I agree with this guy…
He tells it like he sees it… how refreshing.
This account of history of the Indegenes has some interesting points to consider I have not heard before. He states there was possibly up to 150 million Indegenes across America (principally from Mississippi to the Atlantic). His account of the spread of disease was not pure evil and malice by horrid Europeans but something more akin to tragic happenstance. It was inevitable that vulnerable biologic systems would sooner or later be exposed to airborn pathologies. Ed Barnhart:
Perhaps it is just me but I have always had an uncanny fascination with the history of Japanese folks. And it is reciprocal, I think, with their fascination, in turn, with our Western, Cowboy tradition. They see reflections of their Samurai with our gunfights at high noon (both glamorized of course). I watched this video and could not help but think of our own Indegenes… not just hundreds of years, but likely thousands. The warrior culture was in their DNA. Compare their “keyhole” mounds with our “indian” mounds.
I didn’t watch this before commenting, but I knew where it was going. First, it would be a mistake to lump all Amerind tribes into one group as there were large cultural differences. Some tribes were fairly peaceful and on the other extreme you had the sadistic Aztecs. In the remnants of their temple in the Socalo center of Mexico City, you can learn how they crucified thousands from other tribes on the construction of one temple. How do you think a couple of hundred Conquistadors took down the whole Aztec empire? The Spanish were joined by all the oppressed tribes.
In North America, stronger tribes would oppress weaker tribes in multiple ways, sometimes demanding tribute and sometimes drive them away, i.e. “steal their land”. They’d enslave captives, or murder them, sometimes slowly and sadisticley.
Nor were they the great environmental stewards of the land as portrayed by Hollywood. They did what they needed to survive, whether it was drive whole herds of Bison of cliffs, or when horses offered them another means, still kill far more than they could eat, because they had a constant need for fresh hides. A Crow ranger informed me at the Little Big Horn National Monument, that it took three dozen buffalo hides per year to cover one teepee, because the hides would rot.
Gary Pinson
September 21, 2025 at 8:29 am
I’ve read too many accounts in Virginia/NC historical documents to be fooled by the Hollywood fictions… as you say, they did what they had to do to survive. I would just like to get a true picture of the facts without the hand wringing guilt that is being foisted on the lay public by the current “educated class”. One needs to ask…Who is teaching the teachers?
anderson1951
September 25, 2025 at 5:50 am