unveiled terrestrial mammals including at least two lineages of horses-one being only about 3 feet tall and having three toes on the feet as opposed to the single toe of the modern horse.
Amerindians did not only have problems with there fellow Amerindians of different tribes, clubs, clans, groups, clicques, herds, swarms, packs, prides pods nor Western Europeans(Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, French, British, Dutch, Danish, Belgians, And Germans) but also Eastern Europeans(Russians) as well as Half Euros like Mestizos also known as Alaskan Creoles, also known as Metis, also known as Mixed Bloods which is what most Hispanics are they also had plrenty of wars with Eskimos And Aleutians too yeah.
this is much gud; i fancy self a social scientist/retired custodial engineer, ie i philosophize on dirt,, not its illiminitation, but transfering. Mom passed with a Phd in Education, native studies set up curriculum for school districts. i only attended and 4 yrs native studies. took Lakota Oral lit from moms course at BHSC. only 2 semesters of Lakota Language. in 4 yr minor. self study since 70's. family friend wrote books on this and Lakota Woman film..
13:13.. This contact is documented by having map's. Maybe talk about map's that date back earlier than Columbus. Indian's with the their Long held history, did not fit the narrative set forward for America. We must be told of the Red hair Giants, that the native Indians fought off. The Old World still exist with Us today just look at all the Old building's that are colleges, universities, court house's government monuments.. built to last forever. It takes war's, and killing millions, and millions of people to hide this, horrific insane lie.
Read are history book called The Gospel of the Redman & another history book taken out of public schools in the 1970s called THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST
@6:48 is a serious claim without any foundation in known fact. We will never know what the people of this land would have accomplished had they been left alone.
The Australian aborigines have been alone for hundreds of centuries. They were as they were without change to a thriving civilization like the Mesopotamians, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese, Indus, Romans, Mayans, Aztecs, etc.
@@I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pidyou underestimate aboriginal people and they are actually very smart. You misunderstanding different races have different intelligence .
Very true in some ways Because European brought addiction and bad potions to weaken who they conquered but ol former Marxist Thomas sowell doesn't talk about it. And what race leads the world are the biggest hypocrites and lier's. If Indians would have been left alone it wouldn't make a difference. They would have advanced in their own time I believe that too. But in their own way. The thing is that both sides are just trying to justify what they have done to each other. to not feel guilty or look like it. Excuses excuses for destroying another peoples way of life and culture and identity. That's what conquering is. And Europeans bring in the drugs and alcohol to do it. Because they are advanced.
My Native American Indian grandparents born 1932 & 1938 got moved to San Francisco of our reservation for work and then my Grandpa’s boss from there stole money from him. They had to save to move back to are tribe in Washington State. Won’t tell you the tribe though sorry
This issue is deeply misunderstood and framed all wrong, even by the very erudite Dr. Sowell. What happened in the America's wasn't a clash of indians and Europeans, it was a clash of primitive verses advanced. Primitive vs. advanced technology, culture, religion, economy, you name it, it was clashing. And the primitive didn't die out because it was conquered, it died out largely because it was abandoned wholesale by it's practitioners in favor of the advanced. True, the practitioners of the primitive were militarily conquered in a few highly trumpeted and well known cases but, while something like 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas succumbed to disease that the rest of the people on earth had been exposed to and afflicted with for thousands of years, the remainder of the indigenous population abandoned their old ways and greedily adopted any and every modern method, technique and habit they could acquire with no coercion from the Europeans.
I am sick of the misuse of genocide. Although it was coined recently its etymology shows it to be a combination of gene- meaning give birth or beget, and -cide meaning killing. In other words it means a killing of races and ethnic groups of PEOPLE. The systematic destruction of culture is NOT genocide. The term is added for its shock value as well as the laziness of the author in not finding and using the appropriate term.
Someone please rename this video. "the history of the Americas is wrongly taught in schools" does not mean what you are trying to say. Now it is saying schools should not teach American history. I believe you mean to say "Schools are failing to teach the history of the Americas" It's a horrible title for an amazing video from and amazing man.
The dominators teach histories that favors them. It's so normal that I have trouble seeing it as wrong even though the histories are not accurate. Anyway, usually or always the rulers and influencers of a culture do not learn from history so much as ignore it or interpret it to suit themselves.
Yeah in 1970 with the popularity of the movie "Billy Jack" EVERYONE wanted to be native American. My grandmother swore we had "Cherokee" in us. Now my family have been in Oklahoma for a century BUT I took a DNA test...not one drop of native American dna. But a few percent of African American DNA. Good my grandmother was gone by then.😂 Not to be mean but I sure would have liked to say I told you so to her because at 14 (in 1970) I rolled my eyes when she said that.
Thomas is an unbelievably insightful scholar, and he has boiled down the essence of why so many misguided peoples blame or accuse others of racism when they have a history of the same thing, but will not admit it for fear of losing their funding for complaining vociferously how evil white peoples are. I am not denying the harm and wrongs that others have suffered, but their cultures have done similar actions. 🤎🙏🙏✝️
@@adityatyagi4009 It is hypocritical to say that these people did this to my relatives, when they did the same thing to others 4009. How long are people supposed to “pay” for their dead relatives actions? Why is there “only” a focus on the Atlantic slave trade and almost “nothing” is mentioned about the Sub-Saharan slave trade, which some historians say was larger, and more cruel than the Atlantic trade? If the North American countries are populated with systematically racist people, as both Trudeau and Biden assert, why do so many people from around the world want to immigrate?
I will not bother with every single issue because I would literally waste my entire life only for you to disregard it and carry on with your current opinions, but I will say, regarding immigrants, most of them WILLFULLY come here because the US has proven itself to be the economic powerhouse of the world. The immigrants were NOT part of the domestic issues of slavery and genocide and were not parties to these sordid events of history.
The merchants were given charters. The Mayflower ship was a merchant charter. Jamestown was a merchant charter. The Dutch received a merchant charter f
@@adityatyagi4009no. It's the " universal human condition " arguement . Please don't be so glibly accusative . Or don't you see that perversly , ironically , it's the unique civilizations , in human history , who BREAK these 10000 yr old near " normal " cycles who are the ones that are noticed ? And so often their ideals are used against them ( like ju-jitsu ) by nags and scolds who pretend to some moral superiority . It's a wicked game ...
He says the history in America is wrongly taught in school so that he can teach it to people right? People should question anybody that teaches history like they do in a museum by showing pictures and just talking, but not showing sources of their information they present, should take that information as just information, not truth or fact. He doesn't explain why history is taught wrong in compulsory education in schools or universities, but can show and tell his version of history he was taught. When one read old books and fact check sources, talk with the Indigenous American indians and research outside of what is normally taught, one can do a better job at telling history. With my own studies alone, there is misinformation or a controlled history still being taught by him. In an era where misinformation is rampant, people should question why that would be. Who stands to gain from teaching so-called American history if it's wrong? There's no wonder why today you have a system full of confusing chaos and violence in America. People who really want the full truth in American history, will need more than just picture and a mouthpiece. When they do, they will see why a credited historian needs to tell you his version. Good thing is, the truth don't need validation but others do and cannot be satisfied without it.
Alcohol was introduced to the Indians and smoking to the Europeans. Smoking has killed more people and cost more than the curse of alcoholism so tit for tat.
I'm originally from the cornfields of Indiana. Growing up was like a 50's sitcom. Now I share a house with two Native American women.....and I'm realizing that this old neighborhood thinks I have Cooties. Santa Fe is the only place where I've felt racism. One of the ladies was Rose Johnson-Tsosie who recently passed from covid. If you google her name you'll get 250K hits. Her neighbors were not aware of her background. Her grandmother survived The Long Walk. Then she and her twin were "adopted" at birth by elderly Mormons doing "God's Work". The sisters ended up being a Big Deal in DC. Rose was Toastmaster president for 30 yr off and on. Till the very end Rose was "culturally confused".
Did the Natives really benefit from "modern medicine", though? Some of the medicines on the W.H.O.'s list of essential medications, many can be (AND WERE) made from barks, roots, etc., that Natives used long before "White Man" arrived. As far as reneging on contracts and/or treaties, that, sadly, had/has been done for millennia by everyone. It's when one's own gov't/leaders turn against them that a group feels such a deep sense of betrayal & wants to lash out at whomever they can to blame. Typically, it's far easier to blame outsiders than one of your own. Sometimes, it's even a matter of saving face. Right now, we're dealing with a near invasion at our southern border and if we say anything we're called names & get labeled "RAClSTS". But it is NO different than 600 years ago when armies of thousands descended upon a nation with weapons to invade & take over their land and resources. Our OWN gov't is allowing this, just like the tribal leaders in Africa traded their men for trinkets as slaves. If we don't stop it soon, that will be all of our fates: As slaves, including all of those just coming in, no matter what coIor, gender, etc. The clock is ticking.
Right. Because godly men never slaughtered each other wholesale in history. Nope, not once. Never over differing opinions and religions. Never over “my god is the real one and yours isn’t”, nope. Like that love of god in early cultures that takes indigenous children away from their parents to indoctrinate them with gods love.
@@Darkmattermonkey77 I don't want an argument but you may find it interesting to read the first hand written accounts of the earliest white evangelists in the Americas.
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Dr.Thomas Sowell is an American treasure.
He is a very divisive figure. I respect his opinions. It doesn't mean that I have to agree on everything, but that's what makes him awesome. Question your questions...
Thomas Sowell is a treasure, such an amazing man who possesses a wealth of knowledge about several important topics. I think some people find him troublesome because he disrupts their beliefs of history, economic inequalities, etc. I love listening to him speak about history and economics and even the family.
@@zombie_snaxHe isn't the one being divisive. His consistent insistence on research and evidence is rare in any age.
He is a very opinionated intellectual that write/$ells books..he has a devoted following that has contributed to him becoming financially wealthy as they only refer to him as a treasure..I doubt he is even patrioctic🎉
@ehzAxemuzik you should read some of his works. I recommend "black rednecks and white liberals", "basic economics", and "intellectuals and race" to start. He provides citations and bibliography for everything he writes, so I'm not sure where your assessment of "opinionated" comes from. If you wrote a book, you would sell it too. The man succeeded under his own will, put himself through college, and was an admitted Marxist until his mid-twenties before "growing up" and siding with logic and reason rather than idealism and emotion.
Dr. Thomas Sowell is one of America's greatest patriots ever!
More than patriot, humanitarian.
@@jackdeniston59 being a patriot ranks above a humanitarian.
An incredible result for a man who began his intellectual life as a Communist. It is a blessing that he had such fortitude and integrity to accept the lessons when he discovered that he was wrong. That is why he's America's premier scholar.
@@michaelfoye1135"marxist" but thumbs up on your comment nonetheless. 👍
2,000+ years ago the peoples of Western Europe were also largely tribal peoples and then they met Rome...
And what happened? genocide!
@@yj9032 Not in every case. The Romans were rather tolerant of the people they conquered- up to a point. Their actual earliest foes were other Italic and Latin tribes, the civilized Etruscans and their city-states, Celtic tribes migrating into Italy and so on. The wars of Rome outside of Italy proper got quite ugly.
Then, that fish n chip eating group settled America.
Mr. Sowell is an American blessing
Especially if you consider the current state of Western Academic World.
I wish he would have been an American President.
When he says things, they sound so obvious. Yet no one else is saying them.
Dr. Sowell "old school" intellectual honesty is what the world needs to keep alive.
Thomas Sowell is a gift to the world and the real boss of UA-cam 😁
I have Choctaw on my mom's side and did a lot of reading on the folks from Dancing Rabbit Creek. The Choctaw, generally in 3 separate groups just like today, did this playoff thing with treaties where they played the Spanish, English, French and new Americans off each other. There were 3 main chiefs who would go to whichever group would give them the best deal and then whoever was left out, 3 Choctaw and 4 outsiders, and get them to give them a better deal. So, not only did the new settlers not stand with their treaties, neither did the NA. When I saw that, I better understood why the Choctaw didn't hold their lands and why eventually, the Indian Removal Act came to pass. I believe Jackson believed what he said, that he was preserving the NA nations by moving them instead of allowing them to be swallowed up.
Oh, and if you ever wondered why the NAs didn't unify and turn back the Europeans, like I did, read Custer's Fall. It is amazing they won even that conflict. Had Custer not assumed they were running away, they probably wouldn't have.
I can never,, NEVER get enough of his books... All things that the people should read and comprehend..
From a MAN likes Truth and facts.
Thank You !!!Sowell is an American treasure ❤🙏🏼
My birth father’s mom was born and raised on a reservation spanning NY and Canada. I have seen a pic of the family homestead. One of my previous ancestors had an Indian name and a French name. I have no way of knowing if he was full blood Haudenosaunee and forced to take a “Christian” name by the priests and Nuns as a child, like so many others, or if he was part French. He died in his 50s fighting in the civil war, even after being previously wounded. I would like to have learned more of that part of my heritage, but it doesn’t really exist anymore and it would have had to be that my birth mom was Haudenosaunee for me to join the tribe. People join their mothers’ clan not their fathers.’ I have been able to look into my birth mother’s Irish possibly scotch Irish ancestry. Quite an interesting bunch. Celtics have had a rocky past, but a very interesting culture. I met my birth mom and some of my dad’s relatives in my 40s, 20 some years ago. It was nice, but the connections aren’t there like when you are raised with your family and we live far apart from each other. There is no undoing the past. All we can do is move forward and try to do better. Unfortunately, greed and oppression will be with the human race until the Lord returns and sets things right. It is up to us not to allow the past to repeat to the best of our ability. We cannot take our freedoms for granted when they were bought with blood, sweat and tears. War and force is never the answer, except in self defense and defense of our families.
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@@cr-iv1el thank you, but I don’t trust that whole thing. Something feels off about it to me. I under stand genetics, but most of science has been taken over today.
The problem with historical writings other than Prof Sowell is that authors tend to write about one or two incidents and made it as something happening all over the country without reviewing what was happening elsewhere.
Thank God for Thomas Sowell. One of few trusted sources left in the world. I’ve come to appreciate British historian Tom Holland as well, however I’ve come to notice that many of Hollands insights were seen by Dr. Sowell decades earlier.
Since hes been on UA-cam, he's taught us so much. Things that we weren't taught in school!! Why didn't they teach us the truth, I wonder??
Patriotism, if Americans were taught the truth, it would be harder to be as proud.
When I remember my mind and spirit have need of stimulation, growth, TRUTH, I remember to turn to Thomas Sowell.
One thing Thomas Sowell taught me that so few people understand is that history is unbelievably complicated. It's definitely not black and white in the slightest sense.
Well, maybe you could argue that it's mostly black.
well,after we sickening history about agressors and victims,we might look upon tortures and punishments to get more horrified about what were people doing to each other for centuries.
Norm McDonald summed it up best, when he pointed out that somehow the good guys won every war in history.
Black or white, not skin tone related but darkness and light.
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Tell Norm McDonald that only the good guys leave so many witnesses and take such great interest in their strife.
(You can start with the eternal global popularity of Native Americans in contemporary legends and media, and even glance at the number of views on this video alone. Even the children's game "Cowboys and Indians" was never a one-sided affair; and, in fact, making it politically taboo just generationally suppressed non-Indian children's intense curiosity about the different tribes and their ancient lifestyles, if only for the sake of their youthful role-playing; even if it was full of stereotypes, it was still a gateway to buying books on the subject and seeking authentic testimonies as wisdom grows.)
Whereas real bad guys know it's tactically best to just finish the job, and quickly, so that there's no one left to complain, let alone recoup and recruit.
Then, of course, there's also the fundamental first step, which almost everyone usually skips, of starting off by explaining why "good" and "bad" are even a concern in wars at all in a supposedly indifferent universe. If it wasn't for such strong Christian influence among the settlers, America wouldn't even be mindful to examine the past in this way at all. Not that rationalizing morality is exclusive to Christianity, but Christianity is especially systematic in dissecting the topic and reducing it to its atomic elements, and even rigorously systematic about devotees' aspirations to repair wrongs and reconcile people's relationships. What even IS a "good guy" IF NOT that?!
In many Eastern religions, probably any and all of those based on doctrines of unattachment, the victim who can't let go of the past is the one who gets dragged to Hell. 🤔 What a difference THAT would make in this whole retrospective discussion.
Black in the sense of dark , selfish, mean motivations and endless greed and arrogance.Yes I agree. Humankind dwells more often in dark, shallow , miserable sides of its nature.
America is a relatively new country. I think if Americans only ever learn about American history, and not enough about the history of the rest of the world, they lose a sense of how universal the behaviours of man are.
thats by design.
Who says Americans only learn American history? I study history for fun. I’ve spent the past three years studying the history of china. I also just finished reading a book on the Byzantine empire. I’m 71 and I’ve read world history for decades. Please don’t make generalizations about people you don’t know.
This actually points out that Americans don't know the history of their own country.
@@perryroberts4353 so let’s have quiz then. See who does the best.
@@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x I'm in
Dr Sowell always on point. FYI The gentleman pictured around 16:50 is not an American Indian. He is Ukrainian, possibly a Hutsul man. He is wearing a vishivanka shirt which is a traditional garment worn by men and women in Ukraine.
He took him as a example, but did not haved Ukrainians in that time at hir, with do haved English, French, Polish, Ireland, Scottish, Spaniards, Portuguese.
Thanks for the Hutsul information, I looked it up and learned about these people
The images are not his but the person doing the video. Prof Sowell wrote books
Elizabeth Warren is about as Indian as Col Klink from Hogan's Heros.
lol...what was she trying to prove???
@@anthonydileonardo8156 Nothing. It was purely about the power one could take on pretense from the beginning.
Thank you Dr. Sowell. You’re the real MVP.
The only reason Natives in 1980s started earning more money was because of union construction companies giving priority to Natives due to the discrimination my ancestors faced. My dad retired from union and eventually they took away the preference due to racial discrimination not being a problem anymore. Therefore racism in America was fading till obama & Joe Biden brought racism back to North America. We used to be the country with most ethnicities getting along till the world wanted it to be torn apart so their own people will not try to escape to the free lands called America
Greatest man in my lifetime. A national hero.
In my modest experience with Native Americans, they are like anyone else: they respond well to challenges, and in the absence of challenges, they grow lax and lost. IMO, there is a myth of Native Americans suffering generational damage and depression due to loss of culture. What has really hurt them is the guarantee of subsistence living. It's the same with the African Americans. When challenged to perform, people do perform. When a subsistence lifestyle is being offered - like a universal income - then people veg out and make nothing of themselves. I'm not saying we should eliminate welfare, but we can't just guarantee infinite paychecks and call it a day. For many people that functions like an addiction, and they get hooked on it instead of prospering. You can't guide people to prosperity by giving them free money, free food, and a free place to live. They have to be challenged to make something of their lives, and to be helped to do that.
What I did, decades ago, was I taught young reservation boys how to play chess. Modest as this may seem, it quickly boosted their self-esteem and critical thinking. It opened their horizons a little bit, because at first they didn't think they could do it, that chess was a game for "smart people." But they learned they could do it easily enough. All it took was the challenge and a little help or encouragement. And that's how you get kids learning physics, and math, and biology, engineering, and so on. It's how you get kids to study on their own, because they can see it starts to fill out their character and make a difference. These days, teaching reservation kids vocational skills is probably a great idea, because so many other jobs - like coding - are going to be replaced by automation.
Well done!
Encouragement is extremely important for a young lads mental health, thank you for what you do.
@clotshot9459change jobs to careers and I would agree with you. But I Mark a major difference between jobs and careers. Jobs check boxes and sometimes provide decent amounts of money while careers provide people goals to meet so they have a future. Sometimes a job is the start of a career but only if you have goals
Brilliant, as usual.
When I go to Mexico, I avoid Aztec and Mayan sites, especially their pyramids.
Institutionalized large scale human sacrifice?
How are their temples different from the Nazi camps?
one group believed it was necessary to perpetuate reality, the sun crossing the sky, etc. the others believed it a necessary removal of human parasites, so a less spiritual murder, perhaps?
i completely agree that we should condemn it all regardless of why, and excuse no culture that institutionalized murder or slavery. we can understand it sure, and withhold judgement on the individual, but we should see it for what it is
Two completely different scenarios, the Germans did what many countries did before, Egypt, Rome, England, Spain - expelled them from their kingdoms years before, the Germans took it to an extreme. The Mayan/Aztecs on the other hand was doing sacrifice on religious beliefs, they waged war not so much for conquest but for sacrificial victims (the victims themselves believing it was the noblest way to die), according to the celestial movements especially the planet Venus, who as the evening star goes beneath the planet and commits underworld decapitation to be born as the resurrected morning star, these wars were called flower wars. What the Spanish came across was likely a very old version of their own religion.
Sorry but I'd call it a shame not to see the pyramids, one of the greatest things I ever did was walk up Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun, the Teotihuacans being a different people that warred with, and influenced the Maya some 1500 years before the Aztecs got down to Mexico. The late Michael D Coe spent over 50 years in Mexico, his books are a great resource as he's regarded as the Godfather of Mayan studies, he has some good videos on the utoob too.
@@bluefish4999 How do you know the victims' opinions of being human sacrifices?
@@freethebirds3578 Because I read? Children were taught there was no greater death than by the obsidian blade, a death by sacrifice you were promised a place in the god Tlaloc's paradise. It's not much different than the Viking Valhalla, or the Muslim's Jihads.
In many ways of thinking and acting, the Nazis just copied the extinction colonialism of the British Empire and the USA. Not against "savage" Natives but against Jews and established eastern "inferior" European Nations. That still is considered the unique crime compared to other "usual" genocides "only" concerning coloured humans.
And the Americans and Brits allied with the Sovjets who exterminated by far more Russians, Ukrainians and suspected anticommunist individuals as Nazis and European antisemites murdered Jews ...
By the way: modern concentration camps were introduced by the British against the Boers in South Africa. Life conditions in Indian Reservations were similar to German concentration camps.
Even the term "underman" was created by an American, Lothorp Stoddard, who wrote a book titled: The Rise of the Underman. It was recommended by US President Harding in the 1920ies ...
Considering the extermination- or- subjugation ideology and practice of the crusades and medevial rulers against heretics and pagans (death or baptism): Should one consider to give up Christian religion or not to visit the European medevial cathedrals ? Thousands heretics were burned alive in front of these miraculous buildings. Millions christian believers killed each other in the religious wars of Europe for being either protestant or catholic.
I’m here for the Liz Warren dragging 😂
I live in Illinois near the 1832 " Indian creek massacre " a real tragedy that started a war. look it up
I never heard of that, and I'm from Chicago. Just looked it up though.
One of many hundreds and thousands of wars and massacres and skirmishes similarly found and recorded with many millions more going unrecorded worldwide since the dawn of humanity.
My grandpa also helped our tribe & rest of Washington State tribe to get fishing rights
Thanks!
Fabulously well done. Enough information and logic to gain an entire degree from. Thank you again 😊
In the time of man, nothing has changed but the tools we use to do our deeds. Good and evil.
I’d have to say that it was likely the Native owned Casinos that brought up the income for Native Tribes. It was likely a double edged sword because crime and addictions increase around Casinos.
So many suffer from Casinos. they are a scourge upon society.
The low expectations via layers of social programs, that pop culture has for descendants of Natives robs them of the pride that comes from independence.
A man with no pride numbs himself to that worse than worthless existence with whatever drug does the job.
No crime and drugs existed and will continue to exist before and after casinos. Poverty does not equal crime . Thats a fallacy of marxism. Ot absolves the people of responsibility for their acts in exchange for support . A cult of self destruction .
In your reference to the general ephemeral nature of most treaties it helps to think about why the treaty between England and Portugal is famous,eight centuries is a spectacular anomaly in a world where so many have not lasted even a single life time.
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Being part Chippewa myself, I can only agree with Dr. Sowell's analysis. Now that Stephen Hawking is dead, I believe that Dr. Sowell is the mot intelligent person in America.
He was British and lived in England.
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Hawking was a fictional character/plant
Give England back to the Celts!
Whenever I hear natives claim that the whites stole their land, I always want to ask “where did you get it?” Was it vacant when ‘your people’ laid claim to it? The ancestors of the Inuit (the Thule) were still conquering and eliminating the resident Dorset people of the Canadian arctic when Columbus arrived. The environmental havoc and atrocities of the Aztecs, the unspeakably brutal raiding culture of the Comanches, and so on, has all been well documented. The point is, the noble savage was always a myth, because we’re all basically the same. And the only people that can claim “we were here first” are the descendants of the very first band of hunter-gatherers that arrived in N.A. 15,000 or so years ago. Every other wave of paleo Indian migrants were themselves colonizers, likely committing their own atrocities against the resident populations in their way. None of this excuses what went on, but the people involved on both sides are all long dead. It’s time to move on.
Well said.
Look at the Black Hills in South Dakota. The Lakota Sioux finished driving out the Kiowa in 1786 and the White man took them over from the Sioux in 1877 yet the Sioux say the Black Hills was always their ancestral lands when in reality they held the land for less than 100 years!
The irony is that "migrants" are cooming over Eropean countries and calling it an invasion and trying hard to conserve their culture, like the Natives trying to defend their land.
Learn about British History prior to 100 BC and you'll see almost a duplicate of the American history after 1492
If you know any videos or books about this topic , please share. Thanks
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@@ibexlodge213 look for videos about the "Real King Arthur" 🤴 or about Aurelius Ambrosious, possibly an ancestor of King Arthur or a source of some of the Myths...
Also, look up 43A.D. the Roman Conquest of Britain.
The Romans conquered most of the British Isles. They neither annihilated, nor completely assimilated the natives (who included Celtic tribes who invaded from the continent before the Romans).
From about 100 A.D. to 500 A.D. a Roman presence, and connections to the markets and cultures of Rome, and the rest of the world. Romano-Britons, some of mixed race, mostly indigenous Britons who adopted Roman culture the way some Gauls did. (Picts or Scots, and other Tribal peoples did not).
After 500 A.D. (or 475, etc.) The Roman Empire contracted, and the Romano-Britons, and other peoples of the British Isles were subjected to numerous Invasions by Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Nordic peoples gone "a Viking" also invasions by the Irish and others. This continued for more than 500 Years.
Until in 1066 William Duke of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxon King, and took England for himself. Since that time, nearly 1,000 years, no foreign force has conquered England. It took centuries for the Normans (French speaking Norse, settled for some time in Normandy), the Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Cymric, and other peoples, such as the Scots to assimilate ...kind, as regional and cultural differences, including inequalities of wealth continues to this day.
Doctor Sowell has several presentations about the Scots Irish in the USA, and their circumstances, such as poverty in Appalachia, to this day. Although some, such as POTUS Andrew Jackson, and others succeeding to the "top 1%"
My own ancestry DNA test shows I have roughly 1% Native American and 1% West African DNA. I don't seek to identify myself as either, as I find it largely folly. I am a human being, and that I identify as.
I lived and worked among the Navajo (on and off the reservation) for 7 years. Much of the unemployment on the reservation comes from government, both US and tribal. It is very difficult to start a business on the rez. Tribal leadership tends to favor nepotism. The federal government holds all the land in trust, so the "owners" can't use the land as collateral for loans. The rez is ringed by towns that have Walmarts, large grocery stores, and libraries that don't exist on the teservation. When we lived on the rez, we would go to one of those towns on Saturday to get the things we couldn't get in Chinle.
Unemployment amongst Native Americans is not a result of racism from the citizenry of the US.
And conclusion the unemployment is cause by????.
@@JulieN-v4r Tribal government limiting businesses on the reservation, and the federal government holding all property "in trust" so it cannot be used as collateral.
@freethebirds3578 What are the legal solutions of this? How can be financial openings to all tribe members? Legally, what needs to be done?
@freethebirds3578 All Tribal governments are doing the same?, limiting the prosperity of the reservation members-citizens?. I lived in Arizona in the past and I haved the honor to know and work with members of Navajo, Yaqui in Tucson.
Remarkable analysis!
It’s kinda funny to me, but when I was in school I would read the chapter in our Social Studies book, then I would look it up in an encyclopedia and get the more complete version, then I would answer the questions. This is how I did so well in social studies. English was easy because it had rules, but know all the crazy people have changed that! Math is simple if you’re taking a multiple choice test… look at the answers and working from the lowest denominator… look for the changes in the answer, you only need to do the math to that number. I’m half Japanese, German and English. Learn the basics so that you can move up easily.
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White dude clothed in Native garb.
The Cherokee supposedly broke off from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at some point in history. I haven’t been able to confirm that. If anyone knows I would be interested in the details.
Mr. Sowell does it again.
Read the quote of Lame Deer : The Great Spirit abhors (dislikes) persons who are doing the same things all time during the whole day like working 8 hours, look TV afterwards, because every human is intended to be unique by the creator.
This explains a lot why not working regulary, refusing education by most Indians staying on the reservation is considered by them as resistance against white supremacy or simply interferences by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They hold the historic colonialism responsible for their difficulties and misery (alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual abuse) to get along in the present. Yet most individuals are not into their traditional cultures, don't try to learn their language. And the white TV is to be heard all day long in the background, kids watching it almost all time after school.
But, to be true, most Indians today live off the reservation in big cities and get along quite well.
As an European, I
lived for 2 years in the 1980years on South Dakota reservations within families. Got also insight on Native life in
Montana and Minnesota where mentalities were more relaxed, less poverty and so on.
so great that you helped all the poor stupid youtube watchers understand what abhor meant.
The difference is that the atrocities were done by “puritans” supposedly Christians with higher morality than Catholics.
Catholics a least lived with the Indians, but puritans wiped them out from the 13 colonies.
Indians only survived in states that were part of the Spanish empire.
This is completely untrue. Native Americans still live in New England.
If we had learned American History like this when I was in school, back when the dinosaurs roamed, America would be a much happier and secure place in 2023, for everyone. __"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." Jean-François Revel, How Democracies Perish, Doubleday 1984; cf The Totalitarian Temptation, Doubleday 1978__
The Comanche Empire is a strong counter example. The empire prevailed against the Spanish empire and American settlers for two centuries. But this knowledge has been developed since Dr. Sowell wrote.
Thomas Sowell has the knowledge
I never thought about how the skills developed by Native American did not translate well into the new American economy.
Nothing is taught well or correctly in American public schools.
Algorithm demands this.
It amazes me how Spain Britain, and other European nations get a pass on their treatment of natives in the Americas.
Frankly, I think the conquest of the Americas, though unfair and lopsided, was just a slow war that the Indians lost.
No land on this planet has never been taken by force (excepting Antarctica).
Spain and Portugal ain't got any money to get 'reparations' from.
Cada 12 de octubre explota la guerra entre España y latinoamérica sobre lo que sucedió en 1492
Also Europeans at that time were trying to leave Europe a small continent in hopes for more fertile land. They had no clue how big America was.
when Have they ever been given a pass? What planet do you live on, and what is it like there, can you get back? and can you take me??????
And now that they have "migrants" cooming over to their countries and are crying and whining about it lol. Life is a joke at this point.
I'm not sorry for being white.
Your people were the primary guard dogs for the ruling families who thrive on the chaos and the enslavement of the world. Western civilization relies on neo-colonialsim.
There is no reason to be.
It was over 10 minutes After Native Americas saw Steel Knives and Cast Iron Pots.
Old world diseases were brutal on the Native population. In many places more than 90% of the population died.
Perhaps if the Europeans had cared more about what was going on in Constantinople up to the time the ottoman Turks overthrew it rather than living in their Catholic and newly Protestant utopias, Columbus never would have had to be sent out to find new trade routes to the indies/East Asia. In any event, I hate that the American govt treated the Indian as subhuman. That is unacceptable for a Christian nation. Period.
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One technical point, the indigenous people of America had NO sovereignty. Indians did not believe in land ownership, the land owned them. Territory is not land. This makes the Indians 'property' which means they have no rights whatsoever in a court of law related to 'sovereignty'. We can only go by their spoken words because they had no written language (i.e. savages, literally). They lost, the fight is over, "to the victor go the spoils"...until America STOPPED the practice in EVERY war. Our 2nd worst mistake...after DEI.
There were no horses in the Americas before 1492.
Just recently in my backyard near Otay Ranch, ancient fossils from the early to middle Miocene Era (between 20 and 13 million years old) unveiled terrestrial mammals including at least two lineages of horses-one being only about 3 feet tall and having three toes on the feet as opposed to the single toe of the modern horse.
Amerindians did not only have problems with there fellow Amerindians of different tribes, clubs, clans, groups, clicques, herds, swarms, packs, prides pods nor Western Europeans(Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, French, British, Dutch, Danish, Belgians, And Germans) but also Eastern Europeans(Russians) as well as Half Euros like Mestizos also known as Alaskan Creoles, also known as Metis, also known as Mixed Bloods which is what most Hispanics are they also had plrenty of wars with Eskimos And Aleutians too yeah.
this is much gud; i fancy self a social scientist/retired custodial engineer, ie i philosophize on dirt,, not its illiminitation, but transfering. Mom passed with a Phd in Education, native studies set up curriculum for school districts. i only attended and 4 yrs native studies. took Lakota Oral lit from moms course at BHSC. only 2 semesters of Lakota Language. in 4 yr minor. self study since 70's. family friend wrote books on this and Lakota Woman film..
13:13.. This contact is documented by having map's. Maybe talk about map's that date back earlier than Columbus. Indian's with the their Long held history, did not fit the narrative set forward for America. We must be told of the Red hair Giants, that the native Indians fought off. The Old World still exist with Us today just look at all the Old building's that are colleges, universities, court house's government monuments.. built to last forever. It takes war's, and killing millions, and millions of people to hide this, horrific insane lie.
Read are history book called The Gospel of the Redman & another history book taken out of public schools in the 1970s called THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST
Werent conquered. Swindled, cheated. Not a lot of trubes surrendered.
13:20 those that say asinine things about "Colombus discovering" simply dont know the definition of the word discover smh
@6:48 is a serious claim without any foundation in known fact. We will never know what the people of this land would have accomplished had they been left alone.
The Australian aborigines have been alone for hundreds of centuries. They were as they were without change to a thriving civilization like the Mesopotamians, Babylonians, Persians, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese, Indus, Romans, Mayans, Aztecs, etc.
@@I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pidyou underestimate aboriginal people and they are actually very smart. You misunderstanding different races have different intelligence .
Very true in some ways Because European brought addiction and bad potions to weaken who they conquered but ol former Marxist Thomas sowell doesn't talk about it. And what race leads the world are the biggest hypocrites and lier's. If Indians would have been left alone it wouldn't make a difference. They would have advanced in their own time I believe that too. But in their own way. The thing is that both sides are just trying to justify what they have done to each other. to not feel guilty or look like it. Excuses excuses for destroying another peoples way of life and culture and identity. That's what conquering is. And Europeans bring in the drugs and alcohol to do it. Because they are advanced.
My Native American Indian grandparents born 1932 & 1938 got moved to San Francisco of our reservation for work and then my Grandpa’s boss from there stole money from him. They had to save to move back to are tribe in Washington State. Won’t tell you the tribe though sorry
This issue is deeply misunderstood and framed all wrong, even by the very erudite Dr. Sowell. What happened in the America's wasn't a clash of indians and Europeans, it was a clash of primitive verses advanced. Primitive vs. advanced technology, culture, religion, economy, you name it, it was clashing. And the primitive didn't die out because it was conquered, it died out largely because it was abandoned wholesale by it's practitioners in favor of the advanced. True, the practitioners of the primitive were militarily conquered in a few highly trumpeted and well known cases but, while something like 90% of the indigenous population of the Americas succumbed to disease that the rest of the people on earth had been exposed to and afflicted with for thousands of years, the remainder of the indigenous population abandoned their old ways and greedily adopted any and every modern method, technique and habit they could acquire with no coercion from the Europeans.
I don't think this video disagrees.
I am sick of the misuse of genocide. Although it was coined recently its etymology shows it to be a combination of gene- meaning give birth or beget, and -cide meaning killing. In other words it means a killing of races and ethnic groups of PEOPLE. The systematic destruction of culture is NOT genocide. The term is added for its shock value as well as the laziness of the author in not finding and using the appropriate term.
Someone please rename this video. "the history of the Americas is wrongly taught in schools" does not mean what you are trying to say. Now it is saying schools should not teach American history. I believe you mean to say "Schools are failing to teach the history of the Americas"
It's a horrible title for an amazing video from and amazing man.
I suppose the Normans owe the English or rather the Saxons who owe the Angles who owe the English.
Great Egyptian Hyroglyphics.
This is not Thomas Sowell. It’s contrary to the other writing of the man.
The dominators teach histories that favors them. It's so normal that I have trouble seeing it as wrong even though the histories are not accurate. Anyway, usually or always the rulers and influencers of a culture do not learn from history so much as ignore it or interpret it to suit themselves.
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Yeah in 1970 with the popularity of the movie "Billy Jack" EVERYONE wanted to be native American. My grandmother swore we had "Cherokee" in us. Now my family have been in Oklahoma for a century BUT I took a DNA test...not one drop of native American dna. But a few percent of African American DNA. Good my grandmother was gone by then.😂 Not to be mean but I sure would have liked to say I told you so to her because at 14 (in 1970) I rolled my eyes when she said that.
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You need at least four words. You're really awesome, though!
There's North Afica and South Africa and we don't call it "The Africas" Why we're calling America "The Americas"?
Africa is a single continent while North and South America are two separate continents.
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Why are the Mayan writings hieroglyphics?
Thomas is an unbelievably insightful scholar, and he has boiled down the essence of why so many misguided peoples blame or accuse others of racism when they have a history of the same thing, but will not admit it for fear of losing their funding for complaining vociferously how evil white peoples are. I am not denying the harm and wrongs that others have suffered, but their cultures have done similar actions. 🤎🙏🙏✝️
Ah, the "you were doing it too" argument.
@@adityatyagi4009 It is hypocritical to say that these people did this to my relatives, when they did the same thing to others 4009. How long are people supposed to “pay” for their dead relatives actions? Why is there “only” a focus on the Atlantic slave trade and almost “nothing” is mentioned about the Sub-Saharan slave trade, which some historians say was larger, and more cruel than the Atlantic trade? If the North American countries are populated with systematically racist people, as both Trudeau and Biden assert, why do so many people from around the world want to immigrate?
I will not bother with every single issue because I would literally waste my entire life only for you to disregard it and carry on with your current opinions, but I will say, regarding immigrants, most of them WILLFULLY come here because the US has proven itself to be the economic powerhouse of the world. The immigrants were NOT part of the domestic issues of slavery and genocide and were not parties to these sordid events of history.
The merchants were given charters.
The Mayflower ship was a merchant charter.
Jamestown was a merchant charter.
The Dutch received a merchant charter f
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It's the " universal human condition " arguement . Please don't be so glibly accusative .
Or don't you see that perversly , ironically , it's the unique civilizations , in human history , who BREAK these 10000 yr old near " normal " cycles who are the ones that are noticed ?
And so often their ideals are used against them ( like ju-jitsu ) by nags and scolds who pretend to some moral superiority .
It's a wicked game ...
The History Of The Americas Is _Deliberately_ Taught Wrongly In School
fify, frens.
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I thought horses and pigs came from the Spanish bringing them to South America & spread out from there. If I’m wrong let me know
Why are Indians affected more by alcohol?
Depression
It's genetic, just as it is among certain European groups.
He says the history in America is wrongly taught in school so that he can teach it to people right? People should question anybody that teaches history like they do in a museum by showing pictures and just talking, but not showing sources of their information they present, should take that information as just information, not truth or fact. He doesn't explain why history is taught wrong in compulsory education in schools or universities, but can show and tell his version of history he was taught. When one read old books and fact check sources, talk with the Indigenous American indians and research outside of what is normally taught, one can do a better job at telling history. With my own studies alone, there is misinformation or a controlled history still being taught by him. In an era where misinformation is rampant, people should question why that would be. Who stands to gain from teaching so-called American history if it's wrong? There's no wonder why today you have a system full of confusing chaos and violence in America. People who really want the full truth in American history, will need more than just picture and a mouthpiece. When they do, they will see why a credited historian needs to tell you his version. Good thing is, the truth don't need validation but others do and cannot be satisfied without it.
Alcohol was introduced to the Indians and smoking to the Europeans. Smoking has killed more people and cost more than the curse of alcoholism so tit for tat.
This is the dumbest racist argument in the comments 🤡💩 😐😑😐
Who owns all the Tabacco companies? Lol.
I wonder if this had ever visited Indian country?
Vae victis!
Really? 3:41
Hypocrisy
Elaboration?
I'm originally from the cornfields of Indiana. Growing up was like a 50's sitcom. Now I share a house with two Native American women.....and I'm realizing that this old neighborhood thinks I have Cooties. Santa Fe is the only place where I've felt racism.
One of the ladies was Rose Johnson-Tsosie who recently passed from covid. If you google her name you'll get 250K hits. Her neighbors were not aware of her background. Her grandmother survived The Long Walk. Then she and her twin were "adopted" at birth by elderly Mormons doing "God's Work". The sisters ended up being a Big Deal in DC. Rose was Toastmaster president for 30 yr off and on. Till the very end Rose was "culturally confused".
And what ISN'T taught wrongly at school?
Sentence structure and grammar, apparently.
@@Darkmattermonkey77 You obviously have never met any of my teachers--or any of my students.
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God could have done something,but no .
Did the Natives really benefit from "modern medicine", though? Some of the medicines on the W.H.O.'s list of essential medications, many can be (AND WERE) made from barks, roots, etc., that Natives used long before "White Man" arrived. As far as reneging on contracts and/or treaties, that, sadly, had/has been done for millennia by everyone.
It's when one's own gov't/leaders turn against them that a group feels such a deep sense of betrayal & wants to lash out at whomever they can to blame. Typically, it's far easier to blame outsiders than one of your own. Sometimes, it's even a matter of saving face. Right now, we're dealing with a near invasion at our southern border and if we say anything we're called names & get labeled "RAClSTS". But it is NO different than 600 years ago when armies of thousands descended upon a nation with weapons to invade & take over their land and resources. Our OWN gov't is allowing this, just like the tribal leaders in Africa traded their men for trinkets as slaves. If we don't stop it soon, that will be all of our fates: As slaves, including all of those just coming in, no matter what coIor, gender, etc. The clock is ticking.
do you have to be so silly?
Psst. Your liberal is showing. You might want to cover that up.
@@Darkmattermonkey77 What in my comment causes you to think that? My statement is factual. Modern medicine is fantastic, though.
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One thing humans will always crave is control of others.
There's only One Race called Human ✝️
Never fails ……mans inhumanity to man without the love of God in them…..
Right. Because godly men never slaughtered each other wholesale in history. Nope, not once. Never over differing opinions and religions. Never over “my god is the real one and yours isn’t”, nope. Like that love of god in early cultures that takes indigenous children away from their parents to indoctrinate them with gods love.
@@Darkmattermonkey77 I don't want an argument but you may find it interesting to read the first hand written accounts of the earliest white evangelists in the Americas.